The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 259 - 170: 6th Rank Snake Mother

"The temporary mission finally appeared?

Hiss...

This task isn’t bad!"

Having just completed an experiment and coming out of the immersive state, Bai Yi received a prompt from Shang Ji and saw the buzz in the channel.

Just moments ago, all the lords in White Poplar City’s Battle Zone No. 8, as well as the mainly conquered Battle Zone No. 5, received a panel message simultaneously, indicating that the first temporary mission in the battle zone was about to begin.

According to the panel, this was a treasure hunt type of mission.

Random special resource chests would be deployed within the battle zone, and when a lord collected them, they could choose their own rewards, including but not limited to blueprints, rare resources, and even some game props.

It even explicitly introduced that it was possible to specify some higher-value items and obtain fragments of that item after opening the chest, which could be combined once enough were collected.

However, these resource chests would not yield points and would remain unopenable until the end of the temporary mission, nor could they be taken outside the battle zone’s limits.

During the period, lords could steal them from each other until the mission ended.

As for how to find them, according to the panel, one only needed to come within a certain range to sense their presence, and once these resource chests gathered, it would further expand this sensing range.

After obtaining up to five chests, the maximum range would be reached, allowing everyone in the battle zone to feel their location.

The most important feature to Bai Yi was that no points would be earned, meaning she could completely unnoticed gather all the resource chests from both battle zones.

And she wouldn’t raise any suspicion with the other lords of White Poplar City due to an increase in points.

The final restriction was easy to deal with.

It was essentially set up to increase conflict among lords, with any lord gathering too many resource chests becoming a big target, receiving more attention and increasing the likelihood of an attack.

Especially when multiple lords in an area found the chests and brought them back to their territory’s camps, it was akin to directly publicizing their camp coordinates.

Not that the chests couldn’t all be hidden outside, keeping the fight away from the camp.

But without the camp’s protection, considering how much combat power would need to be deployed for adequate defense and whether it could withstand the relentless attacks from numerous areas was also a problem.

It would be better to keep them within the camp, utilizing its defenses to engage in offensive and defensive battles.

Hiss...

Wait, is this the purpose of the temporary mission?

To expose the coordinates of all territory camps, increasing conflict between them?

Although one could choose to carry the chests separately, it would introduce uncertainty to their safety, and the combat power for their protection would be diluted.

After all, there’s no telling if they might be discovered by other lords and treated as loot chests to be farmed.

But this was an easy matter for Bai Yi to resolve.

Wasn’t it said that gathering them would increase the sensing range?

Then simply don’t gather them!

Relying on the Blood Flesh Worm Nest, a network already fully extended throughout the entire battle zone and that could be regarded as the extension of Bai Yi’s will, practically the entire underground was under her control.

Bai Yi could easily perceive all the dropping resource chests in no time through the Insect Swarm, obtain them, and promptly bury them on the spot underground.

She would choose a depth based on the maximum sensing range to ensure that even if someone stood directly above the chest, they wouldn’t sense it at all.

Once the mission duration was over, she would be able to successfully seize all the resource chests.

Of course, if there were enough chests, she would still need to strategically release a few to mislead others.

For example, she could drop five chests at the camps of the lords who attacked her today to trouble them a bit.

Their attack might have eluded Iron Blood, but that didn’t mean Bai Yi was unaware.

From the moment they left the gates of their territories and meandered around, they were already under surveillance by the Insect Swarm.

Even their discovery of White Poplar City’s camp was aided by the Insect Swarm.

However, this was not Bai Yi’s instruction but a decision made by the Swarm Consciousness, which considered them, as fifth-level lords, to be the best test for the lords of White Poplar City.

In order to fulfill the "Gardener" duties given by Bai Yi, the Swarm Consciousness diligently nurtured these "seedlings" for Bai Yi, making arrangements for them.

This battle zone temporary mission was just a preview; the official start time is tomorrow at noon, and there was no need to hurry.

"Hmm?

Speaking of which, why is the temporary mission appearing at this time?

Usually, it should be a day in advance, with the notice appearing at noon, 12 o’clock, but this time it’s only 12 hours ahead.

Could it be because this is a temporary mission, so it wasn’t announced as formally as the Cycle Challenge?"

Bai Yi had noticed the time when she first opened the panel; the experiment tonight consumed more time than she anticipated.

To exclude the influence that belonged to her from the witch genes, there were too many details to be mindful of.

But to prevent every witch that assimilates to clearly display her mold, to avoid appearing like her own children, this was a necessary step...

After all, the purpose of Bai Yi designing subspecies for the witches was to increase their diversity; how could she then use genes to restrict the witches again?

In the last infection just now, under the assimilation infection of her Cat Witch Avatar, a successful individual of the Mutated Bear has been born.

Not only is the figure exceptionally tall, but it also didn’t inherit Bai Yi’s white hair turning green. Instead, it has long straight black hair.

It didn’t inherit any details from her, but it has indeed transformed into a witch.

"Just need to fix the growth parts of the external limbs tomorrow, and this update for the witch can be considered complete.

Hmm, maybe I could first try to assimilate all the Beast Kings within the territory, especially those at Level 6.

This way, the three aquatic Beast Kings can also break free from the restriction of water and provide me with combat power.

Speaking of which, I almost forgot about the Snake Mother. I haven’t paid attention for a while, and it actually surged ahead, entering the dormant molting phase for Level 6 advancement?"

Bai Yi’s consciousness entered the network and quickly found information related to the Snake Mother.

Although Bai Yi hadn’t paid much attention, the plan for nurturing the Snake Mother hadn’t been shortchanged or halted due to Bai Yi’s neglect.

This is also one of the benefits of the Swarm Consciousness, as no laziness or corruption issues will arise.

The Snake Mother herself was also impressive, wholeheartedly focused on cultivation, and successfully caught up, leaping from the weakest Beast King of White Poplar Mountain to become the one with the highest level.

However, since she hadn’t officially advanced, the Swarm Network also didn’t notify her.

According to Bai Yi’s estimate, the Snake Mother was likely to successfully advance to Level 6 in just a few days.

Maybe by then, she could be pulled out to lead as a Hero Unit, to be responsible for the Battle Zone.

After all, when at Level 4 she already commanded a Level 5 Hero, and now at Level 5, she definitely had to unleash a Level 6 Hero Unit.

This is also a part of demonstrating power.

But this is something to consider after Snake Mother’s advancement is complete, and for tonight her tasks are already finished.

Bring out the newly transformed Bear Witch and hand her over to Hatti, who has been waiting outside the door.

The latter accepted the assignment with a look of yearning, and took the opportunity to remind Bai Yi to make sure to rest earlier next time, before leading the Bear Witch away to arrange accommodation in Eternal Life City.

Only now did Bai Yi remember that as early as two hours ago, Hatti had come to remind her to rest early, but she had been immersed in her experiment and ignored it.

After all, with experiments, no one can predict the time involved, so she could only somewhat apologetically say "definitely next time" and hurried back to her tree hollow to rest.

The next morning, she woke up under Hatti’s care at ten o’clock.

The Mutant Creatures traded back from the market had already been delivered within the territory, and after a quick breakfast, Bai Yi plunged back into the experiment, striving to complete the witches’ upgrade as soon as possible.

What Bai Yi didn’t expect, however, was that before she could perfect her achievements, the Snake Mother had already brought good news first.

"Tree King, I’ve come to fulfill my promise..."

After advancing to Level 6, the Snake Mother didn’t come up with any tricks.

It also had the Swarm Consciousness assimilated through spore infection. Although it had been focused on development, it hadn’t missed out on the territory’s progress.

Or perhaps, it could be said that precisely because its usual cultivation was too boring, surfing the web had become its sole entertainment.

Of course, it knew that Bai Yi’s current combat power was more than enough to suppress Level 6 creatures, and didn’t challenge Bai Yi because of its own increased strength.

Knowing that the only choice now was to quickly secure a position within the territory through its strength.

Following the original contract, it came before Bai Yi and waited to be assigned.

In the network, the Snake Mother had already shared the gains from its advancement.

After advancing to Level 6, the range of the Snake Mother’s superpower had increased to a kilometer scale, easily able to control the rocks and dust within a thousand meters.

And the precision of control had also greatly enhanced, capable of manipulating a specific type of material amid the mixture of many on the ground.

This allowed for a refining ability, extracting certain specific materials from rocks.

For instance, it could directly refine metals from rocks and thus form metal weapons for defense and attack.

However, to Bai Yi, the more important aspect was the direct metal refining ability.

If it could be extracted, wouldn’t that replace the need for furnaces?

Not only saving on fuel but also more efficient.

Unfortunately, the Snake Mother had already advanced to Level 6 and escaped the range of Bai Yi’s gene extraction. She could only wait for another opportunity in the future.

For now, of course, the priority was to transform the Snake Mother into a witch.

Although the directly infected genes were not yet perfected, with Bai Yi’s personal involvement, these concerns were unnecessary.

"Since you’ve kept your promise, I will give you the position you deserve. From now on, you are the Earth Witch under my command!"

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Earth Witch Rand: It is said that she is the first Snake Witch, holding the power of the land. Of course, this is just a claim to the outside world. As the controller of the alchemy industry, the actual controller of the National Magic Metal Refining Company, the witches prefer to call her the Golden Witch Rand. Although later on, this title was stolen by an up-and-coming talent...

[Note: Rich lady! Hungry! Food!]