The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 104 - 20 Pumpkin Number One

Chapter 104: Chapter 20 Pumpkin Number One

Dong dong dong——

"Miss Bai, the items you requested have been brought back."

"Come in."

Before the evening meal, the maid returned with various sized boxes that Bai Yi had requested.

Having obtained Bai Yi’s permission, Niaoniao pushed open the wooden door of the backyard, her eyes immediately lifting.

A vine was clinging to the ginkgo tree in the yard, and at the root, a giant pumpkin larger than a person lay quietly, while more tendrils had already spread to every corner of the yard.

Each one was like a green snake slowly crawling, and the sharp thorns on the vines left no doubt about their power.

As a senior maid of the Imperial Palace, Niaoniao was naturally aware of the existence of Transcendents. Even if no one had personally told them, among the many maids in the palace, there were always those who had witnessed the nobles using their Extraordinary Abilities.

Besides, she had also witnessed the establishment of Zhuchen Court. Although this pumpkin was a bit too abnormal, she still maintained the composure of a maid.

With her expression unchanged, she carried the large box over to Bai Yi,

"Miss Bai, here are the boxes you requested, may I ask..."

The stone flower bed that used to serve as a temporary table, about a meter above the ground and planted with ginkgo, was now surrounded by pumpkin and its vines.

Many vines had climbed onto the ground; during her approach, she had to be extremely careful, let alone put down the boxes in her hands.

Bai Yi understood the maid’s embarrassment and glanced at the pumpkin. The vines immediately moved aside to make room.

Niaoniao tried to maintain her facial expression, set down the box quickly, and hurried off, not wanting to stay a moment longer.

After leaving the yard and closing the door, Niaoniao finally breathed a sigh of relief, her gaze sweeping towards the vine-covered courtyard wall, and she quickly left, thinking of the orders she had received that day.

"This kind of thing should be considered a special case, I must report to Lord Yin as soon as possible..."

After passing the front yard and greeting several maids assigned to this area, she returned to her own resting room to retrieve a token.

After concealing it on her person, Niaoniao hurried out the door as if she had received another order to run errands.

Inside the yard, Bai Yi withdrew her consciousness from the Swarm Consciousness.

Bai Yi was not repelled by this kind of surveillance.

Open surveillance could also be considered a bridge of communication between Bai Yi and Zhuchen, and the only ones who could assign a maid to monitor her, aside from the Emperor whom she had not yet met, were Yin Hai.

Five minutes later, Fei Wen watching Niaoniao enter Zhuchen Court after showing her token further confirmed Bai Yi’s thoughts.

And today, the pumpkin she cultivated was not intended to be hidden from Zhuchen either; with the branches, her ability in this aspect could shift from the shadows to the open.

Moreover, Bai Yi had other considerations.

With the maid’s relay, Yin Hai would definitely come to investigate.

By then, she could demonstrate either rice or potatoes, one of the two kinds of crops with rapid growth rates.

Although to her this was just a randomly fused gene entry, for a nation, the implications were different.

This kind of crop with production multiplied many times over was a game-changer in this era of the Second Industrial Revolution.

Whether it was the Emperor of Zhuchen or Yin Hai, they would certainly recognize its significance.

With such a contribution and ability, it could not only make Zhuchen fully trust her but also naturally lead to her making requests using the full strength of Zhuchen to search for the plants and animals she desired.

Her gaze fell on the pumpkin beside her, and Bai Yi’s smile widened.

After endowing it with wisdom through gigantification and Swarm Consciousness and adding Activation and other genes, this pumpkin successfully gained preliminary mobility.

But what ultimately allowed it to completely break free from the soil’s constraints was the newly acquired Gathering Spirit.

Indeed, this pumpkin no longer needed soil.

Thanks to the Gathering Spirit gene, it had acquired a Talent known as Magic Power Convergence, enabling it to gather the surrounding Magic Power with its own ability and rely on Magic Power to replenish what it needed.

Thus, it completely escaped the confines of the soil and became a tree...

Well, a vine person?

The spikes on the vines were due to the effect of the gene entry called Invisible Thorns.

As a gene mutated from the Extraordinary Ability of the "Butcher", it not only gave the pumpkin real spikes but also a skill similar to the "Butcher".

It could consume Magic Power to coat the spikes with invisible spikes similar to "Finger Blade".

It was not until shortly before that maid returned that Bai Yi fused it into its current form.

But to reach its full potential, there was still a lot missing.

Since the function of being edible was abandoned, it was all about adding as many genes as possible.

Poison Liquid, Digestion, Reproduction—anything that could fit, Bai Yi planned to fuse it with.

It was also a good test to see how powerful a combat force she could craft with her current capacity, if she gave it her all.

Breaking free from the seal known as the recliner, Bai Yi picked up the box he had just set down.

After lifting the lid, unsurprisingly, there was another box inside.

Dismantling the nested set to its innermost layer, the smallest box was about the size of a palm in length and about three fingers wide, just the right size to fit that iron wire key.

Bai Yi asked Ju to take out the key again and began to study it.

As Bai Yi thought, as long as the box met the condition of being sealed, it could contain the negative effects of the key.

However, this sealing condition was very flexible.

Once switched to a cloth bag, the effect disappeared; even if the box was damaged or not tightly sealed, it would result in the seal breaking.

But to be precise, even a door could block the negative effects, provided the door had a conventional lock or was indeed firmly closed.

Of course, the final seal could not possibly be done with a door; selecting the smallest box to lock the key inside and calling for a maid to prepare a rope for an added layer of sealing, Bai Yi finally allowed Ju to put it away again.

Returning to the recliner, Fei Wen had already seen the maid named Niaoniao leave the massive dome building of Zhuchen Court.

She brought back news that Yin Hai was planning to visit tonight.

After a lavish dinner, Bai Yi continued to peruse books, awaiting Yin Hai’s visit.

He had just finished reading this afternoon about the plants of Zhuchen Court. Now, he was flipping through intelligence on all transcendent professions known to Zhuchen so far.

"Zhuchen, Transcendent Origin begins with a student, goes through the stages of Mage Apprentice and repairman to diverge into two paths; one being the Scribe’s journey, with the 4th level Transcendents known as clerk, and the 5th level as teachers.

The other path currently only has the 4th level craftsperson and lacks higher-level Transcendents..."

As the transcendent professions controlled by Zhuchen, naturally, there was the most information about them; nearly a quarter of the book’s content was devoted to these two paths.

However, what Bai Yi was looking for was not this; his fingers flipped quickly, and his eyes suddenly caught the keywords he was after.

"Magicians can master certain spell abilities, suspected to be related to rituals, often specializing in Fire Series spells, with relatively strong physical qualities...

Bloodline Warriors possess spell abilities that can strengthen themselves, with formidable melee capabilities..."

Just as Bai Yi was preparing to continue reading, a pleased voice from Yin Hai came from outside the door:

"Knowledge in books is just rigid observational experience; if Miss Bai is interested, I can take charge and fetch the corresponding relics from Zhuchen Court for Miss Bai to study."

He had flown here, and from the air, he had already seen that gigantic pumpkin occupying the entire backyard.

It seemed that the pumpkin didn’t strictly count as a transcendent plant; it hadn’t undergone any rituals, nor had it fused with any relics.

But if it were to be pulled into a fight, a standard transcendent team – a 3rd level Transcendent leading four 2nd level ones – might not cope with it.

Even a 4th level Transcendent might find it challenging, and this was just what Bai Yi had tinkered with in one afternoon!

The maid also mentioned in her report that the pumpkin had been her acquisition, taking only two or three hours. By the time the door was knocked again, such a massive plant had appeared.

If Bai Yi was given time to consolidate her experience...

If that plant were to merge with Extraordinary Relics or just perform a ritual to reach the 3rd level Transcendent stage.

He even believed it could put up a fight against a 5th level Transcendent!

This was potentially a mass-producible Combat Power, not like the 5th level Transcendents which required consumption of Divine Fragments and extremely good luck to encounter a Qualifier.

After exchanging pleasantries with Bai Yi, the conversation naturally turned to her current mastery of Extraordinary Abilities, and she naturally mentioned the plant she had tinkered with today.

"Brother Yin, let me tell you, I modified two types of plants today!

One I call Number One; not only does it possess strong regenerative abilities, but I also awarded it with..."

Yin Hai listened intently to Bai Yi’s detailed introduction, growing more and more pleased.

Not just in size and strength, but it also had a formidable recovery capability and simple Extraordinary Abilities!

The effects were much stronger than what he had initially speculated!

But soon, as Bai Yi spoke of the second type of plant she modified, Yin Hai’s smile froze, and he couldn’t help but ask:

"What? Say that again?"

Knowing her plan had succeeded, Bai Yi continued to feign innocence:

"I modified some rice; but unfortunately, the transformation failed.

They were only capable of Accelerated Growth; why do you ask?"

Once sure he hadn’t misheard, Yin Hai truly became unsettled and quickly pressed:

"How fast can they really grow? No, wait, take me to see it quickly!"

...

Clerk: Possesses abnormal abilities, one can never be sure what spells a clerk might have; their eruptive Combat Power is comparable to a 5th level Transcendent, and they can even employ means surpassing that of a 5th level; do not confront them head-on...

— Sun Temple Transcendent Foreign Country Archive