Chapter 358

On the wilderness, a humming sound gradually rose, but this was not the noise made by mosquitoes and flies; rather, it was the sound produced by countless threads laid horizontally beneath the night sky, taut and vibrating at high speed.

"Esdeath, it's been half a year since our last fight; I don't know to what extent your strength has improved now?"

Merad waved his hand, releasing the threads of Cross Tail around him, laying out one terrifying cutting trap after another, asking Esdeath, who ran out bare-legged wearing only sleepwear to fight.

"Of course there has been great progress; nowadays my puppets are not so easily ruined by your threads."

The ground where Esdeath's bare feet touched condensed into freezing ice, and the ice surface spread to a range of over fifty meters around her within two or three breaths.

Just then a small cloud covered the moonlight overhead, and only the sound of freezing could be heard on the dark wilderness as cold mist began to spread.

When the cloud drifted past and the moonlight once again spread over the earth, centaur ice cavalrymen holding long spears appeared on the frozen ground, guarding Esdeath like subjects guarding a queen.

Esdeath raised her hand and pointed toward Merad's direction, and the ice cavalrymen assumed a posture ready to charge.

"Go~"

As their queen's words fell, the frosty hooves began to run, charging fearlessly toward Merad ahead, who was surrounded by cutting traps.

"Turn into ice shards!"

In response, Merad merely waved his hand, and the high-speed vibrating threads slashed toward the ice cavalrymen.

"Hiss hiss hiss~"

The sharp sound of sawing ice rang out, and the charging ice cavalrymen were cut open at the waist; just then Broly and the others who had also come over this side happened to see the scene of the ice cavalrymen's bodies being sliced apart.

"Hah, how are these toys different from before?"

Merad smiled; although Esdeath's ice cavalrymen were enough to crush an Imperial regular army corps of ten thousand men head-on, using such a mob-clearing ability against him could only be said to be underestimating him too much.

"Is that really so?"

Esdeath smiled in return, and meanwhile, the ice cavalrymen whose bodies had been cut open suddenly extended new ice from the clean cut surfaces, each growing new bodies.

As for the lower halves of the ice bodies that fell to the ground, they turned back into frost energy and merged into the frozen ground; the frost energy was recovered, but then reinvested into their original bodies.

Looking at the rapidly recovering ice cavalrymen, Merad frowned and asked, "Has your frost ability been enhanced again?"

"It's just that the frost energy cycle is stronger; not long ago I wiped out a secret technique user who wanted to assassinate me, and just happened to obtain some secret arts from them, which I learned and integrated into my ice cavalrymen, giving them regenerative power in cold environments."

"Of course, not just regenerative power; every time my ice cavalrymen are destroyed and recover, they also increase the thickness of their own bodies."

"In other words, their defensive power is stronger; although the added defense has a limit, it is enough to improve their combat capability."

Esdeath's tone carried a hint of regret; if defense could be stacked infinitely, the ice cavalrymen she summoned would be unmatched.

"Rip~"

The cutting threads attacked again.

"Slap~"

Although they still cut the ice cavalrymen's bodies, the cutting time was slower than before; indeed they were much harder to cut.

And this was not the most desperate part; the most desperate part was that the ice cavalrymen, once again cut apart, recovered once more, and the color of their ice bodies began to darken, their defensive power enhanced again.

"Ice cavalrymen, trample her!"

A group of ice puppets holding long spears began chasing after Merad.

"What a wonderful ability."

Broly was somewhat surprised; since there were rarely any posts from Esdeath (Happiness Points poor person) in the group chat room, he wasn't very familiar with the abilities the Northern Foreign Tribe girl now possessed.

"It is indeed wonderful, but Sister Esdeath has always felt this ability is a bit of a chicken rib."

Hearing the boy's words, Hei Tong spoke up instead.

"Chicken rib, how could it be? Isn't it chasing Merad and beating him?"

Broly was somewhat confused.

"That's because Merad doesn't have the ability to instantly destroy the ice cavalrymen; if it were Sister Ke'er's Thunder God Armor, probably just one thunderclap could eliminate the frost energy inside the ice cavalrymen, let alone Sister Esdeath is chasing you as her target, Broly-san; do you think your energy bullets couldn't handle a group of ice cavalrymen?"

"Uh, I don't know; I'll have to try."

Broly was pragmatic; right away he gathered a bit of Qi at his fingertip, and an energy beam shot toward an ice cavalryman at the edge of the battlefield.

In an instant, the ice cavalryman, already hard enough that cutting it was somewhat difficult, turned into a cloud of water vapor, being vaporized from solid to gas by the energy bullet.

Esdeath glanced this way but said nothing; she waved her hand and had the frozen earth condense another ice cavalryman.

Esdeath had indeed always wanted to defeat Broly and make the boy her master, but she also had self-knowledge; more than five years ago, when Broly left, the destruction caused by that energy bullet was still fresh in her memory.

Although Esdeath could now cause destruction of a similar degree, that was limited to the cold environment of the polar regions, relying on the power of nature to create a super-large ice puppet she called the Ice Storm General, picking up small icebergs and hurling them with all her might, to achieve such terrain destruction effects.

And she had not even surpassed Broly from more than five years ago, let alone the current Broly; although Broly's outward appearance hadn't changed much, Esdeath, who had intimate contact with the boy, could sense that the little master who owned himself was stronger than before.

"Damn it, these annoying guys."

Merad was somewhat disheveled; she had sparred with Esdeath before, although she had never won against Esdeath, but when Esdeath defeated her, Esdeath had to personally take action; unexpectedly, in this sudden sparring match, she couldn't even beat the ice block toys Esdeath casually condensed.

"Don't underestimate me; try this move of mine!"

Merad dodged an ice spear thrust, pulled out a bottle from her bosom, and directly inserted it into the modified groove of Cross Tail.

"Dissolving fluid attached, blade threads dance wildly!"

The Cross Tail threads, attached with high-concentration dissolving fluid extracted from the stomach of a Danger Beast with extremely strong digestive ability, gained armor-piercing effect at this moment; the wildly dancing blade threads, like the high-speed rotating blades of an ice crusher, ground all the ice cavalrymen surrounding her into dregs.

But that was all; this world was not some Pirate King, with no such Haki settings; Merad, similar to a String-String Fruit user, in front of Esdeath who used her frost power like a Biscuit-Biscuit Fruit user, was just a younger sister.

Her Teigu's function was not even as good as a flamethrower; at least that thing could offset some of the frost energy inside the ice cavalrymen.

Of course, an ordinary person using a flamethrower would probably be hacked to death by the ice cavalrymen before melting them.

Unless using the Teigu 【Rubicante】 that emits flame, capable of spraying high temperatures of unextinguishable flames, which in terms of attribute could counter Esdeath's ice puppets.

But this was only theoretical counter; in fact, after drinking multiple Demon's Extracts exchanged with Happiness Points, the frost power within Esdeath's body had already surpassed many Super Danger Beasts surviving in the polar regions.

Just fighting a Teigu User whose attribute counters oneself, even if the enemy was exhausted, they probably still couldn't kill through the number of ice cavalrymen Esdeath could summon.

"How about it, have you submitted?"

The ice cavalryman carried Merad, whose clothes were somewhat damaged, back; Esdeath asked this assassin leader whose physical strength might still be somewhat preserved but absolutely insufficient to support further high-intensity combat with her.

"Submitted, then you taste first, I taste after; drinking your saliva is also fine."

Merad didn't mind at all who got to taste the boy first.

"Do you need me to teach you how to taste?"

She asked again.

"No need for you to teach me, figuring it out myself is the fun part."

"Alright."

Merad shrugged, and was then put down by the Ice Cavalry.

"I've expended too much physical strength, I'm a bit weak right now, can you carry me back?"

The tear-mole girl collapsed on the ground spread her arms toward the girl wearing only sleepwear with her long legs exposed, requesting an embrace.

"How about I have my Ice Cavalry carry you?"

Esdeath gave her a white eye and asked.

"Then forget it, a cold icy thing pressing against my stomach, I'm afraid my stomach will hurt."

Merad immediately climbed up from the ground, and this was her habit as an assassin, she would always reserve three parts of strength for herself.

That is to say, she was clear Esdeath wouldn't kill her, otherwise Merad might have chosen the assassin's way of striking once and fleeing a thousand miles when confirming she couldn't defeat the enemy.

Under the moonlit night, the two girls walked back together.

"Truly a wonderful battle!"

Broly praised Esdeath who had returned.

"Cut it out, a battle of this degree in front of you is probably no different from kids playing house."

Esdeath gave Broly a white eye, then hugged him and started smelling, suddenly remembering a certain shameless female elf's misunderstanding statement in the Crystal Palace Group Chat Room many years ago, she attacked toward Broly's mouth.

Details cannot be described, but strings were pulled when they separated.

"Thanks for the treat!"

Swallowing the plundered fragrant saliva, Esdeath said thanks.

"You're welcome."

Broly smacked his lips twice, this kind of thing he still rarely experienced. "My turn."

Merad didn't stand on ceremony either, took Broly from Esdeath's hands and prepared to conduct tasting.

"Wait, didn't you lose?"

Main stepped out to stop her.

"Losing just postpones the tasting, doesn't mean not tasting."

Merad said as a matter of course.

"Or do you also want to spar with me to decide the tasting order?"

She asked again.

"Uu~"

Main had nothing to say, as a long-range sniper, she was no match for Merad.

"Gulugulu……"

Organizing and uploading~~

Broly was attacked again.

And unlike Esdeath who had almost no experience, Merad's skill in this aspect was superb.

Like an old driver taking a newbie passenger racing down Mount Akina, seemingly thrilling various cornering skills were demonstrated on Broly.

If it were a normal person, they'd probably sink into this thrilling racing technique, but unfortunately Broly only felt a bit itchy.

After finding it somewhat unbearable that Merad made his upper palate itchy, he instead pushed the other's tongue out.

Hearing the sound of Broly scratching his upper palate with his mouth, the tear-mole girl licked her lips with some reluctance to stop.

And through this technique displayed on the other party, she also confirmed that her psychology of disliking males did not take effect on the other party.

Perhaps because the memory of being defeated by Broly in childhood was too deep, causing Broly to have left an incomparably deep impression in her consciousness.

In short, the first taste of the opposite sex was not bad.

"Do you know, the human body has multiple scent glands, sweat glands are in the armpits, and some people's RY position also has scent."

Merad spoke and started acting, she was serious about tasting flavors.

"And some species, for example felines, will remember their kind's scent by sniffing their kind's GM."

"Wait, what are you doing, are you a feline?"

Merad's increasingly excessive actions were stopped.

"I'm not a feline, but I once received poison-tasting training, and can also remember various scents through my tongue, and I'm preparing to learn the feline way of memorizing scents to memorize Broly's taste."

"Bang—"

Merad's head took a punch, it was Esdeath who struck.

"This kind of thing I can't do, so I also prohibit you from doing it."

The girl said so.

"My beast king form is a big cat though……"

Esdeath looked over, her cold gaze made Leone's voice weaken.

"But I remember I'm still a human, and humans cannot have no bottom line."

She said.

"Is there really such a way to memorize scents?"

Broly was a bit curious, asked toward Merad who had turned to grab her own tail and smell it.

"What, you want to learn?"

Merad didn't mind being the guest turned host.

"No, I'm just a bit curious, and I don't need to use scent to remember people, because I can remember the Qi of every one of you, as long as we don't separate for too long and the Breath hasn't undergone a huge change."

Broly shook his head, then spoke seriously.

"Right, Broly-san, how many days can you stay in This World this time?"

Chikushi asked curiously.

"Not many days, maybe I'll leave the day after tomorrow, because I have to establish the Crystal Palace Internal Space, find a New Wife, and accumulate more Happiness Points."

Broly answered honestly.

"Eh, that short?"

The girls were surprised, Main even widened her eyes and questioned: "Then how did you stay so many days in Tohsaka's World?"

"Oh, that's because I encountered a New Wife there, and the reason I'm so desperate to establish the Crystal Palace Internal Space is still because my New Wife in that world was kidnapped by Bad Guys, so I plan to give everyone a Shelter that can avoid Danger at any time."

"So that's how it is."

The twin-pupiled sisters showed looks of sudden realization, tapping their own heads.

"Then can we go in too?"

Cornelia asked curiously.

"Uh, no."

Broly looked somewhat apologetically at the few girls with External Wife identity.

"It's fine, Broly-san, our Strength is very strong, we can protect ourselves well."

Seeing this, Cornelia instead comforted the boy.

"No mistake."

Chikushi and Pony patted their Chests in agreement beside her, but the effects formed by the two's patting were completely different.

One had Somewhat waves, one was Bathing Master Aqua's Life.

"Wait, then if we find you a New Wife in This World, wouldn't that work?"

Merad proposed.

"That one might not be enough, I have to pay a Stay Fee for staying in This World, 1000 Happiness Points every day."

"What?!"

Esdeath was shocked, Broly staying in This World for a few days would be enough for her to Exchange for a new Demon's Extract, although she doesn't drink that Storage Device anymore, because her Body has reached the Limit of carrying Demon's Extract quantity, Unless her Body gets Stronger again.

"Then find a few more, the Great Western Territory is so big, now controlled by us, wanting to find a few New Wives should be Sufficient."

"I think it's unlikely, before you only found us few, and Miss Merlade, you weren't even one of them!"

The glasses girl Hill knows how to twist the knife, making Merad a bit hurt.

"Hey, Broly, how exactly does your Crystal Palace determine whether a person is a Wife or not?"

"It says it's a Figure."

"Figure is?"

"Some Clay Magic Dolls, can also be plastic Magic Dolls."

"Eh, then can we make one of these things for ourselves?"

Broly tried asking the Crystal Palace in his Consciousness, and soon a reply message floated up in his Consciousness.

【Expand Crystal Palace Official Member quota, please establish Figure Zone in Crystal Palace Internal Space to realize. Tip: Otaku one wall, Beijing three Suites, this Official Member quota expansion service, each quota will consume large amounts of Happiness Points, and expanded Official Members have no Welfare of joining Crystal Palace, but have the Capability to produce Happiness Points after joining Crystal Palace.】

Broly recited it verbatim.

"Simply Translate it, means can't do it now."

Akame summarized.

"But in the future, after finding many many Wives, upgrading the Crystal Palace, and Obtaining huge amounts of Happiness Points, it can be done."

Kurome supplemented her own sister's words.

Merad was shocked, Unexpectedly External Wives also have a chance to Probation Period.

"Find, we'll find New Wives for Broly, ruthlessly!"

(Chapter End)