The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

If anyone just looked at this monster from outside, it looked perfectly normal. Even lightly investigating it did not reveal any secrets. But if someone thoroughly investigated this monster then they would notice that there was a small little worm-like creature inside its brain.

This worm had completely blended in with the presence of the scorpion monsters and it was impossible to recognise those two presences separately.

Chris, Patrik and Kasumi all were some of the most experienced people of this world but even they had no idea what this worm was. It looked like this worm was the reason why this monster was able to think with intelligence but that was something absurd.

Even after finding this out, none of them attacked the scorpion monster to study it in more detail. Instead they actually leave it alone after Kasumi marked it with her mental power. As for why they let it be, the reason for that was simple. This monster was definitely not the only monster who had gained intelligence.

So Rein and his partners were planning to check a few other monsters of the same kind to make sure that this worm was present in all of them.

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After that with Kasumi and Rein's techniques, they continued searching for monsters with intelligence. After about seven hours, all of them started taking a break while the expression on their faces was very grim. In the last few hours, other than the scorpion, they had managed to find five more monsters with intelligence.

All of them were from different species and had that particular worm inside their brain.

From this it was clear that without a doubt that worm was the reason why these monsters had managed to gain intelligence. But to know more about this worm, they needed to investigate it more carefully.

First Chris contacted a few scientists who were experts in the field of monsters and asked them about this worm. Unfortunately none of them had ever heard of a worm like this. A few people did tell them about a few parasite monsters who lived in the brain of other monsters but none of them had the capability to grant intelligence to them.

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The next day, they decided to catch one of the intelligent monsters and extract the worm from its brain. There was a chance that the mastermind behind this worm would be able to learn that his secret was out by this act but without knowing more about the worm, no one would be able to find a countermeasures to this problem. So Rein and his partners decided to take the risk.

Capturing an intelligent monster was easy as they were not very strong. But as soon as it was captured, the monster immediately died. Sophia quickly checked the brain of this monster and saw that the worm had completely vanished from there.

Immediately all of them went to check the other monsters and heaved a sigh of relief after seeing that they were not dead. But again when an intelligent monster was captured, it died immediately. This time Patrik even tried to keep the monster alive with his powerful healing technique but it was all in vain. As soon as the worm died, the monster also followed behind it to the underworld.

But this time at least they were able to keep an eye on the worm and saw how it disappeared from the brain of this monster. As soon as the host monster was caught, immediately this worm committed self destruction and its body dissolved into a liquid form. This liquid got mixed with the monster's brain juice and became indistinguishable.

That was how this worm disappeared from the brain of the monster.

After knowing the process, it was not hard to find a solution. So all five of them discussed this and came up with a plan. Then they went to challenge the next monster. In this monster's case before capturing it, Kasumi used her metal interference technique to target both the monster and the worm.

Then Sophia used her incredible speed and cut the brain of the monster open and took out the worm in less than a second.

As this worm was still affected by Kasumi's mental interference technique, it had not managed to self-destruct. Rein then trapped this monster in his freezing ice and Patrik started to use his healing magic to keep the worm alone forcefully.

As all of them did their part exceptionally well, this plan went off without a hitch. In no time this worm was stored in a special gadget whole still being frozen with Rein's ice. Currently it was in a vegetative state and was unable to resist at all.

After putting the monster in a vegetative state, Kasumi told the others that now she was sure that this monster was definitely behind the intelligence of the monsters. When it was still inside that monster's brain, even an expert like Kasumi had thought that the intelligent wavelength that she was finding belonged to the monster.

That was why she had thought that this monster was awakening the monster's intelligence.

But that was actually all the case. Sophia had used a very precise method to extract the worm so even after it was taken out, the host monster was still alive. Kasumi had immediately felt that after the worm came out, the intelligence of the host monster immediately returned to a normal level.

But on the other hand, the complex mental wavelengths that she was feeling were emanating directly from the worm very clearly.

So this worm was not actually making the monsters more intelligent. This worm was actually like a puppeteer. It was controlling the monster by taking over its brain. So the intelligent and complex thoughts actually belonged to this worm. And Kasumi also judged that each one of the worms had independent thoughts as their mental wavelength was very different.

After the monster was trapped inside that gadget, Rein finally got the chance to check it out with his Eye of Truth. As the power of eye of Truth was very much limited now in this world, without taking a proper look at the subject of this analysis, he was not able to use the eye of Truth on it.

That was the reason why only when this worm was inside the monster's brain, he was unable to use his eye of Truth on it.

As soon as Rein used the eye of truth on it, he immediately became extremely surprised. So much so that other members of the group also noticed it and asked Rein about the problem. As Rein was the youngest of this group, he was able to avoid telling them anything by acting like it was nothing and he just remembered about something else.

Only Sophia knew that Rein had definitely found out something significant so when they got some alone time together while the others were busy preparing to send this work sample to big labs, she asked Rein about it. Rein had nothing to hide from Sophia and so he told her that he managed to find the traces of the super powerful monster living the core of the world on this worm.

Sophia also gasped after hearing it and her expression became extremely grave.

Now how was that powerhouse related to this small worm ?

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