Law of the Swarm

Chapter 8 Levels of Competence

Seeing the distant fire approaching, System immediately jumped to the back of the tree where he was to hide.

Insects are very flexible and responsive.

But his hiding position was slightly off, and he was still hit by the heat wave emitted by the creature. Half of his tentacles were slightly discolored, obviously burned.

Fortunately, except for the fragile tentacles, although the other parts of System's body were also hit by a certain amount of heat waves, they did not suffer any obvious damage.

The creature galloping past with flames looked like a wild boar. Not long after, four or five green-skinned creatures with weapons appeared behind the wild boar, somewhat similar to fantasy world goblins or goblins.

These green-skinned monsters shouted and chased after the wild boar, and soon disappeared into the dense forest.

The wild boar that can emit flames and the goblin-like creature undoubtedly explained to System that the world he lived in was a magical world depicted in novels or games in his previous life.

"Magic world..."

System sighed for a moment and then stopped thinking about it. For a grasshopper, no matter what kind of world it is in, there is no obvious difference.

And compared to these powerful creatures that can use mysterious power, System is still more afraid of ordinary birds or lizards that can eat it at any time.

Gently rubbed the discolored tentacles on the top of his head. The tentacles hit by the heat wave suffered a lot of damage. Although they can still rotate, they have almost lost their original effectiveness. Body Repair.

Only one tentacles left made System's body's balance a bit worse, and it was difficult to maintain stability when jumping. If the hooks on his feet were not strong enough, he would probably fall to the ground during the jump.

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The ground in the dense forest is very wet, so the wild boar that unleashed the flames did not start the forest fire.

The burning flames in several places quickly extinguished by themselves, and only some burning smells wafted in the dense forest.

Dozens of butterfly pupae facing the heat wave are still intact. Some pupae may twist from time to time due to the sudden heat wave. It seems that the heat insulation ability of these pupae shells is very good.

System looked at these chrysalis and shook his head helplessly. He has nothing to do with these chrysalis.

But because of the sudden appearance of the flame wild boar, System found a new source of food.

After activating the derivative skill [Information Read], System jumped towards the path of the flame boar, and there was a high possibility that some unlucky bug corpses would appear on this burned path.

As System expected, after only jumping a few meters away, he found a green katydid lying on the ground with its legs twitching.

A pair of antennae of this katydid were all scorched, and half of its body was also a little yellow due to the burns.

Katydids look similar to grasshoppers, but they are larger than grasshoppers and have sharper fangs in their mouths. They are a typical omnivorous insect.

The katydid in front of System was 7 or 8 centimeters in size, about 4 times the size of his body. If the katydid hadn't died or been seriously injured, System would definitely have traveled as far as he saw it. Far.

System immediately found the right angle and bit the fragile joint of the katydid's head!
The katydid's limbs scratched randomly, and its body still had a certain amount of consciousness, but these flailing limbs did not touch System's body.

Not long after, the katydid's head was completely bitten off by System, declaring the katydid completely dead.

System began to eat with confidence. If the katydid was only temporarily dizzy due to the heat wave, he would be the one who hit it back and died.

Using his fangs to cut through the soft abdomen of the katydid, System devoured the flesh and blood of the katydid. He found dozens of small oval-shaped eggs flowing out of the katydid's abdomen.

If it weren't for the fire boar's accident, it might start laying eggs in a few days.

The katydid meat had a nice flavor, much like a rich cheese.

The taste of these small worm eggs is also very good, somewhat similar to banana cream pudding, and slightly less helpful to his physical growth than katydid meat.

Looking at the data of the [Self-Information Generation Technique], System estimates that if he eats about one-third of this katydid, his level can be raised to level 6 and further growth can be obtained.

The katydid meat is very nutritious. After only ten minutes of eating, System's abdomen swelled up. It was obviously difficult to quickly digest this nutritious food.

System could only keep jumping and moving his body around the katydid's body so that he could speed up his body's digestion.

After nearly two hours like this, System ate nearly one-third of the katydid carcass. At this time, his abdomen had swollen to an unbelievable degree, like a grasshopper about to lay eggs. .

His experience also reached the critical value again at this time, and then upgraded to level 6.

A tingling feeling appeared all over his body, and the food in System's abdomen was rapidly digested and absorbed. His body of nearly 2.5 centimeters grew larger again, growing to 3.2 centimeters, and the wing buds on his back further extended to one-third.

This time, the level of System's talent [Molting Growth] did not increase, but he clearly felt the growth of his body's blood power. As long as he continued to eat nutritious food, the level of [Molting Growth] would definitely increase.

At the same time, System's [Insect Adaptation] (9/21) was raised by two levels again, reaching [Insect Adaptation] (11/21).

System felt that the power of [Insect Adaptability] in its blood became more active, and a mysterious picture was transmitted to his mind.

In that picture, he turned into a strange green-tailed grasshopper, following tens of millions of various locusts to fly over the mountains and lakes, they even flew over the cold glacier world, and over the magma-covered world. mountains of lava...

In the images transmitted by the blood, System saw countless colorful worlds.

He even had an urge to fly with those grasshoppers.

When System came back to his senses from the screen brought by [Insect Adaptability], all his derivative abilities obtained from [Insect Adaptability] were all improved.

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The tentacles on his head have recovered at some point, and he has acquired a brand new derived skill [Fire Resistance] (2/7).

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[Fire Resistance] (2/7): Obtained from the talent [Insect Adaptability].passive ability.Has resistance to flames and high temperatures.

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When the talent [Insect Adaptability] is upgraded to level 11, the changes when the talent [Molt Growth] is upgraded to level 11 are very similar, and both make System feel the inheritance information from the blood.

System speculated that when the ability level reaches level 11, he should enter a brand new level, otherwise it would be impossible to have such a huge change for him.

At the same time, when the ability level reaches level 11, it will become difficult to improve. This should also be the reason why his [Degeneration and Growth] has not continued to grow for a long time.

System did not find detailed information on the [Self-Information Generation Technique]. System speculated that the level of the [Self-Information Generation Technique] was too low, so it was impossible to analyze higher-level power.

After thinking briefly, System continued to devour the katydid's body.

Because the fangs became harder after the upgrade, the cartilage of the katydid's body also accelerated his chewing speed by nearly one-third again.

As long as the cartilage is eaten, the fangs and exoskeleton of his body will become stronger, and after upgrading again, he can eat stronger food, such as the hard carapace of the head and chest of the katydid.

However, System was not given too much time to devour the katydid's corpse, and System hadn't eaten half of the katydid's corpse before a dozen or so dark brown ants appeared not far from him.

Ants are like hyenas that specialize in robbing cheetahs of food. As long as there is the smell of prey corpses, they will appear soon, and then rob unreasonably.

Sith could only jump away helplessly, the leopard still had a trick to bring its prey up a tree to avoid the hyena, and he had no way to deal with the ants at the moment...

(End of this chapter)