Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire

Chapter 129 - 129: Taming advances

I gasped, jumping to my feet, and dashed outside.

Seeing this, my bodyguards—who, as always, waited for me near the entrance, ready to pounce on my back if I tried to leave the hive alone—dashed after me.

"Father, wait! If you are heading into danger, let us stay close!"

I slowed down so Destroyer's team could catch up with me, but then flew right toward the source of the noise.

Very soon, I saw a scene that made me grab my head in panic.

A familiar trio of dragons, whose names might've been more prophetic than I planned, landed on the ground only forty meters away from the training Beemarines.

Close enough to still tower over them, and to easily attack if they wanted to—but I knew they wouldn't!

Unlike *these* Beemarines, who never worked at Camp Rich, and only heard about dragon taming from rumors.

They already flew into a combat formation, while Scourge, Disaster, and Woe barely showed any alarm!

"Ugly beasts! They dared to approach our hive—we must punish their arrogance!"

"No one can stop the Beemarines!"

"PREPARE THE BOLAS! At my command—aim!.."

"Stop this! STOP!" I shouted, flying the remaining distance from the hive to the ground so fast that I almost didn't slow in time. "Beemarines, put down your weapons!"

The dragon trio, who had enough brains to hop away a little when the Beemarines got alarmed, now craned their necks toward me and stared with their round black eyes.

"Graaaw?"

"Graa."

"Graaaa!"

If Explanatory was around, maybe she'd know what it all meant.

I ignored the dragons for now and flew in front of my Beemarines. Although their faces were steely, their jaws were clenched so tight, I feared they might break their teeth.

"Father, what is the meaning of this? We are supposed to kill all hunters we can reach in our territory! These ones are big, but we can take them!" Chief Beemarine said, flying in front of her thousand.

"These are exceptions. Scourge, Disaster and Woe won't hurt a fly! I suspect they are more after carrion, anyway." I smiled and waved my hands to calm the Beemarines down. "Now stand down, girls, my Beemarines! Return to what you were doing!"

I heard something crack. Was it Chief Beemarine's tooth?

Nonetheless, she gave me a sharp hammer salute.

"Yes, Father. You heard him, soldiers! There's nothing to look at here!"

The Beemarines settled down, going back to their drills, and I turned to dragons. They were hopping around almost impatiently.

"GRAAAAW," Woe growled.

"What are you even doing here? Your feeding place is a day's flight away! Although with your wings, it's much closer."

I frowned. Then a realization hit me, and a smile bloomed over my face.

"Were you

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I led Ambrosia by the hand until we stopped at the very edge of the hive cave entrance. The dragons were still below, scuffling for the last scraps of their meal and raising clouds of dust in the air with each swipe of their long tails.

"Look, Amby—my almost pet dragons! Scourge, Disaster, and Woe. We can watch from here or get closer. They are almost very safe by now, even if they don't show as allies by the system, I swear!" I said, grinning at her. "Aren't they amazing?"

Ambrosia leaned over the ledge and squinted to see below.

"Hmm…"