Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire

Of course, first we prepared evacuation of the areas that could be attacked by the beasts. The shore areas, thankfully, already weren't the most populated, so it would take less effort than it could.

Then we sent the scouts to search for the creatures. The Oracles have given us hints for where to look for them, but the task still proved surprisingly hard.

The ocean was too vast. Because it had not only width, but also depth, the scale of it was simply immense. Even finding something as titanic as whales took the scouts' time back when they searched for them; now they had to find the mysterious beasts within a week.

I also voiced another possible complication to this.

"If there were multiple attacks on a relatively narrow area within a short period of time, as Oracles have said, then it could've been because of a new brood of beasts reaching a new stage of life in which their instincts drive them to the surface. In other words, while we are searching for them, they might look completely different—like juvenile beasts!"

"But this isn't the only reason they might attack, Father. They could be attacking because even more dangerous beasts are forcing them to leave the ocean," Bloodhero pointed out.

"This is likely why they became amphibious in the first place, so it's also possible. What I'm saying is that our scouts should pay attention not just to large beasts, but also to small ones."

So they did. However, even after all this time, we still had relatively few blue-eyed scouts… for an obvious reason.

Tabletina had advanced in making and enhancing prosthetics from the usnea wood and various genetic material for bees. For example, she found how to implant fire-spitting organs and stingers whose genes were taken from much more genetically advanced bees, at least partially elevating older soldiers to the level of younger ones.

But eyes were still a rarity, since they needed MY genetic material, taken from my EYES!

Thus, most of the scouts who have sent their astral projections into the ocean didn't have system sight and were just evaluating creatures based on their looks, behaviour and thoughts.

From their reports, we found that the situation in the ocean became less turbulent than it was before. The amount of active species has seemingly decreased, and some fish-beasts began to dominate the area.

Only three days later, the scouts had discovered the signs of creatures that were about to attack us. By this point, we already knew their name and stats from the Oracles who had brought this information right from the future.

Those were turtles. Specifically, green sea turtles.

Through their rapid evolution, they have increased their defensive abilities to the extreme, despite not having any limit-broken genes. Their tough skin, thick carapace and extra scales made them near-invulnerable to physical damage, while their maxed out venom, heat and cold resistances made them invulnerable to most anything else.

They even had some points in exotic resistances like electricity, acid and radiation, as well as an ability to hold their breath for truly extreme amounts of time (at least a few hours, according to the scouts who watched their behaviour).

In addition to this, they had endurance and defence approaching a hundred, and many tiers in increased fertility and faster youth growth.

With all this, they should've been able to do whatever they wanted, feed on whatever water plant was growing around—but…

"Scouts and Oracles say that although adult green sea turtles are near-invulnerable, the domineering beasts deal a lot of damage to them anyway. They can't do much against the adult turtles, but they seek out their nests and eat the eggs and the small turtles whose carapace didn't develop fully. They sometimes swallow them whole if they can't take a bite out of them," Bloodhero reported. "The turtles can't protect their nests, because they have no means to attack the larger beasts."

This report made me shake my head in a sudden realisation.

"They won't come to the shore to attack us… JUST for that, at least. They want to lay eggs there, where the ocean beasts won't reach them, isn't this right? Perhaps they plan to guard them, too."

Although this didn't fit with what I remembered about the sea turtles. They already laid their eggs on the shore, but I didn't hear about any problems related to this in recent years. Did the turtles evolve to lay eggs in the sea, where they will be safe from land predators, only to be forced to return to the shore?

How complicated…

"The Oracles said nothing about this, Father. Either way, we must find a way to kill these beasts! No matter what their intentions are, we can't simply let them breed in OUR lands."

I agreed. Until there was a formal agreement with the God of Green Sea Turtles, they were an enemy. Even if we domesticated them, they could backstab us at any moment.

But how could we kill something as tough and massive (compared to a bee) as a green sea turtle? I couldn't think of a single thing that would do more than scratch them!

"Researchers are already on this task. If they come up with something, this would be amazing. If not… Then we will see," I said.

One of the researchers was a hive mind. If there was someone who could think of something, it was them.

But we had very little time. The end of the week approached mercilessly.

In what felt like the blink of an eye, the predicted day was already there. No solution to the turtle problem has been discovered yet.

But in several places along our coastline, bees reported massive beasts coming out of the water on their paddle-shaped legs—dozens of them at a time!—and spreading deeper into the land.

They were trampling our roads and eating the wild trees, even usnea! All their spikes and cold aura meant nothing to the green sea turtles.

And although they weren't aiming for the bees, the turtles clearly didn't intend to go anywhere from our land!