Law of the Swarm

Chapter 170 Monad Swamp
After System's repeated threats, the snail, which was not low in IQ and was extremely afraid of death, became much more honest and calmly told his experience.

This snail has a name, called Jess, and belongs to an abyss creature of a magical rank, with the ability to create vivid illusions and charms.

Soon Jess confessed to his crimes of fooling the lizardman and luring the tyrant slime, and told System about the surrounding situation.

Having such a native who is very familiar with the level of the abyss also allowed System to have a deeper understanding of the situation in this level of the abyss.

In short, System's current location is a place called the Monad Swamp by the creatures of the abyss.

The name Monad comes from a powerful legendary dragon. At first, Monad's dragon lair was in the center of this swamp. Later, Monad disappeared somehow, but the previous name is still used here.

System didn't ask much about the origin of the name Monad. Instead, he asked the snail about the area covered by the Monad Swamp, its biological composition, and what was outside the Monad Swamp.

System soon learned that there was still a swamp beyond the Monad Swamp, and there was no obvious boundary with the outside world.

This level of the abyss is basically a swamp, there are few lands and hills, and there is basically no difference.

As for the extent of the Monad Swamp, Jess the snail, who didn't have a measuring tool, didn't know very well. He just said that riding the long-legged lizard beast would take more than ten days of continuous riding.

Although there is no distinction between day and night at this level of the abyss, there is an obvious pattern of bubbles emerging from the swamp, which will stop and open every 12 hours. The time in the abyss is also measured according to the law of the swamp bubbles, and The time in the main world is the same.

At the upper level of the food chain in the Monad Swamp, apart from the magical lords in the neutral area where System is located, there are more lizard tribes, large and small. These lizard tribes have been fighting endlessly for years to occupy the territory.

The reason why the lizardmen have been fighting like this for years is not only for plundering resources and robbing female lizardmen, but also for Monad's treasure.

In the past 200 years, I don't know where the news came from. It is said that as long as the Monad Swamp is completely occupied, the legendary dragon Monad will be inherited and the dragon's bloodline will be obtained.

The blood of the dragon has an unimaginable temptation for the lizard people who admire the dragon race. In addition, there has never been an absolutely powerful lizard man in these years, so the tribes of the lizard people have been fighting continuously for 200 years.

The snail, Jess, seems to know the Monad Swamp very well. According to Jess, the top creatures in the Monad Swamp are extraordinary, and there are only a dozen or less extraordinary creatures.

Among the dozens of lizardmen tribes, there are three extraordinary-level lizardmen. In addition, there is a pair of poisonous flying dragon lairs in the southwest of the Monet Swamp, with two extraordinary-level flying dragons.

In addition, the most extraordinary species in the Monad Swamp is System's old friend, the tyrant slime. There are about five or six species in the entire Monad Swamp.

After hearing Jess the snail's explanation, System also realized that his chances of encountering the tyrant slime were actually not high.

There are a lot of giant slimes in the Monad Swamp, which belong to the magical rank, but the number of tyrant slimes with purple cores inside the giant slimes is actually very rare.

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Under System's questioning, Jess the snail also confessed the purpose of his trip.

It turned out that the snail obtained an oval-shaped magic crystal from the lizardman tribe, and obtained a sense from the magic crystal, and obtained the location of a ruin.

The magic crystal obtained by the snail is actually the key to activate the relic.

After learning the news, Shadow quickly found the oval magic crystal near the place where the snail was caught, and handed it to System.

But it's a pity, as if he couldn't activate the teleportation array, System couldn't sense the magic crystal either.

Only Shadow and Snail Jess can make this magic crystal glow faintly blue.

It seems that the power of Shadow's invisibility is very close to the power of the snail's illusion, so it can produce similar effects. Shadow's ability to accurately locate the snail at that time is also related to the closeness of the two powers.

Through Shadow's sensing of the location of the ruins, the location of the ruins was exactly where System was teleported to the abyss.

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Snail Jess deceived the two lizardmen and lured the tyrant slime to open the way ahead, just to go to this ruin and activate it.

After all, snails do not have the ability to protect themselves. Facing intelligent beings, creating a terrifying atmosphere can have a certain effect, but when encountering magical creatures without intelligence, they will be attacked without hesitation.

The magical creatures occupying the territory of these neutral areas are stronger than ordinary magical rank lizardmen because they have been in a state of fighting and fighting for a long time.

So the snail Jess instructed the two lizardmen to lure a tyrant slime, and let the tyrant slime clean up the nearby magical creatures with territories.

It was also like this that after the lizardmen who had lured the tyrant slime came here, they were blocked by System.

As for the words that the two lizard men said before they died, they were completely deceived by the snail's lies and had no meaning.

It can be said that until the death of the two lizardmen, they were still immersed in the lies of Jess the snail, thinking that after their death, they would fall into the embrace of the evil god and gain eternal life.

Through the introduction of the snail to the Monad Swamp, System can let his ant people breed with peace of mind, without worrying that the rapid expansion of the ants will attract the target of some intelligent race and get him into trouble.

Not only that, this snail not only deceived the two lizardmen who were kept in the dark, but also deceived an entire small lizardman tribe. There are 37 lizardmen under its control, and four of them are magic ranks. .

It's a pity that there are only two of the four magical lizardmen left because of the accident just happened.

System, who controlled the snail Jess, can be said to have indirectly controlled the thirty or so lizardmen who were brainwashed by Jess.

With the help of Ying, this lizardman tribe can also be annexed by other lizardmen, allowing him to indirectly control more lizardmen.

The snail brainwashed lizardman tribe is not very far from System's location. According to the description of Snail Jess, System estimates that the distance is about ten to twenty kilometers away.

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Although it is not known whether all the words spoken by the snail are true, System will be able to verify them one by one later.

And what System could verify right away was the ruin, and he quickly brought the rest of the bugs to the ruin where they teleported, which was less than one kilometer away from where he was.

Through Ying's perception of the magic crystal, there should be a strange and huge building buried in this ruin...

(End of this chapter)