The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 188 - 102: The Second 4th-level Lord

Chapter 188: Chapter 102: The Second 4th-level Lord

Returning to her territory, it was already the second day’s noon after her departure.

This time was no different—the Iron Blood Corpse King, three steel ships, and nearly a thousand witches, except for Lord Yin Hai who had transformed into a Hero Unit, were all preserved in the form of Sealing Cards on her person.

Inside her headwear, all the Crystal Rice gathered from the instance of the previous week was preserved. This time, after taking the headwear away, Bai Sheng was disconnected from the territory for a whole day.

She hastily handed the headwear back to You, instructing her to reopen the Teleportation Gate to Area 28.

After Yin Hai transformed into a witch and completely surrendered to Bai Yi, Bai Yi had her upgrade the headwear once more.

Although previously Yin Hai had surrendered to Bai Yi, she was ultimately compelled to do so and hadn’t crafted it wholeheartedly.

But this time, under the full efforts of Yin Hai, the headwear’s final potential for improvement was fully utilized.

Although its essence was limited and it did not undergo a qualitative change, its most important feature for the territory, the teleportation function, had been enhanced again.

It still required recording coordinates before opening a Teleportation Gate, but now the number of coordinates that could be recorded had expanded to nine, and the number of Teleportation Gates that could be opened simultaneously had reached three.

Of course, the cost was higher Magic Power consumption, a price for the enhancement.

However, for You, who was connected to the Fungus Blanket, even maintaining three Teleportation Gates and enduring a ninefold increase in energy consumption was still effortless.

Feeling the reconnection of two Swarm Networks, Bai Yi didn’t forget to arrange work responsibilities and a small room for Yin Hai, who had come to the territory for the first time.

After she left her own tree hole, Bai Yi took the initiative to access the Swarm Network and check up on the territory’s situation during the day she was absent.

Ever since she distributed Shang Ji’s work reports to others, the various types of information she needed to check every day had significantly decreased; she no longer needed to directly sift through the miscellaneous work logs like before.

In the span of yesterday, the witches’ Giant Tree City had nearly reached completion.

The residential area was fully ready for use, and no small number of witches had already moved in.

Of course, they were not the witches from the Huaisan Sanctuary; since Bai Yi took the headwear with her, although their transformation was nearly complete, they were unable to cross the area barriers to return to the territory.

The current batch of witches residing there were those infected by spores that emerged while Bai Yi was cultivating the giant trees needed for the Giant Tree City the day before.

At that time, Bai Yi had not yet realized her own "lethality"; it was only after she entered the instance that this ability to infect truly came into effect.

Even without deliberate spreading, close to half of the populace in Eternal Life City had successfully transformed into witches by this point.

And with the help of these witches, the remaining work on areas like entertainment were in the final stages and on the verge of completion.

When Bai Yi glanced over at the twenty giant trees, she saw they had already been tidily shaped and arranged; tree houses were built around the tree trunks and hanging roots, interconnected with various suspended bridges and pathways.

Eventually, they all converged on a church-like building constructed on the most central giant tree.

Without needing further explanation, Bai Yi knew this was her own church.

Although the collection of Admirers through Faith was no longer needed due to the witches, the Church was still preserved, becoming a symbol of faith mentioned amongst the residents below and the witches in the trees.

Of course, that included the Mutant Creatures of the back mountain.

With the addition of the Snake Mother’s brood, the small city in the back mountain was taking shape.

The monkey tribe, which had the deepest interaction with the territory, had even begun learning various knowledge and some joined Bai Gong’s workshop and Nong Yi’s cultivation team.

The once snow-covered and abandoned fields on the back mountain were put to use again, becoming the cultivation lands for the monkeys.

Nong Yi had found a new small plain upstream of Red River, and with the help of three interested Forest Elves, they had transformed it into the new farmland for the territory.

In the reports submitted this time, he had applied to Bai Yi for the permission to plant a few giant trees along the river near the farmland.

Not only would they not block the sunlight for the crops, but they could also use the magic power amplification effects brought by the giant trees to accelerate crop growth.

And around Eternal Life City, the harvest of the farmland had been completed, ready for the expansion of Giant Tree City.

Under the super high magic environment provided by the giant trees and You, the growth rate of these crops was exceptionally fast.

"Later, I will quickly arrange for the giant trees and take advantage of the night to continue the construction. After all, the growth of the giant trees and the Swarm’s construction won’t rest at night.

Otherwise, when the witches from Huaisan Sanctuary arrive, the current Giant Tree City might struggle to accommodate them..."

Continuing to read through all the remaining reports, she also approved the few applications there were.

Taking out the card that sealed the ships from the instance, she handed it to an Erosion Worm to send via the Teleportation Gate to Bai Sheng.

Two days after heading to Area 28, Bai Sheng had occupied all the land she could reach and even had an encounter with two Lord Rank individuals commanding naval forces.

However, as they were strong and very cautious, they quickly left before Bai Sheng could gather more Insect Swarms after their initial contact, and thus, were not captured.

Although the gains were not substantial, Bai Sheng was not idle, instead focusing on collecting information in the channel.

She learned that those two Captains were actually the strongest two Lords in the area and also obtained information about the region’s Beast King and the sanctuary.

Indeed, even in the midst of the sea, there existed native forces.

However, they did not proclaim themselves as sanctuaries but rather as a massive fleet joined by mutual support.

Though there weren’t many dangers at sea and food wasn’t abundant, they still sustained a population of nearly twenty thousand.

Bai Yi is starting to suspect that this could be a game design, deliberately divided according to the natives’ settlements.

And their general location has been scouted by Bai Sheng as well, just waiting for Bai Yi’s ship, and she can take the Insect Swarm to sea, bringing back a batch of witches for Bai Yi first.

"It seems that I need to expand Giant Tree City quickly, otherwise the witches at Huaisan Sanctuary will have been fully transformed, and Bai Sheng is also preparing to bring back a batch.

That’s over 40,000 people, at least three times the expansion of the current Giant Tree City...

What a daunting task..." Bai Yi sighed, preparing to disconnect from the Swarm Network and start her own tree-planting work, when she suddenly received a blockbuster message from Shang Ji.

"Master, just now, the second Fourth-tier Lord has emerged in White Poplar City!"

Bai Yi immediately perked up, hurriedly opening the rankings and saw that name ranked behind her own.

"I didn’t expect that the first one to ascend wasn’t Iron Blood or Jun Lin, but it turned out to be Corpse King?"

......

White Poplar City district, Dead Tide Sanctuary

"Director, are you alright! You just now..."

Uncle Dong nervously fumbled, just a moment ago Corpse King was fine, saying he was going to ascend to Lord Rank, but in the blink of an eye, he grunted and almost passed out.

If it hadn’t been for Corpse King who had said before not to let people disturb him, he would have considered calling the Doctors from the territory.

"I’m fine..."

With her robust body, Corpse King barely regained some mobility, and uttered a word that reassured Uncle Dong.

She had no idea that ascending attributes after Rank 4 of Lord Rank would come with such pain.

If it hadn’t been for her acquisition in that instance of a zombie-like enhancement system, which made her flesh comparable to a Fifth-tier Zombie, even reaching the level of a Fifth-tier Mutant Creature specialized in physical prowess, she might not have adapted so quickly.

That planet within the instance was also engulfed in a mutation disaster, but their Zombie strength was considerably stronger.

Furthermore, there were no Mutant Creatures outdoors, all the wild creatures were zombies infected by some virus.

Many powerful beings could even break free from her superpower, let alone obediently follow orders; the majority could actively attack her, the "Corpse King".

The humans in that instance did not possess superpowers, but had found a controllable form of zombification, using the virus to enhance themselves and forging a special Martial Path.

They used the Zombie virus to strengthen themselves and cultivated martial skills to the extent of splitting mountains and cleaving seas.

Matching her own superpower, she could ignore the side effects, quickly utilizing the world’s Enhancing Potions (Zombie serum) to strengthen herself.

This allowed her to achieve the Outer Realm Level, which is a Fifth-tier standard, within the preceding days.

However, this form of Fifth-tier consisted only of raw physical power, and an Outer Realm was only capable of using its own strength to forcibly induce phenomena from the external world.

In other words, she is now a crude Martial Artist, somewhat lacking compared to the true power of a Fifth-tier.

"Alright, I’m fine. The territory has reached Fourth-tier, and it’s time for the Sanctuary to expand.

Conquest...

One hundred thousand people..."

Corpse King read the panel’s prompt and understood a lot.

"Admirers actually have such effect, what path is Fan Mao following?

And even with this Conquest ability at hand, despite the Lord Rank ascension mission requirements, Fan Mao remains inactive during this event, even supporting the cessation of the war...

It seems that Fan Mao is indeed kind-hearted, otherwise if someone were to massacre for the sake of ascension, with the strength of Fourth-tier, one could potentially sweep through White Poplar City and quickly gather the needed territory for ascension before everyone else could react.

Is she planning to take over the wild territories?"

Very soon, Corpse King thought that the other half of this ascension mission required a whole one hundred thousand beings, which could take a long time to collect.

In comparison, it was acceptable to procure the wild territories within a month.

Moreover, Fan Mao’s reputation among the Lords is not low, if it weren’t for her recent help on the fringe of the region, earnestly collecting as many Admirers as possible through her deeds, completing ascension.

Presumably, Fan Mao will gain even more; to give up so many Admirers for a mission that can be completed quickly or slowly would indeed not be wise.

"But that being said, how did Fan Mao breakthrough to Fourth-tier?

At that time, the Cycle Challenge hadn’t even begun, it seems she had just returned from an instance?

Did she find a way to bring out enough population from the instance, with Fan Mao’s ability, she could certainly sustain that many humans.

Or is it..."

Corpse King looked up in the southeast direction, wondering about something...

......

Outer Realm Martial Artists: Harnessing the great power of the Dantian Internal Realm to induce external phenomena, replacing the universe with inner vision to achieve control over natural forces, calling forth thunder, ice, floods of sunshine, freely riding the wind, and some can even split rivers and seas apart...