The Bug Kingdom of Hell has some of the largest and most extensive castles in all of the underworld. For the longest time this was attributed to the fact that their kingdom had never gone to war for as long as people could remember, but when the Owls were expelled from the heavens and forced to survive among the kingdoms, they used their knowledge as leverage. Owls met with Smoking Deer of the deer kingdom and The Crowned Bear of the bear kingdom, and shared with them evidence that the insects had been growing wealthy by embezzling funds and covertly stealing from the other kingdoms with their high skill of intrigue. At first they were met with shock, but the owls crunched the numbers and proved that this was the case. The deer and bears immediately prepared for war with the insect kingdom for repayment of their funds.

The insect kingdom was soon set on fire with the bears pillaging, raiding, and taking the attractive insects as hostage for husbands and wives of the bears who had captured them. The deer used rams and siege equipment to break into the treasury of the insects, and pillaged as much gold as they could carry. None of the animals did as much as the owls, though. The owls flew to the second floor and began occupying it, as well as the balcony. To the insects this appeared as a ridiculous strategy, but the owls were connected to the heavens from their time working in the celestial bureaucracy, and they called down celestial maidens to join them in the siege of the insect castle. They flew down from the sky in a large wooden boat and crashed directly into the side of the fortress. They rushed into the fortress and began fighting alongside the owls, but the insects had destroyed the stairs and had begun throwing furniture and hot oil down to prevent the advance of the owls further up the castle. Many of the owls burned but it only slowed them slightly. They soon made it up some floors and took many insects hostage, but the integrity of the fortress began to fail.The lower levels began collapsing from the damage and the many towers and floors above them also began to crumble. The entire building began to collapse and many of the owls, celestial maidens, and insects died.

When the great spirit sensed the death of so many of his maidens at once, he looked to the land of the dead and was shocked to see what the owls had caused to happen. He decided the owls had to be returned to their position but reprimanded for causing so much death and destruction, so they ascended back up to the sky realm. He created an enormous new hive for the surviving insects in the sunless sea away from any other kingdom, and left the ruins of the old castle as a gravesite for those who had died. The Bug Kingdom was also renamed to the hive because all surviving members of their dynasty had died in the castle. This was the single greatest calamity that the kingdoms of hell had ever gotten themselves into, and many consider it the work of the owl spirits.