Chapter: Chapter 410
Watching Leo and his group disappear into the distance, Leticia yawned tiredly, “Alright, the matter has been perfectly resolved.”
With that, she snapped her fingers.
“Ah!” Silverfang, who had been calm and collected a moment ago, let out a cry of surprise, “Heavens, is this demon magic? How terrifying.”
She hadn’t been able to control her body at all, as if she were a puppet controlled by Leticia. However, she could feel certain sensations within her body, yet she was unable to issue any commands to it.
It was as if she were sleepwalking.
“This is my unique spell, you know. Other demons don’t have this skill,” Leticia chuckled happily, her gaze towards the distance carrying a hint of depth, “However, I truly didn’t expect there to be a mole in this group.”
To be honest, when the fox-beastman pulled out the bone charm from his怀 and was about to make a move, she almost called out Bai Ling, who was hidden to the side.
Hmm, she felt that she wouldn’t even need to call out. Once that fox-beastman really threw the fireball-like object, Bai Ling would definitely leap out and slash the fox before that.
However, if such a situation occurred, it would be troublesome. Explaining the existence of Bai Ling, a Sword Saint with extremely high combat power, would be a real problem. The best solution Leticia could think of might be to have Bai Ling restrain those beastmen while she personally brainwashed each of them.
This would be the safest approach. The only problem was that she might get exhausted to death.
Just putting Silverfang into a sleepwalking state had made her feel tired. Now, if she had to brainwash so many beastmen, it would truly be tiring.
“It’s not uncommon for there to be moles in large factions,” Bai Ling, carrying her sword, emerged from the shadows beside them. She had completely concealed her aura, so even an elite warrior like Leo had subconsciously ignored this Sword Saint. “That really scared me. Don’t do that again.”
“How was I supposed to know the fox would be like that? I just wanted to make them more emotional, with less clear logic, so that I could gloss over that matter,” Leticia replied helplessly, pressing her forehead. It was all an accident, alright?
“And then the fox self-destructed.” Bai Ling walked in front of Leticia and forcefully placed her hand on Leticia’s forehead to check her temperature, “So hot…”
“It’s normal, I’ll be fine after a while,” Leticia somewhat displeasedly swatting Bai Ling’s hand away. “However, this is a good thing for us. At least the Steel Spear tribe won’t be able to focus their attention on us anytime soon.”
The evidence was now conclusive. The Black Wing tribe couldn’t shake off this black pot no matter what. The testimony of the High Priest, the physical evidence at the scene, and the fox acting as a spy – these few elements combined would definitely cause the Black Wing tribe to have a very difficult time.
If things went wrong, that tribe might even be wiped out.
“What I’m more concerned about now is what the fox-beastman was planning to attack me with at the end,” Leticia said, counting her fingers and muttering to herself, “That energy fluctuation doesn’t feel like demon magic, and it’s very different from human superpowers. The elves wouldn’t have such fire-like spells. As for the beastmen… these guys are generally magic idiots. That fox isn’t a priest-type talent, so it wouldn’t be beastman curses either.”
After a round of elimination, Leticia couldn’t figure out what attack the beastman was planning to unleash at the end.
“Could it be the gods?” Bai Ling had also learned to blame the gods for anything she didn’t understand.
And now, it was clearly another opportunity to pass the buck.
But Leticia shook her head. She could be sure that there were no divine beings involved in this incident. “It wasn’t a god. Divine attacks wouldn’t be so weak and powerless.”
Even the weakest god’s divine envoy’s power wouldn’t be as weak as the fox-beastman’s. If nothing else, the attack the fox-beastman was about to launch was only equivalent to an ordinary fireball spell.
If a god’s divine envoy could only launch such an attack, then that god should just go and hit their head against a wall and have afternoon tea with Miss Dream God in the underworld. This cruel world was not suitable for such weaklings to survive.
Because of the fox-beastman’s weakness, Leticia concluded that there were no divine factors involved in this incident, well, referring to Leo’s side.
Silverfang’s side, on the other hand, did have divine beings involved, and a true god at that.
“Then what could it be besides gods?” Bai Ling tilted her head and asked.
“Apart from the powers unique to us intelligent races, other creatures in the world also have their trump cards to varying degrees, such as dragon magic, or the strange abilities of wilderness behemoths whose principles are unknown. I can’t determine the source of the fox-beastman’s power right now.”
Including factors outside of intelligent races, there were many possibilities. Leticia didn’t know much about the beastmen, and she didn’t even know what specialties they had, let alone special species.
However, wilderness behemoths could definitely be ruled out. Those behemoths, which were useless except for their size, had one thing in common: they had almost no brains, and communication with them was impossible.
Could there really be someone who would worship those things and even carve their images on talismans?
Even if they did, they wouldn’t be able to use the talismans to launch attacks.
“Speaking of which, I don’t even know if the beastmen have wilderness behemoths. Outside the demon territory, there are wilderness behemoths. Your human side has even more…” Leticia mused, stroking her chin, and then her gaze fell on Silverfang. This native beastman girl should know.
Leticia’s question plunged Silverfang into thought. After a long time, she replied hesitantly, “I’m not very clear either, but I can confirm that within the range of the great plains, there are no behemoths like the ones you mentioned, Leticia. And beyond the plains, in the desert… honestly, almost no beastmen have the courage to explore it.”
Pointing to the visible black sky in the distance, Silverfang indicated that not many people had the courage to face the terrifying sandstorms.
Beyond the plains was an absolute no-man’s-land. Only protagonists in storybooks had the chance to venture out and return alive. Other beastmen, for the most part, would never do such a suicidal thing.
Endless sandstorms and extremely harsh living conditions. Any beastman with a normal mind wouldn’t leave the lush grasslands for that barren land.
Those who would take such a gamble were probably only those who were ostracized and could completely not live on the grasslands.
To reach such a state, it could only be said that fate was against them, and there was nothing they could do. They would have to offend all the forces on the grasslands. Thinking about it, they were quite talented.
“Alright, anyway, it’s certain that the fox’s power source won’t be wilderness behemoths. As for anything else, there are too few clues right now, it’s hard to say.” Leticia recalled the simple drawings on those talismans, and felt they were somewhat similar to those of the dragons. “What was drawn on the talisman looked quite like dragons, but I can’t be sure now.”
Large beasts with wings, such as dragons and some special types of birds. Among them, dragons were undoubtedly more famous. These things should be considered wild animals and were distributed in various worlds.
In the demon realm, most dragons were black-skinned, known as black dragons. Their intelligence was practically zero, their cerebellum was extremely developed, and they brought disaster every time they appeared.
Of course, the black dragons that appeared at the end would be turned into rare materials treasured in the Demon King’s treasury under the encirclement of the demon army.
When faced with dragon disasters, every generation of Demon Kings was both angry and happy. They were angry because these guys had gone mad again and had to be dealt with, and happy because their treasury could be replenished with a pile of materials.
Dragon skin, dragon horns, dragon meat, dragon blood – dragons were valuable from head to toe.
Giants dragons rarely appeared in the human realm, but it was possible that those large creatures were hiding in the wilderness untouched by human influence. Compared to the demons, humans had less control over their world.
“Dragons? I’ve only seen them in storybooks sold by wandering merchants, or heard about them in hero legends sung by bards.” When Leticia asked Silverfang about dragons, Miss Silverfang replied. Her knowledge was limited, and she had never seen legendary dragons.
She hadn’t even seen wilderness behemoths. Dragons were even rarer than wilderness behemoths, so it was normal that Silverfang hadn’t seen them.
“Then the possibility of dragons is also unlikely. They are probably ambitious individuals who want to cause trouble by impersonating those powerful beings,” Leticia spread her hands, indicating she had no ideas either. She had only been in the beastman territory for a few days and didn’t understand what these beastmen were thinking. “Forget it, forget it. Silverfang, why don’t you teach me your language first? Otherwise, I’ll have to trouble you to translate for me every time.”
With that, Leticia glanced at Bai Ling, “You come and learn too. As a human, you can’t be illiterate here, understand?”
As soon as she heard that she would be learning a new language with Leticia, Bai Ling’s expression instantly drooped. Even learning with Miss Demon King couldn’t improve her mood.
She just wanted to be close to the soft and fragrant Leticia. She absolutely didn’t want to stare blankly at those boring texts!
What about communication inconvenience? As long as she didn’t leave Leticia’s side, wouldn’t everything be solved?
As long as Leticia could understand, it would be fine. She, this rough guy, wouldn’t have any problems if she didn’t understand anything. In the end, Leticia would be the one making the decisions.
She would be Leticia’s sword. Wherever Leticia said to cut, she would cut. How wonderful it was to not need to use her brain!
But how could Leticia let Miss Bai be so careless? The Demon King was indeed very intelligent, but Miss Bai was not stupid either. She was just that there was often no need for her to use her brain.
Her sword was too sharp, and her brain gradually became dull, only able to hold a few things. What Leticia needed to do now was to stuff more things into that little clever brain, so that this clever little brain could also start working, and not be hungry and lustful all day long.
Powerful beings, their brains wouldn’t be bad either. Perhaps some people were stubborn and inflexible, but when they really used their brains, they were all unmatched geniuses.
Just like Miss Bai, after trying her best to refuse and failing, she had no choice but to honestly sit beside Leticia and listen to Teacher Silverfang carefully teach them the common language of the beastman region.
Her learning progress was also incredibly gratifying. When Leticia was able to communicate with Silverfang without any hindrance after two days, Miss Bai also managed to understand their conversations.
Although her speech was still a bit stuttered and hesitant, at least she was no longer completely clueless, right?
This learning speed truly startled Silverfang. She had originally thought she would be a teacher for a long time, but in just a few days, these two girls had mastered their language at such a speed, which was truly terrifying.
In response, Leticia’s explanation was quite reasonable, “Your language seems to have some commonalities with the common language of the beastmen. I have a foundation in the beastman common language, so learning it will be much easier.”
Silverfang clearly didn’t believe this explanation, because Miss Bai, who had no foundation in the beastman common language, was learning at a speed only slightly slower than Leticia. This was not a matter of having a foundation at all!
How were their brains built? It had taken her several years of stumbling to barely graduate when learning the common language back then!
Was the gap between people really that big? Was the intelligence of beastmen really that low?
Silverfang fell into a state of depression. Anyone who encountered these unpredictable oddities like Leticia and Bai Ling would probably become depressed like Silverfang.
But what else could Leticia say? She couldn’t say that her brain was simply too good, and she had the ability to remember everything she saw!
By remembering the pronunciation and meaning of all common characters, she could understand the beastman language. This was actually, uh, quite simple?
Bai Ling was also able to understand the beastman language because of this perfect memory, but compared to Leticia, she was still a little bit behind, and couldn’t use this language fluently in such a short time.
However, this was enough.
“If there’s a chance, I’ll teach you the demon language? Unlike you beastmen, our demon realm has just one language that allows you to travel throughout the entire demon world. It’s definitely worth it,” Leticia didn’t know how to cheer Silverfang up, so she could only tentatively ask.
“I’m so stupid. The demon language is so difficult, I’ll definitely need twenty years to learn it. No, I might not even learn it before I die,” as a result, Miss Silverfang became even more depressed.
