Chapter 177: Bee-vious Traps
Belissar first met with Chief Rohsuak. He informed her about the new plants and asked for Juosiutik’s help with the rest, and then requested that the karnuq send someone to check out the ruins. Chief Rohsuak agreed and Belissar went ahead and added new flower nodes for the new herbs in both the karnuq’s Flower Meadow and in the Apiary. He also enabled alfalfa spawning in the Apiary and each of the Flower Meadows, Orchards, and Fairy Groves in the Tower to start boosting soil fertility, requesting that the gardener bees check them out.
After that, he and Chief Rohsuak made their way over to the humans to consult with Sehfitis. The old man lowered his head as Belissar approached.
“Greetings, Tower Keeper, how may I serve you?”
Belissar took a deep breath.
“I wanted to know if you knew anything about how the Tower Lords arrange traps and defenses.”
His chest began to heat at the thought of following the Tower Lords methods, but he did his best to stay calm. The last few purifications as well as the humans’ attack had clearly demonstrated his traps were falling behind. Yes, the smaller shades from the daily purifications could fall into pits or get dowsed by sticky honey traps on occasion, but the big expansion shades he was most worried about ignored them at this point. He was considering if it was even worth the mana to keep the ones he had, much less to buy any more.
But he also knew that he knew very little about how Towers were run, and it was all too likely that he was missing something. While he was specifically not going to follow the Tower Lords’ example in most cases, trap usage was one area he could stomach it.
He turned to Chief Rohsuak.
“If you or the karnuq have any advice about traps and defenses, I’d like to hear it as well.”