Chapter 224: Bee-hold the Butcher
Belissar grinned as he made his way to the Flower Meadow with the rabbits. The First of the Fifth was one of the oldest queens and one he relied on heavily, yet she had declined to evolve with any of the special honey types thus far. Belissar couldn’t help but anticipate what she might become now that she was finally evolving.
As he imagined different possible evolutions for her, he arrived at his destination and took a look around with his Tower sight. He blinked. It hadn’t been that long since he enabled rabbits…and yet he saw them spread around the room already, munching on the flowers and digging burrows in the dirt. He had expected a handful at this stage, maybe ten at most…
Well, fortunately, he had asked the karnuq to check the room regularly and start hunting immediately once they noticed the rabbits, all on Tarwantrad’s zealous recommendation. A few of the karnuq archers were present and Belissar watched them for a bit. They seemed to be having a bit of trouble hunting out in the open and the rabbits noticed them before they could line up a shot more often than not.
Belissar couldn’t really help them with that, he had always relied on snares for his own hunting. Fortunately, he had already shared that method with them and the karnuq were apparently using both, so they had caught a few rabbits despite their struggles. Still, there were a lot more rabbits in the room than corpses.
But Belissar smiled. With how many rabbits there were in the room and how quickly they had spawned, he was now confident there would be an ample food supply for the butcher bees. It was time to add a new queen spawner.
Belissar made a short trip back to grab his supplies, then made his way over to the furthest corner of the room from the entrance and shortcuts. One of the hunters was just tossing a rabbit corpse there and saluted to him. Belissar, after discussions with Chief Rohsuak and Tarwantrad, had decided to designate this corner as the corpse spot, given that they would very much prefer if any undead rose as far away from the exits as possible.
Belissar greeted the hunter and confirmed the corpse here was being dumped and so free for his bees to use, then got to work building both a beehouse and a bee nest block before digging a small hole that could be converted to a bee nest. He had no idea which of those the butcher bees would prefer, but he intended to be prepared for any case. When he was done, he took a deep breath and turned to Niobee with a smile.
“Ready to meet some new bees?”
Niobee danced about happily.