Chapter 623: Accidental Ingestion and Warning

Not long after, the stomachs of the alien girls were already full.

As auction items, they were required to strictly control their body size, so the food they ate daily in the Campbell Maze had absolutely nothing to do with delicacies.

The various foods at tonight's banquet were heavy in oil and salt, naturally allowing them to open their bellies and devour a feast.

After all, they were all still young; once full, they grew tired from playing and curled up on little cushions to rest and doze off.

Only then did the people roasting the meat formally begin their dinner.

Rod served a large piece of freshly roasted meat to the Tooth Fairy, Rosalia.

He himself held a lamb stew brought by the Arachne, Watching Yuna, and a large chunk of hard bread.

He plopped down beside her.

Looking up at the raindrops dripping and splashing outside the rain-shielding barrier, he continued to eat.

"Don't blame Captain Eve's attitude; Councilor Marco is her father, so naturally she sides with their way. I can't eat this much."

Rosalia cut half the roasted meat, stood up, and placed it into the bowl of Little Little Bangde, the pony girl nearby who had been eating from start to finish.

"Father?"

Rod paused, "But I saw some black-green scales growing on her neck and chest? Isn't she a non-human race?"

"That is a special case of atavism; the mages have verified she is actually no different from humans at all."

After the Tooth Fairy Young Lady finished speaking, she elegantly cut a piece of meat and was about to put it in her mouth.

But she paused slightly, her beautiful eyes gazing over with a strange look.

"Chest? It sounds like you seem very concerned about Captain Eve's chest."

"You can't blame me; all men are like this."

Saying this,

Rod instinctively glanced down at the other's chest.

Today, the Tooth Fairy wore a soft leather knee-length corset dress, with the waist tightened by a thin belt woven from silver thread.

With the waist tightened, her already upright chest naturally became even more prominent.

It was fully stuffed out into a rounded curve, slightly drooping and pressing against the corset's laces.

At this moment, she leaned forward slightly and elegantly put the roasted meat into her mouth, squeezing out a faintly visible snow-white cleavage within the small V-shaped neckline.

Sensing Rod's gaze,

Rosalia pressed a napkin to her lips and glared at him in annoyance.

Then she sighed: "I am not naturally a person who loves to get angry, yet why do I always find myself unable to hold back when I am by your side?"

Rod smiled and teased her: "Have you considered my angel investment project? It guarantees an eight-rank promotion."

"Hmph, if you can help me kill all the culprits behind the Little Fairy Tragedy from fifty years ago, being enslaved by you wouldn't be unacceptable~~"

She forcibly returned to her usual state, smiling with elegant charm and coquettishness.

Calculatingly, she rubbed her shoulder against Rod's arm.

Although the promise she made was nine times out of ten nonsense, this girl was very skilled at manipulating people.

"Let's not talk about the future yet; just give me the reward for killing Vincent first. Two kisses should be fine, right?"

"You!"

Rosalia immediately lost her composure and became furious.

She clenched her pink fist and instinctively struck out.

Damn it!

Rosalia always felt she could not calm down in front of this man! It was very difficult to employ the subtle maneuvering tactics she usually used to deal with various high officials!

She also remembered how she had been tricked by this guy in the Campbell Maze a while back, getting her hand cannoned several times.

Her face turned pale then red, feeling both embarrassed and unwilling.

Rod smiled and stopped teasing her.

He said seriously: "If you need help, speak up anytime; we are all friends."

"Friends... hmm, thank you, Rod."

Rosalia repeated the word "friends," looking somewhat dazed on her exquisite, mature face.

She was not allowed to ponder where this feeling of daze came from.

A piercing scream from not far away interrupted her thoughts.

"Ah~~~ Ah!!!!"

Rod was also startled.

He looked up.

He saw the Scorpion Woman, Hera, lazily lying on a viewing tree in the garden, while below the tree, Tally was rolling on the ground clutching her throat.

Her face was flushed red from holding her breath, her expression panicked, reaching out toward Rod in desperate plea for help.

Seeing her breath was unaffected, Rod knew nothing was wrong.

He walked over leisurely.

Behind him, Rosalia and Little Little Bangde, the pony girl who was still devouring meat, followed along.

"What's going on here?"

Tally screamed: "This Scorpion Woman wants to harm me! Master! Settle this for me, Master!!!"

Hera didn't even bother to move.

She lay sprawled on the tree trunk, her arms and legs hanging down naturally, her scorpion tail lifting along with her hips, her posture graceful and seductive.

Her purple lips curved upward, and the beauty mark below her corner of the mouth emitted a purple light.

Lazily, she said: "Your succubus secretly put something in my stew, so I fed it back to her."

"Slander! She's slandering me! You know my character, Master — how could you not know by now?!"

Tally scrambled up from the ground, her face flushed red as she retorted.

But after catching Rod's quiet, lingering gaze.

She immediately backed down at the speed of light, wailing: "It's a Desire-Severing Pill! Master, save me!"

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The other girls, not far off, had also heard the commotion.

The elf Kali, the dog-girl Sharon, and the vampire Vanessa — the three of them were top-tier talents when it came to magic.

But only Kali could recognize it.

She crossed her arms, face sour:

"That's a special technique of Lilith, the succubus progenitor. It can briefly sever a person's desire — a disgusting succubus trick. It should have been lost to time; even I don't know how it's made."

Sharon let out a gleeful, schadenfreude-laden "Aha": "Serves you right, little Tally."

"You—!"

The spider-elf Watching Yuna immediately began worrying about her own master's desire-management problem: "I have some antidote potions — want to try them, Young Lady Tally?"

Kali shook her head: "They won't work. This is a soul-purifying medicinal effect — either you resist it, or you just have to wait for the drug's power to dissipate."

The ghoul Pan Ni's eyes lit up and she immediately raised her hand: "Master, I can go to the ranger cabin and take Senior Tally's place!"

"Hm?!"

Sharon, guarding her territory, instinctively glared viciously over — it's not your turn yet.

Pan Ni got such a fright that her whole body jolted, her fringe trembling all over, and she meekly lowered her arm. She definitely couldn't take on this plague-wielding creature.

The tiefling Sehiel had already sneaked up beside Rod, secretly grabbed a handful of his butt, stood on tiptoe, leaned to his ear, and breathed: "I can take her place too — every night."

The more Tally listened, the more miserable and desperate she felt.

She felt that everyone around her was a vulture circling and a cat waiting to steal her cream.

And the Desire-Severing Pill's effect was taking hold — she could clearly feel her body's sensitivity rapidly dropping, she no longer craved her master, and down below had gone dry too.

The vampire Vanessa spoke up to correct them: "You're overlooking one issue — she's a succubus. Even without desire, she still needs to feed from Robin."

The female beastman Amy was stunned for a moment: "Robin? Who's Robin? Oh — Tally's cheating."

Amid all the bickering.

The sound of flapping wings came from the sky.

Rod turned his head and saw a harpy, dressed as a messenger and dripping wet, burst in from outside the barrier.

"Ya, Rod, found you!"

"Lady Kali, long time no see."

She was the harpy Rod had hired some time ago to deliver a letter to the Agil family.

"Long time no see~ There's an urgent letter for you!"

Saying so.

The slightly boyish Lady Kali rummaged through the messenger bag in a flurry, and after quite a while let out a cheer, handing over a white letter.

Rod had assumed it was a reply from the Agil family, but on closer look realized it had been sent by the rabbit-girl Auna.

"Isn't there the Far-Speech Link? Why send a letter?"

Rod opened it curiously, and a line of text immediately came into view.

— 【All dwarves of the Demon-Control Alliance colluded with 'Heart of Locke' in a rebellion. Do not use any dwarven products!】

(End of chapter)