Law of the Swarm

Chapter 109 Black and the Butterfly

It could be an hour or two, or it could be three or five days, and Blake would be dead.

This time will not be too long...

More than a month ago, System had strengthened Black's [Pupation] talent to the point where he could perform secondary pupation.

Although Black was born deficient, System still wasted a lot of experience points to strengthen Black.

System's strengthening was finally successful.

However, compared to the strengthening of [Pupation] talent, Black's level has been stuck at level 10, and he has been unable to reach level 11 for the second pupation.

No matter how much nutrient-dense food Black ate, she couldn't keep improving.

As things stand, the only thing that prolongs Black's life is an incomplete pupation, like the second pupation that Shava was forced to undergo in the ice and snow.

Only in this way can Black get a chance of life.

However, System didn't know how to stimulate this incomplete pupation, and compared to Shava, Black's physique was too fragile.

If Shava's incomplete pupation success rate is 30%, then Black's success rate is less than 1%.

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Even though she knew that she was going to die, Black didn't change much, and continued her work in the lair as usual.

And in the early morning of the next day, much earlier than System expected, the butterfly, suspected to be the remnant soul of the Glacier Lord, finally began to emerge from its chrysalis.

Before the chrysalis attached to the frost broke out, a strong frost erupted, and System had no choice but to move the butterfly chrysalis, which had turned into an ice ball, outside the nest.

Not long after, with the sound of the ice shattering, the butterfly expressed excitement, and the butterfly, which had been trapped in the chrysalis for a long time, finally struggled to get out.

However, the butterflies that came out gradually became a little different.

Although inside the chrysalis, System has always been called a "great existence", it has also received video data from System about ordinary butterflies breaking out of the chrysalis.

But when Butterfly saw System's appearance and his wrinkled body, the joy of Butterfly's escape immediately disappeared, and he felt very disappointed.

The remnant soul of the Glacier Lord, who had always praised System as a "great existence", only sent a very disdainful spiritual message to System after he escaped from the chrysalis.

"Tsk."

It was like a very disdainful click of the tongue, and after that, Butterfly turned her head aside, not looking at System first.

However, the compound eyes of insects have 360-degree vision without blind spots. No matter how they move their heads, butterflies can still look at System.

So the butterfly seemed a little excited.

The gap between ideal and reality seems too great.

The glacier lord's remnant soul seemed to be wondering how things turned out like this, lying motionless on the ground while stretching the straw in its mouth.

Although the remnant soul of the Glacier Lord knew that he was a butterfly, the butterfly it understood was very different from the butterfly that System had told him about.

It always thought that it would turn into a huge butterfly that was nearly ten meters long, and that System was a great insect that controlled the power of space.

However, in reality, it just turned into a small butterfly not much bigger than a human palm, and that "great being" was just a garbage monster less than half a meter tall, but the monster's eyes were very familiar and very special.

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The butterfly that emerged from the chrysalis stayed in place very abnormally.

System once imagined the scene of many remnants of the Glacier Lord emerging from their chrysalis.

Some glacier lord's remnant soul silently turned into a butterfly, and then flew away without a sound; some recovered their memories after emerging from their chrysalis; He expressed his gratitude; there were also some remnant souls of the Glacier Lord who suddenly became insane, used power indiscriminately, and started killing...

But in all of System's assumptions, the remnant soul of the Glacier Lord did not have such a self-defeating reaction.

The Glacier Lord didn't even bother to shake and spread its wings.

It seemed that it just wanted to stay in place like this, gradually turning into a deformed butterfly that would never be able to fly.

System knew that if this continued, the butterfly's wings would never be able to open after ten minutes.

System timely sent a spiritual message to remind him: "Move your wings quickly, otherwise you will never be able to open your wings."

"Tsk."

The butterfly's response to System was the same as before, with the same disdain as before, and it was no longer like the admiration and praise it once gave to the "great existence" in the chrysalis.

It just stayed in place quietly, while poking the dirt on the grass with the straw in its mouth from time to time.

The mouthparts of a butterfly are only responsible for sucking nectar. Even if it is a butterfly that has undergone secondary pupae, its mouthparts are very soft, so even if the ground is relatively soft soil, the butterfly's straw cannot poke into it, and instead is covered by the soil. bent its straw...

System could feel that the emotion exuded by the butterfly became extremely sad when the straw was bent.

The butterfly seemed to be crazy, and frantically poked at the soil on the ground with the straw in its mouth, as if to vent its dissatisfaction.

System thought that the butterfly's straw might be broken because of this, but it didn't. Even though the butterfly's head swung violently, the straw on its head was not damaged at all.

Although the straw of the butterfly is soft, it is something that the butterfly depends on for survival. It is soft and tough.

System looked at the state of the butterfly and shook his head helplessly.

If this butterfly is just an ordinary butterfly, it doesn't have any intersection with the Glacier Lord.

System might kill the butterfly and eat it, at most he would grab the butterfly with his tentacles and throw it away because of what Shadow said, but he would definitely not say anything to the butterfly.

But now...

"It's useless for you to be so angry. If you don't spread your wings, you will regret it."

System continued to send spiritual messages to the butterfly, but the butterfly didn't seem to hear it, and continued to poke the soil with its straw, but the frequency was much slower.

"Humph!"

After a while, the butterfly that turned into the glacier lord's remnant soul responded to System with a cold snort.

And as if against System, the butterfly with its wings unstretched suddenly rolled on the ground.

The butterfly's wings inevitably stick to some dirt and withered grass, and its folded wings become more wrinkled.

As time passed, after a few minutes, the butterfly's crumpled wings had dried up and solidified, and many of the blue scales on the wings had fallen off.

System knew that the butterfly formed by the glacier lord's remnant soul could no longer fly, and had completely turned into a deformed butterfly.

But the butterfly still kept rolling in the soil without caring, not caring at all that its body had become what it is today.

Just when System was thinking about how to deal with the butterfly, the worker ant Black, who was at the end of his life, appeared in System's sight.

Black seemed to have seen the communication between System and the butterfly.

Angrily, she rushed towards the butterfly rolling on the ground, and bit the butterfly's abdomen with her fangs.

This is the first real contact between an ant who is about to reach the end of its life but wants to live, and a butterfly whose life is still long but whose heart is dead.

Chapter 1 Ten, Blake and the Butterfly
Seeing Black biting the butterfly, System was slightly taken aback, but soon System stretched out his tentacles and pulled Black away.

System didn't think that Black would cause any harm to the butterfly, but worried that the butterfly would get angry because of Black's attack and release frost energy to frostbite Black.

But System was too worried. Although the butterfly possessed strong frost power, it had no thought of resisting, and still rolled its body in the mud and grass on its own.

"King, why is it different from us? Doesn't it know that you are a king?"

After being put down by System, Black seemed to have recovered from his anger, and asked System suspiciously.

System looked at Black, then at the deformed butterfly still rolling in the soil.

System didn't answer, but shook his head helplessly.

He never had the extravagant hope of taking the butterfly who possessed the remnant soul of the Glacier Lord under his command, but seeing the current state of the Glacier Lord, System couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

System did not answer Black's question, but said to Black: "Xiao Hei, don't worry about it, let's prepare for incomplete pupation, after all, time is running out."

"Wang, can you connect me to this unreasonable butterfly with the ability of [Psychic Network]?"

Black didn't follow System's instructions, but made a request to System, as if he wanted to use the ability of [Psychic Network] to connect with the butterfly, and use words to teach the butterfly who offended the king.

"It's useless. In its current state, it can't listen to anything."

System shook his head again, but he still obeyed Black's request, using the ability of [Mind Network] to connect Black with the deformed butterfly.

System was actually a little curious about what Black wanted to say to this self-defeating butterfly.

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I don't know how long I've been imprisoned in this dark space, and Aura desperately wants to get out of here, he's really bored here.

Ola forgot what his name was, but that great being said a name that Ola felt familiar with and liked, so he called himself Ola.

He seemed to have a memory once, but the memory of the past has disappeared, so Ola has no memory of how he was trapped here.

He couldn't even remember what he looked like.

He only remembered that he was very strong, that many people feared him, and many people worshiped him, waiting for his return.

He seemed to have had several enemies, but he had no recollection of what the enemies were.

No matter how you say it, Aura must first get out from here, borrowing the power of that great being to get out of this dark space.

According to the image transmitted to him by that great being, Ola knew that he was now a chrysalis.

He can't leave this space right now, but after a short period of time, he will turn into a butterfly, and then break through this space and leave here.

Although the butterfly has no fangs, it has a retractable spike on its head. Aura reckons the power of this spike should be quite good.

Should be able to penetrate the brains of his enemies and suck their brains.

The butterfly also has two pairs of huge wings, one big and one small, and Ola felt that it would be effortless to fly with these huge wings, which are more than ten meters long, and it can also blow out extremely violent strong winds.

And the butterfly also has a full six legs, two more than the four legs.

Aura, who fantasized about the future when he broke out of the chrysalis, suddenly discovered something. It seemed that his original body had four limbs.

However, when recalling carefully, Ola still couldn't remember what he looked like before, and he couldn't even be sure whether he had four limbs.

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Time passed little by little like this, Ola was awake sometimes, and fell asleep sometimes, and his strength gradually became stronger.

Ola could feel that the pressure of this space on him was getting lower and lower, and he might break through this space at any time.

That great existence once told him that he would be able to escape from this space in a short time.

But Ola felt that he had been trapped in this dark space for more than a hundred years.

Aura didn't know that it was just his illusion after more than a hundred years.

Because there is no reference to things, Ola just uses his subconscious concept of time.

For the butterfly that pupated twice, dozens of days already accounted for a large proportion of the butterfly's lifespan in several years, just like the proportion of more than 100 years and Aura's original dragon lifespan.

It is precisely because of this illusion of more than 100 years that Aura's understanding of that "great existence" is more "clear". It is definitely an extraordinary existence to be able to describe more than 100 years as a very fast existence.

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However, all that Aura expected was shattered the moment he emerged from the chrysalis.

The crumpled wings were weak, and he saw the weeds beside him. It turned out that his current body was not as tall as the weeds.

He turned out to be just such a "butterfly", and that "great being" was simply a garbage monster. It seemed that as long as he took a breath, the tentacle insect would be frozen into ice slag and shattered into pieces.

Ora imagined him opening his mouth and blowing cold air at the garbage insect.

However, Ola found that he didn't have a mouth at all, he just straightened the soft straw on his mouth, and nothing sprayed out of the straw.

"Tsk."

Ola didn't know how to express his current mood, and in the end he could only send a disdainful spiritual message to that garbage insect named System.

If he had the power he imagined in the chrysalis, that garbage monster would have been killed by him dozens of times at that moment.

Ola regretted it, he should never have asked the garbage tentacle to let him out of the chrysalis.

Although being trapped in the chrysalis made him uncomfortable, at least he was still a powerful existence in the chrysalis, not the current butterfly.

Maybe being trapped in the chrysalis and then dying is the ending he should have.

If that's the case, he doesn't have to become what he is now.

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Ola kept rolling in the dirt.

Wrinkled wings won't open?

What if it cannot be opened.

Even if he has perfect wings and can fly, isn't he still a garbage butterfly?

It makes no difference whether you can fly or not.

Aura rolled more vigorously in the dirt, and he wanted to prove this to the weird-looking insect covered in tentacles—even if he couldn't open his wings, he would not regret it.

But just as Ola was rolling in the dirt, Ola felt a tingling pain in his abdomen. It turned out that an unknown bug bit his abdomen.

Ola was a little angry, even with the power he had now, it would not be a problem to freeze the little bug that provoked him.

But in the blink of an eye, Ola calmed down.

Bite it.

Just kill me.

However, after waiting for a long time, Ola, who was rolling in the soil, did not find that the little bug continued to bite him. It turned out that it was the garbage tentacle that grabbed the little bug with its tentacles.

Not long after, Ola heard the spiritual message from the little bug: "Why are you so rude to the king?"

king?
Such a thing can also be called a king?
Aura subconsciously wanted to refute with disdainful words, but after thinking about it, Aura did not answer in the end. What did the garbage monster call himself king, what did it have to do with him.

"Tsk."

Responding to a disdainful mocking sound, Aura stopped rolling in the dirt, and began to lie quietly beside the weeds.

The little thing was still saying something to him, but Ola pretended not to hear it.

Ola decided not to think about it, and planned to sleep.

(End of this chapter)