Law of the Swarm

Chapter 145 Hostile Species

Accompanied by a burst of gray light and the same dizziness as when he came to the Shadow Temple.

System returned to his lair with thirteen jars of dragon bone marrow, some magic props, and hundreds of magic candles.With these magic candles, System no longer has to laboriously cultivate fluorescent mushrooms, and use these magic lamps to complete the lighting of the underground lair.

Unlike System, who is a pragmatist, Butterfly Aura and Shava brought back two large boxes of gold coins and gems respectively.

Rather than storing the treasures in the temple, these two worms obviously wanted to move the treasures back to their nests.

Even Ola.

Although she obtained the ownership of the half-plane Shadow Temple from the evil god Rafal, Aura didn't have any sense of belonging there, so she brought back the treasures of the Shadow Temple and planned to use these gold coins to decorate her empty room.

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But not long after System returned, System's tentacles smelled a bloody smell.

There was the smell of ants' blood, and a sulfur-like smell of blood, which made System feel restless after a long absence.

"Could it be an abyssal creature?"

System murmured softly, since the wolf man failed to invade the Lierte forest before his third pupation, the abyssal demons who fought together with the wolf man disappeared as if they had lost their trace.

According to the information that Shadow told him, the gnoll should have taken refuge in the abyss lord Orgen, that is, the dragon brother who made Aura the culprit of the butterfly.

So when System pupated for the third time and found that the entire Warren was occupied by undead creatures, System always felt something was wrong deep in his heart.

The source of this ailment is the abyss.

System had always believed that it might be Orgen, the demon dragon of purgatory, who had abandoned the Gnoll and Warren Plain.

But it might not be that simple.

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System quickly led Shava to move in the direction of the smell, and System quickly encountered an injured worker ant knight in the passage of the cave.

The carapace on the worker ant knight's chest was shattered, but fortunately, only some blood flowed out, and there was no great danger. System put the worker ant knight down and continued to follow the breath of the abyssal creatures.

System's tentacles gradually heard the impact sound near the entrance of the cave, and also smelled a more intense abyssal atmosphere. It should be that his ant people were fighting the abyssal creatures.

Just when System and Black were about to rush to the entrance of the cave, the voice became much quieter, and the battle seemed to be over.

When System arrived, he saw that the meat ball transformed into a huge mouth full of ring-shaped serrated teeth, biting off the head of a one-meter-long centipede.

After discovering System's return, his son Rouqiu immediately spat out the centipede's head in his mouth, and at the same time approached System affectionately.

Meatball can be said to be System's strongest combat power besides Shava, and he used [Probe Analysis] on Meatball again.

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Species: Amoeba (renameable)

Rating: 42/130
Diameter: 0.53 meters

Weight: 41 kg
Estimated combat power: 180-260
Special: [Pupation] (20/22), [Insect Adaptation] (30/30)

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It can be said that if the meat ball continues to grow like this and enters the fourth pupation, it should not be a problem.

After rubbing Meatball's body with his tentacles, System looked at the dead centipede corpse.

Because the decapitated centipede's body was still trembling slightly, there was a lot of dark red blood flowing from the ground, and it exuded a more intense abyssal breath.

It wasn't long before Blake appeared.

After expressing joy and doubts to System's return, Black quickly told what happened in the half-moon lair where he disappeared.

In fact, this one-meter-long centipede was not the first to appear. In the past half a month, three centipedes had appeared successively, and this centipede was the smallest and most ordinary among them.

Moreover, the three large centipedes that appeared all actively invaded System's nest, rather than encountering System's ant people outside the nest.

After receiving the news from Black, System immediately realized the seriousness of the situation.

Under Black's leadership, System quickly saw the corpses of the previous giant centipedes, and also saw the weird centipede with hairy arms.

This weird creature made System feel as if he had met the predecessor of the little meat ball, the white spider.

But after tasting the flesh and blood of this creature, System noticed something different.

These abyssal creatures also have the blood of insects, but they are different from the previous meat balls. Although the blood of the meat balls was mixed with the blood of the devil, the main body of the blood of the meat balls is still insects.

And these centipede-like creatures are mainly based on the blood of demons, supplemented by the blood of insects and some arthropods.

In fact, it is a different kind of demon.

Think of the druids of the swarm that Shadow had mentioned to System, and the druids of the swarm were members of Orgen.

If System's deduction is correct, these centipede demons were researched by the swarm druids.

After checking a few injured ant knights, using [Healing Power] for proper treatment, and visiting the ant queen Linda.

System took Shava out to investigate.

Although his [intuition] didn't give him any warning, indicating that these giant centipedes did not pose much of a threat to him, System still decided to investigate these abyssal creatures immediately.

System wanted to further determine the reason for the appearance of these abyssal creatures, and why they invaded his lair, so as to avoid any trouble, but he did not take precautions in advance.

After all, although his [intuition] is easy to use, most of the threats will only bring him a warning when the situation is critical.

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After half a month, the climate of the Warren Plain has not changed much, and the temperature is still around zero.

In the past two days, there may have been a light snowfall on the Warren Plain, and a layer of light white snowflakes appeared on the ground. It may be because of the slightly colder weather that the snowflakes have not completely melted.

And it was this thin layer of snow that made it easier for System to observe the situation on the ground.

System quickly saw a Gnoll zombie corpse two kilometers away from him, and a big centipede devouring the flesh and blood of the zombie.

This centipede was about 1.2 meters in length. Apart from its body shape similar to that of a centipede, some strange white spikes grew out of the brown carapace on the back of this centipede, which looked like the fangs of a wolf man.

System found that as the centipede quickly devoured the flesh and blood of the zombies, its body grew at an extremely fast speed. Basically, every two or three minutes, the centipede's body would grow by about one centimeter.

After observing this centipede in the sky for more than ten minutes, System moved over with Shava, and decided to take a closer look at this giant centipede from the abyss.

The centipede seemed to be very alert. When System moved to a distance of about 30 meters from it, the centipede suddenly gave up eating the flesh and blood of the zombies, and rushed towards System at high speed. .

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Species: Centipede Demon (renameable)

Length: 1.07 meters

Weight: 15-25 kg
Estimated combat power: 5-20
special:-
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System had no choice but to let Shava carry out the previously agreed plan in advance, give up close observation of the centipede, and let Shava cut off all the legs of the big centipede, making it incapacitated.

While Shava was fighting this centipede, System discovered that he seemed to be able to feel the emotions emanating from this abyssal creature...

(End of this chapter)