The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 186 - 100 Ocean Lord (3k)

"You saw the announcement just now too, why don’t we just stop for the time being?"

At the bow of one ship, a person shouted loudly with a commanding voice.

Seeing that the other party was also standing at the bow, he knew that the other party also had the same idea and would certainly not refuse this suggestion. After all, the recent public announcement had been too shocking for them.

And as he hoped, the other person shouted back in agreement.

However, due to fundamental caution, neither of them would possibly board the other’s ship for this exchange.

Amidst the shoutings from afar, they haggled back and forth, but due to both parties’ urgency, they quickly ended their squabbling.

The final meeting place was chosen to be on a nameless island, serving as a neutral third party’s territory, with both within reach of the other’s attack range, achieving balance through mutual intimidation.

"What do you think? What on earth has happened for even our cycle challenge to be forcibly replaced..."

Upon reaching the agreed meeting spot on the beach, he heard the other’s urgent tone and mockingly retorted.

"Yo, isn’t this the captain of the Brave Ship, our second-placed Yun Dao from our leaderboard—

What’s the matter, got scared by the announcement?"

However, Yun Dao just furrowed his brow and did not retort with mockery as he usually would in the channels.

He had sensed something different about this situation; his intuition was usually very accurate.

Last month when he obtained the god statue, which was a blessing given by the god named [Eternal], he was even able to perform some extent of future prediction or divination.

The god statue, or say, faith, was a power essential to all the Ocean Lords, even the weakest captain would have a small god statue aboard their ship.

But just before disembarking, he had already attempted a simple divination which, unlike normal, did not form any image in his mind, leaving him without any information.

The divination had failed...

Though it was a simple divination, this result could represent many things, enough to make him take it seriously.

And to attain a more detailed prophecy, he would need to conduct a major sacrifice ritual, but there was not enough time, so he could only wait to try after exchanging information upon returning.

"You, the Five Sea Dominator, are not necessarily as formidable as your title suggests.

Come on, let’s talk business."

The Five Sea Dominator also dropped his disdainful demeanor and shared his analysis:

"I’ve read the details on the panel already, an unknown Insect Clan disaster has appeared, invading the seas, but the origin and specific details of the Insect Clan are completely unmentioned. Only a warning that this cycle challenge is extremely dangerous and urges us to be cautious.

Killing them will yield points, and even survival time is counted towards points. Moreover, the Points Store is open at any time, and a cursory look showed me that the items are very impressive."

When he saw the items in the store earlier, he couldn’t believe his eyes. Many once-limited items were now unrestricted, so rich that he began to doubt himself and felt a little uneasy.

He took the description of "extreme danger" in the announcement even more seriously.

He doesn’t believe that the game would be so kind as to create a surprise reward-type cycle challenge for them.

"But the information is too scarce; the strength and origin of the Insect Swarm and the way they appeared are not mentioned.

Moreover, this reward format is like the game’s compensation for the emergence of the Insect Clan, worried that we won’t be able to hold out, thus offering so many rewards..."

Yun Dao was busy with divination earlier and hadn’t had the chance to thoroughly examine the panel’s prompts. He looked over it immediately and found it to be exactly as the Five Sea Overlord had said.

Following the information at hand, Yun Dao tried to speculate further:

"The appearance of the Insect Clan always needs a source; the only place in our entire zone where the Insect Clan could spring up is the land, that peninsula.

But we all know that the sea in this zone is extremely vast, and the land only makes up one percent of it. Even if the Insect Clan is very powerful, if we take to the sea and stay away from land, then how could the Insect Swarm possibly harm us?

Surely they can’t swim or cross tens of thousands of kilometers of ocean to find us?

If so, even the weakest captain would easily cope and survive this disaster.

But the problem is if the Insect Clan surely can’t pose a threat to us, then why would the game make a special point of altering the challenge for this..."

Although Yun Dao speculated in this way, he could not help but start to imagine what to do if the Insect Clan really had a way to cross the sea.

He began to recall the depiction of the Insect Clan in games or anime before coming to this world, considering these hypothetical enemies, and pondering what strength he had to counter them.

"And also, given the nature of the game, even the cold disaster had hints of its origin as early warnings, yet this time there’s a complete blank with no intelligence whatsoever before it suddenly occurred.

No mention of the origin of the Insect Clan; even if mutant insect eggs were hidden within that peninsula and suddenly hatched en masse, the game would know and prepare the cycle challenge in advance.

Instead, as it is now, the cycle challenge changed suddenly.

It’s as if the game was also taken by surprise, only able to make a last-minute change..."

The two Lords found themselves in rare harmony, discussing and speculating together under the potential threat.

But after all, both were top Lords of zone 28, even if they had third-tier ships, they each possessed quite a few fourth-tier combat powers, and even certain fifth-tier capabilities as Captains!

Why would they stop in their tracks because of this challenge? Even if the Insect Clan really were very powerful, those who needed to worry were only the low-tier Captains.

They were still very confident in their own strength, it’s just that this game announcement was too sudden and abnormal, so both decided to proceed with caution, even considering joining forces.

Originally, their confrontation was only for points from the Cycle Challenge, for the sake of competing for this island. Since the core conflict of the Cycle Challenge had changed, there was no longer any reason for them to be enemies.

On the contrary, the pressure brought by this new Cycle Challenge meant that they were already considering cooperation, with past grievances seemingly melting away like ice.

Currently the information in the announcement was extremely limited, and soon their conversation shifted towards how to deal with the situation.

"What’s your plan? After leaving, I plan to do some reconnaissance on the peninsula, do you want to come along?"

Yun Dao shared his plan, after all, both he and the other were top Lords of the region. After their exchange, he had also recovered from the brief panic brought on by the game announcement.

He prepared to assess the Insect Clan’s strength through reconnaissance before deciding how to respond.

All their speculations here were empty talk. Although they both imagined the Insect Clan to be strong opponents, it was also possible that this was all their speculation. In reality, the Insect Clan might only pose a threat to low-tier Captains.

After all, having been here for so long and having experienced many Cycle Challenges, both he and the Five Sea Dominator were strong Lords who constantly competed for the top spot on the leaderboard.

Many challenges might be extremely difficult for the low-level Lords, but for them, it was incredibly easy.

His concern this time primarily stemmed from the suddenness of the panel prompt and the unprecedented change of challenge halfway through.

Moreover, even if something really went wrong and they were outmatched, he also had a backup plan—a Zone Transfer Certificate.

He believed that his inexpensive brother, the Five Sea Dominator, would have the same last resort.

Indeed, he and the Five Sea Dominator were brothers before coming to this world, real ones, and even twins, though fraternal and not resembling each other at all.

That is also why they were able to start cooperating so quickly after losing their point of conflict.

In fact, even if one of them lost, the other would not be in trouble. Ultimately, the result would only be that the loser would fully assist the victor after their ship had been absorbed.

"Alright, let’s meet tomorrow at this time on the small island at the southern tip of the peninsula."

The Five Sea Dominator agreed after a bit of thought; he had a similar idea, and with Yun Dao willing to go together and both of them present, there would be no risk.

After settling the specific details, the two took their subordinates and each returned to their ships, leaving the island.

And this announcement did not just stir up waves here, it completely exploded in the channels.

Unlike the Five Sea Dominator and Yun Dao, who had the confidence to protect themselves, most of them were just second-tier or even first-tier Lords.

Without the strength and confidence to calmly confront the danger specifically pointed out by this game announcement, some in the channel became panicked, with an intense urgency to improve their strength.

Only those low-tier Captains who had survived by hiding across the vast ocean seemed indifferent.

Having hidden for so long without incident, they didn’t think there would be any danger during this Cycle Challenge.

The sky may fall, but there will be taller ones to hold it up, the ocean is so vast, could they really be found?

But everyone in the channel was unaware that everything had already been seen by the Swarm Network they were all watching.

Though there were no messages in the channel, Bai Sheng had channel privileges given by Bai Yi, naturally allowing him to eavesdrop within the zone 28 channel.

Arriving in a new zone, even though confident in his overwhelming strength, Bai Sheng would not underestimate the importance of gathering information.

Originally, this task was Shang Ji’s responsibility, but she personally took over today as Shang Ji was too busy.

"I didn’t expect the game to change the Cycle Challenge just for our arrival...

Was it because I killed too fiercely in the previous zone?"

Upon remembering the silent zone 34, with only the Fungus Blanket and a few Insect Swarms left, Bai Sheng suddenly realized.

"However, I didn’t expect the oceanic zone to be so much larger than a terrestrial one, it seems many strategies need to be completely revised...

But for now, let’s first take over this peninsula!"

Bai Sheng’s consciousness entered the Swarm Network, seeing the topography drawn by the swarms, the representative blackness of the Insects had already engulfed much of the peninsula.

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[Eternal] Codex - Revised: He is eternal from the aeons past, representing the past and symbolizing the future, He is the master of Space, the king of Time, the ever-present [Eternal]...

[Note: Please make sure not to use this prayer to pray to me, thank you! ——by Eternal]

[Note’s Note: Great God, then how should your humble believers express our respect?]