Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire
Chapter 342 - 342: Stinger gun!

With the jackpot's extra tiers giving me extra points, I had 5 new gene points in total to spend on morphotypes. Not 7, because the enhanced attribute genes didn't count for the gene points.

Too bad.

I started with my personal morphotype. At this point, the Advisers waited for me to finish investing gene points in curious and somewhat reverent silence. Worriesgone pulled out a clean sheet of paper, bit the end of her coal pen, then began slowly writing something.

Unable to help my curiosity, I listened to her thoughts a bit.

'The celebration will have Father's grand appearance… Oh, he can ride a dragon! But only for a while, so the dragon doesn't overshadow him. Hm-hm-hm-hm…'

I smiled to myself a little and returned to the points.

Of course, I added 'Improved Aerial Evasion' to the list. The 'Protective Scales' forced me to think a little.

'How *bad* would they look? I already have thick skin…' I glanced at Ambrosia, who was watching me at this moment.

Our eyes met. She raised her eyebrows in a silent question.

'It doesn't matter. For my girls, I will be the most handsome guy no matter what,' I realized. 'Might as well grow all the useful stuff I need!'

So I added scales and still had plenty of points to put into fire breathing and other stuff.

At which point I began hesitating between the shootable stinger and fire breathing upgrades. They were both incredible genes. My stinger, with all the upgrades I put into it, was amazing…

Fire was less deadly overall, but fewer creatures had developed defenses against it. However, the collateral damage when using it was also a concern.

In the end, I put most of my free points into the shootable stinger upgrade, and only keep 3 points in fire breathing. This amount of fire either would be enough, or the enemy will be too powerful to fight alone, anyway.

This meant I had 'Shootable Stinger VII'. The description read, "allows shooting the stinger to a distance of 3000 meters."

A thousand meters!

This gave me a built-in gun! Even for a human, 3 kilometers was far—perhaps a range of a good stone toss. From this distance, a human definitely won't be able to track me as I move. Probably won't even be able to see me!

Finally, I saved the morphotype, and felt the changes wash over me.

There was a new awareness of a muscle somewhere in my innards, and a feeling almost like a heartburn—thankfully, it settled a moment later.

Then, my body itched all over. As I scratched, skin-colored scales covered me everywhere I could see! Each of them was the size of a pea (and not a giant pea, just a pea), smooth and slightly soft.

Exactly 5% of a defense boost, indeed.

And it all went right to my status. Especially the fire breathing part!

〔Drone Bee〕

〔Name〕: Nectus Stingprince

〔Active title〕: Grand Strategist

〔Health〕: 47 / 47

〔Stamina〕: 57 / 57

〔Electrical charge〕: 100%

〔Flammable fuel〕: 1%

〔Attribute points〕: 0

〔Gene points〕: 61

〔Species〕: Common Honey Bee

〔Age〕: 680 d

〔Remaining lifespan〕: 3711 d

〔Attributes〕

> Strength: 40

> Agility: 45

> Endurance: 51

> Defense: 40

> Intelligence: 124

> Perception: 63

〔Special abilities〕

"Flight, Barbed Stinger, Horizontal Gene Transfer, Vertical Gene Transfer, Genetic Tree Prediction, Morphotyping Pheromones, Dominant Genes,

The Purest Empress (Ambrosia)"

〔Personal morphotype special abilities〕

Increased Venom Potency XXX (MAX), Increased Fertility X (MAX), Faster Regeneration X (MAX), Electrical Charge X (MAX), Thick Skin V (MAX), Olfactory Perception V, Improved Immunity V (MAX), Fast Learner IV, Detachable Stinger V (MAX), Improved Metabolism I, Claws I, Reduced Sleep I, Perfect Memory, Grass Digestion, Technology: Scientific Method, Flying Carriers, Throwing Wrists, Danger-Averse Reflexes, Slow-Twitch Muscles, Meat Digestion, Telepathy X (MAX), Flight V (MAX), Shootable Stinger VII, Fire Breathing III, Protective Scales, Improved Aerial Evasion

〔Titles〕

Drone-Consort, Homeland Protector, Grand Strategist, Titan Slayer

〔Genes〕

Increased Lifespan VI, Enhanced Strength III, Enhanced Endurance III, Enhanced Defense III, Enhanced Intelligence X, Enhanced Perception VI, Technology: Primitive Containers, Danger-Averse Reflexes, Venom Resistance I, Heat Resistance II, Meat Digestion, Faster Regeneration II, Faster Youth Development I, Technology: Scientific Method, Flying Carriers, Throwing Wrists, Fast Learner IV, Thick Skin III, Olfactory Perception V, Improved Metabolism I, Claws III, Perfect Memory, Increased Venom Potency I, Detachable Stinger I, Electrical Charge I, Grass Digestion, Increased Fertility V, Slow-Twitch Muscles, Reduced Sleep I, Chaotic Evolution I, Telepathy I, Shootable Stinger I, Flight II, Perfect Swarm Coordination, Deeper Breathing, Photosynthesis I, Improved Immunity V (MAX), Improved Aerial Evasion, Fire Breathing III, Protective Scales

〔Morphotypes〕: 3 / 3

Personal morphotype, Beemarine, Beehound

〔〕〔〕〔〕

I had even more charges to watch after now. I hoped they won't get out of hand as time goes by.

"Father, are those *the* scales?" Tabletina asked suddenly, leaning closer to me and squinting. "They are really almost invisible. I hope I can get a test subject to run tests regarding their protectiveness as soon as possible."

"Since right now I'm the only possible test subject… Patience, Tabletina, patience!" I wagged my finger at her and she pulled back with a slight pout. "Bloodhero, as the Military Adviser, I hope you advise me on the best stuff for our soldiers, as usual. But I'm fairly convinced that the Beemarines need a little bit of shootable stingers to go with their venom. Or… a massive bit of shootable stingers."

Bloodhero's eyes flashed.

"The Beemarines have weaker venom than you, Father, but they have numbers to compensate for it. If they can shoot their stingers like you do, they will be able to out-venom anything that didn't develop complete immunity. And for the rest, we still have line soldiers. They can pour fire onto anything that still moves."

The non-morphotyped bees, by this point, mostly came from sub-hives. With the better gene inheritance the bees from sub-hives could theoretically be morphotyped, but practically speaking, since it required my physical presence, I only had time to spread my morphotyping pheromones only in the closest sub-hives.

So it was good to have the third tier of Fire Breathing in the main gene line.

"Sounds like a good plan, Bloodhero. And as for the Beehounds…"

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