Chapter 41: Most wasps are female(01).
"Aaagh! What is this?!"
"That's why I warned you earlier..."
Even if you warn me, I might think it's just a matter of not being familiar with sex, how could I possibly think there is no hole at all!
Besides, even if there's no hole for that purpose, shouldn't there at least be an exit hole?
'So, does she not go to the bathroom?'
The only holes she has are her mouth and belly button... Why does she even have a belly button if her body is ?
"Reproductive and gestational functions are not necessary for this flesh, so they were not included. Instead, other mana organs were implanted in those areas to enhance magical performance."
"Wait... Didn't the other mass-produced homunculi have them too?"
"The ones we have now were made for sexual purposes and repurposed for current use, so they have organs that are irrelevant to their current tasks."
I desperately needed those organs that were irrelevant to the current tasks.
I reached out and felt her chest.
It was soft enough and felt nice, but... something...
'Is it this boring not having nipples?'
As I was rubbing the soft mound with my fingers, there was just no protruding bump on it.
But the lack of that one bump made it feel dull and boring between my fingers, and the more I touched, the more frustration bubbled up than excitement.
So, I tried reaching down to her lower body...
'Damn... It's not just that there are no holes, there are no curves either.'
Normally, the two halves of the lower body come together to form the shape of a female genitalia, but there was no hole between the mounds; it was flat like a plain, offering no fun to touch from the outside.
It's just like touching an arm; what's the difference?
Swoosh. Swoosh. Swoosh. Swoosh.
I tried inserting my dick, which wouldn't properly erect, between the legs, and although it felt good...
'Something... something is missing...'
When you rub , water should flow from the valley above to act as a lubricant, but obviously, without a hole, it was just rubbing on smooth skin.
"I'm not doing this, damn it!"
This way, it was unusable.
I remembered discussing whether the upper body was fish and the lower body human or the other way around when we talked about mermaids who are half human and half fish.
'Levin, you were right. No matter how normal it looks, if there's nowhere to put it, it's meaningless!'
With this big realization, my tour of the homunculus workshop came to an end.
Loud flapping noises were echoing through the spider webs.
Originally, this place was filled with giant spiders spreading their webs, causing flying creatures to crash as hundreds, thousands of webs entangled their wings, turning them into food for the giant spiders.
Therefore, the Spider Forest was a dangerous place for flying type monsters to enter, and naive birds that came to catch small spiders ended up being eaten by giant spiders or became prey to monsters like goblins escaping human raids.
However, recently, after the forest queen Arachne was attacked by knights and a power vacuum occurred among the giant spiders due to injuries, slave trader mercenaries targeting Arachne burned and invaded the Spider Forest, burning all the webs.
The surviving spiders were spinning webs again for absolute defense, but the thickness was still insufficient, and the trees had burned down, mostly leaving almost no defense compared to before.
That's why invaders from outside began to enter, as is happening now.
A net made of spider silk suddenly shot out from the barriers of the Spider Forest, capturing one of the three scouts who were scouting the area.
Flapping its wings trying to escape the spider web, the scout had no arms or legs, so it couldn't remove the webs wrapping around it, and the spider silk was of a special material.
Only Arachne could use such material.
Although dozens of giant spiders rushed towards the scout who had fallen to the ground, the scout, despite being bound by the webs, brandished its stinger and tore the spiders' legs with its tough jaws.
After five giant spiders were lost, the scout was stung by more than seven stingers and became paralyzed, and then the owner of the spider web that captured the scout pulled the paralyzed body towards itself.
A giant wasp with a hard carapace that could even deflect ordinary siege weapons, and its jaws could easily cut off a human arm.
The princess, now a queen, Arachne looked up nervously at the sky, listening to the flapping sounds coming from above.
Since the scouts had arrived, it meant that a large-scale invasion of the Spider Forest would soon follow.
Although the current spider force was nothing compared to before, it was fortunate if they could even serve as food for the wasps, but Princess Arachne thought of one knight.
Although not a spider, she remembered her knight who had saved her.
"Be careful not to break the protective barrier around your body."
Is it because the weather has been getting hotter lately?
Wasp nests had started appearing all around the training grounds, and a few trainee knights were found with their eyes swollen from wasp stings, which looked quite funny.
One of them was me. Damn.
Although my eyes had mostly recovered thanks to Mollang pulling out the wasp venom, I still couldn't remove the swelling made by the venom that had seeped into my blood.
Currently, I was wearing a protective barrier device and had been ordered to use a small flamethrower potion purchased from the Alchemy Guild to burn down the wasp nests.
"Carefully peel it off."
Normally, we would just trust the impervious barrier and simply use the flamethrower potion to burn the nests and wasps, but Levin and I were carefully using our hands to peel off the nests.
Because, if we brought these wasps soaked in strong liquor, a bar owner had offered a thousand gold per bottle.
'Might as well make use of it instead of just burning and trashing it.'
I didn't really need such liquor to get an erection quickly, but older men like the bar owner or Professor Pandel might need such drugs to perform.
The moment I pulled out the wasp nest, numerous wasps started rushing towards me.
Before the wasps could attack me, Levin quickly opened a barrel, and I threw the wasp nest inside.
And following the wasp nest, the wasps swarmed into the barrel, and a few angry wasps attacked me, but that's what the flamethrower potion was for.
"Flamethrower front!"
"Aaagh, you crazy guy! Don't stick it to the liquor!"
Since I was spraying where the wasps were flying, sparks flew onto the liquor, and because the alcohol content was so high, the barrel immediately turned into a fire barrel.
"Hey, water, water!!"
I tried to extinguish the fire with my clothes, but the spirits were so volatile that even the clothes I was wearing caught fire.
"Pff... Hey, is your barrier device burning up now?"
The barrier device attached to my clothes had caught fire and started burning, and soon I was exposed to the wasps without any protection.
Watching from below and sensing danger, Shuru quickly ran away on all fours, while Levin was flailing his coat over the barrel trying to put out the fire, and I had to fight desperately against the wasps.
Of course, I was losing.
It was impossible to slash the wasps one by one with a mana saber, and even if it were possible, I didn't bring my sword today!
In a rush, I tried to cover my face with Mollang, but then I saw wasps rushing towards my lower body.
"Mollang... protect me!!"
Eventually, I gave up on my face and protected my lower body.
"Ah! Ah! Aaagh! Hruugh!!"
Even while being attacked by the wasps, I didn't forget to spray the flamethrower potion, allowing 38 wasp stings in exchange for burning all the wasps.
Of course, my face was so swollen I could barely speak.
Shuru, who had quickly fled, was swollen from a wasp sting on her cheek and approached.
"Pfft... cute... *gasp*!"
It was hard to laugh because my face was so swollen, but I didn't forget to use Mollang to pull out the wasp sting from Shuru's cheek and detoxify the venom.
Of course, it will still be swollen for a few hours.
After Shuru removed the wasp sting and Mollang extracted the venom, Mollang came up to my face and began pulling out each sting with her hands, which took quite a while given the number of stings.
"Ah... that's refreshing..."
While I felt the cool touch of Mollang and the wasp venom gradually leaving my face, I saw Levin, having just subdued the fire scene, slump to the ground in exhaustion.
"Damn, it's all burnt."
Levin tried whatever he could to save the barrel of liquor, but the alcohol content was so high that no matter what method he used, he couldn't put out the fire.
As a result, we just had to wait until all the alcohol burnt off, leaving us with a liquid that had boiled fiercely due to the high heat, and perfectly cooked wasp larvae and wasps floating inside.
"Would the bar owner even accept this?"
The liquid that had boiled fiercely with the wasp nest in it had turned into something more like water boiled with wasp nests than liquor.
"If it were me, I'd throw this away."
"No, we have to show why it failed, or they'll say we siphoned off the liquor and drank it."
Levin began to fan the boiling liquid with a hand fan over the small barrel to cool it down, and feeling the venom recede a bit, I peeled Mollang off my face.
The venom Mollang spat out from her mouth was about a sip's worth by human standards, and thinking that such an amount of venom had been injected into my face made me proud that I hadn't died.
"We'll explain the situation to the bar owner and get some other liquor. There are plenty of wasp nests after all."
Today, we've already cleared three wasp nests' worth.
Although wasp nests usually appear at the training center in summer, there has never been a time when so many appeared as now, and strangely, wasp sightings have been frequent lately.
"Did someone secretly apply honey inside the training center?"
While it's nice to earn extra income, getting stung during training is incredibly painful...
Moreover, Dane, being large, was an easy target for the wasps and, ironically, had a wasp allergy, which didn't match his size, so he was currently residing in the infirmary.
"It's ironic that someone who chews up toxic plants well is weak against wasps."
While Mollang gently massaged my swollen face to soothe it, Levin closed the lid of the overflowing barrel.
Judging from the sound of the wasps, it seems I've already slept enough today.