Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire-Chapter 398: We will help one, the other should help itself

Barahi Kingdom’s main problem currently were famines. Another harvest of their farmers was demolished by endless locusts, worms and so on.

Kachi-Chi Kingdom had ready access to fish in their Chi river and other game in their forest. But their most populated territories were flooded by the same river that fed them.

I decided that we will focus on the second one. Because there, I at least had a plan.

"There are sea ships Naregan Kingdom has that can enter the Chi river—it’s deep enough for them. We can use these ships and their boats to bring food and clean water to people stranded by flood, and to carry them away to safer places," I said. "Listener, please tell Whisper that I need the list of all ships that can do this."

Listener nodded and silently sent the message; meanwhile, Bloodhero rose from her seat in the Council Chamber in protest. freēnovelkiss.com

"But Father, what about the Vardish Empire? Their forces will appear at any moment now! If we don’t have enough ships, we might be too late to stop them from disembarking on our shores."

I looked at Oracle Undecided.

I have already thought about what Bloodhero said. It was almost certain that the ships sent to the Kachi-Chi Kingdom won’t return until the Vardish Empire attacks. But what else could I do?

"I think the Oracles can predict when the Vardish Empire’s ships actually appear. There are even some with the Bloodimina’s army stationed in the Eastern Expanse Reach. Or, do you also think this won’t be enough, Undecided?"

The Oracle Bee glanced between me and Bloodhero anxiously.

"It’s hard. Ocean is very unpredictable... But we will try, I swear! If there’s even a tiny chance that their ships will come at a certain date, then we will find this thread in the cloud of dreams and bring it to you, Father."

Bloodhero sighed.

"Thank you, sister. Still, this is so unreliable... We will have to send arsonist squads out into the sea at the smallest warning, and this place is a home to several dangerous types of dragons."

"Is it an Adviser’s job to complain, or is it their job to solve problems, Bloodhero?" Ambrosia asked sternly. "The obstacles we met on our way are not the reason to lower our wings in dejection."

Upon hearing this words, not just Bloodhero, but all other Advisers perked up.

Even I raised my head only to be stricken speechless by the regal way Ambrosia sat at this moment. By how straight her back was and how much fire was in her eyes when she looked at us all.

Immediately, Bloodhero straightened to attention like the most trained soldier in our army.

"Yes, Mother-Queen! My job is to find solutions and to make Father proud! If sea dragons are dangerous, we will kill enough of them that they stop attacking us! We will order humans to shoot them from their bows and muskets!"

"That’s right, that’s my girl!" I cheered, raising my fist victoriously. "These dragons are also very greedy. You can bait them with some beast meat or just bread, and they will all come—and then you can turn *them* into prey! Just make sure to cook them very carefully and test the meat, I fear it might carry a lot of diseases."

"After testing we might add these creatures to the lists of safe or not safe to eat," Tabletina said. "And it’s always good to find whether something fits into one of these lists."

We’ve talked about the details about this plan for some while—where we will take supplies for the Kachi-Chi Kingdom from (some from Naregan Kingdom, some from the Kachi-Chi Kingdom itself), how many ships we might need and so on.

Then Whisper relayed a—somewhat slow—message, suggesting that the beast tamers try to tame some of the sea dragons. According to humans, they weren’t the stupidest of the dragons, just really very greedy. But they could fly over longer distances than the dragons we usually rode on (like black ones, crows).

"Humans that spend a lot of time in the sea have tales about dragons that never land on the ground except to lay eggs. They just spend all their lives flying over the sea and both eat and sleep in the sky. Whisper said," Listener transferred.

I remembered birds like that in my home world—albatrosses. They landed more often than just to lay eggs, but they really could nap without landing.

Really interesting birds. If we had some of them tamed, I was sure Agent Bees riding them will be able to reach the other continents of this planet without having to travel on a much less reliable human ship.

"I wonder if the hawkmoth pheromones will help in taming these sea dragons," I said. "We have some of them left, don’t we?"

I had a thought about breeding hawkmoths for their pheromones, but I couldn’t find any of their males. In the end, I just gave an order to capture them alive so more of their pheromones could be extracted through bathing.

Yes.

To harvest hawkmoth pheromones, the Physicians came up with a procedure to soak them in water, then let the water evaporate a little to increase the pheromone concentration. Boiling the water destroyed the pheromones, but using too much water made them too diluted.

On the good side, hawkmoths lived after this procedure. They were still fairly rare, and they didn’t have the high immunity of bees. At some point we captured a few dozen, but now only seven were still alive—the rest died from illnesses.

I felt that their future as a species was grim.

But we still had some of their pheromones, which my Commandos used on special operations to destroy nests of especially dangerous creatures, especially evolved hornets and wasps.

"We do, Father," Tabletina said. "Just last week, soldiers even brought me a freshly captured hawkmoth, and so far it only got sick with a small cold."

"Then let’s send beast tamers with pheromones toward the sea immediately. Then we will start the operation to help Kachi-Chi... And the Barahi Kingdom will just have to wait."

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