After waking up and eating a very hearty meal, Yunan sold all the leftover corpses Drogon had in its ring and bought a lot of snacks and highly nutritious meals, to prepare for the next sortie.Yunan had the stats of a peak level 4 thanks to Dragonification armor, and he thought about reaching the 5th floor today, but then he chose not to and decided he would gradually fight his way down, and since there was not much of pressure on him to advance he chose to map out the first floor while he was here, and by looking in every nook and cranny he might get lucky and find something nice.
Yunan chose to start the map from the stairway to the surface, hug the rightmost wall and navigate through the maze like floor, although there were maps, Yunan thought it would be a good pa.s.s time while he was on the lower floors where advancing took longer, and building up a habit of knowing where you are is never bad. And so started the journey that took a week of time.
Yunan found some challenge rooms with monsters of level 3 and 4 in them, some had a level 4 boss, and some only had puzzles to solve. Yunan was drawing his path, and making marks every branching path. He also got some good loot for the armor to feed on. One of the luckiest rooms he found was a trap room with level 3 boars that kept sp.a.w.ning from the walls of the room, he could only exit the room after 10 hours of fighting, and got himself a resupply of high energy food that can last him months.
On the third day, Yunan came up to a room that was empty, however he saw a golden liquid creeping out from a gash in the wall, after checking with his pocket watch, Yunan confirmed there was a hive of some sort behind the gash where countless fist sized level 1 monsters lived. As soon as Yunan got too close to the gash in the wall, the room was flooded with bee-like monsters with shiny pincers and threatening needles that were spraying some kind of spore in the air.
Yunan got his first status warning, a voice in his mind said "attention, paralyzing spores detected, please make sure to use appropriate measures". Yunan did not think too much and started firing his crossbow at the bee monsters and killing as many of them as he could without moving too much. But the numbers kept increasing as he killed more and more of them. By the time Yunan started to feel numb in his fingers and feet 3 hours later the bees had stopped coming out to kill him and instead a new type started coming out, they had a hollow tube instead of pincers for mouths, and had a very transparent sack instead of the needle.
Yunan stood still and waited for the flush toxin spell he cast to work and relieve some of the numbness while watching the bees work. The bees would stab that tube like mouth into the bodies of the other bees and move to the next one, Yunan suddenly realised that automated looting did not pick the bodies of the bees and there was no loot dropped from killing them either. Yunan knew something was wrong but he kept watching as the bees returned to suck a golden liquid from the bodies they injected before and fill up their sacks to almost bursting. The bees then flew back to the gash and returned moments later.
Yunan did not bother the worker bees and walked to the gash and looked through, he found a big lake of what he a.s.sumed to be honey, slowly dripping from a cone like hive in the ceiling. There was a man sized bee swimming in the pool and now and then would extract larvae that would be transported to the hive by worker bees. Yunan told the Black Fate to scan the fist sized bees and came with nothing, but when he scanned the man sized bee he got an answer.
"Queen bee, level 5, found in all levels of the dungeon, it sp.a.w.ns soldiers and workers to collect the dead bodies of monsters that are left on the floor at night time, corpses are then melted from the inside and the resulting solution is then transported to the hive to nurture the larvae and create honey that is extremely nutritious and has healing and cleansing effect on all the toxins in the floor it is found in, the Queen bee is a pacifist, it offers its honey, as payment for life if too many of her soldiers die".
Yunan had a very wide smile on his face, he made sure to remember the life signs of the Queen bee and her workers to get free healing and food in every level, additionally he can sell whatever he has left on each floor before heading to the next, he figured very few knew where the bees came from or why do they exist in every floor and even if they knew about them being the cleaning crew, they would not follow them to their hives.
Yunan looked around the room and outside it, for an hour before finally finding a small window he could crawl through to the honey lake. Once he arrived the Queen bee respectfully bowed its head and then continued swimming, yunan noticed the honey lake was submerging eggs of different sizes, and nurturing them, the Queen was pulling out the hatched larvae and sending them to the hive.
Yunan put a finger in the honey and then into his mouth, it tasted sweet and sour, with a heat spreading through his body Yunan felt like he could break the world, so he did the next logical step, submerging an empty storage ring and stocking on as much honey as possible. He kept drawing until there was only a foot of honey before exposing the eggs, the Queen bee was now glaring daggers at Yunan as if he was about to cross a line, so he stopped filling the ring and left the place immediately. Fighting a pacifist is always a bad idea.