The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 235 - 147 Preview of the Free Market Update

"Bug fix? This is the first time the game is fixing bugs in an update...

And it’s not even an immediate fix, but just a preview..."

Although Bai Yi is very curious, he didn’t immediately check the announcement.

After all, the announcement isn’t going anywhere, and it can be viewed at any time. Whether it’s the settlement of this cycle challenge or the Points Mall, they are far more important than it.

And relatively speaking, of course, the settlement of instances with time constraints is the most important. He still has three instances that need to be settled and arranged!

Clicking on the corresponding panel, Bai Yi first checks the specific settlement rules.

According to the rules, the final settlement score is divided into three parts: the first two are the performance score based on the Lord’s experience in the instance during this period and the reward score based on the Lord’s final ranking, which can also be considered as guaranteed base points.

One mainly values the process, evaluated based on the impact made during the instance period, while the other is based on the final outcome, that is, the fixed points given by the ranking harvested by the Lord.

And Bai Yi naturally maxed out on both of these, reaching the highest value of 10,000 points in each.

Simply from this, the points this time seem to be quite valuable.

The remaining last part is calculated based on the Lord’s final harvest; it factors in how much stuff the Lord ultimately took out, how much was left behind, and special resources such as the territory that were occupied at the end.

Moreover, there is one rule among these that’s particularly beneficial to Bai Yi.

[Note: Materials chosen to be converted into points will not be taken out and will remain in the instance. Special resources that cannot be carried, such as territory, will automatically be converted into points]

He had planned to leave a large amount of materials and witches within the instance to maintain control over these dungeon worlds.

Now it turns out that these things can provide help to the territory in another way, still belong to the territory under Bai Yi’s control, and there is even the opportunity to reintegrate into the territory in the future, making double profits.

If it weren’t for the need to take back some witches and special buildings, he would have the impulse to leave everything there.

According to the pre-set plan, this time in his own 4th-tier instance, he will take out that self-made gigantic ship island and two other ordinary ship islands, along with a total of 23 different Magic Floating Islands that have been completed within the instance.

On top of these buildings, there are a total of three Flourishing Churches of different sizes, which will also be brought out together and return to the territory to serve as the communication hub linking the territory with other worlds. freeweɓnovel.cøm

On the other side of the communication, there will also be three Flourishing Churches remaining in the instance. They will act as backup communication hubs within the dungeon world.

They are located at the initial landing site, the planet’s North Pole, and on the ordinary ship island that was not taken out, spread across various corners of the planet.

In terms of personnel arrangements, this time Bai Yi only plans to bring out about 500,000 witches, while not considering the Insect Swarm, offspring, or Knight’s mechanical troops for now.

After all, these three can be mass-produced using resources, while witches must be transformed from humans. They are also necessary to leverage the effects of the Flourishing Church as believers.

So this time, the units that will be leaving are mainly composed of witches and mechanical equipment under Knight’s command.

The latter have already been pre-installed on several industrial Floating Islands and ship islands, ready to be put into production at any time, including the production lines for Knight’s mechanical units.

The former are already settled on several Floating Islands set up as residential areas, which were initially built as living quarters for the witches, and now they are getting put to use ahead of schedule.

The remaining close to three million witches, along with other Insect Swarm offspring and such, all stayed within the instance.

Firstly, to serve as the foundation for Bai Yi’s rule over the vast instance planet and also, through the panel’s determination, to become points harvested for this time.

After all, such a huge planet, even with Knight’s sub-intelligences coordinating with various machinery, requires a certain amount of manpower to fully utilize.

These remaining unit types, along with various scattered leftover resources, just from this one instance alone, have already converted into a whopping 80,000 points, with the total points harvested already reaching 100,000!

As for Bai Yi’s own 4th-tier instance, the other two low-tier instances brought out even less, and they all had characteristic features of the instance.

Among them, the 3rd-tier instance on the Magic Side is led by the Holy Mountain Floating Island, with a total of 36 Magic Floating Islands, with resources all leaning towards various types of Magic Power Ore.

Regarding unit types, since there are only witches, there’s no need to choose. A total of 400,000 leave this time, including those witches who had been transformed into Hero-level combat powers from Witches.

The 2nd-tier instance that leans more towards mechanics has even less. After leaving witches to maintain control of the dungeon world, only 100,000 witches and a ship island with a cathedral constructed could be brought out.

It’s the pure end-of-world scenario, where no more resources can be extracted even if it was exploited to the fullest.

However, this is also because Bai Yi’s territory isn’t particularly adept at mechanical technology at the moment, unable to better utilize the rich mineral resources of that world.

But this shortcoming will be noticeably improved after this time.

With Knight and Wade’s joining, this weak point will soon be filled.

Moreover, there’s still good news from these two instances; both instances, after settlement, also converted into 20,000 and 10,000 points respectively, which is somewhat higher than expected.

After making all selections within the panel, Bai Yi chose to confirm.

The settlement process was extremely swift, taking less than a minute for all resources and units taken from the dungeon to be transformed into sealing cards, which appeared in Bai Yi’s hands, and an additional 130,000 points were displayed on the panel.

She transferred them into the logistics network with the help of her gloves, and under the allocation of the soul slices, they were quickly distributed to the prepared hands of Bai Sheng, Shang Ji, and several other Hero Units.

Feeling the massive new nodes joining the Swarm Network, Bai Yi resisted the urge to take a peek and opened this cycle’s Points Mall instead.

Since there was no need to compete in the mall this time, Bai Yi didn’t rush to make purchases but first reviewed the prices of all the items.

Indeed, as she’d guessed, the value of points was considerably higher, with average prices reduced to just one-tenth of their original cost, and many new redemption items had been added.

Those low-end blueprints Bai Yi had once exchanged in bulk were now downgraded to points in the teens or even single digits.

Moving up the list by price, even the blueprints with exclusive prefixes could be obtained for less than ten thousand points.

This was the easiest way Bai Yi knew to acquire those prefixes.

"After this cycle, even Low-level Lords could acquire exclusive buildings with these points...

Truly befitting of a reward-based Cycle Challenge, as long as one can persist until the end, one’s strength can leap forward significantly.

The three-day buffer period is probably given for Lords to assimilate their gains...

Wait, a cross-region certificate?"

Bai Yi’s gaze halted on an item’s name and hurriedly clicked to view its details.

[Cross-region Certificate (Gold): Use at a regional barrier to briefly open a gateway for passage, lasting 1 hour]

This certificate required 10,000 points.

"To grant the right to cross regions so soon?

Though it’s only a brief crossing and at least two are needed to send units over and bring them back, not to mention the issue of being unable to communicate after sending people through.

Ultimately, this would only be a toy for High Order Lords, especially with the current strength difference between top Lords in different regions being negligible, sending units over could likely be futile.

Not many Lords would exchange for this.

But this serves as a good reminder, clarifying to all Lords that the time for regions to open up must be approaching..."

Skipping this game prop of no value to her, Bai Yi quickly found something that truly interested her.

[Abnormality Upgrade Medium *1 (Red), 5000 points, remaining 10/10]

[Abnormality Upgrade Medium (Red): Use on an Abnormal Object to consume the medium and upgrade the Abnormal Object; the number of mediums needed varies depending on the object.]

"It’s the same item from the Area annexation task’s Points Mall, only the specifics of how to use it are unknown..."

Just the day before yesterday, shortly after Bai Sheng had successfully completed the Conquest of Area 27, the task had already settled, but since it was a points reward with no time limit, Bai Yi hadn’t used it yet.

With so many Abnormal Objects in her territory, this thing could still come in handy.

After spending 50,000 points to exchange for ten mediums, Bai Yi continued to look at the higher-tier props.

There were the [5th Tier Promotion Permissions] she had used before and giant building blueprints with exclusive prefixes, World Conquest Certificates, and other props Bai Yi had seen before.

She selected two giant building and large building blueprints, spending a total of 30,000 points, and the remaining 50,000 were then allocated to ordinary resource building blueprints and World Conquest Certificates, all successfully claimed.

It’s not that Bai Yi didn’t want to exchange for more high-tier items, but the dungeon points of two Low-level Lords were not transferable, and the points they could exchange in their malls were also reduced according to their levels.

Although exclusive prefix buildings were still available, giant and large building options were gone.

Thus, the remaining points were best spent on resource buildings.

After finishing exchanges in the three shops, Bai Yi turned her attention to the update announcements and previews for the Cycle Challenge that she was most interested in.

But the beginning of the announcement gave Bai Yi a surprise.

[Bug Fix: Observations have revealed that many Lords are using the Free Market as a storage method. The storage function of the Free Market will be canceled in the next update, revised as...]

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