POBee 208.1 - Bee-hold the Queen!
As Belissar, the karnuq, and the bees all tucked in for the night, the flowers all across the Tower swayed in the calm nighttime breeze. The alfalfa Belissar had planted glowed with a faint green light as they condensed and processed all the sunlight and mana they had absorbed that day, passing it down into their roots. Mana and nutrients seeped out into the ground, enriching all of the nearby soil before being consumed by hungry seeds planted nearby.
Some of the nutrients and mana also seeped into the greenwood mushroom mycelium entwined with the alfalfa’s roots. Pulses of green light surged underneath the surface of the soil as the mycelium claimed its meal…and then passed the remainder to other roots it had reached.
Seeds sprouted, shoots grew, flowers budded and prepared to bloom as the levels of Nature mana rose within the soil. Purple and golden mana drifted through the air and condensed into the flowers that had bloomed, which began to drip nectar that shimmered in the moonlight.
And in the bumblebee meadow, in the midst of all this mana passing through the soil, a single shoot with two leaves broke through the dirt. The mana that passed through its roots, stem, and leaves took on a slightly golden hint to its green color before passing back into the soil below…
The First of the Fifth stood completely still as she attempted to comprehend the sight in front of her.
“How?”
Her ever diligent workers answered her rhetorical question.
“More flowers! Flowers gave more nectar! Nectar has more mana!”
The First of the Fifth knew that thanks to her communers but thanked the worker for the report nonetheless. It seemed that the King’s plans had come to fruition and were now revealed to her. The gardeners had been diligently planting more and more of each kind of flower. Then the King had added new kinds of flowers: the alfalfa that made all others grow better as well as the bee balm which naturally produced more and better nectar. Then he added the mushrooms the flower one gave him, which were spreading the alfalfa’s effects throughout the rooms, nourishing existing flowers while causing all the newly planted seeds to sprout and bloom far faster than predicted. And now, he had applied the combined powers of the Queen of All Bees and Queen of All Flowers so that each and every flower produced more, more nutritious, and more mana-dense nectar than ever before.