Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 87

"And what are you doing now?" Bree asked curiously while Eisen was still searching through the burnt down hive for something, burrowing through the ashes and shards of what was just here a few hours ago.

"Right now, I'm looking for honey. I saw that they are stored in something like containers before, but my priority was the honey crystal, so I wanted to look for that first." The old man explained before smiling brightly when he finally found what seemed to be the honey. It was still stored in the hexagonal openings of the hive, but rather than just being liquid honey inside, they were encased in a thin, glass-like layer and could simply be pulled out of the openings as long of no part of the honey-capsule was broken. That glass-like layer seemed to by some kind of crystal structure, somewhat similar to the honey-crystal but at the same time still different. It was weird to explain, but at the very least it seemed to be pretty durable.

Eisen kept looking and handed these capsules to his doubles which then stacked them up next to the honey crystal, while Bree was waiting outside of the mountain of ashes together with Caria and Aulu. The reason for that was that the parts of the hive were still considerably hot and could burn you quite badly if you weren't careful, and due to the newest effect of his dwarven racial skill, his hands could now deal with that heat as if it was nonexistent. Of course there was still quite some heat all around him, not only his hands, but it was nothing that Eisen couldn't handle as long as he didn't touch any of those parts with anything but his hands.

In the end, Eisen ended up with about two dozen capsules filled with about two liters of honey each. This was definitely a huge amount, and if you could properly control bees the size of the ones that made this hive, you would probably have unlimited honey. And it seemed to be quite high quality as well, considering it's golden color and perfect consistency.

But this honey wasn't the only thing that Eisen found, there were also five capsules filled with Royal Jelly! This was a substance used to feed Queen Bee candidates to have them properly mature into their role. Considering that he found a Queen Bee egg, maybe that meant he could tame it in the same way as he did with Caria, and then feed it the Royal Jelly to make sure it really became a queen bee! At the very least, that would be a good start toward producing his own honey.

But before then, the egg would actually need to hatch, and that might take a while on its own. The royal jelly was basically vacuum sealed like this, so it was hard to imagine that it could really spoil easily.

Before returning to the cariage with the capsules, Eisen grabbed quite a large amount of empty capsules from the hive as well. These were actually still completely sealed, although Eisen expected them to be broken and simply have spilled their contents when he first saw them, but this wasn't the case in the slightest. Although Eisen had no idea why there were such empty capsules there, Eisen didn't mind too much either, since he could use these for something later.

Eisen, Bree, and the two Doubles now brought all of those honey and royal jelly capsules back to the carriage, that was only about a ten minute walk away, and then Bree stayed with the carriage to properly sort everything in and make space for the large honey crystal which Eisen went to retrieve together with his doubles.

This Crystal was then neatly placed down in the corner of the carriage, before the group decided to depart again, with only Bree sitting in the front this time around, since Eisen had some other plans.

First, he wanted to make something to hold the perfectly round queen bee egg, just to make sure that it couldn't roll around somewhere. For that, Eisen simply grabbed a small piece of wood and began carving a shallow bowl with just the right curvature for the egg and a completely flat bottom to create something like a small wooden pedestal. Afterward, he quickly sanded its surfaces and finished it with the same solution that he used on all the wood this carriage was made with.