Chapter 706 - 333: Karedo! Pay-to-Win Development!

[World Entry - Karedo]

World Overview: The world structure of Karedo is complex and grand, dominated by three continents.

Central fertile land "Middle Garden Continent"

Eastern lush forest land "Thousand Forests Land"

Western scorching red land "Scorched Earth Cracked Territory"

The three continents face each other across the ocean, with numerous islands scattered between them. The earth veins surge with rich primordial magic power, nurturing all things and also producing countless rare minerals, spiritual herbs, and energy crystals. The richness of resources is enough to support countless civilizations’ rise and fall over thousands of years, yet it also brings eternal conflict.

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Thousand Forests Land, extreme northern region

[God-Hunting Group] collectively arrived in the world, landing in a massive and gray meteorite crater, with dirty snowwater at the bottom. The initial insect nest is rooted in the crater wall, clinging to a large pulsing black stone.

The scene outside the crater is quite explosive.

To the west, as far as the eye can see, there is a stretch of gray-white mossy lichen. The extreme cold wind seems never to stop, swirling ice crystals everywhere, the visibility fluctuates, and sparse frosty needle shrubs grow like inverted green daggers, stubbornly on the land.

To the east, a twisted forest of dark green and dark purple interwoven, the air filled with a faint yellow spore poisonous miasma that seems never to disperse. The ground is soft, bubbling with decay, and gigantic fluorescent mushrooms stand like tombstones.

"Leader, this initial location... Why do I feel something’s not right? The world overview states that the earth veins here are rich with energy and resources; why is one side extremely cold and the other a poisonous miasma forest?"

A petite girl dressed in a pitch-black robe quietly spoke, her eyes full of confusion.

"I don’t know."

Ye Mingqiu responded with an unchanged expression. The team task was for the team, it couldn’t be related to him. Although he was a spirit realm-certified chosen one of fortune, he shouldn’t be ’lucky’ in such a place, right?

"...."

Tang Ruobing didn’t speak, she just glanced at him silently, with a corner of her mouth secretly curving upward.

Around them, other team members looked at each other, not yet familiar with one another, after all, they were a relatively loose team. They would never gather outside of team advanced challenges, all they were here for was to gain body basic potential and soul potential.

"Yo, let me see, who is this? Finally, I caught you, Beyond!"

"Hey, why are you laughing? This is a team advanced challenge, fighting among ourselves in such a place would be too bad!"

Qing Yu and Beyond bickered.

"Hello, you must be the Beast King senior, glad to meet you."

"Not at all, I have just been recently promoted a tier, my power isn’t as strong as yours, in the Spirit Realm, power is respected, you’re too modest."

Yuan Chu and the Old Beast Monarch were casually chatting, while others were observing each other and attempting to start conversations, forming an atmosphere distinct from other teams, lacking the urgent need to develop desperately at the start.

Perhaps... this is the team atmosphere!

Ye Mingqiu left them alone and directly checked the specific state of the insect nest. These people looked lazy, but as soon as orders were given, they would carry it out with high efficiency, as they were top-tier spiritualists or transcenders, so there was no concern about work efficiency.

The surface area exposed to the ground of the initial insect nest was small, appearing to be small in size due to its main body being deeply buried underground, thus looking small.

[Initial Insect Nest (Tier One)]

A small insect nest in its most primitive form, with the internal mother insect still in the initial birth stage, and its strength relatively weak.

Swarm limit: 10 units.

Natural fungal carpet: 50-meter diameter.

Carpet Effect: Automatically absorbs energy from the earth vein, absorbing 10 units of biomass every hour.

Units produced: Worker Insect.

Worker Insect: Basic type of insect race, can build structures, gather resources, and expand fungal carpet. Weak life force, weak combat power in direct fights, directly hatched from the insect nest.

Production time requirement: Five minutes.

Production consumption: 10 biomass.

Advanced requirement: 500 units of biomass.

[Hint: The importance of the core building of the insect nest far surpasses other races. As the insect race lacks wisdom, losing the insect nest will cause units that should be controlled by the mother insect to lose their target, enter a complete frenzy, and die in a short time.]

Biomass: 100

Current population: Worker Insect ×5

"Hmm, indeed a race that thrives on battle, producing one worker insect requires 10 biomass, and 10 biomass takes one hour to capture."

"If not depending on other means and only purely extracting earth vein energy, it would take a full 50 hours to advance to the second stage... This time is too long, it seems that the harvesting of map resources is also crucial."

Ye Mingqiu squinted and thought.

Open biomass source!

[Biomass]

Source: Animal and plant carcasses, resource points.

Collection process: A worker insect can secrete a special decomposition fluid by contacting the target near the animal’s carcass, devouring and storing its energy within itself to bring back to the insect nest for storage.

Supplement: A single worker insect can carry a maximum of 10 units of biomass per trip.

"Did you understand?"

Tang Ruobing suddenly asked.

"Yes, understood."

Ye Mingqiu nodded and replied, "The insect race’s development strategy is very simple, attack; there must be enough initial combat power to drive the insect race, if the power is too weak, it’s impossible to develop."

"The insect race develops quickly, which is likely based on having ample initial resources. Our side’s resources are relatively scarce, so the demand for power is high... it feels slightly troublesome."