The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 12 - Harvest

Big Cat was truly powerless at this moment; even though its agility and strength attributes were overwhelmingly superior, its current condition was far too poor.

After desperately freeing itself from the vines, it only managed to swipe a Beetle away with its paw before it ran out of strength to continue, allowing the remaining Beetles to solidly collide with it.

This onslaught directly whittled Big Cat's blood volume down by 360 points, with one Beetle even hitting its head squarely, causing a momentary dizziness.

When it regained its senses, its body was already teeming with Beetles.

If it were at its peak, there would be no need to fear these ticklish nibbles; its thick fur would provide ample protection, and then it could leisurely squish them one by one.

But now was different!

Its body was covered in wounds! Every Beetle could directly gnaw on its flesh and blood!

Even some Beetles had burrowed into its body through the wounds on its chest and abdomen, starting to wreak havoc inside!

The pain all over its body made it let out a mournful howl, its eyes bloodshot, staring at the Two-legged Beast in front of it, which was clearly weaker but was the core of the Insects!

Only by killing this Two-legged Beast!

Can I survive!

Holding onto the last thread of hope, despite the pain of the Beetles clinging to its body and its muscles being torn, Big Cat sprang up and pounced straight at Bai Yi!

"Not good!"

Bai Yi yelled in alarm, but the two "bodyguards" beside her were not to be trifled with.

Two stone hoes hammered down fiercely, precisely hitting Big Cat's head, knocking it to the ground.

The two attacks, due to hitting the ground and striking a critical point, dealt four times the damage, knocking a further 104 points off Big Cat's blood volume.

Including the damage from the Beetles' gnawing, Big Cat's blood volume was now only down to 473!

The Beetles that had been flung off hurried to catch up, pouncing back onto Big Cat to nibble at its wounds.

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Seizing the opportunity while Big Cat was dazed, the two bodyguards took their chance, striking it repeatedly with their stone hoes as if they were loosening soil for fields.

Bai Yi even imagined a countdown from eighty-eight in her mind.

Moreover, because the hit was to the head, aside from the critical double damage, there was even an added dizziness effect. Starting at 20 points of damage, Big Cat's blood volume dropped quickly.

Although it seemed that Big Cat had lost all capacity to resist, Bai Yi still did not dare to approach and hid behind a large tree ten meters away from Big Cat.

She peeked out, watching Big Cat's health bar on the panel.

She always felt that the Big Cat was not so easy to deal with; even if it was severely injured, was it really going to be taken down by a few of her green Insects and two robust peasant women?

Bai Yi was not convinced.

Sure enough, as if realizing that Bai Yi truly had no intention of approaching, Big Cat finally couldn't help but struggle vigorously when its blood volume dropped below two hundred.

It swept away the stone hoes of the two peasant women with a paw, trying to charge at Bai Yi.

A voice seemed to tell it in its mind.

As long as it finished off the Two-legged Beast in front of it, which looked completely devoid of combat ability, it would be safe!

"Meow!"

A whirlwind began to swirl around Big Cat, shaking off all the Beetles, and with a resolution to sacrifice itself, it lunged forward.

"Sure enough, there's a berserk state!"

But this time, Bai Yi was fully prepared.

Between her and Big Cat lay a dense thicket entwined with vines!

This was the hiding place she had chosen in advance!

The superpower was activated again, draining the last bit of Bai Yi's magic power, causing the bushes and vines to suddenly swell.

Even if Big Cat wanted to bypass them, its injuries no longer allowed it.

After crashing into the thicket, its fate was sealed.

The stone hoe pierced into Big Cat's body, opening it up, and the Beetles that had been thrown off regrouped and collided once again.

Bai Yi's Rune Sword ultimately did not taste blood.

[A perfect victory, you gained 290 experience points, you obtained an Iron Treasure Box*1]

[You have leveled up from Lv.7 to Lv.8 (120/400), you gained 1 free attribute point, and you gained 1 skill point]

[Your agility attribute increased from 16 to 17]

.........

Although everything went according to plan for Bai Yi, it was impossible to say she wasn't tense.

If it weren't for Bai Yi consciously leaving a bit of magic power value as a reserve.

If it weren't for the twice superpower-induced thickets providing control at a critical moment.

I'm bound to get hurt this time!

Bai Yi shifted his gaze to the Big Cat corpse on the side, starting to replay everything that just happened.

This was the same Big Cat I encountered today, it looked exactly the same in size and shape. Before I left, it was fighting with that crocodile—so did it lose the fight?

Then it relied on its speed to run into the woods, and because I had bound the territory, all the surrounding Mutant Creatures' territories were forcibly fixed, so it was trapped by the game here?

Bai Yi felt his speculation was close to the truth and immediately felt contempt for the Big Cat.

"Couldn't beat the crocodile at full health, and got harvested by me even when injured, so weak!"

But what Bai Yi didn't know was that part of the reason the Fierce Toothed Cat lost today was because of her.

If it weren't for her intervention, which cost it the lead, it would have at least been able to escape unscathed.

Certainly, it wouldn't have been as disheveled as when Bai Yi found it, with one leg broken, and a nearly fatal wound on its most vulnerable chest and abdomen.

"The loot this time is pretty good, it seems that only the corpses of wild monsters generated by the game disappear automatically, while those of existing Mutant Creatures don't."

Bai Yi patted the still warm and somewhat hot body of the Big Cat corpse with her hand, then turned her thoughts to another problem.

"How am I going to move this thing back?"

Looking at the Big Cat corpse being entered and exited by Beetles, Bai Yi fell into deep thought.

...

As the evening approached and the sun sank in the west, painting the edge of the sky red, and the woods were becoming darker, Bai Yi finally emerged from the thicket and returned to her territory.

There was a reason for Bai Yi's late return. After staring at the Big Cat corpse for half a day, Bai Yi finally remembered that she could use the trade slot to temporarily store it in the panel and take the entire corpse away.

When setting out, she had been looking for wild monsters and hadn't found any, but now Bai Yi felt.

This forest really is a maze!

Had it not been for her ability to communicate with plants and sense the existence of her territory, Bai Yi might have gotten lost in here!

Returning to her territory, Bai Yi waved her hands to signal the Beetles to patrol nearby, letting her two tired bodyguards go and rest.

The two farm women who stayed behind in the camp were highly efficient, they had already pulled up the weeds in the territory and piled them into a heap.

Next to the little wooden hut, a fire was started, and two thick branches had been found and fixed beside the fire to serve as makeshift seats.

Bai Yi didn't mind the dirt on top and sat down right away. Now, back in her territory, Bai Yi could finally relax without worrying about danger.

She opened her panel and took out all the loot from this time.

A total of 16 wooden treasure boxes, 5 white loaves of bread, 4 bottles of Water, plus the Four-legged Dragon Beast nest blueprint from the Fake Dragon's treasure box, a First-tier Rune Sword, and a Thin Dragon Blood Crystal.

"Let's start by cracking open a box!"

Bai Yi lined up the boxes neatly and caressed them one by one.

A flash of white light passed by, and the panel displayed a message.

[You have opened 16 wooden treasure boxes, you obtained Water*80, white loaves of bread*60, luncheon meat*5, vegetable canned food*15]

[You have opened 1 Iron Treasure Box, you obtained a Cat Nest blueprint (First-tier/Purple)*1, Entwined Furball (First-tier/Grey)*1, Superpower Crystal (First-tier/Blue)*1]

[Cat Nest (1~? tier/Purple): Special construction, has a chance to attract a wild feline creature, which can be domesticated by improving friendship. Construction requires: 1~? tier Crystal Core, cat mint*1, wood*20~???, fur/fabric*20~???]

[Entwined Furball (First-tier/Grey): It's a hairball from a cat's belly. How could cats not have hairballs?]

[Superpower Crystal (First-tier/Blue): Crystal condensed from Abnormal Energy/Magic Power, it can enhance superpower strength. Talent Skill points+1, Magic Power/superpower value limit+10]

"Bro, I'd let it slide if the wooden treasure boxes only had food, but what's the deal with this iron treasure box?

Why is it all junk?

The Cat Nest is fine, at least it's a purple construction with potential, but what's with the hairball and such?"

Bai Yi felt like several "#" symbols had popped up on his forehead, then he suddenly thought of a possibility.

"Hiss... Could it be because this Big Cat was at low health?

Does this game have a setting where watered-down loot chests drop from bloodied bosses?"

Suppressing a touch of disappointment in his heart, Bai Yi chugged down the Superpower Crystal in one gulp, saved the bread needed for dinner, and stored all the opened items temporarily in the Free Market.

[You used a Superpower Crystal (First-tier/Blue), your Magic Power Value limit increased from 210 to 220]

[You have obtained a Talent Skill point, which can be used to upgrade the level of your current Talent Skill]

Bai Yi looked at his four skills and after some thought decided to invest the skill point in Accelerated Growth.

This would help speed up the plant-growing business he was about to start and was his only bit of combat ability.

[Accelerated Growth lv.1→lv.2: Consumes 10→9 points of Magic Power to grant plants (First-tier) one day's growth progress, the area slightly increases.]

At that moment, another announcement popped up on the panel:

...

Four-legged Dragon Beast: The result of forbidden experiments, a new species birthed by infusing true giant dragon blood into a Wild Wolf, obtaining greater Strength but maintaining the Wild Wolf's original breeding speed. Domesticated by Aslan, it has become the standard mount in the army...