In the past twenty days, in addition to finding many centipede demons, System had also discovered a new type of demon that looked like a spider. He had only seen one of these spider demons so far.

  The spider demon had been about 1.3 meters long with its legs stretched out, with an entirely bck body.

  Just like centipede demons behaved like regur centipedes in many ways, the spider demon had acted much like a normal spider.

  When attacking zombies, it had released silk threads from its spinnerets to wrap and bind the zombies before eating them.

  However, unlike ordinary spiders, the spider demon hadn't injected digestive enzymes to liquefy its food before eating it. The chelicerae in its mouth had been very sharp, allowing it to easily tear apart a zombie's flesh and swallow it.

  System had asked Shava to do the same as usual and cut off all eight of the spider demon's legs. He had wanted to observe the difference between the little insect devil this spider demon transformed into and the little insect devils the centipede demons transformed into.

  Unfortunately, the spider demon had turned out to be much more fragile than a centipede demon. Even after having its legs cut off for more than ten minutes, the spider demon hadn't turned into a huge tumor. Instead, it had died from excessive blood loss.

  ...

  While the harvest from System's exploration hadn't been very impressive, the ant subjects in the nest had grown very rapidly over the past twenty days.

  The one thousand ant eggs that Queen Linda had pnned to produce had all hatched, and more than half of the rvae had already matured into adults.

  Under the dual effects of eating slime to enhance their [Pupation] talent and drinking diluted dragon bone marrow, nearly two hundred worker ants and more than a dozen soldier ants had begun their second pupation, and the number of ants undergoing their second pupation was still increasing.

  After considering how much food second pupation ant knights consumed and the amount of food stored in the nest, System didn't let Queen Linda continue ying eggs. He felt that it would be better to maintain the size of the existing nest for now.

  The dragon bone marrow hadn't only benefited the newly hatched ants. System was also steadily growing stronger from his continued consumption of the bone marrow.

  His level had risen to 23, his body had grown to eighty centimeters in length, his tentacles had nearly reached 1.2 meters in length, and his combat power had increased to 107.

  Perhaps because of consuming so much dragon bone marrow, when his level had risen to 23, System had gained a new Derived Skill—[Dragon Scale Spike] (13/21).

  This ability was a Derived Skill based on the talent [Morph] that repced his [Armored Spike] ability. With these sharp, reddish-brown spikes, his tentacles were able to pierce through rocks. Each [Dragon Scale Spike] was much sharper than an [Ice Spike] from his [Frost Form].

  As for his other ant subjects, System hadn't been stingy. He had upgraded more than a dozen of the ant knights undergoing their second pupations to their maximum level of 14 with the massive experience provided by the dragon bone marrow.

  As long as these ant knights' [Pupation] ability reached level 17, they could immediately undergo their third pupation.

  However, including Shava, the qualifications of these ant knights were a little poor. The talent limit of [Pupation] in their blood hadn't reached level 17, and even System's [Ability Enhancement] was unable to help them improve.

  He could only hope that these ant subjects could break through [Pupation]'s level limit by eating slime.

  The only one System was stingy with when it came to dragon bone marrow was his son Meatball.

  System was very reluctant to offer any marrow to Meatball. After all, the amount of dragon bone marrow was limited, while Meatball's appetite was immense.

  Ordinary ant knights would typically pass out in a drunken state after drinking one-tenth of a bottle.

  Meatball was completely different. He hadn't reacted at all after drinking two full bottles of dragon bone marrow. Instead, he stuck to System like a puppy, constantly asking for a few more bottles.

  System could only be strict with his son and refuse.

  Fortunately, Meatball was quite obedient. After receiving System's somewhat serious mental message, he began eating a centipede demon that he'd captured earlier.

  After eating the centipede demon, Meatball quickly forgot his previous unhappiness and became cheerful again.

  ...

  During a routine patrol, System made another discovery.

  It wasn't a second spider demon. This time, he saw a knight cd in bck metal armor riding a skeletal warhorse that was surrounded by blue fmes.

  If System guessed correctly, this creature should be a Death Knight.

  Because the Death Knight's face was hidden by a closed helmet, System couldn't tell the knight's original race. However, the knight was about 1.9 meters tall, so at least it hadn't been a ratman in its previous life.

  System's [Intuition] gave him a sense of danger from the other party. He knew that if he fought with the knight, he wouldn't be a match at all, and there was a high probability that he'd end up getting killed.

  While System was observing from the sky, he noticed that the Death Knight didn't seem to sense his gaze at all.

  The Death Knight seemed to be searching for something. Occasionally, the knight would stop its fming warhorse, jump off, and squat on the ground while sifting through the soil, only to quickly hop back on the warhorse and hurry on its way again.

  Before long, the Death Knight unexpectedly crossed paths with a centipede demon about one meter long.

  After pulling out the white long sword hanging from its waist, the Death Knight cleanly chopped the centipede demon's head off.

  In terms of the smoothness of the knight's swordpy, System thought the Death Knight's movements were even more beautiful than Shava's, though Shava's attacks were noticeably faster.

  However, System didn't know how much of its strength the Death Knight had exerted in its swordsmanship just now.

  System shook his head and didn't keep thinking about it.

  Even if Shava was the stronger of the two, System still wouldn't let her fight the Death Knight.

  Let's not talk about the fact that System had inexplicably provoked a druid by eating a golden acorn. Later, he had only caught and eaten a few ratmen, but that had inexplicably attracted endless trouble, which had caused him to constantly be on guard against any ratmen that might threaten him in the future.

  This Death Knight obviously possessed wisdom, so System would naturally not go looking for trouble with it.

  Of course, if he confirmed that no trouble would result from dealing with the Death Knight, he might choose to take action.

  While he wasn't very interested in the Death Knight, he did want to taste the skeletal warhorse surrounded by blue fmes to see if had an unusual fvor.

  ...

  System had been tracking the Death Knight for several hours, constantly keeping a distance of two kilometers between them.

  Just when he was about to give up and return to the nest, System saw the Death Knight stop again.

  The skeletal horse ridden by the Death Knight suddenly leaped high, and with a violent crash, the ground where the Death Knight had been standing colpsed.

  There seemed to be a rge space under the ft ground, and System saw reddish-brown flesh that looked like tree roots scattered within the soil. As the skeletal horse nded back on the ground, several centipede demons rushed toward the Death Knight.