ebookland Chapter 128 - 128: Assembly instructions aren't included
Chapter 128 - 128: Assembly instructions aren't included
I spent several days setting plans into motion, too busy arranging things to leave Hive Supremo.
First, I sketched more ideas for furniture so Re
Meanwhile, healthy, powerful, and genetically superior bees of the Bee Empire worked like a united, coherent machine that was oiled at least once in this century—thanks to literacy and tireless efforts of Archivists, who were storing and sorting the ever-growing amount of information that traveled through the hive.
Just to organize the mining operation in Camp Rich (future Hive Rich), an archive had to be built there, and an extra one in Hive Supremo.
Archives were growing more and more, reaching 222 Archivists—and yet, our logistics stat was flagging behind every other stat.
If not for literacy, the Bee Empire would have crumbled into pieces long ago.
As it was, I felt like the next expansion push will be the last before I will have to invent the dreaded bureaucracy.
But for now, the Empire was thriving!
〔Bee Empire〕
〔Wellness〕: 92 %
〔Population〕: 1575 thousand
〔Territory〕: 56520 sq. kilometers
〔Settlement count〕: 22
〔Development level〕: 5
〔Development points〕: 978 / 1500
〔Species〕: Common Honey Bee
〔Attributes〕
> Workpower: 26617
> Military: 4398
> Brainpower: 9772
> Logistics: 4372
> Resilience: 6610
〔Resources〕:
> Food: 9957 units
> Building materials: 414 units
> Crafting materials: 748 units
〔Empire Council〕
〔Military Adviser〕: increases total military by 10%. (Bloodhero)
〔Science Adviser〕: adds 10% of total workpower to brainpower. (Researchina)
〔Industry Adviser〕: increases total workpower by 10%. (Things-Things)
〔Economics Adviser〕: adds 10% of total workpower to military. (Workharder)
〔Culture Adviser〕: increases all total attributes and wellness by 3%. (Ambrosia)
〔Health Adviser〕: increases wellness by 0,05% of brainpower. (Tabletina)
〔Technologies〕
Dance Communication, Hive Building, Food Preservation, Forager Posts, Rank-Based Hierarchy, Border Patrols, Candles, Primitive Spiked Armor, Work Camps, Literacy, Scientific Method, Basic Hygiene, Technology of Stone Age, Archives, Medicinal Plants, Feudal Government, Dedicated Medicine, Job Orientation, Sundials, Soap, Primitive Flying Transport, Improved Underground Architecture, Advanced Army Tactics, Primitive Metal Smelting, Primitive Metalsmithing
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Not only we had the insane workpower that moved the industry forward but also sizable other stats.
Although they were much smaller, this was simply because the amount of bees producing food and utility items was so big compared to the amount of our soldiers.
We had plenty of soldiers.
I felt assured enough that I'd wage war on every bee-hunting dragon if they weren't so fast!
On the fifth day of my prolonged stay in Hive Supremo, I sat near the hive entrance, watching the blue sky and the red-blue-green pillar mountain forest above.
From below me, where they trained at the base of our pillar mountain, I heard shouts of 1000 Beemarines doing their daily drills. More bees were flying in and out, doing their daily tasks.
In my mind were visions of dragon traps.
'If they have bird brains, then bird traps should work on them! We just have to make them big enough. Perhaps we can attack their nests, too. They have to be somewhere up there, in the mountains. Bees have lived in fear for too long! We should raise our arms against aerial oppression!'
As if on cue, I heard shocked and alarmed shouts of bees outside, a beating of dragon wings, and a loud, "GRAAAAAW!"