Law of the Swarm

Chapter 90 Throwing a Gun
The black smoke formed by the volcanic eruption did a lot of damage to the ant people of System. After the toxic black smoke landed, the ant people of System lost many more. life.

Except for a small number of ants in the nest who carried some soil fragments from time to time, most of the ants nestled quietly near the empty room where System was unconscious. Go to sleep.

System's favorite worker ant, Black, also became dying and leaned on the little meat ball because of his frail constitution.

The ant people in System's lair exuded an indescribable emotion, neither sad nor too disturbed, but exuded a lifeless aura...

But just after System woke up from the coma and appeared, his ant people suddenly changed. The lifeless ant people exuded joy and became active again.

Even the painful worker ant Black moved his frail body and approached System.

"You guys..."

Touching the heads of these ants' subjects with his tentacles, System gently shook his head.

Without thinking about it, after using the tentacles to check some seriously injured ant people, System ordered these weak ant people to eat as much meat as possible to replenish their strength.

At the same time, System used his tentacles to probe a few ant people whose bodies were not harmed by the poisonous smoke.

After successively investigating the three ants, System finally found the ability he wanted to find—[Poison Resistance].

There are still about 30% of the remaining experience bars, which should be able to activate this ability for 5 ants.

System began to treat the weakest ant population, activating the derivative ability [toxin resistance] in their [insect adaptability].

The weak worker ant Black was the first to be treated by System. After activating [Toxin Resistance], although Black's body is still weak, it has stabilized and it is estimated that it will recover after a while.

It seems that although Black's physique is weak, his luck is not bad.

Except for a dozen pupated ants who were intact, only 42 of System's ants were left alive, and even one of the 10 second-pupated worker ant knights lost its life. ...

Two hours later, after System completely consumed the experience bar, he decided to go outside the lair to bring back some fresh meat.

The three frost slimes that System brought back more than a month ago were not eaten up, and there was only one left. System decided to bring back part of that slime and use this nutrient-rich Food restores the strength of the ants.

……

After a day and a half of coma, the sunny day in Lierte Forest, which should have been sunny during the day, was covered by thick black smoke like night.

The black smoke brought by the volcano did not make the Lierte forest warmer, but made the forest colder because of the opaque black smoke.

In addition to the black smoke above the forest, some gray-black snowflakes scattered and fell. System just stayed outside the lair for a while, and his body surface was dyed gray-black by the falling gray particles.

It's a pity that System used [Teleportation] to perceive for a long time near the snow field where the Frost Slime was raised in captivity, but he didn't find any trace of the Frost Slime.

Maybe he fell into the ground through a crack formed by the earthquake, or maybe he escaped, but System finally chose to give up.

System suddenly thought of Nellis, the ice elf. Nellis might know something about the current situation of the Lierte Mountains. It will effectively block the black smoke in the air.

However, when System wanted to transform into [Frost Form], he found that he could not mobilize this energy in his body at all, and the ice elf Nellis seemed to be in a deep sleep, without any reaction.

System checked the [Tools menu] and found that the ability of [Frost Form] in his self-information still exists, but it has changed into [Frost Form] (cannot be activated).

On the contrary, the [Frost Breath] attached to System's body can be activated normally, and he can easily exhale the icy frost breath from the gland in his throat.

"Why did Nellis fall into a deep sleep?"

System recalled what Nellis told about the last time she fell into a deep sleep. That time, the glacier lord disappeared for a few months, and after the temperature gradually rose, Nellis fell into a deep sleep.

"The representative of the cold winter, the ice elf."

"The God of Winter, the successor of the Will of Winter, the Lord of Glacier."

Recalling what the ice elf Nellis once said, System speculated that the glacier lord might not just be missing this time.

However, because he is just a weak bug with a strange appearance, he is completely ignorant of the surrounding situation, so he has no way of guessing what is going on.

……

While System was thinking secretly, through the falling gray snow and black smoke from time to time, System found strange movements and some vague shadows in the forest.

Using his tentacles, System climbed to a tree that was not affected by the earthquake.

Not long after, System saw more than a dozen of the gnolls he had seen in the goblin village.

Because of the black smoke from the volcanic eruption, the wolf man's yellow-brown hair had been dyed black, making him look a bit embarrassed.

The jackals were stronger than the jackals that System saw for the first time, and they were running very fast in the snow and ice of the Lierte Forest.

System's [intuition] suddenly had an inexplicable feeling, and it immediately turned its body over on the branch with its tentacles.

whoosh-

A spear-like weapon passed System.

He was found.

The strongest wolf man among the dozen wolf men showed a greedy and cruel smile. It pulled out a wooden spear again, and threw it in System's direction again.

System moved his body to dodge again.

But this time the spear flew halfway through the air, and suddenly burst into flames, and its speed suddenly increased several times.

Although System dodged ahead of time with [intuition], he was still pierced through the abdomen by the spear.

Fortunately, because of the ability of [Super Speed ​​Regeneration], System expended his vitality to quickly repair his body. After falling halfway from the tree branch, he spread his wings and flew away from midair to escape.

A few gnolls seemed to chase him in the direction of his flight for a while, but because System's flying speed was not slow and covered by black smoke, those gnolls finally gave up on chasing him.

……

Because of the [Super Speed ​​Regeneration] and the [Fire Resistance] gained from encountering the flame boar shortly after rebirth, System's body didn't suffer much damage, and only lost 6% of his vitality.

Using his tentacles to wipe off the black smoke adhering to his eyes, System felt the wings folded on his back.

Compared with the abdomen that was pierced and then repaired by [Ultra-Speed ​​Regeneration], the short flight inevitably made a lot of black particles attached to his wings, and the black smoke on the wings obviously made him more uncomfortable.

System quickly jumped into the snow on the ground to clean up the black ash attached to his body. At the same time, he was thinking about the reason why these gnolls went to Lierte Forest in such a harsh environment.

But after thinking for a long time, System couldn't think of any reason...

(End of this chapter)