Laws of the Insect Hive

With the passage of time, the time recorded in the [Tools menu] has been close to a year, but in fact, the time for him to pupate must be much longer than a year.

Because of the serial dream in a coma that pupated at first, System didn't know how long he had pupated.

System just felt that the formed liquid of his body was gradually solidifying.

Based on his experience in cultivating ant people, System knew that his pupation was almost over.

And on such a day, System finally heard that unique buzzing sound again, the voice of the world.

This time System did not appear in that white space with the sound of the world, but only received an inexplicable power.

This kind of power made System tremble involuntarily, and gave System an extremely comfortable feeling.

System had inexplicably more knowledge in his mind, and he finally understood the fundamental difference between so-called mortal things and magical beings.

The rank mortal objects and the rank metamorphosis belong to the life level of mortal objects.

Among them, mortals can hardly grasp the power of magic, or even if they use magic power, the magic power is extremely weak.

Transformation can simply absorb or use some kind of free energy, and then use magical powers, such as using fire, or casting lightning.

This transformation stage can also be called awakening stage or apprentice or apprentice stage. The former is aimed at monsters or warlocks who have awakened the power of their ancestors' bloodlines, while the latter are some intelligent races that learn to understand and use magical powers, such as Mage apprentice, or apprentice war clerk.

And the magical life belongs to the existence of the higher level of mortal things.

Magical beings can still borrow and absorb free energy, and are more skilled in using energy than ordinary things.

But the biggest difference between magical life and ordinary things is not the use of power, but the existence of magical life represents that magical power itself.

Even without absorbing or borrowing free energy in the air, they can exert magical powers.

And after obtaining this information, System finally knew.

In the Warren Plain, where frost energy is extremely scarce, the butterfly transformed into Ola's remnant soul can use hundreds of times his frost energy, indicating that Ola should not be a mortal thing.

Although only pupated twice, Ora may well have become a magical being.

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After a brief thought, the gelatin in System's body continued to tremble involuntarily for a few minutes, and his refreshing body finally returned to calm.

System knew that his level lock had been broken, and as long as he emerged from the chrysalis, he would have a brand new level cap and become a magical being at the same time.

And the core of his magical power is [perception] and [mental transmission].

Level: 15/?

life:? ?

The information from the [Tools menu] did not completely determine System's level cap and newly acquired lifespan, but System knew a range roughly.

The upper limit of his level should be between 80 and 130, and the specific value will change according to the completion of [Pupation], which cannot be completely determined yet.

The same is true for his lifespan. He will gain a lifespan of between 60 and 250 years, making him a species with a relatively long lifespan. However, the specific lifespan will depend on the progress of his subsequent [pupation].

[Pupation] The process in which the body is gradually solidified by the gelatin to form a new body is particularly important, and it often has a huge impact on insects.

However, System did not know exactly how to condense his body.

All System could do was to wait quietly. As long as he waited like this, his chrysalis would naturally be completed.

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A little bit of time passed, just when System thought that he would congeal in his body like this, and then emerge from the chrysalis.

A buzzing sound appeared in System's mind again, an inexplicable feeling appeared in System's body, and soon a system prompt from the [Tools menu] appeared.

Ding! You gain the title "Insect Lord".

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"Insect Lord": A title given to System by an unknown existence. When loyal insect people are near you, your insect people will gain [Fighting Spirit], [Extraordinary Patience].

Even if there is no real territory, you have people who are absolutely loyal to you.

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Not long after he obtained the title, the gelatin inside the System's pupa quickly wriggled, and these gelatinous gels condensed into his flesh and blood at an extremely fast speed.

System found that this gel-to-flesh conversion process was very close to the [body-to-glial conversion] ability he wanted to activate.

But he didn't let System think any more, and a prompt sound interrupted System's thinking again.

System had just obtained the activation inspiration of [Body-Glial Transformation], but he did not expect that his body had already harvested this ability during this pupation process.

Ding! You gain the derived ability [Somatic - Glial Transformation] (11/17).

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[Body-Gel Transformation] (11/17): Derived abilities obtained from [Pupation], [Body Transformation], [Plague Slime], and [Insect Adaptability]. Parts of the body can be transformed with [Plague Slime].

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Taking a cursory glance at the information on [Body-Glye Conversion], System was concentrating on feeling his body.

As his body gradually became harder, System gradually regained the feeling of his body.

His tentacles had grown, and he could hear the subtle movements around him. He even heard the familiar heartbeat of Shava not far away.

System's eyes also gradually recovered and became hard. Because of the see-through ability of [System's Eye], System could see the blurry surrounding through the outer wall of the chrysalis. The empty room he was in seemed to be blurry. After the transformation of the excavator, it has become even bigger.

The final stage of breaking out of the chrysalis seemed to be surprisingly fast, the flesh and blood of System's body solidified at an extremely fast speed, and System soon felt the suffocation inside the chrysalis.

System used the ability of [Carapace Spike] extremely naturally. The ends of his dozens of tentacles grew spikes one after another, and the shell of the chrysalis was easily torn apart by System.

System was finally able to watch his pupated appearance.

Excluding the tentacles, he could still vaguely find the shadow of the grasshopper, but apart from the joints of his head, the joints of his chest and abdomen had disappeared, the entire chest and abdomen were integrated, and a soft abdomen also appeared. Some scaly carapace like snakes.

His appearance became more ferocious than before he pupated, many spikes appeared on his exoskeleton, and System found that his body had more tentacles.

Some of these tentacles are ordinary tentacles, and some are tentacles with carapace. hybrid.

System roughly counted the number of tentacles on his feet to thirty-six.

Without continuing to stare at his body, System turned his gaze to the figure to the side, and at the same time stretched out a tentacle and touched the figure's head.

"Sorry, it took a little longer to pupate."