Chapter 67: Golden Acorn

　　 The ice blue mist enveloped Systrom's body...
　　Sisterm felt as if someone was saying something to him next to him, the voice was so small that he couldn't hear him clearly, and then he fell from the branches of the tree somehow.
　　 Sisterm found that his [Frost Cold Form] did not know when it had been lifted. Looking at the time of [Tools Menu], Sisterm found that the time had passed by half an hour.
Contrary to the previous contract with Nelise, the ice spirit, he seemed to have gone through a lot of contracts last time, but the actual time was very short, but this time he felt that the time was short, and the time has actually passed. Half an hour has passed.
　　Sistem checked the data image in the [Tools Menu], he found that the icy blue mist had only enveloped him for less than a minute, and then he was dumbfounded and stared in a daze on the branches.
After 　　, Neris sent him a spiritual message, and seeing that he hadn't responded for a long time, she took the initiative to help him relieve [Frost Cold Form].
　　Because the [frost and cold form] was relieved, the balance of the body was lost. The dazed Sisterm planted from the branch of the tree and plunged into the snow for more than 20 minutes.
　　 Systrom checked the information on the [Tools Menu] in confusion, and he found that there was something new in his self-information-"Winter Legion".
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　　 "Winter Legion": A special title given by Aura, the lord of the glacier. The speed of life recovery and energy recovery in the Lierte Mountains and Lierte Mountains increased significantly.
　　Winter will never die.
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　　 "Winter will never die..."
　　Sistem recalled that he heard a small voice before losing his mind. Now I think about it, that voice is the meaning of the eight words recorded on the title information in the [Tools menu].
　　 But that voice is not utterable in words, just like the voice of the world he heard during the third metamorphosis. The general meaning is this, but there are obviously more things hidden inside.
　　Sistem was thinking while shaking his body to crawl out of the snow, and cleaned the snow from his body with his tentacles.
　　 If these snow accumulates on his body for a long time, it will melt and become a little sticky because of something special in his body.
　　 Unlike ordinary animals and frogs, insects do not breathe through their mouths. Most of them breathe in air through countless small breathing holes in the abdomen.
　　 These melted snow water stuck to many breathing holes in his abdomen, making Sisterm very uncomfortable.
　　 However, as Sisterm was clearing the snow, Sisterm's tentacles felt the gasp behind him.
　　 Turning his head, Sisterm suddenly found that the two-meter-high goblin giant was watching him behind him. After seeing him turning his head, the goblin giant showed him an ugly smile.
　　Sisterm could feel a very kind frosty air in the opponent's body.
　　 It's like all the ants in the same colony can clearly recognize which is their companion. Sisterm naturally knows that this goblin giant and he are partners of the same organization.
　　 Sisterm found a diamond-shaped ice blue pattern on his chest exoskeleton, and he also found the same pattern on the left face of the goblin giant.
　　 Both the breath and the signs on the body indicate that they belong to the Winter Legion and are a member of the Lord of the Glacier.
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　　 The goblin giant reached out his big hand and grabbed Sistem from the snowdrift, and put him on his head.
　　 Sisterm habitually stretched out his tentacles to entangle the head of the goblin giant, and decided to use the tentacles' [sense] ability to probe the body of the goblin giant.
　　 may belong to the Winter Legion, with similar frost and cold abilities, his tentacles can detect something.
　　 But Sisterm stopped in time as soon as he entangled him, and it was definitely not a good idea to make a mighty and mighty goblin giant desire to mate.
　　 Sisterm swings his tentacles, and under the goblin giant's puzzled expression, jumps from the goblin giant's head.
　　 Goblin giant he can't use his tentacles to check, but he doesn't mind using the tentacles to [perceive] the leopard that was frozen by the lord of the glacier. Maybe the frozen leopard can be used as food for him to taste.
　　Sistem came to the frozen leopard's corpse. The leopard's quiet and serene eyes seemed to freeze because of the ice.
But just as Sisterm stretched out his tentacles to touch the leopard, the ice-bound leopard collapsed and shattered like sand. These tiny ice crystals could not even fall to the ground, and they turned into tiny ice fragments in the sky and were blown away by the wind. Now...
　　 only a five-centimeter-sized acorn fell into the snow from mid-air.
　　Different from ordinary green acorns, although this acorn is also green, there is a faint golden luster on the surface.
　　Sistem tried to use his tentacles to [perceive] it, and found that it had no effect. Using chelating teeth and [corrosive slime] could not destroy the fruit.
　　The ability to preserve the fruit under the attack of the Lord of the Glacier obviously has its extraordinary features.
　　 Although Sisterm gave up, his actions obviously aroused the interest of the goblin giants.
The goblin giant took the oak fruit from Sisterm’s tentacles. He first squeezed hard with his hands, then bit with his teeth, and finally waved his ice crystal axe to begin violent destruction, but he still attacked this one. There is nothing acorn can do, even leaving some scars on it.
　　 Finally, the Goblin Giant shook his head and returned the acorn to Systrom.
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　　 The language between Sisterm and the goblin giant is not fluent, but with the help of Neris, he knows that the goblin giant seems to be taking him to the distant Liert Mountains.
　　 But when Sisterm shook his head continuously and waved his tentacles to indicate rejection, the Goblin Giant gave up and took Sisterm away.
　　 After waving goodbye to him, the Goblin Giant walked away towards the Lilter Mountains...
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　　 Sisterm unclearly joined the Winter Legion under the Lord of the Glacier, but this legion was much looser than Sisterm had imagined.
　　 No one gave him instructions, and he didn't need to do anything special, just continue to survive according to the original rhythm.
　　 Since the goblin giant left, Sisterm's life seemed to calm down completely at that moment.
　　 Not long after returning to the nest that night, the temporary nest worker ants pupa broke out of the pupae next to Sisterm~EbookFREE.me~ and the workers ate a lot of food under Sisterm's gaze.
　　Although the weather is cold, this little worker ant is not particularly afraid. It takes a few minutes in the cold snow to stiffen slightly. After returning to the temporary nest, the stiff body of the little worker ant quickly returns to normal.
　　 It is estimated that the [cold resistance] will be strengthened after two days, then the worker and female ants can ignore the cold of the severe winter.
　　 Two days later...
　　Sistem successfully strengthened the [cold resistance] to the limit for the worker ants and female pupae, and the two ants completely lost the threat of survival in the severe winter.
　　 And Sith also grew wings again after this day of dormancy, and under the nutritious food, all his 18 tentacles grew to the limit, reaching more than 30 centimeters.
　　 The vitality of his body finally recovered to 96%, which basically reached its full value, leaving only his damaged eyes to be repaired for a while.
　　 Ten days later, Sistem’s damaged eyes completely recovered, and at the same time, the female ants that had been strengthened by Sistem using [Abilities Reinforcement] one after another successfully pupa out...
　　 Search for food, eat, raise ants, strengthen the transformation of female ants, check and strengthen the pupae that Shava has been unable to break out of the pupae.
　　 Sisterm spends every day in a busy schedule, and the Winter Legion he joined has no news at all, it seems to have nothing to do with him.
　　Only the golden acorn obtained by Sisterm accidentally, in the corner of the wintering lair where no one knows, trembling lightly...
that's it.
　　Sisterm spent half a year peacefully in the snow-covered Lierte forest...
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　　 The first volume of the new life of Lierte Forest, finished.