The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 233 - 145: 5th Tier Zombie Controller

Late at night, downtown White Poplar City, Dead Tide Sanctuary

Less than 14 hours remain until the instance ends, and tonight is the last night before the settlement of the Cycle Challenge, with the final investment opportunity already used.

The results of the Cycle Challenge are virtually unchangeable by common mishaps at this point, with the dust having already settled.

Originally quiet for some time, the channels were now bustling, as many came out to share (boast) about their gains from this challenge.

Perhaps due to the "Great Cunning Merchant" Anonymous’s investment plan, the channels were abuzz with prosperity, clearly reaping substantial rewards.

Even though a significant portion of the earnings had to be paid to Anonymous due to the Contract,

Anonymous was more interested in the various knowledge and novel items within the instance and took a sizeable share of those for themselves.

Moreover, with the Great Lord Fan Mao buying up various unique creatures, one could also earn a bounty of resources.

After such calculations, they too had their coffers filled to the brim; even the weakest 2nd-tier Lords could leverage their gains to advance to the 3rd tier.

Thus, although those Low-level Lords cursed Anonymous, it was nothing more than lip service.

This was something even the Corpse King could deduce from their tones, just like during the last Cycle Challenge; she knew several Lords who, while cursing the cunning merchant Anonymous, were secretly seeking purchases from them.

Even she had to admit the brilliance of Anonymous’s tactics.

Maintaining high prices as a facade, clearly settling accounts, and establishing explicit rules, while discreetly dispensing some benefits in the shadows, they relied on quality to build their reputation.

Corpse King even wondered if Anonymous’s ascension to the 4th tier was due to this method, gathering enough Admirers during the last Cycle Challenge to finally advance.

"After this cycle, this Anonymous truly seems to have the momentum to stand on equal footing with us, the few 4th-tier Lords...

Of course, Fan Mao needs to be excluded.

No idea how that guy grew so fast; it’s like he doesn’t even let others play..."

Corpse King made a joke to herself, visibly in a good mood.

However, her expression wouldn’t have been the same last week.

At the start of the Cycle Challenge, her influence in the instance had nearly vanished; she could only cling to life with her powerful survival abilities and the martial arts she acquired within the instance.

Her Strength always centered on the Zombies she controlled through her superpower; she didn’t rely on any personal soldier type, and her Combat Power was very one-dimensional.

Yet, even so, Zombies, known for their extraordinary infective ability and even considered one of the natural disasters, shouldn’t be so easily defeated.

The Zombies she initially invested were at least 4th-tier Zombie Warriors, and there were even six that achieved the 5th-tier level.

Furthermore, that instance was set in a modern urban world dense with population, which should have only made things better.

That’s what Corpse King originally thought, but reality soon taught her a lesson.

The problem lay with the high-end Combat Power.

Without the special virus upgrades from her superpower transformation, the Zombies’ conversion did not enhance their strength out of thin air; a specific tier remains the same tier after conversion.

In that world, however, it is a High Martial world primarily composed of vast numbers of ordinary people and a few extremely powerful Martial Artists, making it hard to find high-tier targets for conversion.

Even if ordinary people did receive a certain Combat Power adjustment after being transformed into Zombies, it only raised them from ordinary people to the level of 1st-tier.

Congratulations, your combat ability has doubled, you’ve gone from utterly weak to cannon fodder with a combat rating of ten.

Other Lords didn’t even need to discuss the speed of bolstering their forces; they simply crushed her in terms of quality.

Even though she had prepared a batch of Zombie virus as material investment, the 4th-tier she converted was a mere drop in the bucket, not even comparable to the normal output of others’ Barracks.

Additionally, Zombies were easily denounced as Abominations. Even without the deliberate guidance of other Lords, they would be targeted by the natives.

With the concerted suppression from other Lords, her Zombies were at one point on the verge of being completely annihilated, almost exiting the competition in the instance.

During that initial period, she was almost forced to a point of desperation to seek investment from Anonymous, like akin to a last-ditch effort.

It was only later, as the first week was coming to an end, that she found a way to upgrade her superpower. She advanced her superpower a tier earlier, sacrificing one day of sleep, which allowed her to achieve a qualitative transformation.

She not only acquired her own distinctive strain of the Zombie virus, greatly accelerating the conversion and transmission speed of the ordinary Zombie virus, achieving the rate of an epidemic virus.

The mode of transmission evolved from the primitive bodily fluid contact to airborne transmission.

Most importantly, it allowed her to extract an advanced virus of the 5th-tier.

Even though the production was still limited, only a few hundred Zombies’ worth per day, spread out over a week within the instance, it was still merely hundreds.

But...

A few hundred 4th-tier Zombies per week cannot be compared to a few hundred 5th-tier Zombies.

After this, just one investment in the virus completely reversed the situation in the instance.

Not only did it greatly increase the transmission speed of the low-tier Zombies, but in just one day within the instance, the city they lurked in was completely overtaken by a world of Zombies, and the high-end Combat Power also reached a crushing level.

Together, there were more than five hundred 5th-tier Combat Power individuals, which was about the total number in that world.

Even though that world had 6th-tier Combat Power, it was nothing before the few hundred 5th-tier Zombies growing in a week.

I can only say, it truly lived up to a level 5 superpower, even though the instance was already more than halfway through and the other Lords’ forces were about to determine a winner, she still managed to turn the tables in one fell swoop.

After a month, she had already completed the annexation of the other Lords and took advantage of the situation to occupy the entire dungeon world.

"What a pity, those level 6 Martial Artists simply can’t be recovered once turned into Zombies, they can only be killed. It’s a shame that the instance I occupied is a Cycle Challenge instance; I can’t obtain the authority to fully access subsequent entries.

Otherwise, with the size of the territory there, I could have directly charged into becoming a level 5 Lord..."

The Corpse King’s face remained smiling, obviously not really distressed about the lost gains.

Although this instance can’t be used, she still has her own instances!

And the gains from this time are real, her Combat Power has undoubtedly reached the level 5 tier.

With such strength, which instance can she not harvest opportunities for promotion?

She had already calculated that as soon as this Cycle Challenge ended, she would immediately use the accumulated authority to enter the instance and quickly ascend to level 5!

Even within White Poplar City, given some time to develop, she was confident in securing a steady second place!

As for the first...

She was still very self-aware.

"With the resources brought back from the instance this time, the life in the Sanctuary can also be improved a lot...

At least, at least those children will have their own beds, everyone can have some leisure entertainment, no longer having to fight with all their might just to stay alive...

Thankfully, Fan Mao was willing to provide seeds for food, so everyone no longer worries about food, even having choices to spare.

Sigh...

I hope this Cycle Challenge will allow me to exchange for the exclusive blueprints I missed last time.

I’ve got to start improving my soldier structure, just relying on the standard Zombies is too limiting.

Even with an upgraded superpower and nothing to worry about in terms of combat power, a variety of soldier types can also provide more ways of fighting..."

This instance also served as a reminder that with extremely homogenous combat power, it’s too easy to be specifically targeted.

And her combat power depended entirely on her superpower, restricted by the strength of her superpower, once the superpower hit a bottleneck, the territory’s combat power would hit a bottleneck as well.

This situation must be improved!

The Corpse King’s attention went back to the channel, after a while not checking, the topic had already changed again, now starting to speculate about the next Cycle Challenge.

Even those Lords from the top ten of the rankings had joined the discussion, and she even saw Fan Mao’s comments!

This was quite rare, aside from purchasing plants or "spreading wealth", Fan Mao seldom joined other discussions, and could be said to be one of the most mysterious Lords in White Poplar City.

Even in the meeting of High Order Lords called by Iron Blood, Fan Mao showed up as a substitute.

Everyone’s impression of Fan Mao was that of a powerful yet kind-hearted good-natured person.

As long as you don’t provoke the other party, Fan Mao could even be treated as a high-tier npc that randomly drops rewards, a figure that could be called ’benefactor’!

After all, who else would give away level 4, even level 5 Potions just for receiving little flowers and grasses that they considered ’trash’?

If it wasn’t known that the other party was a Plant Series Lord and surely had ways to utilize them, Fan Mao would almost be considered to be indirectly providing welfare.

Not to mention Low-level Lords, even she was envious.

This time in the instance, she specifically instructed that whether it was flowers or grass, or even just the most common ants and cockroaches from that world, they should bring a sample back for her.

Even though after this instance she would have a large number of level 5 combat power, but how could one ever have too many level 5 Potions?

Ha, indeed, this feeling of about to receive a large harvest is easily distracting...

Where is the channel discussion now?

Fan Mao: "According to this trend, in the next, or the next after, Cycle Challenge, we might have to formally come into contact with Lords from other areas."

Fan Mao: "Moreover, following the nature of Cycle Challenges, the likelihood is that only one of the two will survive, or even more brutal..."

"Lords from other areas...

If it had been before this time, I might have been worried, but this time..."

The Corpse King’s face was full of confidence, and not just her, the channel quickly echoed the same sentiment.

With the gains from this time, everyone believed that even if faced with Lords from other areas, they would not fall short.

"Ha ha, this Iron Blood, quite opportunistic, but it’s also a good thing...

Well then, let me help you out!"

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Zombie Virus · Corpse King Type: Contains certain Transcendent elements, similar to special Parasites, but essentially a loose virus structure, able to survive in the air for over 48 hours, capable of rapidly infecting ordinary Humans, but for high-tier targets, a large amount of virus must be injected at once, tested to be ineffective against lifeforms like witches with high self-healing speed...

[Note: Although the control effect needs to be improved, the control method and transmission method are worth learning from, can serve as a future development direction for Parasites]

[Note’s note: Additional note, hey, you know, this stuff actually tastes pretty addictive, though not quite addictive, it is indeed a nice seasoning]