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"How did we lose it!?" Grey caused under his breath.
"Why didn't you bind it!" Practically screaming from frustration, he decoded that they had to track it, why did it have to move levels?
"It takes time to do magic! I can't instacast spells!"
Fiona felt wronged, truth is that she slipped up, and didn't conserve her mana, she his it from Grey because he seemed to be about to kill her.
"Hurry up! We will lose it at your pace!"
Fiona hurriedly caught up, why was her friend so mad?
Around 20 minuites later, they arrived at the battlefield, it was pretty fast because you could easily see the path of fallen trees and crushed boulders.
What Fiona saw, shocked her. A single bee, fighting up against such a massive creature!
The size difference was comparable from a golfball to an elephant, Fiona couldn't help but glance at Gray, who seemed to directly ignore the situation.
'What should we do?'
Fiona whispered lightly to Gray, of which whom answered calmly.
'We wait.'
Fiona couldn't help but question his methods.
'Why don't we go now, it will be easy if I can land an ice spear on an eye!'
'No, think with your brain, if there is one bee, there are bound to bee hundreds more, maybe even thousands.'
Gray spoke calmly, observing the situation, he clearly had been in similar situations. Giona also observed the situation, the bee was obviously losing, it wasn't even a fight.
The only interest thing that happened was the bees last ditch effort to distract the Iron Honey bear, which was effective at first, but the bear suddenly turned crazed. Being freaked out, Fiona asked with uncertainty.
'Why is the bear suddenly like that?'
Gray appeared surprised at the scene too, but quickly recognized the fluid and its effects.
'That is a pitcher off of a demon vine, they are rare and shouldn't even be on this floor, but its effects make the drinkers mind insane, its addicting to say the least. Though, since it was carrying a pitcher back, these bees probably have an immunity towards it. The hive will make us some money as long as its not medium sized.'
Fiona was astonished, such a thing existed here?! She had heard of such things at lowered levels, but never on the first floor!
"Why, do people pay for information like that? How much?"
Fiona's eyes sparkled, had they come across a gold mine?!
"A lot, young queens are extremely useful as bonded beasts, as you can make masses of workers to defend and attack with, not to mention how precious honey is!'
Gray, in an odd turn of events, showed a familiar emotion, greed. And at the moment scared Fiona a bit.
""Well wait until the main forces arrive, then, well burn flown the hive, snatch the queen and escape."
Gray brought out a scroll, containing shining runes.
"This will get her past the dungeons barrier."
For her friend to be so smart, she felt lucky,
'This will make us a fortune!'
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Three had a hard time deciding whether to go or not, but eventually got convinced, it was a very large threat to the queen and the hives members, so Three couldn't leave it to the newbies.
Three prepped up, and cleared its mind, it had to beat this foe.
[Gen 1 - Warrior
Name - 003
Level- 3
Biomass - 5
Str- 3
Int- 5
Agl- 3
End- 5
Enhancements-
Skills- Carapace Usage Lv.1, Pollen Processing Lv.3, Honey Making Lv.5
]
Three quickly got to work, dividing the warriors into three groups, it didn't do this instinctually, every time he levelled up, It felt its mind getting clearer and clearer.
As they flew in the formations, a large figure spotted them near instantly, and smashed two fresh hive members into a meat paste.
Three attacked with its stinger, and so did the many others, and to their shock, it didn't work, their natural predator clearly had this planned out at birth.
The crazed bear lunged at Three, who attempted to dodge, but the large paw managed to outmaneuver any attempts to.
Three felt a searing pain in its left side, before it spiralled into the ground. Three was dead.
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One awoke, the constant buzz awoke it, unknown for how long it was in conscious, it turned to the notifications.
[Your skill, carapace usage lv.3, leveled up]
[Your skill, carapace usage lv.4, leveled up]
[Your skill, carapace usage lv.5, Advanced to, Advanced Carapace Usage [II] lv.1]
One nibbled at the dirt for any nutrients, its levels in carapace usage had transformed the skill from an unoticeable effect to noticeable, it could feel the moves that would have dodges the bears massive paw.
One cried out in pain, its low screech drowned in the noise of the battle, its bad vision didn't help. As it noticed the mulated bodies of its brethren, it felt a deep emptiness, as if it lost its only purpose.
The queen!
It had a sudden ignition of will, the queen should be defenceless right now, the other hives.
It dragged its living corpse across the ground, it barely scraped enough grass for the notification to pop up.
[+1 biomass]
It put it into its carapace, and as the needles struck, it could feel its flesh weaving together in increasingly complex ways, even if its legs we're scrapped, it still had its wings.
One took off at a frightening pace, its wings beating so fast that they might rip any second.
It would protect the queen, and in this battle,
It wouldn't lose.
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Stats
[Gen 1 - Warrior
Name - 001
Level- 5 [EVOLVE]
Biomass - 0
Str- 4
Int- 4
Agl- 5
End- 7
Enhancements- Stinger +3, Carapace +1,
Skills- Advanced Carapace Usage [II] Lv.1, Pollen Processing Lv.1, Honey Making Lv.1
]