Because he'd killed several magic creatures from the Abyss in succession recently, System occupied a territory about two hundred meters in diameter, which was basically a small piece of nd plus a rge area of bubbling swamps. There were some carnivorous pnts in the swamps in the north, and there were many toads in the south.

  He had also figured out how to release the aura of a magical life form from his body to mark his territory. However, after doing it only for two or three days, he had already gotten tired of this kind of territory marking.

  After all, he needed to emit his aura to mark the territory once every few hours or the aura would disappear. Moreover, not emitting his aura didn't seem to make much of a difference, as only some Abyss creatures that had easily succumbed to Shava's strength had appeared when he hadn't done it.

  So far, two snakes, three toads, and a lizard had taken the initiative to surrender to System.

  Whenever he passed by these creatures, they would take the initiative to lie on the ground motionless, indicating that their lives were controlled by him and could be taken away at any time.

  However, these Abyss creatures that had surrendered were of no use to him. He would kill all of them after his ant subjects returned from the demipne to prevent these low-intelligence Abyss creatures from attacking the ants.

  However, marking his territory was still useful, after all, as it could effectively prevent some magical Abyss creatures from intruding into the vicinity of his nest. In the future, when his ant subjects returned from the demipne, the threats they faced would be greatly reduced.

  For this reason, System had thought of a compromise, which was to let Meatball, who was also a magical creature of the Abyss, repce him and release his own aura to mark the territory.

  Because Meatball hated loneliness, System had asked Ying to partner with him and let them go outside for a walk every day.

  In addition to solving the problem of marking the territory, this had also satisfied Meatball's desire to fly around outside. It could be said to have killed two birds with one stone.

  ...

  System slowly lowered his tentacles, which were surrounded by green halos.

  After using the druidic power [Pnt Growth], the demon insect nest that System was cultivating started growing again, and its fleshy roots extended rapidly.

  It seemed that the environment of the Abyss was very suitable for the growth of the demon insect nest.

  After a few days, the flesh that had originally been the size of a human fist had grown to a diameter of thirty centimeters, and countless fleshy roots had extended outward.

  System shook his head slightly with a somewhat displeased expression on his face.

  He felt a summoning again, and the one who was summoning him was still his old acquaintance, that dried-out lich.

  Perhaps because of the "goodbye" he'd said at the end of their first encounter, this was already his third time being harassed by the lich.

  If System had known that such a result would occur, he never would have said any nonsense to the lich at that time. Even if he'd felt the need to say something, instead of saying "goodbye," he would have said "farewell forever" instead.

  System didn't even respond this time. He directly hung up on the old lich's harassment.

  Over the past few days, he had received more than a dozen summons from different pnes. After getting so many, he had asked Ying and Meatball how they responded when they received summonings.

  However, Ying and Meatball hadn't experienced this situation at all. Meatball still didn't know anything about his predecessor, but Ying had been in the Abyss for many years and hadn't even been summoned once.

  System didn't know why these summons always inexplicably found him. Somehow, he felt that it should be reted to his real name that he'd obtained in advance as a magical life form.

  It seemed that among the Abyss creatures with real names, the cost of summoning him was retively low. This low cost meant that when an Abyss summons was performed, the probability of him being selected would be much higher.

  Fortunately, the summons that System received weren't mandatory. As long as he disagreed, he could immediately cut off the summoning fluctuations.

  He was receiving three different types of summons these days.

  The first type was from ordinary mortals who were sacrificing their life, soul, body, or other things. Their power level was generally low, and they summoned him with a pleading attitude.

  System had learned a lot about what was happening in the main world by communicating with these humans and other humanoid creatures.

  Most of them asked him to kill or harm others, some wanted to gain personal power, and there was one madman who had wanted to become System's sve and throw himself into the arms of the Abyss.

  Although System was very interested in having a dark elf as a sve, he had refused in order to prevent any problems from arising in the future.

  The second type of summoning System received was from a summoner who was more powerful than him. Most of these summoners were extraordinary or legendary life forms.

  They wanted System to sign a contract with them, which would result in him becoming the other party's fighting partner or sve, depending on how equal or unequal the contract was.

  For this kind of summoning or contract, System would naturally not agree, and he wouldn't even communicate with the other party. Upon encountering these offers, he would directly withdraw from the summoning.

  The third kind of summoning was more like a transaction than a summoning.

  System had only encountered the third kind of summoning once, because the third being who had summoned System wasn't an ordinary creature, but a sleeping god.

  Of course, System wasn't sure whether the other party was truly a god. In short, the other party was someone who had called himself the God of the Labyrinth.

  This sleeping god apparently wanted to build a byrinth simir to the ones in RPG games in System's previous life, and he wanted System's ants to become monsters in that byrinth, while System himself would become a mini-boss.

  Once they became monsters in the byrinth, they could never leave. However, in exchange, System and his ant subjects would be granted eternal life inside the byrinth.

  As long as the God of the Labyrinth didn't fall, System would be resurrected regurly in the byrinth even if he was killed by an intruder, simir to the way monsters respawned in a game.

  Immortality was indeed an offer that had made System feel very tempted.

  However, not to mention that he would remain trapped in the byrinth for the rest of his life, he had no way of knowing whether the information conveyed by the God of the Labyrinth was true or false.

  Perhaps this God of the Labyrinth was the same type of evil god as Rafael, the God of Pgues and Curses. In that case, forming a contract with the evil god was tantamount to self-destruction.

  System's [Intuition] couldn't sense anything either. As long as it encountered these high-level existences, it would lose its effectiveness and couldn't predict whether things were good or bad.

  After some consideration, he decided not to bother with it and decisively rejected the transaction with the god.

  ...

  After sensing how much druidic power remained in his body, System once again used his [Pnt Growth] power on the demon insect nest.

  However, after just being interrupted by a summons, he was again interrupted by vibrations coming from the ground soon after utilizing [Pnt Growth].

  Ying quickly arrived and told him what had happened, and he learned that a creature had appeared nearby.

  It was the giant slime that System had been looking for in recent days, but hadn't been able to find.

  Soon, System walked out of the nest and saw a giant slime friend two meters tall in front of him.

  However, contrary to his expectations, the giant slime friend that should have been friendly wasn't friendly at all. After receiving System's command, it didn't obey him. Instead, it stopped moving completely.

  After System waited for a little over ten seconds, the giant slime suddenly jumped toward him.

  This giant slime hadn't just become huge in size. It had apparently also developed its own thoughts about what it should do.