The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 142 - 58: Subsidiary City (3k)

Chapter 142: Chapter 58: Subsidiary City (3k)

The night’s interlude passed, and everything was back on track.

Zhan Yi took over the mission of searching for resources in the Sanctuary, while Bai Sheng and Bai Fa, along with the Insect Swarm, commenced the hunting mission that was originally planned.

Navigating the underground of White Poplar City through the Fungus Blanket tunnels, they roamed the perimeter areas of the city to hunt Mutant Creatures and complete the Cycle Challenge.

The remaining four were handling affairs concerning the new settlement across the river.

Last night, Bai Yi had already opened two blueprint packs obtained from the instance settlements, which, as large architectural blueprints, had orientations different from those of common directional blueprint packs.

After all, the larger the building, the more its functions tend to cater to an area or even a whole territory.

For instance, large architectural blueprints are categorized into production, defense, barracks, and enhancement types.

The last category is like the wonders in the games Bai Yi once played—they can bring certain buffs to an area.

Choices for monumental architecture are even more scarce. From what the introductions indicated, these were targeted at territorial buildings, or rather, buildings that could themselves be considered territories, with just two choices: mobile or fixed.

The former could serve as a moving territory or directly transform the territory into something mobile, while the latter tends towards city design plans, which could unify a territory into one cohesive whole.

As compensation, these two blueprint packs allowed the Lord to choose a more detailed orientation, such as mechanical, magical, or Bai Yi’s preferred plant and Insect Clan types.

Any system previously encountered could be selected.

After pondering, Bai Yi eventually chose a magic-oriented enhancement building for the large blueprint, and a mobile Insect Clan territory for the monumental blueprint.

This was because ordinary large buildings for plants and insects were things that Bai Yi could now handcraft, and it would be a loss if something like an Insect Nest that rapidly bred Insect Clan or a powerful giant tree was to be the outcome.

Magic-side buildings, on the other hand, were more aligned with Magic Power-related aspects.

Bai Yi still wanted to bet on whether she could get a construction capable of increasing the Magic Power Concentration. Now that the Combat Power in the territory was growing stronger, the requirements for Magic Power Concentration were also becoming ever higher.

Bai Yi would find Magic Power Pools or similar architectures acceptable.

Fortunately, this time Bai Yi got what she wished for—blueprints for a Magic Obelisk.

Once completed, one of its functions was to converge Magic Power, increasing the Magic Power Concentration by 50%, with an approximate radius of 1 kilometer.

Although the added strength was not high and could even be described as very low, with the blueprints showing a cross-sectional area of only about ten square meters and with a height of around ten meters in the form of a commemorative monument.

But after closely examining the introduction, Bai Yi understood why it was also considered a large construction.

This Obelisk was not a standalone building but a stackable group of constructions!

If there was a second Obelisk within the effect range of one, they could connect to each other, with each Obelisk providing an additional 5% increase in Magic Power Concentration.

As long as there were enough building materials, this boost in Magic Power Concentration could be stacked indefinitely, up to a maximum of 500%.

The other monumental blueprint pack yielded blueprints for an Insect Clan Ship, not only capable of carrying the Insect Clan but also being a living Insect Clan entity itself, accepting modifications from Bai Yi.

However, it had one fatal drawback—

The operational cost was enormous...

The required Blood Flesh quantity was more than everything Bai Yi had accumulated thus far.

A rough estimate suggested that the amount of Blood Flesh required was about the equivalent needed to cultivate ten million Erosion Worms.

It was truly too expensive!

Of course, this wasn’t a shortcoming of the blueprint, but rather Bai Yi’s.

Considering the exorbitant cost, it wasn’t something that could be gathered in a short time.

Keep in mind, even the Blood Flesh collected from an entire dungeon world barely sufficed for one million Erosion Worms. To actually construct this Insect Ship, future dungeon instances would demand even greater efforts.

But nonetheless, at least the Obelisk blueprint obtained earlier was something Bai Yi could still construct.

The blueprints considerately provided a tutorial, starting from constructing the bricks of the Obelisk to the detailed steps, including the technique of building and drawing the Array.

Some of the materials concerning Magic Power Crystals could be substituted with Crystal Rice, and the rest of the materials could be directly gathered common materials.

Bai Yi thus handed it over to Nong Er, to figure it out, also giving the ordinary people accommodated last night something to do.

Although this group was part of Bai Yi’s territory promotion mission, she had no intention of keeping these people for nothing.

It’s not just that one-sided charity can lead to bad results, Bai Yi is not a saint with overflowing kindness. Although he is willing to shelter some people within his means, it’s not for free.

The food last night and the diluted Life Spring were results of internal discussions within the Insect Swarm. The former is to win people’s support and prevent them from starving to death, the latter is to dispel some of the effects of hunger and cold they suffered these past few days.

To prevent them from falling ill due to their prior hunger and the cold, which could lead to an epidemic causing many casualties, that would be a huge loss.

This diluted Life Spring will be supplied for three days, but the food is only ordinary produce from the territory, and it has to be earned through labor.

Shang Ji is now assessing the people who arrived here, identifying those with certain professional skills and starting to assign tasks according to their abilities.

Those with skills will work with the workers salvaged from the Sanctuary using the retrieved machinery to resume production. The rest will build houses with the Insect Swarm for their new home here, constructing a new shelter.

In this aspect, Shang Ji is highly experienced and has almost restored order to the living area. By tomorrow morning at the latest, normal production can resume.

With the third-party compulsion of the Insect Swarm and Bai Yi’s decent treatment, the order here is even better than it was inside the Sanctuary. This has been personally verified by Commander Hong.

Of course, he didn’t admit this himself; it was the result of Swarm Network surveillance.

Although he and Guan, as last night’s victors, were not parasitized, the Swarm Network’s surveillance didn’t lessen.

And surprisingly for Bai Yi, he initially planned to use "fear" to fulfill his tasks but found that not only is there no fear now, but there is also more reverence.

However, Bai Yi soon learned from the Swarm Network that this was Shang Ji’s doing and felt relieved.

As for the future plans for this living area, Bai Yi is already planning on turning that part into an affiliated city of the territory.

Specifically, for these people to be kept in, leaving all machinery and technology-related developments there, differentiating it from the Insect and Plant side of his own.

Although Bai Yi mainly focuses on plants and the Insect Clan, appearing to lean towards biotechnology, he does not intend to fall behind in mechanical aspects either.

The main point is that one can survive without using it, but cannot be without it!

Moreover, modern technology is indeed more convenient than biotechnology, at least in terms of comfort. Currently, Bai Yi’s technical methods are far inferior to mature mechanical technology.

After leaving the dungeon world, without various comfortable furniture, even just for a day, Bai Yi felt uncomfortable.

And not to mention those daily convenience tools and machinery, modern agricultural machinery is also worth the effort for Bai Yi.

Although Bai Yi now appears very strong, the current farmlands still rely on manual collection. Even though Skeletons in Zhan Yi can do the work, the efficiency is far from high.

Hence, the development of machinery is still very necessary.

However, these factories and machinery definitely can’t be left near the giant banyan. Beneath the giant banyan, Bai Yi still wishes for more tranquility.

Bai Yi’s thought is to have the territory’s region be the residence for core units like Bai Sheng and Zhan Yi, symbolizing status.

And the rest of the peripheral entities of the territory system will be distributed within the surrounding affiliated cities, serving as both the production and living area for subordinate units, as well as the second line of defense for the territory.

In the future, this city could serve as a stopover point when needing to interact with other Lords.

In even further areas, there are blockade networks composed of the Insect Swarm and Fungus Blanket, serving as the third line of defense.

Currently, the only issue with this plan is the direction of White Poplar Mountain and the presence of the three Beast Kings. Although they are allies of Bai Yi for now, they will ultimately need to be brought under his control to feel at ease.

But for now, they haven’t shown any discord with Bai Yi and are still firm allies. Plus, with the face of the orange cat, Bai Yi can’t just batter them without reason.

Only after increasing his strength a bit more can he then claim them as Hero Units in the name of the Tree King.

Of course, this requires the right opportunity, not now.

Bai Yi climbed up the high places using the vine bridges on You, gazing at the cleared snow habitat across the river. The corresponding requirement of ten thousand population on the panel has been met, and the only thing left to break through to tier 4 territory is the hunting task.

And the specifics have already been handed over to Bai Sheng and Bai Fa who went out hunting.

It’s fortunate that it’s only a breakthrough to tier 4; the required prey does not need to be higher than tier 4. Although that is already the level of most race leaders, there are still quite a few in the uninhabited areas of White Poplar City.

If it required tier 5, Bai Yi would have had difficulty.

Unless he deliberately provokes a dispute with the three Beast Kings in the mountains to seize the opportunity to kill one, Bai Yi would have to face the gorilla, and the difficulty would be of a whole different level.

"Speaking of which, Bai Sheng and the others went out early this morning, and it’s almost noon now. How far has the progress reached?"

Saying that, Bai Yi opened the panel to check the current progress of the challenge.

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