"You rely too much on magic." Venom said disdainfully, "You are a symbiont, not a magician. The fundamental strength of a symbiont lies in evolution. You are stagnating."
Venom hit the point directly, "I am pursuing endless possibilities, not restricting myself to the path of magic."
Blue Spirit was silenced by his words, then, he heard Venom say, "Magic is not the focus, what I am trying to say is, because I can use magic, I noticed the abnormalities in my body early on."
"When I was meditating earlier, I saw part of the Bat Totem and heard some people praying to it."
"I discovered that due to these prayers, I could harvest the power of faith. This is also why I was extremely excited previously. This power is extremely active, it can greatly enhance the soul activity of my host and affect me."
"So?" Thunder asked.
"I found that I can respond to their prayers. Once they pray more earnestly, I can harvest more faith power. Then I can convert this power into energy that the symbiont can use."
When he mentioned this, the other symbionts glanced at each other. Blue Spirit's eyes lit up, he asked, "Can the magic energy I use also be converted?"
"Of course, and a lot can be converted, much more than you imagine..." Venom stated, and extended a sticky tentacle, touched Blue Spirit's arm. Instantly, magical brilliance illuminated and Blue Spirit was shocked, his eyes wide open.
The other two symbionts looked at him. After Blue Spirit collected himself from shock, he slowly nodded and said, "If this is the case, isn't the power of faith very valuable?"
"Exactly, but I am willing to share it with you. However, on one condition, you must help me." Venom stated his ultimate goal.
The other symbionts looked at each other, exchanged a few whispers, then Blue Spirit said, "Tell us about your plan first, we might help if it's feasible."
"When I respond to those praying, they provide me with more faith power. During this process, I noticed that they seem to have an ulterior motive, not just mere totem belief."
"Maybe they want to control this newborn totem, and then use it to gain more power. But as long as they have a demand, it could be well managed." Venom concluded.
"People driven by interest are easier to deal with than those with true faith." Venom's tone was very human-like at that moment. He said with a deep and hoarse voice, "they will be blinded by greed, lose their rationality…"
"As long as they see a hope of success, they'll definitely invest more. And when they find out that everything was a trick, they'll have to go along because they've invested too much."
"So, as long as I respond to them, keep the power of faith at a level where it almost controls the Bat Totem. And every time it's about to actually control the Totem, drain the power. Then, they will desperately invest more for the sake of their final step…"
Blue Spirit nodded, indicating that he understood the plan, he said, "So, what do you need us to do?"
"Based on my previous observations, either their race is special, or they have a special way to extract faith power. But anyway, they provide this power very quickly."
"The power accrues in a short amount of time, and my, or my host's body, can't absorb so much energy so quickly. In other words, when I extract this energy, you have to help share the load to ensure that my host and I won't burst from excessive faith power."
Thunder moved his finger, touched the tentacles behind him, he asked, "So, what's in it for us?"
"I will absorb as much faith power as possible, and the part you need to share will be your reward, but you have to promise me, you have to share half of this power with all symbionts."
When Venom got halfway through his sentence, the eyes of the other symbionts lit up. But when he finished, they seemed confused. Blue Spirit asked, "Share with all symbionts, why?"
"I told you, compared to those truly superior races, individual power of symbionts is too weak. If we don't unite for collective evolution, or seek to completely change our life form, seeking more possibilities, then one day we'll be eliminated by the cosmos."
With a deep and somewhat sentimental tone, completely unlike him, Venom continued,
"Humans are weak, right? I guess when you first interacted with human beings, you must have felt this way. This race's body and soul are so fragile, almost crushable."
"But what really makes them stand in the cosmos, other than their wisdom, is their endless ambition."
"Greed, a trait that doesn't sound good, but it is the crucial trait when any race prepares to compete and surpass others. If there's no greed for power, no insistence on becoming stronger no matter what, then they are fated to be eliminated."
The room fell silent, this atmosphere lasted for a long time. The symbionts seemed to be pondering the future of the Godtar race, where is it?
An ancient God-made race, privileged and unique. Throughout the long history, their evolution has been very slow. Although their adaptations vary due to different hosts, their roots remain the same.
The cosmos changes rapidly, no one knows when the wave of the new era will arrive. The events that occurred in the Andromeda Galaxy served as a wake-up call for these ancient creatures. Facing the various dangers of the cosmos and other powerful life forms, they are no different from ordinary races, they have no power to resist.
Thinking of this, the other symbionts felt increasing pressure. Because besides competing with other cosmic races, Cosmic Special Agents have a bigger enemy, Nal.
Once this ancient chaotic creature is awakened and they lack enough power, their fate would be as imagined.
After a while, Blue Spirit looked at Venom and said,
"We are willing to help you, for the future of Godtar…"
Venom also looked at him and said,
"For the future."