The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 124 - 40 Change of Mindset

Chapter 124: Chapter 40 Change of Mindset

Taichen Palace

Evening was approaching by the time Yin Hai brought Bai Yi to the palace, and the sky had already darkened.

However, due to the presence of electric lights, Taichen Palace was still brightly lit, giving Bai Yi a sense of déjà vu as if entering a scene from a TV drama.

During the previous commendation ceremony, Bai Yi did not come here, so strictly speaking, this was her first time meeting the Emperor in person.

Yin Hai seemed very anxious and directly led Bai Yi to the front of the Taichen Palace, entering with her.

The place was not as Bai Yi had imagined it to be—a vast hall for morning assemblies. The hall was only about a hundred or so square meters, certainly no more than two hundred.

Eight thick red-lacquered wooden pillars matched with the upper floor’s exquisite mortise and tenon joints were supporting the small palace, leaving a clearing in the middle that could accommodate hundreds of people.

However, at this time, there were only a handful of people standing in the open palace.

Apart from General Huo, whom Bai Yi had met before, the rest were officials who governed over the economics and population of Zhuchen and military commanders, all of whom Yin Hai had introduced during the journey. They were undoubtedly the upper echelons of Zhuchen.

The Zhuchen Emperor, who often appeared in portraits, was now sitting on an elevated bench above, and upon seeing Bai Yi’s arrival, he introduced her:

"Minister Yin has arrived. Come, let me introduce to everyone, this is Miss Bai."

Zhu Gang managed to muster a faint smile, but he wasn’t in the mood for pleasantries and quickly got down to business.

"General Huo, please repeat your report to everyone once more."

General Huo took a step forward, nodded in agreement, and recounted:

"Yesterday, my son Huo Lan was ordered to lead a small Transcendent team comprised of folks with titles like ’Farmer’ and ’Butcher’ to infiltrate the Sun Federation by bypassing their expeditionary campgrounds.

The original plan was to use Emilia’s name to create havoc within and to stir up hatred between both sides, but upon entering the Sun Federation’s homeland, they found it to be a land of death.

As they followed through with the plan and moved deeper, they didn’t find any living people in all the settlements they passed. Only a layer of dark Blood Flesh spreading across the ground and giant Insects flying in the sky were left in the ruins.

Due to its abnormality, my son chose not to make contact and decided to retreat. However, during the withdrawal, they encountered an attack by a small number of giant Insects, all of which possessed combat abilities reaching Level 3 Transcendent.

After losing nearly half of the soldiers, they were able to bring this message back.

Immediately afterwards, I dispatched a military force to their expeditionary camp, but all that remained were traces of a battle’s aftermath, and the bishop was nowhere to be found.

Just as my son described, the camp ruins were covered in a layer of dark Blood Flesh, but because making contact immediately attracted an attack by those Transcendent Insects, we did not obtain much useful information."

After hearing General Huo’s report, Bai Yi saw that everyone present fell into silence.

As they were stationed here, they naturally had a profound understanding of Transcendents and knew that Transcendent creatures and Blood Flesh could only mean one thing—Emilia.

Of course, it could also mean the Insect Swarm and me...

Bai Yi added in her mind.

Hearing General Huo’s description, how could Bai Yi not guess? That was her own Insect Swarm!

When did her own Insect Swarm become so powerful?

No, that’s not right...

What is the source of these Extraordinary Relics that Bai Sheng and the others have been collecting these days?

Bai Yi belatedly realized that she had been receiving hundreds of Extraordinary Relics every day for the past few days, even some reaching Level 6, but she had never thought about where they came from.

Now thinking about it, damn it, could it be that they had massacred Emilia and the Sun Church Court...

Are they that fierce?

Considering Bai Sheng’s suggestion yesterday saying they wanted to target buildings for the Insect Clan...

If they need to target buildings, that could only mean attacking cities, combined with the news she had just received that her own worms had turned into Holy Light Worms and the Level 6 relic from a few days ago.

They are about to obliterate the Sun Church Court, right?

Hiss...

Does that mean I’m actually very strong now?

Reflecting on the strategy she proposed when they first entered the instance and Bai Sheng’s chest-thumping guarantee to complete the mission...

At that time, Bai Sheng likely had a different understanding of the plan than she had articulated.

Were they to stick to her plan, they might still be scrapping around in minor skirmishes, struggling to develop.

But once she let Bai Sheng take over, they’ve already managed to flatten two countries!

Damn, thinking this way, her strategic vision as a Lord is lesser than that of the units she commands...

Regardless, having such capable subordinates is definitely a relief, saving her plenty of trouble. At least in the future, she can trust them with similar tasks.

At most, she would direct the general strategy, leaving the rest to Bai Sheng and the Insect Swarm. All she would have to do is to calmly cultivate flowers and rear pets.

Bai Yi felt a touch of self-satisfaction, but she also knew that this was not the occasion to show it.

Knowing the strength of her Insect Swarm, let alone Yin Hai, even the entire Zhuchen might not be a match.

With an orange cat on her head, she could confront the Zhuchen Emperor right now, shouting "Those Insects are mine, surrender quickly," and she would be safe.

As for that Contract, she could just hide in a corner of Taian and let the Insect Swarm roll through.

Of course, Bai Yi just entertained these thoughts; she had no intention of giving up her comfortable life.

Having figured this out, Bai Yi felt much more relaxed and was actually curious to hear how they would deal with Zhuchen.

After a long silence, a voice finally rang out in the hall:

"May I ask the General, what is the strength of those Insects? Would Zhuchen’s firearms be a match for them?"

"We haven’t tried, but based on two encounters so far, it’s confirmed that these Insects possess recovery abilities of the [Butcher] level, with a somewhat similar attack style.

However, unlike Emilia’s [Butcher], these Insects carry blood filled with lethal toxins that can even corrode steel; many of our men died from this poison blood corrosion."

General Huo sighed deeply; if possible, he would not want to weaken his own prestige.

The reality was that when they went to scout the Sun Federation’s expeditionary camp, an entire hundred-man troop armed with Firearms barely survived an encounter with less than ten Insects.

Nearly seventy were killed or injured before they could barely dispatch those creatures and hurriedly retreated with the information.

As this message was divulged, the hall once again fell into silence.

The strength of the Insect Swarm evidently exceeded their imagination, and several generals who initially seemed supportive of war became hesitant.

"Have you ever considered another problem? Despite the formidable combat power of these Transcendent Insects, Transcendents are not so easily nurtured.

Even if the rituals required for Transcendent creatures are not that complex, and success might be possible just by consuming relics.

However, to my knowledge, Emilia’s method of nurturing Transcendent creatures has always been using a ’breeding gu’ approach, forcing the advancement of Transcendent creatures through rituals, and if they fail, they are killed immediately.

This means, inevitably, that Emilia’s Transcendent Insects are few in number!

What’s Zhuchen’s advantage? Isn’t it the ability to match Transcendents with mass-produced Firearms?"

The words of Minister Yin Hai instantly reversed the atmosphere in the hall, and even the brows of Emperor Zhu Gang relaxed considerably.

That’s right!

Although those Transcendent Insects are mighty, they overlooked the number of Transcendents!

It is not easy to nurture a powerful Transcendent, but Zhuchen’s Firearms are mass-produced!

Following this line of thought, if Bai Yi didn’t know that those left-behind Insect Swarms were few, reduced to backend work taking care of the Fungus Blanket as needle erosion insects, even Bai Yi would nearly be convinced.

This is indeed interesting. She wanted to see what Zhuchen could really accomplish with just the needle erosion insects.

She would wait until the end of the instance, then stand up and summon all the Insect Swarm, telling them their previous efforts were wasted! That it was all just playing around with them!

Just the thought of it amused her!

Hmm, she needs to consider how to get Bai Sheng and the others to play along with the act...

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Disaster Insect Queen: Legend has it that the Disaster Insects have a supreme Queen. She commits all manner of evil and delights in seeing people’s despair and wails. She sends the Insect Swarm to wage wars everywhere, all to satisfy her twisted desires...