Chapter: Chapter 417
“Do we need to tell Silverfang about this? I think it’s better to let her know.” After their outing for the day, Bai Ling finally found an opportunity to ask Leicidia.
After the dragon girl left, Leicidia acted as if she had never met her, remaining tight-lipped about her, seemingly intending to keep Silverfang completely in the dark.
But Silverfang was their friend, and it didn’t seem right to keep such important matters from her, Bai Ling thought.
After many days of getting along, Bai Ling had also come to recognize Silverfang as a friend. She had a very high tolerance for girls who were not a threat and had pure intentions.
This was a testament to her confidence in herself and her understanding of Leicidia, as Miss Leicidia was an incorrigible fan of good looks. As long as her own advantage in appearance was significant enough, other problems would not be problems.
Silverfang was clearly a girl with a significant disadvantage in terms of looks. Bai Ling believed that Leicidia would never be interested in such a girl.
Of course, this wasn’t to say that Silverfang was ugly. By conventional standards, the dog-girl was considered a beauty, but who was she being compared to now? Miss Bai was a top beauty in the world, and Leicidia was not far behind.
And the dragon girl who mistakenly entered enemy territory today, while slightly inferior in looks, was a dragon-girl!
She came with her own cute points, didn’t she?
Compared to the dragon girl, Silverfang’s threat was indeed negligible.
“There’s no need. It’s too boring to reveal everything directly. It’s more interesting for Silverfang to discover such important matters herself.” Leicidia swung her legs, a mischievous expression on her face, making her look extremely punchable.
Life here was too boring, and a little more excitement was always good.
Teasing the poor Miss Silverfang was one of the fun things, and Leicidia spared no effort in this regard.
What was commendable was that her teasing was completely undetectable by the innocent little Silverfang, who would even think that Leicidia was helping her.
“If you do this, be careful, Silverfang might bite you later.”
“What did I do? I didn’t know Linglong was from the Bone Wing tribe. She didn’t say anything herself, how could I guess?” Leicidia’s eyes widened. Bai Ling was slandering her. “Do you have proof? I’m telling you, you’ll have to take responsibility for saying such things!”
You already said it yourself!
Bai Ling was somewhat prepared for Leicidia’s shamelessness. She could only sigh at the demon lord’s behavior and silently apologize to Silverfang in her heart.
“Sorry, I couldn’t stop this devil. I can only trouble little Silverfang to bear with it.”
“But compared to the tribe Linglong belongs to, I’m more interested in her race.” Leicidia rubbed her face, a serious expression appearing, indicating that she was now getting down to business. “Have you seen any Beastfolk like Linglong before?”
Bai Ling shook her head resolutely. She had seen those with horns, those with wings, and those with tails, but she had never seen a beastfolk with horns, wings, and a tail like Linglong.
The characteristics of such beastfolk were too obvious. If Bai Ling had known, she would definitely have remembered.
But she had no impression of such beastfolk, nor were there any traces of them in human records. This was very abnormal.
“I haven’t seen any either. We demons have researched beastfolk much more than you humans, but even we have never seen a special beastfolk like Linglong,” Leicidia murmured softly. She had once found a beastfolk illustrated guide in the library, which recorded almost all the types of beastfolk encountered by demons.
Many of them even had dissection diagrams. After finishing that book, Leicidia couldn’t sleep for several days. Who knew why such a book would be in the children’s literature section? Was this really something for children to read?
Cough, cough, that’s a digression. In short, although the content of that book was a bit R-rated, the records in it were accurate and clear, recording almost all types of beastfolk. And among them, there were no unique beastfolk like Linglong.
“Having horns, wings on her back, and a sturdy-looking tail, combining these features, I can only think of dragons,” Leicidia continued. These characteristics were too obvious and could be recognized at a glance.
However, for those who had never seen a real dragon, it was difficult to guess Linglong’s true race.
“Indeed, combining these features, there is only this possibility.” Bai Ling nodded in agreement after a moment of thought.
She had indeed never seen a real dragon before. She had only fought a simulated black dragon with Leicidia in Youming. But human entertainment was quite developed. Although there were some differences between the dragons in games and real dragons, they were generally the same.
In short, they all had one head and two eyes. No matter how big the difference, it wouldn’t be much. At most, there would be a difference in aura.
Even the dragon simulated by Youming’s power exuded great power, although its combat effectiveness was questionable.
“First of all, from Linglong’s appearance, she wouldn’t be younger than twenty, would she?”
“Yes, and her personality is very steady. She wouldn’t be young,” Bai Ling nodded again. Linglong definitely wouldn’t be an illegal milf.
“She couldn’t have just popped out of a rock, right? She must have parents.” Leicidia continued to ask.
This question made Bai Ling fall silent, as she didn’t know much about beastfolk and it was hard to say how Linglong appeared. Perhaps this one really did pop out of a rock.
“Let’s proceed with the normal assumption first. If it’s really a special situation, there’s no use for us to guess wildly here.” Leicidia saw what Bai Ling was confused about, but she couldn’t be sure of this possibility, so she could only ignore it for now. “At least there exists a deeply hidden dragon-man family behind her.”
“But we’ve never heard any news of them before. Not at all.” Miss Bai raised a question. There was no leaked information about this dragon-man family before. Was the information security for beastfolk that good?
She didn’t quite believe it.
“Then we can only guess that their relationship with the current ruling lion-heads of the beastfolk is not good.” Leicidia shrugged. There was too little information at the moment, so she could only guess this far.
If the dragon-men had a good relationship with the current lion-heads, it would be almost impossible for the current situation to occur. During the war back then, the dragon-men would definitely have appeared on the battlefield.
After all, based on the individual Linglong, the strength of the dragon-men should be of the powerful type, as dragons were originally synonymous with power.
The beastfolk also had obvious bloodline advantages and disadvantages. Races like kobolds and rat-men would have deficiencies in combat power, similar to the characteristics of their original forms.
The more famous combat races among beastfolk were lion-men and tiger-men. And dragons, no matter what, would certainly be stronger than these ordinary ferocious beasts.
So, the average combat power of the dragon-men should be very strong. Such existences did not appear when the beastfolk were almost annihilated, making it difficult to believe that they had a good relationship with the current beastfolk.
Moreover, look at the Bone Wing tribe where Linglong belonged. They worshipped not the Lion God worshipped by most tribes on the Great Plains, but another unknown two-winged ferocious beast.
Leicidia couldn’t determine what that was before, but now that she saw Linglong, she could almost conclude that it was more likely a dragon, a dragon soaring with its wings spread.
It’s just that the painting skills were not good, and it completely failed to show the might of this majestic beast.
Moreover, Leicidia felt that if an image of Linglong was directly printed on a charm, the charm might be even better.
“How about I capture her for you to research thoroughly?” Miss Bai offered a very characteristic opinion.
Just don’t use your brain, as long as your strength is strong enough, your brain can go on strike!
“No, I’m not a mad scientist who abandons everything for research. She’s a living person. Even if I want to research her, I need her consent.” Leicidia tapped her fingers on the table, clearly a bit conflicted. “Completely unknown creature… hmm, forget it, let’s wait and see.”
In the end, Leicidia chose to wait and see. However, she also believed that perhaps in the near future, she and Miss Linglong would meet again.
And at that meeting, Miss Linglong would probably reveal everything.
“Bai, do you mind exercising a little more for the next few days? It shouldn’t be a problem, right?” Leicidia had a mischievous smile on her face, her expression almost clearly indicating that she was about to do something bad.
“No problem. What do you want me to do?”
“Of course, we need to balance the strength of both sides a bit. If we just stand by and watch, the Steel Spear tribe will likely fail quickly.” Leicidia predicted the defeat of the Steel Spear tribe nonchalantly, resting her chin as she explained, “That girl named Linglong is very smart, so smart that she doesn’t seem like a beastfolk. In this kind of low-level competition, someone like her is a dimensional reduction attack.”
“So, we need to reduce her advantage. This is when you need to help the Steel Spear tribe by opening a small-scale full-map cheat.”
“If you do this… the relationship between these two tribes might…” Bai Ling frowned slightly. If it devolved into a tug-of-war, the strength of both the Bone Wing tribe and the Steel Spear tribe would likely be severely damaged.
“Do you even care about the lives of beastfolk? Saint Bai, it’s already difficult enough to care about your own race.” Leicidia’s tone took on a hint of sarcasm.
You, a human, pity beastfolk in front of me, a demon? Sister, you’re really sticking your nose out too far.
“Alright, since you’ve decided, I’ll be a bit more tired these few days.” After saying this, Bai Ling paused slightly to observe Leicidia’s expression before continuing, “But it’s not free for me to take action.”
“Go, what else do you want as compensation? Don’t forget you’re living in a house I built, and I haven’t even charged you rent yet!” Leicidia immediately slapped the table and began to scold Bai Ling for her shamelessness.
Miss Bai was immune to such attacks. Since Leicidia wanted to settle accounts, she would gladly oblige. “Then, the food you’re eating now was all caught by me, and I haven’t asked you for food expenses yet.”
Well, they each occupied one of the four necessities of life: housing, food, clothing, and transportation. This should be considered a tie, right?
Although one could still argue that these two things were not equivalent, Leicidia knew that since Bai Ling had said so, she was prepared to stick to her guns.
That is to say, if she wanted to order Bai Ling around now, she really had to pay a small price.
“Say it, what do you want?” Leicidia asked through gritted teeth.
“Your personal…”
“If you dare, say it again.” The magic sword appeared silently in Leicidia’s hand, and the air seemed to crackle with faint popping sounds.
Understood. This wouldn’t work. Bai Ling immediately changed her words, “Cough, cough, I can also change the condition. In the next few days, when I come back, you have to welcome me back with a smile, and you have to massage my shoulders and back, okay?”
Bai Ling originally wanted to ask Leicidia to wash her feet, but after thinking about it, she felt that Leicidia would probably not agree to such a request, so she didn’t say it out loud.
If she had said it, the faint popping sounds would have turned into thunderbolts smashing onto her head.
Leicidia was very confident in Bai Ling’s magic resistance, so this girl would indeed summon lightning to clear the mind of a young lady who was not thinking clearly.
When it came to controlling the power of magic, Leicidia was second to none in this era.
“Are these such normal conditions?” Hearing Bai Ling’s request, Leicidia felt incredulous. She thought Bai Ling would make some excessive demands, but to her surprise, they were such ordinary conditions.
Bai Ling replied that she didn’t have many options now. What she had asked for before, sleeping in the same bed, had become a daily routine and no longer needed to be requested separately.
As for other conditions, they would more or less touch Leicidia’s delicate nerves. So, she could only choose such not-so-excessive, and even generous, conditions.
Look at Leicidia’s reaction when she first stated her initial condition. With an attitude of being ready to fight at any moment, what could Miss Bai do?
Although that kind of reward was indeed a bit perverse.
Personal belongings of a girl, how could they be given away?
Thinking about it this way, Leicidia’s reaction seemed quite normal. It was Bai Ling, who made such a request, who had a problem.
“Hoo, then it will start from tomorrow. You collect all the intelligence around here and show it to me, and I’ll pick some to send to the Steel Spear tribe. This way, the two sides should be fighting fiercely.”
