The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 245 - 156: External Appendages

The construction of the Heroic Spirit Hall cannot be rushed; most of the prerequisite technologies are still under research, and there is nothing that can be done in haste.

After completely restoring Knight’s soul and confirming there were no issues, Bai Yi let him leave to go back and cooperate with his Creator, Wade, to study biological mechanics.

As an artificial intelligence that had birthed its own consciousness, although Knight was incapable of innovation, his understanding of existing technologies was even more profound than Wade’s.

With its collaboration in research, progress could be accelerated.

This was one of the most important research projects in the territory at the moment, on par with Bai Fa’s research on the Power of Faith as the two major research focuses within the territory.

As for the witches’ spell research, it was distributed among all the common witches.

Even she herself had left a soul slice in Wade’s lab, working together to cultivate the corresponding biological structures, responsible for the physical part of the brain machine.

As for her main body, the soul experiments lacked test subjects and could only be put on hold for the time being.

The need for capturing test subjects had already been communicated to Bai Sheng’s fleet, and she believed that by the latest tomorrow morning when she awoke, she would see her fresh and adorable test subjects.

But with the remaining time today, still two hours away from noon, Bai Yi decided to continue the work from yesterday.

Yesterday, Bai Yi had intended to bring the Beastmen back and then extract genes to strengthen her gene reserves.

However, she was interrupted by the Divine Descent of the King of Ten Thousand Beasts, and later because of the gathering with the returning witches, it was postponed until now.

Taking advantage of today’s leisure time, Bai Yi decided to dig out all the Beastmen that she had buried underground under the guise of protection yesterday, thus preserving them until now.

Thanks to the Blood Flesh Worm Nest constructed by Bai Yi’s underground Fungus Blanket, the countless fungal tunnels had no trouble accommodating these Beastmen.

At least there was no need to literally bury them underground. Although the Beastmen had strong Life Forces, they were not as horrifyingly resilient as the witches and still required food and drink to sustain themselves.

Even due to their strong physiques, they often needed to consume even more food.

"These Beastmen are too rough in design. How exactly did the King of Ten Thousand Beasts design them?

Purely for the sake of a strong physique, completely ignoring the internal organs, and not even considering replenishing the body’s consumption with Magic Power, but solely relying on food supply?

What was he thinking?

The amount of food consumed by his number of Beastmen in a day must be astronomical, right?

He would rather consume massive amounts of that so-called Divine Gift from the Beast God every day than improve their design.

And the genetic combination is just as bad—it seems like the values were filled in by someone’s foot, probably stronger than this.

A pure Strength type, yet completely neglecting the Spirit Attribute?

If it weren’t for the Constitution limit due to the excessive Strength Attribute, they probably wouldn’t even have Constitution...

Such design capability, if applied to mobile games in the past, would have surely made the planners’ ancestors’ graves smoke!"

When Bai Yi realized that these Beastmen had consumed an amount of food in less than a day equivalent to the food required to cultivate a fifth-tier Erosion Worm, she couldn’t help but feel disdainful.

This was almost comparable to her two weeks’ worth of offerings!

That was even after accounting for the fact that the ingredients given to her by the witches were of the highest quality and comprised of Mutant Creature meat.

The level of horridness of the genes in these Beastmen was comparable to experiencing the horror of finding a computer crammed with unwanted software during repair, or discovering random small amounts of money stuffed into the accounts during quarterly accounting.

Just looking at it made Bai Yi’s blood pressure soar.

Taking a deep breath to calm her somewhat irritable mood, Bai Yi consoled herself by talking to herself.

"It’s truly a waste...

But it’s also thanks to his blessing that these haphazardly filled values were actually reflected on the genes in a rational way by the Lord Talent, allowing me to reap so many specialized genes.

The combination of these entries could almost compare to me when I was a fourth-tier witch...

And that’s without any Enhancement. If I were to enhance them further with Superpower Enhancement, stacking it on top of existing genes, it might be possible for the witches to have physiques comparable to sixth-tier beings..."

Besides these attribute genes, these Beastmen also had a number of special organ genes, all of which were the cream of the crop in their own category.

For instance, the Beast ears that had extremely enhanced hearing, or tails as flexible as tentacles but with strength not inferior to arms.

Even eyes that could withstand the pressure of five hundred meters underwater and still see clearly, as well as look directly at the sun!

Each of the more than ten types of Beastmen harvested this time had their own unique merits.

Although their genetic design at the gene level was a mess, focusing all values in one direction, it was precisely because of this that their strongest aspects were truly far ahead.

This wave of gene extraction directly replaced many of Bai Yi’s previously obtained organ genes.

These organ genes made Bai Yi feel the urge to integrate them into the witches, or even into herself.

It was the beauty of pure number values.

And this idea again brought to Bai Yi’s mind her own past notion.

"If these organ genes could also be fused with Superpower Genes, turning them all into superpower organs, then their practical value would truly surpass imagination...

Perhaps I could also use certain organs matched with specific superpowers to create different witch races... freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

But the genes must be carefully designed, and the spore infection needs to be upgraded.

Otherwise, as more and more genes accumulate, the conditions for spore infection will increase as well, requiring the modification of spore infection to be adaptable to more situations, and not just humans.

Powerful mutant creatures in this world, like various high-tier life forms from other worlds, also make excellent transformation targets.

If this is feasible, I could even obtain more witch races!

Greatly expand the diversity of the witch race!"

Locking onto the idea, Bai Yi found the plan increasingly viable.

Her abilities granted her enough proactivity, and so she began testing right away, trying to first fuse her coveted space superpower onto herself.

She had always been envious of having to use external instruments to indirectly cast it!

As for the style of external organs to choose from, there weren’t that many options.

To ensure flexibility, something like angel wings on the back was certainly not acceptable.

Even though Bai Yi didn’t need to fight, such large wings would severely hinder normal activities.

If she really wanted wings for herself, Bai Yi was more inclined towards what Furistin mentioned—the kind of dragonfly wings that a level 6 Forest Elf would grow.

These wings wouldn’t impede movement while maintaining flexibility and would be a good choice.

But they were not suitable for the fusion of a space superpower; whether in use or the structure of the dragonfly wings themselves, neither was a good match.

Among the remaining parts, there weren’t that many choices either.

If one didn’t want to install a bunch of antler-like "antennae" on the head, the only options left from the sufficiently large external organs were to add either an extra pair of ears or a tail.

Among these two choices, compared to a pair of ears that enhanced hearing, a flexible tail that could act as a third hand was more useful to Bai Yi.

"And a tail isn’t limited to just one; if I want to increase more superpowers, I just need to keep adding tails.

But this can’t be done blindly; flexibility of the tail is limited, too many would become a hindrance, just like wings, and affect daily life.

Hmm...

Nine tails is definitely out of the question, but three tails should be within tolerable limits...

But right now, I only need one space superpower, so there’s no rush for three tails or the like."

Having said that, Bai Yi began the gene modification, first integrating her space superpower in practice.

It turned out that using external organs did allow her to circumvent the conflict with her own superpowers.

However, unlike her innate superpowers, which could be used based on her own soul, this superpower could only be used by the body itself; once the soul left the body, the space superpower in this body could no longer be utilized.

This included avatars.

If Bai Yi wanted her avatars to use it in the future, she could only choose to fuse the same superpower organ into the avatars as well.

The length of the cat tail after fusion was comparable to Bai Yi’s own height, and the infused space superpower felt like it truly belonged to her.

Only when merging the perspective of soul slices, could one notice strangeness and a slight barrier.

But for Bai Yi, this was enough; she immediately began to control this new limb, learning its manipulation.

It must be said that with the addition of the tail, the level of bodily agility had increased by more than just one level.

Many actions that originally defied physics could now be accomplished with the help of the tail, and its inherent flexibility could readily replace hands for temporarily grabbing items.

Of course...

The prerequisite was focused control...

In order to tame this wild tail, Bai Yi even temporarily summoned back her soul slices, making use of the advantage of dual threading to successfully master it.

Once the slices left, the tail would revert to its wild state, occasionally showing "its own ideas" under Bai Yi’s control.

After much trial and error, it was not until nightfall that Bai Yi finally managed to "reach an agreement" with the tail, achieving basic control.

It was only then that Bai Yi suddenly remembered that these superpower organs could be attached to the body in a manner similar to parasites, in addition to being truly fused.

This could also avoid the "taming" problems like the tail issue this time.

After all, learning the use of a new limb was no less challenging than teaching an infant to walk.

"Forget it, since I’ve already fused it, and I’ve learned to use it, changing it now would be pointless...

And having such external limbs always feels strange.

Besides, if it were the witches’ transformation, the end goal would be to integrate it back into the body itself..."

The remaining genetic improvements for the witches could definitely not be completed in one night.

Counting the Attribute Enhancement traits from the Beastmen, plus the additional limb modifications due to the witches’ race differentiation, it would probably take at least a day.

Considering the adaptability enhancement due to Witch Spore infection, Bai Yi felt she would likely spend these three days of buffer time on this.

As for the remainder of tonight, Bai Yi shifted her target to the attribute enhancement genes, preparing to complete the basic witch transformation first.

The strengthening process went smoothly; in just less than two hours, the set of Attribute Enhancement genes from the Beastman was fully enhanced.

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Type IV Tail Attachments: Includes a variety of designs such as cat tails and fox tails, eliminates the trouble of taming tails, accommodating a storage space not less than one thousand cubic meters; the tails themselves possess considerable strength, with powerful melee capabilities and come with a Magic Wand function for facilitating Spellcasting...

[Remarks: Jenny Transformation Shop, specializes in limb transformation including tails and ears, as well as fur maintenance services, also dealing in hair care products sale; a trustworthy old store with a seventy-year history.]