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IMPERIUM INSECTUM - Chapter 47

Published at 31st of October 2023 08:27:00 AM


Chapter 47

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I moved over to one of the few undestroyed chairs. The room was a mess. Gone were the tall bookcases and large tables. Now, The room was completely unrecognisable. Chunks of mangled wood littered the floor. The torn pages of lord knows how many bucks lay mixed in the rubble, and the worst part is that the room is wet, so incredibly wet from all the melted snow.

I chuckled . Still, the room was in better condition than I was. My armour was broken and shattered due to the blast, and thanks to all the cold, my fingers and other extremities were pitch black

 

Rapid Gestation.

 

In a pickle and need a member of your family at your side. With this ability, you can have a member of your family right at your side in a fraction of the time.

(WARNING: The egg must be implanted directly into a host to do so and will Guarantee the host's death)

 

Cost: 30 points

Paralytic venom.

With this nifty little upgrade, your venom won’t kill people but immobilise them instead.

 

Cost 5 points

 

Conversion Process

See someone with skills you like, Knowledge you want. With this skill, you can turn them into one of your own and make them your subordinates.

 

Cost: 35 points.

More Eggs.

15 eggs not enough for ya, huh. Well, get this Amazing little upgrade to Double the number of eggs you can hold from 15 to 30  and improve the speed they produce.

 

Cost: 10 points

Molting (new)

A beautiful dame like yourself always has to look her best. With this little trinket, you can do just that by shedding away that ruined shell. Giving  you a brand new one and refilling your health, mp and stamina

 

Disclaimer: Shedding requires 6 hours at level 1 and at least 2500 Biomass. Increasing the level lowers the time this takes.

 

 

Cost 40

Enthral. (New)

Girls like you have a habit of twisting people around your finger. Now, with this ability, you can use your pheromones to enthral people, making them more susceptible to your way of thinking. Be careful, though not everyone is as weak-willed as they look.

 

Cost 60

Big [Birth]a (new)

Hehehe. Let's keep this one a secret, shall we….

 

Cost: 250 points

Level-based XP earning (New)

Want to get rewarded more for what you kill? Then, this one is a no-brainer.

Everything you kill will be assigned a level corresponding to its strength and experience; the higher the level, the more xp earned. This only applies to you, not your children.

 

Disclaimer: once this skill is purchased, It can't be upgraded

 

Cost 15 points

 

Wow….It somehow managed to get worse… Whatever, I've given up asking for any of this to make sense. However, the skills on offer do look very good. Obviously, I'm taking the Conversion process, so that already puts me down to 85 points. Let's see, Big Birtha is off the table way too expensive. Enthrall looks useful, but playing the manipulation game isn’t me and the cost as well 60 points! No way, not right now, anyway. That leaves molting. It sounds great, and I am tempted. But I think that because I'm badly injured, And realistically, I should aim to avoid getting this badly injured anyway. Hmmmm…… Gahh, so much choice... Let's think about this: what would be useful to help me achieve my main goal. Right now, my main goal is to grow my hive, so for that, More eggs and rapid gestation are the best choices, even though the latter is more of a luxury than a necessity. However, I have to keep in mind my other goal of getting stronger. Keeping that in mind level, level-based XP earning will help massively in that regard. Fine let's go 50/50. I will take More Eggs, level-based xp earning and conversion process, leaving me with 60 points. The rest of the points I will use to upgrade my abilities and, if I can, my attributes

 

Are you sure you want to acquire the following

Level-based XP earning

Conversion process

More Eggs

 For 60 points?

 

Yes.

Points deducted. 60 points remaining

 

Instantly, my body temperature shot up to hotter than ever before, especially in my stomach and at the base of my pincers.

< It's been a while since I've felt like this…>

Soon, the heat faded. I placed my hands on my stomach. My stomach wasn’t any wider, but I could feel a difference… I was heavier… No, more dense is a better word. My face curved into a smile. I can't wait to fill up more girls with this.

I quickly switched to my status.

 

NAME:

Diva: LVL 23

HEALTH: 15/300

STAMINA: 13

MP: 20/400

POINTS: 60

BIOMASS: 0

RACE :

N/A

TITLE:

(outworlder) (herald of the end) (Fanatic Xenophobe) (sadist) (Silent assassin)(mother)(midwife) (Scholar)

 

ATTRIBUTES:

MIND: 30

BODY:20

SOUL:20

RECOVERY: 24

MAGIC:

Null release

Null shroud

ABILITIES:

Living nest (LVL 2)

Bestial call (LVL 1)

Venomous constitution (LVL 1)

Enhanced reaction (LVL 1)

Insect Vision (LVL 2)

Insect speech (LVL 1)

Hive link (LVL 2)

Efficient Processing (LVL 1)

Feasting (LVL 1)

Hive weave (LVL 1)

Painful Recovery (LVL 5)

Mana perception (LVL 1)

Meditative restoration (LVL 1)

Mana Cycling  (LVL 1)

Royal Mouthpiece (LVL 1)

Climbing (Lvl 1)

Tears of the Hive Queen (LVL MAX)

More eggs (Lvl 1) NEW!

Conversion Process (Lvl 1) NEW!

Level based XP earning (lvl MAX) NEW!

 

Resistances

Pain resistance (Moderate)

Cold Resistance (Minor)

Subordinates

Cindi (Servant)

 

MISC (new)

HIVE MANAGEMENT

ABILITY

SHOP

 

Let's see…. Let's upgrade more eggs. I have a theory I want to test out…

Would you like to upgrade this ability from level 1 to 2

Cost 4 points.

 

Yes.

Skill upgraded

30 -> 60 eggs

 

HAHAHAHA YES! Just as I thought. Each upgrade doubles the amount of eggs from the previous amount!

Would you like to upgrade this ability from level 2 to 3

Cost 4 points.

 

Skill upgraded

60 -> 120 eggs

 

The heat in my stomach rose again. Hahah! This is fantastic. So, on average, I can fit 15 eggs inside 1 host, so 120 eggs means 8 hosts in total. But why stop at 8? I mean…No. NO! Think rationally, diva. Expanding too big and too fast has been the downfall of many empires. I need to focus. 8 is a good start for now.

I moved on to the conversion process,

To convert a subject, 30,000 biomass and 8 days are needed

You have no control over the conversion process. The system will pick and make changes as it sees fit.

 

Well, that’s a bit shit. Let's dump some levels into it and see what happens. I dumped 12 points into it to bring it up to level 3.

Skill upgraded

Subject conversion cost reduced to 21,000

You have partial control of the changes applied to a subject. You can make minor changes to body features such as height and superficial changes such as exoskeleton colour and hair colour. You can also add small features such as sharpened claws and teeth.

 

It's better now, but this is a skill I plan to use on Apollinaris. I won't take any half-measures here. We’ll keep going till the skill is maxed out or as close as it can be to being maxed out. I selected the skill and kept dumping and dumping the skill until.

Skill Maxed

Subject conversion cost reduced 10,0000

You have full control of every aspect of the change. The system will now only aid in the conversion process to ensure the converted subject can function after the process.

 

In total, it cost me 48 points to get it from level 1 to level 12, the max of this skill. It completely cleaned me out points-wise, Putting me back at zero, But it was worth it. I closed all my menus and slowly stood up.

My body was still broken and battered, but it was better than what it was a few minutes ago. The best decision would be to go back and rest, But the door was buried under piles and piles of rubble. I’m stuck down here.





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