Garessta

"Now, go forth, my mortal champion! Conquer this world—or else!"

I lived a painfully average life and died by a stupid, stupid accident, but a goddess interfered, giving me a second chance in another world.

There, I became royalty—the lazy kind with almost no obligations, free to live in peace and luxury for the rest of my days.

Sounds like a dream, right?

In reality, it was anything but—because I became *BEE* royalty. A Drone Bee, doomed to die of old age in 2 months! (A humanoid bee, thankfully, but still a bee in all the ways that matter.)

The only way to increase my lifespan is to develop and grow my bee colony—a deadly task in a vicious world like this one.
There are murderous insect monsters, colossal beasts trampling the earth, other civilizations, natural disasters, and the bitchy patron goddess who absolutely hates me.

But as long as I have my brains, my bees, and the powerful genes my system gives me, my Bee Empire will be unstoppable!

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For those who want to know more:
This is a wholesome comedic story, but it has some dark moments.
The focus is on kingdom building, survival as an empire, and interacting with MC’s beautiful bee wife and adorable bee daughters. 
The bees are all humanoid (see pictures) and human-sized. However, they are still bees in their ways of life and mentality.
Although there’s a system, real growth comes from putting effort and time. Nothing happens in an instant in this story, unless it’s trouble.
MC acts like an idiot sometimes (oftentimes), but he’s not actually stupid-stupid. When it comes to strategic decisions, he uses logic and reason. Even if you might disagree with it.

Also, there will be no smut (ecchi is a fair game), incest, NTR, harem or BL.

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Updates: 2 chapters/day, right after the reset (with a 5% chance of running late).
Reply to author's pinned review if you have questions.

Also, although I realize the futility of this aim (at least right now), if this novel reaches top 15 golden ticket ranking (and stays there for a few days, obv), I will mass release 10 extra chapters! (within 30 calendar days)

Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire

Allows the extraction of most metals from raw ore.

Improves effectiveness of ore refinement.

Allows unlocking more advanced metal smelting technologies.

Instead of appearing cool and reserved, today Researchina was almost shaking with excitement.

"This is it, Father," she told me, showing the inside of one of the forges. "The 'blast furnace', as you described to us."

The furnace was almost as tall as I was and had a cylindrical shape. The entire forge of bees was busy operating it: four girls fiercely worked two sets of large bellows, three more were pouring iron fragments and coal on top of the furnace, and three gathered iron that poured from the bottom of the furnace into ingot-shaped clay forms.

Hurdles along the railway