And just as I concluded, things were relatively quiet for the next couple of weeks. The supplies and reinforcements reached Malevolence's position, and she resumed cleansing the Hatha territories with redoubled vigor.
It felt like she didn't consider a day well-spent if she couldn't bring me news about another established outpost or conquered village of barely surviving humans. She even spread the "holy word" of hygiene among them, adding to the bits of the bee-centered religion they heard already.
Malevolence and her soldiers also killed a lot of murder hornets alongside countless other insects—but still didn't discover a single nest. They still had thousands and thousands of square kilometers of land to search, but the tendency was still alarming.
Another hindrance was Malevolence's inability to capture any hornets alive. Her soldiers went as far as putting several of them in steel chains, but they managed to chew and tear their way even through that!
