Law of the Swarm

Chapter 49 Ability Activation
Ordering Shava to take care of these ant larvae to eat gum, System brought the ant larva to an empty room.

System immediately started his inspection of ant larvae, that is, tentacles entangled.

Perhaps it was because the ant larvae were completely immature. System used his tentacles to examine the ant larvae, and it had the effect of showing a Shava.

The ant larva has always had the feeling of returning to the mother's body towards System, and there have been no special fluctuations in emotion.

A few minutes later, System checked out that the level of this ant was level 4, and the level limit was the same as that of Shava, which was level 14. It seemed that the level limit of this dark brown ant should be the same, which was level 14.

And System also detected the sex of this ant, which should be female.

System continued to conduct testing and analysis, and he once again felt the [insect adaptability] and the special talent similar to [molting growth] in the ant's blood.

After comparing the information difference between the female ant larvae and Shava, System discovered that the ant's [molting growth] power is actually the [chrysalis] talent.

The talent [chrysalis] is more powerful than [molting growth], and it can transform life to a higher degree.

Ant larvae, like butterfly larvae, eat continuously during the larval stage. When the body grows, it must condense into a pupa, and finally break out of the pupa to become a new life.

System recalled that when he was molting for the first time, he was once torn off by an ant, but after molting, his feet and limbs were all restored.

His molting can repair the disability of the limbs, and the pupation of the ant can even repair the damage of the body.

Since the grasshopper's [molting growth] can have the third molt, then Shava can also pupate for the second time, and obtain a brand new body while breaking out of the pupa.

Shava's current level has reached level 10, and it is estimated that he is very close to reaching the conditions for the second pupation.

Maybe it is easier to use [Ability Strengthening Technique] to enhance Shava's talent [Pupation] than to let Shava acquire the ability of [Regeneration of Severed Limbs], so that Shava can undergo a second pupation as soon as possible.

Moreover, if Shava undergoes a second pupation, his strength will undoubtedly increase greatly and he will become his right-hand man.

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After thinking briefly, System didn't think too much, and continued to test the powerful digestion ability in the female ant larvae.

Ten minutes later, System successfully detected the [Super-speed Digestion] (4-7/11-15) ability in the female ant larvae.

It is still only possible to determine the approximate range of the medium ability, which is not very precise.

System speculates that this [super-speed digestion] ability should be possessed by every female ant.

When a female ant becomes a queen, it must ensure that it consumes and digests a large amount of food in a short period of time, otherwise its body will not be able to have the conditions to lay a large number of eggs, and it is impossible to breed several ants with only one queen ant. One hundred thousand ants.

Through the induction of [Insect Adaptability] in his body, System found that although the grasshopper's body is not very suitable for the ability of [Overspeed Digestion], his [Insect Adaptability] has reached level 13, and because of the third Moulting, the insect bloodline is further improved, he should be able to master this [super speed digestion] ability.

The so-called insects, in the final analysis, in fact, whether grasshoppers, ants, butterflies, dragonflies, they all have the same ancestors.

Insects seem to be strange, but there is not much difference in the nature of their blood.

It's just that some things stay on the surface and show up, while some things are hidden in the blood and will only show up when necessary.

Insects are weak, but they can reproduce to this day. Their strength may not be strong, but there are thousands of abilities hidden in their blood.

When System initially upgraded, he relied on [Insect Adaptability] to successively obtain the abilities of [Dark Vision] and [Acid Resistance]. In fact, this ability is the ability inherited from the blood of the grasshopper.

Feeling the unique rhythm of [Insect Adaptability] in his body, System compared the blood pulse in the body of the female ant larva, and used the [Ability Enhancement Technique] to consume the experience bar, and began to activate the ability similar to [Super Digestion] in the blood.

By eating and digesting slime's jelly, System's experience bar was further increased from 3% to 5%.

With the consumption of experience bars, System found that the blood in his body felt itchy.

This itching feeling gradually spread to his stomach, and his stomach produced irregular peristalsis, and System could feel that his stomach's digestion speed of slime jelly had further increased.

System's stomach became more and more itchy. With the consumption of experience bars, when the total amount of experience dropped from 5% to 3%, this strong itching suddenly turned into a tingling pain, and his stomach The whole body squirmed more violently...

This feeling is similar to the changes that occurred when [Corrosive Slime] was improved when he ate slime.

Ding!You get the derived ability [Super Speed ​​Digestion]!

Ding!Your [Data Compilation] talent level has increased!
Ding!You get the derivative ability [Insect Ability Activation]!

As the experience bar continued to be consumed, when the experience bar gradually reached the end, the tingling sensation in System's stomach reached its maximum. In the end, he successfully activated a digestive ability in his body - [Super-speed Digestion] (1/11).

Not only that, but following a burst of unique sensations, System discovered that his understanding of the talent [Data Compilation] had deepened, and his [Data Compilation] (3/5) had been upgraded to [Data Compilation] (4/5).

At the same time, System obtained a brand new ability, [Insect Ability Activation] (3/5).

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[Rapid Digestion] (1/11): A derivative ability obtained from [Insect Adaptability] and [Insect Ability Activation].This ability can be activated to quickly digest food.

[Insect Ability Activation] (3/5): A unique derived ability created by System using [Data Compilation].By consuming experience bars, you can activate the unique ability of yourself or the target [insect adaptability].System's unique ability.

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After obtaining [Rapid Digestion], System found that his digestion speed had been increased by at least half, and this was only the first level of [Rapid Digestion]. If the level of [Rapid Digestion] was increased, his digestion speed would definitely be further accelerated.

And the newly obtained [Insect Ability Activation] allowed System to understand more things, and gave him a deeper understanding of the various activatable abilities contained in [Insect Adaptability].

Each type of insect has several abilities that are most suitable for them, such as the grasshopper's [smelly mucus] and [regeneration of severed limbs]; the ant's [formic acid] and [sensitivity]; surgery].

At the same time, each insect also has some abilities that are not suitable for them. Even if this ability is obtained, the level cap will be very low, and it is useless.

For example, a butterfly larva has acquired the ability of [Water Breathing], but the butterfly larva cannot forage underwater at all, so it will not use the ability of [Water Breathing] unless it falls into the water. Will not be used once.

Not only that, but there is a deeper limitation hidden in [Insect Adaptability], which is the ability conflict.

No insect can match all the abilities of [Insect Adaptability], just like [Soft Skin] cannot be obtained if [Solid Carapace] is obtained; [Delicate Constitution] cannot be obtained by obtaining [Giant Body].

The abilities in the bloodline of insects not only have these apparent conflicts of abilities, but also have many unexpected restrictions.

For example, [Fire Resistance] and [Color-Changing Camouflage] in System's body have a certain conflict. If one ability level becomes higher, it will be difficult to continue to improve the other ability.

The degree of conflict between these two abilities is not very high, but some abilities are born on opposite sides, as long as one is obtained, the other opposing ability cannot be activated at all.

So although System has the means to activate various abilities, he must carefully consider when making a choice.

(End of this chapter)