The expeditions sent to me have taken a decent chunk of the continent away from the smooth-back deer. In some places, so many deer were killed by bees' stings that the corpses piled into entire mountains.
There were too many of them to eat, but instead of letting them rot, the soldiers planted the seeds given by the Champion Tree near them.
These seeds grew into evolved, spiky usnea trees that produced nectar and fruit that fed the bees both in the Bee Empire and now in this expedition. The freezing aura also preserved the deer meat so it could be eaten later.
Despite the distance from the Bee Empire, at least when it came to food, the expedition armies didn't have to fear a lack of resources.
But deer liked the usnea tree fruits, too. And their god took notice of the bees' involvement—the blue-eyed scouts have reported that some deer deeper in the continent have begun evolving venom resistance in addition to their steadily growing physical defence.
