If System was given another chance, he'd definitely choose to change how he portrayed the knight in the scenes he sent Shava.

  He'd be sure to delete the content of the knight's oath to prevent her from ending up in such an embarrassing state.

  Still, looking at Shava's resolute and expectant expression, System could feel the embarrassment in his heart gradually disappear.

  He observed Shava's scarred body. He couldn't help but raise his forelegs and stretch out the tentacles stored inside them to touch the scabs where Shava's severed legs used to be.

  "Does it still hurt?" System asked Shava in a mental message.

  However, he didn't receive a response to his question. Instead, he felt her slightly resentful mood. Shava seemed to be waiting for him to do something.

  System looked at her expression and movements, and he gradually understood what she wanted. He shook his head helplessly. After a long sigh in his heart, he said to Shava, "I, System, accept your loyalty, my knight."

  Shava was extremely excited after receiving System's mental message. She twisted her body as if to move closer to him.

  However, because the stinger on her tail was tightly inserted into the ground, she couldn't move even after twisting her body several times.

  System shook his head again. Shava's strange appearance at this time was completely different from her previous tenacious dispy when she'd endlessly charged at and bit the sapling with her mandibles.

  System stretched out his tentacles from his forelegs, wrapped them around Shava's body, and pulled her out of the soil.

  It turned out Shava's stinger had been inserted into the rootstalk of a pnt due to the excessive force she'd used. Because the material of the rootstalk was too dense, she couldn't retract her stinger on her own. Otherwise, the situation just now wouldn't have occurred.

  ...

  After grabbing Shava with his tentacles, System suddenly sensed something. As he gently twisted his tentacles that were wrapped around her body, his dark green eyes fshed with blue rings from time to time.

  System discovered that the gift of [Perception] that he'd obtained from the Voice of the World seemed to be closely reted to his tentacles. When he touched Shava with them, he seemed to be able to feel fragments of information inside her body.

  As he kept his tentacles wrapped around her, the scattered information he detected gradually became clearer.

  While sensing the information through his tentacles, System received an abnormal mental message from Shava.

  "King, it's so hot..." Shava's message seemed a little flustered.

  System's insect head showed a puzzled expression, and he asked, "Hot? Are you talking about my tentacles?"

  "Mmm..."

  After getting Shava's response, he pulled back one of his tentacles that was wrapped around her so that he could investigate the problem. He inserted the tentacle into his mouth to test it.

  "The temperature seems normal," System replied to Shava with a puzzled expression. He then wrapped the tentacle around Shava again for further testing.

  By using the [Perception] of his tentacles plus [System's Eye], combined with the reading and analysis function in the [Tools Menu], System gradually obtained some information about Shava's body.

  10/14.

  Shava's current level should be 10, and her level cap should be 14.

  After sorting out the information, System tightened his tentacles more firmly around Shava's body.

  As he obtained more information, he suddenly had an idea. Before Quin died, she'd used her special power [Mental Transmission] to transfer the ability over to him.

  Although [Mental Transmission] could only transmit mental power, and [Limb Regeneration] obviously didn't meet the conditions necessary for transmission, System now possessed an extremely powerful Derived Skill—[Ability Enhancement].

  He realized that if he used the [Perception] ability of his tentacles to search for more of Shava's information, he might be able to give her the [Limb Regeneration] ability so that she could regrow her limbs again.

  However, as System continued searching for more of her information, he felt her abnormal emotions getting stronger and stronger. Her body even began trembling slightly.

  "King, I feel so strange..."

  Shava sent more panicked mental messages containing all kinds of inexplicable emotions to System. He noticed that her emotions seemed to be the type that organisms usually only sent out during mating.

  At that moment, System figured out what was happening.

  Because soldier ants were incomplete females, Shava cked the ability to reproduce. She basically couldn't understand any of the emotions reted to mating at all, which was why she could only send System vague and confused emotions.

  System felt a little embarrassed.

  However, he quickly adjusted himself. He wasn't using his tentacles to wrap around and entangle Shava because he had some strange fetish. It was just something he had to do if he wanted to help her grow back her limbs.

  "Shava, bear with it a little longer. I'll be done soon..."

  While System was sending Shava comforting mental messages, he kept investigating her body with his tentacles.

  While the [Perception] ability of System's tentacles caused Shava to feel pleasure simir to that of mating, his own tentacles didn't feel anything special. All he could feel was Shava's cold and very hard exoskeleton.

  ...

  A few minutes ter, Shava fell asleep after a strong emotional fluctuation and violent body tremors.

  By the time Shava passed out, System's efficiency when investigating with his tentacles had greatly improved. He'd also discovered a new method of running tests, and he used his tentacles to collect exoskeleton fragments, scabs, and formic acid from Shava's body. He put various tissues from Shava's body into his mouth to taste and analyze.

  System soon analyzed two abilities in Shava's body—[Formic Acid] (3-5/5-7) and [Solid Carapace] (3-4/6-9).

  He couldn't tell the level of these two abilities very accurately, but he was able to form an estimate within a rough range.

  System also sensed Shava's [Insect Adaptability] and a Special Talent simir to [Molting and Growth]. However, with his current [Perception], he couldn't detect the specific effects of these two bloodline talents.

  Most importantly, while System learned that Shava didn't have the [Limb Regeneration] ability, he also noticed that she still had a possibility of obtaining it.

  Theoretically, Shava's body could be endowed with [Limb Regeneration].

  ...

  System quickly took action. He used his tentacles as a conductor to transmit power and used [Mental Transmission] and [Ability Enhancement] to find a way to give Shava [Limb Regeneration].

  However, after more than ten minutes of hard work, during which his experience bar dropped from 8% to 3%, System finally had to reluctantly retract his tentacles from Shava's body.

  His idea hadn't been wrong. In theory, he could use certain characteristics of [Mental Transmission] and [Ability Enhancement] to allow Shava to obtain [Limb Regeneration].

  However, there was a prerequisite for doing so. That is, his [Mental Transmission] needed to first reach at least level 11.

  His [Mental Transmission] was currently only level 8, so it didn't have the power to completely transmit abilities yet.

  Moreover, Shava's [Insect Adaptability] also needed to be raised to a certain level. Otherwise, it would be difficult to grant her the [Limb Regeneration] ability.