Law of the Swarm

Chapter 48 Shava's Request

After continuing to communicate with the slime for a while, System discovered that in addition to moving and bouncing, he could also give the slime a third command—split.

He can use spiritual messages to make slimes split apart.

System remembered how he had worked so hard to lure his old friend slime to the ant nest, and then collected the slime's jelly when slime was fighting with the ant.

But now just a few words from him will do.

After System delivered the spiritual message, the slime would follow System's instructions and split into two individuals of the same size.

As long as you continue to control the slime to split several times in a row, you will get small pieces of slime that he can easily manipulate and eat.

And the remaining slimes will attract each other and gather together in a short time.

……

In this way, System was a few meters away from the basketball-sized slime, devouring the small pieces of slime formed by splitting.

The taste of this dark green slime is still a rich yogurt flavor, better than the brown slime before.

The improvement to his [Degeneration and Growth] is also more obvious.

System felt that as long as he continued to eat this small piece of jelly a dozen times, his [Molt Growth] might be able to break through the limit of level 13 and reach level 14.

After each transformation, System will get information about the next transformation.

When he was in the second molt, he knew the third molt.

And now after the third molting, System also felt some information about the fourth molting, although the information was very vague.

System had a vague feeling that when his [Molt Growth] reached level 17 or 18, he would get the specific conditions for the fourth molt.

System's [intuition] gave System a strange feeling that the fourth molt seemed to bring about greater changes in his body, but it was impossible for System to know what the specific changes would be. Learned.

"Perhaps my transformation into a magical life depends on this fourth transformation?"

System, who was eating slime jelly, thought to himself.

System's abdomen gradually swelled as he continued to devour the jelly in the slime's body.

It is not difficult to swallow this glob of jelly, but System estimated that it would take half a day to completely digest and absorb this small glob of jelly.

According to System's previous experience of observing the brown slime, System felt that the speed at which he ate the slime's gelatin was three or four times faster, and it could not keep up with the speed of the slime's self-growth and recovery. .

In other words, as long as winter has not come, he can ask slime for food that he can't finish every day.

After devouring the jelly, System used mental information to split the slime again, and found a large leaf, and controlled the small group of slime jelly to jump onto the leaf.

Using tentacles to wrap the slime in leaves, System decided to pack up the small group of slime and take it away.

This kind of food that is rich in nutrients and can promote [molting growth] is really perfect for Shava and ant larvae.

In the process of wrapping the leaves with his tentacles and returning to the lair, System recalled Sawa's desperate efforts to protect him, and the words he said in the second class because he was moved, he couldn't help being a little ashamed——

"As long as I'm here, I'm your king."

At that time, he said such words on the spur of the moment. Now that he thinks about it, he is still a little ashamed and regretful, but until now, System does not intend to deny it.

Although he really denies it, Shava won't say anything, but he won't.

This is System's character, once a promise is made, he will never go back on it.

Now that he has proclaimed himself a king, he is a king and he has to do something to his people to be like a king.

……

……

When she brought the slime back to the temporary nest, the soldier ant Shava had just woken up not long ago. She seemed to smell the bloody smell of the mouse's corpse and was eating the meat of the mouse.

The soldier ant's Shava's fangs are very sharp, even System's fangs after the third molt can't match. She easily tore the mouse's fur and bit the mouse's flesh with her fangs. .

It seems that Shava's spirit has recovered a little, but she doesn't know whether she knows that this mouse is the chief culprit that made her disabled in the first place.

After seeing System, Shava's attitude towards him was as friendly as usual, apparently not alienating him because of the tentacles entangled during the day.

Seems to have discovered System's tentacled slime package, Shava sent a confused message to System, "King, what is that?"

System replied: "It's a slime wrapped in leaves. It's a jelly-like creature. It tastes good. Do you want to eat some?"

However, System soon discovered that what Shava was asking about was not the package made of leaves, but the tentacles used to wrap the leaves.

"My lord, what is this...?" Shava sent another spiritual message, this time she moved to the side of System, and pressed System's tentacles with her remaining legs.

System found that Shava's spiritual message seemed to reveal a bit of weirdness.

"It should be regarded as tentacles, like fingers, which can grasp objects." System replied.

Shava seemed to be very interested in his tentacles, and gently rubbed his head against his tentacles.

After a while, Shava seemed to have made up his mind, and suddenly said to System: "King, can it be used, your... tentacles, will you wrap... around me again?"

"……Um?"

System, who was controlling the slime to split and merge, was slightly stunned. He finally found out what the inexplicable thing in Shava's previous mental message was.

Shava seems to like the tentacles with special effects, and wants to continue the bondage game with him.

"no!"

System rejected Shava's request after a little thought. He didn't have some bad tastes, and he could evolve tentacles only because he wanted nimble fingers, not because he wanted to play any special small games.

Hearing System's resolute refusal, Shava felt disappointed.

However, although Sawa was born with wisdom, her feelings are very simple, and she will not hold on to something.

After taking the slime's jelly, Shava felt the mood of enjoyment, obviously this kind of jelly food is very suitable for her appetite.

She quickly forgot about System's tentacles with special functions.

Seeing Shava eating jelly, System nodded. He controlled the slime's jelly to continue to split, and then distributed the jelly with a certain activity to many ant larvae.

Except for a few ant larvae who don't like this gelatin very much, most ant larvae like this nutrient-rich gelatinous food very much.

Watching these ant larvae eating slime's jelly, System found that the eating speed of one of the two male and female ant larvae he was particularly concerned about was a bit unusual.

In terms of body shape, this ant larva is also much larger than other ant larvae hatched at the same time.

This ant larva apparently possesses a digestive ability that other ant larvae do not.

Seeing the fast digestion speed of this ant larva undoubtedly gave System a new idea.

As the saying goes, sharpening a knife is not a mistake in chopping firewood. If he wants to grow quickly, compared with other miscellaneous abilities, the first thing he needs to improve is his digestion ability!

(End of this chapter)