The next day, Belissar awoke to a message from the Tower.
A monster has evolved!
Monster Bee Trapper is now available!
Belissar blinked at the sudden words. Thanks to the Tower’s magic, he always woke up fully alert…and yet, it still took him a minute to comprehend what he was reading. A monster evolved? Monster Bee Trapper? To help him figure out what was going on, he opened the new bee’s description.
As with so many of Beero’s struggles, the drone had the answer. Since the digging soldier’s mana couldn’t change from being rocklike, he had proposed trying to blend it with another type of mana instead. With his help, Beero and the digging soldier managed to make a hot rock stinger. He then helped teach the digging soldier how to blend them together and now, finally, the digging soldier learned to make the blended mana all on her own. That, apparently, had been sufficient to trigger her evolution.
The drone could only acquiesce to Beero’s praise as the digging soldier began to happily fly through the air with her restored wings, performing an aerial thanks dance as well.
Belissar smiled as he watched the new battlecaster fly. Beero and the hive of the fallen were hard at work as usual, and the new battlecaster’s spell seemed like it’d be really helpful in the Dirt Tunnels. He went over to the battle meadow to congratulate them as well. Beero told him how helpful the drone had been, so he made sure to praise the drone too.
At this point, Belissar began to send his Tower sight across the Tower, wondering what other new bees might be evolving. He saw a couple of captains joining the soldier bee army, helping the queens organize the squads and formations. He saw some bumblebee workers that were even fuzzier than normal, a closer inspection revealing they were the first bumblebee gardeners. He found the First of the Fifth sealing up some workers in large cells filled with swirled honey, the kind of cells normally used to raise new queens. He wondered if she was raising new broodmothers right away?
He saw ash bee soldiers now flying with their burning counterparts in the lava field, the ash monster bee hive now large enough to Keep reading on NovelHub - where stories come alive! Toxic bee soldiers were starting to hatch, and a full squad of gravity soldiers now joined the soldier bee army. Belissar wondered what they might do when it was their turn to fight.
He had turned his attention back to the Orchard. The stingless hive was quickly getting settled and expanding its numbers. And as for the carpenter bees…
Belissar froze. Because, at that very moment, a carpenter bee was crawling out of the nest block. Out of one of the giant holes he had carved in said nest block. The Tower soon confirmed his suspicion.
A monster has evolved!
Lumber Bee is now available!
He focused in on the now much larger carpenter bee as she shook herself and spread her wings. Or…was this one a drone? Belissar figured so since his eyes were really big and he didn’t seem to have a stinger.
Defense: Below Average+
Notable Skills: Poison Sting, Wood Cut
Spawner Upkeep: 20 (10 with Blessing of Bees)
Description: A monster carpenter bee evolution. The Lumber Bee’s larger size allows it to not only bore into trees, but to bite through branches or small trunks entirely. Its sharp and powerful mandibles can also bite through living things that stray too close to the nest. May evolve from monster carpenter bees if available, females may lay monster carpenter bee eggs.
He was even bigger than the bumblebee soldiers when they first hatched, and Belissar wondered if he’d continue to grow like them. Belissar also found it curious that there were male lumber bees to begin with, and that they were so big. Maybe the males would also help fight and work in that species?