The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 195 - 109 Soldier Enhancement

Chapter 195: Chapter 109 Soldier Enhancement

[Cycle Challenge instance has been selected, the final result will be confirmed before the challenge starts, please choose the entering unit]

Although the announcement mentioned the option to "choose" an instance, the actual options provided were not many.

Moreover, it’s more like choosing a preference, sorting through the available instance choices, and confirming the instance before officially starting the Cycle Challenge.

Seeing this selection mechanism also solved one of Bai Yi’s doubts.

After all, the number of Lords ultimately participating is definitely limited, and Lords like her with a paper strength of Tier 4 are even more scarce.

If Lords were really allowed to choose freely, it would definitely not achieve the fairness mentioned in the announcement, ensuring that each instance had an average and diverse regional strength of Lords.

It’s even possible that some instances would have a pile-up of Lord choices, while others are completely ignored.

At least now the game can make judgments, avoiding possible mismatches where high-tier lords end up in instances meant for low-tier fodder.

However, for Bai Yi, it didn’t make any difference.

She had three choices this time.

The "first preference" was an instance of modern warfare, followed by a slightly offbeat strength system from an Immortal Cultivation World, and lastly, a globally mutated world leaning towards the paranormal.

The reason for prioritizing the first two was that both had a large number of humans, allowing the witch to leverage her strengths and rapidly accumulate numbers.

Relative to that, a modern world could offer a greater upgrade for her territory, anyhow the ultimate goal was to plow through the instances, and maybe this world could package a set of modern technologies for her territory, achieving a technological leap.

However, the gains from the Immortal Cultivation World would be quite less, limited to some cultivation techniques, enhancing the witches’ own combat power.

More importantly, Immortal Cultivation Worlds are too prone to the emergence of top-tier combatants, although the instance description is vague, once truly transcendent beings above tier 6 appear.

It would make it much harder for the witch and the Swarm to achieve their goal of steamrolling the instance.

As for the last one, not to mention the instance description states that humans have already suffered heavy casualties, it also includes a bunch of negative effects capable of annihilating-city level dangerous Abnormal Objects.

Although obtaining these Abnormal Objects would be quite a catch, it’s just too risky.

Moreover, it’s foreseeable that upon the witches’ entry and expansion, they could also quickly be discovered by the humans there, made alert and sensitive by various terrifying Abnormal Objects, perhaps even containing specific Abnormal Objects capable of targeted killing, making infiltration difficult.

But the other two worlds are different, where all abilities can be foreseen, and with proper operations, even if the witches fail in the end, the Swarm can be deployed to turn the tables.

Given that there are worlds with straightforward and high gains, why bother gnawing on tough bones?

But the final instance selection, still has to wait for the final confirmation.

However, the candidates for entry can be predetermined.

Firstly, Bai Fa and Bai Gong, the newly transitioned researchers, must enter, making good use of the sevenfold time flow rate inside.

As for the required materials, they can be supplied through daily investment opportunities.

And later on, when the Swarm inside the instance develops sufficiently, they can also produce enough materials to provide research resources.

Aside from these researchers, the rest will be selecting one from each Swarm to serve as a template, and the remaining slots will be filled entirely by witches.

"However, both Fei Wen and Engineering Ants still lack some enhancements, and need to be temporarily strengthened before officially entering.

Now that various genes are fully available, the cultivation of the witches and Sea Sons has enhanced most of the necessary gene entries, this upgrade only needs gene selection and then Fusion.

It’s not a huge amount of work, and we can get it done this afternoon and evening!"

The Engineering Ants and Fei Wen were both products cultivated by Bai Yi when she was at Tier 3 in the instance, and they have already fallen behind the current standards of the territory.

If not for the Engineering Ants being logistical soldiers, and Fei Wen not requiring strong combat power, they would have already undergone iteration.

The advancement of their abilities also requires further enhancement, but she has been busy with various matters recently, and this cycle challenge is an opportunity to prompt her to upgrade them.

The former, being logistical units, theoretically don’t need strong combat power, and were cultivated with that mindset at the time, making the Engineering Ants’ combat ability not outstanding.

Focus was more on allowing them to adapt more quickly to diverse tasks, such as flexible forelimbs, and various minor but convenient abilities for work.

Of course, this was also because there were not many gene entries available at the time.

Now, Bai Yi’s stock of entries is much more abundant than back then, and each entry is much stronger.

Just on the attribute level alone, it could give the Engineering Ants a small shock doubling, plus the enhanceable superpower genes.

Even without adding new functions, just replacing the existing entries could elevate them to the strength of Gold Level Tier 4, matching the combat strength of other Lords’ main soldier types.

And this is just a logistical unit!

And Bai Yi wouldn’t be satisfied with just that.

Although they don’t need to fight, they might need to work in harsh environments, so maxing out their defense and resistance is definitely not a bad idea.

To ensure that they can operate at high altitudes when necessary, it wouldn’t be a problem to equip them with wings from the Erosion Worm.

Moreover, as the prototype for the Engineering Ant, the original abilities of the Marching Ant also need to be enhanced.

Self-Destruction? How about a Poison Blood version!

Spewing fire? Just go for an upgraded version of Fire Ability!

The situation with Fei Wen is even simpler, given its size has already limited its capabilities. As a reconnaissance soldier, everything must prioritize stealth; naturally, increasing its size is out of the question.

In this case, forget about adding superpowers.

Given its small size, even if similar superpowers were added, the effect would be minimal due to the size of the superpower organ.

If there were abilities like Shadow Concealment, it might be worth a try, but the only creature with a similar ability, the Dog King, is already dead.

However, its corpse is still partly preserved in the panel. If her superpower reaches the stage of extracting genes from the corpse, then her Fei Wen could truly achieve "solubility in light" in a physical sense.

"Perhaps, it’s not completely impossible to add...

While using it for attack is out of the question, perhaps it’s feasible to add Wind power to enhance Fei Wen’s flying ability, at least the Wind power could reduce the noise caused by wing flapping!

The Magic Vision and Thermal Vision obtained from the Black Snake could be added, enhancing the original night vision and Fei Wen’s compound eyes!

As for Attack Power...

Why not add Poison Blood?"

Detailing the current possible enhancements, Bai Yi quickly finalized the upgrades for both and called for two corresponding members of the Insect Clan to start cultivation.

She no longer needs to update all insect swarms collectively.

Just by cultivating one and adding the gene for spore infection, she could spread the upgrade across the swarms.

This is much faster than updating in batches.

So long as there isn’t a morphological change, spore infection can achieve a silent upgrade, almost without affecting their work.

Once immersed in her work, Bai Yi completely discarded external influences, and time passed in her research room.

It wasn’t until deep into the night, past midnight, that the cultivation of the two Insect Clan members was finally declared complete.

The appearance of Fei Wen hadn’t changed much, but its functions had significantly improved, and compared to the original Fei Wen, an additional "Biting" ability had been added.

However, it doesn’t suck blood like real mosquitoes but instead injects toxins into the target.

The sting, marginally imbued with Space Ability, is sufficient to pierce the skin of Tier 6 Mutant Creatures. Although its length is limited, it’s enough to bury the toxin under the skin, maximizing the damage.

The venom itself has been layered multiple times, with effects like Corrosion, Paralysis, and Magic Erosion already maxed out.

While the effect might be lesser on high-tier enemies, it is sufficient to instantly paralyze Tier 1 and some physically weaker Tier 2 creatures.

Additionally, Fei Wen has also inherited the initial properties of Poison Blood; even in death, it manages to inflict damage on enemies.

Unlike Fei Wen, the changes in Engineering Ant are much more significant.

Its size has increased to match that of a Leopard, with a pair of translucent wings with a metallic sheen added to its back.

The forelimbs haven’t changed, still maintaining its original agile posture, facilitating quick adaptation to any work.

However, its abilities have drastically transformed.

Originally, their Magic Power ability stemmed from the Tier 2 Transcendent [Mage Apprentice] level, translating to just Tier 1 superpower, and the effect was weak.

Now, as its size has increased, Bai Yi has successfully crammed in all current Element-related superpower organs.

Including the Wind series that assists in flight, the Fire series calculated by Bai Yi, the Ice series that quickly reduces temperature...

Although she had to weaken the strength of the superpower organs to fit them all, they still possess full-fledged Tier 3 superpower standards, and along with its near Tier 5 powerful physique, its Combat Power has already reached Gold Tier 4 level.

On the superpower advancement panel, the requirement for a Gold Tier 4 unit is clearly marked as completed!

Just waiting for another condition — the completion of the creature building!

Letting the two upgraded Fei Wen and Engineering Ant organize the upgrade of their respective swarms, Bai Yi walked back from her workshop, quickly reviewing today’s territory report within the Swarm Network.

As today’s settlement rewards have already addressed most of the information, there wasn’t much left.

Bai Yi, who thought there were no issues, quickly picked out a noteworthy message delivered in the form of a business opportunity.

"Anonymous, already parasitized, can still participate in this Cycle Challenge?"

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Insect Swarm - True Jaw Insect: A logistic branch within the insect swarm, commonly found in occupied areas of the swarm, constructs territory, unusually high defensive power, almost impervious to magic or physical damage, effects are even weaker, and if not completely killed, upon returning to the swarm, this effect is shared amongst all True Jaw Insects...