The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 253 - 164: If You Can’t Beat Them... Join Them?

[Special Cycle Challenge currently in progress, Zone Transfer Certificates cannot be used]

"F*ck!

Damn it!"

The King of Ten Thousand Beasts led the remaining Beastmen back to their own territory and began to review today’s battle after returning to their lands.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and in a fit of rage, he took out a spare Zone Transfer Certificate.

If I can’t fight it, can I not at least hide?

But when he used the certificate, a cold system prompt threw a bucket of cold water over him, and he slammed the table in frustration.

After raging impotently for a while, the King of Ten Thousand Beasts could only sigh.

Today’s battle had thoroughly highlighted the gap between him and the witches, and he had no hope of defeating the witches anymore.

"Looking on the bright side, at least the territorial barrier is containing them; they can’t get in.

I can also keep holding onto my Zone 89, continue to exploit the resources of this region!

If I can fully digest the resources of this territory, the income will be barely acceptable, plus there are so many resources from the Lords I defeated yesterday!

As for the Beastmen, I can use today’s defeat to spur them on, have them focus on developing the territory instead of always thinking about fighting and killing."

If it were an ordinary battle defeat, it would instead arouse the fighting spirit of the Beastmen, resulting in a burst of greater combat power.

This was also one of the reasons why he chose the Beastman race as his Favored clan and became their Beast God.

But today’s battle was completely one-sided, the gap was such that even the Beastmen could see no chance of victory.

Even they had to admit their defeat, quelling their previous fervor.

As a result, they were more obedient to his commands, and commanding them became a lot smoother.

Right after retreating to their territory, he ordered the Beastmen to start organizing the wounded and accounting for resource losses.

It was something he didn’t think of due to the negative emotions brought by today’s defeat.

But upon reflection, he found that the Beastmen, who usually weren’t keen on such tasks, were now doing so without any complaints.

Thinking about it, this turned out to be a good thing.

At least one of the Beastmen’s shortcomings, their lack of obedience, was now resolved.

Instead of always seeking war, they could become excellent tools for developing the territory!

Even the constraints placed upon him as the Beast God by their faith had subtly weakened, no longer needing to satisfy the Beastmen with wars, drawing on the Beastmen’s faith.

"This Cycle Challenge lasts an entire month, just enough time to digest the resources gained from defeating the Alliance, and a chance to resolve the chronic problems brought about by war.

From Rank 1, we haven’t stopped the march of war, leading to an unbalanced development of the territory.

The development of the territory is nearly non-existent, as all Beastmen pursue the path of bravery and martial prowess.

Even though I have deliberately promoted scientific heroes, the gains we should have attained from the instance were lost last time.

It’s time to develop the technological tree of the territory!

Just yesterday, within the defeated Lord Alliance, there were Lords who developed technology; I can grow with their leftover achievements...

And when the Cycle Challenge period ends, I will immediately take the resources within the territory and flee!

It’s too dangerous being so close to the witches!"

The King of Ten Thousand Beasts muttered his plan, began plotting out where to start developing his tech tree, feeling his mind working better than ever, when suddenly he felt a tingling sensation on his skin.

As if the Blood Flesh on his body had its own ideas, his entire head was itchy as if growing brains.

This tingling interference completely prevented the King of Ten Thousand Beasts from concentrating.

Ultimately unable to bear it, he went to the restroom in his room, planning to wash his face properly to clear his mind.

But when he arrived at the sink, the reflection he had never paid much attention to in the mirror struck him dumb.

The person in the mirror had changed from a familiar form to one imprinted in his mind.

That was...

That was clearly the appearance of those witches!

"I, I’ve become a witch?!"

...

"What do you mean, your real body became a witch?"

In the middle of the night, Bai Yi had just finished crafting three iterations of Space Rings and returned to the tree hollow to enjoy dinner.

She was visited by the soul slice of the King of Ten Thousand Beasts, now a Witch, who brought her shocking news.

The Beast King Witch confidently declared:

"I noticed it this evening.

Today, I was working with Miss Bai Fa on the storage technology of the Power of Faith when, during an experiment using Lord Talent to guide the Power of Faith, I was suddenly disrupted.

Afterward, I found that I seemed to have linked with my true body at some moment and shared some information.

My true body seems to have encountered something, becoming infected and turning into a witch, thereby changing her divine name from Beast God to the Beastman Mother Goddess.

She claims to be the mother of all Beastmen, the incarnation of loving kindness."

Although the Power of Faith seemed to have weakened for a short time, it quickly replenished and even became slightly stronger than before.

Miss Bai Fa and I both suspect that it’s because in the Power of Faith experiment, we simultaneously mobilized faith with the main body, hence sharing part of the information through the features of the Power of Faith."

The Beast King Witch spoke with a calm tone, devoid of any excess emotion toward her main body.

For her, everything had to make way for the Primordial Witch Your Highness, even if the obstacle was her own main body.

"That’s not right, how could your main body possibly transform into a witch?

It makes no sense...

Last time she descended divinely, there was no main body brought along, so she couldn’t have been infected, and there aren’t any other means of infection elsewhere.

Could it be that those Beastman spores from the last instance carried back didn’t affect her, but instead infected her own Lord?

Wait a minute...

Actually, it might be possible!"

Bai Yi suddenly remembered the intelligence that Shang Ji had delivered to her about the unlocked level 5 world channel.

She had only glanced at it briefly when she received it, planning to check it during dinner.

But she clearly remembered a name that had left a strong impression on her in that report!

"Could it be that Witch Expedition Team?

I was just thinking it might be a coincidence with the name since I chose the name ’witch’ myself, but now it seems indeed possible.

But when did I ever lose a witch?

I don’t recall having any witch go missing and being unable to find them...

Could I have missed something?"

Bai Yi murmured, as the soul slice that was still in the network began to search through the records.

"Alright, I understand, go back and rest."

After waving the Beast King Witch away, Bai Yi also joined the search.

But how could there be records of something that never happened?

Even after Bai Yi scoured through all the records in the network, all she found was a shared piece of information from a progeny in Zone 28.

In a certain sea area, it had mistakenly sensed the presence of its own, but when it went to search, it found no life forms that could be mistaken for its kin.

Eventually, the progeny’s mother thoroughly inspected the nearby waters and confirmed with the network’s information that no allied units had ever operated nearby, concluding that it was a false alarm.

The matter was not reported to Bai Yi, and it didn’t attract any attention at all.

The only possibility seemed to be this incident.

With a clue in hand, Bai Yi continued to search, quickly finding the battle report left by Bai Sheng when consuming the area.

But it was still rough since Bai Sheng had just begun learning to write battle reports; still, the incident was recorded.

It mentioned that Bai Sheng once encountered two powerful Lords in the local area. After a battle, he wiped out one of their fleets, but the other used some special means to escape the battlefield.

No traces of these two Lords were found afterward; they were suspected to have left the current region.

The method of escape was ultimately determined to be some exceptionally powerful Space Magic.

It was probably obtained through some unique Divine Statue Sacrifice, not uncommon among Ocean Lords.

If any place could cause the emergence of wild witches, it could only be here.

"If it really is this so-called Witch Expedition Army, this Lord named Yun Dao has some really nice tricks...

To reach the 5th Rank so quickly after being crippled in another region?

Perhaps becoming a witch played a part in her rise, but that’s still really impressive...

I’d love to recruit her to join my forces and work for me – um, I mean, to become a hero under my command!

To advance to the 5th Rank, she must have gathered 100,000 witches. And with the territory named Witch Expedition Army, she must have fought her way through.

She could form the second pioneering force along with Bai Sheng!

Hiss...

Wait, could those wild followers I sensed be them?

How could it be that after getting lost, they could continue to believe in me by some twist of fate despite being disconnected from the network?"

Bai Yi suddenly thought of the fanatic follower that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, which by now had grown to several hundreds.

Now it seemed possible that it was this group of lost witches.

"No, this capable witch shouldn’t be wandering outside.

We must find a way to bring them back into my fold!"

However, unfortunately, while she had deduced their existence, she was still in the dark about their location, and even if she knew, finding them would not be easy – she could only wait for an opportunity in the future...

Alas, let it be. What’s done is done; time for dinner~

After dinner, she still had to produce some more Lowest Tier Space Rings. She would receive her first batch of Mutant Creatures from the returning Lords tomorrow.

To continue her witch transformation project!

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