Bottomless golden honey

At the boarding house in the village of Kemonomimi, Mae dipped her knife in a jar of honey, spread it on bread, and then enjoyed the sweet taste of honey. Heli left home early to go do personal business while his two wives stayed home.

"Lady Mae, where does so much honey come from?" - Fifi

"Ah, uh, I just helped the bees last time so as a mutual exchange, I sent many people there to help and in return they will give me honey" - Mae

"Honey is so delicious!"- Fifi

"Can't stop eating..." - Gina

"Right? With honey as an income source, you can be considered a rich person" - Charlotte

"I also sent Sophie honey, and she seemed very satisfied. That girl has always liked sweets" - Mae

While they were talking to each other, there was suddenly a knock on the door outside. Belle was the one who came out to see what was going on. When she opened the door, it was a kemonomimi boy, equipped with clothes like a reporter.

"Hello, is the walking mushroom Mae here?"- ???

"..."- Belle

Inside, they heard something outside. When they looked out, they saw Belle pinning a kemonomimi boy to the ground, as he kept complaining in pain.

"Ouch ouch ouch! That hurts so much!"-???

"Belle, let that boy go!"- Mae

"He could be a subordinate of those rich merchants. Otherwise, how would he know you were here?" - Belle

"Please let me go, I'm not a subordinate of those rich businessmen!!! I'm just a photographer!"- ???

"Photography?"- Mae

After letting the journalist boy go, he went inside the house and offered him a cup of milk to calm him down.

"The taste is so sweet! Different from the milk I used to drink"- ???

"Thank you for your comment, sir.....?"- Mae

"Oh, sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Rolan, I'm a photographer in the city" - Rolan

"So why did you come here to find me?"- Mae

"I'm here for an interview! Recently in Drakenberg, there have been rumors about a walking mushroom with a business mind. This has made many merchants very curious, as well as a few merchants losing business. . So I searched for information and found this small village" - Rolan excitedly

"What kind of interview specifically?" - Mae

"About yourself and your family, and the life of this small village in the forest" - Rolan

"No, no, no. No interviews, we can't let you interview Lady Mae! That's forbidden!"-Belle

"Please come here for a moment Lady Mae" - Fifi

"Uh, okay" - Mae

When Fifi pulled Mae's hand into a room and closed the door in case the photographer boy heard.

"So what's going on?" - Mae

"The thing is, Lord Heli told us that your family is a hot topic right now, the merchants really don't like losing their income, especially when the person competing is a walking mushroom monster. "- Fifi

"Is it that serious?" - Mae

"That's right, moreover, there's something very suspicious about him" - Belle

After explaining, they chased the photographer away. Mae looked outside and felt like things wouldn't stop there.

And sure enough, it was exactly what Mae thought, when the next morning's article appeared about scandalous information about the village of Kemonomimi. There was mass production of poor quality healing potions, poor service at the inn, not to mention the food there was all illegally imported. What's worse is that Mae's honey is said to be a mass-produced fake.

In this case, Mae could think that the photographer was a fake news creator or was hired to do so. But she doesn't worry much about this problem. The current situation is that her honey is still sold equally, moreover, for gourmets in the culinary world, it is impossible to distinguish between fake and real products.

Almost all adventurers have come here and given this village a very good review, so they will be very dissatisfied with that fake article.

Mae's job now is to go back to the hive to check what's going on.

On the way there, she suddenly saw something flying into the sky, it was a black smoke rising high into the sky, coming from the mountain above. Mae realized that wasn't that direction towards the beehive?

Realizing that there was a bad omen, Mae ran quickly in the direction of the black smoke and saw...

The flower garden was on fire, everything was engulfed in hot red flames.

Why? Who would do this?!

Then she heard screams not far away, ran towards it and saw many small bees being surrounded by bandits. Mae immediately used fire elemental magic, the fire from the flower garden on the mountain immediately separated from the flower garden and flew towards the bandits and burned them.

Mae controlled the fire to disappear from the bandits, but they were still alive, only their clothes were burned away. She approached the baby bees to see if they were okay. Before asking, a bee rushed forward and cried.

"Please, save our parents! Bandits are attacking our nest!"

"Please hurry!"

At the beehive side, there were many poisoned bees lying paralyzed, while the bandits were enthusiastically exploiting honey and beeswax, sometimes even stepping on the bodies of the bees to move goods. As long as they complete this job, they will receive a generous salary. The person watching over them was a merchant, he stepped on the body of a bee even though it cried out in pain.

"Who do you think you are, daring to invade this territory!"

A voice attracted their attention. Just as they were about to see who it was, a fire was immediately launched and burned them. The bandits were startled and didn't understand what was happening. Then out of the fire came a walking mushroom, and it also knew how to use elemental magic.

At this time, Mae controlled the fire to turn into snakes to attack the bandits. The sound of the snakes hissing fire made the bandits panic and they ran away to save their lives, leaving their goods behind. But Mae did not let them go, the snakes turned back into fire, surrounding them and imprisoning them there.

Luckily, Mae brought antidote powder with her. She immediately threw the powder into the air, hoping that the bees would recover quickly.

Meanwhile, the businessman in that group kept screaming.

"What is this! Let us go, monster! Do you know who I am?" - Merchant

"I don't care who you are. Your robbery is unforgivable!"- Mae

"You unreasonable monster, do you know that your attack is a forbidden act of violence in the territory of the Archdemon of Sloth? She allows us to do anything" - Merchant

"Then what is your action if it's not violence? Do you think I can't distinguish that?"- Mae

"My actions were violent? It seems like you are of the same species as those bees, all of you are just animals for us to exploit!" - Merchant

Immediately, the fire suddenly flared up, causing the merchant to panic.

Mae is so fed up with the kind of educated people who seem to have no sense, even though the bees are wild creatures, they have the right to live. So why did that businessman dare to call them animals?

As she raised her hand to prepare for her next action.

"It's so noisy..."

Suddenly Mae stopped, the fire in her hand was extinguished and the fire imprisoning the other group also disappeared, something or someone was approaching, making her feel tired. Mae tried her best to stay awake but it seemed impossible

"This is..."- Mae

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[Warning: Archdemon of Sloth's aura, neutralizes all magic within a certain range, rapidly draining stamina]

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'Archdemon of Sloth?! Is she here?'- Mae thought

"It's Lord Acedia!"

After the bees recovered, they immediately flew towards the Archdemon of Sloth, who was sitting on a floating beeswax carpet.

"Who dares to disturb my sleep?"- ???

"Lord Acedia, fortunately you are here. That walking mushroom monster does not understand reason and dares to use violence in your territory. Please punish it!" - Merchant

"*Yawn*, tell me quickly, my bees. What's going on?"- Acedia

"That merchant's words are lies, the walking mushroom Mae didn't do anything to us. When the bandits destroyed our nest, the walking mushroom Mae helped us rebuild the nest, and even helped us. compensate for the honey that was stolen" - Commaded Bee

"Hey, hey, what are you talking about? I didn't do that!" - Merchant

"But that merchant came back and this time they looted more than last time. If it weren't for the walking mushroom Mae to save us, we would have died!" - Little Bee

"That's not true! They are definitely lying! That's right, because they were infected with so much paralysis poison, their minds are not clear" - Merchant

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The merchant immediately realized he had said something that revealed his actions.

Acedia raised his finger towards that merchant.

"So it's you..."- Acedia

"Wait, it was just a misunderstanding! Please!"- Merchant

"Get out of here for me, and never come back here again" - Acedia

Immediately, the merchant and his subordinates floated in the air, then Acedia's finger command threw them into the sky. The Archdemon of Sloth turned her eyes towards the walking mushroom, then stopped her aura.

Finally, Mae was able to return to normal, and when she looked up, a finger touched the tip of her hat.

"You are the one who is instrumental in protecting my bees. I have given a lot of grace to the bees, but then I feel so tired that I almost sleep and ignore the outside world. So, to To avoid being considered irresponsible, I will leave the bees to you to take care of" - Acedia

"Wait! That's too sudden!"- Mae

"It's okay, my bees seem to like you very much. So they will listen to you" - Acedia

"But..."- Mae

"You don't need to worry, I won't forget. This is the grace I give you, accept it" - Acedia

Before Mae could speak, a yellow aura surrounded her body, similar to what Ira did to her.

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[Obtain Archdemon of Sloth blessing]

[Obtain special skill: Earth Element]

[Obtain extra skill: Magic Resistance, Damage Resistance]

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[Error: Heli and Sophie cannot receive grace]

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Receiving the Archdemon of Sloth's grace, Mae was surprised. When she was about to thank her, Acedia had already disappeared. Leave her alone with the bees.