At this moment, Seraphina accelerated like a diving bomber, the gentle air turning into sharp blades that slashed at Ed's body.
He never wanted to experience that feeling of buying an outside ticket on a plane again, but then again, he hadn't actually paid for it...
Countless poor Worker Bee were swept about by the airflow, a scene that quickly attracted the attention of the patrolling Soldier Bee.
At first, only one squadron of Soldier Bee discovered Seraphina, the intruder flying at extremely low altitudes. However, due to the Red Dragon's incredibly fast flight speed, more and more Soldier Bee noticed the unusual activity.
After a brief assessment, the Soldier Bee responsible for guarding the Hive and the Sea of Flowers immediately moved at high speed, buzzing as they followed behind the Red Dragon.
Ed hadn't realized Seraphina had any racing potential before, but hearing the deafening roar of wings behind her, he suddenly understood—
The two of them are now clearly law-abiding and honest citizens of the metropolis of Hive, so honest they're practically five stars.
It seemed Seraphina hadn't even looked behind her Ed kindly reminded her:
"It seems we're wanted by the police!"
Red Dragon glanced back at the dense swarm of Soldier Bee and said:
"Then we absolutely cannot slow down."
As she spoke, her body suddenly contracted, her neck stretched out, her abdomen tightened, and her enormous wings, which blotted out the sky, folded back slightly, turning her entire body into a spindle shape. While reducing a lot of drag, she began to accelerate and soar.
Ed knew that if he opened his mouth, he would turn into a giant balloon in a second, so he simply stopped talking and let Seraphina do as she pleased. After all, he wasn't the one causing trouble. Dragons were, in some ways, similar to players, always capable of doing something unexpected and ruthless.
As Seraphina soared at full speed, the Sea of Flowers below flashed by like a revolving lantern.
As the man and the dragon ventured deeper into the Sea of Flowers, Ed began to sense the location of his clone.
He stopped looking behind him and focused solely on guiding Seraphina.
As a gigantic, orange-yellow Hive appeared on the horizon, changing the color of the skyline, the Soldier Bee behind Ed and Seraphina had already formed a whole dark cloud.
As Ed watched the enormous Hive draw closer, he felt as if it Hive a single, unified city.
Even more terrifying is that this city is being manipulated by a Supreme will.
As Seraphina's altitude continued to decrease, a pitch-black cave, tens of meters wide, appeared before Ed.
With the invaders already at their doorstep, countless Soldier Bee began to swarm out from the depths of the cave, which was tens of meters in diameter.
At this moment, Ed was supporting Seraphina's dragon horns when he suddenly heard her unusually serious voice giving him instructions:
"Hold on tight, I can sense the queen bee's presence."
"Ah?"
The next moment, the dragon wrapped her body with her wings, turning her entire body into a spindle shape like an olive pit. She spun around to disperse the countless swarming Soldier Bee around her, and continued to move forward amidst those completely ineffective attacks.
Ed could see a very clear layered structure in the deep cave, and the Worker Bee that returned from outside would enter the crevices on their own to collect pollen from their bodies.
As Seraphina ventured deeper, Ed could clearly feel the cave narrowing slightly, but the walls seemed to be able to move, never truly restricting Seraphina's movements.
His brow furrowed slightly, instinctively sensing something inexplicable amiss.
Before they could even think, Seraphina's body had already swept past dozens of such Hive, and what appeared before them was a wall composed of orange-yellow regular hexagons.
Seeing this, Ed didn't have time to think about what was unreasonable and quickly shouted:
"Turn, turn!"
"What are you turning for? Hold on tight!"
"Bang!"
Bang bang bang!
With its indestructible body and scales that completely protect it from the Bee Person's attacks, the dragon relentlessly broke through the walls of the Hive in front of it. The hexagonal Hive were as Fragility as cardboard in its presence, and even the air currents it generated were enough to destroy them.
Because he hadn't followed the usual path, Ed felt that there were fewer and fewer bees around him. The individual bees had changed from menacing Soldier Bee to Worker Bee that were oblivious to the situation. Ed could even see bee larvae that made eye contact with him for a moment in some crevices. Even as larvae, these insects were more than half the size of an adult human and looked like they were very rich in protein.
In that instant, Ed thought of a side-scrolling adventure game he had played in his previous life. The Hive here was seven or eight parts similar to the Hive in that game, except that the Hive in the game was more like a beautified version, and the insects did not look nearly as ferocious.
After smashing through the last wall, Ed found himself in a not-so-dark spherical space. This space was composed of countless regular hexagonal cubes, most of which contained a wriggling larva or bee pupa. Some cubes with special shapes and structures were responsible for bringing light into the space.
In the very center of this vast space, Ed saw a gigantic insect monster, almost half the size of Seraphina. Its body was like a queen bee magnified countless times, its swollen abdomen resembling a small mountain, while its head and thorax hung in front like pendants.
Even so, its head was about the same size as Ed's entire body. At this moment, the queen bee was using its insect claws to play with a humanoid wooden sculpture that had completely lost all signs of life. It was clearly Ed's lost clone.
Did they turn me into a figurine?
Ed thought to himself that he was complaining, when he suddenly felt a sense of Weightlessness. It turned out that Seraphina had finally landed after her exhilarating driving experience.
Only now did Ed realize that apart from Seraphina, himself, and the giant insect in front of him, there was no other living being in this vast space.
What happened?
Even if the queen bee isn't surrounded by 500-5000 bee executioners, she should at least have personal guards, right?
This huge, plump, and juicy bug could be completely ruined if Seraphina were in a bad mood and sprayed it.
Ed didn't think this bulky queen bee could defeat a dragon that controlled fire.
More and more things are not right...
At that moment, Seraphina was the first to move.
She lowered her head and placed Ed on the Hive floor before he could react.
The queen bee's two enormous compound eyes looked at the lively Ed with one eye and at the life-size figurine in her hand with the other.
A man, a dragon, and an insect silently gazed at each other.