Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire

"Goddess of Hornets. We aren't allies. Why are you pestering me?"

Although the forms of both gods were ethereal and unperceivable to mortal eyes, they saw each other clearly.

Goddess of Bees kept her preferred form of an Earth honey bee, which was easy to keep a calm appearance in, even with her inner tension.

Unlike her, the Goddess of Hornets chose a form similar to a hornet of this world—a human-insect hybrid with facetious eyes and sharp teeth she was showing off in a predatory smile.

Both were the same size out of their last remains of basic politeness.

"I should be asking you this, Beetch." The Goddess of Hornets sneered. "Why is that, when I check on my hornets as usual, I hit your interference? You are putting too much interest into a single world."

Goddess of Bees angrily snapped her mandibles, wishing that she was doing this over Goddess of Hornets' neck.

"You insult me, then insult me more by wasting my time with this nonsense!"

"And you are cheating."

"Nonsense! NON—"

The Goddess of Hornets interrupted the other goddess' protest with a wave of her hand.

"I'm not blind, Beetch! The bees you have been watching so closely are ten levels smarter than any other bee in the vicinity, and they are *still* the same species! They use human tools and human tactics—even right now, even against actual humans!"

While the gods talked, hunter Vit began waving his smoking trees, bringing it closer to Camp Rich. The first whiffs of smoke reached the bees inside, making them cough and squint their eyes.

The bees at Camp Rich were preparing for defense in a hurry.

As the highest-ranked Warrior Bee in Camp Rich, Chief Warrior Strike-99 became in charge, temporarily outranking Hammerwork. She was hurriedly gathering strike teams from the few hundred Beemarines that were in Camp Rich among all the regular Warriors.

Strike-99 hoped that their venom resistance would protect them from smoke, too. They had to distract the attacking giants at least enough for the main force of Warriors to approach through the smoke.

The Goddess of Bees stayed silent, watching the scene with badly hidden hatred.

The other goddess grinned wider, showing even more sharp teeth. New ones were growing in her mouth every second, making her smile even more threatening.

"You gave these bees extra intelligence, and perhaps not only that. This is *cheating*. *You* are cheating. How long were you hiding it? Did you think you could hide it forever? Ha-ha-ha, I wonder what the punishment you will get for this. A thousand years of total suppression? Two thousand? I bet it would feel longer when you can't even *look* at your worlds, much less *do* anything about them. Humans will overtake this world ten times over by the time you will return!"

"Shut up, you oversized *gnat*."

The Goddess of Hornets paused, raising her eyebrows.

"So much insults for someone who's going to get wrecked, Be—"

"And don't you dare to call me that again!"

Goddess of Bees suddenly increased in size two, five, ten times! Now she was towering over the Goddess of Hornets, clicking her mandibles intimidatingly.

"You think I do it all on my own, Hornet? You think nobody knows? Shows how *stupid* you are! Giving bees intelligence is one thing, but who, do you think, could have given them human tactics so fast? Their technologies? Even their culture?"

The other goddess stared at the Goddess of Bees with the same arrogance on her face as before—but a crack of doubt stopped her from growing in size, too.

"You can't possibly suggest that God of Humanity would want to make you his ally! Your bees are fighting some humans *right now*!" Experience more content on My Virtual Library Empire

"So what? Those are just fringe conflicts. Solitary humans die to dogs and cows all the time, and you know they are humanity's closest allies! You know how many allies the God of Humanity has. I'm just choosing the winning side."

There was a victorious gleam in the Goddess of Bees' eyes when the other goddess' smile dimmed.

"He… helped you cheat? But why? He's already the winner of the last ten thousand years!"

Despite her outward disbelief, the Goddess of Hornets was looking at the Goddess of Bees with fear that told—she believed these claims.

There already were rumors that the God of Humanity made humans *too* smart—that they were about to destroy themselves with their technological progress.

This was a believable reason to start brewing secret schemes with unexpected allies.

"So, Hornet," the Goddess of Bees said with honey-like sweetness. "Keep quiet about what you've seen. Otherwise, it won't be a thousand years of suppression for you, and not two. You will be suppressed forever, thrown with all the losers. My new allies can make this happen easily—there are hundreds of gods in Humanity's faction! And he has more influence than half of us players combined. Remember what happened to the God of Dodos?"

The Goddess of Hornets flinched.

"Don't think that you are scaring me so much. I will keep quiet… But just because I don't want to waste my time sitting in your court trial!"

With these words, the Goddess of Hornets disappeared from the nearby ether, leaving the Goddess of Bees alone.

She immediately let out a breath of relief, followed by laughter.

'She ate every word of my bluff, ha-ha-ha! As vile as it felt to even suggest that I was in alliance with the God of Humanity, the face on this stupid cowardly gnat was worth it!'

A moment later, the Goddess of Bees sobered up.

'But this was a very close call,' she thought grimly.

She avoided discovery today, but clearly, the current stage of her plan was in its last dregs. The Goddess of Bees hoped this would happen much later.

'At least I won't have to watch over my mortal "champion" anymore. Even the fun of tormenting him doesn't make up for having to see him corrupt bees with human ideas.'

In the meanwhile, the three hunters kept smoking Camp Rich.

As the strike teams of Beemarines attacked, followed by regular Warriors, the hunters moved away from the hive—but not before they threw their burning wood right at the entrance.

Fire and smoke cut off the exits and began spreading to piles of coal prepared for transport. And no matter how furiously Beemarines fought and stung the green giants, their greed prevented them from retreating fully.

It was still unclear if there was going to be anyone left alive amid all the fire and smoke by the time reinforcements came to Camp Rich.