Laws of the Insect Hive

The black smoke formed by the eruption of the volcano caused a lot of damage to System's ant people. After this poisonous black smoke descended, many of System's ant people lost. life.

Except for a small number of ants in the nest that carried some pieces of soil from time to time, most of the ants stayed quietly near System's comatose empty room. Enter sleep state.

System's favorite worker ant, Black, also leaned on the body of Little Meatball because of his fragile physique.

The ant people in System's lair exude an indescribable emotion. There is no sadness, and there is not much anxiety, but it exudes a lifeless aura...

However, just after System woke up from the coma and appeared, his ant people suddenly changed, and the seemingly dead ant people exuded joy and became active again.

Even Black, the worker ant who was suffering, moved its weak body and moved closer to System.

"You guys..."

Using his tentacles to touch the heads of these ant people, System gently shook his head.

Without thinking, after using his tentacles to examine some seriously injured ant descendants, System ordered these weak ant descendants to eat as much meat as possible to replenish their stamina.

At the same time, System used tentacles to probe several ant people whose bodies were not harmed by the poisonous smoke.

After probing the three ant people one after another, System finally found the ability he was looking for—[Toxin Resistance].

There are still about 30% of the remaining experience bar, which should be able to activate this ability for 5 ant people.

System began to treat the weakest ant people, activating the derived ability [Toxin Resistance] in their [Insect Adaptation].

The weak worker ant Black was the first to be treated by System. After activating the [Toxin Resistance], although Black's body was still weak, it has stabilized and it is estimated that it will recover in a while.

It seems that although Black has a weak physique, his luck is not bad.

Apart from the dozen or so pupated ant people remaining intact, only 42 of System's ant people are still alive, and even one of the 10 worker ant knights who have pupated for the second time has lost his life. ...

Two hours later, after System completely consumed the experience bar, he decided to go outside the lair and bring back some fresh meat.

The three frost slimes that System brought back more than a month ago were not eaten up, and there was only one left. System decided to bring back part of that slime and use this nutrient-rich slime Food restores stamina to the ants.

...

After a day and a half of coma, the Liert Forest should have been sunny during the day and was covered with thick black smoke as if it were night.

The black smoke brought by the volcano did not warm the Liert Forest, but made the forest colder because of the opaque black smoke.

In addition to the black smoke, some gray-black snowflakes scattered and fell over the forest. System only stayed outside the lair for a while, and his body was dyed gray-black by the falling gray particles.

It's a pity that System used [Teleportation] to perceive the frost slime near the snow field where he originally kept it for a long time, but he didn't find any trace of the frost slime.

Perhaps it was caused by the earthquake to form a crack and fell into the ground, or perhaps escaped, System finally chose to give up.

System suddenly thought of Neris, the ice elf. Neris may know a little about the current situation of the Lierte Mountains. It will effectively block the black smoke in the air.

However, when System wanted to transform into the [frost form], he found that he couldn't use the energy in his body at all, and the ice elf Neris seemed to be in a deep sleep, without any response.

System checked the [Tools Menu] and found that the ability of [Frost and Cold Form] in his self-information still existed, but it had changed to [Frost and Cold Form] (which could not be activated).

On the other hand, the [Frost Breath] attached to System's body could be activated normally, and he could easily emit an icy frosty breath from the glands in his throat.

"Why did Neris fall asleep?"

System recalled what Nellis told about the last time she fell asleep, that time when the Glacier Lord disappeared for a few months, and after the temperature gradually rose, Nellis fell into a deep sleep.

"The agent of winter, the ice spirit."

"God of Winter, Lord of Glacier, heir of Winter's Will."

Recalling what the ice elf Neris once said, System speculated that the Glacier Lord might not just disappear this time.

However, because he is just a strange-looking weak bug, he has no idea of ​​the situation around him, and he has no way of guessing what happened.

...

While System was thinking inwardly, through the falling ash and black smoke from time to time, System noticed strange movements and some vague shadows appearing in the forest.

Using his tentacles, System climbed to a tree that was not affected by the earthquake.

It didn't take long for System to see more than a dozen gnolls that he had seen in the goblin village.

Because of the black smoke filled by the volcanic eruption, the yellow-brown hair of the gnoll has been dyed black, and it looks a little embarrassed.

The gnolls were stronger than the gnolls that System had seen for the first time, and they were running very fast in the snow and ice of Lierte Forest.

An inexplicable feeling suddenly appeared in System's [intuition], and it used its tentacles to turn its body over on the branch immediately.

whoosh-

A spear-like weapon brushed past System.

He was found.

The most sturdy one of the dozen or so gnolls showed a greedy and cruel smile. It once again drew out a wooden spear and threw it again in the direction of System.

System moved his body to dodge again.

But this time the spear flew halfway through the air, and a layer of fire suddenly erupted, and the speed suddenly increased several times.

Although System used his [intuition] to dodge ahead of time, the spear was still pierced through his abdomen.

Fortunately, because of the ability of [Super Speed ​​Regeneration], System expended his life force to repair his body quickly. After falling halfway from the branch, he spread his wings and flew away in mid-air to escape.

A few gnolls seemed to pursue him for a while in the direction of his flight, but because System's flying speed was not slow and the black smoke obscured them, the gnolls finally gave up their pursuit of him.

...

Because of the [Super Speed ​​Regeneration] and the [Fire Resistance] obtained by encountering a flaming boar shortly after rebirth, System's body did not suffer much damage, and only lost 6% of his vitality.

Using his tentacles to wipe the black smoke from his eyes, System felt the wings folded on his back.

Compared to the abdomen that was pierced and then repaired by [Super Speed ​​Regeneration], the short flight made his wings inevitably adhere to a large number of black particles, and the black smoke on the wings obviously made him more uncomfortable.

System quickly jumped into the underground snow to clean up the black ashes attached to his body, while thinking about the reason why these gnolls went to Liert Forest in such a harsh environment.

But after thinking about it for a long time, System couldn't think of any reason...