Chapter 981: Let's have a baby together

Looking at the insect-person Royal Sister who had once again gone blank before her, Dorothy smiled quite happily.

However, it was best not to overdo the teasing of this pure-hearted big sister; she prepared to quit while she was ahead.

"Alright, I won't tease you anymore, Miss Xilin. But I really wasn't lying; your body is much more useful than your brain. Your genes are very special. If you can truly unleash their full power, then even becoming a new Calamity Race is possible."

Dorothy straightened her attitude and said earnestly.

"Calamity Race?"

And the insect-person Royal Sister, who had only just managed to wake up from the shame of being lusted after, had a string of question marks pop up over her head.

After all, the Senhai World was a tiny world not connected to the Mana Web. The insect-people were naturally natives who knew nothing about the Western Universe, and they were completely ignorant of common knowledge like world levels and race levels.

Fortunately, the fleet had now entered autopilot mode. Before approaching the Mechanical Wasteland World, Dorothy still had three months of leisure time, so she patiently explained this Western Universe common knowledge to Miss Xilin.

"Hmm, according to the mainstream academic view of the current Mana Web, all races are currently divided into four ranks: Black Iron, Bronze, Bai Yin, and the highest-ranking Gold. Gold races are also known as Calamity Races."

"Of course, if one were to subdivide further, each rank can be split into lower, middle, and upper levels."

"The demon that destroyed your world is one of the Gold Calamities, and we Witches are also a Calamity Race."

The Home Witch spoke eloquently about this common knowledge that, for Witches, was learned in kindergarten.

But as a native of a small world making first contact with others, this knowledge was an incredibly shocking blow to Xilin's worldview.

After all, as one of the two dominant races of the former Senhai World, the insect-people still had some pride. They had once boasted of being the masters of all spirits, the darlings of the world. They had once been confident that they would surely defeat the apes, the pillars of the Beast Race, and ultimately become the absolute protagonists of the Senhai World, turning it into a world of insects.

But now, someone had suddenly told her that their past pride was all fake, and that the war they had fought for thousands of years was actually just children playing house. It was as if everything in the past had lost its meaning; the insect-person Royal Sister's worldview was already shattered to pieces.

She even felt that if it weren't for the fact that her brain had mutated and she had indeed grown up in hardship, making her relatively strong, she would have probably just given up thinking and fallen into madness.

Fortunately, she quickly forced herself to calm down.

"Hmm, although it's hard to accept, if you think about it carefully, it's actually within expectations. In the apes' sci-fi works, alien civilizations often appeared. The Senhai World definitely wouldn't be the only world where civilization exists, so it's only natural that there are civilizations higher than ours."

"It's just that logic is logic, but when you're told in reality that you're actually just a low-level civilization, it's still hard to accept. Lady Dorothy, the apes—or humans, as you call them—what rank are they?"

Xilin asked.

She didn't dare ask about the insect-people directly, instead inquiring about the rank of their old rivals.

"A Black Iron race. But humans are actually a bit special; their civilization's plasticity is extremely strong. Race rank is only evaluated based on the degree of physical evolution. The individual quality of humans is only at the Black Iron race level, but the technological level of the humans in your hometown isn't low, so we can tentatively give them a relatively lower-tier evaluation among the Bronze races."

Dorothy stroked her chin as she estimated.

She also felt it was a pity she hadn't been able to see the humans of the Senhai World with her own eyes. After all, judging from what the insect-person Royal Sister said, the humans there developed pure technology. In the Western Universe, pure technological civilizations were not easy to find; most civilizations were magical.

"Only lower-tier Bronze?"

Xilin lowered her head upon hearing this answer. As a scavenger who often came into contact with the battlefield, she knew very well how troublesome the apes, their old rivals, were. The myriad tribes of the insect race combined could only fight the apes to a draw. Although the insect-people did gain some advantages by relying on numbers, it was impossible to eliminate the apes during that time.

In fact, as the apes' technology advanced, the insect-people's advantages were already being wiped out. It was highly probable that in the end, the apes would be the final winners.

Anyway, looking at it this way, the insect-people's level should be about the same as the so-called lower-middle tier of the Bronze races.

And above Bronze was Bai Yin, and above Bai Yin was the Gold race, which symbolized Calamity.

"Is the gap between races large?"

The insect-person Royal Sister asked again, somewhat unwillingly.

To this, Dorothy shrugged.

"It's not a question of whether it's large or not. I can only say that the peerless geniuses among lower-tier races, who are rarely seen in centuries, are merely the average quality of the race one level above. You can imagine the strength of the strongest king among your insect-people, and that might just be the level of an ordinary member of a relatively lower-tier Bai Yin race."

The Home Witch coldly shattered Xilin's unwillingness.

Hearing this, the insect-person Royal Sister fell silent once again.

It sounded like the gap where the maximum value equals the average value of others might not be very large, but if you think about it carefully, the most valiant soldier-king in your army is just an ordinary soldier on the other side. This comparison makes the gap terrifying. The actual combat power of the two sides isn't just a simple difference of double; it's a completely one-sided slaughter.

An army of all soldier-kings could easily slaughter hundreds of ordinary troops, just like that single demon that destroyed the entire Senhai World.

Xilin had originally thought that the demon who called itself the Apostle of Envy might be a powerhouse even in the Abyss, but now it seemed that demon might just be an ordinary demon in the Abyss, perhaps even a bottom-feeder. Otherwise, a demon with any ambition wouldn't even bother with a poor, tiny world like the Senhai World.

Likewise, she finally realized the gold content of the Witch before her; this was a super race so powerful it completely exceeded her imagination.

However, seeing that the insect-person Royal Sister was about to shut herself off again, Dorothy had to soothe her a little.

"Of course, race value only represents talent; it doesn't represent the upper limit of final achievement. The Western Universe is so large that miracles always happen sometimes. We Witches are an evolved species of humans, having climbed step by step from Black Iron to our current status as the head of Calamities."

"And you, Miss Xilin, your constitution is very special. I also see the power of miracles in you. Although I dare not say you will definitely achieve the accomplishments of our Witch clan, at least there is that possibility."

The Home Witch said.

It was just that her comforting effect was not obvious.

"Ah? Me?"

Xilin pointed at herself with a bewildered expression.

Although she had indeed been quite confident in herself before, even thinking about learning from Witches and then surpassing them, now that the gap between the two had been explained, she realized how arrogant her thoughts were.

Of course, arrogant was arrogant; Xilin didn't intend to change. After all, regardless of whether she could achieve it in the end, at least she had to have dreams.

But now, did Lady Dorothy mean that she might actually be able to achieve it?

Was I actually this amazing?

The insect-person Royal Sister was uncharacteristically lacking in confidence.

"Lady Dorothy, do I have such amazing abilities? I feel like my brain is just okay, but judging from my research results so far, that ability to simulate genes at most allows me to possess some abilities of other insect races. But even so, I can't beat the Insect King, let alone defeat those Bai Yin races you mentioned."

Xilin looked at her own hands and said.

Dorothy: "."

No, why do you always insist on doing it yourself? Our insect race doesn't play with spawning troops; why play with individual combat?

And she was too lazy to play word games anymore, directly announcing the standard answer.

"Forget your individual heroism; let's just fast-forward to having a baby."

The Home Witch stepped forward and pinned the insect-person Royal Sister against the wall, then said this.

To this, Xilin was terrified and stunned. After a long time, she finally shrieked.

"Ehh—"

"Which, Lady Dorothy, isn't this a bit too direct? Even in the clan, we aren't this direct. And we are two different races; there's reproductive isolation, right? And even if there wasn't, we are both females. How can we have a baby with the same gender?"

The insect-person Royal Sister was truly surprised and flustered by the Witch master's bold and direct statement.

It wasn't that she didn't want to have a baby; in fact, she wanted to have a baby very much. After all, the Crown Prince Clan specialized in this.

But Xilin's values were still quite traditional. Although she had been so ugly in the past that no insect-person wanted to be her partner, she had never thought about finding a partner of another race, okay?

It was mainly because genetics told her that different races simply couldn't have babies.

And since she couldn't have a baby, why look for a partner? Being alone was quite good.

However, Lady Dorothy suddenly said such things; could it be that she really took a fancy to my body?

Wow, so Lady really thinks I'm quite good-looking? A bit happy.

What should I do? Should I agree?

Although we can't have a baby, I heard that apes form families not just for children. Just mating can produce pleasure. Although I haven't tried what mating feels like, I think it shouldn't be bad. But if the gender is the same, can we also mate?

And, Lady Dorothy is really good-looking. If she were my partner, even if we couldn't have a baby, I wouldn't be unable to accept it.

At this moment, Xilin's hard-suppressed love-brain almost couldn't be suppressed anymore.

"What are you thinking? Who said it was for the two of us to have one? I'm saying you should have one by yourself."

Dorothy was also rendered speechless by the reaction of this beautiful insect-person big sister, and she quickly explained.

"Uh... but how can one person have a baby?"

Seeing that she seemed to have misunderstood, Xilin didn't know why she still felt a little regretful, but she finally calmed down, then tilted her head, somewhat confused.

One person having a baby was really somewhat beyond her insect life view.

"Is it really impossible? I said you weren't smart. If you were really smart, think carefully: with your gene technology, is it really impossible to do such a thing?"

Dorothy had to remind her like this.

And hearing her words, Xilin thought seriously for a moment, then fell silent.

Is it really impossible?

Actually, it is possible, and very easy.

After all, in gene technology, whether it's fission or cloning, this kind of reproduction effect can be easily achieved. It's just that she herself was influenced by the values of the Crown Prince Clan and always felt that breeding was a very sacred thing. If she used fission or cloning technology to achieve the same effect, it would be somewhat blasphemous to the clan's glory.

If she had any other way, she actually wouldn't want to use such means, so she always subconsciously avoided this blasphemous taboo.

It's just that now, the Crown Prince Clan has been destroyed, and it seems the clan's glory isn't that important.

Xilin analyzed her own heart deeply. She found that she was just lucky to have met Lady Dorothy and had no survival pressure, which allowed her to be so pretentious here.

Otherwise, if it were any other situation, in order to protect herself, she would have long since stopped caring about taboos.

And once she broke the taboo...

Xilin suddenly understood what Lady Dorothy meant by her specialness.

Over the years, her scavenging on the battlefield had almost collected all the insect race genes of the myriad tribes of Senhai. As long as she was willing, she could use gene technology to clone those insect races back at any time.

As long as she was given some time and enough resources, she alone could rebuild the entire insect race.

She could even freely design brand-new, stronger insect races herself. Theoretically, as long as there were enough gene samples, enough strength, and enough resources, she could become infinitely stronger.

It's just...

Hmm, when it comes down to it, hasn't it not reached that desperate point yet?

The insect-person Royal Sister hesitated.

If she had no choice, she would have to give birth, but the child born that way would be destined to exist only as her tool. But now that there was no survival pressure, if she had a choice, she wanted to be a good mother.

"Lady Dorothy, do you really need me to give birth?"

Finally, Xilin looked at the Witch master before her and asked.

Hmm, now she was a servant of a Witch; whether she gave birth or not wasn't really up to her, was it?

If Lady Dorothy needed her to give birth, then she would give birth.

After all, this time she originally wanted to show her value to this Witch master. Brain value is value, and breeding value is also value.

As long as she could gain the Witch master's trust, that was good.

Hmm, as long as she could obtain the nourishment for growth, one day she would be able to obtain the freedom to decide her own life.

Xilin thought to herself.

However...

"It's you giving birth, not me. I just pointed out your specialness. Whether you go or not is your own business; you decide for yourself. I'm too lazy to care."

Dorothy picked her nose and said indifferently.

The Home Witch is picking her nose.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 982 =====