The Third of the Sixth zipped off and curled up in a cell within her hive after the choice was made. The rest of the day after that was uneventful and the daily purification was handled without issue. It was not long before Belissar found himself before his council once more. While he still figured he’d wait on buying any more options from the DP store...a reward from the God of Bees herself was too tempting to delay.

    “Hi everyone, we have another monster choice from the God of Bees.”

    The bees burst out into “Amazing, incredible!” dances while the karnuq and human chuckled. Belissar smiled and waited a bit before motioning to them that he was about to begin.

    Please select a monster (*One or more options upgraded by Blessing of Bees):

    - Monster Bee Harpooner (Rarity: Rare, Type: Bee)

    - Monster Bee Broodmother (Rarity: Epic, Type: Bee)

    - Monster Bee Bombardier (Rarity: Rare, Type: Bee)

    Belissar had to take a moment. All rares and even an epic this time. He had a good feeling about this one. Still, he resisted the urge to open up the descriptions immediately and turned to look at his bees.

    “Think about what you want and what would help the hive of hives most, I want to know what you all think.”

    The bees replied with a coordinated salute dance. Belissar nodded, satisfied. The bees had made the last perk choice entirely on their own, Belissar wanted to encourage that if at all possible. Sure, he still needed to make a call for some choices, such as introducing new species of bee, but this time all the choices sounded like new additions for the monster bee hives. That being the case, he felt the bees would know best what they would need.

    With that addressed, he could finally begin.

    Monster Bee Harpooner

    Vitality: Below Average

    Strength: Small+

    Speed: Average

    Magic: Minimal+

    Defense: Average

    Resistance: Below Average

    Special: Minimal+

    Notable Skills: Poison Thrust, Solidify Chitin, Continuous Envenomation, Death Envenomation, Brood Offspring

    Evolves From: Monster Bee Soldier, Monster Bee Lancer

    Spawner Upkeep: 40 (20 with Blessing of Bees)

    Description: A monster bee lancer evolution. This lancer emphasizes the honeybee’s barbed stinger, taking it to the next level. Its barbed stinger stabs deep and is not easily removed, while its enhanced venom sac will continuously produce and pump venom into its target for as long as the stinger remains embedded. The monster bee harpooner can then strengthen its chitin to ensure it can survive counterattacks for as long as possible, though it cannot move while doing so. If this proves insufficient, the stinger and venom sac will continue pumping venom even after the harpooner’s death.

    If monster bee queens are available, some monster bee soldiers may be born as harpooners in addition to existing soldiers and lancers evolving, though this requires notably more resources from the hive.

    Belissar turned to watch the bees. As this was a combat option, the battle meadow bees took the lead on the conversation. The First of the Second began with a summary.

    “Lancers stick on enemy, poison lots. Can’t retreat though?”

    The First of the Fourth danced the negative.

    “Is fine! Hard for lancers to retreat anyway!”

    The Firstborn danced her agreement.

    “Is true. If enemy lives, maybe better to keep attacking? Kill enemy, then retreat?”

    Belissar blinked at that, as it was a good point he hadn’t considered. He had been worried about these harpooners getting hurt since they couldn’t pull away once they dove...but honestly, the lancers couldn’t either. It was usually fine since they killed anything they struck so far...but if they encountered a foe that couldn’t be killed by a single lancer strike, then perhaps it was actually safer to make sure the foe died rather than for the lancers to try and pull themselves out. Once again, Belissar felt grateful that the bees were sharing their opinions now.

    The conversation wore down, so Belissar moved onto the next option. The epic option. He couldn’t help a smile as he opened it up.

    Monster Bee Broodmother

    Vitality: Minimal

    Strength: Minimal

    Speed: Average

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    Speed: Average+

    Magic: Small

    Defense: Minimal

    Resistance: Minimal

    Special: Below Average

    Notable Skills: Volatile Spray, Refilling Sacs, Death Burst, Brood Offspring

    Evolves From: Monster Bee Sprayer

    Description: This monster bee sprayer has developed an even more volatile spray, one so volatile its component compounds have to be produced and stored in separate sacs. When combined, the resulting product is expelled at even more rapid speeds than the original sprayer’s attack, coating the target area in caustic chemicals. Said chemicals also burn at high temperatures and leave toxic fumes in the basic monster bee bombadier’s mixture, though these effects and others may vary for different monster bee types.

    As the separate sacs reduces the overall amount of spray the bombadiers can store, they have developed the ability to speed up spray replenishment using mana, and so can quickly refill their compound sacs so long as they have sufficient mana.

    In addition to existing monster bee sprayers evolving, a few monster bee soldiers may be born as bombadiers, though this requires notably more resources from the hive.

    The bees waited for the Firstborn or one of the other battle meadow queens to begin the conversation. The Firstborn eventually took the lead.

    “Is strong. Stronger sprayer, more spray, can burn along with poison?”

    The First of the Fifth’s Third Daughter then slowly hovered forward, with the First Daughter’s prompting.

    “...think dangerous one can already make, though?”

    The Firstborn considered this.

    “Is...true? Dangerous one makes burning things.”

    The Third Daughter danced a negative.

    “Not just burning, exploding!”

    The First of the Second interjected.

    “But, bees can’t use? If have bombadiers, have bees that can use?”

    The First of the Fifth’s First Daughter replied.

    “Maybe can. Dangerous one uses special rocks and pollen baskets to carry, gives to other karnuq. If karnuq can carry...soldiers and bumblebees can carry?”

    The Firstborn danced a confirmation.

    “Like Apiary soldiers carry King’s fire sticks?”

    The Third of the Third joined in.

    “Bumblebee soldiers carry trees, so should.”

    The First of the Fifth’s First Daughter then danced the big question.

    “So, which is better for hive of hives? How about...all queens make choice and dance at once? Like scouts when swarming?”

    The queens assented to this and then the dancing began. The queens danced amongst one another, each trying to convince those around her to join her dance, their mana clashing and mixing along with their physical dances. Those whose dances were weak and hesitant soon began to follow those whose dances were assertive and eager, until soon entire groups of queens were dancing as one. These groups then repeated the process with each other, until soon a single dance emerged that overtook all others.

    Belissar smiled.

    “So, this is your decision?”

    The bees replied as one.

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    “Yes!”

    Belissar nodded.

    “Well done, I agree with that choice.”

    He chuckled as the bees broke out into the “King is best king!” dance and selected their choice.

    Monster Bee Broodmother now available! Monster Bee Workers may now evolve into Monster Bee Broodmothers!