Kence retrieved his bag first to replenish his energy, he used a lot of his energy reserves when battling that Grand Knight Fallen. He took one fruit and wear his bag on his back. As the Rank 3 fallen was already dead it was easy to kill the remaining fallens
Soon, dead corpse littered the ground. As of now only five of the Queen Bee's bodyguards survived. Only ten percent of their original number. He looked at the bee and decided to just left it there. It was already good of him that he saved them, how to survive next was up to them to decide
The Queen Bee however has another plan, it cautiously tailed behind Kence and followed him. When Kence turned his back and look at them the Queen Bee flinched and put more distance between them. But when Kence started walking again the bees once again followed suit
"Don't follow me!" Kence said although he was not sure if the bees will understand his words. He doesn't know if it was just his imagination but the Queen Bee throwed him a pitiful look. It was like the bee was asking for his help
"Argh whatever" Kence just rolled his eyes and let the bees follow him. The Queen Bee flew next to him and the rest surrounded them as if they were acting as guards. "Attack me and your dead" Kence was still apprehensive about these bees. After all they were attacked by bees many times before
When he returned to the central part of the forest the four were still there doing their own training. When they saw Kemce surrounded by bees their instincts almost made them attack immediately. Whenever they see bees before those bees always attack them so they can't be blamed
"T-they are not enemies?" Cesar narrowed his eyes, this was the first time the bees didn't attack them on site. "I saved these bees and they followed me here" Kence said bitterly
Calter went to the Queen Bee and touched it on its belly. The bee's body trembled and flew away from Calter as if he tickled her. Calter lightly laughed and chased the bee intending to touch it again. Looking at Calter who was finally resembling a kid, Kence thought that his decision to take these bees in their home was a right choice
It's just that it was a bit weird that Calter would have a bee as 'pet' if it was a dog or cat it wasn't that hard to accept. After playing with it for a while Calter took out one of his blue fruits and gave it to the Queen Bee. The bee circled around the fruit and looked towards its underlings. The worker bees flew and bite on the fruit. The next thing they do made Calter to blink his eyes blankly
They were putting the part of the fruit they ate to the stomach of each other. "S-shameless" Ivy forgot that they are bees and thought that they were 'kissing.' She thought that what they were doing was too indecent
The bees then flew to Kence's tree body and started secreting an unknown substance from their body. They clustered in one of the tree's branch and looks like they were building something. "Are they making a hive.....on my body?"
Not only were these shameless bees seek asylum from Kence but they also decided to build their nest on his body. "But....I think it's not that bad. If they reproduce we will have bee soldiers" King's words made the others to realized the potential and future use of these bees
Bees are known to be a pack insects and they have great numbers. Just imagine a swarm of bees attacking you, won't that give you goosebumps?
Kence on the other hand was in a deep thought as he realized something. In this apocalypse it looks like everything that was happening was on his favor. First he gained King and Cesar. King has a great fighting potential while Calter became a Virtue Angel. Second was Cesar who also has great potential as he was both a Bloodline Holder and Rune Master. Ivy on the other hand although not that good at fighting but with the Rainbowshade flower they found she can become a great poison user and also alchemist
All of the comrades he gained was talented and can rise above the masses. Although there were times that the five of them almost died but still up to now all of them survived. Also, those life threatening experience just made them stronger
He was not being arrogant but this was like gaining a protagonist halo. Also, back at the Angel's Shop when he said that he was not a protagonist in a novel that mysterious and powerul being asked if he was sure. He can still remember that although her face was surrounded by white light he can feel that she was looking at something on his body
The things that are happening now was making him overthink. Even now he suddenly gained a potential bee army, just why are things always working on his favor?
"Lord are you okay?" King asked when he saw Kence's absent minded look. The others also looked at him. "It's nothing, I was just thinking about something" Kence said while shaking his head
Kence decided to put his thoughts at the back of his mind for now. He can't possibly figure things out now, might as well become productive and not waste time
"Then I will go back to cultivate" Calter said and waved good bye at them. King sighed at that, although there were some improvements but Calter was still a cultivation maniac
"Then I'll also go back to work on my Soul. I still got a long way to make a barrier" Cesar said helplessly. Out of all of them he has one of the most important job. His rune will give them a great defensive power but it was too hard to make it
The bees continued buzzing around and Kence's face darkened at seeing they were eating another blue fruits of his. His blue fruits reserves were already pitifully low but here they are shamelessly consuming his hard work. Whether it be their personal use, making a treant, and maintaining the bees all required a lot of energy. The amount that Kence doesn't have on him
This cannot continue, they need to have a stockpile of energies. 'If only we have an energy factory' Kence thought but there was suddenly a lightbulb that lit up on his head. "I need all of you to fill three Energy Pearls with energy per day. We need to have a stockpile of energies early in preparation to the future"
In the future to make their base stronger there was a need to have a huge stock of energy source. Specially, Energy Pearls. Kence can already predict that in the future those cities' defense will require a huge amount of these pearls
"We understand" King answered. It was always Kence giving them the fruits to replenish their energy, now is the time to do the opposite and give Kence energy. Besides the pearls they will fill were also going to be use for their base
"Also, I want someone of you to regularly go in the Angel's Shop to buy raw energy pearls" They only have 450 raw pearls and one of it was used to make the treant. Although the number sounds large but in fact the amount was too miniscule compared to their future uses. "Then I volunteer for the task" Cesar said
The others have great progress on their respective fields but only he will take a long time to accomplish his task. It was better if he was the one to become the 'logistics'
Thus, everyone gained a task of their own. Kence sent a mental command on the first ever treant he made. He transformed his hand into a sharp root and carve a number in the treant's body. He wrote the number 'one' on it. In the future he will make many more treants, it was bothersome to think a name for each one. Might as well just give them numbers
Kence sent another mental command, he also ordered it to fill energy pearls with energy. Although instead of three it was just two, it was after all still only in the early stage of Knight Rank. It will take more time to fill energy pearls and it will greatly affect its cultivation
He then turned his gaze to Flora and smirked evilly. The flower trembled at the looks Kence was giving to her and had a bad feeling. "You always eat my fruits its now time for you to pay me. Fill these energy pearls too with energy!"
The flower dropped down its head as if asking for some mercy but that was ineffective to Kence. "Don't give me that pitiful look. Also, order the flowers on your command to do the same"
The flower didn't have any choice but to comply and ordered its underlings to fill the energy pearls. Kence then turned to Ghol, as its energy attributes changed he can't use the flower's energy but he still ordered it to fill one pearl a day for its own use
Lastly were the bees who shamelessly used his tree body to make their hive. The Queen Bee trembled at Kence's gaze, he was like an evil landlord that was demanding a payment from the tenants. "You better give me good results as you are eating my fruits. If not....." Kence made a slashing motion on his neck to scare the bee which was extremely effective
The Queen Bee shivered in fear and nodded its head pitifully. It buzz around the worker bees and they sped up whatever they were doing
Kence didn't know if it was just a coincidence that all the creatures with him that can reproduce and make its underlings has more intelligence than other mutated beings. Flora and the Queen Bee wbich he decided to name Azra for now both has superior intelligence. Ghol on the other hand was different as it was a mutated carnivorous flower at first before once again mutating into Ghoul Flower
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Inside the God's Tech City, Annie and Anna were currently sitting in a long dining table filled with various foods. The foods are not your normal ones as they all contained energy and was beneficial for all supernaturals
It can give a slight increase on the energy inside their body. Digesting food was different that absorbing energy. If you digest food the energy that you will gain will not make your own energy impure unlike when you directly absorb energies that has different attributes than yours
Supernaturals prefer foods from mutated animals and plants that will make them stronger. Annie was eating happily while Anna's mood was not good. Anna can't help but have the feeling that Sun was giving them this kind of treatment so that they will be indebted to him and won't be able to flee from the city
Everywhere they go guards were following them as if fearing that they will flee. She felt really suffocated, although Sun regularly visit them and treat them good but she felt like an animal in a cage
At this time, Sun walked to the dining area while holding a piece of rolled paper tied in a ribbon. Annie's mood brightened even more at seeing the man, but Sun turned his focus to her sister Anna. Sun's focus were always on Anna as if no other people around
However, the more she saw Sun liking another woman the more Annie was feeling challenged. "I have a news about your parents"
Anna immediately stood up from her seat when he heard Sun's words. Anna walk towards Sun demanding for an answer "they are still alive right? Tell me they are alive!"
The look on Sun's face was making Anna nervous and a bad feeling was crawling insider her. "I'm sorry" his words broke the last of Anna's hope and tears were flowing down from her eyes. The same was also true for Annie as she cried without bothering how ugly she looks in front of the man she like
"Your mother turned into a fallen but your father become a Rune Master. He can use runes that will hide his aura and flee from your home city in the hopes that he will see his daughters again. Unfortunately he was killed in a mission more than a month ago. This is sketch of the one who killed him" Sun then handed to Anna the paper that he was holding