Law of the Swarm

Chapter 103 God of Plague and Curse
Three days later, after System found that everything had calmed down, he brought Shava and a group of ant knights to the Ratman wizard cave again.

When System left the Ratman Wizard's Cave, he only took some of the books. There are still some books and many items left here. Maybe he can find more information about the curse on him from these books and items.

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Because it is underground and the temperature is not very high, although the rat corpse in the cave has been dead for three days, it has not rotted, but it has not become very fresh.

System tore off a small piece of rat meat with his tentacles and put it in his mouth, and found that the taste was not bad.

While eating, System's tentacles moved slightly, and he suddenly heard a strange buzzing sound in the depths of the cave.

But it didn't take long for System to feel relieved. It turned out that the buzzing sound was a big fly that came here to lay eggs on the rat corpse.

The fly's movements were very flexible. System caught it with his tentacles more than a dozen times but failed to catch it. Instead, the fly flew back and forth around System as if provocative.

In the end, the female fly was frozen into ice cubes under System's [Frost Breath], and then swallowed by System in one gulp, the taste was not bad.

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The peculiar smell in this rat man's cave is not very strong, and System is actually quite satisfied with this rat man's cave.

Because nothing happened in the past three days, after this period of calmness, System's fear of the Ratman was slightly reduced.

Looking back on the slow-moving excavators these days, it is estimated that it will take half a year or even longer to dig out a nest the size of this ratman cave.

System was born with the idea of ​​taking this lair as his own.

However, it has not been confirmed whether it is safe here, and System cannot act rashly.

If two months passed and there were still no troubles from the Ratmen, and no visitors to the Ratman Cave, System decided to really occupy the Ratman Cave and reform it.

This Ratman cave is only more than 200 meters away from his lair. Maybe he can build a long underground passage to connect the cave with this place.

At the same time, System also decided to handle the ratmen he encountered in the future with caution.

In order to master the language and writing of the Rat Man, he still needs to capture a Rat Man.

As for capturing the Ratman who had mastered the language, the other Ratman System still did not give up the idea of ​​hunting.

But in the process of hunting for prey, System would not be as reckless as before, but went deep alone with Shava, allowing many mice to escape.

System decided to make adequate preparations before hunting the Ratmen in the future, and kill them all once they hunted, not even a single ordinary mouse, and if possible, before hunting, Sith Tem will also castrate the rats before killing them.

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After ordering several worker ant knights to carry the dead mice one after another, System finally came to the room deep in the Ratman wizard's cave again.

The two magic lamps that had been extinguished before did not know when they had emitted a faint light again, clearly illuminating the red-eyed ratman corpse on the ground that was cut into two by Shava.

The black blood, minced meat, and bones produced by the Ratman wizard's self-explosion were everywhere, but after three days, the black blood and some pieces of meat had already solidified due to the loss of moisture, and they did not look so bloody.

System flipped through the bookshelf beside him, and suddenly System found a huge scroll measuring one meter from behind the Ratman's bookshelf.

This scroll is obviously a handmade map. I don't know if it was made by this ratman wizard. There are several places circled with a red pen on it, and there are some words on it.

System found a familiar shape of a stream beside a red circle. Looking at the shape and direction of the stream, System found that the red circle should be where he was, but the shape of the stream in the picture was in line with him. There are still some differences in the shape of the stream seen in the sky.

It is estimated that the Ratmen did not have mature technical means when recording this map, so the map produced has a large error.

System observed the map, and suddenly found some familiar images in the corners of the map. He seemed to have seen this part of the map before.

System quickly remembered, and found the treasure map he saw through the magic prosthetic eye many days ago in the image data of [Tools Menu].

There are slight differences between the treasure map and the scene in the corner of this large map. It should be just an error on the map. The marked location should be the same as the map, which is about a few thousand kilometers away from him.

Not only that, System suddenly discovered that the words on the treasure map were very familiar.

System continued to use the images in the [Tools menu] to compare, and he found that the text on the treasure map was almost the same as the text in the exquisite black animal skin, and there were many connected texts that were exactly the same.

Even System, who doesn't understand this kind of writing, can find that the location marked on this treasure map seems to have some connection with the unknown existence recorded in the black animal skin book.

Shaking his head lightly, System rolled up the map and put it aside.

Although he learned of the hiding place of a treasure or ruins, System did not have any thoughts about treasure hunting. Perhaps being able to hide at the treasure location would help him to lift the curse, but it was far away from System now. The location is too far away.

Moreover, the unknown existence recorded in the books is too weird, even though it is very close to here, System may not necessarily look for the so-called treasure.

System continued to flip through other books on the shelf.

[The Curse of Severance] Although it improved System's physical fitness, it consumed his lifespan all the time and made him completely lose the ability to mate.

In the past few days, System has been thinking about how to lift the curse when he has nothing to do. In the end, it’s okay not to try. System found that his [Ability Enhancement] can also strengthen the [Curse of Severance]. The curse becomes stronger.

Fortunately, his [Spell of Severance] has reached the upper limit of level, otherwise System might really be unable to resist strengthening and testing this [Spell of Severance] because of itchy hands.

On the contrary, the [Mind Teleportation] he obtained from the queen has some effect on this [Severance Spell], it seems that he can use the [Soul Transmission] ability to transfer the [Severance Spell] to other existences.

However, following System's continuous analysis in the past two days, he discovered that this [Severance Curse] is extremely special. Although it can be transferred to other people with [Mind Teleportation], this curse will not be eliminated. Will exist in the body of two creatures at the same time.

And even if he uses [Mind Teleportation] for an incomplete transfer, he needs to have a higher level of [Mind Teleportation] to do it.

System guessed that his understanding of this curse was not deep enough. If it was deep enough, he might be able to transfer this sinister curse from his body.

System briefly looked through the remaining basic books here, but still couldn't find any more information about the curse. It seemed that he had to put the capture of a rat man on his agenda.

Putting the books aside, System continued to look at some bottles and jars on the table of the Rat Man Wizard...

(End of this chapter)