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83.33% Laws of the Insect Hive / Chapter 50: Rules And Development

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.

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.

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.

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…


Chapter 51: The First Snow In Clear Sky

Editor: Atlas Studios

"Is it possible that these worker ants have left?"

System shook his head. Although he did not instill the thought that he was the ant queen into these ants these days, those ants still thought of him as their kin. They couldn't disobey his orders.

Even if those worker ants went out of the temporary nest for a breather, they should immediately return to the nest and continue feeding the ant larvae according to System's previous orders.

There was no clear answer from asking Shava.

If System did not ask, Shava, who was eating the slime's colloid, would not even have noticed that the number of worker ants in the temporary nest had decreased.

Although Shava had a certain degree of intelligence, she was not very sensitive to numbers. She could not even master addition and subtraction within ten until now.

System could not help but sigh.

Meanwhile, just as System was deep in thought, he suddenly got a special feeling. It was from his ability [Instinct].

System picked a worker ant and brought it along as he left the nest.

System could feel that as long as he brought a worker ant with him, he would be able to find the truth behind the two worker ants' disappearance.

Shava had already pulled away the patrolling ants near the entrance nest to help with winter nest's construction.

However, as they got closer to the dark brown ants' nest, System encountered an ant team responsible for searching for food.

An ant from the searching team discovered him and gradually approached them as if trying to see just what he was.

Unexpectedly, before that ant came closer, the worker ant System had brought along moved closer to it.

Then, the two ants touched their antennae as if they were communicating. However, suddenly, it was as if those two ants felt something was wrong, and they started biting each other in the blink of an eye.

System immediately used his tentacles to separate the two worker ants and then used one of his tentacles to twist off the hostile ant's head.

Initially, the two ants were the same ant queen's offspring, but they were like mortal enemies now. Whenever they met, they would transmit the emotion of going to fight to the death.

Even if System was not there, those two would not hesitate to fight.

After witnessing the two ants' confrontation, System easily guessed why two worker ants had disappeared. They should have gone out of the temporary nest and died in the process of fighting against such dark brown ants.

Unlike Shava, the ants that System had hatched and the ants within the ant nest would be hostile to each other from birth.

When System used [Mind Transmission] to ask that worker ants, he got an extremely clear answer—enemy.

Not food, but enemy!

It was the same when System had deceived those ants and said they were of the same kind. When the ants had realized they had been deceived, they had gotten angry and turned hostile toward him.

"…So this is why."

After jumping onto the stem of a plant while bringing the worker ant along, System observed the ants' nest. He quickly thought of a relatively reasonable explanation.

The ants that System reared and the ants from the ants' nest were both offspring of the same ant queen. However, due to a different growth environment, they had produced a slightly different scent and had become a new nest of ants.

It might be due to the habitual behavior of ants, but only one nest of ants was destined to survive in the same area where two colonies of the same kind of ants existed.

Thinking back when he had deceived the ants by saying that he was the ant queen, it might not be that the ants had discovered he was a grasshopper. Instead, they had thought of him as their enemy from another ant colony.

Otherwise, those ants would not have been so enraged at that time.

However, no matter what, under these circumstances, System should not recall the past. Instead, he should think of how to settle that ant nest.

Sooner or later, System would have to wage war against that ant nest, as the new ant queen he was raising would continue to produce offspring.

Even if the battle did not happen this autumn, the two ant colonies would clash. If System wanted to spend the next summer there, his ants would fight to the death with the other colony.

Within a 10-meter radius, only one nest of ants could exist.

System was unsure as to what would happen after winter. However, if his ants were to battle the enemy colony next summer, his side would suffer heavy casualties.

System considered two options:

One, after safely getting through this winter, they would migrate next summer.

Two, they would annihilate the ants and occupy their nest.

Soon, he chose the second option.

After all, System had two slimes to help him, and after winter arrived, his slimes might disappear. Thus, System did not want to miss such a perfect opportunity.

The two dark green slimes were much more powerful than his old brown slime friend, be it the elasticity of their colloids or their digestive abilities.

It should not be a problem to face a middle-scale ant nest with around 100,000 ants.

Also, with his commanding skills, he could take the initiative and control the slimes to leave after discovering that their devouring ability decreased.

With the slimes' fast digestion and recovering speed, the ants' hatching speed should be far from catching up.

Even if his slimes' first two attacks did not deal a deadly blow to the ants' nest, the enemy colony would definitely suffer great losses after getting attacked many times in the span of a few days.

By then, System could have Shava kill the ant queen, let her order the worker ants to move the ant eggs, larvae, and pupae into the same spot, and annihilate them all cleanly.

If that happened, the enemy colony would be obliterated as an ants' nest that had lost all of their eggs had no possibility of producing a new ant queen. Thus, even if System did not make a move, the remaining ants would all die.

Also, with him there, the ant nest's destruction would be even faster.

Afterward, he would order Shava to bring their construction team to expand the ant nest and annihilate the remaining ants. Then, he would officially occupy the ant nest just like how a turtledove seized a magpie's nest.

The enemy ant nest had enough food for more than 100,000 to survive through winter, which was enough for System to nurture a new ant queen and develop. He could even use the food to rear a small slime and produce a steady supply of colloids.

The more System thought, the more he felt that annihilating that colony this autumn was a wise choice.

Also, even if he failed, it would hinder him in any way. At most, he would stop his ants from going out during autumn and migrate in spring next year.

It was a shame that the winter nest that Shava and her construction team had built would be completely useless.

However, if everything went according to System's plan and they occupied the ant nest, then such a small matter could be overlooked.

After deciding, System was extremely efficient as he ordered Shava to watch after the ants to ensure they would not leave the temporary nest. Then, he spread his wings and flew toward the swamp where the slime was.

Today, he would control the two slimes to start their first wave of attacks toward the ant nest.

However, as System was flying, he suddenly discovered many white ice crystals falling from the sky. It was snow!

The sky was clear, and the temperature was moderate, like early autumn. However, just like that, the sky was filled with snowflakes, and falling snow was getting heavier and heavier…


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