The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 204 - 117 Battle Report of Two Low-tier Instances

Chapter 204: Chapter 117 Battle Report of Two Low-tier Instances

"That dungeon world is indeed not so simple...

I thought so. As a Rank 4 instance, how could there be no strong entities in the background?

Even in a Rank 3 instance, a suspected Rank 6 Primordial Witch appeared; how could a Rank 4 instance be as tranquil as a Rank 2 one?

There is indeed hidden power!"

The next morning, Bai Yi didn’t immediately start cultivating the Fungus Blanket but spent a morning replenishing Shang Ji with some materials to meet the investment requirements of Rank 3 Lords.

Such as some Rank 4 and even Rank 5 Potions, and conveniently used the genes on hand to simply upgrade the Biological Armors, bringing them to a barely Rank 5 level.

After completing all this, just like yesterday, she began to check the battle report of the Cycle Challenge instance and saw the information concerning the witches going to war.

"Just mechanical drones alone, and they managed to catch the witches off guard...

Even the Insect Swarm is making slow progress and struggling to push forward; the actual Combat Power of these drones must have reached Rank 5, right?

Ah no, the Insect Swarm inside the instance has not yet been updated but already has the Combat Power of Rank 4.

It is only because the Poison Blood of the Insect Swarm counters machinery that they can barely maintain an advantage to press the frontline. So this is what top-notch technology is like..."

These drones did resolve a confusion shared by Bai Yi and the witches.

Combining the technologically-influenced drone swarms and the instance world’s seemingly intentionally guided warfare, as well as the mysteriously smooth network, Bai Yi immediately thought of a massive organization secretly controlling the world from behind the scenes.

Of course, it could also be Intelligent Machines out of control seeking to destroy humanity...

Under the influence of various movies and literary works, Bai Yi quickly conceived many possibilities.

Additionally, combined with the Rank 4 nature of this instance, Bai Yi realized that this all pointed to one possibility, which is that this instance is definitely not simple.

Although the Insect Swarm and the witches encountered troubles in the instance, Bai Yi wasn’t the slightest bit worried; in fact, she was somewhat excited.

The more difficult the instance, the more resources she would eventually be able to harvest.

Initially, she was just interested in those modern technologies, as well as the massive number of witches that could ultimately be converted, but now it seemed that her gains would far exceed these basic benefits.

She wasn’t worried about the Insect Swarm entering a state of decline.

Now that those mechanical drones were fully at war with the witch’s Insect Swarm, it meant that the Insect Swarm no longer needed to hide and could expand to its fullest, voraciously absorbing Magic Power to proliferate itself.

Moreover, the current setback was largely due to the suddenness of the drone attacks.

The drones relied on their nearly undetectable energy fluctuations in a dormant state, and their mechanical nature meant they had no biological response at all, which is why even the Insect Swarm failed to detect those secret bases hidden among the mountains and stones.

Only when they restarted under some call, equipped with bullets, and began attacking wildly, were they finally discovered by the Insect Swarm.

The sudden emergence of a large number of enemies from the previously deemed safe rear area caused the witches and the Insect Swarm to be somewhat exhausted from running around, settling the rearguard.

As a result, there weren’t many Insect Swarms committed to the frontal battlefield.

After three days of fighting in the instance, the drones appearing within the Insect Swarm’s territory were basically wiped out, and the main force could be deployed to the front line.

What’s more, the investment authority was about to be issued, and she would be able to invest the updated Insect Swarm, whose strength would soon leap forward.

What Bai Yi was most concerned about now was the controller behind these drones.

Since this person behind the scenes had controlled this world for so long, it wasn’t possible that they only had these ordinary gunpowder weapons.

—These were weapons they already possessed before the war in the instance world began, which were outdated models from twenty years ago.

Even the witches have already collected some simple electromagnetic firearms on the battlefield, and it’s obvious that the person behind the scenes who mastered all the pre-war technology couldn’t possibly lack them.

Moreover, after three days since the war began, no powerful weapons had appeared on the battlefield.

Not to mention weapons of mass destruction like nuclear bombs, even missiles were extremely rare.

It seemed more like a probe that had not yet been conducted with full force.

"And this world still contains other Lords; since we have encountered these drones, they must have encountered them too.

Looking at it now, this power seems to be just at the endurance limit of a Rank 4 Lord.

I must remind the witches inside, they have not really experienced the power of high-tech weapons, have not seen the terrifying lethality brought by human pinnacle technology.

Otherwise, if they are deceived by the false appearance of this probing attack and become careless, they might suffer heavy losses..."

But Bai Yi didn’t expect her prediction to come so quickly.

Before she finished speaking, the battle report had already changed.

The stalemate on the front line was cleansed by suddenly incoming high-impact missiles; the witches were slow to retreat and lost over ten thousand people, and even the Insect Swarm flying in the air did not escape, losing more than twenty thousand.

In an instant, the number of witches was reduced by one-fourth...

Huh? That doesn’t seem too many?

The number of witches came so swiftly that their deaths seemed inconsequential in Bai Yi’s view, like mere numbers.

However, this loss also brought about a sense of urgency for Bai Yi.

It is indeed worthy of an instance corresponding to Rank 4; it is still somewhat reluctant to resist the entire dungeon world’s force with just one’s own territory.

But a large part of this is because the witches have not yet developed; they possess powerful attributes but not comparable magic power.

After all, the witches’ greater strength lies in their potential for future development. Currently, they are just in their initial stages, their combat power equivalent to a big fool engaging in melee with a Rank 5 Magician’s panel.

—They’re fighting against drone swarms with advanced technology.

If we’re talking about immediate combat power, it’s the newly researched Insect Swarm that counts.

Bai Yi quickly took paper and pen, writing down the important instructions that needed to be given.

Inform Bai Fa and others to cherish the witches’ strength and advise them on the Insect Swarm’s enhancement, writing down various cautions about high-tech weapons.

Pressed for time, Bai Yi could only write down the essentials. Hurrying before the investment permissions ended, she added today’s invested resources and the new Insect Swarm to the instance.

Bai Yi was quite confident in the Insect Swarm researched this time.

Whether it’s the enhanced Poison Blood and Space Armor Piercing abilities, or the newly acquired Energy Series superpower, they are all very effective against mechanical enemies.

Moreover, this time the Insect Swarm has been endowed with adaptive evolution; every injury will enhance their resistance to that kind of damage, and through spores, strengthen their companions.

Whatever doesn’t kill them will only make them stronger!

Once the investment was complete, Bai Yi breathed a sigh of relief and stopped following the witches’ battle reports.

After all, regardless of what the witches encounter, once today’s investment opportunity passes, she could not make any effective changes. It’s better not to look, so as not to worry about them.

This is confidence in her witches and the Insect Swarm.

Taking the opportunity, Bai Yi scrutinized the two Lords’ battle reports that she had only glanced over earlier.

During the last week inside the instance, the Anonymous instance’s witches had successfully found the corresponding clues and split off some to start the journey in search of the suspected Rank 6 Witch.

Meanwhile, the remaining infected witches continued to disguise themselves as local residents and began to play house with the forces deployed by those Lords, using rare Rank 5 Potions as bait to incite them to fight each other.

The witches took advantage of this to profit greatly from the war, and waited for the various Lords to raise their stakes in this struggle.

These witches had the privilege of viewing the battle from a safe distance thanks to their formidable strength.

Originally, in that world, only some witches pursued by the Church Court innately had combat power above Rank 4, while the strongest were the warriors from the Church Court, but they had at most Rank 3 strength.

The majority consisted of civilians, either Rank 1 or even without any rank.

This was an instance where those Rank 3 Lords could walk boldly—provided they didn’t provoke those witches.

But now, even before those Lords encountered the humans of this world, the witches had quietly assimilated them.

A group of mere Rank 1 humans suddenly became Rank 4 witches, witches that could reach Rank 4 in combat power just with their physical strength alone.

Even with some Rank 4 methods, those Lords wouldn’t entertain the thought of confronting these "local residents" where every "civilian" was of Rank 4.

Some of the potions brought out by Bai Yi were part of the investment for the two Lords.

Apart from these potions and basic materials, what was mainly invested into both Lords’ instances were the blueprints for the Magic Floating Island and the ship island.

Bai Yi didn’t demand they come up with anything specific but relied on the resources within their respective instances to try and complete the buildings corresponding to the two blueprints.

After all, in their instances, the witches had already taken a dominant position and fully controlled the instance resources, which they must make good use of.

Otherwise, when the instance ends and they emerge, Bai Yi may not even be able to provide them with a place to live.

Not to mention the witches within her own instance number four million; even after accounting for combat losses, a considerable number would remain.

This is several tens of times the number of witches in her territory; if they couldn’t bring their own houses, Bai Yi wouldn’t be able to provide so many Giant Tree Cities.

It just so happens that one of the two instances leans towards technology and the other towards magic, and both have the capability of constructing the buildings on the blueprints; both the ship island and the Magic Floating Island are huge structures that can accommodate a large number of witches.

Moreover, compared to the complexity of the ship island, which requires a huge amount of materials and purely manual crafting.

The Magic Floating Island’s main attraction is its ease of construction, with only the Magic Power Core and Anti-gravity Array requiring some technical knowledge, while the materials only need a continuous consumption of mountain after mountain for construction, extremely convenient.

The former can be thrown into the sea as a future offshore forward base; the latter is even more convenient, just floating around the territory would suffice.

"Maybe it’s time to have Furistin figure out a way to expand the farmland...

Otherwise, it would be difficult to sustain so many witches on such a small piece of land...

It’s also time to update the crops, the last modification was before leaving the instance, and it’s far behind now.

Once the Fungus Blanket transformation is complete, it’ll be scheduled next!"

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Witch: We are blessed and fortunate by God, but the power of God is not something that mortals can contain. Only those who withstand the test of God and Strength will earn the right of "adulthood," becoming a witch who exercises the authority of God...

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