Chapter 707 - 333: Karedo! Pay-to-Win Development! (2)

"Mm."

Tang Ruobing nodded and then said, "My strength is relatively strong, and I’m skilled in magic, so I can draw the basic array on the Insect Race core buildings and ensure the base’s safety. Others can focus on killing the enemy to gather resources."

While the two were chatting, a familiar figure appeared before them.

It was Frost Moon.

She waved and said with a smile, "I just glanced at the basics. After the battle, we need engineers to extract biomass from corpses, but if we just transport and extract normally, the efficiency would be too low."

"We can choose better shortcuts, like going out together to kill enemies, then directly using an array to teleport the corpses inside the base for internal processing, which will speed up our development significantly."

"This world’s rules are unique; ordinary spatial tools won’t work, but my spatial ability is strong enough that it should still function."

"Mm."

Ye Mingqiu nodded.

This world has special rules; all materials and resources can only be traded face-to-face. You can’t just pass the map resources through the Spirit Realm channel to other team members and then have them take it out through storage space.

This way of resource transmission is too much of a loophole; theoretically, using the Spirit Realm, it would be banned.

But if it’s transmitted through abilities, the Spirit Realm won’t prohibit it since it’s the strength of the Spiritualist, not a trick.

Moreover...

Another interesting point is that using resources already in the storage space doesn’t face restrictions. This kind of resource consumption is equivalent to paying to win.

External trial participants paying to upgrade would make the World Will delighted; how could it possibly stop? It would even boost paid upgrades’ rewards, making payers feel very effective, prompting them to consume more resources until their balance runs low.

Know this: this world has Divinity powerhouses, and quite a few at that, so the World Will naturally isn’t afraid of economic collapse due to too much paying.

Why don’t you try being a Divinity if you dare!

You might not even beat one!

"Pay-to-win, huh? Interesting."

Ye Mingqiu’s lips curled up.

Then, with a wave of his hand, he directly took a pile of Star Radiance Stones from the storage space and tossed them near the Insect Nest without hesitation, ordering the worker insects to absorb the energy and transport it back while commanding the Insect Nest to produce worker insects at full speed to accelerate resource absorption.

The Insect Race has high pay-to-win returns, especially in places without initial resource points like this.

As for the pay-to-win balance...

Ye Mingqiu was quite flushed with resources too!

You know, he’d scoured almost half the world’s resources in the Endless Divine Remains World before!

The resource amount was so massive that even selling them outside was troublesome since no one would buy such large quantities in the form of Soul Fragments, leaving a pile in hand with nowhere to use them.

Now, aren’t these resources handy? Instead of letting them sit idle, directly pay-to-win them into the Insect Nest, let the Insect Nest rapidly upgrade in a short period, and use the upgraded Insect Race to acquire resources in this world, thus enhancing the final returns.

Divinity restrictions on final limits? A joke!

Wonder if other forces will dump resources like me, better start paying gradually.

--- Team Channel ---

Divine Monarch: @everyone, from now on, I’ll place massive resources in the Insect Nest and keep an eye on the resource consumption.

Other Shore: Holy crap! There’s a whale!

Qing Yu: Leader is amazing!

Divine Monarch: @Yuan Chu@Frost Moon, you two team up and explore, kill as many monsters as possible and recover, I don’t want to waste too many resources.

Yuan Chu: Received!

Frost Moon: Received!

Divine Monarch: @Kaki Aste@Qing Yu@Lu, you three are responsible for expanding outwards, finding new resource points, and exploring if there are other forces near us.

Kaki Aste: Received!

Qing Yu: Received!

Lu: Received!

Divine Monarch: @Short-tailed Cat@Other Shore, you two stay back and watch over building production.

Divine Monarch: I’ll provide massive resources, with a lot to upgrade, produce units, and lay fungal blankets, and many points need clicking, so help me out with that.

Short-tailed Cat: Received!

Other Shore: Received!

Short-tailed Cat: Heh, looks like our job will be the easiest and most relaxing.

Short-tailed Cat: Sigh, suddenly feel guilty for not working hard. How about we give a red envelope after our world ends? It’ll make me feel better.

Short-tailed Cat:

Other Shore: Yeah, our strength is the weakest, just clicking things here and there can’t compare to others’ efforts.

Divine Monarch: No red envelopes based on luck.

Broken Star: No red envelopes based on luck.

Yuan Chu: No red envelopes based on luck.

Qing Yu: Hahaha!

Lu: Pfft!~

....

The blood vessels on the Insect Nest’s surface pulsed rapidly, absorbing biomass from the worker insects, which would continue to devour the Star Radiance Stones after transportation, absorbing more biomass and transferring it for use by the Insect Nest.

Moreover, the Insect Nest’s fungal blanket itself also has the ability to absorb biomass, even if not as quickly as the worker insects, placing Star Radiance Stones on its surface can also speed up biomass acquisition to some extent.

Soon, the total biomass of the Insect Nest directly exceeded the 500-unit threshold, meeting the conditions for advancement.

"Advance!"

Suddenly, centered around the Insect Nest, the 30-meter radius fungal blanket began a rhythmic undulation like a breathing chest, completing one cycle likely every 5 to 6 seconds, and the Nest itself started exuding a dangerous aura.

This was a pheromone used to intimidate beasts and repel enemies; a typical wild Insect Nest would rely on such pheromones to ensure safe advancement.

Soon, the ground temperature around the Insect Nest gradually increased as the fungal blanket naturally expanded outward, absorbing energy more swiftly and efficiently.

The main body of the Insect Nest, originally with a soft slippery meat-textured nest, began secreting chitin and rapidly solidifying into a deep brown hardened shell, significantly enhancing damage resistance.

[Advancement Complete]

[Primal Insect Nest (Second Phase)]

Description: After completing the initial advancement, a Nest with fully-born Mother Insect, various abilities gradually unlocked, possessing a thicker outer shell defense, with overall performance greatly enhanced.

Swarm Cap: 1000 units.

Natural Fungal Blanket: 500-meter diameter.

Fungal Blanket Effect: Automatically absorbs energy belonging to the Earth’s veins, absorbing 20 biomass units per hour.

Producible Unit: Worker Insect.

Unlocked Buildings: Fungal Blanket (self-deployed), Evolution Chamber, Hatching Ground, Extraction Chamber, Gland Storage, etc.

The building capacity of the Second Phase Insect Nest significantly increased compared to Tier One, with functionality becoming more diverse and powerful. Advancing to the Second Phase marks the Insect Nest stepping onto the right track, elevating to the point of being capable of combat.

But to Ye Mingqiu, it’s not even a beginning.

--- Team Channel ---

Divine Monarch: @Short-tailed Cat@Other Shore, the advancement is complete; produce all worker insects at once, absorb energy at the fastest speed, then continue advancing, producing more buildings.

Divine Monarch: Quickly produce various types of buildings, except for defense types for now, directly charge fast, and quickly break through. Focus on resource storage types urgently; otherwise, it’ll waste time if we can’t absorb while advancing.

Short-tailed Cat: Received!

Other Shore: Received!

Then, the two began quickly operating through their permissions, but as they started, they realized something was off.

"Why is this resource growth speed so fast?"

"Wow, this Evolution Chamber’s tech points can actually speed up metamorphosis completion through consuming extra resources, so as long as there’s enough resources, we can keep on clicking? This feels awesome! Even games aren’t this fun!"

....

An hour later

Short-tailed Cat stared at the screen, eyes gradually bloodshot, saying, "Man, how come it’s still not done clicking? My hand is cramping up from all the clicking!"