[Due to the special nature of the consumed material (Second Tier Giant Boar Pork), your Killing Giant Bee Hive has undergone unknown changes]
[Killing Giant Bee Hive (1st Rank/Gold): Can consume fresh blood flesh to recruit (breed) units [Killing Giant Bee], upgrade requires: Wood *100, Honey *200, Second Tier Crystal Core *1, Fresh Blood Flesh *200, Hive has 50 Worker Bees (5/50)]
[Killing Giant Bee · Worker Bee] (1st Rank/Gold)
Life Value: 150/150
Magic Power Value: 120/120
Level: lv.15 (1st Rank)
Attributes: Strength 10, Spirit 12, Agility 25, Constitution: 15
Talents:
(Mutation) Hard Bee Sting (Green): Bee sting is no longer disposable, but after breaking, it requires 5 days of recovery to restore.
Neurotoxin (Purple): Uses bee sting to inject toxin, determining the target's Constitution Attribute. If the Constitution Attribute is lower than 15, it causes paralysis, which can be stacked. Each stack increases the determination value by +2, up to a maximum of 10 stacks.
Swarm of bees Awareness (Gold): The swarm of bees possesses group consciousness. Whenever the swarm's size reaches (10, 100, 1000...), it unlocks the corresponding attribute correction and additional ability, increasing the intelligence of the swarm of bees awareness. Current correction: None
Hive Expert (Purple): Worker Bees actively seek materials to expand and repair the hive, slowly reducing the hive's upgrade requirements.
Skills:
Gathering (Blue): Even after mutation, the skill in gathering is not lost. In patrol state, it actively gathers building materials and pollen.
Brewing (Blue): Consumes collected pollen to brew [Giant Bee Honey] (1st Rank/Purple), and further consumes pollen to produce a more effective [Royal Jelly] (1st Rank/Gold)
Poison Injection (Green): Performs a quick sting to inject neurotoxin into the target, causing 20 points of physical damage ignoring defensive power.
Bee Dance (Gold): Cooperates with companions to conduct a hunt. Each hunting companion deals 20 points of physical damage ignoring defensive power to the target. When the number of companions reaches (10, 20... 100), each attack additionally causes (2, 4... 20) points of physical damage.
"You must believe me, I am truly a good person!"
Seeing the panel of the Giant Bee, Bai Yi could only say, *it truly deserved to be a golden troop!*
*Whether in combat power or functionality, it was almost maxed out!*
*It had control, it had damage, and could even handle logistics!*
And what tempted Bai Yi the most was not those powerful talents but the honey brewed!
"Golden-level honey, I wonder what effect it might have?
At least it wouldn't be worse than tree fruit right!"
By relying on the Lord's authority, Bai Yi already felt the hidden connection among these five initial bees. But just because there were too few of them, their expressed intelligence level was even less than that of the giant banyan.
"Then let's first see what the bonuses for the first stage are like!"
Having said so, Bai Yi invested 50 units of blood flesh and 50 units of honey.
The panel showed that it would take another 10 minutes to breed the next batch of bees. Taking advantage of this time, Bai Yi organized the warehouse a bit.
It was then Bai Yi suddenly remembered that she had a small knife she had completely forgotten, so she quickly took it out and handed it to the peasant woman for temporary use as a tool.
Along the way, Bai Yi also learned the blueprints for the Cat Nest. As for the blueprint for the Four-legged Dragon Beast Nest, Bai Yi did not plan to use it herself.
Bai Yi had already seen the Four-legged Dragon Beast. Although its combat power was not bad, the beetle suffered its only casualty yesterday when it was bitten to death by that Fake Dragon.
But the biggest issue was that it didn't match her talent at all.
Moreover, the materials listed in the blueprint were impossible to gather. What exactly was this Dragon Blood Grass?
So, rather than spending a fortune to purchase something that looked like it belonged to the Magic Side and might not even be found, Bai Yi thought it was better to find an opportunity to sell it off.
She could also bundle it with the thin Dragon Blood Crystal that dropped together, making it a perfect deal!
The best would be to exchange it for an insect-type barracks blueprint, so she might be able to upgrade her territory before the Cycle Challenge.
The conditions for territory advancement were to have 5 1st Rank buildings, 5 kinds of 1st Rank units, and a personal level of 20.
Currently, there were already 3 types of barracks buildings and corresponding units in the territory, plus the giant banyan, which could simultaneously be classified as a building and a unit. Now, only 1 more building with a unit was needed!
"I wonder if advancing to the Second Tier territory will also come with rewards. If there's another soldier package...
Hehehe—"
Thinking she might once again acquire two golden troops, Bai Yi giggled foolishly.
Wiping the drool from her mouth, the breeding of the Worker Bees had already reached its final stages.
10 seconds...
9 seconds...
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3...
2...
1!
[Your swarm of bees count has reached (55/10). Swarm of bees awareness has begun. You have obtained the swarm of bees panel. The swarm of bees gained an additional 5 points of Spirit correction, gathering speed +100%, working efficiency +100%]
[Advancing to the next stage requires the swarm count to reach (55/100). Swarm of bees awareness wisdom increases, gaining an additional 50 points of Spirit correction, gathering speed +100%, working efficiency +100%, and an additional skill: Wing Flapping (Blue)]
"This being the first phase bonus is already this strong! It's terrifying!"
The panel might not be very intuitive, but in Bai Yi's Lord perspective.
After these 50 bees joined, the swarm's intelligence grew from that of a newborn baby into that of a three-year-old who could comprehend simple words and engage in conversations!
*Although still a bit dazed and silly, at least they could do simple tasks around the territory!*
By accessing the swarm panel referenced in the prompt, Bai Yi found that she could set simple commands for the swarm, assigning specific groups of bees to work independently.
Currently, the available commands were limited to free gathering, patrol, and hunting.
More complex commands would require Bai Yi to personally communicate with the swarm, and there was no guarantee they could understand.
After giving it some thought, Bai Yi decided to send out 30 bees for free gathering, 20 for patrol, and the remaining 5 to stay in the hive on standby.
After organizing the swarm's workload, Bai Yi watched as the swarm dispersed.
Glancing at her current magic power, after bargaining with Jun Lin for so long earlier, it had already been fully restored.
Bai Yi called out one of the Giant Bees that stayed behind and reached out to touch it, activating her superpower.
[You have used the Skill Gene Extraction. The current target has extractable genes: Group Consciousness, Neurotoxin, Poison Stinger, Compound Eyes, Direction Perception]
"Group Consciousness can actually be extracted?!"
*The strongest talent of the swarm of bees was precisely this swarm of bees awareness!*
*If it could be extracted and fused into other creatures, wouldn't it be akin to artificially creating golden troops!*
Also, being of the insect type, these genes must be highly compatible with the Beetle!
With no further thought needed, Bai Yi decisively made her decision.
[You have extracted gene entries: Group Consciousness, Neurotoxin]
Obtaining two new entries piqued Bai Yi's interest.
She tried this round of Skill Gene Extraction on all the creatures in her territory, and the final results were as she anticipated.
The compatibility of Group Consciousness with plants was acceptable. Still, attempting to modify those Mutated banyan trees in her territory would require a full 300 points of Magic Power.
When applied to the peasant woman or herself, it needed an astonishing 5000 points of Magic Power to succeed, which made Bai Yi gasp.
However, Bai Yi was somewhat surprised by the Neurotoxin. It could actually be fused into the Endless Rice for only 200 points of Magic Power.
But what would be the purpose of that fusion?
Take a bite and poison someone to death?
*Seems plausible?*
Besides the rice, the giant banyan and other mutated banyan trees also had high compatibility, but at least for now, Bai Yi had no such plans.
The best option currently was still to first increase the Beetle's combat power. However, all the Beetles were out clearing the surroundings, so she had to wait for them to return before moving forward.
With all the tasks in the territory properly arranged, and it still being early, other capable Lords were out fighting monsters. It would be best to auction the blueprints at noontime when everyone took a break, so Bai Yi headed back to the farmland.
A few peasant women had already prepared the rice she needed, so Bai Yi repeated her familiar trick to mature another batch of rice, extending the workload for the peasant women.
After bustling around for a while, it was nearing noon. More Lords started chatting in the channel.
......
Killing Giant Bee (Part Two): According to research, this type of giant bee appears to have awakened a group consciousness. Testing showed that when the hive is attacked, even if the giant bee is confined in a sealed area, they will simultaneously enter a frenzy to actively attack any approaching creatures and attempt to return to the hive.
--- An unmarked research report