Chapter 376: Slaying the Dragon's Reinforcements

Countryman meets countryman — and gets fleeced without recourse?

【Rod: Seriously?】

【Kalliste: Coral Bay is ultimately a threat to us. Two chromatic dragons on the front battlefield are terrifying in combat. This person has experience slaying dragons, which is useful to us. Use your enslavement spell to bring him under control.】

【Rod: Experience slaying dragons, huh? That is indeed not bad. Hmm, didn't I tell you? My enslavement spell can only be used on females.】

【Kalliste:?】

A question mark came flying over, carrying plenty of meaning; Rod could be sure part of it was contempt for his character.

Forget it.

The world misunderstanding him was something he was used to. He, Rod, was a respectable man; he didn't care for such rumors.

Kalliste's gaze swept over.

Icy-cold, and a little hurtful.

Back to business.

Honestly speaking, Bernhard had offered a great deal.

Rod gave it a rough once-over — there had to be a million Jin Along in there, plus a pile of grain seeds developed by the elves.

At least in his heart, it was already enough to make him help this male elf break free from the Emerald Court's control.

Moreover, taking the initiative to control Ashley, the Third Elder's daughter of the Elder Council, also showed his sincerity.

"I understand your request, but there's one more condition."

"I thought I'd already given enough."

Bernhard frowned.

"It's enough, but this concerns the survival of the forest and Shi Ying Town. The dark elves and dragons from Coral Bay watching us hungrily — you should know about that, right?"

"If it's that, no problem. I'm willing to step in and assist."

He visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

Can't be helped — a man being too good-looking is also a sin.

Humans' tastes were exceedingly strange; they were the race on the continent with the highest number of interracial marriages.

This Warden was clearly a lecher — there were girls of every race in the forest, and one couldn't rule out his wicked thoughts flaring up, his tastes suddenly changing, and him deciding to "collect the whole set" with himself as the prize.

Now, if it came to a fight, things were much simpler — just breaking a sweat, not getting drenched in sticky sweat.

"That's good then, Tally. Draw up a contract."

After all, they hadn't met often and weren't that familiar; instinctively, Rod felt it was better to draw up a contract.

Bernhard also said he didn't mind.

The soul contract's contents were fairly normal — an ordinary trade contract, unlike the unequal treaty signed before.

Signed and sealed in no time.

"What do you plan to do with this?"

Rod pointed at the unconscious Ashley, the Third Elder's daughter of the Elder Council.

Bernhard pointed south — that was the Kosh Plains, full of beast-plague patients.

Clearly, he intended to dispose of this woman.

"This is also why we had to keep our heads down from the start — we can't let anyone see that we came to the forest."

"In that case, how about giving her to me."

Kalliste reminded him: "What if someone with sharp eyes sees her face and informs the Emerald Court? You know what would happen, don't you?"

"Fine, my bad, Bernhard. Handle her however you like — just be clean about it."

Bernhard saw this icy, unapproachable talented woman of the Emerald Court actually thoughtfully giving Rod a reminder, while the Warden, who held the dominant position, accepted it calmly.

It looked a bit like an old married couple covering for each other.

He couldn't help but show a faint smile:

"Before coming, Ashley had wanted to capture Kalliste and bring back news of Windwall Forest's situation to the Emerald Court. She thought money alone could buy off Mr. Rod. Looking back now, she was off by quite a margin."

Rod laughed along:

"Indeed, she was overthinking it. No one can take her away from me."

Saying so, he glanced at the elven Young Lady beside him, and was startled when he saw her expression.

Kalliste was stiff all over, stubbornly biting her lip and putting on her usual contemptuous scowl — but the flush on her skin had already betrayed her.

Scalding heat crawled up from her neck, covering her exquisitely perfect face and long elven ears, a charming contrast of girlish sweetness and proud spirit.

She rolled her Bai Xi throat, now flushed pink, and let out a muffled hum.

"Hmph."

Bernhard sensed the atmosphere was off; he had never had any interest in matters of the heart — his own or anyone else's.

"Then I'll take my leave first. Disposing of the body will take some time."

He grabbed Ashley, cast invisibility, and flew off without looking back.

After watching him leave, Rod turned back to Kalliste.

The two gazed at each other in silence; something in their eyes tangled together.

Then a small head poked into their field of vision from the lower right.

Tally said, displeased: "What are you two making eyes at each other about? Master is mine! No elves allowed at the party!"

Kalliste came back to her senses and hurriedly averted her gaze.

She forced herself to look cold, but in truth her thoughts were a tangled mess.

Tree spirit Vivian walked over, blinked her big eyes shining with Bai Guang, and gently took her hand:

"Rod, very comfortable, together."

Being stared at so innocently and purely by the tree spirit, Lady Kali felt an inexplicable sense of guilt, and was also inexplicably stirred by certain memories and sensations from before.

A tingling numbness.

"Vivian! Don't invite her! She'll steal our food!"

"A girl shouldn't say things like that, Vivian." Kali didn't pay any attention to the loudly protesting succubus, and tucked the bluish-green hair in front of the tree spirit girl's forehead behind her ear.

Then she glared fiercely at Rod:

"What on earth have you been teaching Vivian to say!"

Rod gave a wry smile: "I didn't teach her that. Even when 【Ke Yin】 is under control, it still has quite an effect on her — it's as if the emotional deficiency the tree spirits are born with has been cured. At least the part about lust has been cured."

Vivian turned her head to look at him, expressionless: "Vivian, not lewd."

"Of course, of course, Vivian isn't the least bit lewd — it's only because I wanted to that you went along with it."

"Correct."

Rod was amused by her utterly serious expression and pulled her into his embrace.

Vivian obediently buried herself against his chest, her belly and front pressed tightly against him, and even her legs tried to squeeze between Rod's.

Her smooth, tender cheeks nuzzled back and forth, as if she wanted to rub away every bit of air between her and Rod so the two of them could be pressed together completely.

"I want a hug too!"

Tally, jealous, threw a coquettish flying tackle at him — and was then held at arm's length by Rod with a single hand pinning her head in place.

"Eeeek—"

The succubus struggled forward with all her might, but couldn't budge that broad palm in the slightest.

Watching Yuna watching the scene from behind silently swallowed, only feeling her palms go numb.

I want to hug Master too

At this point Rod looked up again and found that Lady Kali before him had already left.

He didn't mind — elves were like that to begin with.

"Rod."

At that moment, the rabbit-person Auna walked over, her expression solemn as she looked toward the mind flayer Hart at the edge of the woods.

"That is…"

"A mind flayer — the new species that came out of that super volcano. I didn't tell you because you've been busy lately. Don't worry, I can keep him under control."

Hart had all his abilities suppressed by the power of Yong Nu Yi Zhou — of course, except for helping him block the 【Unknown Rat-Person's Vision】.

Right now this mind flayer was nothing more than a feeble octopus-headed creature who couldn't even lift a hand.

(End of Chapter)