Law of the Swarm

Chapter 38 The King and the Knight

System did not expect that what he exchanged with lies and suspicion from this soldier ant was loyalty.

Even after hearing System say that he is not an ant queen, Dasha still attacked like a mouse without hesitation.

Looking at the mutilated body of Dasha the soldier ant, the shattered head and the blood still flowing from the broken limbs, System's heart was repeatedly touched.

You, why do you do this?
System didn't know why, but once again sent a mental message to the soldier ant Dasha: "I am not an ant queen, but a grasshopper."

"..."

The soldier ant Dasha didn't respond, but kept silent. It opened its fangs and remained motionless to guard System, but the remaining antennae on its head shook slightly, obviously accepting Arrived at the spiritual message sent by System for him.

"I'm really a grasshopper, not the queen's."

System continued to pass on spiritual messages.

"No, you are, the ant queen."

The soldier ant Dasha finally responded to System, its mental message was very firm, it seemed unwilling to admit that System was not the queen ant.

"……I'm not."

After a long sigh, System explained again that he didn't know why he insisted on explaining this to Dasha.

Even if he knew this explanation, and Dasha would probably rebel against him immediately after he understood it, System still did so.

"You are... an ant queen."

Dasha, the soldier ant, seemed unwilling to admit that System was not the queen.

However, at the next moment, Soldier Ant Dasha suddenly gave an answer that exceeded System's expectations.

The soldier ant Dasha seemed to understand something, and it sent a message to System: "You are, Queen Ant, no, you are Queen...Queen."

System was stunned for a moment. He remembered that when he first came into contact with Dasha, he talked a lot of things on his own because he was lonely and didn't care whether Dasha understood or not.

Dasha probably learned the word queen at that time.

"...why do you think I'm the queen?"

System continued to ask Dasha.

This time, Soldier Ant Dasha did not send him a spiritual message, but used [Spiritual Connection] to send him several images.

There is an image of System giving Dasha the transparent stone; there is an image of System chatting with Dasha with [spiritual connection]; there is a video of System ordering Dasha to eat a lot of food and asking Dasha to say goodbye Images of hunger; there are also images of System gently stroking Dasha's head with his feet...

Many images that are insignificant to System are connected, but he feels Dasha's extraordinary gratitude and excitement from these images.

"Is that why you regard me as your queen?" System sent another spiritual message.

"Yes."

The soldier ant Dasha gave an affirmative response, and System knew that if his body could move, his worm head would definitely smile.

"Nonsense, I'm obviously a male, how can I be called a queen?" System sent a mental message with an extremely relaxed tone.

Dasha, the soldier ant, didn't seem to understand. It used its remaining legs to slowly turn its body and showed System a puzzled expression.

System looked at Dasha the soldier ant, and at the same time looked at the dozen or so larvae ants nestling beside him, and he suddenly figured it out——

It's good for Dasha and these ignorant ant larvae, even if he no longer lies about himself as the queen of ants, he can still gain their trust.

He didn't have to lie about being an ant queen at all.

System said stupidly to the soldier ants: "Don't call me queen, that's a title for a female, call me king, as long as I'm still here, I'll be your king."

"king?"

Dasha, the soldier ant, sent out a message of doubt. It obviously couldn't fully understand the meaning of System's words.

"A king refers to a person who is elected as the top manager by some people in the world because of his high self-cultivation, wisdom and ability. They are called kings."

System remembered the explanation of the concept of king in his previous life, and he didn't care whether the soldier ant Dasha could understand it or not, and he passed on the spiritual information to Dasha all at once.

The soldier ant Dasha obviously didn't understand it very well. After thinking for a long time, it suddenly sent out a spiritual message again: "You are the king, so what am I?"

"You, you are a soldier ant... No, I am already a king. It is obviously inappropriate to call you a soldier ant. Then you..."

System was lost in thought, and he suddenly remembered a profession - knight.

The knights in the previous life had eight principles, and Dasha seemed to possess most of them directly.

humble!

Dasha, a soldier ant, is not born with arrogance. Although he has the power to command ordinary worker ants, he has never been malicious towards worker ants.

sacrifice!

Do you have the courage to sacrifice when you need to pay a price to benefit the interests of the majority?
Perhaps it is very difficult for ordinary intelligent races, but for the soldier ant Dasha, sacrifice is really insignificant.

heroic!

There is no doubt that cowards are not worthy of the honorable title of knighthood.A man without courage simply cannot pass the knight's test.

The soldier ant Dasha is born brave and good at fighting.

faith!

If we talk about the religion and the king that human knights believe in, what the ants believe in is their queen, and what Dasha believes in is him——System.

honest!

Honesty is a virtue to be admired everywhere.

Soldier Ant Dasha can't tell lies at all.

just!

Fair and impartial, strictly abide by the law.

Ants are born with their own set of rules, and so is the soldier ant Dasha.

……

Soldier Ant Dasha directly possessed six of the knight's rules.

System said: "Since I am the king, then you must be the knight protecting the king!"

"knight?"

"Hmm. Knight."

System gave an affirmative answer to Dasha Soldier Ant, and at the same time transmitted the fantasy image in his mind to Dasha Soldier Ant.

The knight in the image honed his sword skills and martial arts every day, chopping and slashing against wooden stakes.

The knight in armor held a big sword and knelt to the king to swear allegiance, and said the knight's oath.

The scene changed, and the knight rode a war horse to charge towards the enemy, fighting together with the enemy; then System's delusion turned to the magical world, where the knight rode a fiery red dragon soaring in the sky, facing the densely packed undead The Legion strikes...

"Is this... the knight?"

"Ah."

"Knights are better than mice."

"Yeah, stronger than mice..." System echoed Dasha, the soldier ant. He thought of something and continued: "Dasha, let me give you a name."

"…name?"

"Just like I called you Dasha, let me give you a new name, how about Sava? No, soldier ants are female, or a feminine name is more appropriate, then your name will be Sawa. "

"I, S... Va."

"You, Sawa."

System sent a message to Shava and confirmed her name.

And at this moment, the boiling blood all over System's body suddenly cooled down—his third transformation finally began...

……

……

Shava, with only her left foreleg left, stared at System for a long time, and she found that her king hadn't responded for a long time, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.

She still couldn't fully digest and understand the various spiritual messages that System passed to her, but she was deeply impressed by the image memory that System passed to her.

Especially the image of the knight half-kneeling and swearing allegiance to the king, Shava liked it very much, and she wanted to swear the same oath to System.

Shava tried her best to make her body look like a half-kneeling human being, but almost all her feet and limbs were gone, so she couldn't make such difficult movements at all.

Using the remaining left foreleg, Shava tried to insert the sting needle on her tail into the soil, so that she could make a human half-kneeling posture.

But after hundreds of consecutive attempts and dozens of falls, she still failed.

In the end, Shava could only lie on the ground and make a plausible oath of allegiance to System. She also hilariously pressed her remaining leg on her chest exoskeleton.

"I, Shava, take an oath to serve... the king, to be loyal...to be faithful, and to stay by my side."

After Shava finished her oath, she twisted her body and moved out of the cave with her remaining left foreleg and movable abdominal joints.

The exoskeleton of Shava's head was somewhat broken, and several limbs were broken one after another because of the rats. A lot of blood flowed out from many wounds, making her very weak.

But Sawa felt that her body was full of strength.

She is the king's knight, and she wants to protect the king's safety.

After three hours.

Using her crippled body, Shava finally climbed to the exit of the cave after falling and rolling countless times in the cave.

Ten minutes later, several dark brown worker ants gathered towards Shava.

In the ant society, there is only one disabled ant like Shava who has basically lost the ability to move.

She will be killed by the ants and the body recovered.

Shava dragged her disabled body and started her first battle after officially becoming a system knight!
……

After a few hours.

Near System's temporary nest, dozens of worker ants appeared busy patrolling, guarding System's temporary nest.

Among these worker ants, there was a very strange soldier ant. The soldier ant lost five of its six legs and was carried by four worker ants for movement.

There were many small new scars on the soldier ant's body, and it seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep because of its weakness.

But even in a deep sleep, the soldier ant raised its head high, looking very proud...

……

Sawa, who was sleeping, had a dream, which was the first time she had a dream.

In the dream, she rode a lizard and easily defeated the mouse that offended the king.

With her complete body, she swears a knight's oath to the king, and the king gives her a red stone as a reward.

She was also touched on the head by Wang's feet...

(End of this chapter)