The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 273 - 184: Open Source and Open Source

Chapter 273: Chapter 184: Open Source and Open Source freewēbnoveℓ.com

The source of ore within the territory is very stable, not through natural mining, but depends on various Mineral Altars.

After having ship islands, these Mineral Altars had been moved to one of the ordinary ship islands.

Initially, it was to facilitate the unified mining by Knight’s engineering machinery, but now it has provided convenience to the Magic Gold Tree Man.

The stable source of ore allows it to absorb metal equally stably.

According to Bai Yi’s initial design, to prevent the output of Magic Metal from changing due to variations in metal components while mining in the wild.

The consciousness of the Tree-man can actively filter out and intercept excess impurity metals, ensuring the consistency of the output.

These metals are then additionally collected and metalized into a special branch, and after complete metalization, stored as its own combat weapon or expelled.

However, the steady output from the Mineral Altar does spare it some worries, no longer needing to painstakingly filter, allowing for easy production.

Even the effort required to expand its roots for mining in natural mines has been saved.

As long as it spreads its roots at the start, it can directly mine the continuously growing ore, and to adjust the composition of the output metal, it only needs to adjust the number of Altars and their types.

An afternoon passed, and several Tree-men have completely replaced the original mining equipment.

Even the areas originally designated for mining and smelting have been cleared up, and more altars have been constructed.

However, after switching to Tree-men, the metal output within the territory has not increased much.

After all, Bai Yi is currently mining not mountains, but Mineral Altars.

This is a drawback of replacing natural ore with Mineral Altars; the output does not shift according to the miner’s will.

Most of the time, the mining speed far exceeds the generation speed, rather than vice versa.

The mining efficiency of the three Tree-men has far surpassed the rate of generation.

Unless the Magic Power Concentration is further increased, the current production efficiency is already at its limit.

In the past, this efficiency would have been sufficient for her, but now, with Metalization, the demand for minerals within the territory has greatly increased.

A single ship island’s Mineral Altar is clearly not enough.

As for her options to either cut costs or find new sources, cutting costs is impossible, so she must find a new source.

She faces two choices: one is to increase the output from the Mineral Altar, the other is to find additional resources outside of the Mineral Altars.

To increase output, one method is obviously to plant more trees on the ship island to utilize the giant tree’s attribute of gathering Magic Power, combined with buildings like the Obelisk to increase Magic Power Concentration.

Secondly, she could choose to upgrade buildings, or start more fundamental research on the Mineral Altar.

This building is fundamentally a Magic Building, activated by Magic Runes, naturally included in the scope of research.

She did not interfere with the Altar before, simply because there was no necessity.

Back then, the demand for ore was not high, and even if time were spent researching and upgrading, the surplus output could only be stored.

The research progress within the territory was already at full throttle, and researching the Altar would require pausing other research.

Rather than researching such a somewhat effective altar, it’d be better to focus on other research.

As for external sources of ore, Bai Yi immediately thought of the Battle Zone in White Poplar City.

She remembered that last time she spied, Iron Blood was just mapping, marking the identified mineral resources.

As long as she approaches him, she can quickly obtain the distribution of minerals for direct mining.

Both paths have their benefits, making it difficult to choose.

But since it is hard to decide, she might as well not choose.

Only children make choices, she is now grown up, an adult!

Of course, she wants it all!

As it happens, other research within the territory can’t be spared right now, the ordinary witches have limited research speed, and no quick results are expected.

So, during this period, minerals from the Battle Zone will serve as a supplement.

She issued a recruitment through the Swarm Network, organizing a research team, and using the built-in upgrade ability of the territory panel, started researching the upgrade of the Altar.

This method of research on the buildings within Bai Yi’s territory relies on comparing the changes in runes before and after upgrades to find key runes, then using this as a breakthrough to decode the Array.

Even if the decoding process is not smooth, it can still find a way to upgrade, forcibly improving efficiency without understanding the principles.

The difference is somewhat akin to replacing a better engine in a car versus learning how to shift gears.

Though both can improve efficiency, they are fundamentally different.

As for the ore on the Battle Zone side, she must seek Iron Blood.

Just as well, it’s an official chance to pay attention to the Battle Zone and finalize her participation and combat force there.

After developments during this period, the originally scheduled combat forces for the Battle Zone have become somewhat inappropriate.

But using it as a testing ground for new weapons and combat forces is actually quite appropriate.

To finalize these aspects, she of course cannot negotiate remotely.

While Bai Yi was considering this, one of her soul slices had already reached the camp through the Swarm Network.

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Battle Zone No. 8, inside the White Poplar City camp

After this period of developments, the appearance of the camp has drastically changed.

The original large tents have been replaced by various structures made of wood and stone, and even brick and cement.

Even the alleys, which were somewhat broad for ease of troop transport, now have a cement covering.

The area looks much tidier and resilient, gaining somewhat of a town’s appearance.

It may well be possible to seamlessly transform the area into a real town by replacing the surrounding military warehouses and barracks with ordinary housing and shops.

This transformation was made possible thanks to the participation of other 5th-tier Lords in the war. Following the triumph and advances at the front, there was finally the opportunity to beautify the camp.

However, tonight on the broad streets, an unexpected big figure made an appearance.

Bai Yi didn’t use her Cat Witch Avatar today for her visit.

This special avatar is almost entirely identical to her real body.

Whether it’s out of the usual need for a mysterious style or due to issues of height, this avatar isn’t suitable for public appearances.

Therefore, for her visit to the Battle Zone this time, Bai Yi used her most commonly shown avatar, the Tree-man.

To avoid drawing attention during the teleportation of her avatar, she specifically teleported to the tree line defense of the Tree-men on the mountain, and then made her way down in the body of a Tree-man.

At the same time, it was also a chance to take a look at the town developed by the Low-level Lords.

With such a conspicuous target as a Tree-man, Iron Blood stationed inside the camp had already received the news early on.

As a guarding line of defense for the camp, the special movements of the Tree-man attracted particular attention.

Normally, these Tree-men who hardly move an inch, suddenly had one of them coming down.

If it wasn’t for a sudden whimsical desire to stroll through the streets, there could be only one possibility.

"May I ask, is it Fan Mao?"

Iron Blood specifically exited the two-story building he usually used for handling camp affairs and came to the entrance to greet the Tree-man.

Facing the strongest Lord in this and possibly other regions, respect is definitely necessary.

Of course, Iron Blood viewed this as basic respect towards a powerful being.

In response to Iron Blood’s question, Bai Yi originally planned to just nod mysteriously, but soon realized that it’s difficult for the Tree-man to nod properly, so she answered instead:

"Yes, but I guess you wouldn’t invite me into your small building for a leisurely chat."

Realizing this was a joke, although Iron Blood didn’t find it amusing, he still offered with a smile:

"Lord Fan Mao, a ’great’ deity like you, my humble abode cannot accommodate, but there is a small square just behind here, we could move there.

Please."

Though somewhat indirect, Bai Yi was rather pleased with the attitude and slowed her pace to follow behind him. They moved to a small square behind the building where she formally stated her purpose.

"I have two main issues for my visit today.

First, I would like to inquire whether there are any metal mines within the Battle Zone."

"Mines, yes, recent explorations have identified several suspected mine sites.

However, we lack detailed exploration tools right now and can’t confirm the specifics.

And since our focus is mainly on the front lines and we lack professional large-scale mining tools, we are unable to undertake large-scale mining, so these mines remain merely marked on the map.

Although in the last few days, the cycle challenges’ temporary tasks have struck down many Lords from other regions, it has also led to a trend of forming alliances among those regional Lords.

The pressure at the front lines is considerable lately, even with the involvement of 5th-tier combat power."

Bai Yi was well aware of this situation. After her arrival, the Swarm Consciousness stationed here had already reported this matter to her.

It was part of the deliberate guidance by the Swarm Consciousness, which even led several 6th-tier Beast Kings in the Battle Zone to incline towards those Lords’ alliances.

The Swarm Consciousness believes that without doing so, after several 5th-tier Lords from White Poplar City made their move, the trial aimed at the "saplings" of White Poplar City would be too easy.

Thus, they specifically increased the challenge.

This was even calculated considering the combat power Bai Yi was about to contribute.

To ensure that after the deployment of Bai Yi’s forces, there would be just enough pressure to maintain a slight advantage.

Bai Yi had no doubts regarding this.

The longer the enemy could hold on, the more opportunities she would have to utilize this testing ground.

The Metalization entries are about to be fused; there are many tests needed.

With the Swarm owning a maritime Battle Zone, this region naturally becomes a "playground" exclusive to the witches.

"Very well, I need the coordinates of these mines."

"No problem, I can get those for you shortly."

Iron Blood readily agreed, waiting for Bai Yi’s continuation.

"The second matter is that I’m ready to formally deploy a new batch of combat power.

As for command authority, as long as the battle orders are standard, you can direct them.

Although they aren’t Tree-men, I believe their Combat Power alone will not disappoint you."

Having seen the combat capabilities of the Tree-men, Iron Blood trusted this immensely.

For a 5th-tier combat power, Tree-men were much stronger than combat units of other 5th-tier Lords!

If other Lords’ units qualify as ordinary 5th-tier soldiers, Tree-men could be considered as elite monsters, even mini-boss level!

Even if it’s not such high-ranking combat power, just slightly above the ordinary 5th tiers, it would simplify the frontline battles tremendously.

One wonders what this time, Fan Mao can bring out...

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Chaos Metal: A unique product of Magic Gold Tree Men, each Magic Gold Tree Man’s Chaos Metal is unique, possessing radically different special magic properties.

These products, created by mixing impurities in the production of Magic Metals, also symbolize their combat power; the older a Magic Gold Tree Man, the more Chaos Metal accumulates, further enhancing their combat ability...

[Note: Buying Chaos Metal, 10,000 Magic Power Coins per kilogram, fair to all, payment on the spot]