POBee 241.1 - How Royal-Bee Fights
The Firstborn wanted to evolve? Belissar smiled and was about to agree when Niobee began to elaborate.
“Firstborn thinks need to fight to try evolve, can?”
Belissar frowned at that.
The Firstborn stood still on the ground. One of her soldiers buzzed in the air, swaying back and forth. She sent an encouraging dance to the soldier through her mana, as she had for each attempt beforehand. The soldier was still blaring concern through their mana connection, but true to her role her flight steadied as she took her position. The Firstborn withdrew her mana and focused it on her own body.
Mana flooded her chitin, reinforcing and strengthening it. The mana that couldn’t fit into the chitin itself spread out across the surface, forming additional layers of protection overtop. Once she was satisfied, she buzzed her wings to signal the soldier.
The soldier hesitated only a moment before beginning an attack dive on her own queen. The Firstborn watched with pride as the soldier held nothing back, diving at full speed as per her command. The Firstborn made no effort to dodge.
The soldier struck with her stinger. She pierced the layers of mana…and then came to a halt. Her stinger failed to penetrate the Firstborn’s chitin.
The moment the dive concluded the soldier spun around and began climbing over the Firstborn, poring over the sting site with both eyes and antennae. The Firstborn’s workers brought medicinal bees from the Second of the Sixth to check in more depth even as the soldier paced around them. The Firstborn brushed the soldier’s antennae.
“Good job, proud of. Is ok, not hurt.”