Law of the Swarm

Chapter 86 Half Body Demon
The small meat ball is different from the big meat ball in the past. It seems that it does not have the ability to perceive the outside world like the big meat ball. It does not have the sense of hearing, smell, or smell.

The only thing that can perceive the outside world is the sense of touch that stretches out the granulation.

Its IQ is higher than that of ordinary ants. After half an hour of contact with System, the little meatball followed System's example and tried to stretch out the granulation to move its body.

However, the granulation strength of the little meat ball is not very strong, and it can't support the weight of the little meat ball at all. It can only roll its spherical body in the dirt.

Just like finding a novelty toy, the little ball has been rolling its body on the ground with granulation for the rest of the time, and there are some joyful emotions from time to time...

And through constant contact with the small meat ball, the [perception] power on System's tentacles came into play again.

Before [Molting Growth] transformed into [Pupation], System didn't feel the ability of [Body Transformation] very clearly, but he felt it more clearly.

[Body Deformation] This kind of power cannot make the body deform arbitrarily, but can only be properly changed according to the original insect blood of the body.

The reason why the predecessor of the little meatball can change into various shapes is because of its talent of "swallowing", which allowed it to plunder and absorb the blood of too many kinds of insect life, and was able to change into many strange shapes.

Like [Super Speed ​​Regeneration], the ability System of [Body Transformation] also has the possibility to activate.

However, [Body Transformation] does not fit his body very well. After activation, the upper limit of the talent level will be very low, and the transformation ability may not be very sensitive.

For a moment, System didn't know whether to activate this ability.

"Perhaps with this ability, I can create an extra stomach to speed up my experience in digesting food, but if I can't do that, it will undoubtedly waste a lot of experience points."

System used his tentacles to probe the blood veins on the little meat ball and thought about it, but found that at some point, the little meat ball followed his example, stretching out the granulation to wrap around his tentacles.

This little meatball imitated System's movements, as if it was his offspring.

System shook his head slightly, did not continue to think, piled some food next to the small meat ball, and began to go outside to the ice and snow world, looking for frost slime or other large meat.

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A few days passed, and the world of ice and snow in Lierte Forest did not change much.

It was covered in snow, the wind was cold, and the temperature was the same as a few days ago, around minus 40 degrees, without any obvious change.

However, at the exit of the lair, System's tentacles smelled a faint fragrance, like the fragrance of flowers that often wafted from the Lierte Forest in summer.

Light green ice crystal vines the thickness of chopsticks appeared on the trees around System's lair at the same time, and a few blooming frost flowers sporadically appeared among the not wide oval leaves.

In just a few days, the seeds of these Frost Flowers have germinated and grown rapidly, and the largest vines of several Frost Flowers have even grown to a height of one meter.

The shape and size of the Frost Flower are similar to the roses in System's previous life, but there is an obvious difference in color, which is translucent white like ice and snow.

The five surrounding vines were growing very well, but on three of them, System found some uninvited guests, which were the butterfly larvae that he raised as livestock.

There seems to be a butterfly spawning ground nearby, and as a result, nearly a hundred small reptiles appeared on the Ice Crystal Flower.

If left unattended, even though the vines of these Frost Flowers grow very quickly, they will be gnawed to death by these butterfly larvae.

"Spikes, hooks, clean up the butterfly larvae on these vines."

The two worker ant knights nicknamed by System immediately moved into action. They climbed onto the vines and killed these small butterfly larvae one centimeter in size effortlessly one after another.

Not long after, more common worker ants emerged from the nest, collecting and transporting the dead butterfly larvae that had fallen from the vines back to the nest.

System did not pay too much attention to the killing of butterfly larvae by these ant people. He stretched out his tentacles and picked off a frost flower.

Frostbloom looks hard, but is actually as soft as a normal rose.

It exudes a strange frosty smell, obviously a magical plant, System puts the petals in his mouth, he can taste the salty and fresh taste much richer than the snow, and has a very faint pineapple sweetness, which matches with the petals With a slightly soft taste, System feels like eating fruity shrimp.

The petals of the same weight provide a slightly higher experience than the gelatin of the frost slime, which is a good food.

It's a pity that the experience generated by this kind of frost energy can only be useful to him or Shava who has frost blood, and it is completely useless to ordinary ant people.

It is basically impossible to fill the stomach of the Ant Knight with this kind of frosty flower.

However, this kind of frost flower seems to have a special effect on the ice elf Nellis who has a contract with System. As System eats the frost flower, it usually only appears on top of his head in [Frost Form] The halo suddenly appeared above System's head.

And as System ate these frost flowers, the halo above his head began to flicker as if the voltage was unstable.

System asked the ice elf.

Nellis's answer was the same as she did most of the time, asking three questions.

She didn't know what happened, she only said that this kind of frost energy made her very comfortable, and if she absorbed this energy for a long time, she would undergo some changes.

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The episode from Frost Flower passed quickly, and System and Shava started a long search for Frost Slime.

After a day and a half of searching, System finally found his new friend buried under the snow, Frost Slime, 2.5 kilometers away from his lair.

And what System found this time was not a frost slime, but a big and two small, a total of three slimes.

Under the snow where the slime was, System also found the corpse of the giant snake that was almost dissolved by the slime.

It seems that the slime should rely on dissolving the unlucky snake carcass to rapidly divide and reproduce, and finally formed three slimes, one big and two small.

Using the ability of [Mind Teleportation], System decided to lure these slimes to the frozen mud pile under the snow near his lair for captivity.

But while System was instructing the three not very obedient frost slimes to jump on the snow.

System's tentacles swayed slightly, and he once again smelled a sulfurous smell, the abyssal smell that made him uneasy.His body had the same reaction it had had in recent months, and [gut] had that vague sense of unease again.

System originally thought that the meat ball a few days ago was the source of his uneasiness these days, but now it seems that this is not the case at all.

The uneasiness he felt seemed to have nothing to do with the meatball or the owner of the meatball that had come to grab him, but something else.

After 2 minutes, the sense of uneasiness in System's body faded as before, but this time the abyssal breath in the air did not disappear immediately.

Following this breath, System flew to the sky to search. In a snow pit one kilometer away, System found a half-demon. To be precise, it was a half-body and head left of demons.

It should still be alive...

(End of this chapter)