Juosiutik had the biggest smile Belissar had ever seen on her face as she held out a bunch of flowers to him. He returned the smile as he took the flowers.
A moment later, the flowers vanished.
Sufficient samples gathered. Quickblossom is now available!
Current Applications: Apothecary’s Hut*, Fairy Grove** (* = node only, ** = node only and variable growth rate)
Juosiutik bounced in place.
Belissar’s own smile grew.
“Yes, we can now make quickblossom.”
Juosiutik’s eyes moistened a bit even as she clenched her fists.
This one is a queen who can raise a hive of honeyswirlers. Additionally, the queen gains the abilities of the honeypot to enable honeyswirling within her own body, allowing her to mass produce honeyswirled royal jelly. She can also apply swirled honey to her eggs even before they hatch, allowing her to lay eggs that will hatch into evolved bees without requiring further feeding. Modified communer antennae also allow the queen to participate in honeyswirling across her hive from a stationary position.
As an evolved monster bee queen, the honeyswirler monster bee queen also has a superior ability to raise evolved bee types and can lay monster bee types in her evolution lineage in addition to honeyswirler monster bees. She also has a superior ability to apply specialized honey to her eggs to lay monster bee types in other lineages.
Belissar smiled as he read the description. It sounded absolutely perfect for the First of the Fifth, the queen making the most honey and helping everyone’s evolutions. He dismissed the description and then turned to Niobee and the Fourth of the Seventh. The Fourth of the Seventh was dancing with concern, though Niobee appeared to know what was going on.
“More than ok. The First of the Fifth has finished evolving. Want to go see her?”
The Fourth of the Seventh immediately replied.
“Amazing, incredible! Want to see!”
The First of the Fifth emerged from her cell and shook herself. She took stock of her new body as her workers crawled over her to check if she was ok. It only took a quick check for the First of the Fifth to pause and then buzz her wings.
This was it. An evolution that would allow to produce types of honey never before seen, to push the quality of her honey to ever greater levels. Not only that, she would be able to Read the latest chapters on NovelHub - completely free! She could experiment on new honey types right within her own body, and produce honey perfectly suited for driving evolutions.
Her astonishment only grew as she extended her senses to check on the status of her hive. From her workers’ reports, only a single day had passed since she had started evolving, far shorter than it had taken the Fourth of the Seventh. If the cause had been the more powerful honey she used to evolve, then her new abilities would dramatically accelerate the hive of hives’ growth.
Still, it was not all good news. The speed with which her instincts drove her to evolve meant she had scarcely a chance to warn her children before leaving them to manage the hive, as well as her responsibilities to the hive of hives, some of which would be far more difficult now. While her ability to produce honey had improved dramatically, her body had grown large and ponderous. She could still fly and move, but it would not be a quick affair. Traveling about to check on the hive of hives personally might not be practical anymore and certainly would not be efficient even if it was. She would have to consider that, especially now that her presence in her hive was even more valuable than previously.
She paused again, though, as her mana reached her daughters…and found one she had not expected. Her daughters flew through the hive to greet her, led by the First Daughter she had sent away long ago.
“Queen mother! You evolved!”
Her First Daughter crawled up to her and she brushed the now much smaller queen with her antennae.
“Did, First Daughter came too?”
Her First Daughter danced the confirmation.
“Heard queen mother ask daughters to watch hive, came to help.”
The First of the Fifth could not respond at first. After she had nearly starved the First Daughter with her own neglect, her child had dropped her own hive to come and help. As such, she had not even included the First Daughter intentionally when she had made her request, but the First Daughter had heard and come all the same. She responded the only way she could.
“Amazing. First Daughter is amazing, incredible. Thanks for helping.”
The First Daughter paused at first…then broke out into a happy dance. The First of the Fifth thanked her other daughters as well for taking care of things as she checked on her hive and the hive of hives beyond. She was once again astonished.
Her hive was running as efficiently as she had left it. Beyond that, there had been no disruption in their Read the latest chapters on NovelHub - completely free! In fact…if the First of the Fifth wasn’t mistaken, things were running even more efficiently than before. The First Daughter had leveraged her hive’s location by the shortcut wall and the information exchange she had built between the hive of hives to easily determine the hive of hives’ needs and adjust honey deliveries accordingly.
The First of the Fifth found there was nothing she needed to handle, no issues to resolve. A simple reclamation of authority and then she was free to experiment with her new abilities and begin evolving her workers. She turned her attention back to her First Daughter as an idea sprung into her mind.
“First Daughter, have question. Want to take over King’s request and watch hive of hives?”
The First Daughter froze once more before buzzing her wings.
The First of the Fifth brushed her antennae to calm her down.
“New body big, hard to move around. New powers focus on honey, best if can work on that. First Daughter handled hive of hives perfectly while I evolving, is in perfect position to do job. Think First Daughter would help hive of hives even more.”
To pass on the King’s personal request to her, to let someone else manage the hive of hives, it was unthinkable. But the First of the Fifth had realized her role. To elevate herself above the other queens was no longer her goal. The best thing she could do, the best way she could help the King and the hive of hives, was to pursue the path of honey with all of her energy. She had planned to continue managing the hive of hives only because no other queen was positioned to do as well or better as she…until now.
Now she saw. Her First Daughter had carved out a place for herself within the hive of hives despite all of the First of the Fifth’s mistakes with her. And now…the First of the Fifth had to admit that the First Daughter would do a better job than she. If anything, it was the First Daughter’s information that allowed her to do a good job in the first place…and the First Daughter’s passion to take care of other queens was far greater than her own.
The one thing she would hate more than passing on a request from the King was leaving it in the mandibles of a bee less suited for the task. The King only ever deserved the best in all he asked for.
The First Daughter stumbled about.