Chapter 701: The Importance of the Waist and Extraction

Twin Finger Mountain remained as gloomy as ever.

Dense giant locust trees blocked out the sky and sun; Rod, who had just been soaking up the morning sun outside the forest, immediately felt drowsy.

"What are you doing?"

The Elf Young Lady scowled, looking at the object Rod handed over.

A harp carved from pale white floating cloud wood, its wood light yet tough, naturally bearing patterns like flowing clouds on its surface.

The frame edges were inlaid with sky-blue stones and mother-of-pearl, and the strings were silver threads that faintly glowed with blue-white electric light.

One of the Domain items gifted by Kraft Starwhisper: 【Cloudsinger Harp】.

A look of surprise flashed in the Elf Young Lady's beautiful eyes as she sized up the harp from top to bottom.

Although she didn't take it, her eyes already expressed that she couldn't bear to part with it.

"It's for you."

Artistic Domains were obviously nothing to do with a rough man like Rod.

In fact, it wasn't just him.

Aside from Lady Kali, counting heads, the only one in the forest who could barely be linked to music was the Arachne Elf, Watching Yuna.

Miss Spider's tone was pleasant; before taking the post of Coral Bay Manager, while cleaning Rod's room and tending to his desires, she would hum some cheerful little songs. I heard she also plays instruments.

After all, she is an Elf; her talent for music and art is beyond question.

What?

Banshee Chris?

If we count her, then the number of people in the forest who can be linked to music would have to be subtracted to minus one.

"Domain? Hmph. I don't need it."

"If you don't want it, I'll give it to Chris; she likes art."

Lady Kali's expression stiffened; she gritted her teeth as if imagining something unbearable.

She snorted coldly, her silver teeth clenched tight, words slipping from between her teeth: "Th-then give it to her."

Rod couldn't help but laugh, shoving the harp into her hands.

"If you like to listen, I don't want to listen. You can give music lessons to the wrong-cast girls; count it as my educational investment."

"... As for the specific price, I'll add it to my debt. Hmph..."

Rod had previously given Lady Kali over two million Jin Along; the Elf's mouth was stubborn, insisting it was a loan and she would find a way to repay it later.

The Elf Young Lady seemed unwilling to let the man see her expression, so she walked forward a short distance quickly.

With the high temperatures of the weather.

Lady Kali had also changed her clothing style; the eternal, perfectly body-proportioning one-piece bodysuit she never changed was no longer worn because a certain Forest Warden's eyes were constantly wandering everywhere.

The lower body featured combat pants mainly black with orange short lines as accents, with slightly visible knee-guard structures, and high-heeled long boots reaching up to the calves.

The upper body was a short cape over brown leather; the leather completely wrapped her naturally even, full but not exaggerated chest. The cool-feeling short cape might be some cooling magic item; it had a high collar and even covered her shoulders and chest.

To forbid someone's lecherous gaze from staring at her constantly.

However.

This seemingly secure outfit had one fatal flaw.

Under the brown leather layer was a black skin-tight bodysuit protecting the skin.

The bodysuit was likely one-piece, extending from the waistband of the combat pants up to the swan-like neck with its graceful lines; in the waist area the brown leather couldn't cover, the perfectly fitted bodysuit was exposed to someone's gaze.

Hollowed-out designs on both sides for heat dissipation, perfectly fitting the figure; neither overly tight nor leaving a single bit of extra gap.

The waist was slender yet full of strength; the bodysuit fabric tightened slightly here, the cloth pulling gently with movement, faintly revealing the smooth, naturally flexible and beautiful muscle lines along the sides of the waist.

"Master, you're drooling."

Tally cupped her palm under Rod's chin, intending to catch it.

Then she snorted discontentedly, "It's just a waist; is it that good-looking?"

"You just don't get it, Tally. Do you think simply enhancing the chest and buttocks is good? No, no, no. The most important thing is always the waist connecting the two. Once the waist is not good-looking or gets thick, no matter where you add details or which part is made perfect to the extreme, it will all be ruined."

"Is that so?"

"Look at Sharon; her chest isn't big, right? But she has an hourglass figure, her waist is incredibly thin, instantly highlighting a full lower body that is neither wild nor unnatural. I love it so much."

Tally pondered, feeling something click in her mind.

"Look at Vanessa again; that vampire isn't tall, right? Her upper and lower measurements aren't bad, right? And she's a bit fleshy, right? At first glance she looks like a chubby kid, but she has a thin waist and long legs, making her body proportions directly maxed out. A top-tier little steel cannon. I love her too, okay... although she won't let me do it right now."

"Indeed... Tally also feels Vanessa's figure is quite tempting... but when transforming, she always can't find the critical point."

"So, someone like Lady Kali, with not a single bit of excess fat and not a shred of deliberate thinness, but rather that natural evenness, the most perfect golden ratio; no matter how you look, you never get tired of it."

Rod, having spoken grandly, crossed his arms and looked down coldly at the humble succubus.

Tally beamed with joy, clapping: "Master is so strong!"

Vivian, not understanding such a complex topic, blinked her eyes and clapped along.

"I heard it all."

Lady Kali, with her left foot stepping on a raised rock, turned back cold as ice.

Under the tight combat pants, the junction of buttocks and thighs flowed like clouds and water; the roundness was round, the straightness was straight; another feast for the eyes.

"I was praising you; are you happy, scowling Elf?"

"Be careful or I'll throw you down, stupid succubus."

Amidst the noisy bickering.

the maze entrance had already been reached.

【Flawless Crystal Ground】 was hidden within a ruined maze; both Rod and Lady Kali were former invitees, and the maze passes on their persons were still usable.

A flash of spiritual light flickered.

Half a year later, Rod entered the 【Flawless Crystal Land】 once more.

Plop—

Rod's first sensation was his foot stepping into mud.

As the light descended, a scene like a barren desert wasteland came into view.

"Hmm?"

The so-called 【Flawless Crystal Land】 had its greatest feature: an environment like crystal stones.

Crystal stone ground, trees, rocks—everything should be like that.

Yet now, before his eyes, there was nothing; the only similarity was this thin crystal ground beneath his feet, stained with powder and mixed with moisture.

After all, the 【Flawless Crystal Land】 was a nascent dungeon, lacking the bizarre and unstable rules of mature dungeons.

Was such a large-scale change a normal phenomenon as the dungeon transitioned to maturity?

Rod turned his head to look at Lady Kali.

Needless to say, the Young Lady had already begun her investigation; the magic array beneath her feet had now contracted and returned.

Her expression was Ning Zhong.

"Forget about a mature dungeon; this place hardly counts as a dungeon anymore. Most of the spiritual power within has been drained. In less than two months, this place will completely collapse and wither."

"Drained?"

"Indeed. Even now, a distinct anomalous force is crazily siphoning the dungeon's source power."

Rod was stunned.

Suddenly, he remembered a time when he had added a few units of growth spiritual power to a crystal tree in the 【Flawless Crystal Land】, and one of them had spawned the 【Forceful Seizure】 skill.

He opened his mouth, "Could it be..."

(End of this chapter)