The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 237 - 149: Abnormality Upgrade Medium

Consciousness entering the network, Bai Yi saw the mysterious Battle Zone discovered by the returning cats’ memories.

"Indeed, it borders White Poplar City. According to the map, it’s the mountainous area to the north of White Poplar City?

At that time, I thought the northern mountains were too troublesome, so I chose not to explore them. Turns out I missed this special large area...

Is there one in the sea?"

Bai Yi suddenly thought that if this Cycle Challenge truly involves all areas, then the Ocean Captains who differ greatly from the Land Lords would definitely have their own "Battle Zone."

Could it be in the direction of the deep sea?

Bai Yi recalled the subtle curvature formed by the borders of Area 28 and Area 27 facing the ocean. Previously, the existence of Battle Zones was unknown so such curvatures were not seen as special clues.

The cats were tasked again to rush to the sea.

"Although this Battle Zone has natives and is not entirely ’uninhabited’, there are indeed no Lords; it’s an entirely empty, new area.

And its area is also much larger than White Poplar City, almost ten times larger!

No, maybe not that large, but seven or eight times larger for sure, and conservatively, this area must border at least ten different regions..."

Bai Yi, looking at the Battle Zone discovered by the cats, constructed a rough mock-up in her mind and made her conjecture.

However, good news is that this Battle Zone seems to also border the area number 34, which she has conquered.

Huai Mountain Hills is part of the northern mountains to the south, and the number of participating regions is calculated based on the length of the boundaries that these two regions share with the Battle Zone.

Although theoretically, now that the Battle Zone has been discovered, irrespective of other Lords’ territories, there should be at least some exploration and intelligence gathering done.

However, there are still exactly 3 days until this area opens up—ah, now it should be 2 days, 23 hours, and 21 minutes.

With her current abilities, not to mention exploring, she could level it in a day if she wanted to strike.

But after all, it is still an entire area’s event, she decided to let other Lords have a sense of participation and suppress her own strength in this battle.

This, of course, does not mean she has given up on this challenge, just that she isn’t deploying all her forces in "this" Battle Zone.

She has access to other battle zones in the sea that she can leverage.

But that would be a task for Bai Sheng, and since there’s still some time before the challenge begins, there’s no hurry.

Consciousness leaving the network, and having learned all the updates of this cycle, Bai Yi finally has time to delve into the rewards she has received.

The rankings have been resolved, and Bai Yi, who topped all three lists, claimed all the rewards.

The types of rewards were similar to previous ones, distributed according to the different ranking lists.

For instance, the Territory Ranking provided various architectural blueprints, Personal Combat Power included extremely powerful personal weapons, and Comprehensive Combat Power always involved soldier-related upgrade items.

This time was no exception.

The Comprehensive Combat Power list offered an item that could upgrade the Barracks to a 4-tier Gold Level—a precious commodity for other Lords.

The Territory list provided an item that was also beneficial for Bai Yi, capable of upgrading a major or gigantic architectural blueprint.

With several non-living type buildings already in her territory, not only could these be upgraded, but new knowledge might also be gleaned.

The only surprise for Bai Yi was that this time the Personal Combat Power ranking actually gave her a rather good reward.

It was a special Magic Weapon, named the "Spear of Faith," which could gather faith in her as strength for empowerment, its power potentially peaking at a Tier 6 strike.

If it were merely a weapon providing pure attack capability, it wouldn’t be considered useful for Bai Yi.

But its specialty lies in the fact it’s not an Abnormal Object but a normal piece of equipment created using Magic Runes; this means it can provide new knowledge to the witches, and even be mass-produced!

Bai Fa had also returned, so when Bai Yi meets her later, she can pass it along together with the building upgrade certificate and possibly new knowledge, keeping Bai Fa quite busy.

Having decided the allocation of the rewards from several lists, she finally gets to what she anticipates the most.

"Abnormality Upgrade Certificate...

The consumption isn’t clear yet, the quantity is limited so impulsiveness must be avoided, first gather all the current Abnormal Objects for testing..."

With the network in place, Abnormal Objects—being limited in quantity and somewhat dangerous—are naturally all labeled.

In just over ten seconds, the Abnormal Objects from various locations within the territory gathered before Bai Yi.

Included were the wind chime hanging in a tree hollow from the earliest days in Bai Yi’s possession, the longsword that had become Bai Sheng’s weapon, and the Just Balance that played a significant role in all past battles, big and small.

Also, there were relics from a Tier 3 instance that were brought back this time, left behind by a Witch; they were mostly already in possession of the Church of that world before the witches entered the instance.

It was the result of the Church’s long-standing witch hunts, and also became an important weapon for their later witch hunts.

When Bai Yi saw them, she had already received corresponding information from the memories of newly network-connected witches through the network.

But Bai Yi’s gaze quickly settled on one of the items, an exceptional case among these Witch Relics.

It wasn’t from the Church’s collection but was personally hunted by the witches, a relic left by the strongest witch in that world who almost reached the 6th Tier.

For some reason, she always felt this Witch Relic had a certain delicate elegance...

Ah, no, it’s more accurate to say it attracted her significantly.

She had encountered a similar situation before, where a Fragment of the Forest Elf had fused inside her body, granting her the 5th Tier Combat Power ahead of time.

Could this time be the same...?

Online research had already yielded the ability associated with this Witch Relic, which appeared extremely similar to hers, both oriented around life.

However, this witch seemed to bestow life force in a more straightforward manner, while her modification of life was more targeted, with only Accelerated Growth as a similar ability.

More conjectures were mere speculation; since she now possessed the Witch Relic, trying it directly would be the best method of verification.

Reaching out to grab the relic, even before Bai Yi could feel its power, a panel notification popped up.

[You’ve touched a special Abnormal Object?¿?, with an extremely high compatibility rate with superpower, would you fuse?]

[Note: Post-fusion the superpower will undergo some benign changes, it will not advance in Superpower Tier, no side effects, but the requirements for advancement will increase]

"Hmm? Fusion?

Does it mean directly obtaining the abilities of this Abnormal Object?"

This is indeed an Abnormal Object capable of reaching the 5th Tier!

Although the panel’s prompt was tempting, Bai Yi wasn’t impulsive.

Even the Forest Elf had to rely on rituals to step up incrementally, but this Witch Relic could merge directly?

However, when Bai Yi recalled the "Witches" from that instance, they also inherently possessed "God-given talents" and needed no payment as long as they could withstand the power.

Ordinarily before they become Witches, they were just humans; acquiring powerful abilities suddenly and failing to support them physically leading to a loss of control was entirely normal.

But she was different, already enhanced by the Forest Elf, and her genetic entries had pushed her physical condition to the peak of the 5th Tier.

It seemed reasonable to easily withstand another 5th Tier Abnormal Object with high compatibility.

Bai Yi guessed that maybe these witches’ ability systems were similar to the Divine Fragment she obtained, hence the similar outcomes, which also might have been why that witch couldn’t reach the 6th Tier.

Because the original tier of her power already limited her.

"But this won’t be a limitation for me, since I can fuse now, why not try to upgrade it first?"

Bai Yi hadn’t forgotten her original objective; she was ready to test the Abnormality Upgrade Medium she had obtained.

It was just the appearance of this Witch Relic that had interrupted her.

Suppressing her desire to immediately devour it, Bai Yi took out the upgrade medium, trying each of the Abnormal Objects she held one by one.

Most Abnormal Objects prompted for just one upgrade medium during the trial, except just balance needed ten.

This includes both the already fused You and herself, both needing only one.

If she only had the 10 upgrade mediums on hand, Bai Yi would certainly hesitate, but given that she could still exchange them in the Points Mall for the Area annexation task, she decided to test her hand first.

As for the target, Bai Yi set her sights on this Witch Relic.

[Would you use an Abnormality Upgrade Medium on the Abnormal Object?¿?, after the upgrade the Abnormal Object is irreversible]

The upgrade process, done at one-step, was very quick, taking just over ten seconds, Bai Yi picked it up again when the panel’s prompt had changed.

The prompt about no side effects was gone, now indicating that fusion at her current tier might cause some negative effects and hence attributes or tier should be enhanced before use.

If it could be solved by enhancing attributes, to Bai Yi, that wasn’t a problem.

She remembered distinctly that Bai Fa had pulled a bunch of Beastmen from other Land Lords for her, judging from her experience, those Beastmen definitely held more attribute-enhancing genes!

And when Bai Yi wanted to use the medium on it again, its consumption had reached ten, the same as just balance.

"Indeed, so the tier of the balance is more powerful than other Abnormal Objects?

No wonder its effects are so distinct...

Based on last time’s feedback when the balance was used on a 6th Tier during the encirclement of the giant deer in Zone 34, it was noticeably more difficult, now that this 5th Tier Witch Relic upgraded to the 6th Tier matches the consumption of the balance, which corroborates the tier of the balance."

After testing, she roughly understood the consumption of these Abnormal Objects and mediums, and the remaining nine upgrade mediums Bai Yi already decided on.

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Faith: A special force, largely imperceptible to ordinary people, but as one climbs higher in rank, the understanding of faith becomes clearer, and even attempts to utilize faith as a special type of Magic Power are possible. However, as it doesn’t originate from oneself, if no special techniques are applied, it tends to produce negative effects when used...

[Note: A seasoned Hunter Witch must be well-versed in the study of faith, only then through the Believers of Alien Gods can you find the lurking Gods]