Bunet looked upon the threat that was charging towards her outpost, the hornet dome, which was even now spawning more undead hornets for her swarm. Though luckily the grass sprites invading fleet was having difficulty traveling as the land belonged to the ruler of the Sm Kingdom. His essence soaked the realm, and as such, it fought the foul pixie magic that let the fleet float across a true living sea of grass.
She would use this time, the night of her maker and ruler having bought her, to its fullest potential. Bunet was getting the hornet doom sphere in the perfect position to begin destroying the invading grass warships one by one. But while she was doing that, there was no reason for her undead hornet swarm to wait on her. "Attack!" Bunet roared to her swarm through her connection to them, and they rushed to obey.
The fleet found themselves coming through the wall of smog into a land that seemed to actively hate their very existence. It fought them every moment of their advance, causing their once great flood to slow to that of a crawl. Though the fleet was not concerned as they were assured of their eventual victory, as while the land could slow them down, it could not stop them or force them back.
So the nine grass warship ships and the living grass ocean beneath them advance forward uncontested as all the grass smog elementals that tried were quickly destroyed by the grass sea that consumed them as they went by. The nine grass pixie farming elders, as well as their clansmen, began to believe they would be an unstoppable wave that would eventually wipe clean the undead kingdom of smog from their pixie grasslands.
They were soon proven incorrect, as though none on the ground could threaten their fleet, those in the skies could. As was demonstrated by every single grass pixie warship being attacked by undead hornets swarming them. The undead hornets were swarming the NE grass warships, covering every surface of the vessels with their kind, stabbing at the vessels or those that crewed them.
The nine grass pixie elders that commanded the grass warships countered this sudden swarming by the undead hornet swarm by singing a great song that echoed across all nine vessels. This strange melody caused the grass to grow grass spears, piercing the attacking undead hornet swarm as they suddenly found themselves run through. This allowed the grass pixie farmers turned sailors to be able to counter the swarming undead hornets.
As the nine grass warships grow grass spears and help the grass pixie sailors repel the undead swarm, it allows them to deal with their overwhelming numbers. Though it seemed for every undead hornet that was slain or fell into the grass sea to be eaten by the strange insect creature that dwelt in it, there were two more to replace the undead hornet that had fallen.
This meant that all nine grass warships were one giant battle as undead hornets kept flying in to join the melee on one of the nine grass warships, and what a melee it was. The hornets used their ability of flight and their undead nature to never tire to always press an aggressive attack that, while leaving them vulnerable, did pose significant risk to the grass pixie sailors.
The grass pixie sailors, on the other hand, used their growing grass armor to fight, having it grow grass spikes and blades to keep the undead hornets at bay. This style of fighting allowed the sailors to use the hornets on aggressive nature against them by having them impale themselves on some new grass spikes or grass blades they had suddenly grown out of their armor. Though the danger of using their armor too much prevented them from completely dominating the battlefield.
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Just like the grass pixie hunter and their powerful trophy armor, the grass pixie farmers had to worry about their grass armor, as it was powerful, but that power came with a risk. Which was that too much growth too fast would turn them into fuel for their armor as it grew out of the user's control. Though this grass pixie farmers fighting had prevented such a thing from occurring so far.
Bunet watched this ongoing battle on nine different grass warships through her wax monitor in the command chamber of her hornet doom sphere. She was not liking what she was seeing, as it was clear they were pressing them hard; the fleet was still going forward, as the ships had yet to stop moving. "Foul pixie magic." Bunet said with venom as she knew the grass pixie fleet wouldn't stop because her swarm was fighting them despite the fact her undead hornet swarm was attacking every ship in their fleet on every inch of visible surface they could find.
"Fine, you bzzz want something bzzz more before you bzzz stop. Don't buzz, you worry; I have what bzzz you need." Bunet said malice dripping from every word as she had her hornet doom sphere prepare to launch its first barrage of the battle at the shop furthest to the left. She would start left to right, destroying them one by one under the barrage of her hornet doom sphere agonizing stingers.
"Let's see, bzzz, you bzzz, magic your bzzz way out bzzz of this bzzz one," Bunet said with malicious glee as she finally gave the order to fire and watched as hundreds of stingers were shot out from her sphere with force going for the first ship that would surely fall to her. Bunet's thoughts were filled with images of the destroyed fleet scattered across the lands of her home, covered in her hornet doom sphere's agonizing spikes.
That's when Bundt heard a weird moaning song quickly come out of the ship she had just fired at, and just before it, her barrage of agonizing stingers hit the ship, which lost all its grass spikes and suddenly gained grass shielding. Bunet watched in shock as her barrage bounced off the new grass shielding of the first grass warship.
She was then filled with rage as she wondered what was going on and how the damn pixies had blocked her agonizing stingers with just grass. She then took a moment to calm herself and then shared her right with those undead hornets trapped behind the grass shielding of the grass warships. She only had a few moments to see before the undead hornet sight she was sharing with was killed, but she had seen enough.
"So that's how they're doing it." Bunet sat filled with an intense rage as she reviewed what she had just seen. Which had been that the grass warships were overlapping grass to form a kind of strange shield that protected them from her hornet doom sphere's stingers. "For now, bzz." Bunet said her promise and threat clear as she ordered her undead hornet swarm to continue attacking as they had backed off during the transformation of the grass warships. The battle was only just beginning, and Bunet would sink the grass pixies precious warships.