Laws of the Insect Hive

System lightly touched the ice-blue ring above his head with his tentacles, and he looked at the surrounding white snow.

It was green here a few days ago, it was only early autumn, but now...

System recalled the previous torrential rain, after which a messy forest gradually regained its vitality; he recalled the spiders weaving cobwebs in the forest every day; he recalled those ants who were diligently preparing for winter even though they were robbed by him; His old friend, the brown slime, was unable to divide and reproduce after being trapped by him, and was finally drowned by the ant colony and died completely.

He also remembered the countless locusts killed by the old Druid's traps...

In this forest, it is not easy to survive and pass on the bloodline.

"Do you know grasshoppers?"

After being silent for a while, System said to the ice elf Neris that he decided to tell the other party the truth that he was not a life of frost blood.

System felt that the ice-blue ring was looking at him. Although the ring had no eyes, System could still feel the gaze of the ice elf.

The ice elf looked at System's body for a long time, and answered System's question: "There are many soft feet of different lengths, and it is a strange-looking life."

System showed a strange look, this ice elf obviously didn't know what a grasshopper was.

System said to Nellis, "I am indeed a grasshopper, but ordinary grasshoppers are not like me."

After System finished speaking, he sent a spiritual message to Nellis. This time, System did not convey words, but sent an image to Nellis, which was the life of an ordinary grasshopper.

"It's a very magical mental ability, which can not only be used for communication, but can also transmit images."

Nellis did not respond to System's spiritual message, but sighed at System's [Teleportation]. It didn't take long before she used [Spiritual Connection] to send an image to System as well. .

In the image, there is a white giant bear nearly three meters high. This giant bear has a pair of eyes like ice crystals. It walks and runs from time to time in the snow-covered forest...

System found that the blue light from the eyes of the giant bear in the image seemed to be similar to the blue halo above his head.

If System’s guess was correct, this white bear should be Neris’s former contractor.

But why does the giant bear have blue eyes, while he has a blue halo on his head?

System shook his head. He didn't want to discuss these things with Neris, but to inform Neris that he was not a creature with frost blood at all.

The fact that he did not have Frost Blood could not be concealed, System decided to inform the other party in advance to avoid some troubles he could not foresee in the future.

System explained: "Insects like grasshoppers don't have the blood of frost at all. They are very afraid of the coldness of the severe winter, and I just gained the power of frost by accident. You must have chosen the wrong object."

The Ice Spirit glanced at System's body again with her unique gaze.

It didn't take long for Nellis to send a spiritual message to System: "I didn't choose the wrong person, not every creature is born with the blood of frost."

"You mean, I am like this, even if I have a life with the blood of frost?"

"Um."

"Is that so..."

System fell silent.

But after only a short while, System continued: "Neris?"

"Um."

"Don't you think the blue circle on my head looks weird?"

"do not think so."

"Oh...but I think it's very strange, can this blue aperture be changed into something else?"

"I can't do it. By contracting with different beings, the ice spirits will change in different ways and become different, and once they are formed, they will not change."

"Is it really impossible to change into something else?"

"cannot."

"...Well, then tell me about the contract, and here, you seem to have mentioned that this place is called Lilte Forest..."

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The ice elf has experienced hundreds of years. Although she is sleeping most of the time, she still knows a lot of knowledge about this world. This knowledge and common sense are the things that System lacks most.

From the spiritual information of the ice elf, System had a clearer understanding of the power system in this world.

Most of the life in this world is mortal, such as animals and plants on land, fish and shells in water, and most intelligent races, they are basically mortals from birth.

But mortal things also have the possibility of mastering magical powers, it is possible to awaken the bloodline inherited from ancestors, it is possible to obtain special inheritance, or to reach the limit of mortal things and receive the gift of the world.

If it is the intelligent race of humans and elves, you can further master the power of magic through learning.

When the magical power mastered by mortals reaches a certain level, they will advance into magical beings, possessing all kinds of abilities that mortals cannot understand.

The ice elf Neris is a magical life, but she is not a magical life advanced from ordinary things, but is born like this.

In addition to the power system of this world, most of the knowledge Nellis possesses is related to ice and snow.

She told System the story of the sleeping god of winter, as well as the glacial lord Aura, the frost dragon who had inherited the will of winter.

According to Nellis, the Liert Forest has been covered with snow and ice for thousands of years, but in the last few hundred years the snow and ice have suddenly melted, creating a climate with four distinct seasons.

It seems to be related to the sudden disappearance of the Glacier Lord Ola, but at that time she suddenly fell into a deep sleep, and the specific situation is unknown.

Nellis also said that the reason for her awakening was the return of Ola, the lord of the glacier.

However, there does not seem to be any special connection between Nellis and the Lord of Glacier. She did not say anything more about the Lord of Frost. In addition to knowing that the ice dragon is called Aura and some stories, she also has a relationship with Sith. Like Tem, he didn't know the real name of the Glacier Lord.

The so-called contract with the ice elves, to put it bluntly, is actually a symbiotic method between the ice elves and creatures with frost blood.

The ice elves provide the life with the power of frost with the power to protect them, and the life with the blood of frost will also provide the ice elves with the necessary spiritual power and the icy breath escaping from the blood.

If the ice elves do not find a contractor for a long time, they will fall into a deep sleep, and even die because of it for a long time.

System didn't find anything wrong with this contract, and his [intuition] didn't give him a sense of unease.

Apart from the appearance of a halo on the top of his head, which looked a little awkward, System could actually accept it.

According to Nellis' description of the contract, the establishment of the contract will take about half a day.

As for what kind of power System will get because of the contract, Neris is not very clear, except that it must be related to the frost.

According to Nellis' abstract statement, the power he obtained after the contract may be a sword, a shield, a claws, or wings. The power generated by each ice elf after signing a contract will not be completely same……