The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 182 - 96: Area Annexation Continued (3k)

Chapter 182: Chapter 96: Area Annexation Continued (3k)

As night fell, Bai Yi hummed the melody of the Forest Elf tune, which had been stuck in her head thanks to Furistin’s catchy singing, to mark the end of today’s research.

Although the cultivation of the witch was still just slightly short of completion, Bai Yi wasn’t fretting over it due to the day’s gains.

The structure of the Shiyu Tower, which had just started construction in the 34th area Fungus Blanket following the reopening and reconnection of the Swarm Network through the Space Gate, had already been uploaded.

While the construction’s unavoidable 10-day duration remained, the Fungus Blanket was capable of simultaneous construction of up to 10 structures at once—a mere matter of copy-pasting. The real time consumption was understanding the blueprints.

As for the remaining two blueprints, Bai Yi ultimately did not manage to bring Bai Gong back.

The restructuring of the territory wasn’t urgent, and the Insect Swarm could also contribute to some of the initial work.

Those needle erosion insects in the territory, which hadn’t been enhanced, were idle all along, having turned into true gardeners, usually acting as nannies to care for the various Transcendent plants.

Now, it was like giving them something meaningful to do in their day-to-day existence.

Moreover, the blueprint for the expansion of Giant Tree City required Bai Yi herself to foster some giant trees before construction could commence—something she could only spare time for once the cultivation of the witch was finished.

By that time, once the cultivation was completed, she could also transform a batch of witches into a new group of scholars, to replace Bai Gong and Nong Yi once they returned.

The former would start overseeing the construction, while the latter would begin training the transformed witches—first by widely spreading the basics of Pharmacy and Alchemy amongst them and kickstarting the production of Potions.

Not only could these be sold or, like today, dropped as random rewards, these witches could also utilize these Potions for themselves.

And this Pharmacy was just the tip of the iceberg within the entire Magic system; for the first time, Bai Yi realized just how challenging it was to manage a magic-side territory like Landon’s.

It’s only now, with her one-sided monopoly over Magic Power Crystals from Landon, that she acquired considerable magic knowledge from him, lessening the initial difficulties of knowledge gathering.

Otherwise, Bai Yi felt that building the witch system would have probably waited until she reached Tier 6 and entered Landon’s world—that of the Forest Elves—only then could she make use of their magic knowledge to complete the witch system.

Hmm, gratitude to Landon for his selfless contributions~

As for the three Abnormality Gift Packages today...

Initially, Bai Yi was so thrilled by a few blueprints that she forgot about them, only remembering when she went back to continue cultivating the witches.

But perhaps due to recent good luck fully cashed in, the three Abnormality Gift Packages this time were quite ordinary, and even somewhat disappointing...

[Wind Stabilizing Fan (Red): When used, it summons strong winds in the opposite direction within a one-kilometer radius of the user; the stronger it is fanned, the more intense the wind summoned. However, when not in motion, it creates a windless zone within a one-kilometer radius.]

If you’d say it’s useful...

A windless zone can be quite helpful, but this effect seems rather awkward...

And the other two Abnormal Objects, while slightly better, were also fairly limited.

One was named [Sniper Scope]: it took the form of a monocular telescope, with the function that as long as a target was in sight, it could pull the user closer to the target over a distance, allowing the user to physically connect with the target over vast distances.

But it was limited only to what could be seen, and it couldn’t grab anything.

The last one named [Endless Hypnosis Book] refreshed with random knowledge on its pages daily, which viewers would surely remember after reading, but the downside caused the reader to fall asleep for a random duration...

To say the Wind Stabilizing Fan was somewhat useful, Bai Yi really couldn’t think of a good use for the latter two...

Perhaps the Hypnotic Book could replace the potions she hadn’t been making lately, serving as a sleep aid before bed?

She could try it tonight...

Bai Yi pondered as her consciousness entered the Swarm Network.

Just now, she had received a notification from the panel that the progress of the Area Annexation quest had reached 100%, automatically completing the settlement and prompting her to check.

[Area Annexation (S) Progress Achieved (100%/100%), quest completed. Since the preceding progress rewards were not claimed, you have acquired all the unclaimed progress rewards.]

[Notice: As your quest progress included conquering Territory 34 (100%), the awarded Area Core has been updated to Area Core (Territory 34).]

[World Core Fragment (Territory 34): A fragment of the World Core, it might have some special uses.]

[Notice: Having completed your Area Annexation quest, you have triggered the continuation quest: Area Annexation ∙ Continuation (S).]

[Area Annexation ∙ Continuation: You have completed the grand task of conquest! But you should not be content with this, beyond your territory lays an even vaster land!]

"This quest indeed has a follow-up!"

The new Area Annexation quest wasn’t beyond Bai Yi’s expectations. After all, according to her prediction, annexing areas was an essential step from Tier 5 to Tier 6.

It was impossible not to have a continuation after reaching Tier 6; there were bound to be new tasks.

Upon accessing the detailed information of the quest, the rewards for this main quest designed for Tier 6 were considerably better than the original Area Annexation. The value of each progressive stage reward remained the same but offered a few more options for selection.

And the ultimate reward was, as Bai Yi had expected, another Area Core.

However, such an item was still too distant for Bai Yi at present. Since she already had one fragment, her route to Tier 6 was already clear, and requiring more Area Cores would be a matter for after reaching Tier 6.

Moreover, compared to other Area Cores, the one indicated in the panel for the 34th territory intrigued Bai Yi even more.

It served as a confirmation of her earlier guess—these Area Cores indeed related to the 100 regions of this world!

However, the prompt on the panel was because she had fully conquered Area 34, so the quest rewards were replaced with the current one.

Then if parts of each area were occupied, adding up to 100% progress, wouldn’t it mean that there wouldn’t be a replacement, but rather a random one?

But this conjecture could only be verified in the future.

She opened the panel’s quest settlement and collected all the rewards.

Territory Expansion Vouchers and Resource Self-selection are no longer Bai Yi’s focus. After eliminating some soldier-related rewards that are of little use to her current territory, what’s left that mattered most were just the blueprint package and Abnormality Gift Package.

Among them, there were a total of 8 resource building blueprints, 6 of which were normal Golden resource buildings, and two were Large Resource Buildings, with one of the latter being an exclusive blueprint.

There were a total of 3 giant building blueprint packages, consisting of random, targeted, and exclusive prefixes.

The last remaining ones were 3 directed and exclusive Abnormality Gift Packages totaling 6, along with that fragment.

Bai Yi planned to save the exclusive blueprints for later, until she had completed the cultivation of the witches, and converted enough witches in her territory before using them.

Exclusive prefix blueprint packages would grant corresponding blueprints based on the current state of the territory when opened; if used now, she would only receive related blueprints for the Insect Swarm and Plant systems.

Currently, she has a surplus of relevant blueprints, and various construction schedules are fully booked in the short term, so she’s not in urgent need.

But if the witches are developed within the territory and officially become a part of it, then it’s possible that the exclusive blueprints could yield witch system blueprints.

Rather than adding to the already mature Insect Swarm System, Bai Yi felt it was better to quickly perfect the witch system, which was still in the early stages of development.

However, she intended to use all other blueprint packages, especially the resource-building ones, immediately.

Resource buildings were always a shortfall in the territory, unlike other buildings which have superior versions that could be used instead. At least until she had assembled all ordinary resource buildings and achieved self-sufficiency for most resources, Bai Yi considered resource building blueprints a bottomless pit.

All six ordinary Golden resource blueprints were used, yielding six different metal Mineral Altars.

Only one of them, a uranium mine with certain risks, required preparations before use; the rest were directly sent to the Swarm Network, ready for Bai Gong to arrange construction upon his return.

As for the Large Resource Building blueprint, Bai Yi was planning to keep it for Landon to slightly upgrade before using it.

From the last trade, Bai Yi had learned from Landon that although his Talent could directly transform certain items or high-level resources.

However, if there is a Low-tier version, the transformation cost would be considerably lower.

The very night Bai Yi started her witch research, she had produced the needed crop seeds for Landon, which were still single-use, but now carried the essence of Crystal Rice and provided tier 3 yield.

With these seeds as a base, Bai Yi successfully deepened cooperation with Landon, and this minor conversion request was no trouble at all.

As for the remaining Abnormality Gift Packages...

Since she already obtained the Wind Stabilizing Fan today, Bai Yi really didn’t feel today was a good day for it, deciding to leave it for a time when her luck felt better...

All other scattered rewards were not for Bai Yi to handle personally; she left them all to Shang Ji to take care of.

All the rewards from the quests were processed, and Bai Sheng’s statistical report had also been uploaded to the Swarm Network.

This week-long conquest of the area has finally drawn to a close.

Apart from the rewards from the quest, this time the main gains were the Huaisan Sanctuary and the territories of the lords of Area 34.

Those resources from the Low-level Lords’ territories were not highly valued by Bai Yi and were all left to Shang Ji to handle.

For Bai Yi, those resources were less valuable than the territories themselves, as they at least could be used for rapid territory expansion through the conquest feature.

Until now, the territory area-related task in Bai Yi’s panel showed completion, and the total area has already reached over five hundred square kilometers.

After a month, when the remaining land in Area 34 is officially recognized as territory by the conquest function, this number can still increase by tens of times.

For the other promotion requirement, Bai Yi’s current Admirers have reached over forty-nine thousand, with the Huaisan Sanctuary supplying about twenty-one thousand.

This figure should have been higher, but recent missionary activities related to the Huaisan Sanctuary and various conversions of Admirers have all stopped, even the Pope has been recalled, so this number has remained fixed.

After all, Bai Yi’s cultivation of witches was nearly complete, and soon they could all be converted en masse, which is much faster than winning over hearts by various means.

After returning, the Pope also received a new task and is currently rewriting Bai Yi’s doctrine, including the witch part as well.

Out of the remaining twenty thousand plus Admirers, fourteen thousand were from Eternal Life City; the rest were contributions from the lords of White Poplar City.

It must be said, the meeting convened by Iron Blood did have some effect; the Admirers Bai Yi gained from among the lords were even more than the total population of Eternal Life City.

Although this number fluctuates greatly, and a significant part is due to the sale of cheap seeds and randomly gifted Potions, it proved this method was indeed viable.

Bai Yi guessed that in a few days, some of them, including Iron Blood, might successfully advance to tier 4.

"There’s still a gap of a good fifty thousand Admirers...

Now that Area 34’s matters are concluded, it’s time to expand into a new area."

Bai Yi already had a plan for the direction of expansion.

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[Endless Hypnosis Book (Red)]: Contains infinite knowledge, but knowledge is always dry. Every day a piece of random knowledge will be refreshed in the book, forcibly imprinting the corresponding knowledge in the reader’s brain and causing the reader to fall into a forced sleep state, with the duration varying randomly...