Law of the Swarm

Chapter 89 Volcanic Eruption

System stared at the distant flames of the Lierte Mountains and fell into deep thought...

Not long after, the volcano in the Lierte Mountains erupted with strong energy, like fireworks, illuminating the Lierte Forest at night as if it were daytime.

But after only a short while, the thicker black smoke covered the white light, so that the direction of the Lierte Mountain Range only occasionally revealed some light.

Amidst the billowing black smoke, the volcano spewed unmelted magma to the surroundings, and the scattered magma seemed to form a falling meteor shower, falling continuously from the sky.

The energy erupted from the volcano was enormous, and these scattered magma fragments carried strong kinetic energy. System even found a red magma fragment flying down from more than a thousand kilometers away within a hundred meters around him.

System seemed to have faintly heard a few indistinct dragon roars from the Lierte Mountain Range, but the black smoke from the volcanic eruption was so thick that he couldn't clearly see what was happening in the Lierte Mountain Range.

"Ola, the lord of the glacier? With its power, it can completely stop all this. What happened here?"

System was full of doubts. He didn't know what happened at all. Looking at the magma fragments falling from the sky nearby, System didn't wait any longer, and decisively ordered his ant people to return to the underground nest. middle.

Although the underground lair is still in danger of another earthquake, the magma blocks falling from the sky from time to time are undoubtedly a greater threat.

……

After placing the ant people in the underground lair, System took the little meat ball to the sky above the forest. He was the first to observe the Frost Goblin giant village that also belonged to the Winter Legion.

However, after searching for a long time at an altitude of several hundred meters, System did not see half of the frost goblin giant.

Because of the strong earthquake, the fallen trees and the broken ground were in a mess. System couldn't find any traces through the snow in the forest.

Except for some butterfly larvae crawling on the moss of nearby trees, System only found a squirrel looking curiously at the flames and black smoke of the Lierte Mountains above the branch.

"Father, fire."

Compared to System's worries, Little Meatball's thinking is much simpler. It still hasn't understood what happened, and only thinks that System is obeying the agreement and taking it outside to play and fly.

System ignored Little Meatball's words, watched the black smoke gradually pouring in from the Lierte Mountain Range, and System used the [Tool Menu] ability to calculate.

According to the current spreading speed of the thick smoke, it is estimated that after 7 to 8 hours, the location of System will be covered by the thick smoke formed by the volcanic eruption.

Stretch out the tentacles, grab the small meat ball that is also flying in the sky, and move horizontally in the air——

A few seconds later, a fiery red magma fragment with a diameter of nearly one meter fell from System and the little meatball.

System's [intuition] was as accurate as ever, successfully allowing him and the little meat ball to avoid a fatal crisis.

However, no matter how accurate his [intuition] is, it cannot change System's current situation.

After continuing to patrol the air for a few laps, System and the little meat ball returned to the nest. Now all he can do is take his ant people to hide in the nest. Everything has to wait for the volcanic eruption crisis to pass. to continue to consider.

Although there were occasional aftershocks on the ground, they were already extremely slight. System led his ant people to start further repairs to the underground nest.

The entire nest was not seriously damaged by the earthquake within the first two meters from the surface.

Under the half-meter-deep snow, the temperature was still around minus 20 degrees, and the loose and damp soil was frozen very hard, so the nest chambers that were closer to the surface did not suffer much damage.

However, at a depth of two meters underground, the temperature was not that low, and the loose soil was not frozen solid enough, causing most of the empty chambers inside to collapse, and some empty chambers for storing food inside were also buried by the soil.

What System needs to do now is to try to let the ants dig out the empty underground chamber as much as possible, so as to have enough space for the ants to rest.

As for the large number of empty chambers at the top two meters, although it can be lived in, it is not safe to face the hot magma blocks falling from the sky.

……

However, when System directed the ants to work, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of dizziness, and he seemed to have become extremely sleepy.

System found that Shava, who was beside him, had fallen to the ground at some point and fell into a coma.

But except for Shava and him, the other ant people and little meat balls in the ant nest did not appear dizzy.

Enduring the drowsiness in his head, System handed over the next work to Black, who was the smartest, and asked the ten worker ant knights to obey Black's command.

After that, System fell into a deep sleep...

……

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When System woke up in the empty room, the time displayed in the [Tools Menu] had passed more than 30 hours, a full day and a half.

Except for the sound of the ants, the entire nest seemed very quiet. The aftershocks of the volcanic eruption and the sound of lava blocks falling from the sky seemed to have completely stopped.

System's tentacles smelled an unpleasant smell of gunpowder smoke. It seemed that after a day and a half, the black smoke from the volcanic eruption really came here.

I just don't know how much damage this black smoke will cause to his ant people...

Stretching out his tentacles to check his body, System looked at Shava who was still sleeping next to him, thinking about the reason why he and Shava were unconscious.

In the past few days, System and Shava did not eat any special food, nor did they perform any strange actions, and it was really strange to enter a coma at the same time.

But soon System noticed something unusual. System looked at his chest, and at the same time looked at the exoskeleton of Shava's left shoulder.

"Disappeared……"

System muttered to himself, and at the same time opened the self-information function in the [Tools Menu] to check.

……

Title: "Alien Insect".

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His title "Winter Legion" has disappeared like the diamond-shaped frost pattern attached to his chest.

It seems that he and Shava fell into a coma because they suddenly left the "Winter Legion".

System used his tentacles to perform a simple check on the unconscious Shava, and found that Shava would probably wake up after a day or two of coma.

And the reason why he can wake up so quickly is because the talent [numerical code] made his body semi-digital. After the title disappears, it won't have much impact on him.

According to the personality of the Frost Dragon Aura, he will never take back his and Shava's title of "Winter Legion" at the same time.

Recalling the sudden eruption of magma from the Lierte Mountains and the faint sound of dragon roars at that time, System felt that the glacier lord Aura had either disappeared again like 300 years ago, or had died. .

Abyssal Demons, Old Druids, Winter Legion, Erupting Volcanoes...

Recalling the feeling of uneasiness in the past few months, System realized that there must be something hidden in this forest, and he didn't want to bring the ant people into it at all.

No matter what happens, it is definitely not a wise move to stay in Lierte now, he will take the ants out of here.

(End of this chapter)