Chapter 176 176 Reclaim Wasteland



Therefore, the old man slowly but gradually mixed in among the harmless bees. He fed them and used his superior taming techniques to take gradual control of these beasts. Since they didn't have a strong sense of individuality, the more bees he managed to control, the easier it became to tame the remaining ones.

It took him a few days but he now had the support of hundreds of poisonous bees behind him. Only then did he command the bees to attack the hive in order to draw out the queen bee. 

Although he was able to control a huge number of bees, the stress on his mind was beyond what he could handle. Every time he tried to escape the mental limits, he would suffer from crushing headaches and the beasts in his possession would temporarily run out of control. Therefore, he needed to tame the queen bee as soon as possible so as to share the burden of controlling the mass of bees with it.

It would not only help him fine tune his control on the bees, but would also make it easier for him to remotely fight his battles.

The bees swarmed the hive at the command received from the old tamer and confronted the powerful queen relying on the numbers. 

The old Tamer could sense that he was losing a large number of bees pretty quickly after coming into contact with the queen but he didn't rescind the order for the attack.

After a serious struggle, the guards couldn't fight with the queen any longer and succumbed to the huge number of the worker bees and the queen was dragged out by the swarm in front of the old Tamer.

Unlike the common bees, the queen was not only larger in size but also had a deeper color and more refined and crystalline skin.

He poured the honey in front of the queen bee on the ground and forced it to eat by pressurizing it using the worker bees.

Betrayed by its own; the queen bee was forced to partake in the laced honey and the taming process began.

Just when he was about to get closer to the queen bee in order to make himself familiar to it, he heard a strange grating sound that was more intimidating than it was irritating. The sound inched closer to him and because of that the old Tamer couldn't help but grow cautious.

This was the first time he was hearing this sound. He even wondered if he was unlucky enough to encounter a newly mutated species that hadn't been seen before. The sound it was making was definitely not the sound that any documented beast was known before. As such, for safety purposes the old Tamer needed to investigate the source of the sound.

Before he could scout ahead, the trees that were close to him all fell in succession as if a giant was pulling them apart in his anger tearing the ground in the process. The severe shockwaves that the falling of several trees at the same time produced was enough to shake the ground for miles around the center of the incident.

Of course, the old Tamer was also within the radius. The bees around him were in frenzy as if they couldn't see their natural habitat being torn apart by another beast.

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While the old Tamer was trying to figure out the identity of this new threat, the Smith family servants were busy working in the midst of the forest. Surrounded by the wild jungle, not a single one of them was nervous because the soldiers and the mages were protecting them from all sides which allowed them to work in peace.

After acquiring Greenland, Zach had brought his people to the island in order to develop the land as per his own specifications. They were currently busy changing the landscape of the jungle on the island. Clearing an entire forest was a tough task but the servants were up to it. They were more than willing to take on the task just so they could call a place their home. After leaving Elizabeth city, they missed their home very much. So when Zach came to them with the proposal to build a place they could call home with their own hands, almost all of them volunteered to work hard for it.

As a result, they were now busy using the Chainsaws issued to them by Zach to take down any trees in the vicinity of their intended location. They first had to prep the land and clear the surroundings of any wild growth so that the foundation for their home would be strong and steadfast so that it would be able to stay standing for a long time to come.

Since they were already in touch with the kinds of otherworldly things that Zach could bring out of nowhere, they were able to wield a tool like the chainsaw just after a few days of dedicated training. Of course Zach himself was the teacher for the first batch since no one other than him could understand the principles behind the chainsaw and the precautions that they needed to adhere to while chopping down trees.

Previously, common servants like them couldn't even dare to think that they could bring down sky reaching trees or cut through solid stone by themselves. It was the norm to call for the mages for jobs like these but only after meeting Zach did they recognize the power of labor. They didn't need magic to do menial tasks like these. All they needed was a good set of tools and a tiny bit of perseverance that was nothing compared to the manual labor they were used to.

"This is so unexpected. Who would have thought we could cut down such strong trees in under a few minutes?"

"Wouldn't we be able to clear the entire forest away at this rate?"

"I believe young master Zach's ideas are so out of the box. Who would have thought that we would be using these sturdy trees to build our new home?"

"Isn't young master Zach a godly being? No human can possible make things like these."

As the servants worked at cutting down the trees, they couldn't help but shout over the noise of the chainsaw in order to talk about the greatness of their master. Some believed that he was a god in human form while others believed that he was the most advanced dark mage there ever was and had retained his youth through his magic but in reality he was hundreds of years old probably older than the entire Luther family. Therefore his wisdom and his knowledge exceeded their own by a huge margin.

"This divine tool is so handy. I was so afraid when master told us to cut down all the trees in the middle of the jungle to clear the land. At that moment I thought that I would have to spend the rest of my life chopping away with my axe because I couldn't see it happening in my lifetime at the very least. Thankfully, I didn't raise a fuss back then or the master would have looked down on me."

"To be honest, I was thinking along the same lines as well. I think Master knew it too and that was why he was so patient with us and trained us to use this chainsaw.

While the servants were busily mowing down trees with tremendous speed, Zach perched on top of elevated ground and kept a watch on the surrounding area with the help of his binoculars. Several thoughts were blending together in his mind as he took in the terrain of the island and molded it into the shape he intended for it to have at the end of his development program. He tried to picture it mentally but no matter what idea he used or the structure of labor distribution he employed transforming the whole island was too laborious a task. 

Despite his minute planning, the project completion timeline couldn't be shortened. The shortest time that it would take for the project to be completed came out to be a quarter of a year at the very minimum. Employing this timeline, Zach believed, would prove too laborious for the servants and might end up causing harm to them in an attempt to put this project on the fast track.

While the servants did their work, Zach didn't stay idle. He was strategizing all the time since his soldiers were still too green to carry out such a large expedition on their own.

Zach called for Diana's unit in order to assign them their tasks.

Diana soon led the group towards the same elevation in order to receive those orders for her Special Forces Unit. She knew from the expression on Zach's face that they were about to receive one hell of a mission this time.

As expected Zach didn't even falter as he told them, "Get ready you all. You have the most important job this time around. I am going to have you clean up the entire forest of the wild animals and beasts for as far off to the edge of the island as possible."

The soldiers were dumbfounded. Even Diana wasn't spared this time. She was their leader but she was at a loss as to how she was supposed to clear every living creature in the vicinity of their future home.

Zach waved his hand and several different suits appeared in front of him. These were protective suits that might allow them to stay safe in the face of the dangers posed by the beasts to them.