Chapter 87: Chapter 87
Back in the bear people’s camp, Juosiutik was currently staring at a bubbling pot, hung over a normal fire this time. Since the mana honey had a…potent reaction with fire radish, she was processing this potion without it. She stirred the mixture and gently swirled her own mana into it.
“Hm…from what I can tell, it’s resonating well.”
She narrowed her eyes at it.
She was currently testing the mana honey in some of her recipes to determine its exact effects. In this case, the healing herbs from the Sacred Den were a bit too forgiving in maintaining their properties, so she was using other ingredients gathered on their sojourns.
And yet…the infusion of mana into the potion and the resonance of the compounds within was going about as well as it would if she had used those healing herbs. The mana honey was resonating with it all and helping smooth out clashes in the ingredients.
Juosiutik frowned. She would have to wait for the potion to settle and a good opportunity to actually test its effects but from what she could tell…this would likely end up one of her strongest potions yet. Despite the fact that it required less than half the steps and efforts of those she had made before.
It was incredibly exciting, but for some reason also kind of irritating…
In the Apiary, the Second Queen of the First Dynasty of the Sixth Spawner, the first of her line, stared at the workers just outside of her palace.
When her workers had told her to go, she couldn’t believe it. They…were letting their queen leave the hive? For a long trip to another room? But it turned out the First of the Fifth’s Daughter had offered to look after their joint hive in the meantime. The Fourth of the Seventh had spent a full fifteen minutes on a gratitude dance before her workers stopped her.
The First of the Fifth’s Daughter was a wonderful queen! Maybe even her favorite!
She soon entered the Flower Meadow and took in the sights. Wide open skies and a vast sea of flowers opened up before her. She simply paused and took in the sight for a minute before one of her soldiers started nudging her. She danced a quick hello to the wounded soldiers by the Memorial. One of them was even playing with lightning! She would have to have her workers ask her about it later!
She then made her way past the Flower Meadow hives and towards the patches they gathered from. There, she saw a curious sight. One of the Flower Meadow queens was outside of her hive, flying around with the soldier bee army. She remembered her workers mentioning that!
The queen paused when she saw the Fourth of the Seventh and flew over.
“First of the Third, is my turn to command army today. Should go back to hive.”
“Fourth of the Seventh! Hi! Wow, Flower Meadow queens command army?”
The First of the Third paused for a moment.
“Fourth of the Seventh? From Apiary, right? What doing here?”
The Fourth of the Seventh spun happily in the air.
The First of the Third paused again before starting a slow dance.
“Gathering…flowers? But…Fourth of the Seventh is queen. What about hive?”
The Fourth of the Seventh sped up even more.
“First of the Fifth’s Daughter helping!”
The First of the Third was no less confused at the answer.
“First of the Fifth’s Daughter? But…what about First of the Fifth’s Daughter’s hive?”
“Same hive! We share, built together!”
The First of the Third fell completely still, nearly dropping from the air as her wings stopped for a moment. Seeing that the conversation had concluded, the Fourth of the Seventh bade her farewell and continued on with her quest. Soon, she arrived. And, for the first time, she saw the flowers that had provided her hive with much nectar. They had five bright blue petals with yellow centers, and sat a top of long, thin stalks. A few of them were glowing slightly.
“Ok! Let’s try grab flowers!”
Her soldiers saluted and flew with her to the flowers. The Fourth of the Seventh knew the King gathered whole plants, flowers, stalks, and all, and so was attempting to follow suit. Her scouts said he just pulled them right out of the ground, but his might was far beyond that of any bee’s so the Fourth of the Seventh didn’t know if that would work for her, but she’d do her best to figure it out!
The scouts also said the King gathered the glowing ones and left the others alone, so the Fourth of the Seventh figured that was how he knew which ones were fully grown. So, she and her soldiers flew around one of the glowing stalks. They all flew towards the stalk and wrapped their legs around it as best they could.