Chapter 29 Commando Bees in training
Chapter 29 Commando Bees in training
Ambrosia narrowed her eyes at me, then suddenly smiled.
"You decided to warn me this time, Nectus. Good. No, I won't be mad, but I will worry. What is it? How much risk is there, and how necessary is this all?"
"Very!"
I briefly explained to her about the destructive wonders of fire and how they can be applied to hornet nests, then reached the core weakness of the plan.
"But we don't have enough information about these hornets. So I want to stealthily
"From now on, you will prepare to be our stealthiest, our sneakiest, our most ready to kill, and our most heroic bees. Like Warrior Bees, but even more heroic. You will be… Commando Bees!"
〔Commando Bee〕: +10% to base agility, endurance, and perception.
For now, my future Commando Bees didn't fit the title requirements, but they stood straighter.
"Like Warrior Bees… Warrior Bees get hammers!"
"Is that for the hive?" one asked.
I nodded eagerly.
"Yes! Everything is."
Now everybody looked interested.
"I'm ready to learn!"
"Me, too, Father!"
I beamed. It looked like, thanks to the endless bee gossip, my authority had finally spread even to the youngest generations of my daughters. They even called me "Father" without being told to!
"Great. You will learn how to be sneaky… and to walk a lot. First, you must learn how to hide your bright coloring."
Black and yellow looked nice, but could be seen for miles away.
As my students watched, I walked up to a patch of mud nearby and dipped my hands in it. Then I smeared the dirt over my face.
Not enough.
With some swearing, I took off my bone armor and began rolling in the mud like a pig! I didn't stop until I felt like the mud was literally everywhere, even under my leaf skirt.
〔A temporary special ability gained: 'Camouflage II'.〕
〔Camouflage II: reduces chances of being spotted by sight and smell.〕
I looked and smelled like a mud demon, and my wings itched badly from the dirt on it. I beat them to shake some off, and turned to my audience.
"Behold. The camouflage! Now do the same thing—get that mud all over yourself."
"Yes, Father!"
"We got it, Father!"
"Our mud will be just like yours, Father!"
The bees went right to the mud and began rolling in it.
A couple minutes later, I became a leader of an entire squad of mud demons. With grass sticking out of their gray and brown mud covering, they really blended with their surroundings infinitely better than before.
The mud also hid our smells. Now we more resembled ants or even wood lice, not bees.
But that wasn't enough if my bees were going to fly loudly around, beat their wings for no reason, and whisper among each other all the time.
"Time to get *really* stealthy, girls. We are going silent. No one in this forest should hear us move."
This was much harder to teach my bees than the dirt-rolling. Especially since I was bad at sneaking myself!
But for two days, we learned together. On the third day, I quickly taught them the basics of swinging hammers at the enemies of the bee state.
And on the fourth day, when all the bone armor was ready and my Craftsmen Bees were back to making string, I deemed us ready to sneak into the Danger Zone.
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