The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 152 - 66: The Player Who Lost Their Lord Status (3k)

Chapter 152: Chapter 66: The Player Who Lost Their Lord Status (3k)

Lulu Cat: "Thanks to Fan Mao’s big boss for the heads-up. If I hadn’t prepared in advance, I might have been wiped out today."

Lico: "Thank you, big boss, for the reminder. Luckily, I brought people with me to flee in advance, otherwise, we wouldn’t have survived."

Lulu Cat: "?"

Fan Mao: "?"

Bai Yi didn’t plan to speak at all and just wanted to peep silently, but he was still startled by that remark.

What do you mean fled in advance?

What about the territory after fleeing?

If the territory is gone, why can you still

Fan Mao: "What about your territory? You fled and abandoned it?"

Lico: "The territory is gone, but even without a territory, I can still enter the channel. I just don’t have the territory panel anymore, but personal panel features and the like are still there."

Lico: "I noticed that those monster waves only wanted to kill my soldier units, so I left most of the soldiers behind and took the resources and fled."

Lico: "But now I can still use the market, and I can chat. The panel informs me that I have transformed into an independent player, and I can freely join another Lord’s command like a Hero Unit! Big boss, please take me in! I am beautiful and have a sweet voice, oh!"

Iron Blood: "!"

Fan Mao: "!"

Lulu Cat: "!"

The Lord can still survive even after the territory is destroyed?

Hiss...

No, that’s not right, it seems like at the very beginning, it was indeed mentioned that one could give up being a Lord...

Bai Yi suddenly remembered the words from the panel tips when he first came to this world—it did seem to have touched on such matters.

There were even bug reports about it, becoming the first bug report submitted.

It’s just that no one in area 33 had voluntarily given up their identity, so no one brought it up, and it was put out of mind.

Even Bai Yi subconsciously felt that a Lord should share a common fate with their territory, and the Lord’s death would coincide with the territory’s destruction.

After all, with only the Lord left alive, it would be difficult to achieve anything and would only live as a lone wolf, no different from the natives here.

But Bai Yi then thought about the new Conquest function he just obtained.

Originally, Bai Yi thought that you had to kill a Lord and completely occupy the territory to merge it, thus the fate of the low-level Lords was set to become stepping-stones in the expansion of stronger Lords.

When death was the only option, most Lords would only choose to resist.

But now, there was another path laid out.

That is to actively surrender to a powerful Lord, giving up one’s territory in exchange for becoming an independent player under another Lord’s command.

Even when in danger and unable to resolve it, one could choose to surrender in exchange for rescue by a powerful Lord.

While it meant losing the territory, at least one’s life could be spared.

Moreover, these independent Lords themselves have significant value. Although their loyalty can’t be guaranteed and their subjectivity is too high, as long as one has the ability to control others, the Lord himself is absolutely a high-quality and potential Combat Unit!

For Bai Yi, the biggest benefit is reducing some guilt, not having to kill Lords just to acquire territories.

Life is precious, unless the other side has completely offended her, Bai Yi does not want to kill any Lords.

"Alas, we are all fellow villagers who came to this world together..."

Bai Yi sighed, seeing no issue with his thoughts, and then considered.

This might be a good opportunity to solve the space problem of his own territory!

Trading rescue for territory, a very cost-effective deal.

And indeed, she has the ability to do so. Now the Insect Swarm has basically covered the entire White Poplar City; she can reach any corner promptly and has the strength to crush other Lords for now.

As long as someone is in danger and asks for her help, at least saving the Lord is not a problem.

But the biggest problem is that doing so could expose her relationship with the Insect Swarm, and Bai Yi is not ready to make this public, still wishing to maintain the name of a Plant Series Lord, so she had to put this idea on hold for now, waiting for an opportunity to use it.

Continuing to lurk in the channel, it was confirmed that several Lords had been attacked by Mutant Creatures, and his own pretext had been verified multiple times without arousing suspicion.

The independent Lord who had lost her territory had not yet been taken in by a big boss, at least the current leaderboard Lords in the channel weren’t interested.

And she also didn’t know if the other leaderboard Lords had entered an instance or just weren’t interested in her.

In the end, a female Lord named Snow who had interacted with Bai Yi before took her in. Bai Yi remembered that this Snow was also on the leaderboard but was listed anonymously.

Once, Bai Yi intended to collaborate with her to plant a specific type of plant, but Bai Yi was too busy at the time to agree to it.

Bai Yi still remembers, her name was also among the top ranks in this Cycle Challenge.

Upon checking the challenge rankings, Snow was exactly in the tenth place, and it was unclear how her territory and Comprehensive Combat Power were. If it was merely based on Personal Combat Power alone, her abilities might be much higher than the rankings suggested.

This morning, the Hunting by Bai Sheng and the others had successfully brought her rank up to first, surpassing Jun Lin, who was originally in the lead.

Now, with less than a day left until the final tally, her place was almost secured. However, to prevent any potential last-minute ranking pushes by others, Bai Yi still decided to solidify her position.

She sent a message to Bai Sheng, informing her that the Territory Upgrade was complete and they could continue to go out and hunt.

With the remaining time and a while until her body recovers, Bai Yi also thought about her next plans.

Now that both her territory and Lord Rank had reached the fourth tier, the various requirements for the next Rank promotion couldn’t be hurried, so it’s time to prioritize the improvements in Transcendent profession and superpowers on the daily agenda.

For the former’s promotion requirements and the rituals needed for the latter, there were overlapping parts. The former required the cultivation of certain strong creatures, while the latter needed a large number of Transcendent plants, which could be done simultaneously.

But in order to promote her Transcendent profession, she must first master the abilities of a Pharmacist. Since her promotion, she hadn’t even made a few Potions, let alone conduct research.

As for Transcendent plants, Bai Yi decided to start transforming the Banyan Tree forest surrounding the area.

Before entering the instance, she had envisioned turning a whole forest of Banyan Trees into Tree-men. In fact, the very initial purpose of this research was for You and the surrounding Banyan Trees.

But after returning, there were so many things piled up that she had never gotten around to starting the transformation.

Since transforming the outside Banyan Tree forest required a gradual approach, she decided to complete You’s transformation first. You was now ready to advance to the fourth tier, and with enough Crystal Rice, could even rush to lv.50 at the fastest speed, coming infinitely close to the fifth tier.

Combined with the various attributes and that relic obtained within the instance, perhaps You could possess a level five Magic Power Convergence effect ahead of time.

So before this week’s challenge settlement, she would first complete You’s leveling!

Of course, all of this was predicated on waiting until nightfall, when her body had roughly regained its ability to move.

As for now, Bai Yi decided to continue lurking in the channel and study in sequence the attributes to be fused into You.

...

Time quickly reached evening, and the orange cat, upon teleporting back into the territory, immediately felt a change in the Magic Power Concentration, which was significantly higher than when it left.

As a seasoned fifth-tier, it almost immediately locked onto the giant banyan, sensing that the change in Magic Power Concentration was related to the giant banyan.

Had it broken through to the fifth tier?

It seemed that sensing the orange cat’s gaze, the giant banyan lowered a thick branch, and a few vines formed agile tendrils, creating a net to catch Bai Yi as she leaped down.

After recovering from the discomfort brought by the attribute enhancement, Bai Yi felt the changes in her body, with precise and strong control over every muscle.

Moreover, the strength brought on by the attributes did not cause her to develop bulky muscles, still maintaining her seemingly delicate appearance.

Bai Yi, who had always been considered frail before becoming a Lord in this world, felt a sense of strength for the first time.

After completing the gene Fusion on the giant banyan to give You far greater mobility than before, Bai Yi started jumping around on You, playfully interacting with You.

This served both as a way to bond with You, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time, and to allow both to get accustomed to their newly acquired powers, with You finding its agile body to be a novelty.

Although, due to various buildings on its body, it wasn’t conducive to uproot itself and experience walking, it was undeniably in possession of a similar ability.

And the Magic Power Concentration sensed by the orange cat was the effect achieved after stacking level three Transcendent profession attributes and several energy-gathering attributes.

Multiple stackings meant that You alone could boost the Magic Power Concentration by 200% under the cover of its branches and leaves.

Coupled with a 50% increase from a population of fifty thousand subjects, another 50% from the Peace Certificate, and an additional 13% from Divine Domain devotees, it totaled a 313% Magic Power Concentration increase.

You alone had nearly tripled the Magic Power Concentration!

However, compared to other effects that applied to the whole territory, You’s increase was limited to its sheltered area, namely the central open space of the territory, covering a radius of only a hundred meters.

Outside the sheltered area, the Magic Power Concentration effect plummeted precipitously to 50% and weakened gradually the further away it was from You.

Beyond 5 kilometers, or the current scope of the territory’s cover, the effect ceased entirely.

With this increased effect, the orange cat even thought that had it not been designated a Hero Unit and locked at a certain level as part of the territory, it could have advanced to the sixth tier within a month using this boost!

Before this, it had already reached lv.59, only a step away from breaking through, if only it weren’t for the limited training speed due to Magic Power Concentration.

"What did you do to the Banyan Tree? It seems like it hasn’t broken through to the fifth tier?"

The orange cat discerned carefully and found something amiss, but soon associated this with the research Bai Yi had done in the instance and guessed the reason.

"Come in first. I have questions to consult with you about, orange cat," Bai Yi said as she picked up the orange cat and leaped up to a tree hole four meters above the ground, remembering that she needed to ask the orange cat about the anomalies after the fourth tier.

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Independent player: Enjoying all the abilities of a player’s panel but unable to possess a territory again, can only join someone else’s territory as a special Hero Unit, still able to use dungeon tickets, channels, market, and other functions...