The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 243 - 154: The Biomechanical Plan

[Warning: Due to special reasons, Area 29 has added a temporary Cycle Challenge—Witch Disaster. The Cycle Challenge—Uninhabited Battle Zone will not be affected and will proceed simultaneously.]

[Attention: The risk level of this Cycle Challenge is extremely high, please be cautious, Captains.]

Not only Yun Dao but also Bai Yi, whom they speak of as the embodiment of their lifelong Faith, saw the screenshot of this panel notification.

However, it was not the same one; it came from a message Bai Sheng received from the channel of a newly explored area as they embarked on an expedition once again.

Bai Sheng’s expedition was a mission set yesterday.

This time, unlike the previous two times, which were for training offspring, her task was to test the actual combat power of the new Floating Island and the Floating Islands.

Both were successfully built after the main combat ended within the instance, neither having formally experienced the baptism of battle.

Moreover, this could also be an opportunity to test out some new spells that Bai Fa had concocted in the instance during this time, getting the witches used to spellcasting combat instead of picking up weapons for melee combat.

At the root of it all was the issue of too few spells within the territory and their lack of quality.

Faced with the generally effective remote magic and even more powerful and cost-efficient melee combat spells, the efficiency-seeking witches naturally chose the more cost-effective spells.

However, Bai Yi was considering changes to this; she had assigned some of the large number of witches that had newly joined the territory to Bai Fa, starting a magic research project, and even encouraged the witches to research spells independently under the name of the Primordial Witch.

The witches were engaging in battles far and wide just for Bai Yi’s objectives; with Bai Yi’s call to action, nearly every witch who had spare time and Talent joined this endeavor.

It was for these reasons that those who came with Bai Sheng, apart from the indispensable offspring at sea, were mainly witches as the main combat force.

It was only last night that Bai Yi finalized the plan, selecting Area 29 for their next Cycle Challenge, which, in the Battle Zone, was with Areas 27 and 28.

"Didn’t expect first the Insect Swarm invasion to trigger a Cycle Challenge, and now the witches taking the main stage have also triggered one...

But it’s also true, now that the witches have advanced with the territory to the 5th rank, even with lacking spells, they are still a huge threat to other Lords in different areas.

But...

Why is this time a temporary Cycle Challenge, instead of replacing the original Cycle Challenge directly like the previous two times?

This Uninhabited Battle Zone is surprisingly durable?"

But this further confirmed Bai Yi’s guess from yesterday, that this Cycle Challenge might not be simple.

Based on current intelligence, it probably envelops a large number of areas and seems to be playing an important part in the game progression.

And the purpose, as it seems now, might be to induce the birth of 5th rank Lords, and once again to massively reduce the number of surviving Lords, concentrating resources even more.

The previous Cycle Challenge’s instance was but a prelude to this one.

"Fortunately, with my strength, as long as I do not stagnate, none of these will pose a threat to me.

For me now, the most important thing is to figure out the Power of Faith!

Ha, I have to thank the King of Ten Thousand Beasts for this, didn’t expect that coming from far away would bring me such a gift!"

Bai Yi couldn’t help but smile at the thought of the memories and intelligence she obtained from the soul slice of that invader from yesterday.

In the afternoon yesterday, after the Lord who called himself the King of Ten Thousand Beasts was killed by her Soul Cutting, the soul slice was Fused into the body of a witch.

Although the opponent was not weak, since the soul slice did not possess the complete strength of its master and given Bai Yi’s million-level network, it did not hold out for a few hours before it was completely assimilated into part of the witch.

Her memories and everything else were now entirely within Bai Yi’s grasp.

She claimed her Lord’s name was the King of Ten Thousand Beasts, and her actions yesterday were indeed aimed at retaliating against Bai Yi’s conduct in the instance.

All of that was because her main body had underestimated the witch from the war report, even thinking that the witch had only won by numerical superiority, which led to her deciding on this plan.

Using the Beastman captives as anchor coordinates, her main body performed a Divine Descent to descend and destroy Bai Yi’s territory.

But she never expected that this plan would almost collapse at the outset.

Bai Yi’s spores had infected the Beastman captives, and she almost lost connection before leaving the instance; had it not been for Bai Fa’s research sustaining the link, this connection wouldn’t have lasted back to the territory.

What followed was the part known to Bai Yi; the Divine Descent happened to coincide with the territory’s peak combat power gathering for team building and was instantly killed at the speed of light.

Including cleaning up the aftermath, it didn’t exceed ten minutes.

As for how her main body fared afterward, since it wasn’t maintained by the connection of faith that Bai Yi had envisioned, as a soul slice, she was unable to sense what had happened to her main body.

However, a piece of good news was that, even though she was split off, she could still manipulate the Lord’s panel of her main body.

Only because she was not in Zone 89, she couldn’t use most of the features including the channel and the Free Market.

To put it in human terms, this panel was now in a read-only, non-writable state.

Bai Yi lamented it was a pity, as she couldn’t freebie the King of Ten Thousand Beasts’ resources.

After all, most Lords still use the Free Market for storing materials, and the King of Ten Thousand Beasts was no exception.

But that was just a pity for Bai Yi; after all, Bai Yi wasn’t lacking in resources, she just wanted to give the opponent a hard time.

Now, it could only serve as a monitoring tool, watching over the current state of the King of Ten Thousand Beasts.

But for Bai Yi, all these were secondary; the most important gain was the memory of the soul slice, especially the parts related to the Power of Faith!

Although the main body of the King of Ten Thousand Beasts was a dimwit in learning, with the enhancement of the Lord Talent, she still had a lot of experience using the Power of Faith.

There was even a lot of knowledge that Bai Yi could use, such as the structure of Divine Descent, methods to Bless disciples with the Power of Faith, and the creation of Divine Arts...

So, after extracting all the information from this soul slice, Bai Yi tossed it to Bai Fa to aid in the research on the Power of Faith.

This was also currently the most important research project besides spells, directly overseen by Bai Fa, while spell research was delegated to the numerous witches.

Bai Yi had already used the blueprint upgrades and sent the upgraded church blueprints along with the Spear of Faith to Bai Fa.

With Bai Fa in charge, Bai Yi needed not worry about this research.

What she needed to face was another research project discussed with Knight and Wade, who had newly joined her territory last night.

This was a possibility Wade had proposed during last night’s gathering with the witches

— to build a biological computer array based on the Brain Clan, capable of accommodating Knight!

And the accompanying plan, the bio-mechanical army!

......

Divine Arts—Soul Blade (Tier 7/Red): Originating from the Primordial Witch’s Blessing, this Divine Art can only be used by individuals with the "witch" bloodline, deals 10% Spirit Attribute maximum * 10 true damage to the target, and permanently deducts 10% of the target’s Spirit Attribute.

[Remark: Useful! Love it!]