YM778.TV Chapter 9: Honey
Chapter 9: Honey
He saw countless bees, like a black cloud flying above, followed by their hives flying with them, including a palace-shaped hive full of honey.
What surprised him the most was of course Aldric. The young man in makeshift clothes actually came out of the villa gate, with the Queen Bee following beside him.
"Wh-what happened?" He wondered in a trembling voice.
Occasionally he rubbed his eyes to confirm if what he saw was real.
Meanwhile, Aldric approached him.
"Mr. Ron, I did not kill this Queen Bee, but I have made her leave. I hope you will write a letter stating that this mission is complete," he told the old man.
"H-how did you do it?" asked Ron.
"Well, I have the ability to tame animals, it wasn\'t hard for me," Aldric replied, throwing out nonsense.
He might be a bit ignorant of urban life due to living in a remote village for too long, but this didn\'t mean he didn\'t know how to make up nonsense to deceive.
Besides, since he seemed innocent, his nonsense sounded convincing.
"Really, you really do have that kind of ability." Ron was so amazed that he forgot about how Aldric drove the bees away before he tamed them.
"Alright, I\'ll write a letter!"
Ron became respectful to Aldric, quickly returning to his cottage to compose a letter that this mission was complete.
That way, Aldric could return to the Golden Lion Guild, show the letter as proof and they would give him his reward.
Not long after, Ron returned with a piece of paper containing his handwriting plus the Golden Lion Guild seal.
It seemed to be a paper prepared by the guild itself for their clients.
Ron handed the paper to Aldric who immediately took it and put it into his Space Artifact.
"Thank you," he said with a faint smile.
He didn\'t plan on lingering there, leaving after that.
There was a small forest near the river he passed.
When he arrived beside the forest, he stopped, and looked at the Queen Bee.
"I will make a few dozen trees in this forest and you can live there," he said.
He thought this forest would be a good place for them to live.
In addition to its safe environment, there weren\'t many people passing by so they wouldn\'t be so disturbed.
Of course, perhaps no one would dare to disturb them.
Even an army would think twice about facing such a large colony of bees.
"I will follow your instructions, master," said the queen bee, beginning to call him master.
Aldric nodded and pointed his hand at the forest.
He closed his eyes for a moment and when he opened them, green light radiated from his entire figure, gathering in his hands.
"It appears," he said as he use the Forest of Life Explo spell.
Instantly, dozens of new trees appeared among the trees in the forest, growing rapidly as their branches connected to each other.
At this moment, Aldric realized something.
A little bit of power actually made it easy for him to make the trees very large.
If he used a lot of power, it was possible that he could create a small forest directly.
In a short time, the trees grew to be taller than the forest itself.
Aldric quickly stopped his power. He thought it was enough to become a new base for the bees.
Actually, he was made to realize one more thing.
Those trees wouldn\'t just be stagnant in that position from the moment they appeared.
They took root in the ground, becoming like any other tree where they would grow constantly, producing seedlings that would then grow into new trees.
Because they had an aura of life from the start, their seedlings will also have an aura of life.
They can magnify their own life aura by absorbing the spiritual energy around them.
"Master, this is amazing," said the Queen Bee suddenly.
In fact, the bees had already begun to enter the forest, taking up residence in the trees with life aura, installing their nests there.
The Queen Bee\'s palace was placed at its center, surrounded by many branches.
"From now on, this will be your home," Aldric replied, smiling slightly.
He felt very happy with this result.
"By the way, I conquered you, and then gave you a new place to live. It\'s not completely free," he added, instantly freezing the Queen Bee\'s expression.
She was obviously very surprised to hear that from Aldric.
Of course, all Aldric wanted was that honey.
Constantly being near that honey, he had to restrain his appetite until now.
He really wanted to taste it plus he saw a promising business opportunity.
"Master, what do you want?" asked the Queen Bee nervously.
"Your honey," Aldric replied.
The bees shouldn\'t suffer so much if some of their honey was taken away. After all, they produced far more than they needed. The rest was just a symbol of glory to them.
After hearing his answer, the Queen Bee finally looked calm.
It seemed that this was indeed not something difficult for her.
She was just worried that Aldric was asking for something she couldn\'t fulfill.
"Master, we produce a lot of honey every day. If you want to take it, you can take it as you wish. Only now, with our numbers, we can produce up to 50 liters of honey a day, and the quality of our honey surpasses ordinary honey," she said.
"50 liters, that\'s really a lot." Aldric was amazed.
If one day they produced so much, it meant that in one month they would produce 1500 liters.
"How much can I take now?" he asked.
"Don\'t worry, I won\'t ask until it disturbs your colony. I still want to see your colony grow bigger so that you can produce more honey."
"If it is now, there are about 1000 liters that can be taken. If you don\'t take them, they will just fall and blend into the ground," replied the Queen Bee.
"Okay, then I will take 1000 liters." Aldric nodded.
He started moving by controlling the trees.
For him, squeezing honey was not difficult because he had experience in his village.
The squeezed honey he put directly into his Storage Artifact without any bottles at all.
After all, it\'s not dirty. Although it is not very spacious, 1000 liters does not need too much space either.
It didn\'t take Aldric long to collect the honey.
However, he still refrained from drinking it.
Delicious things need the best moments to be savored. Now was not the time, he chose to travel back to the city first, earning his coin from completing this mission.
When he arrived, the sky finally began to turn yellow, signaling that night was almost here.
In the far west, the sun seemed to be setting in less than 20 minutes.
Aldric hurried into the city where candles were lit.
Although the only source of light was candles, the flames on the candles emitted more light than any lamp on earth.
As the sky grew darker, Aldric found that the city only became brighter, and actually became more crowded.
He arrived in front of the Golden Lion Guild headquarters not long after.
It was very crowded now, as many people wanted to report their success.