Chapter 367: Someone Else's Girlfriend

Rod frowned and slammed on the brakes, his golden longsword stopping between the two.

The mushroom-man Toru hastily pushed aside his blade, hugged the meatball tight, and nervously shielded it behind his back.

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Rod didn't bother with him for now, forcefully suppressing his killing intent: "Close the rift first."

The hissing-sizzling other-dimensional rift spilled wild spiritual-energy wind, scraping his face raw with pain.

In his peripheral vision, the cell beside held a comparatively weaker woman; buffeted by the spiritual-energy wind, she was now foaming at the mouth.

The spell to close an other-dimensional rift was fairly complicated—he couldn't learn it in a short while.

Toru didn't move, still watching him warily.

"If you don't close it, I'll cut you both down."

Rod gave a cold snort.

Only then did Toru startle, turning his head to speak with the meatball, but halfway through he twisted back, saying awkwardly: "Forester my lord, please undo the sealing-link spell on me first, otherwise I can't communicate with Torri."

A moment later.

The cosmic creature's flesh writhed, its short fleshy pink fuzz on the surface inching the other-dimensional rift closed bit by bit.

The mushroom-man Toru watched Rod without a pause, deeply afraid he'd strike again.

Rod, meanwhile, narrowed his eyes and studied the meatball.

It wasn't as if he'd never dealt with cosmic creatures before.

He'd even established a very good trading relationship with the bone dragon Megan; she coveted the 【Lust】 energy within the other dimension, and needed an extremely large amount of essence from Rod.

Then there was the vengeful magic dragon's dragon-soul, little Naolin.

She had also originally been a cosmic creature, but once the materials for a dragon body were gathered, she would probably become a being fully integrated into the Spiritual Continent.

Spiritual essence naturally had a rejection reaction toward cosmic creatures from other dimensions.

Look.

Within just a few short minutes, the flesh's skin had gone from pink to reddening, gradually breaking out in blood spots.

This meatball had recklessly come to the Spiritual Continent on its own initiative, just to keep Toru from signing that lifelong soul contract.

And afterward, it was even willing to take a sword for him.

Truly moving enough to shake heaven and earth.

Furthermore—

Although Young Lady Meatball could open other-dimensional rifts, the spiritual ether inside its body wasn't actually that advanced; converting it, it was probably only around the fifth tier of spiritual accumulation.

Rod was still confident he could handle it.

He wasn't the stubborn sort who believed all cosmic creatures should be killed.

Look, even a mind flayer he'd been able to take into his forest.

But the premise, of course, was keeping it under control.

"Master, aren't you going to kill it?"

Tally asked in a low voice.

"Tally, when did I raise you to be this cruel?"

"Who's raising whom?."

Watching Yuna listened to the succubus and her own master's wolf-like secret, her expression beside them unchanged.

She was used to it.

Now with outsiders present, she'd already restrained herself somewhat.

But when it involved dangerous cosmic creatures, for the master's safety, even if it meant overstepping, she had to speak up and warn him:

"Master, Watching Yuna also recommends we eliminate it—not only the cosmic creature, but also the summoner, the mushroom-man."

The drider's gaze turned cold.

Looking at Toru and the meatball, it was like looking at a pile of unsorted wet garbage.

Rod nodded.

Indeed, if they were going to kill, they'd have to kill the mushroom-man Toru along with it.

The fact that these outcast mushroom-men could 'mind-link' and communicate with cosmic creatures was absurd.

Logically speaking, mushroom-man history could even be traced back to the Second Epoch; after spanning three epochs, if mushroom-men truly could communicate with cosmic creatures through their own power, it definitely wouldn't have stayed hidden.

But there had never been any related records.

If one dared to speculate, and ruled out Toru's personal peculiarity, could one guess that the barrier between the other dimension and reality had grown thinner?

Rod shook his head, no longer indulging in baseless wild thoughts.

He looked at the mushroom-man and meatball huddled together in the corner.

"Toru, establishing contact with cosmic creatures is a capital offense in every country, every race—you're not unaware of that, are you?"

The mushroom-man's demeanor changed from its earlier languidness to urgency and agitation.

He shielded himself tightly in front of the meatball Torri.

"I will protect Torri with my life."

"Don't spout useless empty words—one sword strike down, even if you two copied yourselves three or four times and stacked together, I could still split you in two; it'd just take a bit more effort, that's all."

Toru gritted his teeth and said nothing.

Rod continued with a smile: "Relax, I'm a soft-hearted person, willing to give you two a chance."

"What chance."

"An enslavement spell, my mushroom-man friend—I want to enslave your girlfriend."

Not only Toru, but even Watching Yuna and Tally stared at him in astonishment.

Toru snarled, "Impossible!"

Watching Yuna forced down the bitterness in her heart: "If Master truly likes her, Watching Yuna is also willing to serve that Young Lady Toli."

Tally was overjoyed: "A cosmic creature?! We can taste a cosmic creature this quickly?? I thought the first one would be that bone dragon Megan!"

Rod spread his hands.

Why the hell is it assumed to be me who has to do this meatball?

Enslaving doesn't mean you have to touch it; it's just a safe means of control.

Look—Zombie Selina, Long Hun Nao Lin, Mind Flayer Hart, Little Little Bangde the pony girl, and the witch cat way over at 【Cat Demon Tranquil Paradise】—we haven't touched any of them, have we?

But enslaving someone else's girlfriend...

Somehow feels a bit unethical.

"This is just a means of control. Please, take a good look at these two beauties beside me—do you think I'd get aroused by a meatball?"

Hearing that, Watching Yuna rubbed her hands together, sweetness welling up inside.

Tally, meanwhile, grinned wickedly and blew into his ear: "You little pest—praising your own aunt's looks both openly and on the sly. Are you thinking of getting fresh with me again?"

"That's not necessarily true. No one can face Toli's pure heart and remain unmoved."

Toru muttered.

Rod sneered: "Hurry up. If you don't agree, you die. Stop dragging your feet. Look at your Toli—her spirituality keeps hurting her body. You don't want her to die in agony, do you?"

The large patches of blood seeping from the flesh's surface gathered together, falling into a distinct curtain of blood.

The Myconid's face was full of heartache.

Then he spoke with Toli for a few minutes, and finally nodded toward Rod.

【Nu Yi Cheng Gong】

【Enslavement Target 15: Toli (Real Name: oeicd·203·ldxo)】

【Race: Abyssal Devourer】

【Age: 8】

【Obedience: 51】

【Evaluation: A wanderer drifting through other dimensions. The race's name is quite intimidating, but in reality they're better at running away, and most don't live past twenty.

Speechless. You're enslaving this thing too?】

Eight years old?

Toru, something's off about you.

But what surprised Rod even more was that this meatball Toli's obedience toward him was as high as 51.

(End of Chapter)