Chapter 63

〈 Episode 63 〉The Division of the Bees

Lucia opened her eyes after passing through the space, and the place she arrived at was a familiar-looking waiting room.

“Thank goodness… I came in one go this time. The first time I went to the wrong place and wandered around, it was really, ugh… Auntie! Wake up!”

Lucia tapped her cheeks, but Justitia stared blankly into the air without any reaction.

“What should I do…”

She began to cut off the wriggling Tentacles that were stuck all over Justitia’s body. Since the Tentacles were completely assimilated with her body, she had no choice but to leave the roots at the ends.

Thud-

Lucia pulled out all the Tentacles that were stuck in Justitia’s Yoni and Anus, but she was still unconscious.

“I guess this isn’t it… Auntie can’t even eat food… Huh? Then what does Auntie live on?”

Lucia’s thoughts reached something she hadn’t thought of before. She sat down next to Justitia and began to think carefully.

“She wouldn’t eat Love Nectar like Dad…”

Lucia carefully touched Justitia’s shoulder, where only a blunt mound remained after her arm disappeared. The limbs, which were still fleshy, were gradually shortening.

“Why is her body shrinking… It was Mana!”

Lucia felt the Mana escaping from the gradually dissipating flesh and discovered the secret of Justitia’s body.

“I took a lot of Mana from that guy earlier, so I can give it to Auntie enough. Then…”

Lucia placed her hand on Justitia’s chest and began to transmit Mana, and her complexion, which had been like a corpse, returned to normal a little.

“I can’t give it all, but this much…”

Lucia continued to send the Mana she had to her. After several hours had passed since Lucia began giving Mana, Justitia finally opened her eyes with difficulty.

“Ugh…”

“Auntie, are you awake?”

“Where is this…?”

“My house.”

“Lucia, did you…?”

Lucia nodded.

“I brought you.”

Justitia stared blankly at Lucia, who had let down her silver hair in her adult form.

“You look so pretty even grown up like this, Lucia… I wanted to give you something, but I only received help…”

“I just need to be with Mom and Auntie… You don’t have to give me anything like that. I, I keep worrying… Hng…”

Lucia, who had been relieved of her tension, began to sob. Justitia, who had unconsciously tried to stroke her, smiled bitterly at her missing limbs.

“I can’t even touch you like this.”

Lucia looked at Justitia’s body, which was only a torso, with pitiful eyes.

“Auntie, do you have to live like that from now on?”

“Don’t worry. It will take some time, but I can recover.”

“That’s a relief…”

When Lucia hugged her tightly, Justitia closed her eyes.

‘I can’t even take care of her… I’m so sorry to Asha…’

“Thank you, Lucia.”

She couldn’t shed tears, but at this moment, she wanted to cry more than ever.

A week had passed since Asha had escaped from the Mantis habitat. Large animals were no longer visible, but there were still quite a few small herbivores around, so she had no major problems with eating and living. Asha, who had stocked enough animal jerky and even fish jerky in her accommodation, felt reassured just by looking at her house.

“Ahem… This is great!”

Asha’s dwelling, made of sturdy, straight branches and large leaves three days ago, had become her comfortable nest. When she took out a sleeping bag from her Inventory, Asha was able to get a good night’s sleep here for the first time in a while.

Weeing–

‘Ugh…’

When Asha heard the sound of bees flying, she hunched her shoulders. She thought it wasn’t bad to live in a Hive, but it would be foolish to voluntarily get caught, so she hid in the bushes so as not to be seen by the bees. Soon, the sound of something colliding began to be heard from the other side of the forest.

‘They’re really fighting to the death.’

Asha could see the Mantis and bees fighting several times a day. Most of the endings were . The Mantis fought quite hard despite their small numbers, but they were pushed back and killed by the swarm of bees.

‘Well, how many bees did I give birth to…’

Anyway, Asha was more friendly with the bees than the Mantis, so she wished for the bees’ good fight in her heart.

‘Well, it’s someone else’s business now. I just have to hold on here now!’

She, who was in a good mood these days due to her NEET life, smiled and returned to her accommodation.

[Quest 09: Survive for 90 days Remaining time 1D 3H]

As time passed, only one day remained until the clearance of the ninth quest. With the two abilities she had obtained earlier, Asha was able to make almost unconditional preemptive strikes. She had been hiding when she encountered a large number of enemies and repeatedly attacking and dealing with a small number of enemies first, so she was able to raise the level of quite a few other combat skills as well.

‘It would have been difficult to endure without sensitive ears and quick reflexes. I didn’t know it would be this good even though it’s not a single skill…’

Asha had fully felt the greatness of the two newly acquired traits over the past month. Sensitive ears prevented Asha from being in danger when detecting enemies or while sleeping, while also allowing her to acquire almost absolute preemptive rights. In addition, quick reflexes dramatically increased her combat ability in one-on-many battles. Even if the Mantis launched an invisible attack from the rear, Asha could react to the attack instantly, and she could cope with the bees’ attacks more easily than before.

‘If I get the characteristics of my offspring, I think I can become not only a Mantis but also something else? By the way, other skills are not very efficient…’

Looking at the results alone, it was good, but Asha felt a little wronged when she thought about the hard work she had put in to raise her stats so far. Asha felt her lack of ability again this time. She was able to escape this time because the Mantis habitat was not closed, but if it was a Hive, it would have been impossible to escape. She was still weak against swarms because she lacked proficiency in both Spell and weapon skills.

While she was thinking about this and that, a white Larva pounced between Asha’s legs, but she had already detected it with sound, so she easily kicked the Larva away with her foot.

“Why another Larva… Was I dragged into the Hive because of this guy back then?”

She didn’t know the details, but she seemed to know where the Larva had gone on the first day. Asha grabbed the Larva she had kicked away. If the Larva she had given birth to were the size of her palm or a little bigger, this guy was a little smaller.

“Ugh…”

Out of the blue, Asha was wondering whether to put this in her Yoni or not. It wasn’t that she was suddenly crazy about mating.

“Maybe the Seedbed Constitution was activated even if the Larva went in… Wouldn’t it work with this guy too?”

It was very attractive to acquire various abilities in a short period of time. Asha, who had painfully died in several quests already, wanted to strengthen her abilities even if it meant giving birth to insects at will. Asha took off her pants and put the Larva between her crevices.

“Okay, here it is. Ugh…”

Swoosh

The Larva went straight into Asha’s Vagina. As soon as the Larva completely entered her Womb, the message she had been waiting for popped up.

[Seedbed Constitution has been activated.]

“Ugh… I knew it… It won’t take as long to give birth as last time, right?”

Asha could feel the Larva wriggling inside her Womb. Last time, she woke up in the middle of the night with a suddenly swollen belly and gave birth, but this time she could fully feel how the Larva was moving.

Perhaps because of the Seedbed Constitution, which had leveled up in the meantime, the Larva soon stopped moving and grew rapidly inside her belly. Watching her lower abdomen swell, Asha felt like she had become a living incubator. Fortunately, she had taken off her clothes in advance, so her clothes didn’t become rags again.

After a few hours, her belly was swollen to the point of bursting. Breast milk was leaking from Asha’s nipples again.

“It feels bigger than last time, ugh!”

A thick liquid flowed down Asha’s legs from between the crevices of Asha, who was holding onto a tree and bending over, and soon a bee began to emerge head first.

[Pain Reduction is activated.]

“Aaaargh! It hurts! Kkeueut!”

The bee, which had been further strengthened by Asha’s Seedbed Constitution, was larger than the bee that had come out of her the first time. The bee moved little by little and came out of Asha’s belly, and Asha, who was screaming while clinging to the tree, was finally able to give birth to the bee after an hour. The bee that was born this time was the size of Asha’s torso. Asha, who was embarrassed to see such a large bee born from her belly, was happy to see the Seedbed Constitution message pop up.

[Acquire the characteristics of your offspring. Acquired Ability cultivation, Spatial perception.]

“It popped up! Both seem good!”

No matter what Asha said, the born bee was drying its wet carapace and wings and guarding Asha’s side. Although she was exhausted, Asha quickly looked at her new abilities.

“No, not me but my offspring?”

Spatial perception accurately recognizes three-dimensional space like the bees’ vision, which seemed to be helpful in whatever she did, but Ability cultivation was the ability to strengthen and adjust the stats of her offspring that she gave birth to or raised.

“Ah… I got one, but it feels like a failure.”

Asha, who was muttering, made eye contact with the bee. She didn’t know if it was right to say that she made eye contact with the bee, but the bee and Asha were looking at each other. Asha touched her chest. She could clearly feel it swelling even over her clothes, and when she fiddled with her nipples, breast milk leaked out little by little.

“It seems big, but should I feed it?”

Suck- Sluurp-

“Ugh…”

When Asha opened one side of her chest, the bee approached her and sucked her breast. Watching the bee suck her breast milk while moving its jaw in a strange posture so that Asha’s nipples wouldn’t hurt, Asha activated Ability cultivation.

[Ability cultivation of offspring is performed. The stats of the offspring are being strengthened by breastfeeding.]

Individual name: Undecided

Special ability: Swift preemptive strike

Strength: 26

Agility: 27

Durability: 17

Stamina: 16

Mana: 2

[Would you like to adjust the stats?]

“No, isn’t this OP… Look at the balance.”

Asha’s Strength, which had gone through all sorts of hardships, was still only 28 even though it had increased quite a bit in this quest. It was a great improvement compared to the initial value of 4, but Asha felt unfairly wronged that the bee, which had been a Larva the size of her palm until just now, had become stronger than her in terms of stats.

Anyway, Asha adjusted the bee’s stats, slightly lowering its Strength and Stamina and pouring the stats into Agility. She didn’t touch Mana because it was small, but she didn’t know what kind of changes would occur. The bee’s appearance changed little by little each time she changed the stats, and when she completely changed the stats, the bee took on a much sleeker shape.

“Hehe… Screw balanced types. Agility is the best! This feels like playing Pokemon. Okay, from now on, you’re Sunbang Bung!”

Buzz-

Whether it understood what Asha was saying or not, when Asha, who was dressed, got up from her seat, Sunbang Bung followed Asha, flapping its wings roughly with its completely dry wings.

While Asha was walking leisurely, numerous bees around Asha were flying towards her. As Asha gave birth to bees again, she released pheromones that all the bees in the vicinity could feel, and the bees were flying towards Asha after smelling the scent. And led by those bees, the Mantis were also flocking.

It was about ten minutes after moving that Asha realized something was wrong.

“It’s too noisy… I’m uneasy.”

Asha felt that something was wrong with the excessive noise around her. Soon, bees began to fly towards Asha.

“Aaaargh! I knew it!”

The bees didn’t attack Asha, but they tried to grab her, and Asha didn’t want to go to the Hive again now, so she ran away. But she was already surrounded by bees. An ancient saying flashed through Asha’s head.

‘Human greed has no end and repeats the same mistakes.’

“Ugh~ I didn’t know that I would attract aggro by getting pregnant a little to get one skill!”

Soon, Asha was surrounded by countless bees.

“Ah, I think I’m screwed. Sunbang Bung! Don’t you have any countermeasures? You’re not rebelling because I named you carelessly, are you?”

Sunbang Bung was just flying while looking at Asha. Asha was sweating as she watched the bees approaching her more and more.

“Aahaha… Um, can’t you just leave me alone? Haven’t I worked hard enough, huh?”

The bees didn’t stop and approached even at that, but some bees reacted to Asha’s words.

“Huh? Are you listening to me? Guys! Help me!!”

At Asha’s words, the bees blocked other bees. The bees that didn’t listen to Asha’s words stopped for a while, but the bees didn’t attack each other. This time, the Mantis rushed at the bees that were stopped like that and attacked them. Soon, the forest was filled with the sound of huge insects being crushed and broken.

“Ugh… They’re fighting fiercely. It’s a complete mess. Die for now!”

Asha joined the bees and attacked, fighting against the Mantis, who only had bad memories.