Chapter: Chapter 415
“The wind is filling the tower before the rain arrives.” Leaning lazily against a large tree, Leticia crossed her arms and whispered with her eyes closed.
Yin Ya, who was roasting meat by the campfire nearby, twitched her ears and looked at Leticia with some confusion, wondering what madness the young lady was up to again.
As for Bai Ling, who was further away, she was already accustomed to Leticia’s occasional pretentiousness.
This was a beautiful valley outside the Yin Ya tribe. The three of them had come here today to relax and have a picnic.
Although it seemed a bit absurd to come out in the middle of winter with the cold wind blowing, none of the three girls present were particularly afraid of the cold, so it wasn’t a big problem.
Leticia and Bai Ling had excellent physical fitness; they could jump into the icy river even with nothing on without any issues. Yin Ya’s physical fitness wasn’t as good as the other two, but she could withstand the severe winter cold by wearing a few more clothes.
After all, Yin Ya was a beastman; she had thick skin and wasn’t afraid of the cold.
Well, judging by her appearance, Yin Ya should be described as having delicate skin and tender flesh.
Under Yin Ya’s careful operation, the meat being roasted on the fire soon emitted a fragrant aroma. Yin Ya sprinkled some special seasonings for beastmen on it and took the roasted meat off the fire.
“This piece of meat, Miss Bai or Leticia, who wants it?” Yin Ya asked the two.
“Give it to her. She’s the one who hunted it. She should be the first to try the first piece of meat.” This time, Leticia graciously offered the first piece of roasted meat to Miss Bai.
It was only right to give the first piece of meat to Bai Ling, who had worked hard to hunt. Leticia wasn’t an unreasonable person.
“I’m actually not hungry yet. How about you eat first?” Miss Bai touched her stomach and sincerely declined Leticia’s offer.
She wasn’t lying. She had eaten a bit too much for breakfast today, and her stomach was still a little full. While she could still eat a piece of meat, forcing herself to eat it would be worse than giving it to Leticia.
The Demon Lord lady knew Bai Ling’s personality, and this girl never lied about food. If she said she wasn’t hungry, she truly wasn’t hungry.
Since that was the case, Leticia didn’t decline and directly took the roasted meat handed by Yin Ya, running to the side to gnaw on it laboriously.
Honestly, the meat wasn’t particularly delicious. The simple conditions here made it impossible to cook the meat to perfection. Even though Yin Ya had tried her best, in Leticia’s opinion, the meat was only barely edible.
Of course, it was much better than the jerky that was as hard as a rock.
After a while, Bai Ling also sat down next to Leticia with a piece of roasted meat and began to gnaw on it in small bites.
Her elegant dining posture truly surprised Leticia. In her memory, Bai Ling had never dined like this. She had always been a model of eating meat with big bites and drinking with large bowls; the word “elegant” had nothing to do with this girl.
“What’s wrong with you today? Are you sick?” Leticia asked curiously. Bai Ling’s behavior was not normal.
Although she had eaten a bit more this morning, her stomach shouldn’t still be this full.
Bai Ling replied that she was indeed full. “I’ve been exercising too little lately, and my digestion has slowed down a bit.”
Look at how decadent her life had become. She slept until she woke up naturally, went to the beastman hunting grounds, caught a few prey, and handed them over to Yin Ya. That was the end of her exercise for the day!
She didn’t have to worry about anything else. Compared to before, this amount of exercise wasn’t even enough for a warm-up!
In the central city, Bai Ling was nominally retired, but she often received requests from old friends and ran around the central city, so her exercise volume was very large.
Now, she exercised at most for an hour a day, and the rest of the time she spent at home staring at Leticia.
Miss Bai still had to exercise for at least an hour a day to subsidize her household expenses. Leticia had now completely become a homebody shut-in; there was nothing that could keep her indoors for a whole day in that simple dwelling.
In her own words, she was recovering from an injury and improving her strength, but no one would probably believe this excuse.
The reason was simple. Not long ago, Yin Ya had brought her some beastman books at Leticia’s request. Leticia had been staying at home, reading these books.
If you said Leticia was slacking off, it wouldn’t really count. In a way, she was still doing something important.
But she was indeed a shut-in.
“It’s good to exercise less. It means nothing bad is happening.” Leticia was very optimistic. If they didn’t need to move, it meant peace in the world, which was a good thing.
“Aren’t you concerned about the conflict between the Bone Wings and the Steel Spears?” Bai Ling asked, puzzled.
“Why bother? What difference does it make if the Steel Spears win, or if the Bone Wings win?” Leticia retorted.
No matter how the beastmen’s internal conflicts developed, they wouldn’t have much to do with the two of them.
For these two outsiders who possessed extremely powerful combat capabilities, this minor conflict wouldn’t disrupt their lives regardless of who emerged victorious.
At most, Bai Ling might find an opportunity to kill the leader of the Steel Spears to avenge the stranger human who died in a foreign land, but such a thing could be done at any time.
After all, everyone knew Miss Bai’s strength.
“I say, it’s better to just be a good-for-nothing and stay at home. No matter how heated the fighting is outside, it doesn’t concern us much.” Leticia lazily threw the wooden skewer she was holding the meat with towards a small patch of bushes in the distance. “Hey, stop eavesdropping!”
The wooden skewer drew a beautiful arc in the air and landed precisely in the small patch of bushes.
Then, to Yin Ya’s astonished gaze, the small patch of bushes rustled, and a fair white hand emerged from it, holding the wooden skewer Leticia had just thrown. Then, a very pleasant voice echoed from the bushes, “When did you discover me?”
“I discovered you when you first arrived, but seeing that you had no ill intentions, I couldn’t be bothered,” Leticia replied with a smile. “Won’t you come out and meet us?”
“Can I not come out?” The girl in the bushes seemed to want to deny it. “I can leave immediately.”
“Don’t be shy. We’ve already shown you our faces. It’s only fair to exchange and let us see your face, right?” But how could Leticia let this eavesdropper go so easily?
Leticia’s decisive response caused the girl hiding in the bushes to fall silent for a long time. It wasn’t until Yin Ya thought the girl had already left that other movements came from the bushes.
A young girl in beautiful clothes pushed aside the bushes and walked out of the jungle step by step.
The moment she saw her, Leticia’s eyes lit up. This girl was truly beautiful. Compared to Little Yin Ya beside her, this snow-white beastman girl’s appearance was more than a notch better.
Yin Ya was also considered beautiful, but due to her lack of grooming, her actual displayed appearance was somewhat lower than her true capabilities.
However, even Yin Ya’s highest score couldn’t compare to the少女 who had just walked out of the jungle.
After looking up and down at the white girl, Leticia stroked her chin and asked with some hesitation, “A dragon beastman?”
The dragon horns on her head, the dragon wings on her back, and the dragon tail behind her—the characteristics of this girl were too obvious.
But as far as Leticia knew, there had never been any dragon beastmen in the beastman tribe before, not even during the most intense periods of war.
At that time, demon scholars had drawn a conclusion that dragons were not beasts, because there were no dragon beastmen among the beastmen. Now, it seemed this conclusion was biased.
Looking at the girl in front of her, besides being a little dragon person, what other possibility was there?
Upon hearing Leticia’s words, the girl’s golden pupils contracted, and her expression became guarded. “I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
“Oh, it seems like beastmen like you are not very welcome on this grassland.” Leticia, however, did not show dissatisfaction with the girl’s guardedness. She patted the empty space beside her, signaling the girl to come and sit next to her. “Yin Ya, roast a piece of meat for this girl too!”
What else could Yin Ya say? She was a chef, and a not particularly skilled one at that. She might as well obediently follow Leticia’s words and mind her own business.
Miss Bai, on the other hand, scanned the white-haired girl, who was sitting beside Leticia in a very restrained posture, with a scrutinizing gaze. She felt a rare sense of tension towards this mysterious beastman girl whose coloring was similar to hers.
This girl was also dressed in white, and even had the cute appeal of a dragon girl. Compared to her, her own advantages seemed not very significant.
Perhaps it would be better to strike first and find an opportunity to eliminate this potential competitor? Miss Bai mused inwardly, rubbing her fingers.
Just then, a howling cold wind blew past, causing the tensed dragon girl to shiver. Just now, she had felt a deeply suppressed killing intent.
Although it was deeply suppressed and only appeared for a brief moment, there was no doubt that someone here had just harbored murderous intentions towards her.
She had to find an opportunity to slip away quickly! The girl wailed in her heart.
She just wanted to relax and take a look at the surrounding terrain, but why did she have to run into these three monsters?
Oh, no, it should be two monsters and their little follower. She recognized the girl roasting meat nearby; she was the disciple of the great priest of the Yin Ya tribe, and her name was also Yin Ya.
The dragon girl had seen a portrait of Yin Ya and knew that the tribe this girl belonged to posed no threat. This girl was just a bit quick-witted and posed no threat to her at all.
However, the other two girls she had never seen before were different, especially the petite black-haired girl. Beneath that smiling face lay a terrifying and unfathomable darkness!
The dragon girl initially intended to escape directly, but as she tried to do so, her intuition stopped her. This intuition was too strong, making it impossible for the dragon girl to turn and leave.
It was as if something in the fate was telling her that if she left directly, she might die before accomplishing her mission in the next moment!
Leaving offered a glimmer of hope, but not leaving meant certain death!
That was why the dragon girl had come out, but now it seemed this choice wasn’t necessarily the most correct one.
“Don’t be so restrained. I’m not a monster that eats people,” Leticia said with a smile, her eyes never leaving the dragon girl’s features, and her hands seemed eager to move.
“May I ask who the three of you are…” The dragon girl wore a very strained smile and quietly asked about their origins.
Of course, she knew Yin Ya’s origin.
“I’m Yin Ya from the nearby Yin Ya tribe,” Yin Ya introduced herself first.
“Oh, I’ve heard of you; you’re a rather smart girl,” the dragon girl flattered her at the opportune moment.
This simple flattery actually made Yin Ya chuckle. This simple girl seemed to have taken the dragon girl’s words as sincere.
Alas, she hasn’t seen much of the world. She needs more training, Leticia sighed inwardly and introduced herself simply, “My name is Leticia, and this is Bai Ling. We are outsiders who have drifted here for some special reasons. I am from the demon race, and she is human.”
“Demons, humans, and beastmen together?” The dragon girl’s gaze lingered on the three of them for a moment. She was quite intelligent, but even her intelligent mind was overloaded at this moment.
Weren’t the beastmen, humans, and demons mortal enemies who fought on sight? Then why did these three girls in front of them seem like close friends?
Were her eyes malfunctioning, or was the world malfunctioning?
“Hahaha, don’t wear that look of shattered worldview. Even though our races are different, it doesn’t mean we can’t be friends. The past is the past, and we must look forward.” Leticia reached out and patted the dragon girl’s tense shoulder. “Besides, she and I are considered the moderate faction within our respective races, so it’s only natural for us to connect and become friends.”
Hearing this, Bai Ling gave Leticia a strange look. How could she say something like that? Her thick skin was truly remarkable.
A Sword Saint and a Demon Lord, claiming to be the moderate faction in their respective races?
That was a joke. These two were purely radical factions.
Without Bai Ling, Leticia would have long ago led an army to conquer the three realms. Without Leticia, the other races would probably be living in fear under the shadow of the Sword Saint, afraid that one day a sword would fall from the sky and chop off their heads.
Oh, no, it seemed that was already the case.
In any case, what Leticia said was undoubtedly complete nonsense.
