Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire-Chapter 434: Too easy
Chapter 434: Too easy
The position of the army changed a lot while I was away. With a single glance at the army and its surroundings, I easily recreated what happened.
The crusading army had entered a thick living forest of living mountains with an ordinary forest underneath it. Although many trees were withered or chewed on, they still grew as tall as a human’s height!
These trees and the living mountains impeded the movement of humans and their carts, forcing the army to stretch into a longer procession. Humans had to find their way between the mountains and push away or cut down the trees, which wasn’t helping, either.
And of course, thick vegetation like that was an excellent breeding ground for all kinds of insects and wild beasts.
Now some of them attacked Malevolence’s army, and she led her soldiers to attack these beasts!
This was the first time I had seen a crusading army in action with my own eyes and wasn’t imagining things based on stories and reports of the soldiers.
Reality was even more impressive than the descriptions.
It was a total destruction of the opposition!
Before my eyes, an evolved grasshopper three times a bee’s size—even as an astral projection I could see a page-long list of its genes—pounced at a Beemarine and opened its disproportionately massive mouth full of venomous teeth.
The bee was looking in another direction at this moment through the sights of her rifle. She didn’t react and time—and although she tried to avoid the attack, the grasshopper closed its jaws over her neck.
This should’ve been a death for her. I should’ve been worried!
But I saw the Beemarine didn’t lose a single point of health.
Even as she was hanging from the grasshopper’s mouth, the Beemarine pulled a knife from her belt with a free hand and stabbed the grasshopper right in the neck!
Although she was blinded, this strike was still precise and deadly. And after that, the Beemarine stabbed the grasshopper several more times, at the same time getting its jaws away from herself.
Then she flew away from the scuffle, and the dead beast’s body fell to the ground way below. The Beemarine escaped this attack and suffered only bloodied clothing and her hair being messed up.
It was incredible! And things were going like that on every other front I could see.
Shouting furiously, Malevolence led her people toward the largest groups of insects. Even those that didn’t attack the army first were crushed alongside others. No one was safe from their wrath.
Compared to the bees, humans could only wave at the insects fruitlessly, watch the crusade and be awed by it. And shoot at dragons who made a mistake of approaching the battleground.
In a short time, the fight was over—everything even remotely hostile was either killed or fled. Without revealing my presence, I watched Malevolence give orders to keep moving.
“We can hunt for food later! We have a goal to reach today—I want us to have a roof over our heads when we camp!”
Whatever worries I had left about this crusade had disappeared. And for the best, because I felt I was at the very edge of my telepathic range.
After this, I was going to communicate with Malevolence only through other telepaths. So when she was done giving orders, before the army continued its movement, I wished her luck.
“Crush the enemies of the Empire, my girl! And send regular reports.”
“Of course, Father. They all will die beneath our hammers, and you will know about it!”
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I got the next report later this evening—the army reached its first goal, which was an abandoned Hatha village. There were no signs of humans anywhere, but plenty of insects had been killed by the army in the village and on the way there.
After this, the crusade advanced deeper into the country and split into several smaller armies to reach all its targets.
The scouts have already marked on our maps where to search for hornets’ nests. There were plenty of them, but most of them turned out to be other species of hornets, not murder hornets.
They all had to die, too—but it was still puzzling me. In my previous experience, murder hornets were pretty prevalent in this region and climate.
Malevolence had detached a few small parts of her army to create permanent outposts in the area and kept moving. The land devastated by the rapid evolution of creatures in it was easy to conquer.
There were some humans that survived against all odds—most of them were either local tribes or bandit groups. Some ran away on sight (they were left to be), others pleaded for mercy (they were told to swear fealty to the Bee Empire and then left to be), and the third ones were bold enough to attack.
Those were killed with countless bee stings.
Like that, the crusade advanced rapidly. Within two weeks, a third of the former Hatha territory was taken and covered in outposts—with the help of humans, bees could build them within days.
But in all this time, there were still no meetings with the murder hornets. Even the scouts that moved deeper into the area reported not a sight of them.
I couldn’t believe it! Neither could Malevolence.
So when Undecided came to my office and the Attendant Helping-Hands mentioned Undecided wanted to speak about approaching danger, I was not too shocked.
I just asked Helping-Hands for an extra calming tea for both me and Undecided, and only when both of us had it and all Attendants had left the vicinity, prompted Undecided to speak.
She was trembling like a leaf and looked frightened even here. This made me tense.
“Father,” Undecided said, “My sisters and I saw terrible things, terrible things again… In some dreams you were sad and Malevolence died. In others… people died, anyway. Always, always someone died and somebody else got sad! It’s almost like my first dream ever… You found a path from it back then, Father. Please do it again now!”
