What appeared to be a dense smoke was actually a mass collection of many, many bodies. The bodies were streamlined and divided into 3 indistinct sections, and they had a total of 6 very thin legs that looked woefully impractical. Could they even walk? It certainly didn’t look like it, especially since they all contained a pair of thin wings on their backs that they were using to fly.
Those too, for that matter, looked completely ineffective, but they were flapping at an insane rate and they were clearly doing their job. The creatures flew through the air at a respectable speed and were rapidly approaching the gathering.
On another note, each one could be considered small for a Beast (they were certainly not an Enlightened race with such an appearance), with only a few at the front having an imposing height of 40 metres or so. But compared to a lot of the Beasts here, even that 40 metre height was below average- which was strange since their collective aura was absolutely nothing to scoff about.
More than a few high stage Realm 3 entities could be sensed in that group and there were even a short few at the 4th Realm. That had to be the creatures that were 40 metres tall because who else would it be, nothing else in the group was bigger. But still, why were they so small?
The abnormality didn’t end there either. Their bodies were very strange, looking like they had been made from a material similar to the Dragon King’s crystals, which was strange since most Beasts were furred or scaled. They were mainly white in colour but had silver stripes laced across their entire bodies with only their legs and what was presumed to be their head being without. And they had 2 giant, weird looking eyes that were completely silver in colour, and a strange, very strange (but dangerous looking) mouth- that looked like the pincer of a crab, only much smaller and perfectly symmetrical. Another thing to add was that their entire bodies were glowing. They were all glowing like they had been directly imbued with moonlight.
But ignoring the glow, those mouths… They were definitely mandibles. And those creatures had to be insects, it was impossible not to notice at this point.
As the insects flew closer, it became apparent that they were some sort of Bee. No, not a Bee, the Bees they knew of were more furry and rotund. These had to be the closely related Wasps.
Those who were out of the loop couldn’t fathom what they were seeing at all.
They had of course seen Wasps and other insects before, but never had they seen a group of them with this kind of size, colour or amount of members (there had to be hundreds of thousands of them), and they certainly had not seen any kind of insect with strength that surpassed the 2nd Realm, talk less of the 4th Realm. The strangely enchanting sound they were making was also completely abnormal and the aura they were emitting was considerably daunting.
What kind of Wasps were these and where on Eridius had they come from?!
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Unlike them, the people who were in the know (which was most people) like Titania and Jörma, weren’t surprised by their appearance at all. Obviously. But they definitely wore grim faces. After all… the last time they had seen these strange creatures, their numbers were much fewer and there was not a single one of them in the 4th Realm.
That was 7 years ago (Year 165), but look at them now.
It was honestly terrifying to think about. They had just appeared out of nowhere, and when interrogated about their origins, they would only reply that they were blessed by the Moon.
This led to some thinking that there was some kind of Moon god or goddess who was handing out blessings, causing some to actually start praying to it, thinking that their race were more worthy of its blessing and hoping to seek its ‘divine favour’, but so far, there had been no response to these prayers, and on top of the fact that the Wasps never claimed the existence of a god, the ‘hype’ for it had eventually died down.
The Wasps simply called themselves [Moonlit Wasps] and generally didn’t interact with other races. On top of that, despite their hyper uniqueness, their Quality of Being was still quite low, only reaching the level of a Ferret or a Vulture, meaning that on their own they were quite weak.
But they were NEVER alone, and the unreal group mentality that they possessed along with the speed at which their cultivation progressed made them an incredible force that nobody with a functioning brain could ignore.
Dodo looked at these insects with a difficult expression. As a Herbivore but most importantly a Guardian who advocated for peace, he admired the way these insects lived. They never caused unprovoked trouble, they kept to themselves, and they liked to create music like the Elves, something that he had also taken an interest in. They were great.
But there was one tincy-maybe-worrisome-okay-maybe-extremely-bad problem. And that was that these Wasps were not herbivores; they were omnivores. And not only did they have a penchant for meat, but they also had a severe eating problem.
The Moonlit Wasps had established a territory for themselves somewhere between the Centre and the North of the Continent, a decent location where many powerful Beasts had once resided. Keyword there being ‘once’.
Without suspense, they had all been killed and devoured, overwhelmed by the sheer numbers and peculiar intelligence of the Wasps. Could you imagine that sometimes they would employ their entire nest to kill a single creature if need be? They were that crazy.
Eventually, without a supreme overlord to contend with, they had inevitably claimed dominance of their geographical location. They killed and ate and then killed and ate some more, only taking breaks to play songs and praise the Moon.
Nobody knew why they hunted for so much food, especially since their actual capacity to eat wasn’t that high. But the most popular guess… was that it had something to do with their insane birth rate.
Whatever the case, since they continued to expand their territory in accordance with their need for food, and showed no signs of slowing down, the day that they affected all the Supreme Lords in this meeting would soon come to pass.
It wasn’t a surprise that some harboured the thought of destroying them before such a thing could ever happen.