Chapter 17: Chapter 17 The First Golden Troops
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[Due to the special nature of the material consumed (Second-tier Giant Boar Pork), your building, the Killing Giant Bee Hive, underwent an unknown change]
[Killing Giant Bee Hive (1st Rank/Gold): Can consume fresh blood flesh to recruit (breed) units [Killing Giant Bee], upgrade requires: Wood*100, Honey*200, Second-tier Crystal Core*1, Fresh Blood Flesh*200, Hive has 50 Worker Bees (5/50)]
[Killing Giant Bee·Worker Bee] (1st Rank/Gold)
Life Value: 150/150
Magic Power Value: 120/120
Level: lv.15 (1st Rank)
Attribute: Strength 10, Spirit 12, Agility 25, Constitution: 15
Talent:
(Mutation) Hard Bee Sting (Green): The bee sting is no longer disposable, but after it breaks, it requires 5 days of recovery.
Neurotoxin (Purple): Utilizing the bee sting to inject the toxin, will be judged against the target's Constitution Attribute, if the Constitution Attribute is below 15, it causes paralysis, can be stacked, each stack increases the judgment value by +2, up to 10 stacks.
Group Consciousness (Gold): The swarm has a group consciousness, whenever the swarm number reaches (10, 100, 1000…), the corresponding attribute corrections and additional abilities can be unlocked, and the intelligence of the group consciousness increases, current correction: none
Hive Expert (Purple): Worker bees will actively seek materials to expand and repair the hive, slowly reducing the hive's upgrade requirements.
Skill:
Gathering (Blue): Even after mutation, the skill of gathering has not been lost, will actively gather building materials and pollen while in patrol state.
Brewing (Blue): Consuming collected pollen can brew [Giant Honey] (1st Rank/Purple), continuing to consume pollen can further brew the more effective [Royal Jelly] (1st Rank/Gold)
Poison Injection (Green): Performs a rapid sting to inject neurotoxin into the target, causing 20 points of defense-ignoring physical damage.
Bee Dance (Gold): Cooperate with companions to perform a hunt, each companion participating in the hunt will cause 20 points of defense-ignoring physical damage to the target. When the number of companions reaches (10, 20… 100), each attack will cause an additional (2, 4… 20) points of physical damage.
"You have to believe me, I really am a good man!"
After seeing the panel of the Giant Bee, Bai Yi could only say, it's truly worthy of the Golden unit type!
Whether in terms of combat power or functionality, it's nearly maxed out!
With control and damage, it also covers logistics!
And what tempted Bai Yi the most wasn't those powerful talents but the brewed honey!
"Golden level honey, I wonder what effects it could have?
At least it won't be inferior to tree fruit!"
Relying on the Lord's authority, Bai Yi had already perceived the secret connection between these five initial bees, only because the number was too small, their intelligence level showed even less than the giant banyan.
"Then let's first see how the bonus from the first stage turns out!"
Having said that, Bai Yi invested 50 units of blood flesh and 50 units of honey.
The panel displayed it would still need 10 minutes to breed the next batch of bees, so in the meantime, Bai Yi organized the warehouse.
Suddenly remembering, he had completely forgotten about a small knife, he quickly took it out and handed it to a farmwoman as a temporary tool.
Alongside, Bai Yi also learned the blueprint for the cat nest, as for the Four-legged Dragon Beast lair blueprint, Bai Yi didn't plan to use it himself.
Bai Yi had already seen the Four-legged Dragon Beast, although its combat strength was decent, yesterday, the only casualty of the beetle was being bitten to death by that fake dragon.
But the biggest problem was that it didn't match her talents at all.
Moreover, the materials on the blueprint couldn't be gathered at all, what exactly was Dragon Blood Grass?
So instead of spending a fortune on something that seemed magic-side but might not even be findable to build this barrack, Bai Yi thought it best to sell it when an opportunity arose.
Conveniently, it could be bundled with that scarce Dragon Blood Crystal that had exploded together; absolutely perfect!
It would be best to trade for an insect-type barracks blueprint, that way she might be able to upgrade the territory before the cycle challenge.
The condition to upgrade the territory, was 5 1st Rank buildings and 5 types of 1st Rank units, plus a personal level of 20.
Currently, in the territory, there were already 3 barrack-type buildings and corresponding soldier units, plus the giant banyan that could be concurrently judged as both building and unit, now it just needed 1 more building added with a soldier unit!
"I wonder if advancing to Second-tier territory will also have rewards? If there's also a soldier package...
Heh heh heh—"
Thinking about the possibility of acquiring two more golden unit types, Bai Yi chuckled foolishly.
After wiping the drool from his mouth, the breeding of Worker Bees was nearing completion.
10 seconds...
9 seconds...
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3...
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1!
[Your swarm of bees has reached (55/10), the group consciousness mode has been activated, obtaining the swarm panel, the swarm receives an additional 5 Spirit correction, collection speed +100%, work efficiency +100%]
[Advancing to the next stage requires the swarm number to reach (55/100), the wisdom of the group consciousness increases, additionally receives 50 Spirit correction, collection speed +100%, work efficiency +100%, receives an additional skill: Wing Flapping (Blue)]
"This is just the first stage bonus, and it's already so terrific! Simply terrifying!"
The panel may not be very intuitive, but from Bai Yi's lord perspective.
After adding these 50 bees, the intelligence level of the swarm transformed from that of a newborn baby to a three-year-old child capable of understanding simple words and holding conversations!
Though still a bit slow and clumsy, they could now engage in simple work for the territory!
Opening the swarm panel mentioned in the prompt, Bai Yi found that he could set simple commands for the swarm, assigning certain batches of bees to work separately.
Unfortunately, the commands available were currently few, only free gathering, patrol, and hunt.
More complex commands would require Bai Yi to communicate with the swarm himself, and they might not necessarily understand.
Bai Yi considered carefully and decided to send 30 bees out for free gathering, 20 for patrols, and the remaining 5 to stay on standby in the hive.
After arranging the swarm's work, Bai Yi watched as the swarm dispersed.
Noting the current magic power, earlier bargaining with Jun Lin had taken so long that it was now fully restored.
Bai Yi called out a left-behind Giant Bee, reached out to stroke it, and activated the superpower.
[You used the Skill Gene Extraction, the current target has extractable genes: Group Consciousness, Neurotoxin, Poison Stinger, Compound Eyes, Direction Perception]
"Group Consciousness can actually be extracted?!"
Isn't the strongest talent of the swarm that Group Consciousness?!
If it could be extracted and fused into other creatures, wouldn't that mean creating Golden unit types artificially!
And being of the insect kind, these genes definitely have a high compatibility with the beetles!
Without hesitation, Bai Yi decisively made up his mind.
[You extracted gene entries: Group Consciousness, Neurotoxin]
With two new entries obtained, Bai Yi immediately became interested.
He tried it with all the creatures in the territory, and the results were pretty much as Bai Yi expected.
The compatibility of Group Consciousness placed on plants was acceptable, but transforming those Mutated Banyan Trees in the territory needed a full 300 magic power points.
While placing it on the farmwoman and himself required a full 5000 magic power points to succeed, making Bai Yi click his tongue.
However, Neurotoxin surprised Bai Yi, this thing could actually be fused into Endless Rice with just 200 magic power points.
But what could fusing it in do?
Take a bite and instantly poison someone to death?
Seems like it's not impossible?
Besides rice, the compatibility with the giant banyan and other Mutated Banyan Trees was high too, but at least now Bai Yi didn't have that idea.
The best choice at the moment was still to first stack up the combat power of the beetles, but since the beetles were out clearing the surrounding area, it had to wait until they returned.
Having arranged all the work in the territory well, there was still time early, and other powerful lords were out fighting monsters, so it was best to auction the blueprints when everyone was resting at noon. Bai Yi once again headed to the farmland.
The farmwomen had prepared the Endless Rice Bai Yi needed, so using the same technique, he once again matured a batch of the Endless Rice, prolonging the work of several farmwomen.
After busying for a while, it was nearing noon, and there were more lords speaking in the channel.
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Killing Giant Bee (Part II): Studies suggest that this giant bee may have already awakened group consciousness, and tests show that when the hive is attacked, even if the giant bee is confined in a sealed area, it will synchronously go berserk and proactively attack any approaching creatures and attempt to return to the hive.
——An unnamed research report
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