The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 190 - 104 Witch Civilization Construction Plan

Chapter 190: Chapter 104 Witch Civilization Construction Plan

The sun set in the west, and due to the presence of the giant tree, the Eternal Life City had already plunged into night.

Unlike the sparse lights below, there were, on the contrary, quite a few "lights" lit up above the giant tree.

Some were Sunflowers planted in the flower gardens emitting Sunshine, and a small part were white Light Balls emanating Magic Power Radiance from the wooden bases mounted outside the tree houses.

The former was the original light source designed for Giant Tree City by Bai Yi, who batch-cultivated the offspring of the Sunshine Sunflowers from the territory and planted them between the walkways of Giant Tree City and outside the tree houses to illuminate the night.

The latter, however, were one of Bai Gong’s recent learning outcomes from Landon, which were Magic Lamps that could be powered by Magic Power Crystals.

Having gained sufficient basic magic knowledge from Landon, Bai Gong had a much deeper understanding of her profession’s innate rune knowledge and was able to craft some basic Magic Tools.

The essence of these Magic Lamps was actually a Rune Array Plate with an inset for embedding, which, under a tier 3 standard Magic Power Crystal, could continuously maintain a month’s worth of light, its brightness not inferior to modern lighting fixtures.

But being a First Generation product, its functions were still very rudimentary, with only on and off states.

Additionally, because the main effort was in constructing the Giant Tree City and even the idle witches were participating, the number of these Magic Lamps was not high.

As you moved from the core of Eternal Life City toward the outer area, near the Red River, several giant trees were still shrouded in darkness.

These were the giant trees planted by Bai Yi last, awaiting the Insect Swarm to lay out walkways and gardens above.

This afternoon, Bai Yi had planted many more giant trees than originally anticipated—five to six times more, completely occupying the plains stretching from the mountain side to the Red River where Eternal Life City was located.

However, due to the impromptu increase in the workload, only half of the newly planted giant trees had their frameworks and tree houses constructed by the Insect Swarm and witches in a rush job.

Now, the planning of the Giant Tree City was based on district planning for residential use, meaning some giant trees were solely for living, while others were specifically allocated for commercial, industrial, and entertainment purposes.

Yes, commerce.

These were individuals with more free will, so Bai Yi decided to use follow-through, directly establishing a commercial system that included currency.

The whole system would operate under the control of Shang Ji, and it would only be restricted to the internal witch community, unaffected by the outside world, with no risk involved.

Instead, the stimulation of currency and commercial circulation would better spark the creativity and whims of these free witches.

Moreover, this system was also a test; if it could be stable, it might even be promoted among the lords of White Poplar City!

The commercial district, therefore, came into existence, carried solely on a giant tree.

The adjacent giant trees primarily carried buildings for other purposes such as entertainment or witch workshops.

The giant trees designated completely for residential areas could accommodate over two thousand witches each, and with the newly constructed empty houses included, there were as many as sixty giant trees available for allocation.

As of now, that was enough to easily accommodate the nearly forty thousand witches Bai Yi already had.

Once all the witches moved in, it would also mark the return of some of the splendor of the large cities Bai Yi experienced before entering this game.

However, tonight, Giant Tree City was not particularly lively, with less than ten thousand residents

— these were the witches transformed within Eternal Life City during the day.

Due to the contagion of the Witch Spores, nearly two-thirds of the residents in Eternal Life City had already completed the transformation.

This was also why the lights in the lower Eternal Life City had become sparse.

And today, because of the witches collectively moving into the trees, there were no further cases of transformation among the remaining populace, leaving Bai Yi with a playful thought to leave these pure humans behind.

As long as they did not actively seek it, Bai Yi decided not to transform them on her own initiative.

After all, she did not lack this large number of fighters, and they still maintained their Faith and reverence for Bai Yi.

In comparison, she was more curious about the ultimate choice of these people: would they actively seek transformation into witches to join what they considered the "Upper" City District, or would they continue to uphold their human identity?

One side is their identity as humans, while the other is the transformation into the favored clan of their God.

Moreover, the latter would grant them powerful Strength, and the only cost is the transformation from human to witch, merely needing to breathe in a spore exhaled by a witch.

For this choice faced by humans, Bai Yi found it very interesting.

As for the residents of the Upper City District, their numbers were nearly counted.

After reestablishing the Teleportation Gate today, the witches from Huaisan Sanctuary were ready to relocate, and they would all arrive by tomorrow at the latest to officially move in.

Joining this large family composed of witches from Eternal Life City and a small portion of witches brought out of the instance by Bai Yi.

Additionally, there was news from Bai Sheng.

Having received the steel ships from Bai Yi, she could hardly wait to set sail with the Insect Swarm.

Along the way, aside from capturing various Ocean Mutant Creatures for Bai Yi, it was all about pushing forward into the depths of the sea to find the native fleets of that region.

After all, this was Bai Yi’s goal and Bai Sheng even gave up the chase after encountering two Lords.

Of course, the lucky Captains they encountered would not be spared by Bai Sheng, who took them down with the Strength of the Insect Swarm and the 5th tier accompanying the ships.

That native fleet had as many as twenty thousand residents, also an excellent source of witches.

With these additions, the number of witches under Bai Yi’s command is set to break through sixty thousand. If a portion more is brought out from the instance next week, the day to complete the promotion task is just around the corner!

Returning to the tree hollow within the territory, Bai Yi listed a checklist according to today’s plan.

The items listed are either ones that people have exchanged for potions or names of creatures Bai Yi already possesses.

After all, these are online trades, so all of the traded items are plants.

However, Bai Yi hasn’t had time to deal with them these days, so they were planted throughout the territory, along with the plants traded from Landon, preparing to extract their genes when there is time.

After handing over the list to Shang Ji, Bai Yi began to check the trades completed by Shang Ji for the day.

The trade for special plants from the Corpse King was settled without surprise.

It’s just that the Corpse King did not collect them intentionally and, unlike Landon who could use talents to turn out Refresh Cards to enter the instance ahead of time to bring them out, he could only wait for the next opportunity.

On the other hand, after a little probing from Shang Ji, the Corpse King readily admitted to the Martial Arts System he obtained from the instance.

As one of the only two 4th Order Lords, the Corpse King has not hidden much from the senior 4th Order predecessor "Fan Mao", but instead, he actively seeks to deepen cooperation with Fan Mao.

Hoping to conduct more in-depth trades.

However, aside from his own Martial Arts Secret Manuals that the Corpse King could offer, he had only the advanced knowledge inherited from the old era within his territory.

Shang Ji, relying on a grasp of the opponent’s psyche (physically), successfully traded for various knowledge at the lowest price and thus fixed a number of trades related to building materials.

Recently, the number of projects in Bai Gong’s hands has surged, and relying solely on Skeleton groups from Zhan Yi as material and logistics support has become somewhat stretched. It just so happened that the Corpse King also had a bunch of Zombies with nothing to do, and they quickly struck a deal.

However, after this trade, all the assorted potions in Shang Ji’s hands were sold out.

"Looks like we need to quickly prepare a batch of potions tomorrow, and take the opportunity to train Nong Yi and the witches, and get the Witch Potion Workshop up and running.

It just so happens that the new farmland has been cultivated, Nong Yi has become available, and she is just right to take over the potion alchemy in the territory!"

According to Bai Yi’s plan, the few heroes under her command happen to form the basis needed for a magic civilization.

Including the potion and Magic Tools workshops from Nong Yi and Bai Gong, the Magic Research Institute from Bai Fa, and the raw material production overseen by Zhan Yi.

These workshops have been built in advance in Giant Tree City, only lacking the training of the witches to officially start operating.

Bai Gong needed to delay because of the engineering work within the territory, but now Nong Yi is available, and she can assist with the construction of the Potion Workshop.

After all, setting aside the negative effects of her potions, she’s still considered a master of Pharmacy.

Once the Potion Workshop is established, the potion output within the territory can be greatly increased, and no longer need to rely on her to mix them bit by bit.

And with an official Potion Workshop, the witches will have more means to carry out combat independently in the future, and the territory’s potion trades can also be loosened up a bit.

Currently, potions are Bai Yi’s only export commodity aside from the seven-day rice seeds, and are also an important means for her to maintain the reverence of the Lords of White Poplar City.

Originally, the potion output of Bai Yi was insufficient, and she could only take care of a few Lords. With the Potion Workshop, that would change, enough to cover every Lord with potions.

Although it is a semi-charitable sale and potions and rice seeds can’t bring in enough revenue,

Bai Yi’s real money-making business is not potions, nor rice seeds, nor the act of "Fan Mao," the great philanthropist of region number 33.

Rather, it is the Biological Armor and Bionic Golden Cores that are sold through the anonymous vest.

Under this identity, Shang Ji does not need to worry about any reputation issues and can operate entirely according to Shang Ji’s commercial thinking, targeting those 2nd Order and newly promoted 3rd Order Lords.

By relying on a bunch of 2nd and 3rd Order Bionic Golden Cores and some pricy 4th Order Biological Armors, Bai Yi has almost monopolized the basic material output of the Low-level Lords of White Poplar City.

After all, if you don’t buy such powerful equipment, you’ll be behind others.

Although after that meeting, High Order Lords including Bai Yi served as a deterrent so that no one would be annexed, the earned points would definitely be less than others, and the leaderboard ranking would be lower.

In this kind of implicit competition, more and more people would buy.

Even if they curse at the prices set by Shang Ji, they have to admit the effectiveness of the equipment is really strong, and they can only reluctantly spend a lot of money to purchase.

Even most of the Crystal Cores they obtained from hunting were gathered up by Bai Yi this way.

Currently, nearly half of the building materials in the territory are earned this way, with the cost being only the breedable Biological Equipment.

More importantly, these Biological Equipments can always return to their original role as Parasites...

Of course, unless necessary, Bai Yi would not use this last resort.

"Hmm...

Speaking of teaching Pharmacy, where should I start..."

Bai Yi suddenly thought of this problem as she prepared to become a teacher for the first time.

Trying to recall her own classroom experiences, she fell into deep thought.

......

Fan Mao’s Trade Book: A legendary book that circulates widely among every Lord in region number 33, compiled by the cunning anonymous merchant, documenting all the traded creature species known to Fan Mao so far. Any creature not listed in the book could receive a generous reward from Fan Mao; the book continues to be updated punctually every week. The official price is five Magic Crystal Coins...