Jacob looked solemnly within the gray cauldron, which was completely empty right now, while ignoring the burning heat over his chest.
Inside, he saw the Brain Hunter, which was no longer like its appearance before it started to absorb the Titian Tears.
First, its size actually decreased instead of increased, from 7 inches, it had decreased to only 2 inches, and it was as thin as a needle.
However, with Jacob's current eyesight, he could clearly see despite its current size, its thirteen body segments had increased to 150, and there were now strange crimson markings over those shining black triangular body segments which looked like tiny scales.
Not only that, but its eyeless head now had grown two sharp sword blades like tiny red fangs, and its crimson antennas were not as fine as a hair. Last but not least, its 300 pairs of legs now contained sharp red claws, which were so tiny that they were barely visible.
Right, now, a crimson and black glow was surrounding the Brain Hunter, especially those crimson markings that were shimmering menacingly.
No one would believe that this tiny thing that anyone could squish with their fingers was a terrifying being.
But Jacob was different as he could now clearly feel those foreign thoughts started to become clearer and clearer.
He could now understand the intent behind them and was astonished, 'It still wants more titan tears?'
Jacob wanted to sneer at the tiny, greedy bastard. Still, he was preoccupied with that burning feeling getting intensified with every second as the Brain Hunter developed its growth-type magic core. He even wonders just how tiny would that magic core be since it was forming in such a tiny body.
Nevertheless, he was ready to give it a command to bite him the instant it completed the core formation. But if it tried to resist or break free from the enslavement, he would kill it without hesitation.
As for worrying about turning into its slave, he had already tested multiple poisons and parasite gems, even some special magic enslavement contracts. As Immortika told him, they won't work on him at all.
So, he was prone to believe that things go according to how Immortika had described them to be. However, he hadn't tried anything over type-1 or extraordinary rank since they were not available in the rare plains.
Still, he was 90% sure that Immortika wasn't screwing him over by turning him into the Brain Hunter's puppet.
At this moment, the marking on the Brain Hunter stopped shimmering as the glow on its body also faded away.
"This is the moment of truth, huh? Hahahaha, I haven't felt this much excitement in a long time!" Immortika wrote in mad relish.
Jacob couldn't help but feel nervous as he looked at the static Brain Hunter at the bottom of the Cauldron. He inhaled sharply, "This was such a bad idea…"
He gritted his teeth before he took out something from his pendant. It was a palm-size transparent cylinder which has glowing dark green liquid. On top of it was a black switch and a red button right beside that switch.
Jacob looked at Immortika coldly before he turned the switch upward and said while putting his thumb on the red button, "This is a radioactive plutonium grenade, aka Atomic Grenade, and probably above type-1 rank as well.
"Although it's made crudely since I lack the proper equipment, it's still enough to blow the entire Dark City and bury it for a very, very long time.
"Not to mention the area a hundred kilometers around the dark city will turn inhabited with the radiation, and no living being would approach it.
"So, I don't need to tell you what would happen the moment I felt like I'm started to lose control of my body, my mind. Even if I feel my toenail is not under my control, I'll make sure everyone will bury it with me, including you.
"Although I want to live, I don't want to live as someone's eternal slave or even less for someone who schemes against me. Since I'm being greedy, I'll bear the consequence, but from where that greed originated, I naturally root it out as well.
"So, tell me, is there anything you still want to share?" Jacob's words were impassive as he looked at the empty page of the hovering book.
Jacob knew what he was doing was as rewarding as it was risky. But he was willing to take the risk because Brain Hunter's capabilities were something he needed in the long run.
Furthermore, Immortika's words were more assuring than anything else, but this didn't mean he would blindly follow its instruction after he discovered Immortika's knack for hiding things and even hinted him toward certain dangers.
Although he didn't know if it was intentional or some restriction, or even for entertainment, for him, it was nothing but a one-time thing, and there were no do-overs.
So, he could only prepare himself for the worse just in case things really turned out to be not what they seemed to be.
This was the measure he prepared just in case things went south with the Brain Hunter. He would not let himself become or end up like Decker.
"Hahaha… your paranoia is increasing day by day. Well, I guess it's only natural the more you learn about the kind of world you are in and still have no idea about its true depth. Anyway, I never lie to you about anything, and I'm the only one you can trust in this place… so all I would say is… why the hell are you still wasting time?"
Jacob stared at those words for a while before a chuckle escaped his mouth, "What the hell then."
The next moment, Jacob's hand moved and entered the cauldron, but his other thumb didn't leave the red button. Not only that, his heart rate climbed like a rocket, and he entered 20X acceleration!
With a terrifying calm look, he coldly commands the static Brain Hunter, "Use your Puppet Poison on me!"