Chapter: Chapter 411
A week whizzed by amidst pleasant learning and a joyful hundred-year life with Silver Fang.
Laticia’s life had been uneventful this week. She had merely strolled around the Silver Fang tribe, getting familiar with the place, and had accompanied Bai Ling to the beastmen’s hunting grounds to observe their hunt.
It could only be described as extremely barbaric. Beastmen were truly beastmen. Even ordinary beastmen could wrestle with wild beasts, which was quite outrageous. If it were humans or demons, it would likely take several people working together to take down a single beast.
The beastmen, on the other hand, were complete one-on-one, weaponless duels!
They fought with bare hands!
Even Bai Ling was speechless for a long time after witnessing this scene. The reason was simple: it was simply too shocking.
As for how Miss Bai hunted? There was nothing worth mentioning. What resistance could ordinary wild beasts offer to an unparalleled Sword Saint? Bai Ling simply walked over, with a swift chop of her sword, and a beast’s head was gone.
It was quick and elegant, a stark contrast to the rough beastmen.
However, how to handle the hunted prey became another problem. Laticia and Bai Ling were not very skilled. In the end, Silver Fang saw the difficulty on the two girls’ faces and offered to help them process the prey. She also made a barbecue with a distinct Orc flavor for the two girls who had not improved their cooking skills at all.
As for the taste of the barbecue, well, it wouldn’t kill anyone, that’s all that could be said.
The Silver Fang tribe had scarce seasonings, so the roasted meat was, frankly, indescribable.
A few days prior, Laticia had stopped eating the dwindling cans of food. She still had to stay with the beastmen for at least half a year. Eating all these good things now would be too extravagant.
It was better to save these items for slow enjoyment, lest she one day longed for delicious food only to find her pockets empty, with not a single delicacy left. That would be too tragic.
“To be honest, I have no talent for architecture. Being able to build this house is already my limit.”
If there was anything worth mentioning in the past few days, it would be that Laticia’s body had recovered somewhat, and she could use some minor magic to improve her living conditions.
For example, what now stood before the three of them was… a matchbox.
“Can you stop looking at me like that! I just don’t have talent for building houses, okay!” she exclaimed, throwing the long black staff to the ground in frustration, and then grabbing her hair, shouting in a low voice.
The ideal was plump, but reality was skinny. She wanted to build a beautiful villa, but none of the architectural blueprints in her mind were for beautiful villas.
She did have blueprints for large houses, like human government buildings, if they wanted any.
As for letting Laticia design it herself? Wow, forget it. The Demon Queen wasn’t omnipotent. She had plenty of wicked ideas, but she couldn’t handle such professional matters!
She had no talent for building houses in sandbox games. While others could build beautiful large houses in a few days while playing together online, Laticia was always stuck with the same old matchbox, which was truly heartbreaking and tear-jerking for anyone who heard it.
“It’s okay, at least it’s better than a tent.” Bai Ling patted Laticia’s shoulder, looking at the earth-yellow square house. “And it fits the style of this place quite well.”
In a backward beastmen tribe, a super beautiful villa suddenly appearing would truly break the art style.
And the house Laticia built, well, it didn’t feel out of place here at all.
So, could this be considered praise?
Clearly, in Laticia’s opinion, this was no praise at all.
“Whitey, I’ll fight you!” Waving her little fists, Laticia pounced on the Sword Saint beside her.
Then the Sword Saint helplessly reached out a hand and pressed it against Laticia’s forehead. Due to the difference in arm length between the two, Laticia’s punch completely missed.
Such short arms, how pitiful.
What should I do at this moment? Silver Fang glanced at the two girls who were brawling, then at the matchbox in front of her. Her white ears twitched.
Speaking of which, she had fantasized about what her own house would look like when she was young. However, due to family circumstances, her fantasies could only remain fantasies.
Now that she had become the successor of the Great Priest, she had status, but she no longer had the opportunity to own her own house. She would inherit the Great Priest’s temple in the future. For this simple beastmen girl, once she had a temple, her own house was completely unnecessary.
“Um, Laticia, I have some ideas…” After much thought, Silver Fang timidly proposed her ideas to Laticia.
She was still a little unwilling and wanted to build her dream house.
Even if it wasn’t for her to live in, it didn’t matter.
Upon hearing Silver Fang, Laticia immediately displayed a textbook-level change of expression, instantly transforming from a pampered young lady into a calm and serious Demon Queen. “Tell me about it.”
Silver Fang was also stunned by Laticia’s instant change of expression. After a few seconds of愣, she told Laticia her thoughts, “I don’t know if it will look good when it’s built, I just wanted to try building it…”
“No matter how ugly it is, it can’t be uglier than it is now,” Bai Ling said with a chuckle from the side.
“No one will think you’re mute if you don’t say anything!” Laticia, who was annoyed and enraged, immediately picked up the demon sword that had been discarded on the ground and resumed chasing Bai Ling.
Unfortunately, her body had not fully recovered. After running a few steps, she had to stop and gasp for breath, holding her chest due to lack of stamina.
Bai Ling stood a few steps away, looking at Laticia with a smile. “You have to face your shortcomings, Little Laticia.”
“You wait! Don’t you dare enter my room from now on!”
“It’s fine, I’ll sneak in at night.”
“Can’t you have a little shame?”
“No!”
Watching the two girls start flirting again, Silver Fang blinked her eyes. She suddenly felt very superfluous. Perhaps she should find a big hole and bury herself to avoid disturbing the beautiful atmosphere between them.
Fortunately, Laticia did not forget that there was a pitiful dog-girl beside her. After arguing with Bai Ling for a few sentences, she turned back to Silver Fang and asked her with a smile for her suggestions on improving the house.
As expected, Silver Fang encountered a minor communication problem.
This was actually normal, just communication barriers between the client and the contractor. Especially when Laticia, the engineer, could directly modify the work in front of her, it was easy for Silver Fang to find her own ideas unreasonable and propose modifications on the spot.
They worked from noon until dusk, and the matchbox in front of the three of them finally managed to form a somewhat passable earth-yellow hut.
“At least there are roofs and windows. It doesn’t look too ugly from the front,” Laticia said,摸ing her chin, giving a somewhat insincere answer.
The house in front of them was indeed a little better than the previous matchbox, but… alas, Silver Fang’s experience was still limited. It was normal that she couldn’t design beautiful houses. It was Laticia’s fault for having too high expectations of her.
However, in the eyes of the beastmen, this kind of earth house was already a super mansion. Especially the little beastmen who were young and had been watching the three elder sisters build the house, their eyes were now full of stars.
“Such a big, big house, much prettier and sturdier than my house!”
“Yes, yes, such a house must be able to withstand the attack of weapons.”
“Yeah, no need to be afraid of fire anymore.”
The little beastmen chattered excitedly. Some adult beastmen, who had just returned from hunting, also saw the earth house that had sprung up overnight. Their reactions were not much better than the little beastmen, their faces filled with envy.
For the beastmen, such an earth house was already the highest pursuit.
Look at what they were living in now – straw houses! They were incomparable to earth houses!
In the eyes of the little beastmen, Laticia, who could make houses appear by waving a staff, had become a god-like figure. Their gazes towards Laticia were filled with obvious admiration. Some little beastmen were even plotting to find Laticia to become their master.
“Hiss, it seems that in the eyes of the beastmen, this is already a mansion.” Laticia put away her demon sword into the divine weapon and walked into the earth house, which had not yet installed a door. The house was just a shell from the outside, but from the inside, it was just a box shaped like a house.
There was no interior structure, and Laticia had to build it herself using magic.
Fortunately, this was not difficult for Laticia. She couldn’t handle the things outside, but she was skilled at the interior. She could just shrink some structures from her memory and put them inside.
Under this guiding thought, Laticia successfully shrunk her bedroom in the Demon King’s Palace to a smaller scale and placed it inside this simple hut.
Unfortunately, there was no luxurious decoration like the Demon King’s Palace here. There were only earth-yellow walls, which made Laticia a little unaccustomed to it.
“I can see that after removing the flashy decorations, the design level of your bedroom is actually just like this,” Bai Ling quietly complained from the side.
Laticia immediately rolled her eyes. “My bedroom was passed down through generations. My mother lived there before, and before her, my grandmother. Each person could only change the arrangement of the items in the bedroom; the structure could not be altered.”
Besides, the design of the Demon King’s Palace did have some minor issues. After all, it was designed a long time ago, and problems that were not serious at the time had become somewhat prominent now.
In fact, what Laticia had hoped for the most was that the Demon King’s City would experience a major earthquake, directly leveling the Demon King’s Palace, so she could then commission someone to rebuild the old palace. How wonderful.
Unfortunately, fate had not given her this opportunity. During the years she sat on the throne, other places in the Demon Realm had been hit by natural disasters, but the Demon King’s City had always been blessed with good weather, with not a single disaster, which was very strange.
“The area has shrunk so much, so the placement of furniture cannot be the same as before…”
“We don’t have furniture,” Miss Bai complained again.
Yes, Miss Bai was not wrong. There was no furniture in Laticia’s divine weapon space. No matter how far-sighted Kira was, she couldn’t have imagined this situation.
Even with her foresight, she couldn’t have possibly put furniture like beds and wardrobes into her divine weapon space.
“Well, so I happily built a house, and now I can only leave it here to look at?” Laticia was speechless. She had forgotten this big problem. She couldn’t ask her ancestors for furniture, could she?
In Fileno’s mansion, there was indeed plenty of spare furniture, but Laticia really didn’t have the nerve to ask this ancestor for two beds and two wardrobes.
That would be too embarrassing. It was better to solve it herself.
“If it’s a bed, I can provide some.” Silver Fang, who had been following behind the two, spoke. “The temple has quite a few idle ones. I can decide to send two over, and some tables too.”
“That would be great. Just name your reward, and I’ll have her help you get it. Whether it’s to silence witnesses or anything else, she can do it.” Upon hearing this, Laticia immediately turned and grabbed Silver Fang’s hands, saying with sincere gratitude.
Feeling the sword-like sharp gaze again, Silver Fang tried to pull her hands out of Laticia’s grasp, but she was surprised to find that Laticia’s snow-white and delicate hands were like shackles, locking her hands so tightly that she couldn’t pull them out.
Did this lady have so much strength? She was a beastman, yet she was weaker in strength?
This was too strange.
“No, no, it’s just a temporary loan. Please remember to return these things when you leave.” Silver Fang replied softly. These items were not worth much, so it was better to give Laticia favor.
Besides, these two ladies didn’t look like ordinary people. How could her small tribe accommodate these great gods? They would leave sooner or later. At that time, could they really take these simple furniture with them?
You only needed to think about it to know it was impossible. In the end, she had no losses, so why would she need a reward?
Silver Fang’s thoughts were simple, but Laticia’s were also simple. She simply didn’t want to be indebted. After all, this was the favor of the Demon King and the Sword Saint. In the eyes of others, this was simply priceless.
Only this girl Silver Fang lacked any ulterior motives, perhaps because this girl’s mind was really not very good.
