After following the giant bee through the complex corridors that made up what Will is still assuming to be a giant beehive, his guide stopped in front of another dead end before lightly tapping the wall with a leg.

Will wasn’t surprised this time when the wall did its magical special effect for the equivalent of a door opening. The giant bee did the exact gesture like the other giant bees Will had met before heading off to whatever it was supposed to do next.

‘Well I guess this is my stop, still I kinda wanna know what they are doing when they do that… is it like a maid’s curtsey? Probably the bee’s version of it I bet.’

Shaking his head a little to drive away his inner monologues, Will stepped into a similar room that he woke up in.

There was the same honeycombed walls and floor, with the center holding a rather fluffy looking bed where his minions and sibling was calmly sleeping in. The bed had far more of the white fuzzy things then his bed had. Other then that, there didn’t seem to be much difference, unless he counted the fact that there wasn’t even a tiny bit of honey anywhere!

‘Where’s the honey? I thought this was where they stored their excess.’

Ignoring the still sleeping group in the bed, Will checked through all the wall holders that should have held the honey, but every single one was empty.

‘Well I guess they store it room by room until one is full? That makes more sense now that I think about it.’

Finished with his little investigation, Will walked over to the group of sleeping beauties and causally jumped on them, doing a full body smash before landing on bouncing fluffiness.

Except Big Sissy, Will’s minions woke up almost instantly, before they blinked at him with their little eyes.

“Alright my little minions, it’s time to…. Go to sleep.” Will said, before flopping on his stomach and finding a position where his face wasn’t anywhere near Big Sissy’s elbows, those things hurt when she wiggles in her sleep.

His minions seeming to understand that he was just messing around; repositioned themselves around Will and dozed off again.

‘Ah well, nothing left to do anyways other then to sleep, besides I basically seen everything this place has to see - well other then that Queen bee that Hey-Hey mentioned….’

Yawning again, Will felt something familiar with this situation before he passed out.

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Huang Hei’s POV

“Buzz.” [Thank you for your help.]

“Buzz.” [It was my honor, Guardian of the Princess. The children and animals have fallen asleep, I must ask though. Why did you order for them to be put to sleep with this?]

The same giant bee that guided Will over pointed at the gourd it was holding in another leg.

“Buzz.” [Don’t worry about it; it’s for their own good.]

Huang Hei took the gourd from the worker bee’s leg with one of his own, before seeming to shrink inwards from his giant bee form into that of a human. Or as Will described him - a pale skinny Asian dude.

‘Besides, better for them to be knocked out now, then for me to knock them out personally when we’re traveling…Again.’

Huang Hei still remembered how hard it was to shut the little shota up while also going full speed. In the end he was forced into holding onto the destroyed remnants of his Dreamer’s gourd using only his legs, and he had to wonder how he managed to keep a grasp on the thing. Suffice to say, he had no plans to redo that little miracle again. Not to mention it was rendered basically worthless in the end from doing so.

“Buuuzzzzzzzzzzz.” [Bye.] The worker bee politely saluted and then left Huang Hei alone in front of the room where Will and his little group laid passed out.

Sighing to himself again, Huang Hei made another vow to never, ever take another sect missions again. He also needed to have a talk with the mission branch about voiding his “allow mission to be accepted automatically” part of his sect badge.

“Buzz!” [Stupid, pain in my thorax, annoying pieces of sh-]

“Buzz?” [Huh, why was I told to come over here? Oh, hey there Huang Hei, I’m not sure why, but the Royal Queen told me to get ready to go out! She said that my pestering finally got to her and she is allowing me to come too!]

Huang Hei froze, his half-uttered words sucked back inside him. Throwing on a quick smile, he turned around to face his queen.

Currently she was in her human form, or as the humans would call her - a loli. Her hair was a strange mixture of black and bright yellow, almost like gold was painted on it. Although very pale, her skin was also clear and translucent, as if there is nothing in the world that can scar her look of pure innocence or her flawless body.

Her flawless…nude body.

'There has to be a way for her to kick this habit of undressing and walking around buck naked in her human form. While there shouldn't be any problems in the sect, she needs to be able to blend into human society if the worst does come.'

Throwing around ideas in his head as Huang Hei tried to figure out a way to deal with yet another issue that he would have to resolve by himself, he greeted his queen.

"Buzz?" [My queen, it seems you have forgotten to dress up again. May I assist you in putting on these clothing I have prepared?]

Huang Fei pouted; her golden irises sparkled in the corridor light as she tried to get out of putting on those restricting garments, "Buzz Buzz!" [My loyal retainer, think of it like this. Humans originally only put on these... things so that they can conserve their body heat. But we are not humans! They only serve to restrict me of my motions when I put them on, and I'm already annoyed that I can't use all of my limbs in this form!]

Huang Hei pleaded to her, "Buzzzz..." [But my queen, think about how others would view you! They would see only a child that has not yet learned of the true greatness that we hold - the ability to adapt! As magical beasts we have gone through many evolutions and some of us have reached the point where our appearance and heritage have become pointless. We are together in this war against those evil humans and it is in our best interest in the case of a loss to be able to coexist with them as well! So...]

Huang Hei took out a blue colored one-piece dress and easily threw it over his queen's head. Before she was even aware of what was happening, her hands were already slotted into the correct holes as the dress neatly fell down and covered her body.

"Buzz." [There! Was that so hard? I even got the loosest piece of clothing I could find from the sect shops that I went through just for you!]

At the same time, Huang Hei thought about the bill he still have to repay for repairing his destroyed Dreamer's Gourd. While the sect would cover part of the cost, he had to at minimum pay for the delivery via teleportation.

Of course as he was still considered to be in the middle of a mission, he would be billed when he returned back into the sect. Hopefully by then, the ones who put up the mission in the first place would pay in his stead.

Hopefully.

Huang Hei threw one more glare at the little shota sleeping before leaving to help his queen pack.

In his mind, the shota was trouble in a physical form.

'Once we get back to the sect, I'll probably never see him again anyways! He IS the child of two elders, no why he would stay in the outer sect? Haha, besides the sect is huge, the chance of him meeting me is basically zero.'

Reassuring himself, Huang Hei felt a bit better as he left.

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Elder Flamedeer POV

It was official; these elders officially lost their shit.

That thought flashed through Elder Flamedeer’s head as he watched more then a hundred elders argue like children over who was to take the blame for the incident

Hell even some of the Grand Elders showed up and started to fight over who would take the most responsibility.

The problem is, in a way most of them are at fault.

The ones in the mission branch should have properly reviewed the missions before handing it over to the financial branch; where they would check if the mission was given a proper reward for completion before returning it. Then the ones in the mission branch should have transferred the ok-ed mission to the monster resource branch where they would check and find out if anyone was nearby the mission location. Then after finding a match they had to check if there was a agreement that allowed automatic mission acceptance for that particular individual. If that was the case then, and only then could the mission be transferred and accepted.

However, through some freak series of events, ending with the individual in question, Huang Hei being automatically given the mission, this incident occurred.

“That’s why I’m saying it’s YOUR fault that this got this bad! If you dumbasses actually LOOKED at the mission content you would have known who it was referring to!” A white-striped Green Tiger was furiously roaring at a Blue furred Gorilla.

“Oh? So it’s my fault that those dipshits back in YOUR branch thought that – Oh? Look a amazing amount of sect points! Alright, let’s give the ok so that a FOUNDATION ESTABLISHMENT cultivator is good enough to receive this kind of award? Oh real smart you stupid fur ball, maybe they should have thought a little and figured that the rewards seemed more like the amount for a CORE cultivator mission?”

That seemed to snap something in the Green Tiger as he threw out a paw at the Blue Gorilla, who seemed to be expecting it as he threw out a fist in response.

Meanwhile some of the few rational Elders were trying to stop their Grand Elders from beating the crap out of each other.

“Grand Elder TwisterTiger! Please calm down, fighting wouldn’t solve anything!” A pink bunny the size of a minivan was trying to persuade the Green Tiger from behind. At the same time, a small snake that looked to be made of clear diamonds was trying to get the Blue Gorilla to stop as well, “Grand Elder TsunamiApe, please you must calm down! At this rate we wouldn’t have a vict- I mean, if everyone keeps fighting we wouldn’t get to a agreement on this!”

The pink bunny threw a look at the diamond snake, “High Elder RockCobra, are you actually trying to help? If we let them continue, it might restart that stupid fight of theirs about which was stronger, a twister or tsu – oh shit.”

The High Elder RockCobra slapped it tail on its head as it watched the two Grand Elders stop in unison and look at the pink bunny.

“High Elder BewitchingRabbit I told you already, a TWISTER is stronger! Duh, it sucks all the stupid water and just turns it into some useless rain or fog.” Grand Elder TwisterTiger was the first to resort.

“You must be retarded! A TSUNAMI is literally a whole entire OCEAN smashing at your sorry butt! You want to try sucking out an entire OCEAN? Go ahead, try it. I dare you!” Grand Elder TsunamiApe argued back.

High Elder RockCobra just stared at BewitchingRabbit with the look-at-what-you-did stare. She gave him back the screw-you-we-need-to-deal-with-this-ASAP look.

She tried again, “Grand Elders you must act your positions! Fighting isn’t the answer!”

That seemed to shake them a little, as if a light had come and cleared away their haze.

The two nodded at each other. Grand Elder TwisterTiger said, “You are right BewitchingRabbit, what a fool we two are! Violence isn’t the answer! Isn’t that right TsunamiApe?”

To which TsumaniApe howled, “For once we agree, violence ISN’T THE ANSWER!”

High Elder BewitchingRabbit looked flabbergasted; she gave High Elder RockCobra the am-I-not-awesome-or-what look. And he replied with a simple just-wait look.

She seemed confused for a second, until the two Grand Elders roared together, “VIOLENCE IS THE QUESTION! And to that question of should I do violence? HELL YEA!”

Before wrecking the meeting room they and many other elders were fighting in to fight an actual battle outside in the sky. Where collateral damage would be far higher then if they had limited it into only the room. Plus there was that little part of being smack-dab in the middle of the sect.

Elder Flamedeer, who had just stood there forgotten, calmly took out a letter like magic from out of nowhere. On the letter envelope are two words written to large font – Resignation Letter. With the letter itself rather bulky, but was to be expected considering he used more then a hundred sheets of paper to explain why he no longer wanted to be a elder…

This was just another thing to add on to that list as he carefully dipped a hoof into a modified inkwell before writing on a fresh new sheet.

Elder Flamedeer couldn’t wait the day he finally found enough reasons to leave his post.