Chapter 107: The Bear-est Mason-Bee

Chapter 107: The Bear-est Mason-Bee

Belissar made his way to the karnuq and Metsaitti came out to meet him.

“Hello, Sacred Den Master. I apologize, but Chief Rohsuak is currently resting. I could take you to her if you wish.”

Belissar shook his head.

“No, I would rather not bother her right now. I just wanted to ask if you have any masons. I’m, uh, hoping to build a stone beehouse.”

Metsaitti crossed his arms and rubbed his chin before shaking his head.

“I am sorry, Sacred Den Master, but we have not built much out of stone in recent memory. We do know how to dig and mine, however, so we could assist you with gathering the materials at the very least.”

Belissar furrowed his brow before slowly nodding.

“Ah, yeah, that would help. I, um, need to figure out what I’m going to build first, though.”

Metsaitti gave him a small smile.

“I’m sure you’ll figure it out. That home you built for them at the entrance was impressive enough.”

Belissar rubbed the back of his head.

“Oh, um, thanks? Um, could I come visit your Dirt Tunnels and maybe get some help with the stone node? I at least want to see what the stone looks like.”

Metsaitti saluted by striking his chest with his fist.

“Of course, Sacred Den Master, I’ll see to it at once.”

A short bit later and Belissar had traveled to the second floor Dirt Tunnels with a couple of the karnuq, coming before the stone node he had placed in one of the Dirt Tunnels’ walls. It took the form of a rough wall of stone breaking up the dirt, with a few spots slightly glowing. One of the karnuq stepped forward and placed his hand on the stone, flaring his mana. Cracks began to appear in the stone, forming a rectangle around the glowing area.

Then the stone began to pull itself out of the wall. The karnuq jumped back with a curse as a rectangular block moved out of the wall and dropped onto the floor. The block was the size of Belissar. All of them stared at it with wide eyes.

“Um, do you know how to make these...smaller?”

Metsaitti slowly nodded his head.

“Muuraqi here can use that same technique to break it up. He doesn’t have the most mana though, so it will take time.”

Belissar rubbed his chin.

“If I give him mana honey, would that help?”

He then tried to apply a beehive feature.

Variation unlocked. Belissar’s Beehouse and Beehives may now use stone as a material.

Belissar exhaled his breath as the Tower’s mana began to flow through the dirt and the stone. He then turned to the karnuq with a smile.

“It worked, thank you all for you help.”

Muuraqi glanced around a bit before saluting.

“I-It’s our honor, Sacred Den Master.”

Belissar frowned a bit at that. The villagers had always told him he should be honored to help them whenever they forced him to do work...and gave him little or nothing in return.

“No, I should give you something. Would mana honey do, or is there something else you want?”

The karnuqs’ eyes widened and they began to mumble, but Metsaitti stepped in with a smile.

“That would be great, Sacred Den Master. Thank you for your generosity.”

Belissar shook his head.

“It’s not really generosity when you just did a bunch of work for me, and the bees.”

With that, he gathered some mana honeycomb trays from his stock and distributed them to the karnuq present. He also gave Metsaitti a medicinal mana honeycomb tray for Chief Rohsuak. Once they were off, Belissar walked over to the Third of the Sixth’s hive. The queen had been watching the construction outside her home with great interest. Belissar smiled at her.

“How do you like it? I figured we should make something fireproof for you now, so that you can have your burning bees work there while you and the rest of your workers stay here, until you can all evolve?”

The Third of the Sixth immediately began to fly around Belissar, performing an aerial dance as fast as she could.

“Amazing! Incredible! King is best king!”

Belissar could only laugh at that.

“Ok, let me move the flowers over, too.”

He took the flame radish node and moved it down into the new cavern, right outside the stone beehouse. Not only would this make it easier for the burning bees to forage, but it would also keep the hot flowers separated from the rest of the Apiary. After seeing what Chief Rohsuak’s attack did the Flower Meadow, Belissar decided there was so such thing as too many fire safety precautions. This would also give him a good place for a Fire mana flower node, once the Third of the Sixth evolved.

“There you go! Let me know if there’s anything else you need, or any other way we can help you evolve.”

The Third of the Sixth just continued her celebration dance while Belissar chuckled, even as her burning workers began to explore the new hive and started to add their fireproof wax to the stone frames. It seemed now that nothing would stop her from evolving soon...