Chapter 123: Ready for a Bee-match?
For most of the rest of the day, Belissar watched the Third of the Sixth’s hive acclimate to their new home, checking if there was anything he might adjust to help them. The burning bees were flying faster than ever before, the air shimmering around their wings, and drinking deeply from the glowing fire mana flowers.
Eventually, though it was time for the next daily purification. Belissar thought about giving the bees a break…but the soldier bee army started forming up at the regular time without any prompting, along with the karnuq contingent. Only the lancers had been involved in the last fight, so the rest of the army was still ready to go. In fact, even the two more lightly wounded lancers had recovered enough to join the formation. Belissar nodded his head and brought up the purification message. In the spirit of trusting his bees more, he would acknowledge their willingness to fight. Besides, they had long proved capable of handling minor+ purifications without any…
Please select a purification strength:
- Minor (Cooldown: 12 hours)
- Minor+ (Cooldown: 16 hours)
- Small (Cooldown: 24 hours)
Belissar’s mind came to halt. Right, he had forgotten since it didn’t happen last time, but the first expansion purification unlocked larger daily purifications. Apparently this last one had as well. Belissar could now choose small purifications for the daily fights, while the cooldown on the other two minor purification strengths had dropped as well. He could even do two minor purifications a day if he so chose.
Which meant he now had a choice to make. Have his bees face a small purification, which up to this point were the big expansion fights, or stick with what they knew? Previously he would have just gone with the minor+ to be safe, but since he was trying to put aside his own fears and trust the bees, he felt he should at least consider the big one.
Small purifications. So far, that had been the bird-shade and the two cat-shades. He…wasn’t sure about the turtle shade, since that had been an emergency purification so he hadn’t chosen a specific strength for it, but he figured to be safe he’d included that as well. The good news was that, as far as he could tell, no new shades appeared in the daily purifications so far. He wasn’t entirely sure if that was because they were daily purifications or because they had been minor and minor+, though, but if it was the former case then he could at least count on seeing something he had seen before.