The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 212 - 125: Directions for Crop Improvement (3k)

[Eternal Garden: The garden of eternal life and destruction, plant growth speed +100%, natural growth speed +1000%, depending on the quality and quantity of plants in the current territory, Magic Power Concentration within the plant coverage area +100%, life recovery speed +100%]

After officially being completed, the name of this special building replaced the original name of the territory, and its attributes could finally be examined.

The panel displayed that the territory had directly received a Level 4 territory enhancement, which corresponds to the maximum attribute enhancement attainable by a Rank 4 territory.

The building was officially deemed complete only after the Insect Swarm had fully covered the original territory area recognized by the panel.

Calculating the completion, due to the very high plant coverage within Bai Yi’s territory, it had already met the standards. However, since the nature of this building is territory transformation, it at least needs to transform the minimum territory area required for Rank 4 to pass the assessment.

This is also why the building, which had already been half-complete before this Cycle Challenge began, is only now officially completed.

Now, the enhancement is the maximum strengthening value that the current building area can possess. To improve it further, it is necessary to continue to expand the coverage area of the [Eternal Garden].

However, the most basic enhancement brought by the [Eternal Garden] is very impressive, with a very high vegetation coverage rate making the utilization of the two exclusive plant buffs exceedingly high.

The main body of this building is actually the various stone flower beds and paths within the territory, which are a kind of large Array resembling a magical device.

The entire building ingeniously buries the runes required by the Array among the decorative marble pathways, and special magic nodes are replaced by small fountains or restrooms with indigo domes.

Even various small buildings in the territory, including the Clear Spring Altar and the spring water flowing from it, are utilized.

Then, relying on the Banyan Tree’s Same Root trait and manually constructed Arrays to guide, it ultimately forms a complex outdoor Array that possesses both aesthetic and strengthening effects.

"Didn’t expect to receive so many pieces of good news this early in the morning!"

Not only inside the territory’s [Eternal Garden], but also the [Flesh Tower] in Area 34 has also been completed, with reports transmitted back from the Teleportation Gate.

With the completion of the Flesh Tower, together with the Giant Tree City and the giant banyan itself, even though the Blood Flesh Worm Nest is still slightly short of the last bit of progress, the three types of large buildings for mutant creatures have been assembled.

And the combat units have also all been promoted to Rank 4 Gold Level, the count reaching the required variety of 10 types.

This means that her superpower promotion requirements have been completely fulfilled!

"Although I really want to promote now and see the elegance of Tier 5 superpower, it’s better to be conservative..."

Bai Yi recalled her original plan, still resisting the impulse to promote immediately.

After advancing to Tier 4, she had already made a plan to promote her Superpower Tier after advancing her Lord Rank to Tier 5.

Though there have been some accidents now, with the superpower promotion requirements being completed first, she does not plan to change her approach.

After all, the conditions for advancing her Lord Rank have also been largely fulfilled, with only less than twenty thousand Admirers lacking.

She was initially worried that the figure of one hundred thousand was too immense to gather, prepared to turn to the dungeon world for promotion if she couldn’t achieve it.

But now, with the number of Admirers already reaching over eighty thousand, just using the game props obtained from Landon for additional carrying rights, bringing a group of witches from the dungeon world will suffice.

And today is just the day to obtain dungeon entry rights!

Moreover, even if she doesn’t bring out the witches from the dungeon world, she can still rely on offspring reproduction to temporarily accumulate enough witches, the number of witches that can be brought out by the end of the Cycle Challenge is also sufficiently large.

Now the only restriction on her is her own Lord Level.

Following the orange cat’s advice, Bai Yi has been holding back on continuously promoting her attributes, maintaining a pace of leveling up one day and allocating attribute points another day, averaging one level every two days.

But so many days have passed, now she is only at Level 48, which was the level reached last night.

"Just 2 levels to go for promotion, all other conditions are already met, it’s time to speed up the process.

After all, attribute points are now mainly assigned by gene entries, and the panel’s attribute points have become a minority, no longer significant.

It might be possible to just focus on leveling up, temporarily ignoring attributes!

This will also speed up the process.

Luckily, I will get dungeon entry rights later. Using the three times faster flow of time in the dungeon world, after entering the dungeon, I will be able to complete it very quickly!

After reviewing the warfare reports and making investments, going in and then coming out two days later with the level upgraded, I won’t even miss tomorrow’s investment rights opening!" fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

Bai Yi quickly arranged her schedule, but all this would still need to wait until noon, when the investment rights are opened to obtain dungeon rights.

There’s still some time until noon now, and having been woken up early in the morning, she can’t fall back to sleep now.

It’s just the right time to plan out the next crop cultivation, prepare some genes in advance so that she can start cultivating immediately upon entering the dungeon.

Currently in her territory, the main food output is provided mainly by the pre-upgraded version of Crystal Rice that she cultivated at Tier 3. Although there have been casual upgrades later, pulling the level up to a Tier 4 scale, the real effects have not reached this level.

They are just purely food crops, which have reached the Tier 4 scale in the eyes of the panel.

And the other crops are even more lacking, all just at a Tier 3 standard, except for their super-strong reproductive ability, they have virtually no Transcendent effects.

Now that there are plenty of gene entries available, it’s time for systematic modifications.

"Currently, the staple foods in the territory are rice and potatoes, supplemented by watermelons as fruits and pumpkins as half-vegetables, which is really too few.

The fusion gene entries have also become too obsolete and need updating.

Of the plants previously collected, many can be used as food, making this a good time to cultivate them together.

These non-staple crops are simple—just classify them according to the parts used for eating and cultivate one plant each; the rest can generally rely on these few sets of standard genetic fusion.

Hmm, and don’t forget about spices; most of the plants traded previously already include them, so there’s no need to collect them deliberately, just fuse them with other crops.

However, the main food does need some careful consideration..."

The types of crops originally placed foremost must be expanded. Initially, rice and potatoes were chosen solely for their convenience of acquisition and indeed, their yield is quite satisfactory.

Even among normal crops, potatoes and rice are known for their yield, arguably much better than various types of wheat, and are simpler to process.

At that time, when the territory was still undeveloped, convenience was the priority, and there was no need to look for other crops.

But now that the territory is becoming prosperous and I have the capacity, it’s time to arrange for these crops.

Not only will this enrich the diet of the witches, speeding up the emergence of a culinary culture among them, but I will also be able to quickly enjoy a variety of food.

Of course, this can’t rely only on staple foods; a rich variety of meat, vegetables, and fruits are equally indispensable.

Formerly, this was resolved using Blood Flesh Rice, but it now largely depends on fresh Mutant Creatures, and in the future, it might be replaced with the Large Resource Building [Biological Nest], providing a meat supply for the territory.

As for vegetables, that’s where I come in this time.

"Initially, it was just for cultivation, and there weren’t many gene entries available, so we could only maintain the crops in their original form.

But this no longer suits the needs of the current territory...

The shape has to change; at least rice can’t just be harvested once and then reach the end of its life. It needs to transform into something like chives that can be harvested multiple times!"

Whether it’s potatoes or rice, both are one-time crops; after each harvest, a portion must be set aside as new seeds for replanting.

The growth rate of first-generation potatoes and rice wasn’t very fast, and the demand was not large at that time, coming to about one acre in total, which wasn’t very significant.

But as the growth rate of crops has been increasing rapidly nowadays, and the area has expanded due to the need to feed a large number of witches, disadvantages have started to emerge.

Much of the time is spent on harvesting, removing dead plants, and the cycle of re-planting, which is extremely tedious.

To increase production, this process must be optimized.

And as for the direction of optimization...

"Simply extending lifespan?

Not enough, perhaps we might try to cultivate enlarged versions of plants, making them tree-like. However, for crops like rice, the size of the edible parts needs extra control, whereas types like wheat that need grinding do not.

In this case, gigantification definitely must be added, rapid growth is wanted, various magic power absorption is necessary, and also auto-adaptation of Same Root...

The original genes must also be enhanced..."

Recalling the gene entries that existing crops possess in her mind, Bai Yi suddenly discovers another necessary direction for improvement—reproduction.

If it’s the traditional cycle of harvest and planting, a strong reproductive capability is naturally essential, but now, if it’s transformed into a model for long-term harvesting, this reproductive ability instead becomes a nuisance.

If harvesting isn’t vigilant, or if it’s unable to keep up with regular growth, seeds falling on the ground and sprouting would hinder the growth of other plants.

However, with the multitude of gene entries available today, there is still a solution to this problem.

"We can directly apply the genes of Three-day Rice, removing the ’seed’ function, and changing reproduction to a divisional mode.

Or perhaps make use of Same Root techniques, turning them into plants like strawberries that propagate new plants independently through their roots!"

Bai Yi’s eyes light up; this method could not only be used for rice and wheat but can also be applied to all the crops produced within the territory.

Even for selling, there’s no more need to worry about others just freely taking seeds, perfect!

Regarding the research report on the light in the eyes (White): Through experimental observation, this phenomenon appears in creatures who possess magic power and often accompanies fluctuations in the creatures’ emotions.

After multiple observations, whenever the test subject undergoes intense emotional fluctuations or intense mental activities, the internal magic power surges, causing anomalies in the body’s weaker parts, specifically the eyes

— the source of the light in the eyes

[Note: Why is there even a research report on this? Bai Fa, is your research institute really that idle?]

[Note on the note: But master, aren’t you curious?]