Law of the Swarm

Chapter 84 Ant Knights

Whether it was a grasshopper or the current tentacle monster, there was no obvious difference to System.

And after this pupation, System seems to have completely lost the ability to reproduce with grasshoppers, and he no longer has to worry about the situation where his lifespan will go to zero due to the sudden mating with grasshoppers.

……

System, who emerged from the chrysalis, left the empty room. He saw Shava, who was guarding the outside of his empty room, still with a somewhat depressed expression.

It seems that Shava has not fully recovered from the failure to challenge the Glacier Lord.

Shava's thinking is actually very simple, but it is too simple.

Shava grew up too fast from the weak soldier ants. After the second pupation, the mice that were invincible in the previous moment could be easily killed by her in the next moment.

As a weak bug, Shava has obvious cognitive obstacles to the powerful creatures in this world, which may also be related to System's lack of usual teaching.

From Shava's point of view, the mouse she was invincible in the past is actually the same thing as the mighty dragon. The dragon is stronger than the mouse, but Shava just thinks that the dragon is similar to the snake and the eagle that eat the mouse.

It is precisely because of this that Shava will charge to the dragon without thinking, and when he charges, he thinks that he will win the final victory.

Glancing to the side, System found two somewhat unfamiliar ants. It turned out to be the dozen or so ants that had entered the second pupae, and two of them had already broken out of the pupae.

The two worker ants that have undergone secondary pupation are about six centimeters in size. I don't know if they are affected by the Shava, their body shape is somewhat similar to the simplified version of the Shava.

The head of the worm became smaller, and although the two pairs of forelimbs did not form a savannah-like blade, they both formed strange weapons, one formed a diamond-shaped spike, and the other formed an arc-shaped weapon similar to a hook.

Careful observation of Sister found that there are also slight differences in the body shapes of the two worker ants. The worker ants with diamond-shaped spikes have thicker legs, while the worker ants with hooked weapons have thinner legs.

It seems that his inferences all along are basically correct. The second pupation of insects is not uniform, and there will be some differences in the formed individuals.

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When System first appeared, the two worker ants were standing next to Shava, imitating Shava's posture to guard.

However, unlike Shava, there is some meat piled up near the two worker ants, and they kept devouring the meat of the mouse during the guarding process.

These two worker ants should be the same as Shava. After the second pupation, the body has entered a high-speed growth period and needs to obtain a lot of food.

If it is calculated according to the growth rate of Shava, the two worker ants will grow to about [-] centimeters in ten days, and then the growth rate of the body will slow down, and finally they can grow to about [-] centimeters.

"I, can't eat enough."

"King, be happy."

The two ants saw System sending spiritual messages one after another, and they were still as close to him as ever.

After the second pupation of these two worker ants, their intelligence has increased significantly, which is about the same as that of Shava before the second pupation, and about the same as the current queen Linda.

"Have you acquired any abilities? Have you heard the voice of the world?" System asked the two ants.

The two worker ants showed puzzled expressions at the same time.

One of the worker ants thought for a while and replied to System first: "I don't know."

This worker ant had exactly the same reaction as Shava's at the beginning. After the second pupation, it didn't find out what ability it had acquired.

However, another worker ant with hooks on its forelimbs seemed to be thinking about something. It tilted its head repeatedly, as if it wanted to express something.

A few minutes later, the worker ant with hooks suddenly raised its pair of hooks——

Along with the subtle sizzle sound, System saw a faint blue electric light in the worker ant's hook.

Obviously, this worker ant was endowed with the power of thunder and lightning by the voice of the world.

However, its strength is very weak. In less than a dozen seconds, the hook worker ant was exhausted. No matter how hard it exerted itself, it still couldn't use the slightest bit of lightning.

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"Is this to form a knight order?"

Looking at these two worker ants that had turned into a simplified version of Savoy, System estimated that the remaining dozen or so second-pupated ants would look similar after breaking out of their pupae.

The reason, System estimated, was the [Spiritual Network] ability he obtained through strengthening the [Mind Teleportation] ability a few months ago.

The ability of [Spiritual Network] is similar to that of [Spiritual Connection]. Using this ability, he can connect the spirits of all ants within one meter and communicate with each other.
After Shava broke out of the chrysalis two months ago, Shava used this [spiritual network] ability to transmit the image of the knight to every ant more than once.

Because System didn't have the habit of listening to the communication of these stupid ants, he didn't realize the seriousness of the matter until Shava sent these images for a long time.
During that time, there would always be some ants making strange gestures towards him, which made him feel very embarrassed.

Fortunately, because he was explicitly prohibited from launching the ant conference, and ordinary ants are not very intelligent and cannot remember too many things. After a few days, no other ants played the King Knight game with him except Shava. up.

But now it seems that these ants obviously still remember the images Shava sent back in the past, otherwise they would not imitate Shava and become what they are now.

"Forget it, the Knights are the Knights, that's fine."

Shaking his head helplessly, System went to the empty room full of secondary molt pupae.

Using the tentacles to inspect the remaining pupae, System found that three of the worker pupae were about to complete their second pupation, and they would break out of the pupae in at most two or three days.

As for the remaining eight worker ant pupae, although there was not much movement, but comparing the date of the second pupae of these ants, System estimated that they would emerge from their pupae one after another within half a month.

There were only two pupae of soldier ants that did not change. It should be the same as that of Sawa. The second pupation time of soldier ants was much longer than that of ordinary worker ants.

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These newly pupated newborn ant knights have high requirements for food, and ordinary seeds and dried fruits can hardly meet their growth needs.

They will obviously consume a lot of meat in a short period of time. System roughly estimates that it will consume about half of his stored meat.

Preying on the butterfly larvae he raised around him was obviously not worth the loss. System once again thought of his new friend in the past six months, Frost Slime.

It would be best to use Frost Slime as food for the Ant Knights, as long as one more is found, it will be enough for the thirteen Ant Knights to eat for a long time.

Except for occasionally devouring ice and snow, the staple food of Frost Slimes is basically the same as that of ordinary slimes, which is still some dry sticks and mud.

Frost slimes seldom appear on the snow surface, usually they will melt the snow to form a unique snow cave, living under the snow surface for a long time, in order to devour dead branches and leaves and some frozen plants.

Since there are no natural enemies in the ice and snow world, these frost slimes live very well, and there is usually one every few hundred meters.

However, because these frost slimes were buried deep under the snow, even System had to use [Teleportation] to sense emotional fluctuations to find these slimes.

(End of this chapter)