Law of the Swarm

Chapter 61 Contract

Realizing that there would be no progress in the contract with Nellis for a while, System continued on the road, returning to the temporary nest with his bird meat.

The appearance of Nellis, the ice elf, did not bring much influence to System. She would not influence System's actions, nor did she make such or other demands. Above his head, watching System's actions and everything around him.

If System didn't take the initiative to talk, Nellis would have remained silent.

System could feel that Nellis liked to talk, and besides Shava, he himself hadn't communicated with anyone else for a long time.

So during the rush, System would talk to Nellis from time to time.

As System and Nellis got acquainted, System learned many stories about Nellis's previous contractor, the white bear.

In fact, in System's opinion, they can't be regarded as stories, because these stories basically don't have any plot, and they are roughly the hunting career of a white bear.

The frigid Lierte Forest doesn't actually have many food sources.

In addition to absorbing the power of the frost in the air, that white bear likes to eat fish very much, and it can only eat fish.

Usually it breaks the ice with its strong icy bear claws to catch fish below the water.

The location of the lake where the white bears were catching fish had been seen by System in the clouds. It was the lake with countless brown butterflies. After the freezing weather, a rich variety of fish survived under the ice of the lake.

Nellis also sent an image of White Bear fighting an abyssal demon to System.

With icy claws and angry roars, ice blue beams of light burst out from the eyes of the white bear, and finally defeated the demons that invaded the territory.

But it was such a powerful white bear, who refused to leave its territory to go to the Lierte Mountains after the ice and snow melted, and finally died quietly...

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For a few hours, System used his tentacles to quickly shuttle between the trees, and the distance between him and the temporary lair was getting closer and closer.

The closer he was to the temporary nest, the stronger the sense that System's [intuition] brought him. The soldier ant Shava in the temporary nest was not dead, but most of the other ants were vicious. More good luck less.

And when the sun had completely set, System, who was walking, suddenly felt a strange stream of heat emanating from the ice-blue halo above his head.

System felt faintly dizzy, and he immediately sent a mental message to Nellis, but Nellis didn't respond, and seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep again.

System knew that the contract between him and Nellis was about to begin...

"Is it a sword, a shield, wings, or claws..."

System muttered what Nellis had said to him, and he was also a little curious about what kind of frost power he would get from it.

A buzzing sound suddenly appeared in System's ears, making him very upset.

This sound seemed familiar. System recalled that before he listened to the sounds of the world and acquired the talent [Perception], he had heard similar roaring sounds. After that, he appeared in a vast white world.

System soon discovered that he really appeared in that white world, as if this was the place where he listened to the voice of the world last time.

But System noticed a difference. This time, he could clearly feel his own existence. He could see more than a dozen tentacles growing on his body, and he could freely control these tentacles to move around.

There seemed to be no gravity here, and he was floating in mid-air, completely unable to control his body to move.

Not long after, a special ice-blue aura suddenly surged from the void and completely enveloped him. System felt that his spirit was gradually becoming exhausted, and after that, he fell asleep again...

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System's coma was surprisingly short this time, maybe he wasn't in a coma at all.

When he regained consciousness, his tentacles still maintained the appearance they had been on the branches before, and the sky did not turn dark at all.

System found from the time recorded in the [Tools Menu] that only a dozen seconds had passed since he entered the white world and woke up after coma.

Looking around, System suddenly found that the ice blue circle above his head had disappeared.

"Could it be that the contract failed?"

While Touching the position of the original light circle above his head with his tentacles, System scanned the surroundings for the ice elf Nellis.

Ding!You get a special talent [Frost Form].

Ding!Your [Frost Breath] ability level is increased.

Ding!You get the derivative ability [Ice Spike], which is only valid in [Frost Form].

Ding!You get the derivative ability [Frost Slime], which is only valid in [Frost Form].

After a series of [Tool Menu] prompts, System found that his body was full of frost energy, and his [Frost Breath] was directly raised to level 11, entering a new level, and gained a lot of frost energy. related abilities.

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[Frost Form] (11/25): A special talent obtained by the contract between System and Nellis.Activate this ability to transform into frost form, gaining the power to drive frost.

[Ice Spike] (11/21): The special derivative ability of System's [Frost Form].Can spawn icy spikes on the end of the tentacles as weapons.

[Frost Slime] (13/27): A special ability obtained from [Frost Form], [Frost Breath] and [Corrosive Slime].Can spit corrosive frosty slime.

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Feeling the unique rhythm of frost energy in his body, System tried to use his newly acquired power [Frost Form].

System felt a deep cold power gushing out from his heart, and began to flow in the blood of his body.

A layer of hoarfrost gradually emerged on his body surface, and the hoarfrost gradually solidified and formed light blue ice crystals. Finally, System's body surface formed a layer of light blue ice crystal armor, and on the armor was a piece of armor similar to his. The peculiar pattern on the exoskeleton.

At the same time, System's dozen or so tentacles slowly turned from brown to ice blue.

The tentacles were still very soft, but the ends of these tentacles gathered frosty energy, eventually forming five centimeter long ice crystal spikes.

Of course, in addition to the above changes, the ice blue halo on System's head also reappeared after System activated [Frost Form].

The process of System's transformation into [Frost Form] seemed slow, but it was actually completed in an instant.

In [Frost Form], System's physical fitness has been improved to varying degrees, and the frost energy contained in his body has increased dozens of times.

However, [Frost Form] is a bit of a burden on System's body. System feels that he can only last for about 15 minutes, and then his body will be completely exhausted. Therefore, in order to avoid losing the ability to move, he can only activate the 10 minutes or so.

System waved the new frost tentacles casually, and he found that the speed of waving the tentacles was more than doubled now.

With a crash, System pierced into the tree with the sharp end of the tentacles, and the 5 cm spikes were completely submerged in the tree trunk.

With the ability of [Ice Spike] alone, System could easily kill the Black Hawk who had worked so hard to subdue him.

By observing the information on the [Tools Menu], System found that after changing into [Frost Form], his combat power directly increased by more than ten times, from 3.7 to 43.

And his rank has also been improved, from metamorphosis to magic.

It seems that in this state, he has transcended the limitations of mortal things and has become a magical species.

(End of this chapter)