The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 264 - 175: The Beast Kings of the Sea

Bai Yi originally had three main Beast Kings in the sea, hailing from the interconnected areas 27 to 29.

The giant octopus, which was first integrated into the territory; the giant whale captured from area 27 later on; and a shark found later in area 29.

However, unlike its two predecessors, the shark did not evolve towards the advantageous physical dimensions of marine creatures; its overall size is not large.

Its evolution mainly manifested in its superpower, which is a Space superpower like the orange cat.

But unlike the orange cat, it is not familiar with Space Transmission but has focused its ability entirely on combat.

Its sharp teeth and almost invincible defense made it the most troublesome existence, along with various attacks targeting the spatial dimension, even Bai Sheng almost suffered initially when he first saw it.

Thankfully, at that time, there were cat assistants in the territory, which prevented an immediate defeat from the opponent at the start.

Moreover, Bai Sheng’s purpose was not to fight it to death but to delay time to find an opportunity to spread spores.

This successfully subdued it, integrating it into the Swarm Network, making it a part of the territory.

But today, more than just a few need to be transformed.

"Bai Sheng? How much longer is needed?"

Sending a message within the Swarm Network, Bai Yi soon received a response.

However, the response was not through the network but through the most practical action.

Accompanied by a chorus of Cat Songs sung in unison yet with a carefree tune that made it impossible to guess the next note.

The giant vessel of the "Eternal Tree" turned from illusion to reality, appearing on the distant sea surface, clearly a demonstration of the power of Space Transmission.

The sudden appearance of the massive volume stirred up a giant wave tens of meters high, spreading in all directions.

And that giant wave, originally sweeping towards Bai Yi, gradually weakened and was completely dissipated under the waving tentacles of the octopus.

This is the Tentacle King’s superpower, the effect of force field control.

This superpower is similar to telekinesis, but its actual use is completely different.

Unlike telekinesis, which acts like an "invisible big hand" that can freely control objects, force field control is more about applying a force to a specific area or a specific object.

It can serve as a defensive measure, achieving effects similar to an Arrow Avoidance Shield, or it can be attached to oneself to enhance the strength and damage of attacks.

Compared to telekinesis, the biggest advantage of force field control is its very large coverage area; one force field can even cover a kilometer-scale zone.

But when facing opponents of the same class, it’s more often used as an auxiliary ability, utilizing sudden changes in the force field to disrupt the enemy at critical moments.

At this moment, calming the giant wave is just a simple application of this power.

Tail shaking behind, feeling the spatial fluctuations nearby, Bai Yi turned around to see Bai Sheng stepping on the ground just in time, with a cat perched on his head.

"Master, I have brought back the sea snake!"

Bai Sheng’s return this time was to bring to Bai Yi the Beast King from area 20.

After Hatti was subdued to become her maid, area 20 was naturally gradually taken over by Bai Sheng.

However, after Bai Sheng had integrated all the resources and information of area 20, he discovered something strange; the Tier 6 Beast King was missing.

In the entire area 20, including the Lords and natives, surprisingly, no one had heard of the existence of the Tier 6 Beast King.

Eventually, it was Bai Sheng who linked those Tier 5 Beast Kings to the Swarm Network and found clues from them.

Finally, relying on offspring, they found the coiling sea snake near a seabed volcano deep in the ocean.

To assimilate this Tier 6 sea snake, Bai Sheng had to sacrifice quite a few offspring.

With its Thunder Power, its lethality at the bottom of the sea was almost maxed out, striking lightning wherever it went.

If not for the fact that this also meant extremely high consumption, and the offspring’s growing Thunder Resistance caused it to be apprehensive, catching it might have cost another 20 thousand offspring.

Bai Yi nodded and looked towards the sea; after the giant waves subsided, the sea began rippling again, revealing the silhouette of the snake swimming.

"Is it turning into a dragon?

Can the evolution of snakes actually yield horns?

Even though they are all Tier 6, why doesn’t Rand have them..."

As they approached the shore, the appearance of the sea snake was fully revealed in front of Bai Yi.

Due to spending a long time at the seabed, its body was pale, and it had a sharp, straight Single Horn on its head, about as long as the snake’s head.

There were two short sharp claws under its belly, somewhat resembling the dragon Bai Yi had imagined.

Perhaps, it could now be called a lesser dragon.

Along with the original Tier 5 Beast Kings from area 20, all the Mutant Creatures needing transformation were gathered, Bai Yi no longer controlled his own spores, letting them spread around freely.

Assisted by Wind Magic, the spores accurately landed on each Mutant Creature.

Soon, all these Beast Kings showing their heads above the sea entered the transformation phase.

With the huge differences in size and distinct disparity with humans, this transformation was bound to take a considerable amount of time.

For such large-sized Mutant Creatures, even Bai Yi was very curious about what they could eventually transform into.

Taking advantage of the ongoing transformation, Bai Yi thought of something he was interested in and asked Bai Sheng beside him:

"By the way, Bai Sheng, how did you guys teleport here?

With the size of the ’Eternal Tree’, even the orange cat wouldn’t have been able to handle its teleportation."

And crossing at least two ocean regions, isn’t that astonishing!

And what’s with those cat songs just now?"

Although to an ordinary person, those "songs" might just seem like meaningless yowls of cats, maybe surprising only because there are so many cats singing in unison.

But perhaps because Bai Yi’s current avatar is a prototype of the Cat Witch, she can understand these "songs" and even finds them quite exhilarating.

"That’s actually the same thing.

The teleportation of the Eternal Tree just now was a special Joint Spell, but the spellcasters were not witches, but these cats.

And those cat songs are like spell incantations, mainly used to guide the Joint Spell.

After all, cats’ thoughts are more erratic than witches’, and even with a Spiritual Link, joint casting isn’t simple.

It wasn’t until they thought of using synchronized singing to achieve harmony, unifying the power of all cats to eventually cast a large-scale Space Spell capable of moving the Eternal Tree.

To achieve this effect, each teleportation requires at least ten thousand cats to cast together.

Well, the Cat Witch can also do it.

And including the time for the cats to recover their Magic Power and the time to guide the spell, there must be an interval of about five minutes between each casting."

From what it seems now, although there are quite a few drawbacks, as a newly researched spell, it is already quite remarkable.

Moreover, this method of utilization by the cats, even as their Creator, was something she had not envisioned while breeding the cats.

"Not bad, which witch came up with this?"

With such creativity, even if it was by chance, the value of this spell alone is worth rewarding.

And this is also in line with her recent advocacy of a spell invention trend, deserving of proper recognition.

However, Bai Sheng’s answer surprised Bai Yi greatly.

"Ah no, it wasn’t conceived by a witch."

Not by a witch, could it be the cats themselves came up with it?

Bai Sheng didn’t leave Bai Yi guessing, but immediately explained:

"This spell was not originally developed for sea travel, but it was an idea of a human mage from Eternal Life City.

After the cats became popular, every person in Eternal Life City could own one, and that human mage also earned the recognition of a cat.

It is said that the initial inspiration came while that human mage was discussing spells with a witch classmate, and the cats were singing out of boredom.

Because that human mage couldn’t communicate like witches to mobilize logistics networks and use Space Ability but was aspiring towards it.

It just so happened that he had just learned about Joint Spells, and ultimately came up with this initial version of the spell."

"Human mage? Hong Chao?"

Bai Yi hadn’t expected that after all these twists and turns, it still led back to him.

Is this the ability of a "true protagonist"?

Casually producing a spell of great significance?

"The owner knows about him?" Bai Sheng asked curiously.

As far as she knew, although the opportunities for Hong Chao to learn spells with witches were inseparable from her own master’s doing,

her master shouldn’t have met him or even heard his name.

"Yes, it was yesterday’s matter.

Last night, I inspected Eternal Life City and learned about his small shop and found something interesting about him.

This might be of help for my research on souls, and I plan to study it further."

"Research? Do I need to help the master catch him?"

Even if she had just expressed appreciation for this human mage, if it contradicted her master’s will, she would not hesitate.

"No, no need, the research on him goes beyond ordinary experimentation, his activities within Eternal Life City themselves are part of the experiment.

He might have some special aspects that are hard to observe, which I need to further study and test.

These are under Shang Ji’s responsibility, no need for you to be distracted."

Bai Yi then smiled and added:

"And this information comes just in time to be a reason to reward him with a new spell as part of the reward, using the prize as a pretext for some tests..."

Like a Bionic Golden Core that enhances strength, or a witch avatar that comes at a small cost...

Even if Hong Chao really has some "fate" protection, he can still bypass it under the guise of a reward.

Hmm, might also need to arrange some "tasks," let him encounter some "dangers," to test whether there really is such a metaphysical thing as "fate protection".

This time’s Battle Zone might just be a good opportunity...

Bai Yi’s mind immediately began to whirl, plotting one "bad idea" after another, as the seaside once again fell into silence.

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Cat’s Spell Song: The First Cat Song, typically sung when cats collaboratively cast a Joint Spell, unlike the cat songs sung for entertainment or to praise the Lord of cats, the Cat’s Spell Song has no fixed melody, purely initiated by the lead cat at will, aside from the Cat Witch, other witches usually find it difficult to appreciate, and sometimes, the Cat Witch would also join in this chorus...

[Note: How exactly do those Cat Witches discern melody from random meows?]

[Note’s note: Mind your own business about Cat Witch matters]