Half a month after the arrival of the rainy season, Systm has strengthened his talent [Pupa] to 90% of level 16, and is only one step away from raising [Pupa] to level 17, and is about to meet the conditions for the third pupation.

However, Sistm did not solve his fundamental problem, how to completely avoid the threat of the possible arrival of the druids and nezumi.

So Sistum, who gave up on continuing to strengthen his physical abilities, began to take time out of his time to study the words left behind by the nezumi wizard with Black, and to study some books about the plague.

The so-called plague spell needs to communicate with Rafal and make a sacrifice, otherwise it will not be cast at all.

But not all books describe plague spells.

In fact, most of the Rat-Man Wizard's books on plague have nothing to do with plague spells, but are mainly about research and methods of cultivating plagues.

Although the use of plague spells can make the target instantly infected with the plague, this plague is at least ten times weaker than the plague formed by the rat people.

Sistemm had also read the notes of the nezumi wizard Lance to realize how terrifying the dozen or so bottles of plague reagent he had drunk in the first place, almost all of which had the effect of killing a gnoll or pig-headed man in a matter of hours.

Unfortunately, the plague had little effect on insects.

And Sistum's biggest gain from the nezumi wizard is a transparent cube crystal block, about five centimeters long, similar to glass, or crystal.

Originally, the crystal was given to Sava to play with.

After learning about the nezumi writing these days, Systm learned that this square object was a magical object that could act like a microscope to observe microscopic things.

This magic crystal can be activated by most of the energy, and Systm can activate it by casting the energy of frost and the natural power of the druid, but his [Perception] and [Telekinesis] powers cannot have an effect on this crystal.

That's why Syst didn't find out that the hedron was a magical item in the first place.

In addition to this crystal, the skull prop that can create illusions is still unusable, and it seems that it is necessary to communicate and obtain the power of the evil god Rafal.

……

Through the magic microscope, Systm first looked at him [Plague Slime], then his own blood, then his mushrooms, and then his slime.

Systm found that the microorganisms that make up slime gum were like the emotions he felt with [telekinesis], and there was not much difference between them and mushrooms.

On a whim, Systm decided to use the nezumen's cultivation technology for the plague to try to change the form of the slime and turn the slime into a mushroom, to be precise, to deprive the slime of its ability to bounce around, so that the slime could obediently serve as food.

But Sistemm is too much to take for granted, although the slime has a simple form and structure, it is not a bug that can be transformed by Sistum's tentacles [sense] the bloodline.

Therefore, the method of cultivating plague with the rat people was constantly experimented, and the Sistemm had been transformed for several days without any results, and the slime's gum was still alive.

However, in the process of cultivating the Glowing Mushroom, Syst accidentally caused the slime to devour the Glowing Mushroom, producing a fleeting bright light, like a flashing light.

These days, when I'm bored, Systm tries to figure out how slimes glow.

However, the glowing slime only appeared once, and after that, Systm was no longer able to make the slime glow by devouring the mushroom.

Looking for the footage in the [Tools menu], Syst didn't find any clues, as if the glone was shining brightly that time was just a coincidence.

After all, whether or not a slime can emit a bright light is not obvious to Sisstem.

So today, after Sistemm fiddled with it again for a while and found that nothing had progressed, he ate the slime used for research into his stomach along with some fluorescent mushrooms.

Heatham eventually abandoned the useless research.

……

……

As Sistemm had predicted, the waning rain continued for another four days, and the 20-day rainy season was completely over, and the skies cleared with only scattered clouds drifting over and little breeze.

After the rain, the weather is clear, and the moist but not cold air makes the insects feel comfortable.

Systran was finally able to use the [Eye of Systm] in the sky to observe things in the distance, after all, the rain was too strong to block the line of sight.

More than a hundred kilometers to the west, the nezumi gathering place was silent, only the calm water surface, and it seemed that the entire nezumi gathering place was flooded by rain.

The higher slopes a few kilometers away from the nezumi colony had not been flooded by the rain, and Sistemm saw some vague silt footprints around several cave openings, and it seemed that the nezumi were still alive.

Looking at the Lillte Forest to the east, the elves were as usual, the accumulated rain did not affect them much, they still stayed leisurely on the treehouse, and some elves were swimming happily with leopards in the water.

Oh~

A loud birdsong interrupted Systham's thoughts, grasshoppers have a natural fear of birds in their blood, even if ordinary birds are no threat to Heatham at all now, Heatham's heart will subconsciously beat faster.

The one who chirped was the black hawk that was common in the grasslands, and this black eagle seemed to have spotted the flying Systm and fled in panic.

"Could it be the one you didn't catch last time?"

As the overlord of the prairie sky, the average Black Hawk will not take the initiative to flee even if he sees Sistum's strange appearance, and at most he will not attack him, but this Black Eagle is obviously full of fear of Sistum.

Rather than pursue the flying eagle, Systm slowly descended from the sky and returned to his lair.

……

Everything around him had calmed down, there was no obvious movement from the nearby nezumi, no obvious movement from the elves of the Lierte Forest, and no uneasy feeling came from his [intuition].

Perhaps his [intuition] is only aware of things that are close in time, and the surrounding nezumi or druids may also discover his lair.

But where in this world can you find absolute security.

Just as he had been in the process of carefully molting in the Lierte Forest, it was much more dangerous then than he was now.

There will always be all kinds of dangers in this world, and he can't just wait endlessly.

Systm decided to pupate in the near future.

The half-metre-deep water in the grassland is falling so fast that Systm estimates that the rain that has accumulated in the vicinity will fall completely in half a month.

If the nezumi, the elf, and his [intuition] still don't move after the rain has completely fallen, Systm decides to chrysalis a third time, breaking the rank lock and becoming a magical creature.

In the past ten days, Heatham decided to use the power of the excavator to dig a deep enough pupal site for him, at least a few tens of meters underground.

While groundwater can appear as long as a dozen meters of digging down, Heatham believes there will be a way to solve the problem.