2nd Forging

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After some more he felt it was the right time to try and forge his body. He forced his mind to constantly until finally, he felt some power release from his mind. It was shapeless and moved anyway Jacob wished it.

It didn't extend very far but Jacob never got excited or he might have lost the feeling. It felt weird, there was nothing like this even when he evolved his genes. "Don't overthink just Jacob, remember the textbook".

Jacob controlled his mentality and used it on his bones. Simultaneously she gorged himself in the nearby eggs that were nearby and ate them rapidly. They were quickly digested and turned into nutrients for his bones and mentality.

His mentality wrapped around his skeletal structure and compressed it. After minutes of this he felt a sudden shift in his body. The change was sudden and had no warnings Jacob finally ran out of stamina.

*phew!*

Jacob was panting. His mentality made him tired, he caught his breath then brought out his system and looked to see if he was successful.

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Name: Jacob Shepherd

[Universal Rank: Infant Stage]

[Cosmic Energy Level 0.0/100%]

[Forgings: 2/10+]

[Damage: 91%]

[Lifespan: 4 years]

[Mentality: 75Hz+]

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"Yes!" Jacob was happy he completed his second forging. He knew how to do it so he figured it would be easier to forge his bones from now on. "Let's see how many times I can forge my body" Jacob grabbed more of the eggs and started to dog them down. After a few more he checked his mentality but he was disappointed.

It stayed the same at 75Hz. "Maybe my body needs something more nutritious to be able to complete the rest easily. But it would be a waste to leave these here, especially since I can get hungry".

His body digested anything nutritious instantaneously, but it would do the job until he was out. He got up and started throwing the eggs out of the bowl. They did not break but bounced once they hit the ground outside the bowl. He threw a couple of dozen outside the bowl until he finally climbed out of the bowl himself.

Enroy was sitting in a corner by himself. He took the food out of the pantry that the queen kept for him, It was filled with human food. He ate some Honey wheat bars that were stashed away and ate some quickly. He kowtowed as he rehearsed his lines continuously.

"The traitor is harming your children, my queen!"

"My Queen, the fiend, he threatened me!"

"My Queen Punished me, I failed to protect your eggs. I fought valiantly, but I am only an engineer."

He was 99% sure the Queen would sense something wrong with her eggs and rush to kill the intruder. He wanted to lessen his punishment for letting him in. He waited but nothing happened but with fear of letting his guard down he kept up his act.

Couple of minutes later he heard loud footsteps hitting the ground. He shivered, he felt it was the Queen coming. He anxiously listened to the footsteps to time her arrival. Soon the footsteps stopped and Enroy busted out laughing.

"My Queen is that fiend, he threatened to kill me! I told him not to but he insisted. He held the knife to my neck and threatened to cut off my manhood. He forced me, Please Punish me, this slave does not deserve to live. I feel nothing but anger over my pitiful strength. I will work 100 times harder after this my queen"

"You ok down there?" Jacob knew what he was thinking and found it rather funny. "You...How...the Queen Enroy was speechless.

"The Queen is dead. You can leave here if you want. I don't care what you do. If you want to stay loyal to her dead body, none of my problems. You can easily wait for a new queen". The man stood and looked at Jacob with disbelief.

"Impossible! How can the Queen die" Enroy asked, Jacob, shrugged and said "I saw the ants fighting over her body, that's all" He didn't want to go through all the details?

"But she hasn't laid the Queen's Egg-" Enroy murmured under his breath so Jacob couldn't hear what he said perfectly. Before Jacob could ask him anything about the man asked "Is the colony war?"

Jacob nodded,

Then the man rubbed his cheeks deviously, Jacob didn't know what he was thinking but he left him to it. Jacob held him hostage again "Show me the fastest way out of here without seeing any ants.

"What? Didn't you say I was free?" Enroy seethed in anger. Jacob simply said, "I changed my mind". The man was angry but he leads Jacob back to his cell. When they were there the man stopped. "Why are you stopping?" he asked, followed by his knife poke.

"Stop poking me!" The man shouted, he went over to the wall and started digging a hole. Jacob never questioned him then he came upon a bottle. It was almost like a test tube with some liquid inside."

"What's this?"

"This is a special pheromone that I created to make us invisible from other ants for some time. If you don't attack them while you have this splashed over you then they won't be able to tell you were there" Enroy explained. He then started to splash the substance all over his body.

"Good, You need to give me half of that and lead me out of here, I would trust you as far as I can throw you" Jacob spat, the man wanted to argue but he said nothing. He slashed the pheromone liquid all over Jacob.

"You have to leave that thing on your back", Eroy pointed at the larvae sitting on his backpack. "I can't do that, Give him some of that too," Jacob said seriously, Enroy never bothered to reason with him. Instead, he gave the little larvae some of his pheromone liquid.