Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire-Chapter 405: Diversions of chance

By the end of that day I had some answers from both Convincing and Undecided. They clarified things somewhat, but raised even more questions.

After Convincing and her subordinates were questioned in great detail, they recalled things from their perfect memory that they had originally dismissed as unimportant and irrelevant.

There were several episodes of the humans’ stored equipment eroding and breaker faster than it was expected to, but everybody believed that it was because of the humidity. There were also times when the Agents noticed smells and glimpses of unknown creatures in vicinity, but could never get a good look at them.

Whoever they were, they were stealthy. And like clothes moths, they seemed to like eating stuff.

Undecided’s Oracles have looked into their memories of the past and discarded "prophecies". From there they brought me reports that have never reached my table but *could* have.

These reports were all about things breaking in the most unfortunate moments for Naregan humans and the Bee Empire. All of them happened far from our inner territories, mostly in the Barahi, but also in other places outside of Naregan Kingdom. frёeωebɳovel.com

A report about a ship hull leaking and making the vessel sink together with two hundred Naregan soldiers and refugees from Kachi-Chi. A report about a corrosion in the steam engine of a train causing a massive explosion on the railroad which led to a large forest fire. And others...

None of which have actually happened, but could have.

"These creatures are acting so strange, Father," Undecided added after I read those notes. "Usually, even if something is unlikely, there are at least a few dozen dream-threads about this event happening. But for each mention of these creatures’ actions we can find, there are less than ten or even five dreams to see. Even when they are far away from the present. It’s... it’s actually why I think that all these incidents are related to these creatures. They are so unlikely and so hard to foresee... That we didn’t."

"I see, Undecided. So... They almost always fail in their diversions—which is why their successes are hard to predict—but they can still succeed sometimes. Like when I was attacked. And they can succeed in the future, so we are in danger. Is that right?"

Undecided nodded. Although she looked less devastated than this morning, deep shame was still written all over her face. And tiredness.

I let out a tired breath and smiled at her.

It was a long day for both of us, I imagined. While Undecided was organizing her Oracles, I was organizing a fight against the chicken-dragons.

Their high resistance to everything bees had to offer meant that sending bee soldiers against them was near useless. Instead I drafted a plan according to which the king of Barahi was going to send his own army to exterminate the creatures himself.

He just needed a push, and an instruction for his soldiers to wear thick armor all over. The dragons’ teeth weren’t the sharpest, and their venomous bite was the dragon’s best means of attack.

That, and their suddenness.

"Thank you, Undecided," I said. "Now I have a harder task for the Oracles. You will have to search the future for any other signs of the metal-eaters. Even if their attack doesn’t happen, we can try catching one of them at moments when they were *supposed to* attack."

"Yes, of course, Father! We won’t sleep—no-no-no, I meant we *will* sleep, but we will search very hard. It will be our first priority!"

After Undecided left me to direct the Oracles again, I contacted Adviser Whisper Adviser Bloodhero and gave them another task—to find more about times and places of non-existing accidents that Undecided told me about.

This took a few days to happen. At that time, I got good news from the Barahi and the Kachi-Chi kingdoms.

Although there were several more attacks of domestic dragons on humans in Barahi, they didn’t deal much damage. The orders to slaughter them all, along with army mobilizing in areas where the orders came too late, led to extermination of most chicken, ducks and geese in the Barahi Kingdom—along with several other dragon species that were just caught in the crossfire.

Meanwhile, the flood in the Kachi-Chi was slowly abating. And when I passed to him the order to kill all domestic dragons in his country, the Kachi-Chi king obeyed. Not without reluctance, but my Agent threatened him with curses, death and withdrawing Naregan support.

This meant that at least the Kachi-Chi Kingdom didn’t have to fear a sudden attack.

Then, I got the results of the investigation from Whisper and Bloodhero, and they were... interesting.

The ship that was supposed to sink really got a hull breach, supposedly from wood eaten by termites. However, it happened when the ship was docked, and was repaired before it could sink fully. Several dozen humans and a lot of barrels got wet, but this was the extent of the damage.

A similar thing happened with the train. Its steam engine got damaged, but a sudden storm flooded the railroad and forced the train to stop for the night.

During this time, the train engineers did an extra engine inspection (as protocol required to do after every storm), found the damages and repaired it.

Similar things happened in any other example that Undecided found for me. The erosions happened, but each time they were discovered before any harm could be done—either because of a lucky coincidence, or, just as often, because of simple caution.

"We are being invaded by an enemy that acts quietly, but is no less dangerous because of that. These creatures are stealthy on every level, but if we let them act unchecked, one day they will catch up with us," I declared at the next Empire Council session. "My girls, we must find them. I know we can do it. But what I don’t know—and what I’m asking from you—do we have the *resources* to find them at this moment?"

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