As I occasionally ate a large amount of [Grand Boungain] pollen, with the intention of creating large amounts of hard wax, I wondered if I wouldn't have an easier way to do all this work... it's not exactly complicated, but it's very repetitive, I think to facilitate all this work I would need to create a brood of [Workers], and I wasn't exactly willing to give myself the idea of a hive yet...
Returning home I start to spit out small balls of hard wax and gather them in a heap in the corner, I wonder if there would be easier ways to create the wax variations like [Hard Wax], [Rough wax] and [Colored wax] if I used honey in its manufacture, I already knew that I could mix ingredients to create combined types of wax, now if I added honey to the mixture I would create a mixture of common wax with hard wax, or would I create a better version of [Hard Wax]?
I believe that thinking about the possibilities is useless so I decide put this theory in practice, I go towards the small jar of honey and drink what was left inside it, satisfied with the meal I go out in search for some pollen to test my theory, as soon I arrive at the strange sunflowers and fill the space that was left in my chest with its pollen, I focus on creating wax and I try to imagine it hard and resistant hoping that the thought can influence the final product, and to my surprise what comes out of my jaws is really [hard wax]! and it still has some interesting capabilities!
[Description]
[Common Hard Wax]
This bee wax is easily malleable and becomes hard when it dries.
QUALITY: LOW
Damn it! that's very good! this wax keeps the good parts of both elements that make it up and loses its negative parts. The disvantage of ordinary wax is that was very fragile, exactly what someone would expect of wax, but was easy to work with, and quick drying up, while Hard Wax was very difficult to model, but became hard as stone when it dried, and yet took a long time to dry, now this [Common Hard Wax] can be easily modeled like [Commom wax] and this was resistant as [Hard Wax]!
I also couldn't help but notice how the quality remains low, even though I used the same honey that I used to create the higher quality wax, it seems that the very act of creating the mix decreases the quality of the final product, or it may be that the pollen I used was not really very good.
I think the only problem is that to create this [Common Hard Wax] I needed honey, which was a resource... Complicated to make, and I also realized that after creating a single sphere of this new wax, I could create just 2 more equal spheres with the material I have in my chest, so despite its high ultility it has a high production cost, essentially I just discovered the equivalent of concrete for bees!
I leave my little balls of special wax behind and went out to create more honey to create more of this miracle wax!
....
I may have overdone it a bit in my creation process, and ended up creating a lot of special wax balls, now I had a lot of them and needed to find an ultility!
At least after so much work, making honey, collecting pollen, and making wax I ended up gaining 2 skill levels!
[Warning]
The skill [Create Honey] has reached Lv 2!
[Warning]
The skill [Wax making] has reached Lv 3!
At less these levels makes the work of making honey a little less horrible, and the wax was a little easier too, but nothing substantial or worth measuring.
Well, now in front of me I had several balls of special wax, and now I was thinking about how I could use them efficiently, these small balls of irregular shapes had already hardened and could now be used as bricks, I could then create more [common Hard Wax] to use as glue to join everything together. My main idea is to create a new honey tank! I seriously needed a larger stock of honey, having to keep going back and forth between tasks is very exhausting.
I end up deciding that I'm going to use half of this whole hole to store honey, if I were to wax the walls and then use these blocks to create a dike, I could gain a large stock of honey, and I would only need to leave a small opening big enough for me so i can get in and out.
With an elaborate plan to create my large honey tank, I go out again in search for some matter to create a little bit more of wax, this time only ordinary wax would do, after a little hard work I manage to cover the entire area designated to make a tank and start stacking my small wax stones, and sticking them with ordinary wax, after what seemed to be a long time I had finally finished my little personal project!
[Warning]
You earned the trait [Hard worker]
Hmm? can I win [Traits] like that out of nowhere? I really wasn't even trying? well, I guess you shouldn't be looking bad for what is earned for free.
[Traits]
{Hard worker}
You take your job very seriously, and you manage to do it perfectly!
+3 speed
Oh, my god! finally a good [Trait]! I mean one that seems to be useful, I already had the [Trait], {wise} wasn't Bad, but didn't seem to do any good either, it just said how I accumulated knowledge in life, but this new trait of hard worker, seemed to give me a great vantage in the manufacture of items, which would be very good!
I was already so tired from today's work that I couldn't force myself to fill this tank with honey, I went down to take a quick look at my soldier and go to sleep
[Status] Name:N/A Species: Solitary honeybee Level: 0 Class: Soldier Mana:N/A + Information
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[Effects]
Incubating - 9 hours
This individual is still in incubation, at the end of the timer will emerge.
Damn it! time flies! Tomorrow he will be born!, and I believe it will be a larva like ordinary bees, because when I look at the small egg its no longer has the pure white appearance, now it was a deep gray color, and the size had not increased at all.
When I go to sleep anxious about what awaits me when I wake up, I get anxious thinking about how I should react to a tiny bee larva that might call me mama...
....
When I woke up in the morning the first thing I did was run to the small wax jar containing the soldier's egg to find out what had happened to it, and when I look into it... A little larva! white and with yellow details, I didn't know how to react to it, but when I looked at it moving occasionally inside the jar, like a little lazy kitten, I couldn't help but think how much this little larva was the most adorable thing I had ever seen!!
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH ME?!?
It was a larva! a goddamn maggot, just like any other you can think of! and when I look at her I can only think of how adorable she was.
This was supposed to be the work of the Bee instincts, or the [Maternal connection] skill, maybe a combination of both, but no matter how hard I tried to convince myself that this fat larva was horrifying, my mind could only think of how adorable she was! I stood there staring at the little larva with a conflicted heart, I felt like a first-time mother who had just been hit by the truck of maternal duty.
I looked at this little guy and tried to see his [Status]
[Status] Name:N/A Species: Solitary honeybee Level: 0 Class: Soldier Mana:N/A Life: 2 Str: 0.3 Def: 1 Sp: 0.1 Int: 0.2 Wis: 0.1
[Description]
a small [Solitary honeybee] larva.
[Effects]
Dying of Hunger - 1 day
This individual is starving, and at the end of the timer he will die.
Maturing - 2 days
This individual is maturing, at the end of the timer will emerge as a adult [Solitary honeybee]
Damn this little guy doesn't even have 1 full day lived and he already has more [Attack] points tham me!
And this effect, starving??!? The soldier I had invested so much time in was now starving to death!?
What does this larva eat?! honey? Nectar? leaves? I have no idea!
I think honey should be the best option, especially [Grand Boungain] the description mentioned that it was very nutritious!
After rushing out like a first-time mother trying to react quickly to a hungry baby, I quickly return to the small hole with a chest full of [Grand Boungain] nectar and create honey that I pour into the small jar containing the tiny larva.
I don't know if I should give the honey in a mouth-to-mouth feed, but at that time i let my bee instincts take the job and they are very welcome to help, and they told me that this way of feeding was the best. The little larva, now almost all emerged in [Boungain Honey] that was previously very quiet, began to move frantically, for a moment I thought it might be drowning in honey, but soon it began to devour the honey at a really impressive speed! I kept pouring the contents of my chest into the little jarr, and soon all the Honey I had was gone and the little larva was still showing signs of hunger, and the [starving] effect was still active.
THIS LARVA EATS A LOT!!
The amount of honey I had in my chest was not small, and yet the larva devoured it all in an instant!
After repeating the same process of getting nectar, turning it into honey and pouring it all into the jar containing the larva, for about 6 times the little larva finally seemed to be satiated! And I just wanted to know where the hell that absurd amount of honey went! this little larva clearly didn't have room for all this!
After a quick check on their status, I was happy to see that finally the [starving] effect was gone, and at the same time very surprised to see a new effect that had appeared!
[Effects]
[Well nourished] - 4 hours
This individual was very well fed with a nutritious meal!
It's so nice when the system itself recognizes all my hard work!
This effect of [Well nourished] seems to be very good! but didn't seem to have any effect... or i just can't see the effect it has? I know things can have affinities, but I never saw that tab in [status] and I still remember how I felt when I was [exhausted] and the description of the effect was shown, but not what the effect itself did.
After making sure my soldier was well fed, I set off again in search of my next goal, filling my new honey tank! And when I was at it I also wanted to find out what would happen if I consumed 2 or more different types of nectar and create honey, would it be a 'generic' honey or would it become a honey that carried all the advantages of the nectars they were made of?
After a race to get various types of nectar and going back to my small house to transform the mixture of several different plants into honey, and pour it into the small jar of improvised honey that I still kept inside my house, and after analyzing it i discover that I didn't seem to have the capacity to create a type of miracle honey...
[Description]
[Common honey]
A common honey made from flower nectar.
QUALITY: LOW
A great deception! I believed that I could create a honey with several different effects, but it turned out that it became a generic mixture, could I create a honey with several different effects if I leveled [Create honey]? Or maybe if I created each honey separately with a specific effect and mixed them all together in a single container it would become a honey with several effects? it may be that I can create something like a kind of miracle honey with this, or simply the same generic honey, after all, if you took several blocks of wax with different colors and melted them all in a bowl, it would still have the same effect as melting each one separately and them mixing them in the end.
After my great disappointment with the creation of the miracle Honey, I go to the other jar to take a look at my soldier, but I end up being amazed to see a large larva, almost reaching the edge of the jar, instead of the other time small larva that barely occupied the bottom of the jar.
BUT HOW??!
After an analysis of his [status] I think I have a slight idea of what may have happened to him...
[Status] Name:N/A Species: Solitary honeybee Level: 0 Class: Soldier Mana:N/A + Information
[Effects]
[Well nourished] - 01:37 hours
This individual was very well fed with a nutritious meal!
Maturing - 18 hours
This individual is maturing, at the end
of the timer will emerge as a adult [Solitary honeybee]