Chapter 130: An Unexpected Bee-cision
With two days before the next talks, Belissar turned his attention to other endeavors. Mainly, he had enough DP to purchase another room as he had planned, which could also provide either additional resources to trade or additional defenses if the talks fell through. He planned to make the purchase tonight, as usual right after the purification and celebrations where all the queens would be gathered. So, all that was left was to handle the day’s purification.
But as the soldier bee army waited and Belissar began the purification, it seemed the Hunger had other ideas in store. Once again, it took the form of a salamander…and only two of the lancers were fully healed. Belissar sucked in his breath…until he looked at the salamander shade more closely. This one was noticeably smaller…and not completely covered in black flames. In fact, it only had one small black flame covering the tip of its tail.
He supposed it was a level lower purification than the original, but he decided to wait and watch it brave the Dirt Tunnels before he relaxed. The salamander shade crawled its way through, climbing the walls whenever it encountered a Pit Trap. And then…it reached a wall-mounted Sticky Honey Trap.
The shade was doused by the honey. It spun and spat out a breath of black flames, but didn’t manage to hit before it was coated in honey. Small flames danced across its body, but failed to burn away the viscous coating.
It was then that Belissar released his breath and relaxed his shoulders. Indeed, the shade was weaker than its larger brethren. Most importantly, its flames did not form the same kind of shield and left it vulnerable to the honey traps. And that meant that it would be vulnerable to the bees as well.
It took the increasingly disoriented shade a while to make it through the Dirt Tunnels, as it was both weighed down and increasingly intoxicated by the maddening honey stuck to its body. Finally, it arrived out in the battle meadow…and was promptly attacked from all sides by sprayers. As Belissar had hoped, its flames were not hot enough nor spread wide enough to burn away all the poison before the toxic sprays struck home. It was not long before the shade was weak enough for the soldier bees to attack as well, at which point its resistance died quickly.
Small Purification completed! Please select a reward:
- +100 DP
- +20 Max Mana