Law of the Swarm

Chapter 123 Decision
Half a month into the rainy season, System has strengthened the talent [Pupation] to 16% of level 90, and it is only one step away from raising [Pupation] to level 17, and it will be the third time soon. Conditions for pupation.

However, System did not solve his fundamental problem, how to completely avoid the possible threats of druids and ratmen.

So System, who gave up on continuing to strengthen his physical abilities, began to spend time with Black to study the text left by the Ratman Wizard, and to study some books about the plague.

The so-called plague spell needs to communicate with Rafal and perform a sacrifice, otherwise it cannot be cast at all.

But not all books describe plague spells.

In fact, most of the books about plague by ratman wizards have nothing to do with plague spells, but mainly the methods of researching and cultivating plague.

Although using the plague spell can instantly infect the target with the plague, this plague is at least ten times weaker than the plague formed by the Ratmen.

System also read the notebooks of the Ratman wizard Lance before he realized how terrifying the dozen or so bottles of plague reagents he drank back then were. Almost all plagues have the ability to kill wolf men or Pig head lethal effect.

Unfortunately, this plague has little effect on insects.

And System's greatest achievement from the Ratman Wizard was a transparent cube crystal block, about five centimeters long on each side, made of glass or crystal.

At first, this crystal was given to Shava by System to play with.

After learning about the Ratman's writing these days, System realized that this square thing is a magic item, which can function like a microscope to observe microscopic things.

This magic crystal can be activated by most of the energies. System can be activated by casting frost energy and druid's natural power, but his [perception] and [teleportation] powers cannot counteract it. This crystal works.

That's why System didn't discover that this spar was a magic item.

Except for this crystal, System, the skull prop that can produce hallucinations, is still unusable. It seems that it needs to communicate and obtain the power of the evil god Rafal.

……

System first observed his [Plague Slime] through the magic microscope, and then observed his own blood, mushrooms and slimes successively.

System found that the microbes that make up the slime jelly are just like the emotions he felt with [Teleportation], and the difference from mushrooms is not that big.

On a whim, System decided to use the Ratman's plague breeding technology to try to change the slime's shape and turn the slime into a mushroom. To be precise, it deprived the slime of the ability to jump around. Make slime obediently serve as food.

But System took it for granted. Although a slime has a simple shape and structure, it is not a bug that can be transformed by System's tentacles [perceiving] the blood.

Therefore, the method of using the Ratman to breed the plague continued to be tested, and System continued to transform for several days without any results, and the slime's gelatin was still alive and kicking.

However, during the process of cultivating the glowing mushroom, System accidentally let the slime devour the glowing mushroom, which produced a fleeting strong light, just like a flashlight.

When he was bored these days, System also tried to understand the principle of slime's light.

However, the glowing slime only appeared once, and after that, System could no longer make the slime emit strong light by devouring mushrooms.

Searching the video data in the [Tools Menu], System did not find any clues. It seems that the slime's strong light was just a coincidence.

After all, whether the slime can emit strong light is of no obvious use to System.

So today, after System fiddled with it for a while and found no progress, he ate the research slime together with some fluorescent mushrooms.

System finally gave up on this useless research.

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As System expected, the gradually decreasing rainfall continued for another 4 days, and the 20-day rainy season came to an end. The sky became clear, with only scattered clouds passing by, and the breeze generated was not strong.

After a rainy day, the moist but not cold air makes insects feel very comfortable.

System can finally use [System's Eye] to observe things in the distance in the sky. After all, the rain is too strong to block the line of sight.

More than 100 kilometers away to the west, the ratman gathering place was silent, only the calm water surface, it seemed that the whole ratman gathering place was flooded by rain.

The higher slopes a few kilometers away from the ratman gathering place were not flooded by the rain. System saw some vague muddy footprints around the openings of several holes. It seemed that some ratmen were still alive.

Looking at the Lierte Forest in the east, the elves are as usual, and the accumulated rain has not affected them too much. They still stay leisurely on the tree house, and some elves are happily swimming with leopards in the water .

Hey~
A loud bird song interrupted System's thinking. Grasshoppers have a natural fear of birds in their blood. Even if ordinary birds pose no threat to System at all, System will subconsciously heart beat faster.

The honking was a black hawk that is common on the grasslands. This black hawk seemed to have spotted System flying in the air and ran away in a panic.

"Could it be the one you didn't catch last time?"

As the overlord of the prairie sky, ordinary black hawks would not voluntarily flee even if they saw System's strange appearance, at most they would not attack him, but this black hawk was obviously full of fear of System.

System did not pursue the flying black eagle either, and slowly descended from the sky and returned to his lair.

……

Everything around has calmed down, the nearby Ratman didn't make any obvious movements, the elves in the Lierte Forest didn't make any obvious movements, and his [intuition] didn't show any uneasy feeling.

Perhaps his [intuition] can only detect things that are close in time, and the surrounding ratmen or druids may also find his lair.

But where in this world can we get absolute safety.

Just like when he was carefully shedding his skin in the Lierte forest, the situation at that time was much more dangerous than his current situation.

There will always be various dangers in this world, and he can't just wait forever like this.

System decided to pupate in the near future.

The half-meter-deep water on the grassland fell very quickly, and System estimated that the rainwater accumulated in the vicinity would completely fall in half a month.

If the Ratman, the Elf, and his [intuition] still didn't move after the rain fell completely, System decided to carry out the third pupation, break the level lock, and become a magical creature.

And in the past ten days, System decided to use the power of the excavator to dig straight down for him a sufficiently deep pupation site, at least tens of meters deep underground.

Although underground water will emerge as long as you dig down to a depth of more than ten meters, System believes that excavation will have a way to solve this problem.

(End of this chapter)