With a gray glow and the same dizziness as when I came to the Temple of Shadows.

Systm returned to his lair with thirteen jars of dragon bone marrow, a few magic items, and hundreds of magic candles. With these magic candles, Sistemm doesn't have to laboriously cultivate fluorescent mushrooms, and can use these magic lamps to complete the lighting of underground lairs.

Unlike the pragmatists of Systham, Butterfly Ora and Sava brought home two large chests of gold coins and gems, respectively.

The two bugs apparently wanted to carry the treasures back to their nests rather than store them in the temple.

Even Ola is the same.

Although she received ownership of the Half-Plane Shadow Temple from the evil god Rafal, Aura did not have any sense of belonging there, so she brought back the treasures of the Shadow Temple, and planned to use the gold treasures to decorate her empty room.

……

However, not long after Systm returned, Heatham's tentacles smelled a smell of blood.

There was the smell of ants' blood, and there was a sulfur-like smell of blood, which made Sistemm feel restless for the first time in a long time.

"Abyssal creatures?"

Sistemm whispered that since the failed invasion of the Lylt Forest by the Gnolls before his third chrysalis, the Abyssal Demons who fought with the Gnolls had vanished as if they had lost a trace.

According to the information told to him by the Shadow, the gnolls must have taken refuge in the Abyss Lord Augen, the dragon brother who turned Aura into a butterfly.

So when Heatham chrysalis for the third time and found that the whole of Warren was occupied by the undead, he always felt that something was wrong in the heart of Heatm.

The source of this is the abyss.

Systham had previously thought that it might be that Ogen, the Infernal Dragon, had abandoned the Gnolls and the Warren Plains.

But it may not be that simple.

……

Systran quickly followed Shava in the direction of the scent, and in the cavern's passage, Systran soon encountered an injured worker ant rider.

The carapace on the chest of the worker ant rider was shattered, but fortunately only some blood flowed out, and there was not much danger, and Systham placed the worker ant knight for a while, and continued to follow the breath of the abyssal creature.

Sistum's tentacles gradually heard the crashing sound near the entrance to the cave, and also smelled an even stronger abyssal aura, presumably his ant people fighting the creatures of the abyss.

Just as Heatham and Black were about to reach the entrance of the cave, the voices became much quieter, and the battle seemed to be over.

When Heatham arrived, he saw the ball of meat transform into a giant mouth full of ring-like serrated teeth, biting off the head of a large centipede one meter long.

After discovering that Systm had returned, his son Meatball immediately spit out the centipede's head in his mouth, and at the same time approached Systm affectionately.

The Meat Ball can be said to be the strongest combat power of Sisham other than Shava, and he once again used [Probe Analysis] on the Meat Ball.

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Species: Amoeba (renameable)

Rating: 42/130

Diameter: 0.53 m

Weight: 41 kg

Estimated combat power: 180-260

Special: [Pupae] (20/22), [Insect Adaptability] (30/30)

……

It can be said that if the meat ball continues to grow like this, it should not be a problem to enter the fourth pupation.

After rubbing the fleshball's body with his tentacles, Systm looked at the dead centipede's corpse.

Because the severed centipede's body was still trembling slightly, there was a lot of dark red blood flowing from the ground, and it exuded a stronger abyssal aura.

It didn't take long for Black to follow.

After expressing his joy and wonder at Sistum's return, Black quickly recounted what had happened in the half-moon lair that had been his vanishing.

In fact, this one-meter-long big centipede is not the first to appear, in this half a month, three big centipedes have appeared one after another, and this centipede is still the smallest of them and the most ordinary.

And the three large centipedes that appeared were all actively invading the nest of Sisstem, not the ant people of Sistrom outside the nest.

After receiving news from Black, Heatham immediately recognized the seriousness of the situation.

Led by Blake, Systham soon saw the corpses of several large centipedes from before, and saw the original strange centipede with furry arms.

This strange creature made Systm feel like he had encountered the white spider, the predecessor of the little ball of meat.

But after tasting the creature's flesh, Heatham noticed something different.

These abyssal creatures also have the blood of insects, but unlike the meat balls in the past, although the blood of the meat balls was mixed with the blood of demons, the main body of the blood of the meat balls was still insects.

These centipede-like creatures are dominated by the bloodlines of demons, supplemented by the bloodlines of insects and some arthropods.

Actually, it's a different kind of demon.

Reminiscent of the Swarm Druids that Shadow once brought up for Sistham, the Swarm Druids were members of Organ's command.

If Sistm's reasoning is correct, these centipede demons were the research of the swarm druids.

After examining a few injured ant riders, treating them appropriately with [Healing Power], and visiting Queen Linda.

Systum took Shava out to investigate.

Although his [instincts] did not warn him that the giant centipedes were not much of a threat to him, Systm decided to scout the abyssal creatures immediately.

Systm wanted to further determine why these abyssal creatures appeared and why they invaded his lair to avoid any trouble, but he didn't take precautions beforehand.

After all, his [intuition] was useful, but most threats only gave him a warning when it mattered.

……

After half a month, the climate of the Warren Plains has not changed much, and the temperature is still around zero.

There may have been a light snowfall on the Warren Plains in the first two days, and a light layer of white snowflakes appeared on the ground, probably because of these slightly colder weather, the snowflakes have not yet completely melted.

And it was this thin layer of snow that made it easier for Heatham to observe the situation on the ground.

Systham soon saw the corpse of a gnoll zombie two kilometers away from him, and a large centipede devouring the flesh of the zombie.

This centipede is about 1.2 meters long, and in addition to its centipede-like body shape, some strange white spikes have grown on the brown carapace of this centipede's back, which resembles the fangs of a gnoll.

Systham found that as the centipede rapidly devoured the zombie's flesh, its body grew at an extremely fast rate, basically every two or three minutes, the centipede's body would grow about a centimeter.

After observing the centipede in the sky for more than ten minutes, Heatham moved over with Shava and decided to take a closer look at the large centipede from the abyss.

The great centipede seemed to be very alert, and when Sistemm moved to a distance of about thirty meters from it, the centipede suddenly gave up and was eating zombie flesh and rushed towards Sistum.

……

Species: Centipede Demon (renameable)

Length: 1.07 m

Weight: 15-25 kg

Estimated combat power: 5-20

Special:-

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Heatham had to make Shava carry out the previously agreed plan in advance, giving up a close look at the centipede, and asking Shava to cut off all the limbs of the big centipede, making it incapacitated.

And as Shava fights the centipede, Systm discovers that he seems to be able to feel the emotions emanating from the abyssal creature......