Law of the Swarm

Chapter 42 Shava's Oath

System walked along the passage of the temporary nest. As he got closer to the exit of the nest, he smelled the scent of many worker ants and heard the sound of many worker ants moving.

There seems to be a lot of worker ants patrolling around his nest.

"Could it be commanded by Shava?"

As System came out of the hole, more than a hundred ants in the vicinity gathered towards him as if a pot had exploded.

The commanding level of the soldier ant Shava to the ants has obviously not improved significantly. These ordinary ants still regard him as an enemy, and attack him without hesitation after seeing him.

System did not bounce, and the carapace covered with intricate patterns on his back opened slightly.

Like a feather blown by the breeze, System flew up.

After the third molt, System's body and wings underwent obvious changes. His body became lighter, and his wings became more flexible.

However, System didn't know exactly what changed in the structure of the wings, but it obviously became more useful, and he could easily control his body to hover in mid-air.

Not only that, but the sound he made when he was flying became extremely slight, and it was no longer like when he just became an adult insect, as long as he flapped his wings, there would be a roaring sound.

System lightly flapped his wings and flew above the group of worker ants.

As System rose, the group of worker ants did not continue to chase System, but continued to wave their tentacles to patrol around System's nest.

System, who flew up, didn't continue to watch the group of worker ants, he suddenly smelled a scent of Shava's body.

Flying along the unique smell in the air, he quickly found the soldier ant Sawa next to a small sapling a few meters away.

……

In two days, the wound on Shava's body had condensed into a light gray blood scab.

System found that, except for the granulation of the broken antennae on the top of Shava's head, Shava's other severed limbs showed no signs of continued growth.

It seems that Shava does not have the ability of [regeneration of severed limbs] like him.

System did not choose to disturb the soldier ant Shava immediately, but just watched her from a distance.

Even if they were several meters away, with his current eyesight, he could easily see Shava's every move.

System felt that his eyes were sharper than an eagle's now, and he could even vaguely see a piece of dead leaf mixed in the clouds in the sky.

After shaking the insect head, System concentrated on observing the soldier ant Shava not far away.

Shava, who has only one leg left, is obviously much more flexible than when she was seriously injured two days ago.

Her abdomen seems to have become her second leg, and Savory uses the only remaining left foreleg and abdomen to move on the ground as if "jumping".

Shava opened her huge fangs and bit the sapling suddenly!

After biting the plant, Shava checked the wound on the stem of the plant with the remaining foot, slowly moved to the original position, and then rushed to the stem of the plant again to bite...

System observed that there were at least dozens of wounds on the stem of the plant, and Shava must have practiced against this plant for a long time.

"Is it because of the video I gave her?"

System recalled the spiritual message he sent to Shava before completing the transformation, and the image of the knight he imagined.

In his fantasy image, there is a knight who is always practicing chopping against wooden posts with an iron sword.

Perhaps it was because of this video that Shava learned to practice. Although she didn't have a big sword, she was born with a pair of huge fangs, so she practiced biting near here.

System didn't think that the human knight's method could be applied to bugs, not to mention that the video was not real at all, it was just a fantasy in his mind.

System felt that instead of practicing like this, it would be better to spend the same amount of time eating more food, so as to increase the size of the body. This is the correct way for insects to grow.

What's more, Shava's current body is already disabled, and this kind of practice will not produce any results at all.

System decided to stop Sawa who practiced like this.

However, just after he watched the practice of Shava Bite twice again, System stopped...

There seemed to be a flash of blue light in System's dark green compound eyes.

Opening the database in the [Tools menu], System carefully compared Shava's three exercises, and he found that the feeling just now was indeed correct.

Shava is improving, she will think after each bite, and then fine-tune the next bite process on plants.

The force of the bite was unable to be clearly observed by System, but the speed at which Shava sprinted towards the plants was a little faster each time.

"Coincidence? Is it the potential of bugs? Or is it that Sawa is gifted?"

System stopped, quietly observed Shava's practice, and used the [Tools menu] to record statistics.

In one hour, Shava bit the plants 131 times, of which 117 times Shava sprinted faster than the previous one.

In contrast, Shava's sprint speed increased by nearly a quarter compared with the initial one after an hour.

As Shava bit again more than a dozen times, the two-centimeter thick and thin woody plant seedling was finally completely bitten off by Shava.

Although I don't want to admit it, practicing like a human does have an effect on Shava, and it seems that the effect is very good.

……

After biting off the plant thoroughly, Shava seemed to start eating the food piled up next to him due to the exhaustion of his physical energy.

Seeing this, System flew down from a high tree branch, and used [Spiritual Connection] on Shava.

Shava was obviously stunned for a moment, and she expressed doubts, but immediately this emotion turned into joy, and she crawled excitedly in front of System with her mutilated body.

System found that the stinging needle in Shava's abdomen suddenly protruded, and he was very puzzled.

Is Shava going to attack him with a tail needle?
It's impossible!

Sawa suddenly turned her body over, and then used the tail needle to insert into the soil, and she actually stood upright with the sting needle at the tail.

Like a human being, Shava put her remaining leg on her chest and made a very funny pose.

System's jaws twitched unconsciously, feeling a little embarrassed. He really didn't understand what Shava was doing with this weird movement.

System asked Shava, "What are you doing?"

"Swear!"

The spiritual message from Sawa is full of pride and complacency.

"Oath? Er... what you did, is it a knight's oath?"

"Yes!" Shava replied very excitedly.

System's fangs twitched uncontrollably again. Seeing Shava's embarrassing movement, he felt that it was a mistake for him to give Shava the image of the knight in his fantasy.

A good ant, what a mess!
(End of this chapter)