Chapter 636: The Recovery Method and the Panacea

"It's Rod!"

"Rod's here, Rod's here!"

"I want to be the first to hug Rod!"

He had just escaped the warm welcome at the dock.

Rod had only just stepped into the garden of Coral Bay Manor when he heard the girls' sweet, coquettish shouts from afar.

Then came the rapid pitter-patter of footsteps.

The 'auction pieces,' with their sickly and strange beauty, came flying down the side building's staircase, faces alight with excitement as they rushed over.

But on foot, they simply couldn't match those in the air.

The winged elven twin sisters, hand in hand, leaped from the fourth-floor corridor and, with great daring, glided to the very front.

"Ah ya! Hili and Boli are cheating!"

"Cheating, cheating!"

"Ahahahahaha—" *2

The two sisters paid no heed, laughing heartily as they imagined themselves throwing themselves into Rod's arms.

However, as miscasts of 【Factor Compounding】, those wings were more ornamental than practical.

This meant they couldn't fly or control themselves properly at all.

So, just as they were about to land in front of Rod, they predictably lost control, spinning in midair and crying out in panic.

Rod couldn't tell whether to laugh or cry.

He could only leap lightly, catching the two sisters in midair, and drift gently to the ground.

"We're first!" *2

The two sisters beamed with laughter, clinging to Rod's waist and refusing to let go.

"Then I'm second!"

"No, I am!"

By now the miscast girls had already rushed up and crashed into Rod's arms. To keep them from getting hurt, Rod could only passively lie down and act as a mattress, smiling wryly as the girls piled on him one by one.

These girls were still young, still very much at the clingy age.

And after a month of taking diluted 【Genesis Dewdrops】 to survive, they were naturally even more attached to Rod.

By comparison, the little horse-girl Little Little Bangde was practically a street urchin who never came home.

"What nonsense!"

The elf Lady Kali's stern voice suddenly rang out.

The heavy, humming friction of gravity magic filled the air; every girl, Rod included, felt their body weight vanish, replaced by a pulling force from the sky.

【Anti-Gravity】.

The girls screamed as they were yanked into the air, then were plucked down one by one by Lady Kali's mage hand.

Lined up neatly on the ground, they hunched their necks, too timid to act up in front of their elven teacher.

In no time at all, only Rod remained in the air.

Lady Kali scowled and shot him a glare, then canceled the 【Anti-Gravity】 spell outright.

Rod let out a laugh, twisted his body in midair, and pulled off a superhero landing.

"Whoa!"

"I want to learn that!"

He immediately drew a burst of applause from the girls.

"Quiet!"

The chatter stopped dead.

Lady Kali swept a cold gaze over everyone: "Where's the class monitor!"

"Class monitor Little Bangde skipped class with a big squirrel."

A cute lizard-girl with pink scales answered.

"Hmph!"

The elven Young Lady turned and shot Rod another glare.

"."

Truth be told, it was shameful.

The little horse-girl Little Little Bangde, as Lady Kali's very first student, was the tallest and the highest-ranked, so naturally she got the class monitor position.

Lady Kali had originally hoped to keep her in line with a sense of responsibility.

But unexpectedly, that one only listened when ordered, not when summoned, and every few days she'd sneak off on adventures with the big squirrel Cui Qian.

"Vice monitor Hila, take the students back to class!"

"Yes, Teacher Kali."

The cute lizard-girl with pink scales answered crisply.

The girls didn't dare anger Teacher Kali any further; they cast reluctant glances at Rod as they lined up and headed back to the side building.

Watching their retreating backs.

Rod walked over to Lady Kali: "Sorry for the trouble."

"As if you've troubled me little? I simply can't stand by and watch someone manipulate life and defy nature like this—the Campbell family, hmph!"

"Someone's helping me track down the Campbell family and the Yige Sect. If you're unhappy about it, you're welcome to come with me and clean them up when the time comes."

As the former Grand Commander of the underground resistance, Carter displayed extraordinary potential.

In just one short month, he had already expanded the resistance's ranks to over a hundred people, and personally wiped out three underground hideouts.

Besides, he maxed out that aspect of being a person too.

Every so often, he would send secret letters to the backer, Rod, reporting on the situation.

"Sure."

"How are the girls' aptitudes? I noticed the two Hiliboli sisters are already at third-tier."

"The energy of the 【Creation Dewdrops】 is very strong and pure — not only did it save their lives, but taking it long-term can enhance aptitude. I really don't know where you got such dogshit luck, to actually have a constitution like this."

Her eyes narrowed slightly as she glanced at Tally, who was behind Rod and bowing politely in greeting.

She still felt it wasn't quite the norm.

After a moment's thought, she still asked: "Have you two... had relations?"

"Not recently. Why?"

"The Abstinence Pills shouldn't linger this long — perhaps you could try stimulating things in some other way."

Tally's face flushed bright red in an instant.

She waved her hands in a panic: "Lady Caliste! That sort of thing is still too early! Master and I... we don't need that kind of thing either!"

Caliste sighed: "I really didn't expect a succubus to say something like that to me."

The two walked and chatted.

Rod, meanwhile, recounted everything he had seen and heard at sea during the day.

The elf young lady's brows knit tighter and tighter as she listened.

"The water-quality testing hasn't stopped during this period, and the upstream waterway ritual can filter out corpses and impurities."

"It might be the situation over in the Kalinshan Kingdom — don't overthink it. But during this period, I'll still need your help checking the Hansen River situation with me."

The dog-person Sharon needed to patrol the sea routes during this period.

The Mutant Siren's body wasn't all that tough — she could handle it easily.

Actually, during the day, Rod's dragon breath + size-up had been a bit of using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

"These kids... you'll have to find me a substitute teacher."

"Don't worry, already found one — a professor from the Bahadur Academy of Magic."

"That half-vampire? She can't even sort out her own memories — how great a professor can she be?"

"Naturally not as good as you — otherwise she wouldn't just be a substitute."

"Hmph."

Caliste let out a hum, her tone lifting upward.

Her smoothly lined throat bobbed, carrying a hint of coquettish flavor.

"Also, give me more 【Creation Dewdrops】, and if you project your Verdant Field into it, I might be able to concoct some spirit medicines to counter that Mutant's domain."

Rod felt oddly bashful: "My essence is practically becoming a cure-all at this point."

"Just making use of what's there. If your blood worked, where would I find such filthy stuff!"

Filthy, and you still ch—

Back then, those two times you night-raided me, you were swallowing it down like you couldn't wait.

"I'll give it to you later. Recently Tally's state hasn't been quite right — it's been a long time for me too, I'll need to find someone to help."

Rod said, troubled.

Caliste's brow arched, and her footsteps slowed.

Under the night sky, white boots reached up to her thighs, revealing absurdly long legs; above them was a bodysuit clinging tight to her high, rounded hips and a waist one could just barely encircle with a hand.

Perfect proportions, exquisite and natural.

She turned her head away from Rod, but the pink that crept up to the tips of her perked elf ears betrayed her.

"Th-that, um, the frogs last night were pretty loud, you know — it even affected my lesson prep. How about—"

"Rod? Rod's here!"

The little horse-girl Little Little Bangde's laughter rang out from behind at an inopportune moment.

She bounced over — at just over one meter forty, she was already a big girl, but she still flew at Rod and hung off him.

Rod, ignoring her protests, pushed the little one down.

He smiled and looked at Lady Kali.

"Want me to catch it for you?"

Lady Kali glanced at the little one beside her, forcing out a righteous, above-board look, just about to agree—

The little horse-girl Little Little Bangde's black-and-white eyes rolled in a circle.

"Eh? Rod, you have the scent of new girls on you! And two of them, both with a sea-fishy smell — hahahahaha!"

Lady Kali's expression immediately cooled, turning cold and icy.

She stared coldly at Rod: "'It's been a long time for me too'? Heh."

"..."

Saying so, she turned and walked off.

Clearly, the frog-catching activity was off.

Rod looked helplessly at Little Little Bangde clinging to his waist: "You little rascal — you didn't do that on purpose, did you?"

"What is Rod saying? Little Bangde doesn't understand!"

She absolutely did it on purpose.

(End of chapter)