Chapter 255: Guests

A hillside outside Henry's Farm.

Two figures hid furtively behind the hill, gazing from afar at the clearing between the forest and the farm.

"Look! Look! He kissed her! I told you he's in league with that half-deer person! You lost!"

The speaker was a cat-girl.

Her chest was flat, lying on the grass with no curves or obstacles whatsoever.

She held a brass-colored cylinder in her hand, clearly a magical artifact radiating an aura of magic.

The other person was a human girl.

Her chest was equally flat; she held a short staff, indicating she was a mage.

The human girl, looking furious, pulled a Jin Along from her robe and flung it at the cat-person.

"He's a game warden! Keeping a succubus is one thing, but why does he have to be involved with a half-deer person too?!"

"Not just that! That ghoul mage looks at him with such resentment, and keeps intentionally or unintentionally rubbing her chest against him; their relationship is definitely not bad!"

The cat-girl chuckled.

The human girl was furious.

"Laugh, laugh, laugh! What are you laughing at? Lili talks about him almost every day; don't you know? If Lili finds out, how heartbroken will she be!"

"Doris, you are truly overthinking it. Since Lili already knows he keeps a succubus, she must know what kind of person he is. Let's not meddle; just hand the item over to him."

The cat-girl was unmoved.

She put away the brass cylinder magical artifact.

The human mage named Doris shook her head in disagreement.

"No! I can't let this guy play with Lili's feelings, Choy! Let's go teach him a lesson!"

"Teach him a lesson? Are you stupid or crazy? Lili said this guy killed a peak sixth-rank mage with a single sword strike just after reaching the sixth rank himself. Now he's... damn! Peak sixth rank already?! That fast??"

"What?!"

Doris wanted to cast a spell to scout.

But her intuition told her that casting a spell randomly here might cause something bad to happen.

Seeing her hesitate.

The cat-girl Choy couldn't help but kick her.

"What are you doing? As members of the Hero Alliance, we came to Twilight Hills mainly to investigate the Dark Elves at Coral Bay; what's the point of wasting time here?"

"I just can't stand this guy! Look! He's holding a girl in each arm; what is that?! What about Lili's feelings?!"

Doris seemed to think of something.

She actually began to weep softly.

Choy sighed, slapped her forehead in frustration.

Helplessly, she took out a small handkerchief and gently wiped away her tears: "Sorry, did you think of that scumbag bard?"

"No! I didn't think of him! I don't care at all about running away right before the wedding! I just simply hate scumbags!"

"Fine, fine. In the end, he is Lili's friend, so we definitely can't go teach him a lesson; we probably can't beat him anyway. However, we can pull a prank on our first meeting!"

"A prank?"

"Look."

Choy took out two items.

A palm-sized square crystal and a emerald-green bean pod radiating a spiritual fluctuation.

The emerald-green bean pod slowly sank into the square crystal, then quickly solidified.

It looked like amber containing a bean pod.

"I got this crystal by accident before. Although it's useless, neither as weapon material nor for spell refinement, its advantage is that it hardens well when solidified. I had someone test it; even a seventh-rank spiritual warrior skilled in strength couldn't crush it bare-handed."

Hearing this.

Doris got excited and continued Choy's thought:

"We make him try to crush it in front of the girls below. If he can't do it, he'll surely lose face! Uh... but then, won't he not get the jade bean pod Lili gave him?"

"Don't worry, I have a way to remove the crystal. When he can't open it, we'll both sigh and shake our heads, saying, 'Is that all you've got?'"

"Hahaha! I read that line in the Snow Hill Evening News novel section; it was spoken by the carnivorous hero Orfil!"

"Right! Speaking of which, do you know the author of Orfil plans to confirm the protagonist's gender? It seems he heard from a friend that flower demons can only possess one set of reproductive organs at a time."

"Ah?? What's the point of one set of reproductive organs? I want to see a scene of three people using Orfil at the same time!! If it's really like that, I'll quit the book!"

As the glow of magic dimmed.

The ritual ended.

A total of sixteen ghoul servants successfully survived.

The disease effect was removed.

These sixteen lucky ones smoothly became the shame of ghouls, even weaker than humans.

This was the necessary price for the ritual's success.

They would receive debuffs of osteoporosis and muscle atrophy.

But Pan Ni didn't care.

She just wanted to cut costs for the farm, earn big money, and move into her master's game warden cabin as soon as possible.

Lady Kali scowled, looking at Rod on the side.

"Your turn. The ritual of war soul solidification isn't too difficult; I'll guide you, you carve it yourself."

"Fine, fine, fine."

Rod put down the now-recovered Little Little Bangde and was about to step forward.

Suddenly, he sensed someone approaching from a distance.

He turned his head to look.

It was two girls.

One cat-woman, one human mage.

They came on with great momentum, smiles on their faces, striding with confident steps.

Lady Kali frowned slightly: "More girls you've seduced?"

"Don't talk nonsense, I don't even know them."

Rod denied helplessly.

But then again, cat-folk are cat-folk.

If there's a chance, getting to know them a bit wouldn't be out of the question.

The two girls arrived before him.

Everyone in the forest stopped what they were doing and looked over one after another.

"And you two are?"

Rod was the first to ask.

"I'm Kouyi."

"I'm Doris."

Kouyi and Doris said in unison: "We've come on behalf of Lily, to bring you a token from her."

The halfling Lily.

During his trip to Emerald Jade City, Rod had shared a few acts of chivalry with this halfling from the League of Heroes.

The two of them were on fairly good terms.

They had even exchanged letters.

"Lily? How is she doing now? Last time in her letter she said she was going to investigate the green dragon scam in Deep Water City."

A look of nostalgia crossed Rod's face.

The human mage Doris nodded:

"The Deep Water City matter has Lily's hands tied, she can't get away. But she heard that Twilight Hill has been plagued by incidents lately, and she was worried about the situation of an ordinary 'friend' — forester Rod — so she specially commissioned her best 'friend,' that is, Doris and me, to bring you something."

She deliberately added weight to the word "friend."

Hard to tell what she was hinting at.

"I see, thank you for your trouble."

Rod gave a gentle smile.

Speaking of which, Lily's letters had indeed mentioned that she had once investigated the disturbances in Blazing City together with a cat-woman.

In them she mentioned that cat-woman was flat-chested—

A furtive glance.

Sure enough, flat as a board.

Then this must be that Young Lady Kouyi!

(End of this chapter)