The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 167 - 81 World Core Fragment (3k)

Chapter 167: Chapter 81 World Core Fragment (3k)

[Area annexation (S)]: This task is a stage-based mission, where all conquest actions over regions will be tallied into the mission progress. Causing a certain proportion of substantial conquest in each region will bring about a certain percentage of mission progress. When the progress reaches (10%, 20%, ...), you can obtain stage-based rewards. Current progress: 0%.

[Note: Destruction of Lords’ territories and achieving substantial land domination will increase the conquest ratio. The conquest ratio will dynamically fluctuate based on the size of the occupied region, and once rewards for reaching a certain conquest ratio are gained, falling below it will not affect the receipt of rewards.]

"Wait, the region has been opened?

When did this happen? Could it be..."

Bai Yi was certain that the barrier still existed, blocking any creature from crossing, so the notion of region opening was utterly impossible.

Furthermore, such a major event would definitely be communicated not just to her but through a full-screen announcement to everyone.

The channel would surely be in utter chaos, but it remained as usual at the moment, even somewhat quiet, with even the pleas for mercy from fights between Lords reduced.

What remained were messages of material purchases, from those wanting to improve themselves as much as possible during this temporarily peaceful time caused by Iron Blood’s call and meeting invitation. And the Lords who had already attacked other territories took this opportunity to assimilate their gains.

Such calmness in the channel could only prove that there was definitely no regional announcement.

"Could it be that the region will open in the future, and this task is in preparation for that time?"

Bai Yi suddenly brightened up with this possibility.

Could it be that because she hadn’t used a Zone Transfer Certificate, but instead preemptively used her own ability to cross over the barrier, she had prematurely triggered this task?

The previous panel prompt had also proven that there indeed was a verification to see if she had used a Zone Transfer Certificate, at least she wasn’t "forced" to transfer to a different area because she prematurely stepped into it.

Instead, the task was triggered after detecting that her territory was still in Zone 33.

Bai Yi guessed that the determination criteria for the task were probably set to trigger once a Lord of one region stepped into another region. Due to the presence of regional barriers, any chance of triggering it prematurely was almost nullified.

One could only wait until the barriers were lifted, and the regions opened one day in the future.

But Bai Yi was such an anomaly, having preemptively crossed the barrier in cooperation with the Abnormal Object and the restored regional "boss", the orange cat.

"In other words, at least for now, this task is exclusively mine, and because of this, other Lords won’t compete with me. The only thing I need to face is the Lord from one region.

Heh, one can imagine that once the regions open later on, those powerful Lords who can step out of their regions would cause many struggles due to the scarcity of prey.

After all, following the current trend of the Cycle Challenge, most resources will probably end up in the hands of a few Lords. Even a pig can be piled into a World boss-level pig, and each region should produce one or two powerful Lords.

Then, it would just be a matter of lords fighting each other, swallowing each other up."

It’s also a relief that the task prompt states no need for complete possession of a region but can be completed by occupying parts of multiple regions, avoiding a deadlocked battle over a single region.

Otherwise, Bai Yi feels, it would really blow your mind.

But this might also lead to more chaotic fights, after all, you only need to occupy a piece of region, with no stipulation that it must be from an enemy; the territories of allies are not impossible either...

Bai Yi looked at the task rewards prompted by the panel and felt it was definitely possible.

[Conquest ratio rewards:]

[10%: Territory Expansion Voucher (Medium)*3, Random Golden Resource Building Blueprint Package*3, Advanced Resource Self-selected Pack*1000]

[20%: Territory Expansion Voucher (Large)*3, Directed Golden Resource Building Blueprint Package*3, Advanced Resource Self-selected Pack*2000]

[30%: Directed Anomaly Gift Package*3, Soldier Upgrade Voucher*5, Directed Large-scale Resource Building Blueprint Package*1, Advanced Resource Self-selected Pack*3000]

[...]

[100%: Area Core*1]

[Note: The Area Core can substitute the World Core Fragment during the 6th level of territory promotion, and only 100 pieces are available in this world.]

Besides a whole bunch of building blueprints that even Bai Yi coveted, it’s the final level of rewards that really surprised her!

"World Fragment? Promotion material for 6th level territory?

But it makes sense, after the regions open, it’s probably the case that the top-tier Lords have at least reached 4th level. Even if not 5th level, they will complete the promotion by gathering various conditions in the battles with each other, at least on the territorial level it is effortless.

However, there are only 100 World Core Fragments...

This means that even under the most optimal distribution, only 100 6th level territories can be created, which is nearly impossible.

Once a Lord successfully advances to 6th level, the overwhelming strength will surely quickly control the surrounding regions. Only those far enough away might not be affected and succeed in advancing to create a balance of power with the pioneers.

Moreover, there are exactly one hundred regions in this world, perhaps it’s related to this...

World Core Fragment, if there are fragments, perhaps there exists a complete World Core. Since the 6th rank already uses fragments, then this complete core might be a requirement for ascending to the 7th rank...

But how to obtain such a thing? Surely it isn’t about collecting 100 pieces to piece together...

No, there might be other methods..."

Bai Yi speculated in her mind, but this was still too far-fetched for her. The most important thing now was to begin exploring the new region.

She still needed to drive the Mutant Creatures from region number 34 over here, giving the local Lords some challenging targets...

She now had a huge advantage.

Not only did she not need to compete with other Lords, without having to consider the intrigues among them, but also because of her head start, it was highly likely that Lords from other regions had yet fully grown!

This could be seen from the other Lords in the region, most of whom were still hovering at the 3rd rank, working hard for their 4th-rank tasks, while she, an anomaly, had already reached a 4th-rank territory and even possessed the strength of the 5th rank.

Of course, one shouldn’t speak too confidently; caution is still needed.

Who knows, other regions might also have monsters like her, or even tyrants who dominate their entire regions or absorb other Lords. They might also be capable of producing a Lord of her caliber.

"I have no idea what kind of Lords are in region number 34, what the strength of the strongest Lord is, or what level the most powerful Mutant Creature in the region is..."

Thinking of this, Bai Yi remembered that she had unlocked the channel for region number 34.

Although she couldn’t directly see the ranking of strengths of the Lords in region number 34 due to her inability to enter their leaderboard, she could start by collecting information through the channel.

But when she accessed the new channel from the extra option in the channel, she was immediately dumbfounded.

Names and various messages in the channel were all unrecognizable to Bai Yi, or rather...

Not entirely...

Bai Yi recognized these characters, but only to the extent of recognition. After all, before coming to this world, she had had some exposure to anime and knew this language formed by a mix of entirely new characters with Chinese.

But to expect her to understand it was asking too much...

However, soon the panel seemed to realize this issue, as a button suddenly appeared in one corner of the panel, marked with the word "Translate."

Only then could Bai Yi finally comprehend the meaning of the conversations in their channel.

But after only looking at a segment, Bai Yi lost interest.

The channel was full of various buying requests or haggling over prices, with only a few idle chat messages hardly revealing any useful information, not at all like the liveliness of region number 33.

And as for the laborious task of mining information from the multitude of messages, Bai Yi decisively delegated it to Shang Ji.

Turning off the panel in front of her eyes, her view once again filled with green, Bai Yi stood from underneath the "little tree" soon to become her Avatar and stretched her body.

Although Bai Yi’s physical attributes have now reached the standard of a 4th-rank main body Superpower User, sitting for an extended period and leaning against the hard tree trunk had still made her body feel numb.

"Didn’t expect the neighboring region to be dominated by foreigners...

Initially, I guessed that the nearby regions would all be Chinese, but at least this has proven that people from a single country will be as much as possible placed in the same region after coming to this world.

It’s also a good thing; at least I won’t feel too much of a psychological burden from the slaughter caused by the Insect Swarm in that world..."

Before Bai Yi finished speaking, she felt a heaviness on her head again, her head accessory returned to her forehead, along with an orange cat that slid down from atop her head.

"Meow~ your body has become so much more comfortable~"

The orange cat had just settled into Bai Yi’s embrace and contentedly meowed, commenting on its "Cat Nest."

Despite shrinking a bit due to reverse growth, the other parts of her body had become even softer, and they emitted a Life Force and fragrance that intoxicated the orange cat...

Bai Yi also knew that it had been a long time since she had been close to Ju, not wanting to let it leave, but allowing the giant banyan to take the head decoration off her head.

The vine took the head accessory up and embedded it into the trunk where a small platform had already been built, and under You’s control, a Space Gate opened in front of the platform.

In the end, Bai Yi still felt that it was more reliable to have You personally supply the Magic Power and also made it convenient for her to contact Bai Sheng and the other members of the Insect Swarm through the Swarm Network at any time.

On the other side of the Teleportation Gate, the Insect Swarm had already vanished, leaving behind only a dark expanse of the Fungus Blanket.

And that was the foundation of Bai Yi’s connection to the Swarm, as long as the Space Gate remained open, the Swarm Network could establish contact with the Fungus Blanket across this not-so-distant gap.

Feeling the reconnection with Bai Sheng and the other insects that crossed the barrier, Bai Yi nodded in relief and shifted her focus back onto the Banyan Tree behind her, ready to continue her work.

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World Core Fragment (Red): One of the components that make up the World Core, symbolizing the authority over a land, each world is born from it, but the World Cores possessed by different worlds differ...