Law of the Swarm

Chapter 117
System's actions were as efficient as ever. He quickly arrived at the dungeon and killed the paralyzed Ratman.

It is basically the same as the death of ordinary ratmen. This ratman didn't make any special movement, nor did it emit any energy fluctuations.

It seemed that what made him uneasy had nothing to do with the ratman directly.

But killing is killing, and System didn't particularly regret it.

Although he desperately wants to understand [The Curse of Severance] and eradicate this curse, compared to his own safety, this is nothing.

On the contrary, Black felt very disappointed by the death of the Rat Man, and because of the death of the Rat Man, Black could not appreciate the joy of learning a foreign language.

Apart from Black's loss, what System thought of was the shelf life of the ratman's corpse as food.

Because of the weather, System was unable to roast and dry the rat man's flesh, and the rat man's flesh would probably spoil in a few days.

An effective way to delay corruption is undoubtedly to freeze the flesh of the Ratman, but because he is far away from the world of ice and snow, it is difficult to replenish System's [Frost Breath] power, and one shot will restore System two or three times. sky.

It's not enough to freeze the flesh and blood of the Ratman.

Ola, who has hundreds of times his frost power, can naturally freeze the ratman's flesh and blood, but System thought about the lazy Ola, and immediately gave up.

Since Black broke out of the chrysalis, Ola even asked Black to bring him back from the outside to drink dew recently. System must not be able to command this lazy deformed butterfly.

It seems that the excess flesh and blood can only be fed to his slime friends.

……

After simply dismembering and skinning the ratman's flesh and throwing it to his ant people, System came to the entrance of the nest again.

After an hour or so of rain, the hail had disappeared and turned into just rain.

The permeability of the grassland to rainwater is not bad, and the ground has not yet formed water, so System can't estimate how long the rainwater will last until it reaches the height to submerge his lair.

Turning his gaze, System looked at Shava who was not far from the lair, and shook his head lightly. Even though he had come out of the lair, Shava still didn't notice him.

At this time, Sawa is playing in the rain, or practicing.

Because of the uneasiness from [intuition], System sent Sava to observe the surroundings at the entrance of the lair to see if there was any anomaly. After all, Sava can be said to be the highest combat power possessed by System.

At this time, however, Sawa was clearly focused on her own world.

The double blades on Shava's forelegs slashed at the raindrops falling in the air from time to time, and every time she slashed dozens of times, Shava would stop and show a look of confusion. After a while, she would adjust slightly and continue Dance with double blades.

Since Shava has self-awareness and was named by System, she will practice tirelessly every time she is free.

Before the second pupation, she practiced the fangs, and after breaking out of the pupa a few months ago, Shava has been practicing the double blades of the forelimbs.

"Is it already this powerful..."

System looked at Shava's fierce and uncluttered double blades, and was a little dazed.

When Shava first practiced chopping, System could still use his own wisdom to give some pointers to Shava, but it was unknown when System could no longer guide Shava.

And Shava has practiced so far relying on his own blind thinking.

Normally, Shava wouldn't be able to tell when he chopped some plants or small animals, but watching Shava's movement of chopping down raindrops made System feel a little shocked.

Shava's movements reminded System of the feeling of some martial arts masters in the novels of his previous life.

System didn't know how to describe it. After all, System didn't know anything about swordsmanship, so he naturally didn't know what happened to Shava's swordsmanship. It just looked pleasing to the eye.

……

Without disturbing Shava, who was immersed in his own world, System once again flew into the sky to investigate the surroundings, looking for the source of his uneasiness.

Bean-sized raindrops kept falling, but System's flight was not greatly affected. It was only because of the rain that his vision was blocked, and the scenery in the distance looked foggy, as if in a thick fog.

In the thick fog of rain, System saw two fuzzy shadows appearing two kilometers away from him, and these two figures were gradually approaching him.

The figure came from the direction of the Lilte Forest, not the Rat Man that System imagined.

Because he obtained part of the inheritance of the Golden Acorn, System could feel that one of them was a druid.

The dense rain blocked System's sight very tightly, and he couldn't see the appearance of another humanoid creature, but based on the outline of the body and the druid's social relationship, System deduced that it was an elf.

The uneasiness from [intuition] came out again, and it seemed that the source of the uneasiness for a while was these two figures.

"Is it because of the golden acorn? Or the butterfly possessed by Aura?"

System could think of something related to Druids, one of which was the golden acorns he ate. Golden acorns were extremely rare, and perhaps even if he ate them, the Druids would still have a way to sense them.

The second is the remnant soul of Aura, the lord of the glacier. As the chief culprit who cut down all the oak trees in the Lierte Forest, coupled with the entanglement with the old druid Medran, it is reasonable for druids and elves to look for Aura .

How to do?
System's brain was working rapidly, and it was obviously not a wise choice to inform Shava to be hostile to these two creatures.

Not to mention whether Shava can defeat these two creatures, even if Shava successfully kills the druid and elf, there will definitely be more elves or druids who will come to trouble him in the future.

System was thinking while changing the direction of flight.

As System changed direction and flew, the druid and another elf figure obviously paused, and then began to move towards System's direction.

A few minutes later, System, who changed direction continuously, also confirmed that the target of these two figures was him.

However, the speed of these two figures' pursuit of him was not very fast. Even if System did not fly with all his strength, he gradually threw the two figures away.

Hastily, System has made a decision, he will lead the druid and elf to a gnoll village two hundred kilometers away.

Gnolls and elves had just experienced a war, and it was obviously impossible to let these two hostile creatures roam the Warren Plain.

And System, who continued to fly, gradually felt something strange. Although his [intuition] felt uneasy, this feeling of uneasiness was very strange.

There was a life-threatening feeling, but more of an inarticulate feeling.

An hour later, after separating the druid and the elf by five kilometers, System could hardly see the two figures in the dense rain.

The druid and the elf seemed to give up on their pursuit of System and stopped.

And System finally finally found out what these two figures were looking for him for.

System's tentacles heard an inexplicable speech from afar, which was an elf language that System could not understand at all.

After the words were conveyed, the two figures left, as if returning to the Lierte Forest.

The elf language from the druid was peaceful and friendly. Although he couldn't understand it, System could roughly infer the meaning of the words.

Perhaps because of the incomplete inheritance of the golden acorn, the other party regarded him as a druid who turned into a bird and flew.

So seeing that he didn't want to show up, he didn't force it, but just showed some kindness to him and left.

(End of this chapter)