The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 183 - 97 Witch!

Chapter 183: Chapter 97 Witch!

The next day, at noon, under the Eternal Giant banyan

Today, it is rare for all members of the territory to gather together; Hero Units under Bai Yi’s command, who were each busy with their own tasks, put down their work and returned to the foot of the giant banyan to have lunch with Bai Yi.

Even the ever-busy Shang Ji and Bai Fa, who were involved in learning, rushed back.

Of course, this was not some kind of gathering but because today, Bai Yi’s "witch" had completed cultivation.

They had returned to receive the transformation!

Yes, that included Shang Ji.

As for Bai Yi herself, right after the cultivation was completed today, she had finished the final fusion of all genes within her body, becoming the first true "witch" in the real sense.

Coupled with her original identity as a Forest Elf, perhaps she could now be called a "Natural Witch", it’s just a pity that the game doesn’t provide personal title systems for players, otherwise Bai Yi feels that with all this effort, she would definitely switch titles.

With the enhancement from various gene entries, her Magic Power Value has now soared from the original four thousand and has now broken through the ten thousand mark.

However, the specific number made Bai Yi scratch her head in annoyance, precisely at 10010, with the extra 10 points being the result of allocating her free attribute points last night.

Magic Power recovery speed has finally become respectable, with about one Magic Power Value refreshed every 10 seconds under a normal Magic Power environment.

Given the Magic Power environment of the territory now, it could even achieve a restoration of one point per second, an astonishingly efficient rate.

But she was unable to test the remaining Blood Volume recovery or Magic Power Affinity and other mixed abilities.

She is not very proficient in Magic, and giving herself a cut was also too frightening, so she left the testing to Bai Fa and others.

After lunch, several of them had absorbed enough spores to begin experiencing physical transformation, falling into an involuntary coma.

With them offline, the Insect Swarm, lacking middle layer command, was still operating based solely on the group consciousness of each Insect Clan.

Bai Yi thought that since it happened to coincide with the idle time between one expedition ending and the next one yet to begin, she simply let the Swarm enter a silent state.

Only retaining a necessary portion of working creatures to carry out daily tasks.

However, this silence was doomed to not last too long.

Merely 3 hours later, the first witch to complete the transformation emerged.

And this person was unsurprisingly Bai Sheng to Bai Yi.

Her original Eternal Life Knight profession had already granted her a remarkable Regeneration ability, which allowed her to adapt to the witch’s regeneration gene faster and to better withstand more intense physical transformation.

Following her were Bai Fa and Zhan Yi, with the former benefiting more from the original Elemental Affinity gene, but because these witch entries were not original versions, they had been enhanced by Bai Yi with "equilibrium."

Thus, Bai Fa woke up only about ten minutes earlier than Zhan Yi, who had also received a blessing.

After several of them woke up, while others were still undergoing transformation, they cooperated with Bai Yi to test the witch’s various abilities, starting to analyze the directions for improvement from a practical combat perspective.

By nightfall of that day, the rest of the personnel gradually awoke one after another, with only Shang Ji still in a coma.

After all, of all the people present, Shang Ji could be said to have the worst adaptability to the witch genes, and it was reasonable for her to need longer transformation time.

Consider it a little vacation for her~

After carrying Shang Ji back to her own room, Bai Yi then returned to her own tree hollow to start summarizing the shortcomings of the witches.

First of all, was the lack of attribute enhancement noticed by Bai Sheng and Bai Fa.

While covering a wide range of functionality such as Magic Power and recovery speed, the simplest attribute problem had been overlooked – there was no boost to Strength and Agility after transforming into a witch.

Spirit and Constitution were similar, only because the regeneration ability and Magic Power Affinity granted by the witch slightly masked the deficiencies, making them less apparent than the lack of Strength and Agility.

As the initial generation of witches, it is normal to have certain flaws; these are not fatal but just directions for improvement.

And these issues are not difficult to resolve, as Bai Yi does have several gene entries that can enhance these attributes in her possession.

These all come from the two Beast King groups that have pledged allegiance, for instance, the White Feathered Owl clan provides genes that enhance Strength and Agility, while the Monkey King’s clan is for Spirit and Strength.

And for enhancing Constitution, she has the gene right within herself.

Ever since she arrived at this world and awakened her superpower, she had not tried to extract her own gene entries, only attempting it a couple of days ago while cultivating witches and fusing genes for herself.

Even Transcendent plants can have some special genes extracted, and of course, as a Tier 5 being, she was no exception.

Although the extracted entries were only around Tier 4 in strength and not too powerful, if they were to fit the degree of adaptation for the witches now, they would still need multiple "equilibriums."

Weakening the extra effects of these entries, while only keeping the augmented part of the attribute enhancement.

The witches’ improvements may be settled, but cultivating these genes will still take time.

"Since that’s the case, the transformation of the population in Huai Mountain Sanctuary can be put on hold for now. Once the witch version 1.1 is perfected, we can consider spreading the infection. After all, it won’t take much time to incorporate those new genes.

Moreover, there is still a significant shortfall in the total population count, so there’s no hurry to gather these few Admirers just yet.

It might be better to start preparing for the next area’s annexation...

However, the next area could be left for the transformed witches to practice...

By then, we should be able to roughly gather enough Spirit level 5 Admirers. Even if the witches are less efficient, it would still be acceptable."

The next area she had set her sights on was no longer inland, but towards the south, towards the coastline.

As a coastal city in the south, White Poplar City, due to regional barriers, did not reveal even a hint of the ocean’s illusion inline with the southern border of the area.

Aside from the land, where the Insect Swarm is more adept, the ocean is an even vaster stage.

And she was very curious—were there Lords in the vast ocean, and if so, would their style involve raft survival?

For the exploration of the ocean, she had been well-prepared.

During the last instance, she had the then nameless Anonymous oversee the construction of sea vessels and, before leaving, instructed the Insect Swarm within the instance to start learning how to sail these ships on practice voyages in the dungeon’s ocean.

In another two days, she would gain access again, and then she would be able to take out all the seafaring knowledge that the Insect Swarm had acquired along with the ships themselves.

Of course, taking advantage of external objects is also a temporary strategy for the Insect Clan.

As long as enough genes are collected from the ocean, the next Insect Clan would be able to conduct warfare in the sea!

This type of Insect Clan will also fill the last gap in the necessary 10 types of Mutant Creatures for the superpower promotion tasks.

Hmm, as for the originally planned Fungus Umbrella...

In fact, the current "witch" is not truly a Human, in a sense, but a combination of a spore and a Human, and the gene of the spore part comes from the Fungus Umbrella.

The direction of the Fungus Umbrella’s upgrade that Bai Yi had originally planned was focused on spore Parasitism, and now there’s some overlap with the witches.

Now, the territory is still primarily expanding more systems. With the witches’ infection established, the development of the Fungus Umbrella naturally got pushed back.

It’s just a pity that the Insect Clan Ship required such a large volume of Blood Flesh—it needed as much as the equivalent of cultivating ten million Insect Swarm.

Even if using the currently abundant Magic Power Crystals as a substitute for conversion into Blood Flesh, based on the current output of Area 34,

One tier 3 Crystal can cultivate a tier 3 Insect Swarm. Even so, it would take at least a year to gather enough, and this would only be enough to cultivate the ship to a tier 3 level.

Even now, she is already at tier 4, and by the time it’s completed, it must be at least a tier 5 or higher—the number of Magic Power Crystals needed would be tremendous.

After re-entering the instance in two days, she plans to bring the Shiyu Tower into the dungeon as well, to accelerate the production of Magic Power Crystals.

Considering the output of this instance, it would take about two hundred days to gather enough resources for a tier 5 Insect Clan Ship, which Bai Yi finds acceptable.

After all, she will certainly not stop at just one dungeon world. Having a few more new worlds, the speed of production will continually accelerate.

Also, every time a new world is conquered, more Blood Flesh production can also speed up this process.

According to the current pace, she can already foresee the acquisition of this Insect Clan Ship during her tier 5 stage.

But these are still distant concerns for her; right now, the most important thing is to finalize the adjustment of the witches.

Ideally, they would be basically perfected before she enters the instance, and then tested in the dungeon world.

Holding these plans in her heart, Bai Yi quickly fell into sleep.

The next day, just as Bai Yi was getting herself ready, she saw Shang Ji waiting outside the tree hollow, seemingly still not accustomed to its new body.

Hmm, it seems to be in a bit of a bad mood; after all, it has just undergone another major life transformation. Bai Yi understood this.

After a quick search in the Swarm Network, Bai Yi learned that Shang Ji had actually woken up early in the morning.

It had been getting used to its new body and didn’t come to disturb her since Bai Yi was sleeping.

Feeling the part of Shang Ji’s thoughts left in the Swarm Network, Bai Yi’s heart was filled with pleasure.

This was an important reason why she preserved some of her genes!

However, just as Bai Yi’s lips were curling into a smile, she saw a new message in the Swarm Network.

"Master, it seems you are already aware, but the Snake Mother has awakened and come to visit. Do you need to personally receive her?"

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Eternal Life City · Upper City District (Part Two): The way to enter is extremely simple - one just needs to actively apply to become a witch, and the transformation into a witch is relatively straightforward. But after the first bold batch tried it out, people discovered that these transformed witches’ thinking was no longer like his... their former selves..."