Law of the Swarm

Chapter 53 Dangerous situation!

hold head high--

The giant dragon suddenly opened its mouth wide in front of him, and let out a dragon roar that made his blood boil.

The sound of the dragon's roar and the unique aura in the dragon's body made System's body tremble uncontrollably.

System just flapped his wings mechanically, maintaining the previous state of hovering in mid-air, but the sudden sound of the dragon's roar made his spirit dull and made him lose control of his body.

System saw the frost-covered teeth in the dragon's mouth, and the small tongue in the dragon's throat that was similar to a human's throat.

And just when System thought he would be swallowed by the giant dragon and become the dragon's dessert, the giant dragon slowly closed his mouth.

System felt the other party's undisguised teasing from the dragon's eyes and expression. The dragon opened its mouth wide in front of him obviously not to eat him, but just to scare him and watch his reaction.

The dragon closed its mouth, but System seemed to hear the dragon speak an unknown language.

This language is the same as the roar of the giant dragon in the distance, the volume is not loud, but it appears very clearly in System's mind, and this language is completely understandable to System.

"I thought it was something, it turned out to be a...a..." The Frost Dragon showed a puzzled expression. It seemed to have doubts about what System was, but it took a long time to figure out what System was. what is it.

"What are you doing?"

The voice of the Frost Dragon was full of doubts, but after a while it lost patience, as if it didn't want to recall such insignificant things.

"Forget it, I guess if I ask you, I can't understand it with your wisdom."

The Frost Dragon made a lazy sound, opened its mouth as if to yawn, and then flew away...

……

The giant ice dragon covered in blue ice crystals flew away. It was very strange that this huge ice dragon didn't even bring the slightest breeze during its flight.

But System didn't care to watch the dragon's strange flying state at all.

The dragon yawned before leaving, releasing a strange cold breath.

Part of this strange cold breath penetrated into System's body.

System didn't feel anything unusual at first.

This kind of breath is a bit cold, but it is not unbearable. He even found that his experience bar suddenly increased from 3% to 11%. Obviously, this kind of cold breath has some benefits for his body.

However, as time passed, System felt that his body became visibly stiff.

A layer of hoarfrost gradually formed on the surface of his body, and this layer of hoarfrost gradually became thicker.

System found that his flapping wings became more and more sluggish. It turned out that his wings had been covered with a layer of solid ice crystals at some point.

His slender tentacles seemed to have completely stiffened due to the cold, even though System was gradually falling in the air, his tentacles would not vibrate in the slightest.

System felt his wings getting stiffer and stiffer, and he gradually lost the ability to fly. As the frost covering his body gradually increased, his body became heavier and heavier, and his falling speed gradually accelerated.

……

For some reason, System remembered the situation when he caught bugs recently. Due to his excellent eyesight and agility, going out for food has been extremely easy for System now.

He would often eat a few bites after catching some bugs, and then throw away the remaining bug corpses.

In recent days, he will also use his tentacles to test and experiment with some unlucky bugs.

Some bugs he will choose to kill and eat a few bites, and some he will throw away after the test, but whether he will kill those bugs or let them go, if you don’t check the video records in the [Tools Menu], Histor Tom couldn't remember it himself.

Thinking about it now, in fact, the giant dragon treated him the same way he treated those ordinary bugs.

Perhaps the dragon just wanted to see what he was just out of curiosity.

After seeing him, I frightened him for a while, and then left because I lost interest.

However, it was the frosty breath that the giant dragon inadvertently emitted before leaving, which brought him a huge crisis——

System's outstretched wings have completely lost the ability to flap, and even his legs and tentacles are gradually unable to move.

Not long after, his beating heart stopped beating.

Because of the special angle formed by the wings, his body is like a spinning top, spinning in the air and falling to the ground.

His body became stiff and uncontrollable, but his thinking was not damaged, and his eyes could clearly see everything around him.

It's a bad feeling.

Sist clearly felt the cracking sound of his wings colliding with the branches. His originally soft and resilient wings were like brittle ice cubes. The moment they collided with the branches, half of the wings shattered into several pieces. Block, the exoskeleton responsible for protecting the wings was also broken from the root due to the collision.

Then his body continued to have close contact with several branches, and finally fell into the thick pile of dead leaves.

One of his powerful thighs was completely shattered, and one half remained, and only two of the other four limbs were still intact. The two antennae on the top of his head were all broken, and even his eyes had one because It was shattered by the impact, and the abdomen also had many cracks due to the impact...

System found many fragments of his body near the pile of dead leaves.

But what was surprising was that System was not dead, not only that, but as he fell from the air to this pile of dead leaves, his heart slowly began to beat again.

Although the beating frequency was very slow, every few seconds, his heart would tremble and beat slowly.

Opening the body information in the [Tools menu], System found that even if his body became what it is now, the remaining vitality is still 71%, and he doesn't know how this thing is calculated.

"Perhaps this is the powerful vitality of the bug. If it is replaced by another creature, it must be dead if it falls like this."

System thought of Shava who was fighting with mice back then. Even with his crippled body, Shava could still struggle to move.

However, unlike Shava at that time, System's body was very stiff due to the freezing. He tried to move his body, but he couldn't do it at all, he couldn't even move his fangs.

System could only feel the snowflakes falling from the air from time to time. These snowflakes would melt immediately when they fell on the dead leaves, but they could maintain the state of the snowflakes when they fell on him and would not melt again.

It seemed that his body was obviously colder than Snow Flower.

As time passed, System found that his remaining vitality gradually decreased, and within ten minutes, his vitality gradually decreased from 71% to 63%.

His body still showed no signs of movement, but his heart was beating faster, and he didn't know when he would regain his ability to move.

After more than ten minutes, System felt that his body had become weaker.

And just after watching the snowflakes falling on the dead leaves next to him completely melted after more than ten seconds, his [intuition] began to convey a sense of uneasiness to him.

In fact, without [intuition] reminding, System himself can understand the seriousness of the matter. The surrounding snowflakes have already melted immediately after falling to the ground, and it will take more than ten seconds to melt after landing. This undoubtedly shows that the temperature is getting worse. A little bit lower.

If his body can no longer regain the ability to move, as the temperature gradually drops, it will be impossible for him to move at that time...

Chapter 54 Survival
In the Lierte forest, a giant frost dragon appeared.

Ola, the lord of the glacier, is inspecting the territory where it has not returned for a long time.

This place has changed a lot.

Flapping her wings, Ola flew to an old oak tree in the Lierte Forest. This old oak tree was 30 meters high and was the largest tree in the Lierte Forest.

Since it came here to have memories, this forest is its favorite world of ice and snow.

Although the old oak tree did not die, it had never grown leaves because of the cold, and it had always been bare.

But now this old oak tree has exuded vitality and grown dense branches and leaves.

Ola said, "Medlan, I know you're here."

"Madelan, come out."

Seeing that there was no movement around, Aura suddenly opened her mouth wide and tore off a branch of the old oak tree...

The taste of the oak branches and leaves was obviously not very good. The Frost Dragon spit out the remaining oak leaves in its mouth, and at the same time turned its platinum pupils to scan around.

"Huh? Isn't it here? It's only been 300 years, so it shouldn't be dead."

Aura showed a puzzled expression. The druid had been guarding the oak tree at the beginning. It is said that it seems to be a special kind of oak tree called the silver oak tree.

However, Aura's puzzled expression immediately turned to joy, and it showed a smug smile, and said to a figure not far away: "Jie Jie Jie Jie... Medlan, you despicable liar, I didn't expect it, I Back again!"

"I did not lie to you……"

Accompanied by the voice of the old druid, the frost dragon suddenly waved its claws.

The old druid didn't seem to dodge the dragon's claws, and was directly grasped by the ice dragon's sharp claws. However, after Aura opened the dragon's claws, he found that the claws were holding only an unknown plant.

"Damn the liar Melander, and those heroic spirits of Winter Wonderland, and Orgen..."

Aura muttered something, and it realized that it had completely lost track of the old druid. Not long after, the angry Aura breathed out an extremely cold breath, completely freezing the silver oak tree in front of it.

The Frost Wyrm flicked its mighty tail—

Accompanied by the violent impact, the silver oak turned into countless small ice crystals and shattered like shattered glass.

The dragon's wings fanned the blue magical whirlwind, and these ice slags of the silver oak were blown in the direction of the Lierte Mountain Range, and it wanted to blow the pieces of the silver oak tree to the other side of the glacier mountain range.

Orgen spread his wings and flew into the sky, but it flew back immediately.

The Frost Dragon waved its claws and dug continuously towards the ground, finally digging out all the roots of the old oak tree. It also froze the roots of the oak tree into ice slag, and then blew the ice shards away again.

……

The frost dragon finally flew into the sky, flying slowly towards the glacier mountain range...

Not long after, inexplicable voices appeared in the ears of all creatures in the forest.

"Little forest creature, I allow you to silently recite my real name and accept my blessing again."

As the sound came out, more than ten kilometers away from System, the goblins in the goblin village danced and started to revel. A frosty power appeared in the void and enveloped the goblins.

The bodies of these goblins swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye, and their green skin gradually turned white. After a few breaths, their bodies swelled to a height of two meters, and they were no longer the thin and weak appearance of ordinary goblins.

A thick white mist appeared around the goblins, and light blue ice crystal armor appeared and covered the goblins, and various ice crystal weapons also appeared in the hands of the goblins.

These goblin giants waved the frost weapons in their hands and ran towards the glacier mountains at an extremely fast speed.

At the same time, at least a dozen creatures with frost power appeared in every corner of the Lierte Mountain Range, and they all started to move towards the direction of the Lierte Mountain Range...

The great glacier master has finally returned.

……

……

"Little forest creature, I allow you to silently recite my real name and accept my blessing again."

System, who was unable to move among the dead leaves, also heard the voice of the Glacier Lord.

His [intuition] gave him a strange feeling.

As long as he responds to this passage and reads the real name of the Glacier Lord in his heart, not only can he immediately save himself from danger, but he can also obtain great benefits.

It is even possible for him to transform directly from a mortal to a magical being.

It's a pity that Systemtem doesn't even know the common name of the Glacier Lord, not to mention his real name. He even guessed the code name of the Glacier Lord from the words of the Goblin and the Gnoll. Know what is right and what is wrong.

And following the words of the Glacier Lord, System clearly felt that the surrounding weather had become colder again, and there were more and more snowflakes falling in the sky.

Ten minutes passed again, and System's vitality had dropped to 51%. He felt a growing sense of weakness in his body, and even a trace of exhaustion in his body, urging him to take a nap.

If this continues, even with the worm's tenacious vitality, he won't be able to survive for long.

Fortunately, after more than ten minutes, his frozen body gradually eased, and the remaining legs and abdomen began to tremble uncontrollably.

However, as his body trembled involuntarily, some white blood would flow out from his legs and abdomen, accelerating the loss of vitality.

System could only work hard to control his body, keep his body as stable as possible, and reduce the loss of blood.

As the freezing of his body gradually eased, System's numb body gradually felt intense pain.

Before, because his body was completely frozen, he looked at his body like a bystander, but now that he really felt his body, he felt the pain in his body was unbearable.

Fortunately, the insect's physique is quite tenacious. After a while, this unbearable pain gradually became habitable, and many parts of his body gradually regained consciousness.

It wasn't his limbs, tentacles, or fangs that were the first to regain mobility in System's body, but the glands in his throat that could spray [corroding mucus].

System carefully controlled the jelly that spewed out of his throat to wriggle. After the third molt, the activity of his [Corrosion Slime] was much enhanced, and the wriggling speed of the jelly was also much faster.

However, due to the appearance of tentacles, he has rarely manipulated the slime in this way.

Most of the time, he just uses these [Corrosive Mucus] for in vitro digestion to speed up his digestion speed, and with the recent eating of slimes, he can't even use the [Corrosive Mucus] for in vitro digestion.

System controls the mucus jelly ejected from the glands. He carefully manipulates these jelly to wriggle to various wounds in his body, and wriggles these jelly into his flesh and blood to tightly block them, acting as a barrier to stop bleeding. bandage.

After some hard work, System's remaining vitality finally stabilized at around 34%. Although it was still slowly declining, the rate of decline slowed down a lot, and it was initially out of danger.

But with the falling ice and snow, his situation is still not optimistic.

System looked at a black-brown chrysalis hanging on a tree one meter away.

This chrysalis is five centimeters in size, and it has not yet broken out during this period. It is obviously a chrysalis preparing to survive the winter.

System didn't know whether the chrysalis hatched out to be a moth or a butterfly.

But obviously, to have such a chrysalis not far away from him is really a blessing in misfortune!
After these days of using tentacles to check the abilities of various insects, System knew that this overwintering chrysalis had an ability that he needed very much now—[cold resistance].

(End of this chapter)