Chapter 100: Funk-Bee Fungi
Belissar went ahead and created some of the new options in the karnuq’s Dirt Tunnels. In the Dirt Tunnels he could place the mineral nodes on the floor, walls, or even roof if he wanted to. As per Chief Rohsuak’s request, he placed it on the walls of the cavern closest to the karnuq’s settlement in the second floor Flower Meadow for easy access. He also placed a glow cap nodes around…which were quite expensive at five mana a piece. He frowned at that.
Glowing mushrooms were certainly interesting but was that really worth as much mana as a mana flower node? Or was there something to them he didn’t know? Juosiutik mentioned something about a purifying effect so maybe? There did seem to be higher concentration of mana around them than the regular plants, though not as much as any of the mana flower types, so maybe they weren’t entirely normal mushrooms?
Unfortunately, it turned out the other two options, the subterranean death caps and the shadow vines were also five mana a piece. This was going to be an expensive day. But he wouldn’t even have these options if not for the karnuq so there was nothing for it.
The shadow vines and death cap were placed in a small cavern off to the side of a tunnel deeper in, where they’d be less accessible. Chief Rohsuak didn’t want anyone but Juosiutik handling them.
After that, Belissar and the karnuq both thanked each other and Belissar left the second floor. He grinned. Three new plants and mushrooms for his bees would be quite the boon.
That is, until he checked his mana.
Mana: 18/590
He grimaced as he scratched out some math in the dirt. He could barely afford one each of the mushrooms and shadow vine. And then there were the minerals. He wanted to at least offer salt to his bees, in case they needed that, but he wasn’t certain on the others. Could his bees even interact with iron or copper? There did seem to be some mana flowing through the silver, but would that matter to the bees? Well, he wouldn’t be able to afford it today anyways.
And then there were the other two options: the thorned roses and lotus flowers. They were, perhaps, less impressive than super deadly mushrooms or blinding vines, but they were guaranteed to have flowers and so guaranteed to be useful to the bees, unlike all these other options. Belissar groaned and rubbed his chin.