Chapter 50: Rules And Development
Editor: Atlas Studios
System did not plan to immediately go and capture different types of insects even after grasping the [Insect Ability Activation] ability in order to activate the abilities within him.
Part of the reason was that he needed to be cautious with his choice, and the remaining reason was that he currently did not need to activate that many different kinds of abilities.
He had more than four years of his lifespan, and there were basically no creatures that could threaten him in the surroundings.
There was no need for him to be in a rush to raise his strength. Instead, he should plan his future rationally.
Although System was in the dark about this world, he was still more knowledgeable than more than a month ago, when he had just awakened.
This was a fantasy world with all kinds of supernatural powers, which his previous life did not have. He had already seen Druids, slimes, and Goblins. Most likely, there would be other high-level races of the fantasy world there.
As for the peculiar energy in the air that would surge into his body from time to time, System was still not very clear about it and had no way of controlling it. He could only rely on his body's instincts to absorb that energy.
After consideration, System decided not to think about that strange energy drifting in the air first.
For his future development, what he should do now was to use [Ability Enhancement] to strengthen his [Ultrafast Digestion] with his fastest speed.
Therefore, he would be able to obtain more EXP, which was his body's potential, in the same amount of time. He would then use the extra EXP obtained to continue enhancing [Ultrafast Digestion] ability, allowing his digestion ability to increase further.
When his [Ultrafast Digestion] grew to a certain extent, System would split the newly obtained EXP. A small portion would be used to enhance Shava's [Pupation] talent through [Ability Enhancement] to strive for Shava to undergo her second pupation as soon as possible.
As for the remaining large portion of EXP, System decided to give them to the female ant larva and use [Insect Ability Activation] to allow her to obtain more abilities. He could also use [Ability Enhancement] to strengthen the abilities of the female ant larva.
System decided to nurture the female ant larva into a powerful queen, allowing it to have an excellent laying-egg ability and also allow the abilities of the offspring produced by the queen to be improved.
Thus, as more ants were born, more ants could help System obtain much rarer food, and simultaneously, higher EXP. Afterward, he could use that EXP to continue strengthening the queen, thus allowing the queen to produce even stronger offspring…
Hence, that would undoubtedly turn into a virtuous circle. By then, it would not be impossible to use the ants to hunt some small animals.
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After deciding on his plan, System carried it out systematically.
He ordered Shava to resume building the temporary winter nest for that had stopped these few days. System mentioned making the nest more spacious before going to settle the remaining ant eggs.
Then System went to take a look at his new slime friend and extorted food from that new friend.
Three days passed quickly…
System's [Ultrafast Digestion] had already been raised to Level 6 as he had enhanced [Ultrafast Digestion] through devouring the slime's colloid non-stop.
His digestion speed was 2.5 times faster, and basically, in three hours, he could digest the amount of colloid, which would have taken him, at least, half a day to digest before. System estimated that in another ten days, he could maximize [Ultrafast Digestion]'s level.
Meanwhile, after just sucking a new ball of colloid, System's talent [Molting Growth] had finally increased and reached Level 14.
System could feel what he would become after his fourth molting.
However, such a feeling was extremely vague. His appearance seemed to be shrouded in smoke, and shortly after, he could not even feel such a vague look.
In these three days, besides using his EXP to continuously enhance [Ultrafast Digestion] and feed the ant larvae in the temporary nest, he would occasionally fly into the sky and patrol the surroundings to see if there were any special creatures.
Besides discovering a few birds that could release lightning, System finally found the swamp's missing slime.
There was a hole in the ground, which was covered by grass, near the swamp woodland that the slimes lived. Maybe, the slime had not appeared the last time because it felt that the hole was cool and damp. Thus, it had hidden inside it and rested.
This slime was similar to the other slime in terms of color and size, so it would also follow System's commands.
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System controlled the two slimes to become one and form a large slime. However, after a short while, the huge slime automatically split into two slimes again.
"Looks like these two slimes must have been split from the same slime."
When the slimes' body increased to a certain extent, they would automatically split into two new independent slimes.
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Thanks to [Limb Regeneration] System had already regenerated the two limbs that the mouse had bitten off the last time.
Besides the fact that the color of the regrown tentacles was slightly pale and their surface was smooth, they were completely identical.
After System's tentacles completely healed, he would use his tentacles to grab some insects to wrap them up and gather their information.
System realized that after enhancing his tentacles with the power of [Perception], they would indeed induce mature insects' mating desire.
Regardless of whether they were butterflies, dragonflies, or praying mantises, these bugs all had the same reaction after being wrapped around by his tentacles while he was investigating them.
Even spiders, which were not arthropod insects, showed a similar reaction.
However, his tentacles were unable to detect what abilities the butterflies had, and he was unable to feel the emotions of spiders through [Telepathy]. As for what was the spiders thought, he was not very clear either.
System discovered that after using such an ability, although his body did not feel anything, his desire toward mating would decrease greatly. Thus, he no longer needed to use his rationality to forcibly repress his mating desire, which was getting stronger and stronger.
One had to say that it was a strange feeling.
After using his tentacle to capture a small frog and put it into his mouth, System spat it out after a few bites and brought another slime back to his temporary nest.
After these three days, System had roughly understood the situation of Shava's second pupation by probing and checking with his tentacles.
Shava could indeed feel her second pupation, and she was extremely close to it. When Shava reached Level 12, and her [Pupation] talent increased slightly, she would start to undergo her second pupation.
Surprisingly, the slimes' colloid not only had a great effect on [Molting Growth], but it was also effective on Shava's talent [Pupation].
If she continued eating the slimes' colloid, System estimated that in at most half a month, Shava would successfully pupate a second time.
However, in the process of exploring his nest, System noticed that something was wrong.
After three days, from the first batch that had turned into pupae, eight of the ants had broken out from their pupae. However, out of these eight worker ants, System could only find six of them.
Two worker ants were missing…
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