Chapter: Chapter 434
With the fall of the tall Minotaur, the great battle between the Bone Wing tribe and the Steel Spear tribe finally lost its suspense. The highly motivated Bone Wing army, like a gust of autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, quickly secured victory. More than half of the Steel Spear army surrendered, while a small portion broke through the Bone Wing tribe’s encirclement and fled back to the Steel Spear tribe’s headquarters in a desperate retreat.
Although Ling Long sent some people to pursue them, the fugitives were quite fast, and she didn’t expect her pursuers to catch up.
The great battle ended, yet the sun was still high in the sky. Standing in the Steel Spear tribe’s camp, Ling Long couldn’t help but feel a sense of pride. This campaign had resulted in a flawless and decisive victory.
“Divine Maiden, we found a very strange Lionman in one of the tents over there. He claims to be a general of the Steel Spear tribe and is questioning who we are,” a beastman rushed to Ling Long’s side and reported.
A general of the Steel Spear tribe? Was that the general who was usurped by the Tigerfolk? Ling Long immediately composed herself. That Lionman was a capable general, and if she could persuade him to abandon the wrongdoing and seek the righteous path, it would be a great boon for her.
“Take me to him immediately!”
“Yes!”
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“It’s over. I didn’t expect Ling Long to find a talent here. She’s really lucky,” Leticia yawned after watching the battle, turning off the screens one by one.
“What if that Lionman refuses to surrender and chooses to die?” Bai Ling asked somewhat doubtfully. Why was Leticia so certain that Ling Long would be able to recruit the Lionman?
Wasn’t it possible that the Lionman was super loyal to his chieftain?
Leticia shook her head. While such people might exist, that Lionman was likely not one of them. After a crushing defeat caused by the leader’s poor command, it wasn’t impossible for him to defect out of despair.
Frankly speaking, even Leticia found the Steel Spear tribe’s chieftain’s actions to be incredibly idiotic. With such a leader, it would be a miracle to win.
Look at Ling Long, not only intelligent and strong, but also exceptionally beautiful. Then, there’s the chieftain, whose appearance is still unknown, but is described as cruel and unintelligent, with only his muscles to show for himself.
However, even in a one-on-one fight, that chieftain might not be able to defeat Ling Long.
Comparing them, even a fool would know who to serve.
However, Leticia wasn’t interested in how Ling Long would persuade the Lionman. After confirming that there were no other unexpected developments on Ling Long’s side, she and Bai Ling returned to their own dwelling, planning to wait and see how things unfolded.
Next, Ling Long would likely recuperate briefly before launching a decisive strike to completely defeat the Steel Spear tribe. During the recuperation period, Leticia would have an opportunity to whisper some secrets to Ling Long.
“Perhaps when we go to find her next, we can use new appearances,” Leticia suddenly had a mischievous idea. It would be too boring if every meeting with Ling Long was done in secret.
Meeting Ling Long openly was the correct approach. And what kind of identity would allow her to meet Ling Long in a normal manner?
Of course, it would be one of Ling Long’s own kind.
Disguise magic was simple for Leticia, although she was generally too lazy to use it. Now, she only spent a little time making some minor adjustments to her appearance.
“This should be fine, right? It doesn’t look too different from Ling Long’s appearance?” Leticia turned around in front of Bai Ling, wanting her to comment on her new look.
A pair of somewhat ferocious black dragon horns had sprouted from her head, and a thick black dragon tail had grown from her back. Leticia now looked like a recolored version of Ling Long.
“It’s not too different, but isn’t it a bit too similar? I think the differences between dragon beastmen should also be quite significant,” Bai Ling commented, stroking her chin.
Within the beastman race, there were also significant differences among those of the same kind. Each race of beastmen was divided into many varieties. For example, among cat beastmen, there were orange cats, white cats, black cats, and so on. The physical differences between these beastmen were actually quite large.
Leticia’s current appearance was too similar to Ling Long’s, making it seem a bit unnatural.
Nodding, Leticia felt that Miss Bai’s assessment was valid. She then redesigned the parts of her body based on the black dragon references she remembered.
That’s right, Leticia had never seen a real, living black dragon. However, she had seen dead black dragons that had been decomposed into small pieces.
Since she only needed to craft a few components, it was as easy as pie for Leticia.
“I remember these horns were left by a black dragon that wreaked havoc hundreds of years ago. That guy was incredibly strong, and it took my ancestor to finally subdue him. Most of his other materials were used up; only these dragon horns remained,” Leticia said, pressing the miniaturized dragon horns onto her head. Instantly, her aura turned terrifying.
“You should make these horns a bit softer. With them like this, no one would doubt you if you were accused of being a villain,” the Sword Saint’s mouth twitched slightly. With those dragon horns, Leticia exuded an aura of evil chaos, appearing as a pure villain.
They weren’t supposed to be playing such roles this time!
Leticia walked to the mirror and had to admit that the horns of that evil dragon were indeed a bit too wicked. She needed to make them cuter.
Carefully adjusting the shape of the dragon horns, it took a while before Leticia finally shaped them into a form that both she and Bai Ling found satisfactory.
As for the tail and wings, it was much simpler. Leticia made a few minor modifications based on Ling Long’s features, and her dragon form was complete.
Since her natural color was black, she naturally chose a black dragon clan, then stood in front of the mirror looking at the somewhat unfamiliar dragon-horned girl, a narcissistic expression on her face. “As expected of me, I can pull off any look.”
“Stop being so smug. Didn’t you just say you’d design a new look for me too?” Miss Bai playfully pinched Leticia’s small wings, saying with some eagerness, “By the way, do these accessories have a sense of touch?”
“You’re thinking too much. It’s possible to have a sense of touch, but that technology is much more advanced and is equivalent to modifying your body. Are you willing to do that?”
The accessories Leticia was wearing now had no sensation, and she had even difficulty controlling them. To control them like an arm would require connecting nerves, but that would be too troublesome.
Like Yin’s cat tail and cat ears, they had a sense of touch and could be controlled. Leticia’s dragon wings and dragon tail were more like accessories worn on her body.
“But isn’t your tail wagging quite happily?” Miss Bai looked at Leticia’s slick, swaying black tail and felt that Leticia should be able to control it.
“That’s because I’m manipulating the magic within the tail. This is a cheating method, and basically only advanced mages can use it,” Leticia spread her hands, helplessly stating that this operating method could only be used by demons, and its difficulty was not small.
“Can’t I use this method?” Miss Bai reached out and grabbed Leticia’s tail, squeezing it with some force.
The tail felt terrible to the touch – hard as stone and cold, nothing like what a living creature’s tail should feel like. Bai Ling frowned and let go of the tail, sighing with regret.
Indeed, imitations created on the spur of the moment couldn’t compare to the real thing.
Seeing Miss Bai’s expression, Leticia impatiently hit the Sword Saint girl’s head with her tail, which she felt was being scorned. “What’s with that regretful look!”
“I thought it would feel better,” Miss Bai replied, holding her head aggrievedly.
“You’re thinking too much. If you want a more realistic dragon tail, I can certainly make one, but there are no materials here. Even the cleverest housewife can’t cook without rice. I can’t create things out of thin air.” If Leticia were to create a dragon tail, the difficulty wouldn’t be high. She could use the same modeling clay used for Yin’s body. However, Leticia hadn’t replenished her raw materials since arriving here and couldn’t produce that kind of modeling clay now.
In addition, she hadn’t encountered rare items like life crystals here yet. As for the wild beasts, those creatures were probably frolicking in the distant great desert.
Looking again at the dark, turbulent storm, Leticia felt it was best to avoid that damned place.
That was a terrifying region known as a death land even among the beastmen. No one who went there ever returned alive. No one knew what exactly was there; beastmen only knew that the great desert wasn’t suitable for their survival.
“I can’t do something that villains would do, like refining all the beastmen here into life crystals,” Leticia yawned, stating that she wasn’t capable of such things for the time being.
Of course, if the situation became truly desperate, she wouldn’t be merciful.
She could even lay hands on demons, let alone ordinary beastmen. These alien races with whom she had no connection wouldn’t cause her any psychological burden when she acted against them.
“I didn’t expect you to have a conscience.”
“What did you just say? Do you want to sleep poorly tonight?” Leticia glared at the Sword Saint girl. She would remember this debt and repay it doubly tonight.
Miss Bai coughed a couple of times and changed the subject.
Although she stubbornly believed herself to be the dominant one in their relationship, the first experience of being utterly dominated had left Miss Bai with a slight psychological shadow.
Leticia’s knowledge was indeed vast. Miss Bai had only been learning these things for less than two years, while Leticia had started learning these “shy” subjects much earlier.
In fact, the first time Leticia received official instruction on such matters was when she was six or seven years old. The demon royal family’s education for their children was incredibly unrestrained. They directly taught many things that, in Leticia’s opinion, should never be taught to children. It was outrageous.
At that time, Leticia was still a pure-hearted, innocent, and carefree young girl. At most, she would ponder in her heart about how she would use her princess status to flirt with other young ladies in the future.
Then, one day during a class, a lady teacher wearing black-rimmed glasses held a thick book and thoroughly explained the matter of “great harmony between people” to Leticia.
Who knew how Leticia managed to get through that class. The teacher’s lecture was incredibly detailed, and she completely disregarded the fact that the little princess in front of her was only seven years old, and that the little princess could barely speak clearly.
Yes, Kira was also present during that class, but Leticia felt that Kira probably hadn’t paid much attention at the time, as younger sister Jiang wasn’t exactly a good student.
Although shocked by the demons’ unrestrained educational methods, it wasn’t a bad thing for Leticia. At least after that class, she could openly search for “shy” books in the great library, using the excuse… As a demon princess, did I need any reason to read books?
What is privilege? This is privilege!
Leticia didn’t even need to register when going to the library to get books. After all, those books were all hers, and would be hers in the future. Why bother registering?
And the demon race had existed for such a long time. Even if there weren’t many “shy” books in the great library, given such a large number, those books were still terrifyingly numerous for Leticia.
She strongly suspected that her ancestors, when collecting books, had thrown these items into the library without even looking at their contents.
In fact, Leticia did the same during her reign. She confiscated the property of many nobles, and she couldn’t possibly read all the books confiscated. She basically had people put them into the great library.
After all, there were professional staff there to categorize and organize the books, so she didn’t need to worry about it.
For Leticia, those “shy” books were a small pastime in her busy life. Such a pastime had continued for nearly twenty years. Think about it, twenty years! How could the knowledge in Leticia’s head be small?
If there were ranks in the world of seduction, she, Leticia, the Empress of the Demon Race, would definitely be the strongest king!
As for Miss Bai, with only one or two years of knowledge, she could barely be considered a bronze player.
“I have many ways to play in my head, but I don’t think we’re at that stage yet,” Leticia said, pressing her forehead. “Magic is quite powerful in some respects.”
