Law of the Swarm

Chapter 102 [The Curse of Severance]

There was no obvious reaction when the black light entered System's body, but instead made him energetic, as if his body had inexhaustible strength.

The strength and flexibility of his tentacles have also increased slightly, as if the black light is some kind of tonic.

However, along with this energetic feeling, System felt that he seemed to have lost something very important, his heart became empty, and the insect blood in his body seemed to be whining.

The body of an insect cannot cry, but if he is still a human being, he will definitely be in a state of tears at this moment.

"What's wrong with me? What did that black light make me lose?"

System stretched out his tentacles and carefully checked his body.

Thirty tentacles are intact, even the small barbs on the tentacles are intact, and there is no problem with his antennae, eyes, and the exoskeleton all over his body.

But the more he probed his body with the [sensing] power of the tentacles, the more System discovered that his body lacked something, not simple limbs and organs, but a kind of ability in the body.

[Numerical Code] is normal, [Pupation] is normal, [Insect Adaptability] is normal, [Perception] is normal, [Mind Transmission] is normal...

Feeling that the several talents he relied on for survival hadn't been lost, System was a little relieved, but the feeling of emptiness that filled his heart not only didn't disappear, but intensified instead.

System opened the [Tools menu] and looked at his self-information. All the talents and derivative abilities in his body are intact, but in the column of his talents, there is a brand new talent—— —[The spell of severance].

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[Spell of Severance] (11/11): A special talent obtained by System through the self-sacrifice of the Ratman Wizard.Lose the ability to mate, lose a part of lifespan, increase the consumption of lifespan days, and gain a small increase in physical fitness.

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Perhaps because this ability has slightly improved his physical fitness and spirit, [Spell of Severance] was placed in his talent column.

System quickly used the ability of [Data Compilation] to adjust the information of [Spell of Severance] to the column of abnormal status.

After looking at this insidious curse message, System finally knew what he had lost.

Because of the talent [numerical code], System could clearly perceive the curse attached to his body after a little feeling.

His lifespan lost 250 days in an instant, and his lifespan consumption increased by about one-third in the future, that is, every three days, he would lose four days of his lifespan.

If he lost 250 days of life as an adult grasshopper, he would most likely die on the spot.

But if he really got the curse when the grasshopper became an adult, maybe he wouldn't lose so many days of life, because the curse shortens the lifespan proportionally.

Not only his lifespan, because of this sinful curse, he also completely lost the ability to mate. Although his body still has an organ responsible for mating, that organ has completely lost its ability.

System discovered that it was the same when he used his tentacles to "perceive" himself.

When he just used his tentacles to [perceive] his physical state, he didn't realize at all that he was no longer able to produce that kind of excitement.

Although the title "Alien Insect" has already told him that he cannot reproduce, but that is just that he cannot reproduce, and now he has become unable to reproduce and completely lost the ability to mate.

Once the mating is successful, the essence of life will be passed on to the offspring, and then die.

[The Curse of Severance] and the title "Alien Insect" are like a double insurance for System, so that he no longer has to worry about death due to mating.

But even so, System still felt very lost, not the lost 250 days of life, but simply sad for his loss of mating ability.

Reluctance to mate and inability to mate are two completely different concepts.

Even though he was so afraid of death due to mating back then, System didn't have any thoughts of castrating himself.

"The curse of cutting off children and shortening lifespan..."

System's fangs were trembling, and no one would be in a better mood than him when he was hit by this vicious curse.

System not only became sad and angry, but also a little regretful, and even more afraid of these ratmen.

In the end, System still underestimated the enemy. Although he imagined many kinds of abilities of the Ratman's spellcaster, he still imagined the Ratman's ability too simply.

Just like the ratman sacrificed himself and used the curse in despair, in this magical world, there must be more and more weird abilities.

Even with the protection of Sawa, it may not be able to protect herself completely.

System looked at the stone statue in the room. Before the Ratmen wizard blew himself up to make a sacrifice, System felt something strange about the stone statue.

But now, System couldn't help but fall into it.

The stone statue stained with the black blood of the Rat Man exuded an indescribable aura, which made System unconsciously stretch out his tentacles to touch the statue.

However, System quickly realized his behavior, and gradually stretched out his tentacles and gradually retracted them.

It seemed that it was because System resisted the temptation.

Accompanied by an inexplicable and weird sound, the stone statue on the bookshelf, which was nearly [-] centimeters in size, cracked little by little, and then shattered like sand and stones.

The weird stone statues and his fear of the Ratman made System not intend to stay here any longer.

System briefly searched for some books in the deep room of the Rat Man Cave, and then took Shava to leave the Rat Cave and return to his lair under construction.

At the same time, System sent two worker ant knights to monitor the Ratman Cave in turn to see if there were any abnormalities in the tree hole.

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The expected detection from rats never happened again, nor did the ratman cave reveal any unknown visitors.

It seems that the rats sent to investigate these days were just the solo actions of the ratman spellcaster, and no other ratmen participated and knew about it.

And after reading a pile of books left by the Ratman Wizard, System also roughly knew what the statue the Ratman enshrined was.

Although he didn't know the words in the book, System could still understand some of the pictures in the book. In a very delicate animal skin book, System saw the stone statue made by the Ratman Very similar pictures, and this one is more beautiful.

The skin of the exquisite animal skin book is black, and the text on it is completely different from the text on other books of the Ratman Wizard, and System still doesn't recognize it.

The portraits in this book seem to possess an uncanny power.

When System watched it for the first time, he even felt that the calligraphy and paintings in the animal skin were alive for a moment, and those shadows were even alive, like smog. System even saw the dark red pupils hidden in the shadows...

But when System continued to flip through the book and read it again, the existence in the animal skin portrait would become still again.

But the strange thing is, when System watched the video record in the [Tools menu], the portrait of the book he watched earlier came alive again, and System also saw the red star again. eyeballs.

That's not an illusion.

System speculated that the Ratman wizard should have gained power because of this existence in the portrait.

However, System searched through all the books of the Ratman wizard, but he couldn't find a way to remove the curse, or in other words, even if there was a method to remove the curse in these books, System would not recognize it.

(End of this chapter)