I Became the Progenitor Vampire Chapter 372 – Chapter 372 Chapter 374 Self

Chapter 372: Chapter 374 Self-Destructing Spider Chapter 372: Chapter 374 Self-Destructing Spider Lide felt a sense of familiarity as he entered the Land of Bone-Burying, with the dense Power of Death surging around him as if welcoming his arrival.

His spiritual power spread instantly, and through the soul mark, he grasped the entire plane at once.

Land of Bone-Burying (Undead Plane)
Level: Rare (Next level: Very Rare, upgrade requires 1,000,000 Power of Death)
Power of Death: 428799
Traits: Capable of growth, Undead Transformation
Special Troops: Frost Giant Dragon (not activated)
Special Building: Skeleton Altar (damaged)
Special Area: Land of Corruption (Basic)
Plane Area: diameter of 2000 blades
Anchored coordinate–Dawn City (A Space Gate can be opened within a 800 km radius of Dawn City to enter the Land of Bone-Burying)
Introduction: …

Lide glanced at the attribute panel of the Land of Bone-Burying and had a clear idea in his mind. Since he had transformed the Death Spider Queen, he hadn't seriously observed the Land of Bone-Burying for two months.

These two months had seen his previously meager Power of Death of thirty to forty thousand increase to over four hundred thousand. Although there was still a distance to be covered to upgrade, it was enough for a substantial recovery.

Setting aside other aspects, it was undeniable that the role of the Land of Bone-Burying was becoming increasingly significant within Dawn City.

The ability to create Space Gates at will was something Lide would never trade even for a Divine Artifact, as it greatly saved the time needed to transport materials and more than doubled the production efficiency of Dawn City.

A prime example was the construction of new city sectors, which previously involved quarrying stone from mountains and then transporting them back with Magic Language Bats or giants.

Now, it was possible to simply create two Space Gates, one on the mountain and another at the construction site, directly transporting materials to the construction site.

The efficiency had more than doubled.

It was also possible to transport One-eyed Giants to the mountains, 3,000 blades in height around Dawn City, to excavate epic-level water supply projects.

Lide didn't need to use Magic Language Bats anymore; he could simply designate and teleport directly there. Unaffected by the cold, they could come down to rest when exhausted and return when refreshed, massively simplifying the process.

For Dawn City at this stage, Lide even considered the Land of Bone-Burying's value in civilian life to be completely equal to, if not surpassing, its military value.

Even though the Land of Bone-Burying might one day breed life forms like the Frost Giant Dragon.

After inspecting the attribute panel of the Land of Bone-Burying a few times, Lide shifted his focus to the internal environment of the Land of Bone-Burying.

The place had changed significantly since the last time he had incubated the Death Spider Queen. The most noticeable change was the top left corner of the territory, crawling with giant spiders covered in gray fur.

Their bodies were covered with horrifying fur and their mouths had sharp Turtle Teeth, gleaming green in their eyes. They lay motionless on the ground, bodies slightly curved together, occupying a quarter of the Land of Bone-Burying with their terrifying presence, covering the white bone ground.

There were at least tens of thousands of them, making one's scalp tingle at the sight.

And most notably, the center surrounded by numerous giant spiders was the Death Spider Queen. The belly of the Death Spider Queen was 5 blades in length and 3 blades in width. Its massive mouthparts opened occasionally, dropping green, sticky spider eggs.

Although this scene was of his own creation, Lide still felt somewhat uneasy.

Death Spider Queen
Level: 14
Special Talent: Spider Queen (can lay eggs to reproduce Death Spiders, incubation time is 1 month, basic level at birth is 5, matures to level 9, Elites can break through to level 10, the highest achievable level is 14, with a very small chance of breaking through to level 15; feeds on various energy-rich decaying plants and corpses.)
Restricted Talent: Rapid Breeding (Intermediate) (can produce 500 spider eggs daily and increase the incubation rate by 35%; in circumstances of sufficient energy and food, the egg production can be increased)
Energy Gathering (Intermediate) (… increases the birth rate of Elite Spiders by 10%, 10% chance of producing Mutated Death Spiders)
Introduction: …

The attribute panel of the Death Spider Queen hadn't changed. Its birth was the result of Lide using the Power of Death to invade the Extraordinary Spider Queen's eggs, and it only acquired its current traits after being fed the Thorns Holy Fruit.

One individual is one race; this saying couldn't be more true for the Death Spider Queen.

Lide looked at the Death Spiders lying motionless on the white bone ground, appearing as if hibernating, and raised an eyebrow.

The Death Spider Queen could produce 500 eggs daily, and the eggs required 30 days to hatch. It had been two months since their birth, which meant the eggs from the first month had now hatched.

After briefly sensing, the number of Death Spiders on the ground was about 15,000, fluctuating by no more than 300.

What somewhat relieved Lide was that these Death Spiders, lying dormant within the Land of Bone-Burying, didn't need to feed. As long as they didn't engage in intense combat, a very small amount of Power of Death was enough to sustain their lives.

Now, these dormant Death Spiders were minimizing their consumption.

This was another hidden trait of the Land of Bone-Burying–any Undead life could be sustained by the Power of Death, eliminating the awkward necessity of finding food daily for cultivated troop types.

The logistics side had always been a strong point for Undead Life; they lived off the bare essentials and needed minimal resources.

Lide smiled slightly, feeling even more satisfied with the Land of Bone-Burying.

Logistics had always been the biggest constraint for military forces; if it were a human army, necessities like food, clothing, shelter, and transportation would need to be secured to maintain adequate combat strength.

Conversely, both the Holy Light Bloodline and the Undead had far fewer constraints. The Bloodline only needed to feed once to sustain themselves for a month, and even in intense battles, they could last one to two weeks.

The Undead were even more domineering; they needed no logistics at all and just continued to summon more troops.

Lide floated in midair and casually opened one of the Death Spider's attribute panels.

Death Spider
Race: Death Spider
Level: Level 6
Size: Large Lifeform
Skills: Spit Spider Silk, Death Bite, Spider Venom, Spirit Resistance, Sharp Claws, High-Speed Running.

Bloodline: Death Spider Bloodline (Can absorb the Power of Death to heal injuries and its attacks carry the Power of Death, causing wounds to rot)
Description: Ancient predators that like to hunt using their highly poisonous spider silk.

It's quite decent; it has six skills. Although the added attributes of the skills are very common, it is outstanding for a monster of this level.

However, it seems that Death Spiders of this level are not of much help in the upcoming battles.

Lide shook his head slightly, his gaze drifting to other parts of the Land of Bone-Burying.

Although there were many Death Spiders, they only occupied one corner.

The central area's twelve-story White Bone Altar was still the focal point, with the nearly shattered Angel Wings on the top altar still emanating a faint Holy Light.

Lide's expression grew complex.

A Twelve-winged Blazing Angel, the seventh-ranking terrifying entity under the Master of Dawn.

A Divine Monster above level 30, the scene of resisting a Divine descent was still vivid in his mind.

Unfortunately.

It couldn't be utilized by him.

He opened the attribute panel and glanced at the attributes of the Angel Wings.

Twelve-winged Blazing Angel
Status: Transforming, Transforming Race–Fallen Angel
Transformation Time: 13242 years (Can use the Power of Death to accelerate transformation)
Description: Ranked seventh in combat power under the Master of Dawn, though she has lost much of her power over the long years, she still possesses unimaginable might, now being eroded by evil forces.

If he remembered correctly, the original transformation time for the Twelve-winged Blazing Angel was 13243 years, and now it's 13242 years, meaning exactly one year has passed, reducing the transformation time by a year…

“I…”

Lide looked helpless; when would this progress ever end?

A Level 30-plus Twelve-winged Blazing Angel disregarding the basics? By the time the transformation is successful, players would have become gods…

Looking at the 420,000 Power of Death on his attribute panel, an idea struck him.

Before, he was dizzy with the transformation time of tens of thousands of years and never experimented to see how much the Power of Death could accelerate the transformation time.

Lide stroked his chin and immediately began to channel the Power of Death into the twelfth-layer of the White Bone Altar.

The transformation began.

The moment he controlled the invasion of the Power of Death, he immediately sensed the Angel Wings, which were sealed by the Plane Power of the Land of Bone-Burying. Despite this, Lide could still feel that immensely Holy Power.

The Holy Light was like rolling magma, ready to erupt at any moment.

Meanwhile, the Power of Death he inputted was slowly eroding the opponent at an extremely slow pace.

On the transparent wings, patchy gray marks were spreading.

The only regret was, it was too slow; with this nearly invisible erosion speed, Lide felt he really would have to wait ten thousand years.

As he maneuvered the invading Power of Death, the outermost layer of the Angel Wings was eroded by an invisible trace…

One thousand, two thousand, five thousand, ten thousand…

When the Power of Death had decreased by 100,000, the transformation time on the Twelve-winged Blazing Angel's attribute panel changed.

Lide suddenly opened his eyes when he noticed the change and stopped channeling the Power of Death into the system, looking at the attribute panel with slight anticipation.

However, his expression quickly became rigid.

The panel showed the year as 13241… just a moment ago, it was 13242.

That meant it took him 100,000 Power of Death to reduce the transformation time of the Twelve-winged Blazing Angel by one year.

By that calculation, would he need 1.3 billion Power of Death for these over thirteen thousand years?

Lide glanced at his remaining 320,000 Power of Death and his face darkened.

“I'm not sure if I should say this… but what kind of piss-poor Twelve-winged Blazing Angel is this, why is it so hard to corrupt?

Can't you be more proactive? Why does it have to be so troublesome…

1.3 billion Power of Death? Can killing 10 million Beastmen from the barren wastelands even yield one billion? I fear even destroying all the cities in the entire southern province wouldn't be enough to gather that much…”

Lide couldn't help feeling a bit helpless; it seemed that acquiring the power of a Twelve-winged Blazing Angel any time soon was a bit too optimistic.

“Damn it, I'll order Asreaga to open triple the number of Space Gates to the Spider Plane right away, no, triple that–I refuse to believe that slaughtering the entire Spider Plane won't amass that 1.3 billion Power of Death…”

That might still not be enough…

After a brief calculation, Lide's mouth twitched, his only hope now was that the spiders bred faster; otherwise, he didn't know until what year he'd be able to corrupt the Twelve-winged Blazing Angel.

He decisively abandoned the idea of continuing to input the Power of Death into the Twelve-winged Blazing Angel.

This was like an unfathomably deep sea, and trying to fill it with stones would require countless resources.

After a slight ponder, Lide's gaze shifted to the Death Spider.

Relying on other forces to enhance his combat power in the short term seemed difficult, even though the Death Spider itself wasn't strong in combat, there seemed to be some potential if he delved deeper.

He suddenly remembered a common monster from a game he frequently played.

The Self-Destructing Spider.

It recklessly charged at enemies and detonated upon reaching them, a suicidal weapon.

A few sparks of inspiration flickered in Lide's eyes as he began seriously considering the idea.

The production cost for Death Spiders was very low, requiring just a little Power of Death and food, making them perfect as expendables.

Moreover, with the Death Spider Queen around, the supply of Death Spiders could be endless.

Additionally, the attributes of the Death Spiders may seem passable, but they couldn't compare to a regular army, especially the Beastman army currently stationed in Risier City, which was not even close to being on the same level.

Relying solely on the power of the Death Spiders would be like sending lambs to the slaughter, a single charge from a seat wolf could send them flying.

But thinking about it from a different angle changed everything.

Using them as carriers, he could attach Alchemy Bombs to these agile creatures capable of all-terrain movement and conduct suicide attacks on the enemy.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, Lide felt quite excited just imagining tens of thousands of Death Spiders exploding amidst the enemy troops.

If this idea worked, it could be a powerful weapon in his arsenal when the air force of Dawn City couldn't take off.

And not just for this war; Dawn City could continue to use this tactic in the future.

Especially in narrow places like caves, where maneuvering was restricted, the Self-Destructing Spiders would definitely become everyone's nightmare…

The more Lide thought about it, the more viable it seemed.

Let's not talk about how to install Alchemy Bombs on Death Spiders; a more pressing issue was that a daily production of 500 spider eggs was still not sufficient.

After pondering for a moment, Lide tore through space and in less than three minutes, he appeared again with three blazing Thorns Holy Fruits in his hand.

If the quantity was insufficient, then he needed to stimulate production… solutions were always more plentiful than difficulties.

After he had previously fed a Thorns Holy Fruit to the Death Spider Queen, her egg-laying capability had increased from 200 to 500.

Feeding her another Thorns Holy Fruit obviously wouldn't trigger another Bloodline Transformation this time; this had to be big.

He stepped forward and instantly teleported above the egg-laying Death Spider Queen, waved his hand and three Thorns Holy Fruits fell out of thin air, feeding them to her.

The Death Spider Queen, whose belly was three times the size of her head, let out a joyful screech and then swallowed all three Thorns Holy Fruits in one gulp.

In less than 30 seconds, the Level 14 Death Spider Queen's green eyes began to show traces of blood, and her abdomen started to produce silk.

Under Lide's watchful eyes, she enveloped herself within a thick grey cocoon in just over ten minutes.

The scene then fell into silence.

The Death Spiders were not awakened and remained asleep; it wasn't the time to slaughter pigs anyway, making the Land of Bone-Burying seem very quiet.

“Moo~”
Not long after, a cow's moo drew Lide's attention from behind the Skeleton Altar.

That strange Cow Bone Undead?

Lide had a peculiar expression, noticing just then that the house built by the Cow Bone Undead seemed to have been trampled flat by a Death Spider.

He glanced around the Land of Bone-Burying and couldn't find that half-wit Cow Bone Undead.

Curious, Lide expanded his spiritual power, but his face soon took on a rather fantastic expression.

Although the Undead hadn't built any houses on the surface, the bastard had dug a huge hole beside the Skeleton Altar and constructed an underground one-bedroom, one-living-room basement…

And ridiculously, there was even a white bone bed inside.

What made him both cry and laugh was that the basement even had a decent-sized dining room, where the Cow Bone Undead was currently lying down, voraciously gnawing on a spider skull, its short tail wagging furiously.

The crunching sounds kept coming from the ground, sounding particularly frightening in this environment.

And that wasn't all; there was an even more absurd scene. Since the Death Spiders had taken over the task of transporting Spider Queen eggs, the ordinary Undead he had created before were now serving this Cow Bone Undead.

These Undead were clearly divvied up into tasks; a few went out to find bones, and once they found suitable ones, they would carry them down to the Cow Bone Undead's mouth.

Meanwhile, other Undeade were currently giving the Cow Bone Undead lying on the ground eating bones a back massage… yes, a back massage, like a great big… favour.

A skeleton was enjoying a massage from a bunch of other skeletons–it was a hilariously absurd scene.

You're an Undead, massage?? Do you even have a sense of touch??

Lide couldn't help but cry and laugh.

After sensing a bit more, he was surprised to discover that the level of this Cow Bone Undead had actually risen to Level 12, making it much more formidable than before.

“This bastard is becoming more and more mysterious; I really don't know how I managed to recruit him initially… The other Undead are still fine.”

After watching for a while, Lide suddenly realized he might not be living as comfortably as this Cow Bone Undead… truly frustrating.

“This guy gains Skills by devouring bones. Later on, I should gather more corpses of Beastman or human mercenaries; I want to see what kind of Undead this turns out to be.”

After observing the Cow Bone Undead briefly, Lide didn't concern himself further.

Currently, the Cow Bone Undead wasn't much use. It could continue to grow; booting it out after reaching Level 15 wouldn't be too late.

Time passed quickly, and three Sunshine Hours later, zi la~, the gray cocoon wrapped in spider silk broke open fiercely, and the Death Spider Queen emerged.

Lide watched intently; the Death Spider Queen's form had grown bigger, and its aura even more ferocious.

Opened attribute panel.

Death Spider Queen
Level: Level 14
Special Talent: Spider Queen…

Restricted Talent: Rapid Breeding (Advanced) (Able to produce 1000 spider eggs per day and increase hatching rate by 40%; can increase egg production under sufficient energy and food)
Energy Gathering (Advanced) (Increases the birth probability of Elite Spiders by 15%, 15% chance to birth a Mutated Death Spider)
Introduction: …

Good, both Restricted Talents had improved again.

The number of eggs had increased from the original 500 to 1000, meaning about 30,000 Death Spiders could be born each month.

With three months left until the war begins, and with 15,000 Death Spiders already hatched and another 15,000 not yet hatched, that's 30,000 in total.

In the remaining three months, each month could produce another 30,000, but only two batches could be hatched, which was 60,000.

This calculation meant that by the time the war started in three months, he'd have about 90,000 Death Spiders.

Lide was quite satisfied with this number. Although Death Spiders were mass-produced Demon Beasts with lower combat ability compared to Professionals of the same level, quantity would bring about a qualitative change.

Plus, he didn't need these Death Spiders to clash head-on with the Beastman army but to transform them into Self-Destructing Spiders.

Once he equipped these Death Spiders with Alchemy Bombs…

Tens of thousands of timed bombs that could autonomously navigate and fearlessly charge at the enemy to detonate, imagining such a scenario and its power.

Very intriguing.

“Now there's one crucial point still, we must develop equipment similar to Air Force One's payload armor.

Not only should it be quick for the Death Spiders to wear, but it should also let them control Alchemy Bomb detonations easily…”

Chapter end