The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 192 - 106: Sea Son (3k)

Chapter 192: Chapter 106: Sea Son (3k)

After hoarding for a week, Bai Yi had acquired more than three hundred various creatures through trade or capture.

Among them, about one-third are ordinary plants found by Low-level Lords around their territories, all collected by Bai Yi as her herbal collection and left after gene extraction.

After all, they are just ordinary plants, and the genes that can be extracted are not many, with most overlapping.

The unique part mostly involves genes that secrete various substances, such as natural rubber, certain medicinal components, and even some toxins.

The remaining part, mostly coming from Lords Jun Lin and Landon, are species obtained from their respective instances.

The former are low-tier fairy grass, which were traded for a good number of potions, while the latter, due to trading with Bai Yi, ultimately provided her with 50 species of Magic Creatures.

Those were the only creatures Bai Yi traded for, and although most of them are low-tier Demon Creatures like Goblin Slime, she managed to extract some genes she had never obtained before, perhaps because they came from different worlds.

For example, the Slimes from that world didn’t have the strong adaptability that she had encountered before; she could only extract a gene entry for shape-shifting creatures.

On the other hand, the goblins from that world could change their genes with environmental changes, providing Bai Yi with the Adaptive Evolution gene entry she wanted.

Nearly half of the Magic Creatures provided by Landon are various variants of this goblin, yet they essentially possess the same set of genes, paired with various evolution-acquired gene entries.

Although these did not reach the level that Bai Yi envisioned—able to evolve autonomously based on the enemy—they were still significantly more powerful than what Bai Yi had previously extracted from Slimes.

Because environmentally changed genes do not get eliminated but can evolve once again with a new environment, they are not stable.

Nevertheless, Bai Yi believed that if she tried modifying them with Mutation and equilibrium, she might achieve the effect she wants.

The remaining part came from the harvest of Bai Sheng from the sea.

Including various mutant fish species and marine mollusk creatures, she successfully extracted several gene entries for superpower and Constitution.

Besides the common gene entries specific to aquatic life, she also obtained several gene entries for toxins unique to marine organisms.

Bai Yi was forced to personally experience their effects during extraction.

If not for her already possessing a Level 5 Constitution and strong self-healing ability, these toxins would have been unbearable.

These gene entries, together with the earlier obtained plant toxin gene entries, were stored and merged into Bai Yi’s original toxin gene entries, strengthening them.

After acquiring so many gene entries, Bai Yi swiftly scheduled the birth of her new unit.

Spending a day’s time, the First Generation of this soldier type was born in the Red River by the territory.

Eventually, Bai Yi selected a gigantified form for the new soldier type, a jellyfish with a body width of twenty meters, infused with octopus genes.

With the superimposed gene entries for Constitution from the witch, this jellyfish named "Sea Son" is not as fragile as its original form.

Its semi-transparent body was filled with muscles, providing protection for the large brain structure and more important core organs inside.

The soft tentacles also became sturdier and more powerful, retaining the original Poison Stingers while adding a structure similar to the suction cups found on octopuses.

The toxins on its body are now an amalgam that considers Corrosion, neurological damage, paralysis, and magic erosion, among other effects, balancing both damage and controlling effects.

Once pierced, it would give the enemy a taste of the sour thrill of acquiring a string of negative statuses.

However, these are just its most basic capabilities; its true core ability comes from the brand new Talent that Bai Yi developed through the fusion of the newly obtained self-adaptive evolution and the existing Reproduction gene entries!

This was initially just Bai Yi’s test of adaptive evolution on it, attempting to Mutate a more stable version, eventually achieving the "evolution" effect indirectly through existing genes.

This "Sea Son" is not a true combat soldier type but is more akin to a Barracks, hive, or akin to an aircraft carrier in terms of function.

It is also the first Elite Boss-positioned unit that Bai Yi tried to cultivate, not a basic combat unit like the Insect Swarm.

Its main strength lies in defense and survival, while its actual combat power comes from its reproduction capability!

Apart from being able to consume vast nutrients and Magic Power to split and reproduce its companions, it can also breed offspring the size of an ordinary Human.

This is its true combat method!

Upon encountering different environments and receiving various damages, the Sea Son’s main body will naturally develop corresponding resistances, which can be passed on to its offspring through reproduction!

These offspring retain not only the same Adaptive Evolution but also the abilities inherited from the parent.

This was also a cultivation method that Bai Yi devised, referencing the Three-day Rice genes, ultimately combining and fixing the originally unstable genes through breeding offspring.

However, these offspring were different from the Three-day Rice, as the latter’s reproductive ability was deliberately castrated by Bai Yi, while these offspring were not.

Even under the effect of Split Breeding, they achieved a terrifying reproduction speed akin to that of the Insect Swarm

——assuming the supply of Magic Power or nutrients can keep up.

Moreover, the genes of these newly born offspring could be stored within the body in an undeveloped state, ready to be called upon at any time to breed corresponding offspring, quickly forming combat power.

Even during battle, if some offspring evolved better genes, these could be transmitted back to the Sea Son via spores.

Once the Sea Son stores these genes, it can continue to breed new offspring or directly modify existing ones.

Moreover, they could even utilize this method to temporarily modify themselves with already stored offspring genes before a battle, allowing them to make the best Genetic Adjustment for the operation at hand.

With these seemingly complex operations, these Sea Sons essentially possessed a low-end version of her superpower.

They replaced her gene entry storage with the storage of offspring genes within the body, and spore Fusion instead of her Genetic Fusion ability, although they couldn’t extract genes but relied on passive evolution.

But perhaps, just by allowing them to continue to develop, they might eventually become the unit Bai Yi envisioned, capable of evolving on their own according to the enemy.

Furthermore, because of their massive stature and large brain, these Sea Sons were not lacking in intelligence, even smarter than the average Human.

Even if they were to lose connection with the Swarm Network in the vast ocean, they could still form a small Swarm Network around themselves and continue the tasks set by Bai Yi.

Of course, the fundamental Swarm Consciousness under Bai Yi’s command was not neglected. By leaving some offspring along the way as signal relays, real-time communication with Bai Yi could be established.

Their only current drawback is the extreme demand for the replenishment of Magic Power and Blood Flesh.

Let alone reproduction, even their daily activities consumed much more than normal soldiers.

Yet they lack good means of Magic Power recovery, and even though Bai Yi had provided them with the best Magic Power recovery gene entry available, it only ensured they could maintain bodily functions without food.

Furthermore, unlike on land, there wasn’t a ubiquitous Fungus Blanket to aid in absorbing Magic Power.

Reproduction of offspring would have to rely solely on their Magic Power reserves.

For now, Bai Yi’s solution to this problem was to grant them the corresponding permissions to obtain Magic Power Crystals from her panel to replenish themselves, ensuring sufficient combat power and endurance.

But this method limited the Sea Sons’ activities to the territory’s world. Once they entered an instance and lost the territory’s resource supply, their combat power would be significantly reduced.

They could only breed a batch of offspring from their reserves, allowing them to hunt or even collect various minerals as food to slowly grow and strengthen.

Although even in this weakened version, if released, they would already be an extraordinary soldier type, even comparable to an Elite Boss. However, in Bai Yi’s view, it still lacked something.

But this was already the limit of what she could achieve in a short time. To further strengthen them, they would have to wait until the right genes are fused or better entries are obtained from other creatures.

At least for now, to use as soldiers for the Conquest of the 28th territory, they were more than enough.

Coincidentally, while the Captain and Mutant Creatures of the 28th territory were not considered strong, based on the intelligence Bai Sheng had obtained so far, they all possessed a power system known as the Faith ritual, even the Low-level Lords with certain special abilities.

And they could also accumulate the first batch of genes for the Sea Sons, becoming the nourishment for their growth.

"Perhaps it’s time to give you a name."

Bai Yi’s gentle gaze rested on the newly born Sea Son. Watching it reach out of the sea to interact with her, with tentacles that were thicker than her whole person, she extended her palm to touch the tentacle, bestowing upon it a name.

"Let’s call you Isamar..."

Its mission had already been set before it was born. Once she left, the Sea Son would be handled by orange cat, moved into the marine regions of the 28th territory to begin its journey of growth.

Withdrawing her hand, which had become somewhat sticky from touching it, Bai Yi saw the panel prompts that popped up again after half a month.

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Sea Successor: They are the offspring of the ocean, the Favored of the seas. If not annihilated in one go, every time you encounter them, they will evolve stronger than before, and the weapons that once killed them will become ineffective...