"Oh Great Lighted One, Thank You For This Power"

"So meat can act as a catalyst, huh? Who knew?" Lucius whispered to himself. Though he was aware that corpses could decompose into nutritious fertilizer for plant life, he didn't think it would work if he just absorbed it raw.

"And 15% at that. If I can get a stable supply of these, then getting everyone to evolve will be an easier task… in fact, who knows, other creatures might give even higher benefits," he whispered. Though something was bugging him.

If he wanted to unite as many low-tier creatures into his camp as possible, then wouldn't this hinder things? How was he any different from the shrooms who had hunted down his children for their betterment?

"But these things didn't seem to be sentient," he whispered to himself as he dragged the two remaining worms behind a shrub for safekeeping.

"They didn't seem to speak any sort of language like the insectoid and failed to work together to try when I attacked them," he whispered.