Law of the Swarm

Chapter 60 Contract

System lightly touched the icy blue ring above his head with his tentacles, and he looked at the surrounding white snow.

It was green here a few days ago, it was only the beginning of autumn, but now...

System thought of the torrential rain, after which a messy forest gradually revived; he thought of the spiders weaving webs in the forest every day; he thought of the ants who worked hard to prepare for the winter even though they were robbed by him; My old friend, the brown slime, was tricked by him for being unable to divide and reproduce for a long time, and was finally drowned by the ant colony and died completely.

He also thought of the countless locusts killed by the old druid's trap...

In this forest, surviving and passing on the bloodline is actually not easy.

"Do you know grasshoppers?"

After being silent for a while, System told the ice elf Nellis that he decided to tell her the fact that he was not a life of frost blood.

System felt that the ice blue ring was looking at him. Although the ring had no eyes, System still felt the gaze of the ice elf.

The ice elf looked at System's body for a long time, and answered System's question: "There are many soft legs of different lengths, and it is a strange-looking life."

System showed a strange expression. This ice elf obviously didn't know what a grasshopper was.

System said to Nellis: "I am indeed a grasshopper, but ordinary grasshoppers are not like me."

After System finished speaking, he sent a spiritual message to Nellis. This time, System did not convey words, but sent a video to Nellis, which was the life of an ordinary grasshopper.

"A very miraculous mental ability, not only can be used to communicate, but can also transmit images."

Nellis did not respond to System's spiritual message, but instead sighed at System's [Mind Transmission]. Not long after, she used [Spiritual Connection] to send a video to System as well. .

In the image, there is a giant white bear nearly three meters high. This giant bear has eyes like ice crystals, walking and running from time to time in the snow-covered forest...

System found that the blue light from the eyes of the giant bear in the image and the blue halo above his head seemed to be similar things.

If System's guess is correct, this white bear should be Nellis' former contractor.

But why does the giant bear have a pair of eyes emitting blue light, but he has a blue halo on his head?

System shook his head. He didn't want to discuss these things with Nellis, but to tell Nellis that he was not a creature with frost blood at all.

The fact that he does not have Frost Blood cannot be concealed, System decided to inform the other party in advance, so as to avoid some unforeseen troubles in the future.

System explained: "Insects like grasshoppers don't have the blood of frost at all. They are very afraid of the coldness of severe winter, but I just obtained the power of frost by accident. You must have chosen the wrong target."

The ice elf scanned System's body with her unique eyes again.

Not long after, Nellis sent a spiritual message to System: "I didn't choose the wrong partner, not every creature is born with the blood of frost."

"You mean, the way I am now is considered a life with the blood of frost?"

"Ah."

"Is that so..."

System fell silent.

But only after a short while, System continued: "Nellis?"

"Ah."

"Don't you think the blue halo on my head looks weird?"

"do not think so."

"Oh...but I think it's very strange, can this blue light circle be changed into something else?"

"I can't do it. Contracting with different lives, the ice elves will have different changes and become different shapes, and once formed, they will not change."

"Can't it really be changed into something else?"

"No."

"...Okay, then tell me about the contract, and here, you seem to have mentioned that this place is called Lierte Forest..."

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The ice elf has gone through hundreds of years, and although she sleeps most of the time, she still knows a lot about the world. This knowledge and common sense are what System lacks the most.

From the spiritual message of the ice elf, System had a clearer understanding of the power system of this world.

Most of the life in this world are mortal things, such as animals and plants on land, fish and shells in water, and most intelligent races, they are basically mortal things when they are born.

But mortals also have the possibility of mastering magical powers, awakening the bloodlines inherited from their ancestors, obtaining special inheritance, or reaching the limit of mortals to be bestowed by the world.

For intelligent races such as humans and elves, they can further master the power of magic through learning.

When the magical power mastered by mortals reaches a certain level, they will advance to magical life, possessing all kinds of abilities that mortals cannot understand.

The ice elf Nellis is a kind of magical life, but she is not a magical life that is advanced from mortal things, but is born like this.

Apart from the power system of this world, most of the knowledge Nellis possesses is related to ice and snow.

She told System the story of the sleeping God of Winter, and Aura, the Lord of the Glacier who inherited the Will of Winter, the Frost Dragon.

According to Nellis, the Lierte Forest has been covered by ice and snow for thousands of years, but in the last few hundred years the ice and snow have suddenly melted and become a climate with four distinct seasons.

It seems to be related to the sudden disappearance of Aura, the lord of the glacier, but at that time she suddenly fell into a deep sleep, and the specific circumstances are unknown.

Nellis also said that the reason for her awakening was the return of the glacier lord Aura.

However, there doesn't seem to be any special connection between Nellis and the Lord of Glacier. She didn't say anything more about the Lord of Frost. Apart from knowing that the ice dragon was called Aura and some stories, she also had a relationship with Sith. Like Tem, he doesn't know the real name of the Glacier Lord.

And the so-called contract with the ice elves, to put it bluntly, is actually a means of symbiosis between the ice elves and creatures with frost blood.

The ice elves provide the life with the power of frost to protect them, and the life containing the blood of frost will also provide the ice elves with the spiritual power they need and the icy breath that escapes from the blood.

If the ice elves fail to find a contractor for a long time, they will fall into a deep sleep, and even die because of it after a long time.

System didn't find anything wrong with this contract, and his [intuition] didn't make him feel uneasy.

Except for the awkward appearance of a halo above his head, System could actually accept it.

According to Nellis' description of the contract, the establishment of the contract will take about half a day.

As for what kind of power System will gain because of the contract, except that it must be related to frost, Nellis is not very clear.

According to Nellis' abstract statement, the power he obtained after the contract may be a sword, a shield, a claw, or a wing. The power generated by each ice elf after signing the contract will not be complete. same……

(End of this chapter)