Chapter 96: Chapter 96
Belissar did a little bit more work on the Flower Meadow beehouse while he waited and soon, the bear people returned. Juosiutik rushed into the Tower…at least, Belissar thought it was her. She had so many bags hanging off of her that he could barely see her save for her head. After that came Chief Rohsuak and a couple of other bear people Belissar didn’t recognize, each carrying a bag of some sort. Belissar made his way over, the bees following him as usual.
Juosiutik’s eyes lit up as she saw him approach.
“There you are! Let’s get started!”
Chief Rohsuak chuckled and shook her head.
“Juosiutik, I know you’re excited, but perhaps we should let Leijaliuk go first?”
Juosiutik frowned and sat down silently, not taking her eyes off of Belissar. Chief Rohsuak shook her head and then stepped forward with another one of the bear people, who seemed to be a middle-aged woman.
“Hello, Sacred Den Master. May I introduce Leijaliuk?”
Leijaliuk bowed her head.
“I am honored to meet you, Sacred Den Master.”
Belissar exhaled his breath and then smiled.
“Looks like it worked.”
Leijaliuk raised an eyebrow.
“Truly? Could you show me, if you don’t mind?”
Belissar nodded and brought up the relevant menu.
Available Resource Plants for Flower Meadow:
- Basic Healing Herbs (Mana Upkeep: 3 per node)
- Basic Poisonous Flowers (Mana Upkeep: 3 per node)
- Basic Textile Flowers (Mana Upkeep: 3 per node)
- Cloudberry Flowers (Mana Upkeep: 3 per node)
- Mana Flower (Mana Upkeep: 5 per node)
- Flame Radish (Mana Upkeep: 10 per node)
He could apparently also add cloudberries as a general flower type across the field, though that did cost one mana unlike the other mundane flowers. In this case, however, he decided to stick with resource nodes since the point was to let the bear people gather them. On that vein, he went ahead and formed a node right by the entrance, where it would be easy to access.
A small patch of the ground began to glow and the bear peoples’ eyes widened. Their surprise only grew as new shoots pushed out of the ground and grew to full sized plants in seconds. White, five-petaled flowers budded, bloomed, and then the tips of the petals turned red as berries of the same color formed in their centers. Leijaliuk slowly turned to Belissar with her eyes as wide as they could go.
“…these flowers…will they grow berries as quickly as that every time?”
Belissar shook his head.
“Um, not that fast. But you see those ones that are glowing slightly? Those should regrow every day.”
Leijaliuk stared, started to tremble, and then immediately crouched down and grabbed the bag, practically pushing it into Belissar’s hands.
“Please try with all the rest, ok? And can you make more patches ? If we can gather that many every day…we’ll never have to worry about going hungry ever again.”
Chief Rohsuak sighed and stepped forward, pulling Leijaliuk back by the shoulders.
“Calm down, Leijaliuk. The bees are about to attack you.”
Leijaliuk glanced back at Chief Rohsuak, then up into the air where the soldier bees had started to gather around her.
“Oh, um, sorry about that.”
Chief Rohsuak shook her head and turned to Juosiutik.
“That’s what you look like, by the way.”
Juosiutik also averted her gaze. Chief Rohsuak sighed and then chuckled.
“I’m sorry, Sacred Den Master. Please have some patience with us, your Sacred Den is quite incredible.”
Belissar nodded as he thought back to the first time he had seen the Tower do these things.
“Well…I can understand that.”
Leijaliuk then, under Chief Rohsuak’s strict gaze, calmly handed the other seeds to Belissar. In the end, sweetvetch was also compatible with the Flower Meadow and the Apiary. Rye and oats, as Belissar predicted, were not. Leijaliuk had a few other seeds but none in sufficient quantity, save for the subterranean plants that Belissar already knew wouldn’t work out.
Belissar added a sweetvetch patch and then rubbed his chin.
“How about a healing herb patch? I think I could move the one you gather from closer?”
“Anything you have would be much appreciated.”
Belissar tried to move the healing herb patch and had no issues doing so. He then moved the patch by the entrance, and then rubbed his chin again.
“Then…how about flax? I have that too. It, um, comes unprocessed so you’d have to deal with that yourself.”
Leijaliuk’s eyes widened and bit and then she began nodding quickly.
“Ah, yes! That would be really helpful!”
Belissar nodded and created another textile flower node too.
“Oh, there are apple and wood trees too, but they don’t work in this room. There’s another room further in, past the other Shrine of Bees you delivered the wood to. It should be fine if you gather those too, just don’t disturb the bees there.”
Leijaliuk’s eyes started to sparkle, but then she frowned and turned to Chief Rohsuak.
“That would also help but we would have to challenge the Sacred Den to reach it, right?”
Chief Rohsuak nodded.
“This is excellent for now and we currently don’t lack wood. If we need something like that and the Den Master agrees, we could arrange a group with escorts.”
Belissar nodded back.