The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 193 - 107 Cycle Challenge - Chess Game

Chapter 193: Chapter 107 Cycle Challenge - Chess Game

[Cycle Challenge - Chessboard: After the chaos, dawn finally arrives. This cycle challenge will no longer pose any danger. Lords can use the challenge panel to select and enter random instances freely with their units or Heroes, and receive corresponding rewards based on their gains after the event ends]

[Note: The Dungeon Lord cannot enter this instance but can check the system battle reports inside the instance anytime. An investment channel will open at noon daily for one hour, allowing additional investments into units inside the instance with limited amounts per investment, so choose wisely]

[All resources obtained in this instance can be taken out at the end or converted to points for exchanging special items after the instance ends]

[Instance selection permission has been granted. Please choose before the challenge begins; if not used in time, it will randomly select on its behalf]

[Note: If all units of the Lord in the instance die, the instance will end without any losses]

[Note: This cycle challenge will last two weeks, the leaderboard settlement will be delayed synchronously. Please seize the opportunity, Lords]

Continuous panel prompts pop up, announcing the two-week cycle challenge and the end of the clash between the two Beast Gods.

Bai Yi was just about to check the Points Mall this time, hoping to quickly grab some good items, but she was drawn by a phrase in the panel prompts.

She stopped her actions of entering the Points Mall and checking the leaderboard rewards and first looked towards the description of the cycle challenge.

"Reward-based cycle challenge?"

Bai Yi stopped and carefully read the panel prompts, looking up detailed information about this cycle challenge.

"Instances where Lords are not allowed to enter, yet daily support resources can be sent, and everything obtained inside can be converted to rewards or taken directly out.

This sounds good..."

This cycle challenge truly carries a rewarding nature, unlike the previous challenge which had only a cryptic description and plot holes, this one provides very detailed descriptions with hints revealing in-depth explanations.

Apart from not being able to see the rewards directly, specific information is mostly available.

The challenge starts after 12 noon, and permissions will be open one hour in advance, allowing the prepared soldier types to be deployed.

The initial entry limit is 500 combat units, with no strength restrictions, and there are significantly more resources than combat units - up to 10,000 units.

After 12, the instance starts precisely, sending all Lords’ soldier types to various corners of the instance.

Moreover, the instance shares a time flow speed, which is one to seven, ensuring uniform time benefits for all Lords.

However, Bai Yi noticed a description at the end which caught her attention.

"This cycle challenge will involve multiple different regions simultaneously, each instance will be assigned Lords of similar strength from different regions...

This seems to prevent Lords from the same region joining forces to disrupt the balance, but for me, it’s good news.

Having no Lords from my region means I can deploy all my power freely...

But, is this the beginning of formally letting us interact with other regions?"

After analyzing her own advantages, Bai Yi immediately thought of the underlying meaning of the cycle challenge.

This might be the first opportunity to interact with other regions before lifting the regional restrictions!

Of course, her method of using Abnormal Objects to forcefully leave the region doesn’t count.

Is this a forecast of the regions opening?

However, Bai Yi feels this might take some time.

This cycle challenge lasts two weeks, and Bai Yi suspects that the regular one-week cycle challenges may never return and might even increase to a month, two months, or even longer.

And now that she has already met many other region’s Lords and got along well with them, she isn’t particularly excited or thrilled about it.

As for matching opponents of equal strength...

Bai Yi is skeptical.

Not to mention whether anyone can reach her level with more than ten 5-tier soldier types in their hands, even if there is, it’s unlikely they’ll commit all their combat power.

Once deployed, they couldn’t be used for at least two weeks, leaving their territories without high-end military deterrence, potentially making them vulnerable within these two weeks to stealth attacks.

The rewards can be forfeited, but the territory is essential.

Moreover, each of her systems’ soldier types has rapid self-replication methods; while other Lords without barracks would have to resort to the most primitive methods to produce soldier types.

Even with the barracks, the spawning speed can’t compare to the proliferation rate of Bai Yi’s Insect Swarm.

But this time, Bai Yi does not plan to use the power of the Insect Swarm directly but as a trial for the witches.

Of course, this does not mean Bai Yi will debilitate herself and give up her advantage.

The first batch to go in will definitely include one of each type of Insect Swarm as breeding progenitors.

The main activities will be handled by the witches, and the Insect Swarm will only serve as the final insurance, responsible for building the main camp and clandestinely develop to the extent that it can level the instances, ready to wipe the floor just before the instance ends.

However, Bai Yi was considering the worst-case scenario. Under normal circumstances, as long as there are humans within the instance, witches can proliferate rapidly and quickly achieve overwhelming combat power.

After all, facing witches with the power of a 4th tier in overwhelming numbers, even someone not skilled in magic could knock someone dead with a punch.

Bai Yi took the Insect Swarm inside merely as a precaution.

"Hey, this Cycle Challenge claims to be rewarding, yet entails no losses...

Sounds pretty good...

The Lords outside the instance indeed suffer no losses, but once resources and unit types invested fail, they are all washed away.

It would be really interesting if some low-level Lords filled with hope were to face total loss near the end of the instance..."

She felt that there would certainly be Lords like that as the Cycle Challenge neared its end.

It’s like the stock market; while observing the rise and seeing one’s soldiers securing more and more rewards in the instance, there’s always the desire to invest more, in hopes of gaining even more at the end.

But when everyone thinks this way, they are inevitably bound to fight each other.

In the end, the victor takes all, while the losers become fuel for the victor’s fire.

Moreover, they are often hard to advise, even if the risks are explained, they still feel they will be the final victor and end up losing everything because of their madness.

"Heh, hopefully not too many ’fools’ will show up in White Poplar City."

True fools do not fall under her care.

This, too, is a part of natural selection...

With a smile, Bai Yi shook off these thoughts and resumed her walk towards the giant banyan.

Since the next Cycle Challenge posed no problem for her and there was still a full day before it officially started, there was no rush.

Temporarily setting aside the matter of the Cycle Challenge, Bai Yi rubbed her hands with excitement and opened her panel.

Last week, she annihilated an entire area, earning a whopping total of hundreds of thousands of points!

Upon opening the challenge panel, the rewards from the points leaderboard were firstly settled.

[Challenge Points Leaderboard Settlement Complete. Based on your ranking (first place), you have received the following rewards: Energy Crystal Coin*1, Instance Carry Permission Card (Gold)*10, Exclusive Giant Structure Blueprint Package*1, Abnormal Object—Witch Sacrifice Totem (Red)*1]

"I actually received a fixed reward?"

Even though the leaderboard rewards could be checked, Bai Yi had not looked at them beforehand, and now felt surprised upon receiving the rewards.

She opened the detailed information, curious about what these good items were.

[Witch Sacrifice Totem (Red): Each time your subordinate units kill a target, they accumulate a point of blood energy for the totem. Depending on the accumulated blood energy, the units’ damage is increased by +66%, and their attacks deal an additional 33% true damage. Each group of 10 units consumes 1 point of blood energy per day]

"Gaining benefits from kills, not bad...

Especially suitable for the Insect Swarm. Although the boost isn’t permanent and only activates during combat, it indeed doubles the damage.

And it’s quite easy to stack up; if necessary, killing one’s own troops before battle can also quickly stack up the buff.

After all, with the Fungus Blanket, the dead Insect Swarm could also be quickly converted into nutrients to multiply the Swarm back rapidly, truly a profitable gain!

Eh? Wait, why kill one’s own troops?

Better not to use that method if possible..."

The remaining two rewards, the blueprint package needless to say, as the Witch Clan within her territory had basically taken shape, even the Witch Giant Tree City was nearing completion.

It’s also time to find a moment to use a few blueprints to start new constructions.

The remaining Permission Card can be used to leave the instance, gaining an additional carry amount of a hundred thousand units, which is very practical.

Now is exactly the time she needs it, to carry out enough witches in her instance.

However, these rewards are just a small part for her; the real bulk still lies within the Points Mall.

Just like the previous times at the Points Mall, this time there were also different levels of redeemable pages based on ranking and points earned.

But since she entered late, the items in the Ten Thousand Level and the top three levels had already been redeemed, and half of the top ten’s items had already been redeemed as well.

Bai Yi didn’t feel too regretful; she first cleared out the remaining 13 Hero Unit Conversion Certificates from the top ten limited items, )]

then turned to the two exclusive pages in the mall that only she could view.

They specifically belonged to her first-place exclusive and to the special page unlocked with the hundred thousand points awarded for killing a Tier 6!

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