Chapter 87: Volcanic Eruption (I)
The demon is about one meter and two meters long, much smaller than the strong demon that the white bear fights in Nellis's image, with dark red skin, just like the little demon that appeared in the games and novels of Sistham's previous life.
The little devil was left with only the left half of his body and head, struggling in pain in the snow pit.
Heatham didn't come closer.
After observing from a distance with Shava for a while, Systm transformed into a [Frost Form] and used [Frost Slime] above the branches of the trees to spit out the little demon that was not dead.
Sistemm heard a few angry curses from the little devil in a strange language, but he didn't understand it at all, it was supposed to be the language of the abyss, and Nellis couldn't understand it.
After a few minutes, maybe the little devil lost too much blood, or maybe the little devil was affected by the [Frost Slime] attack, and only half of the body of the little devil died.
The wounds on half of the little devil's corpse were uneven, not like they were formed by being bitten, nor like the wounds left by the attack of the weapon, and how the wounds were formed, Sistemm couldn't speculate.
Heatham didn't find any footprints or other traces near the little devil's corpse, which was unusual.
It's as weird that the little devil was made like this by something and thrown here.
Sistemm scanned his surroundings with his eyes for more than ten minutes, and found that the surrounding environment was still quiet, so he jumped down from a tree branch and dipped his tentacles in the blood of the little devil and put it in his mouth.
As Systm had speculated about the creatures of the abyss, he tasted a spicy taste that confused him, with a slight sweetness.
The experience of the Imp's flesh is not very high, and it is not even as good as the Frost Slime's flesh, so it seems that the Imp should be a weak abyssal creature.
This spicy, sweet, chaotic meat is obviously not suitable as a food for the ants people, and even Syst himself does not really want to eat it.
However, Syst quickly came up with a way to kill two birds with one stone, and that was to use the half of the demon corpse to feed the slime.
As a scavenger in a forest swamp, the slime is a microbial polymer that even digesting the corpse of a demon will have no effect on it.
This way, not only will he be able to harvest more slime gum, but also have this half of the demon corpse as bait, and it will also prevent the frost slime from suddenly escaping while in captivity.
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Bringing back the demon corpse and the three slimes with Shava without any other twists and turns, Systrem managed to use the corpse of the little demon to keep the frost slimes in captivity......
Ten days passed, and six more of them broke out of the pupa of Sistem's worker ant riders.
Except for the worker ant with the lowest intelligence, who is still about the same size as before, the remaining five worker ants have all taken the appearance of knights.
The first two worker ant riders had grown to about fifteen centimeters in ten days, much faster than Sistemm had predicted.
During these ten days, three more worker ants appeared in the anthill in the process of eating slime gum, and entered the secondary pupation.
And the queen of ants Lin finally entered the second pupation under the gaze of Sistum, forming a huge pupa of nearly thirty centimeters.
However, except for Linda, the queen ant and these three worker ants, most of the remaining ants in the nest have no great potential, and unless a lot of time is wasted, it is difficult for them to enter the secondary pupation.
Once again, the nest of Sistemm has entered a phase of steady development.
A month passed again......
Except for the two soldier ants that have been pupating for a longer time, the rest of the worker ant riders have all broken out of the chrysalis.
Among the thirteen worker ants, three did not change much in appearance, but became larger than ordinary ants, and their chelicerae became larger, similar in appearance to soldier ants.
The remaining ten all took on the appearance of a worker ant rider resembling Shava.
Most of the Worker Ant Rider's forelimbs have bladed weapons that resemble ant chelica teeth, and only the first two Worker Ant Riders that break out of the chrysalis have diamond-shaped spikes and strange hooks.
Over the course of a month, Sistemm accumulated experience by constantly eating, increased his level to the maximum level of 15, and successfully activated the talent [Super Speed Regeneration].
Maybe it's because of the newly acquired title "Xenomorph Insect".
Systm found that the process of activating [Super Speed Regeneration] was much easier than he had imagined, and it was easy to refer to the ability of the little meat ball to obtain this powerful life-saving ability.
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[Rapid Regeneration] (13/19): Special Talents are obtained from [Insect Adaptability], [Nut Code], [Regeneration of Severed Limbs], and [Insect Ability Activation]. By depleting the life force, the body can be quickly regenerated.
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With [Overspeed Regeneration], it only takes a dozen seconds for Sistham's severed tentacles to grow within relying on his life force.
Not only the tentacles, but also his shattered exoskeleton, broken tentacles, and wings can grow in a short period of time by consuming life force.
As long as it is not a fatal head injury that causes him to lose consciousness, his mutilated body can recover very quickly by draining his life force.
After the [Overspeed Regeneration] was successfully activated, Systm also began to prepare for activating the talent [Body Transformation].
By comparing [Body Transformation] with the gradually growing body of the little meat ball, Systm had a wonderful idea for the ability of [Body Transformation].
That is to use the ability of [Body Transformation] to transform the body into the [Corrosive Slime] secreted by his glands to form a body similar to a meat ball and a slime that ignores physical attacks.
At that time, the weakness of his head will no longer be a weakness, and as long as his body is not crushed in an instant, he will not die.
His [Corrosive Slime] has rare life properties due to mutation, just like the blood flowing in his body, and theoretically his physical body can be completely transformed into the gelatinous [Corrosive Slime].
However, to really implement it, the talent level required for [Body Deformation] to be possessed is somewhat high, and only when the talent level is high enough can he transform his body back and forth between flesh and gelatin.
This is a bit of a hassle for the Systm, who has a low fit with [Body Transformation].
Although he can enhance his abilities with [Ability Enhancement], Sistemm can't strengthen the upper limit of his abilities, otherwise he will undoubtedly gain more incredible abilities if he strengthens the [Numerical Code] during this time.
Systm must make the maximum talent level limit when [Body Transformation] is activated as high as possible, at least level 11.
Therefore, a few days ago, after Sistemm activated the [Super Speed Regeneration], he often came to the room of the little meat ball, and while communicating with the little meat ball on a daily basis, he compared and felt the [Body Transformation] ability in the little meat ball's body.
After nearly forty days, Little Meatball has come to regard Systm as the closest person.
Unlike ordinary ant people, although Systm also taught Meatball to call him king, Meatball has always called him father.
In fact, Little Meatball initially called him mother, but after countless corrections by Systham, Little Meatball eventually changed and called him father.
After these days of continuous eating, the small meat ball has grown to the size of ten centimeters, although it is not as good as its predecessor, but it can already have a variety of changes in its body to form various shapes.
Among them, the most enjoyable thing about the meat ball is to imitate the tentacle monster appearance of Sistum, and other than that, it maintains the state of the meat ball most of the time.
The little ball of meat seems to hate loneliness, and when Systran is not around, it will often come up to the other ants and follow Systm's example, stretching out its tentacles to wrap around the ants.
One of the closest to the little meat ball is the worker ant Blake, who often comes next to Blake and plays with Blake.
And since Sistemm flew outside the nest with the little meat ball once a dozen days ago, the little meat ball will go outside a few times a day, sometimes with Sistum, sometimes with Blake, or the worker ant rider hook with lightning ability.
Systham also made an agreement with the little meat ball today, and when the inspection was completed, he would take it outside for a while.
However, on this day, Sistemm used the [Perception] power of his tentacles to compare the [Body Transformation] talent.
The same uneasiness that Heatham had felt over the past few months had returned, and this time the uneasiness was unusually strong, as if something was about to happen.
After a few levels, with the strange fluctuations perceived by the tentacles, the underground nest where Sisham was located shook violently, and the ant people in the nest were uneasy and looked very flustered.
There was an earthquake......