Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Lin Wu now felt like he finally had a proper goal for himself in this life. Till now he had just been living for the sake of it and had a rough goal of becoming stronger. But there really wasn't much motivation for him after his lifespan increased.

Now Lin Wu wanted to try every delicacy in this world and enjoy it. That was the one thing he could do even if he was a worm. If he couldn't enjoy women, he would enjoy the food. Tasting the food from this world had only made him that much excited.

The food he had just tasted wasn't even anything special. It was made with normal ingredients and wasn't the special one made for the banquet that had spirit beast meat and spirit herbs in it. He couldn't imagine how heavenly the spirit beast meat and herb one would be like.

Lin Wu had already scanned the kitchen and knew that there were no ingredients for spirit food there, only the normal ones.

"Hmm, seems like they only supply the amount that's required and don't keep it stocked all the time." Lin Wu muttered to himself as he stole a bit more of the food.

Every turn that the waiter made, Lin Wu would take a little more amount. By the time the waiter had finished serving ten people, the entire dish was empty. But the waiter paid no attention to this and was simply working mechanically, as if bored out of his mind.

"Huh, so the dead-end jobs are the same here too…" Lin Wu said upon seeing the waiter's actions.

'Wonder if they get paid minimum wage too…' Lin Wu thought to himself.

Lin Wu had spent about two hours doing this, and it was at this time that the Chef came to talk with the servants.

"What's happening, why have the people not stopped eating?" The chef questioned.

The waiters stopped and became alert, rousing from their dazed state.

"Huh? Oh sir, we don't know, they are just eating more today I guess." One of the waiters answered.

"Is that so…" The chef replied before looking around the room.

All of the people seemed to be eating normally, and they would leave after they were done. 

'That's strange why are they eating more, it's not even spirit food…' The chef thought before shrugging his shoulders and leaving.

While this had indeed increased their work load, there wasn't much they could do. All their job was to feed the people till they were satisfied. Usually, they were done with most part of the night at around this time. But today seemed to be strange. Even if it was a banquet, this was unusual.

"Seems like they finally noticed." Lin Wu said as he observed the Chef.

"Well… anyways, I'm done. Now that I know where to come, I can do it every day, Hehe…" Lin Wu muttered to himself in a creepy tone.

Lin Wu didn't know that in the time that he had been here, he had eaten about half of the food that was supposed to be given to the clansmen. But now that he was satisfied, he started to go back through the route he had come from. 

He easily sneaked past the waiters and reached the brazier below which the hole was. After entering, he roughly closed it with his tail and got back to the servant entrance. He left the confines of the Formation array of the Lu clan before getting ready for his next task.

"System, scan the city and update the map." Lin Wu ordered.

Now that he knew it was safe, Lin Wu made the map without hesitation.

~Ding~

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MAP FUNCTION ACTIVATED: Scanning area

AREA SCANNED: Map Updated

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Lin Wu looked at the new map window and saw the full area of the Deer wood city for the very first time. 

"Damn this is much bigger than I thought." Lin Wu muttered, seeing the size which he had not expected.

"System, do you know what's the population of the city?" Lin Wu questioned.

~Ding~

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ANSWER: The population of Deer wood city is: 124,691 humans; 14,750 Beasts; 160 Spirit beasts; 60,584 Animals.

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"Huh, so it is roughly the same population as that of a city from my previous world. But the blank spots due to the formation array are a bit displeasing." Lin Wu said while looking at the map and saw the small arrow in the corner.

"Huh? What's this?" He asked before clicking the button.

The map shifted and Lin Wu could now see a completely different topography on it.

"Ooo! So it shows the underground area too." Lin Wu exclaimed.

The underground area was mostly empty except for a few places that seemed to be like rooms. There were eight major areas that were big enough to warrant his attention, the smaller ones just seemed to be blocked caves or empty air pockets.

"They seem to all be located under the Clans. Wait, if they are part of the clans then shouldn't they be protected due to the formation array too, why do they show up here?" Lin Wu wondered before taking a closer look.

He found out that the ones that were visible to him were the underground areas for the Lu clan and seven other smaller clans. He saw the underground area for the Lu clan as he already had the signature for the formation array which was a bit strange considering it was a secret area, while for the other seven clans it was simply visible because they couldn't afford to make a formation array that was bigger.

Lin Wu looked at the two empty spots where the Mu and Xiong clan were supposed to be and indeed found them to be blocked too.

'Hmm, there's are definitely some secret areas of the clan. But why would Shirong have the access to the secret area of the clan? Even if he is an honored guest, this doesn't make sense…' Lin Wu thought.

"Hmm, should I check the area out…?"