The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 378 - 211: Virtual Instance? Anime Series!

Chapter 378: Chapter 211: Virtual Instance? Anime Series!

When the insect swarm really began to exert its power, the display of strength was indeed terrifying.

From departure to receiving messages after the battle, it took no more than ten minutes, not counting the flight time in between. The battle was a complete one-sided crush.

However, this was within Bai Yi’s expectations, as she had descended upon the border area of the empire, just a small mining town, where the resistance was understandably minimal.

Considering the current strength of the insect swarm, apart from facing a Tier Six cultivator or demon beast, there’s virtually no effective obstruction against the swarm.

Even though the insect swarm has yet to reach its peak combat power, only their physical bodies can be deemed formidable.

Until enough metal is acquired for perfect metallization, the remote attack capabilities are merely comprehensive but written as mediocre telekinesis, slightly lacking.

But even so, handling local Tier Five demon beasts or cultivators one-on-one is a breeze.

Moreover, given the current number of insects, only the defenders have the chance to face them one-on-one.

Furthermore, this border town does not even have a few experts; the strongest is the Tier Five demon beast guarding the local area.

— Though it’s called the border, it does not face foreign threats like a typical empire.

Especially under normal circumstances, the more remote these areas are, the more they need to worry about attacks from demon beasts in the surrounding forests or invasions from outsiders.

In fact, long ago, even before demon beasts controlled the throne, when they first entered the empire, it was like this.

Border cities were constantly harassed by demon beasts and some foreign tribes.

But after demon beasts took hold of the government, such harassment ceased, as those who ruled the cities, becoming County Magistrates and City Lords, were originally the demon beasts that once harassed them.

Those who reached these positions were either connected insiders with a rank of 4th or generally needed to be Tier Five to secure such crucial posts.

High-level demon beasts entered the city and became rulers, while the remaining low-tier demon beasts were subdued by the esteemed former leaders, afraid to act.

Instead, these demon beasts became the city’s outer defensive line, guarding against tribal harassment from outsiders for the high-level demon beasts in the city.

As time passed, surprisingly, after demon beasts became rulers, public security improved compared to before.

Adding to that the internal culture among demon beasts valuing strength, there was nearly absolute control among demon beast officials of different levels.

To gain public favor and receive more fortuitous blessings to enhance their strength, demon beasts started wholeheartedly serving the people at least in their declarations, free of corruption.

Even though they secretly maintained their practices, hunting humans for food, for most people, life improved compared to before.

With the absence of external threats, strong defending armies were gradually reduced, eventually disbanded.

Occasional cultivators in the city also chose to retire with demon beasts in power, no longer active in normal human cities.

Hence, what should have been a heavily guarded border city was left with only a few demon beasts.

The insect swarm didn’t even need to resort to self-harm or spraying toxins, merely using space blades on their wings and limbs to easily shred the enemy.

Without worrying about preserving houses and their contents or causing destruction, the insect swarm proceeded unabated.

A few minutes were enough for the insect swarm to reap the city from one end to the other.

Even the fungus blanket rapidly proliferated over the residual blood flesh of the dead and wounded, covering everything and integrating town avenues with underground pathways.

Now the insect swarm has already started covering the mining area, beginning to extract metal to bolster and strengthen themselves.

Considering the size of the mine and the time needed for deep extraction, Bai Yi estimated conservatively that completing the extraction would take at least a day.

No battles could be stirred up within a short period.

And considering the recent elimination of a Paradise contractor, they exposed some power.

Logically, a second probing would not happen so soon.

Plus, since the Burrowing Worm is expanding the underground fungus blanket network, Bai Yi decided to stay dormant for a day.

"Heh, after all, arriving at the instance is not even a full day, even though I’m eager to conquer this planet and eliminate those Paradise contractors, a little time doesn’t make much difference.

By the way, considering the passage of time, it should have been a day in the virtual instance investment so far; not sure how things are there...

But since there are no extra alerts on the dashboard, it seems no major issues have surfaced."

Originally Bai Yi planned to continue researching her transformation technique, but then suddenly remembered she had to deal with this first.

Because upon entering the instance, being overwhelmed by harvesting and gathering intelligence made Bai Yi completely forget about her virtual instance investment before entering.

Opening the panel, Bai Yi quickly located the corresponding battle report.

Fortunately, after entering the instance, due to the accelerated time flow,

This time the gap with the virtual instance wasn’t large; thus far, only a day had passed in the instance.

Under this cinematic replay showcase perspective, Bai Yi quickly comprehended everything that happened in the virtual instance during this period.