The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 257 - 168 The Maid and the Plan for the New Soldier Type
Chapter 257: Chapter 168 The Maid and the Plan for the New Soldier Type
The last of the sunset had just dipped below the horizon, taking with it the final streak of twilight, heralding the arrival of night.
But in contrast to the darkness outside, under the giant tree where Bai Yi resided, a certain Sunflower ability hummed a tune, maintaining a brightness akin to broad daylight.
Even Hatti, who had been cared for by an entire region’s people for over two months, felt like a country bumpkin stepping into a big city.
Whether it was the real power of this territory she learned of today on the fleet, or the Witch City Eternal Life City she had just passed by, both were eye-opening experiences for her.
It seemed that her past self was merely a tribal chief who thought she held everything in hand, self-satisfied with her own knowledge.
It wasn’t until she finally became a part of Your Highness’s domain that she realized her former arrogance.
And as a price, she went from being a princess taken care of by maids in the morning, to successfully switching roles in less than a day, becoming a maid attending to Your Highness in the evening.
Of course, this was not against her will.
The chance to take care of the Primordial Witch Your Highness was an enviable position for many witches in the territory.
It was also the job every witch, including this newly minted Cat Witch, aspired to have.
Yes, her current identity was a personal maid who followed Bai Yi closely, responsible for attending to Bai Yi’s daily domestic needs.
This was a small punishment for her past actions of hypnotizing an entire region, as well as a utilization of her abilities.
Having just entered beneath the canopy of the giant tree, some distance away from her destination, the garden-park-like pathway eased her mood, prompting her to reminisce about everything that happened today.
Even now, the remnants of her human side that hadn’t been completely transformed by witch thinking still made her feel somewhat unreal.
Ever since she was brought back by Your Highness from the ship today, she underwent a standard process of gene extraction and witch conversion, and within less than half a day, she was fully dedicated to the glory of Your Highness.
Relying on the residual influence of her superpower, she led the entire region to surrender.
Originally, according to the plan, she was supposed to be assigned to the Witch Alliance Army, to join the expedition alongside Miss Bai Sheng she met today.
However, after Your Highness tested her and from her own explanation, it was found that relying solely on her superpower was not enough to achieve the wide-scale instant brainwashing that Miss Bai Sheng had imagined.
The nature of her ability was only to gradually change certain perceptions over a long period of influence, amplified by the Divine Statue Sacrifice ability, achieving a similar hypnotic brainwashing effect across the whole region.
She had no ability for direct combat.
That was also why she was initially hiding on her own ship, not even daring to leave her territory, for fear of being discovered.
Although in the end, she was still personally caught by Your Highness...
At this thought, Hatti couldn’t help but recall the feeling when Your Highness’s tail wrapped around her neck today; her cheeks flushed red, and her footsteps halted.
But Hatti had a wealth of experience with this and had significantly improved her Constitution attribute after becoming a witch, she soon recovered and resumed walking as if nothing had happened.
In any case, after confirming the poor effectiveness of her ability in actual combat, there was naturally no need for her to join the expedition; her presence would only be required when needed.
This was also the reason why she changed professions and became a Cat Witch. In terms of support ability, Cat Witches with the Space Talent were the strongest!
And as it happened, Your Highness wanted to study her superpower for usage in certain soul experiments.
So she was pulled back from the front line, returning to Your Highness’s side.
However, considering that she was mostly idle except for the occasional experiment,
Based on the principle that it’s better to be busy than idle, Miss Bai Sheng arranged a new job for her to be a maid, taking care of Your Highness’s daily life and routines.
The official reason was to correct the unhealthy living habits Your Highness had due to the experiments, and it was also considered a punishment for her hypnotizing the entire region.
Bai Yi had no objections to this.
So she seamlessly transitioned into her new role, becoming a personal maid attending to the Primordial Witch Your Highness.
As she reminisced, Hatti realized that she had unwittingly arrived at her destination, under the treehouse where Your Highness’s lab was located.
Hatti gracefully walked up the suspended walkway, eventually stopping in front of Bai Yi’s laboratory.
Her white cat tail swung gently as she held out a meal in her hands.
After checking her freshly made maid uniform once more, adjusting the skirt that had shifted due to walking and straightening the head veil to fit perfectly with the cat ears on her head,
She confirmed that her attire met all the requirements of a maid.
Taking a deep breath, Hatti then knocked on the wooden door as carefully as possible, with enough force to not disturb but to inform the person experimenting inside,
"Your Highness...
It’s about time for dinner."
There was no response from inside the treehouse, which was normal.
Your Highness usually wouldn’t be distracted when an experiment was at its halfway point, which had been confirmed multiple times in the afternoon when Hatti sent away the experimenting witches.
Swinging her tail, she kept the meal back in the superpower storage space and patiently waited in front of the wooden door.
After about ten minutes, an answer finally came from within:
"Hatti, come in..."
The wooden door pushed open, just as Bai Yi, modified by a mutant creature, noticed the dinner plate in Hatti’s hands and realized the time.
"Your Highness, it’s getting late. Why don’t we have dinner before continuing..."
"Ah, okay, just put it down for now..."
This was quite a new experience for Bai Yi, although having Hatti become a maid was her own idea, it was more of a whim.
It was only today that she discovered that Hatti had been indulging herself since arriving in this world, relying on a not-so-strong Spiritual superpower.
In contrast, she was so much stronger than Hatti but still had to toil away here doing research, which gave her this idea.
She planned to make Hatti into her own maid as a form of punishment.
But to her surprise, not only did everyone in the network agree with this proposal, believing that there needed to be such a person to improve Bai Yi’s living habits and care for Bai Yi in place of the busy others,
but also Bai Yi didn’t realize the terrifying allure this position held for the witches born from her own efforts; even Hatti who had just become a witch was extremely willing.
She agreed immediately, selling herself and even counting the money for Bai Yi, arranging the scope of her future work in fear that Bai Yi would change her mind.
With Bai Yi’s permission, Hatti wagged her tail and a set of tables and chairs appeared on the open ground nearby. Various tableware followed, neatly arranged.
Finally, she set down the dinner plate and withdrew with perfect maid etiquette, also closing the lab’s wooden door behind her without disturbing Bai Yi’s dinner time.
Although it was a bit uncomfortable at first to be taken care of so meticulously, it was a good thing and much better than how she had been managing before.
No wonder Hatti was indulging in this lifestyle within her own territory, it wasn’t without reason.
But Bai Yi didn’t have time to ponder this and began to review today’s experiments.
"The spore’s necessary verification method still needs to exist...
You can’t completely ignore all conditions and start parasitic infection. I was careless today and a witch managed to grow from the spores without any host, drawing Magic Power on her own. Thankfully, I discovered it in time, or hundreds might have spawned...
But this method of reproduction could be kept, at least it should be a good enhancement for the Insect Swarm...
Scratch that, it’s not appropriate. For the current Insect Swarm, the reproduction speed is already sufficient.
Quick reproduction corresponds to consumption of resources, maybe I can later cultivate a special creature, treat it as a nuclear weapon.
When necessary, deploy it, using the creature’s rapid and difficult-to-eradicate reproductive capabilities to rapidly deplete the world’s resources, for destructive assaults on certain worlds...
Hmm, let’s base this creature on the Beastman template for now!"
This idea also came from Bai Yi’s memory, which seemed like a creature that appeared in an online game or novel, but Bai Yi didn’t know much about it and only remembered such a Beastman’s existence.
She had recently acquired a batch of Beastman genes, which only needed some simple modification to use.
They could also take care of some of the Beastman gene issues she noticed last time.
This was like how a hooked-on Master would not be able to resist patching up pits he came across on the road; as a gene weaver, Bai Yi seeing the illogical designs of those Beastmen likewise had an urge to fix them into something normal.
Now with a new creature cultivation plan, she decided to go ahead and start on this as well.
Bai Yi cheerfully set herself a new task before resuming her thoughts.
"As for the spores’ verification, they at least need to attach to normal animals first, then inject genes to start transforming the target.
Today at least I’ve delineated the body genes for witches, though I’m not clear if it’s because these genes all come from me, the witches infected afterward all bear a strong resemblance to me...
And they tend to be smaller in stature...
This must be improved to eliminate forced infection in certain details while preserving individual features.
This I should be able to finish tonight.
As for superpowers, there’s no need to worry about that anymore; it’s already become possible to express them successfully on transformed witches, and to transfer the superpower organs onto the external appendages.
The only thing that needs attention is to reserve as many specific biological features as possible to avoid always having weird external appendages...
Hmm, maybe fix a few parts, like the tail, ears, horns, and wings as special types, and only preserve those.
Maybe the eyes as well..."
Having planned her research tasks for tomorrow and tonight, Bai Yi finished her dinner.
Without needing a reminder, Hatti proactively came in and cleaned up the remnants on the table, leaving only the table and chairs.
Bai Yi wasn’t in a hurry to continue the evening’s experiments.
Taking advantage of the moment, she planned to first check the channels to see how the Battle Zone had been doing throughout the day.
The experiments tomorrow would still require a lot of mutant creatures.
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Primordial Maid Group: This group belongs to a special sequence under the Primordial Witch’s command. Their main duties are to take care of the Primordial Witch’s daily life and travel. The requirements for the maids’ selection are extremely strict, even to an exacting extent. It’s said these requirements were set by the first Chief Maid, but her identity is unknown...
[Note: Damn it! Last time the maid group exam, my Floating Island piloting was just a hair’s breadth from overtaking my opponent! Luckily afterwards, in the Magic Shooting exam, I sabotaged her, making her fail to get in too!]
[Note on the note: Well, looks like it was you, you bastard who shot all my targets and left me with no points, right!]
