After a long period of pupation, Sava did not change much, but his body became taller, closer to 60 centimeters, and the carapace on the outside of his body seemed to become stronger.

"It's been a long time......"

Shava's personality is still so straightforward, and the spiritual message contains emotions of longing and joy.

As if thinking of something, Shava dug through the dirt with the blade of her foot, and a translucent gem the size of a baby's fist was pulled out of the dirt.

The gem was much larger and more beautiful than the little crystal that Systm had given to Shava.

As if to show off, Sava handed the gem to Systm.

"You're here waiting for me to finish pupating, are you going to show me this?" Systm took the gem and sighed helplessly.

After sighing, Systham looked puzzled as he reached out his tentacles and touched his throat.

Just as he was about to sigh, there was actually a stream of air coming out of his throat.

The scales in his abdomen still had tiny air holes to breathe, but his throat had created a passage through which he could breathe.

"Well, this gem is so beautiful, so, I'm going to give it to you."

Shava's spiritual message interrupted Systham's thoughts on his throat's breathing passage.

It turned out that Sava was not going to show off the quick gem to him, but to give it to him.

"What do I want this gem ......" Heatham was going to return the gem to Shava, but seeing Shava's expectant look, Heatham changed his words: "This gem is beautiful, I like it very much." ”

After hearing Systm's spiritual message, Shava was visibly overjoyed.

"How long have you been waiting for me here?"

Heatham saw dense slash marks on the dirt walls of the empty room, both new and old, indicating that Shava had been here for a long time.

However, Systham clearly thinks highly of Shava, and even after at least a year, Shava's mathematical ability has not improved at all.

His question apparently stumped Shava, who began to check her six limbs, but couldn't count them for a long time.

Instead of improving, Shava's mathematical abilities regressed.

……

Ignoring Shava in the count, Systham waited quietly for his pupa-tortuated exoskeleton to solidify, feeling his throat where he could breathe.

Along with the breath, Systm found that his throat could make some hoarse sounds.

Perhaps because of a subconscious wish, Sava and some other members of the Ant Knights changed their forms one after another during the second chrysalis process, turning into Ant Knights who looked like centaurs.

The same is true for Sistem, who, due to a subconscious desire, has gained derivative abilities [Body-Mucus Transformation] and the ability to vocalize this time.

And the tentacle body that Systm doesn't like on the surface is actually not annoying in his subconscious, so his body hasn't changed much in this chrysalis, and even has more tentacles.

Feeling the solidifying and smoothing exoskeleton on his back, Systm flipped through his [Tools Menu] and opened up his self-information.

……

Species: Unknown insect

Title: "Xenomorph Insect", "Insect Lord"

Name: Heatham

Rank: Magical

Rating: 15/120

Lifespan: 99 years and 212 days

Vitality: 80%

Experience: 51%

Special Energy: 79%

Special Talents: [Numeric Code] (10/10), [Chrysalis] (17/19), [Insect Adaptability] (17/23), [Data Storage] (8/10), [Teleportation] (11/23), [Data Compilation] (7/10), [Perception] (18/27), [Frost Form] (11/25), [Over-Speed Regeneration] (16/21), [Body Deformation] (17/17), [Digitization] (9/10).

Ailment: [Spell of Severeness] (12/12).

Derivative Abilities: Omitted.

Estimated power: 81

……

Similar to the third metamorphosis in the past, the abilities in Systham's body have been improved to varying degrees.

Of all the talents, only [Frost Form] has no change and still cannot be activated.

The Ice Elf Nylise still didn't move, unable to wake up from her deep sleep.

After this pupation, his level cap was changed to level 120, and his lifespan was increased to nearly a hundred years, so that he no longer had to worry about lifespan for a short time.

However, in the process of flipping through the information, Systm unexpectedly discovered an ability that made him feel unpleasant - [Spell of Breaking].

This vicious curse was also strengthened during his chrysalis, increasing from level 11 to level 12.

The strengthened curse didn't change much, but it made Syst feel very depressed.

It's not just the loss of the ability to mate.

Before, when the lifespan was short, Systm didn't feel much, but now every three days consumes an extra day of life, which will undoubtedly make Heatham's lifespan of nearly 100 years become 75 years.

If this [Spell of Severance] is not removed, Systm will lose 25 years of lifespan out of thin air.

25 years may only be about one-third of the lifespan for humans, but for grasshoppers, it represents dozens of life cycles.

Heatham had decided that he would do everything he could to get rid of the curse as soon as possible.

……

After a few minutes, Sistham's pupa, which had not fully solidified his body, had fully solidified.

Interrupting Shava, who was still counting, Systrem led Shava out of the empty chamber and began to return to the top of the lair.

How long it had been since he was pupated, Shava might not have been able to calculate, but Blake must have known it.

The walls of the tunnel made by the excavator have become more solid and wider than remembered, and it appears that the excavator has repaired the passage during this time.

After traveling upwards for a distance of about thirty meters, Syst saw a huge spherical space, nearly ten meters in diameter, with more than a dozen passages and entrances in the spherical space, and these entrances and exits were also connected by some spiral earth stairs, which were cleverly designed.

It seems that the excavator has not stopped working during this time, and this underground lair has clearly begun to take shape.

However, compared to the size of the nest, Heatham did not see half of the ant people, and it is clear that Linda, the queen of ants, followed Blake's instructions and did not increase the size of the ant people.

Following the stairs and passages chosen by Shava, it didn't take long for Systham to finally meet another of his ant people, Xiaoqiang, a soldier ant knight with a [strong physique].

After this period of growth, Xiaoqiang's body has become taller than Shawa, becoming about 90 centimeters.

After meeting Systham, Xiao Qiang came over cordially, and Heatham touched Xiao Qiang's head with his tentacles as usual.

As Heatham gradually moved upwards, he gradually encountered more ant people, several worker ant riders appeared one after another, and Heatham finally met Blake, who was extremely intelligent.

Compared to the growth of other ant knights, Blake's body has not changed much, almost the same as before he chrysalis.

However, Heatham could feel that the frost energy in Blake's body seemed to be several times stronger than before.

He soon learned from Black's spiritual message that it had been a year and a half since his chrysalis, and that the Warren Plains were now in the depths of winter again.

After the ensuing conversation, Syst also learned that except for one soldier ant, all the other ant people who had not entered the secondary pupation had died due to their lifespan.