Law of the Swarm

Chapter 127

With the passage of time, the time recorded in the [Tools Menu] has been close to a year, but in fact his pupation time must be much longer than a year.

Because of the chain of dreams in the pupated coma at the beginning, System didn't know how long he had been pupated.

System just felt that the liquid formed in his body was gradually solidifying.

According to his experience in nurturing the ants, System knew that his pupation was coming to an end soon.

And on such a day, System finally heard that unique buzzing sound again, which was the sound of the world.

This time, System did not appear in that white space following the voice of the world, but only received an inexplicable power.

This kind of power made System tremble unconsciously, and gave System an extremely comfortable feeling.

System inexplicably gained some knowledge in his mind, and he finally knew the fundamental difference between the so-called mortal and magical life.

Rank mortals and rank transformation belong to the life level of mortals.

Among them, mortals can hardly grasp the power of magic, or even if they use magic power, the magic power is extremely weak.

Metamorphosis can simply absorb or use some kind of free energy, and then use magical powers, such as using flames, or casting lightning.

This metamorphosis stage can also be called the awakening stage, apprentice, or trainee stage. The former is aimed at monsters or warlocks who have awakened the power of their ancestors, while the latter is some intelligent race that understands and uses magic power through learning, such as Apprentice mage, or trainee warrior.

The magical life belongs to the existence of a higher level of mortal things.

Magic life can still borrow and absorb free energy, and is more skillful in using energy than ordinary things.

But the biggest difference between magical life and ordinary things is not the use of power, but the existence of magical life represents the magical power itself.

Even without absorbing or borrowing the free energy in the air, they can exert magical powers.

And after obtaining this information, System finally knew.

In the Warren Plain where frost energy is extremely rare, the butterfly transformed from Aura's remnant soul can use hundreds of times his frost energy, which shows that Aura should not be a mortal thing.

Although she has only pupated twice, Aura has probably become a magical life.

……

After a short thought, the jelly in System's body continued to vibrate unconsciously for a few minutes, and his comfortable body finally returned to calm.

System knew that his level lock had been broken, and as long as he emerged from the chrysalis, he would have a new level cap and become a magical life at the same time.

And the core of his magical power is [perception] and [teleportation].

Grade: 15/?

life:? ?

The information from the [Tools Menu] did not fully determine System's level cap and newly obtained lifespan, but System roughly knew a range.

His level cap should be between 80 and 130. The specific value will change according to the completion of [Pupation], and it is not yet fully determined.

The same is true for his lifespan. He will gain a lifespan of between 60 and 250 years, becoming a species with a relatively long lifespan, but the specific lifespan will also depend on his subsequent [chrysalis] progress.

[Pupation] The process of the body gradually solidifying from gelatin to form a new body is particularly important, and it often has a huge impact on insects.

However, System is not very clear about how to condense the body.

All System can do is wait quietly. As long as he waits like this, his pupation will be completed naturally.

……

Time passed little by little, just when System thought he would condense in his body like this, and then break out of the chrysalis logically.

There was a buzzing sound in System's mind again, and an inexplicable feeling appeared in System's whole body, and soon a system prompt from the [Tools Menu] appeared.

Ding!You have been given the title "Insect Lord".

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"Insect Lord": The title given to System by an unknown being.When loyal insect people are near you, your insect people will gain [high morale] and [abnormal patience].

Even without a real territory, you have people who are absolutely loyal to you.

……

Not long after he obtained the title, the jelly inside the pupa of System worm quickly squirmed, and the jelly condensed into his flesh and blood at an extremely fast speed.

System discovered that this transformation process of gelatin and flesh is very close to the [body-glial transformation] ability he wanted to activate.

But it didn't make System think more, and a notification sound interrupted System's thinking again.

System had just obtained the activation inspiration of [Body-Gel Transformation], but he did not expect that his body had already acquired this ability during the pupation process.

Ding!You gain the derived ability [Body-Gel Transmutation] (11/17).

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[Body-Gel Transformation] (11/17): Derivative abilities obtained from [Pupation], [Body Transformation], [Plague Slime], and [Insect Adaptability].Part of the body can be transformed with [Plague Slime].

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After a cursory glance at the information on [Body-Gel Transition], System concentrated on feeling his body.

As his body gradually hardened, System gradually regained the feeling of his body.

His tentacles grew well, and he could hear subtle movements from the surroundings, and he even heard Shava's familiar heartbeat not far away.

System's eyes also gradually recovered and became hard. Because of the see-through ability of [System's Eye], System could see the blurred scene around him through the outer wall of the chrysalis. The empty room he was in seemed to be After the transformation of the excavator, it became even bigger.

The final stage of breaking out of the chrysalis seemed to be surprisingly fast. The flesh and blood of System's body solidified at an extremely fast speed, and soon System felt the stuffiness inside the chrysalis.

System used the [Carapace Spikes] ability very naturally, spikes grew from the ends of dozens of his tentacles, and the shell of the chrysalis was easily torn apart by System.

System was finally able to watch his pupated appearance at this time.

Except for the tentacles, he can vaguely find the shadow of the grasshopper on his body, but apart from the head joints, his thorax and abdomen joints have disappeared, the entire chest and abdomen are connected as one, and a soft abdomen also appeared Some scaled carapaces resemble snakes.

His appearance became more ferocious than before pupation, with many spikes appearing on the exoskeleton, and at the same time, System found that his body had more tentacles.

Some of these tentacles are ordinary tentacles, and some are leg tentacles with carapaces. The leg tentacles covered with carapace are thicker, while the ordinary tentacles are thinner. These tentacles evenly cover all parts of his body, some of which are similar to those of grasshoppers and octopuses. hybrid.

System roughly counted, and there were 36 tentacles on his feet.

Instead of continuing to stare at his body, System turned his gaze to the figure at the side, and at the same time stretched out a tentacle to touch that figure's head.

"Sorry, it took a long time to pupate."

(End of this chapter)