Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire - Chapter 235

Chapter 235: System shows good behavior and good RNG
“What Random—ah, I remember,” Undecided said, nodding like this wasn’t the first time she heard about RNG. “It’s the reason we in the Oracler had so many dreams lately. They all split from the single point.”

She tapped her palm to demonstrate, then lowered her head in shame.

“The future is defined by the Great Ceremony of Picking New Genes. Not only what *we* and *you* do, Father, but also what dangers come after us. Because of that, we couldn’t see anything in detail… I’m sorry. If we saw anything clearly, we’d tell you already.”

The other Oracle—Undecided’s student, as far as I knew—nodded in agreement.

“So… No advice? That’s too bad, but we can manage. Ah!” I cheered up. “At least this means that RNG is really a thing, and I wasn’t being tricked all this time!”

“But why would the threats to the Empire depend on our genes?” Things-Things asked. “They are *our* genes!”

“You’d know if you listened better to Father’s explanations upon his return, sister,” Researchina said. “The ‘gods’ are watching us with their special gaze. It’s only natural that they react to our actions.”

Bloodhero scowled.

“It’s a bad position to be in—our enemies will be ready for us, and we won’t be ready for them. Father, we must prepare our genes for every eventuality. Place more points into strength and agility genes, so we could evolve powerful attack traits for Beemarines and Warriors!”

I shook my head.

“If no option was predicted to be better than the other, then I’m increasing my intelligence first. If there’s even a chance, I *must* get telepathy for us! As soon as I can have it morphotyped, we might have this long-range communication we need.”

As I spoke these words, I already tapped the buttons on my status, while preparing a prayer to holy random to be on my side.

〔For improving intelligence, you have a choice of next genes: ‘Telepathy I’, ‘Advanced Pack Tactics’, and ‘Precognition I’.〕

〔Advanced Pack Tactics: dramatically improves coordination of attacks in small and medium groups.〕

〔Telepathy I: allows sending telepathic messages for up to 10 meters.〕

〔Precognition I: allows sensing possible futures for 1 second ahead.〕

“Yes!” I threw a fist in the air. “I got it, first try—the telepathy!”

“Yay! Let’s celebrate the good beginning of the Great Ceremony!” Worriesgone exclaimed, raising a cup with sweet-smelling nectar.

“That’s right, don’t leave all this food to waste!” Workharder said, shoving a piece of cooked meat in her mouth.

I chuckled.

“Sure, sure. Eat while I actually take my pick.”

In seconds, the Council Chamber became full of chewing and slurping noises. Even the Oracles and the Attendants came up to eat and congratulate me, too.

The only difference between the least and the most dignified bees was in how slowly or quickly they ate. Forks and spoons were inventions mostly used for cooking, not for eating; and table manners weren’t a concept at all.

It was noisy and messy, but it felt very warm to me. Although all these girls were my direct subordinates, they still were my family and acted like that—without fear of offending me for approaching the table.

Nobody stole my favorite caterpillar cuts, though. They had too much love for their dad for that.

One of my hands put pieces in my mouth, two more wrote down information about my gene choices on a wax table, and the fourth was poking on system buttons that only I saw…

“Hey, Amby, that was *my* pollen pancake!”

Ambrosia slowly chewed the piece of a pancake, then frowned.

“It was lying closer to me than to you… Well, if you want it, you can have it. Do you want me to feed you while your hands are busy?”

I blushed, but before I could answer, Attendant Helping-Hands appeared at my side.

“Father, let me bring you more pancakes! And we can feed you, too, so Mother-Queen doesn’t have to bother.”

I looked at her, then at the rapidly decreasing amount of food on the table.

“You know what? We *really* should finish with the business before we go to part two of this banquet.”

With these words, I finally chose the telepathy gene, mentally bracing myself for weird sensations.

But nothing happened.

‘Of course. My genes are suppressed by my morphotype, which I’ve yet to update,’ I thought with some relief.

Bloodhero stopped eating and turned her full attention to me. Other Advisers, one by one, did the same.

“And now that you have the telepathy gene, you will try getting combat genes?” Bloodhero asked hopefully.

“Yes, of course. You are right that we must prepare for every eventuality, so I’m going to put a point in strength, agility, endurance and defense each. It will be a balanced spread.”

“A rational choice,” Researchina nodded in support.

“But defense genes are mostly useless,” Tabletina protested. “Why not use this point for something else?”

“We will see when we get to it. Defense is last on the list,” I promised, then tapped the system buttons.

〔For improving strength, you have a choice of next genes: ‘Increased Venom Potency I->II’, ‘Shootable Stinger I’, and ‘Fire Breathing I’.〕

〔Increased Venom Potency I->II: increases damage of venom by 100%.〕

〔Shootable Stinger I: allows shooting the stinger to a distance of 20 meters.〕

〔Fire Breathing I: creates a special organ that passively generates liquid that ignites on contact with air and can be spat out at targets at a short distance.〕

As I read the descriptions, I suddenly heard the system’s voice.

<Warning, user. The organ for the “Fire Breathing I” gene can be only created in your chest or stomach, and cannot be created in areas already taken by other organs. If there’s no free space for the organ to be created, the gene will become inactive until space appears.>

I raised my eyebrows.

‘Wow, system, you actually gave me a hint *before* it became too late? This is a recent development! Was it God of Humanity’s doing?’

<Data unavailable, user.>

‘And you even say so when you don’t know something! No, this was definitely someone’s work, and I bet it wasn’t the Goddess of Bees making you more useful!’

Now I just had to make a choice…