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Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire - Chapter 17

Updated: Nov 6, 2025 7:19 PM

We didn't have a map of the territory, but I knew Foragers didn't fly farther than half an hour away from the hive. With their speed roughly estimated at 60 kilometers/per hour, it meant that the hive's "territory" was a circle around 30 kilometers in radius. Good thing I still could remember the formula to calculate the circumference of a circle. 2*3,14*30=188. 188 kilometers or 3 hours of flight. 6 hours if the flight was slow enough to look out for ants and other threats, as well as take rest stops. For every part of the territory border to be patrolled at least every 10 minutes during daytime, we'd need 35 patrols. 40 to be sure. Each patrol could have just 10 bees—enough to deal with wasps and ants. Which meant I needed 300 Warrior Bees in total. Plus spares, so might make it 400. 'This is more doable than I thought. I feared I would take more bees from other duties and our food production would tank even more.' Brainpower requirement: 13 Allows establishing your territory. Increases chances of noticing outside threats to the colony beforehand. Allows opening and closing borders. I was a bit bummed that a technology had no stat bonuses. 'As long as we have food, it won't matter!' I went to organize everything. Despite the earlier incident with irreverent Builder Bees, my authority inside the hive has really grown in the past month. The Foremen Bees I taught have taught respect toward themselves and me to their peers. Smarter bees liked to talk and spread rumors about how smart I was. That was what I chose to believe they were talking about behind my back. They *definitely* loved me. And no bees *whatsoever* thought I was "ill in the head". But I still asked for Ambrosia's help to get 400 recruits among younger (and not just smarter, but more long-living) bees. Then I temporarily removed 30 Foremen Bees from their duties and told them to train these recruits how to swing their hammers. Just that, nothing more. They didn't *have* hammers, so they trained with sticks. Meanwhile, I urgently went to my Sergeant Craftsmen and told them to pause the training of new Craftsmen Bees so they could make 400 hammers. Three days of rushed work later, 400 hammers were made, and the future border guards could swing them the right side toward the enemy. But by that day, despite Foremen Bees' efforts, the hive lost 7 more units of food! > Building materials: 9 units In a grim but determined mood, I gathered all these bees together on the hive cave floor and arranged them into rows of ten. They stood and watched me with curiosity. With how similar they all looked, and with hammers in their hands, they looked like some general's ideal of soldiers. "First, from now on, each of you will be not just whatever worker you were before, but a Warrior Bee above all!" I declared. </p><p>〔Warrior Bee〕: +10% to base strength, agility, and endurance.</p><p>The title immediately appeared in their stats. It was a small boost, but a boost nonetheless.</p><p>〔Nurse Bee〕〔Ally〕〔Progeny〕</p><p>〔Name〕: B1001</p><p>〔Active title〕: Warrior Bee</p><p>〔Health〕: 11 / 11</p><p>〔Stamina〕: 11 / 11</p><p>〔Species〕: Common Honey Bee</p><p>〔Age〕: 30 d</p><p>〔Remaining lifespan〕: 122 d</p><p>〔Attributes〕</p><p>> Strength: 9</p><p>> Agility: 44</p><p>> Endurance: 10</p><p>> Defense: 9</p><p>> Intelligence: 100</p><p>> Perception: 43</p><p>〔Special abilities〕</p><p>Flight, Barbed Stinger, Royal Jelly Production</p><p>〔Genes〕</p><p>Enhanced Intelligence X, Increased Lifespan I</p><p>〔〕〔〕〔〕</p><p>The bees nodded silently. I paused.</p><p>"You won't cheer? That's supposed to be a cheer-worthy thing. You will be brave heroes protecting your hive from the enemy!"</p><p>"Aren't we always?" B1002 asked. "But you know better, Father. Cheer! We are heroes now!"</p><p>"Cheer!"</p><p>"Cheer!"</p><p>The cheers were subdued, but genuine.</p><p>'Actually, their chances of dying now are much higher than before. Maybe they *shouldn't* cheer…' I thought.</p><p>But too late.</p><p>When Warrior Bees stopped cheering, I picked one out of every dozen and gave them the rank of Sergeants.</p><p>This meant explaining ranks first. Then I explained to them what their job was. All together, it took me another day, but this wasn't the hardest part.</p><p>They had to learn their patrol route!</p><p>Bees had great spatial coordination and decent memory, especially considering their naturally low intelligence. If they saw their patrol route once, they could repeat it later easily.</p><p>But… someone had to show them.</p><p>Someone smart, someone who wanted to draw a map of surroundings, anyway. The only person who knew how to draw (stickmen and stick-bees).</p><p>***</p><p>Early the next morning, a great swarm of 41 bees—me and all my Sergeant Warriors—flew out of the hive, led by me.</p><p>The clouds were so thick and gray in the sky that I could barely see the sun. As if the sky itself reflected my mood.</p><p>But I couldn't be scared back into the hive! Not by the sky, and not by all the big and hungry things that lived outside. 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'1' : '0'); const response = await fetch('https://novelhub.net/login', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'X-CSRF-TOKEN': document.querySelector('meta[name="csrf-token"]').getAttribute('content'), 'Accept': 'application/json' }, body: formData }); if (response.ok) { this.successMessage = 'Login successful! Redirecting...'; setTimeout(() => { window.location.href = 'https://novelhub.net'; }, 1000); } else { const data = await response.json(); if (data.errors) { const errors = Object.values(data.errors).flat(); this.errorMessage = errors.join(' '); } else { this.errorMessage = data.message || 'Login failed. Please check your credentials.'; } } } catch (error) { this.errorMessage = 'An error occurred. 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