After System delivered his mental message, regardless of whether Aura agreed or not, he began pying the carefully edited video in Aura's mind through [Mental Connection].

  The video contained various scenes from Aura's past, and it started with a scene of the butterfly breaking out of his chrysalis. The scene included Aura angrily stabbing the soil with his proboscis, then being unable to accept reality and rolling back and forth in the soil until he finally turned into a deformed butterfly.

  Then came a scene where Aura left the nest for an hour so that he could commit suicide by jumping into the river.

  System hadn't seen what Aura did once he reached the river, but he could roughly guess, so he'd vividly fabricated a scene of Aura repeatedly dipping his legs into the river while looking sad and lonely.

  The scene ended when Aura finally shook his head and retreated dejectedly back to the nest.

  "It was too hot outside during the day. It's better to die at night."

  With that sentence, the film officially entered its second act.

  The first scene of the second act revolved around Shava's treasures. The shameless Aura kept saying one thing in public and doing another in private, and he stole Shava's treasures over and over again almost every single day.

  Finally, Shava had no choice but to give half of her treasures to Aura, and it was only after her repeated pleading that Aura was "forced" to accept her treasures.

  In the second act of the film, System had also fabricated the parts that had happened when there was nobody else around. In those scenes, Aura snuck into Shava's room, stole her crystal and gold coins, then stroked them lovingly with a rapturous look on his face.

  After that, the film entered its third and final act. While it seemed like Aura didn't care about his deformed wings on the surface, he'd actually secretly asked Bck many times to make requests to get them fixed.

  When the film was pyed to this point, Aura finally couldn't bear it anymore. He kept sending System a lot of frantic mental messages, then finally broke off the [Mental Connection] showing the film.

  "That's not me! That's not me! I didn't even go to the river that day!"

  Aura covered his head with his forelegs. It seemed like he wanted to cover his ears, but after searching for a long time, he still couldn't find them.

  Of course, that was because insects weren't the same as dragons, and Aura's current butterfly body didn't have ears.

  Finally, Aura seemed to remember that he was now a butterfly. He wrapped his forelegs around the two antennae on his head and tore them off in a rage.

  But the emotional Aura didn't realize that System's [Mental Connection] actually had nothing to do with the antennae on his head.

  After losing his antennae, he would only lose his hearing, sense of smell, and ability to keep his bance.

  In this way, the deformed butterfly became a deformed and disabled butterfly, and he was once again forced to watch System's movie.

  System thought that Aura might use his frost energy to resist in anger. With the massive amount of frost energy contained in Aura's body, System felt that he might not be the butterfly's match. He was even prepared to be frozen or injured.

  But Aura surprisingly didn't take action. He no longer responded when System's video pyed through the [Mental Connection]. Instead, he spread his legs and fell to the ground, then began lying motionless as if he was dead. The butterfly's abdomen sprayed out a strange smell of decay at just the right time...

  This was a unique ability of the icy blue butterflies that had managed to survive in the snowy Lilt Forest. Whenever they encountered an unavoidable crisis, they would pretend to be dead.

  Of course, this act of pretending to be dead had no effect on most predators, and it was especially useless against System.

  [System's Eye] had a weak ability to see through solid objects. He could see that the blood under Aura's exoskeleton was still flowing slowly, and his antennae could also hear Aura's heartbeat, which had slowed down, but was still strong.

  "King, is he dead?"

  After seeing Aura lying motionless, Bck hurried over to the butterfly's side and touched his body with her forelegs while sending a somewhat anxious mental message to System.

  However, Bck soon discovered something after touching Aura's body and asked System in confusion, "King? He's not dead?"

  Bck was very smart, but like all insects that had been born with wisdom, her mind was still very simple. Bck hadn't yet learned how to lie, so she couldn't understand Aura's behavior of pretending to be dead.

  "He's like this because the reality he faced was too cruel, and his heart was too fragile to handle it."

  When System sent his reply to Bck, he also activated his [Mental Network] ability and passed the message on to Aura who was pretending to be dead. System could feel Aura's suppressed anger, and he also saw the butterfly's legs tremble slightly.

  Bck nodded as if she understood.

  System smiled again as he looked down at Aura, who was still pretending to be dead. He asked Bck, "Do you know where his treasures are hidden?"

  "Yes."

  After getting directions from Bck, System quickly found Aura's hiding pce for his treasures and took back the magic fake eye and two gold coins that had originally belonged to Shava.

  System also deliberately waved these treasures around in front of Aura a few times.

  Taking away Aura's treasures wasn't enough to get the butterfly to stop pretending to be dead. Aura was still lying motionless on the ground.

  It seemed that the movie "Funny Butterfly" had really hit Aura hard.

  System was originally pnning to leave this awkward butterfly alone for a while. However, when he saw Aura still pretending to be dead, he finally shook his head, wrapped Aura up in his tentacles, and prepared to activate the deformed and recently-disabled butterfly's [Limb Regeneration] ability.

  First, it was to prevent Aura from bothering him again in the future. Second, System might not find such a good opportunity to use his ability on the butterfly again. After all, he didn't think that a short movie alone could change Aura's character.

  By now, System had already been using [Perception] and [Insect Ability Activation] for more than half a year. He was very familiar with the two abilities, and it was very easy for him to activate Aura's [Limb Regeneration] ability.

  The icy blue butterfly bloodline itself wasn't very compatible with the [Limb Regeneration] ability, but Aura was already a butterfly that had pupated twice. He belonged to a higher level of insect life, so it wasn't difficult for him to activate the ability.

  System estimated that it would take about three hours to activate Aura's [Limb Regeneration].

  However, when System used his [Perception] power with his tentacles, it had the same aphrodisiac side effect as always.

  Although Aura had been controlling his body to pretend to be dead, the butterfly's legs still twitched unconsciously, and he inevitably expressed a variety of emotions due to the aphrodisiac effect.

  The emotional fluctuations coming from the male dragon's remnant soul inside a female butterfly's body were very strange. The abnormality seemed to have made the tentacles' effect several times stronger than when it was used on other creatures, far exceeding the times that System had used [Perception] on ordinary insects, small rodents, and ratmen.

  Less than ten minutes into the ability-activation process, Aura lost consciousness after his body experienced a strong tremor, and his state of pretending to be dead disappeared.

  Aura's limbs began to unconsciously grasp onto System's tentacles. At the same time, he began sending extremely intimate emotions to System.

  ...

  Three hours ter, matching the time that System had estimated almost exactly, Aura's [Limb Regeneration] was successfully activated.

  System told Bck to notify the unconscious Aura that his deformed wings could be cut off. After that, he just had to wait for his wings to regenerate.

  System left Aura's chamber. On his way out, he completely ignored Shava, who was waiting outside with an envious look on her face. He soon went back to researching how to create a luminous slime...