“What are you planning to do with this kitten?” After the auction, Laeticia, for a rare occasion, didn’t invite Yin for dinner, but found an excuse to leave Yin’s side.
Her intention was naturally to satisfy her curiosity. Yin had spent a large sum of money to buy a kitten that had no use other than being cute. Wasn’t that enough to pique anyone’s curiosity?
So, after retrieving her own auctioned item, Laeticia immediately followed Yin’s scent and found the silver-haired girl.
When Laeticia found Yin, Yin was wrapping a large black robe around the kitten-girl, seemingly intending to have her wear Yin’s standard attire.
This referred to a large black robe that could conceal all distinguishing features.
Upon seeing Laeticia suddenly appear in the air not far away, the kitten instinctively flinched. Her small, tender hands also grabbed Yin’s wrist, as if fearing something.
This kitten trusts Yin so much? Laeticia looked interested. Who knew what had happened in such a short time to make such a kitten develop such dependence on Yin.
“A substitute.” Yin replied plainly, gesturing for Laeticia to come closer. “This kitten has abnormally vigorous life energy. I think she can serve as a substitute for a wilderness beast.”
Abnormally vigorous? I didn’t feel anything! Laeticia looked unconvinced. “My senses are very strong, don’t lie to me. No, even if you lie to me, don’t lie to yourself. If you really can’t find the flesh and blood of a giant beast, it’s not a problem for me to have my sister go kill one.”
Yin’s expression shifted towards helplessness. She held the kitten-girl’s hand and pushed the kitten towards Laeticia. “Feel it again now.”
Catching the bewildered kitten-girl clumsily, Laeticia stared intently at the poor kitten. The more she looked, the more she felt that Yin might have a mental issue. This kitten clearly had no unusual features, her spirit was weak, and her body… huh?!
Isn’t her body a bit too solid?
Quickly pulling the kitten-girl’s hands out of the black robe, Laeticia’s fingers moved over the kitten-girl’s fair arms. As time passed, Laeticia’s expression became increasingly fascinating.
I really misjudged her. She sighed. This kitten possessed an extremely terrifying life force, even surpassing that of the wilderness beasts. However, this life force was restrained deep within the kitten-girl’s body by a mysterious power. Even without close contact, Laeticia couldn’t detect the anomaly within the kitten-girl.
But Yin seemed to have seen the kitten’s peculiarity with just a glance from afar and spent money to buy her. That insight was truly sharp.
“This is incredible. Is it a seal? Who placed it? Was it benevolent or malicious?” A torrent of questions welled up in Laeticia’s mind. The sealing method was so exquisite that it seemed only a deity could have done it.
Even Laeticia, a newly initiated deity, couldn’t see it, which proved the value of this seal.
“That will forever remain a mystery. Unless we can go to the beastmen’s territory one day, we won’t get the answer to this question. And by then, this kitten will probably already…” Yin winked at Laeticia. Her unfinished sentence likely meant that she would already have been turned into Yin’s new body.
“No, no, no. Her life force is so strong that I have a ten-percent chance of preserving her life during the crystallization process,” Laeticia immediately shook her head. This kitten was a cash cow. As long as she was alive, she could continuously produce high-quality flesh and blood crystals. “I propose we take her for an experiment right now to see just how high her life force has reached.”
“My alchemy workshop isn’t finished yet.”
“It’s okay, it’s just an experiment, not the formal start. After all, my methods need to be adjusted if the raw materials change. If you don’t mind, you can also go to my workshop.” Laeticia told Yin. A few days ago, she had her maids set up a relatively basic alchemy workshop. Although it couldn’t complete commissions on Yin’s level, it was more than enough for a small experiment.
Yin naturally wouldn’t refuse. After receiving the workshop’s location coordinates, Yin directly used a teleportation spell to bring Laeticia and the kitten-girl outside the newly set-up alchemy workshop.
The precision and distance of this teleportation made Laeticia quite envious. She now fully understood the vast difference between her spatial magic and Yin’s. If she were to cross such a long distance, it would require at least ten seconds of casting.
Moreover, her accuracy couldn’t be as high as Yin’s. To achieve such high precision, she would need to leave a spatial anchor point there and capture the fluctuations of this anchor point when using the teleportation spell to transmit to this location.
In short, it was very troublesome, completely different from Yin, who would ask for a location and reach it with a wave of her hand. It seemed that Yin being solo-killed by her before was indeed her getting lucky.
Under normal circumstances, she really couldn’t defeat this girl.
As expected of a deity, her strength was that outrageous.
“Your workshop… is a bit too luxurious,” Yin’s expression showed a moment of surprise upon seeing the grand villa before her, as if she hadn’t expected Laeticia’s workshop to be such a luxurious building.
“Uh, my workshop is here, in the basement.” Then, Laeticia shattered Yin’s illusion. She patted Yin’s shoulder and pointed to a small general store behind them, saying, “Long-term lease, it was quite cheap.”
Although it was called an alchemy workshop, it was more accurate to describe it as a laboratory because most of its clientele were some unsuccessful ‘scientists.’ These ‘scientists’ couldn’t obtain proper funding from the central city and could only huddle in these small places, obsessively trying to create something astonishing.
In most cases, they did create something astonishing, in a physical sense.
And those who were unlucky would disappear from this world forever when those astonishing things appeared.
“It’s a gathering place for a bunch of weirdos. I don’t really like this place, but the management is lax. As long as you pay, you can rent a laboratory and mess around with it as you please,” Laeticia explained, leading Yin and the kitten-girl into the small store filled with a dark atmosphere.
After stating her rented room number and passphrase, Laeticia and her two ‘little followers’ descended into the darkness. After passing through a deep and humid narrow stone path, they arrived outside a room that looked somewhat precarious.
The eerie atmosphere and the gust of unknown wind made the kitten-girl cling tightly to Yin’s clothes, her big, watery orange cat eyes trembling, clearly terrified.
“Although it looks a bit unsatisfactory, the inside is alright.” Laeticia took out a key and opened the seemingly moss-covered door, turning to the two and saying.
As she said, behind the dilapidated door was a bright laboratory, equipped with almost all possible instruments and equipment. The only issue was that these items appeared to be second-hand.
“It’s a bit old, but it’s enough for us.” After Yin and the kitten-girl entered the room, Laeticia casually closed the door. “We’re not making your body here anyway, just seeing how strong the life force within this kitten is.”
Saying that, Laeticia snapped her fingers in the air and produced a crystal-clear ice crystal knife and an ice crystal test tube. Although there were also general laboratory instruments here, Laeticia still trusted her own craftsmanship more.
“Kitten, come here. Oh right, what’s her name again?” Laeticia motioned for the kitten-girl to lie down on the bed on the side of the room and casually asked Yin for the kitten-girl’s name.
Yin shook her head bluntly. She bought this kitten simply because of the exceptionally abundant life energy within her. As for the kitten’s name? Was it necessary to ask?
I don’t know. Laeticia looked at the kitten-girl lying on the hard bed. Although her emotions were somewhat controlled, the fear emanating from the depths of her heart couldn’t be faked. If not properly guided, this kitten might turn into a mad cat out of extreme fear.
“I think you can be a little gentler with her. If you make her happier, the produced materials might be of higher quality,” Laeticia said, lightly slicing the kitten-girl’s wrist with the small knife.
Then, she looked at the faint white mark on the kitten-girl’s wrist in surprise, falling into silence.
It didn’t cut?
Her ice crystal knife might not compare to legendary weapons, but it should be easy to break a little girl’s skin.
Let’s try a little harder. Thinking this, Laeticia applied a little more force, pressing the knife against the kitten-girl’s wrist. “It might hurt a little, just bear with it.”
“Okay, okay.” The kitten-girl opened her mouth and made a very pleasant sound. Laeticia realized now that this seemed to be the first time this kitten had spoken.
Before this, the kitten had always been clinging tightly to Yin’s clothes, like an invisible person.
While thinking, Laeticia quickly twisted her wrist, making a shallow cut on the kitten-girl’s wrist. After collecting some blood, she immediately cast a healing spell to stop the bleeding.
The kitten-girl’s brows had just furrowed when the pain turned into a tingling sensation, filling her beautiful eyes with surprise.
She didn’t expect the fierce black-haired girl in front of her to cast a healing spell after cutting her wrist. She had suffered many beatings before, and each time she survived by relying on her abnormal regeneration ability.
A healing spell was something she couldn’t even dream of.
This cute little sister might be a good person? For some reason, such a thought suddenly popped into the kitten-girl’s mind.
Laeticia naturally didn’t know what the kitten-girl was thinking. She was staring at the blood she had just extracted, clicking her tongue. “Miss Yin, are you interested in going to an ancient tomb with me to pick up some extra cash?”
Laeticia didn’t even need to test the life energy contained in this small amount of blood. Just by feeling it, she knew that this life force could only be described as outrageous.
After calculating in her mind, Laeticia quickly arrived at an accurate number. “Half the blood is enough. It can be drawn in multiple times. As long as the total amount and quality are sufficient, it’s fine.”
The thing about flesh and blood crystals wasn’t about being complete. This could be prepared in multiple batches, as long as there was enough quantity and quality at the end.
Laeticia’s gaze towards the kitten-girl had changed. She now looked at the girl like she was looking at a treasure trove. With such abundant life force, even if some organs were removed, they would likely regenerate within a short period. And the quality of these removed organs must also be very high!
This was an inexhaustible advanced material library!
Cough, cough, cough, I feel so evil. How could I think this way? This cat girl is so cute… Laeticia’s thoughts began to run wild. Within just these few seconds, her thoughts had already jumped to: Potions made with beautiful girls as ingredients would surely sell for a good price.
Therefore, never trust a demon king’s integrity; they are born scoundrels.
“Yin, let’s negotiate.” Laeticia quickly ran to Yin’s side, hooked her arm around the goddess’s neck, and whispered her thoughts.
As she listened, Yin’s expression became increasingly strange. She turned to look at the kitten-girl, who had already sat up on the bed and was looking at them curiously, and firmly shook her head. Treating this cute kitten-girl like this really weighed on her conscience.
“Sister, you actually have something as luxurious as a conscience?” Laeticia looked at Yin in surprise. “You’re a god!”
“As a god, it’s good to leave some room for future encounters. I think drawing some blood and cutting some hair and nails will suffice. It’s better not to touch the internal organs.” Yin stated that this wasn’t due to a change of heart but because a big secret might be hidden within the kitten. “Think about it, such terrifying life force hidden within her body, is this normal behavior?”
That was an anomaly that even Laeticia couldn’t detect. The method of concealment could only be described as brilliant. This definitely wasn’t the kitten’s own doing. If the kitten had such a method, she wouldn’t have appeared at the auction in such a state.
Therefore, it could now be confirmed that an unknown entity had hidden the kitten-girl’s extraordinarily fearsome life force.
“I understand, this girl has a god behind her!”
