Chapter 16: A Mission Bee-queathed
Belissar sat back against one of the trees in the Flower Meadow, taking a deep breath as breeze spread the scent of flowers through the air. He watched as bees moved from flower to flower, carrying nectar back to their hives. He watched as they flew in and out of the pit traps, coating the floors and walls in wax in case Belissar needed to light them on fire again.
“Well...now what?”
He had spent as much of his mana as he was willing to at the moment. He couldn’t make any more rooms at present. He had a bunch of traps already. He had eight monster bee queen spawners, and the queens were hard at work setting up their colonies. The Apiary had made some honeycomb, but Belissar didn’t really know what to do with them.
Well, as a beekeeper he knew plenty of things he could do with them. The honey had a lot of culinary and even medicinal uses, while beeswax could be used to make sealants, salves, candles, and other products. He even heard some of the Tower Lords’ wives could use it for beauty products.
But most of those weren’t useful for the defense, save for the candles. Maybe he could use the honey as bait for a trap if the shades of the Hunger found it appetizing. But the Hunger itself would consume everything, the trap included, so he wasn’t sure if its shades cared about food specifically.
Without anything better to do, he went ahead and checked the dungeon status. Maybe there was something else there he had missed.
Dungeon Status:
Rooms: 2/2
Floors: 1