Law of the Swarm

Chapter 174 Floating Island Palace

The entire floating island has a large underground space, and System has found many traces of civilization in the dusty floating island buildings these days.

Some metal golems seen in the Warren Plains were also found, but unfortunately these golems have decayed over time and will be damaged if touched a little.

And the only uncorrupted item inside the floating island, except for the blue crystal similar to the center of the floating island, is the gold coin that Aura found.

After these days of hard work, Ola finally found a lot of gold coins in a building, all of which were gold coins with a woman's head on them.

There are a lot of them, about one-third of the treasure house of the Rafal Temple.

System was not stingy, and gave all these useless gold coins to this greedy butterfly.

Butterfly was not polite either, she took the gold coins and gathered the gold coins and gems in two huge stone rooms, and often found her good friend Shava to swim and play in the ocean of gold coins.

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Recalling the butterfly, System shook his head helplessly, then grabbed the snail and came to the circular hall in the center of the floating island.

The diameter of this hall is about 60 meters, the top of the arc-shaped hall is 20 meters high, and the shortest walls on the four sides are also ten meters high.

The design of the whole hall is grand, with dozens of gray stone pillars carved with patterns, and a throne made of blue crystal.

Judging from the size of the throne, it should be used by creatures of human shape.

According to Ying's sensing of this crystal throne, the crystal seat is a magic item, which should be the control center of this floating island, but now the floating island has no energy and cannot be activated.

Obviously, this crystal throne should be the seat of the owner of the floating island.

If it weren't for the fact that many of the metal furnishings in this hall had decayed, and some unknown fabrics would turn into fly ash after being touched, this hall might be much more exquisite than Rafal's temple.

Fortunately, the gray stone used to construct this floating island is durable and has withstood the test of time without any damage. Otherwise, System would only have harvested ruins.

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In the main hall at this time, nearly two hundred worker ant knights and big worker ants were busy, cleaning up and moving the decayed debris in the main hall to the utility room next to the main hall.

In the utility room is the giant slime that System found recently.

Giant slimes are about the same size as tyrant slimes, and some are even bigger, but their combat power is much lower, usually between 20 and 30.

They do not have the same thinking ability as tyrant slimes, and their behavior patterns are not significantly different from small ordinary slimes, but they are more corrosive and eat more types.

System can still easily control this kind of giant slime in the magical rank.

After discovering that his slime friends would not corrode these gray slates, as the scavengers of nature and old friends of System, these giant slimes were assigned by System to clean up the garbage.

After all, it is too far for the ants to carry these rotting garbage to the ground above 1000 meters.

With the help of giant slimes, whose digestion ability is better than ordinary slimes, the work of ants is much, much easier.

And these selfless slimes will also provide food for the ants after eating the garbage, killing two birds with one stone.

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Under Black's command, in addition to cleaning up the garbage, the ants also transported magic candles to decorate the hall. After these few days of busy work, the originally messy hall has become much cleaner.

In fact, System didn't pay much attention to tidying up the hall, and what the hall became would not have any effect on System.

System is so concerned about this hall now, a large part of it is because of those lizardmen controlled by snails.

After a while, the chief of the lizard tribe who was brainwashed by snails was brought to this hall.

At that time, System will brainwash the lizardman patriarch again.

Therefore, this hall must be organized as neatly as possible, and it is best to have a certain momentum, so that the lizard people will be intimidated.

As long as the lizard people can be re-brainwashed, even if the snail Jess does not exist, these lizard people will not escape his control.

Of course, in order to be able to control more lizardmen in the Monad Swamp, System, the snail with illusion ability, did not intend to kill him immediately.

System did this just in case, to prevent the lizardman from getting out of his control after the snail died.

In front of the lizardmen, this snail gave itself the identity of the apostle of the God of Death—the Soul Harvester.

System also decided to continue the snail's routine and named himself Death Agent, whose responsibility was to manage soul harvesters like snails.

But sitting on the crystal throne and looking at the empty hall, System always felt that something was missing, the hall still looked a bit empty.

Perhaps by then he could have thirty soldier ant knights standing on either side of the throne.

However, the figure of the soldier ant knight is still too small, only about half a meter tall. If he appears in front of a lizard man who is close to two meters tall, it may have the opposite effect, making the lizard man who comes to him despise him.

"What should I put?" System unconsciously said to himself.

The snail on the side seemed to see what System was thinking, and said in a timely manner: "Your Majesty, you can control the slimes and let the slimes of the magical rank stay near your throne, so that those stupid lizardmen will surely will bow at your feet."

System turned his head and glanced at the snail under him, and said, "That's a good idea, I really can't bear to eat you..."

Accompanied by System's threats, Jess the snail could only reply with an awkward smile.

After this period of time, the snail with high intelligence has discovered that System treats itself differently from those ants.

System seemed to have great trust in those ants, but he was full of defense against himself.

Even though he has tried his best to play his role and serve System with all his heart, System still doesn't trust him.

The snail is also very helpless about this.

In the final analysis, although Jess the snail discovered that System has another way of communicating with ants and bugs, he didn't know that System could sense the emotions of bugs.

So the snail didn't know that it was precisely because of this mind-reading ability that System had such trust in the ants.

And if System could perceive the snail's emotions, then this snail harboring evil intentions would probably have been eliminated by System long ago.

In fact, snails are actually quite lucky.

Although System didn't let down his guard, it didn't make System resolve to kill him either.

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System, who stayed on the Crystal Throne, used the ability to compile image data in the [Tools Menu] to try to change the placement of the giant slime, trying to make the slime more powerful.

Just as System was using the [Tools Menu] and conducting research, a vague shadow appeared next to System, it was Shadow.

It turns out that excavators have made new progress in excavating the floating island...

(End of this chapter)