Chapter: Chapter 504
The unconscious fox beastman was placed in a small hut near the temple, and the priests sent a few people to take care of him, as well as to monitor him.
The physician from the Eagle Tribe was also invited to take a look. His conclusion was that the fox beastman was not in serious condition, just that he had overdrawn his mental energy, and would likely wake up tomorrow.
Since it wasn’t even evening yet, it meant Leticia had a full night to carry out her grand plan of “stealing the heavens and changing the sun.”
“Judging by this weight, I think I can substitute it with wood.” Weighing the golden pen in her hand, Leticia searched through a pile of wood for the materials she needed.
She had occasionally gone out to gather special materials from the beastmen during these days, and she had naturally collected some wood, some light and some heavy, some of no great use, and some with special properties.
In an open space not far from Infino Manor, Leticia piled up the materials she had collected. After a while, she finally found wood that was similar in weight to the golden pen.
“But ordinary wood can’t replicate the magical effect of this pen, right?” Bai Ling, whom Leticia had pulled over to help, carried a thick piece of wood on her shoulder and asked a rather important question.
This golden pen was a magic pen used for drawing magic circles, and the fake pen that Leticia was trying to imitate with wood probably wouldn’t be able to achieve such an effect. If that were the case, the fox beastman would definitely notice something was wrong.
“That’s easy to solve, I’ll just make a usable pen. It doesn’t need to be too high-level; he won’t be able to tell the difference.” It was true that the golden pen was of a very high level, and even for Leticia, it would take considerable time to create such an item. However, since the fox beastman couldn’t discern the difference between the real and the fake, Leticia just needed to make a fake pen with a similar effect.
Besides, this golden pen wasn’t very user-friendly; it consumed a lot, and it was really not as good as the fake one Leticia was about to make.
For items like this, a higher level isn’t always better; what’s best is what suits you.
The fox beastman’s strength was relatively low. The fake made by Leticia would not have a large gap from the real one in his eyes. He might even think that the fake made by Leticia was the real one.
After all, the craftsmanship of the golden pen wasn’t very skillful; it just used more advanced materials. These advanced materials didn’t improve the pen’s effect; on the contrary, they greatly increased the consumption of its use, making it a complete negative optimization.
Leticia, on the other hand, wouldn’t do such foolish things. She believed in “one portion of material, one portion of quality,” focusing on stability.
“Wait for me, I’ll go get the materials I left with the ancestor.”
After a few minutes, Leticia flew back with a large pile of materials. These were all magic materials she had collected along the way that might be useful, and now they were finally being used.
The core of the golden pen was likely made from a part of the Phoenix. Leticia suspected that material was the Phoenix’s bone, so she also chose a bird’s bone as the core of the fake pen.
After processing the bone in a special way, Leticia inserted it into the wooden pen, which had a small hole drilled into it. Then, she mixed some golden paint with other materials at hand and painted the wooden pen golden.
After inputting some magic power into the wooden pen, Leticia felt a noticeable stiffness. Since the materials used were relatively low-level, there was no expectation of high quality for this pen.
It was definitely incomparable to the real one, but for the fox beastman, such a pen was just right, fitting his current strength.
This wooden pen was much less stressful to use than the golden pen, and the effect in the hands of the fox beastman would not be significantly different.
Leticia had actually done a great deed.
With the main body of the fake completed, it was time for Leticia to add the special effects to the pen. Although she had already painted the pen golden, compared to the natural and elegant gold of the golden pen, the gold she brushed on looked a bit vulgar.
Moreover, she hadn’t yet replicated the faint aura of pressure that wrapped around the golden pen. The two pens could still be easily distinguished.
“You hold onto this pen for now. I’m going out to find Little Yu.” Throwing the golden pen to Bai Ling, Leticia reached out and grabbed the air beside her, opening a passage to the artifact space.
“Okay, I’ll go back and wait for you?” Bai Ling caught the golden pen thrown by Leticia and squeezed it in her hand, feeling the scorching energy contained within the small pen.
Subconsciously, she injected her stellar energy into it.
“As you wish… Wait, what did you do?!” Before Leticia could finish her sentence, she suddenly sensed a huge heat source in her perception.
And this heat source was being held by Bai Ling!
“I don’t know!” Sensing that something was wrong, Bai Ling made a decisive move and threw the golden pen far away.
As it turned out, her reaction was quite timely. Just seconds after being thrown, the pen turned into a dazzling firework in mid-air. The booming sound even alarmed Infino, who was far inside the manor.
A colorful barrier had already protected Leticia and Bai Ling before the explosion. Looking at the ripples constantly appearing on the barrier and the wood burning fiercely under the high temperature, Leticia’s expression showed some heartache.
Wasn’t the power of this pen’s explosion a bit too much?
And, Bai Ling, what exactly did you do to make this thing explode!
“I just injected a little stellar energy into it. Who knew it would turn out like this…” Looking at Leticia’s peculiar expression, Bai Ling explained weakly. She knew it was her fault this time.
Originally, even if Leticia couldn’t make a good fake, she could still return the original golden pen. But now, Leticia had to make the fake.
“Stellar energy… Alright, no one could have predicted this. Just be more careful in the future.” What else could she say? Leticia couldn’t scold Bai Ling. Injecting her own magic was fine, but when Bai Ling injected stellar energy, it caused problems.
This was probably because there was a significant difference between stellar energy and magic. It was precisely because of this difference that the current situation occurred.
As for where exactly the difference lay, Leticia had no idea. This was another mystery that required her to explore in the future.
When the shockwaves from the explosion subsided, Leticia removed the shield and flew to the center of the explosion, picking up a few charred fragments from the ground.
These should be the remnants of the golden pen. Holding these in her hand, Leticia sighed. As expected of something related to the Phoenix, it exploded so brilliantly.
“I can’t tell what materials they are specifically, tsk.” The constituent materials of the golden pen did not match any of the materials in Leticia’s memory. She could only infer that the materials were likely metals influenced by the Phoenix’s divine power.
These were the materials that made up the outer shell of the golden pen. As for the inner part, it had vanished without a trace in the explosion.
Handing these remnants to Bai Ling and repeatedly warning her not to carelessly touch these things with her stellar energy again, Leticia then left the artifact space with the semi-finished fake golden pen.
Returning to the real world through the spatial passage, Leticia immediately saw Yu lying on the ground, staring eye-to-eye with a large rat.
Fortunately, this girl was wearing simple cloth clothes now. If she were wearing her previous magnificent gown, Leticia’s blood pressure would likely have soared to a terrifying number.
How many times had she taught this little one, yet she still couldn’t change this habit?
And looking at her eyes, full of curiosity and desire, Leticia felt that Yu was probably contemplating whether to directly grab the large rat and stuff it into her mouth.
Fortunately, at least Yu now knew to cook things with fire before eating them, so she wouldn’t do abstract things like grabbing live, struggling creatures and stuffing them into her mouth as she used to.
Taking out her magic sword and lightly tapping Yu’s head, Leticia said, “Let the rat go for now. You’re a phoenix, don’t always think about eating this kind of thing.”
She was supposed to only alight on the Wutong trees, only eat refined grains, and only drink sweet dew. Why did this little Yu have such strange hobbies?
Could she have been born into the wrong species?
“I wasn’t thinking of eating it!” Yu hugged her head and replied somewhat indignantly.
With her mental energy having greatly improved compared to before, she no longer had any problems communicating. The innate language talent of deities was almost completely mastered by her.
Looking at Yu’s slightly puffed-up cheeks, Leticia couldn’t help but reach out and poke her cute face, “So cute.”
“Sister Leti!” Yu, having her face poked, immediately deflated. She couldn’t get angry at all when facing Leticia. This was probably the innate racial suppression.
“Cough, cough.” After poking a few times, Leticia remembered that she shouldn’t be so undignified. She quickly coughed twice to correct her posture and took out the replica of the golden pen. “Yu, can you make this pen emit your aura?”
Emit my aura? Yu took the golden pen from Leticia with both hands, her small face showing a troubled expression.
Yu had never thought about such a thing. Now that she was suddenly asked, she couldn’t answer immediately.
After thinking for a while, she looked up pitifully, “I don’t know!”
If she didn’t know, she didn’t know. She was just a little bird that had hatched only a few days ago, so it was normal for her not to know!
It was normal that she didn’t know, after all, Yu was still too young. Leticia wasn’t too disappointed. “Then I’ll teach you, but I don’t know if you can use my method.”
As a Demon King, Leticia naturally had the ability to leave her aura on items. However, this method was exclusive to demons, and Leticia couldn’t guarantee that Yu could use this method.
But, they had to try.
“Okay!” Yu nodded obediently.
“Generally speaking, there are two ways to leave your aura on an item. The first is through long-term contact and use. For example, my magic sword has an aura left on it like this.” Leticia pointed to her magic sword, which she was using as a walking stick on the ground.
Although Leticia had always had some reservations about her creation, without a doubt, the magic sword had been with her the longest, and it was already full of Leticia’s aura.
“The aura left by this method is the most natural, but obviously, this method cannot be used now, so I will teach you the second method, which is to leave your unique mark.”
Tapping the magic sword on the ground, a black crest appeared with Leticia at the center. Then, Leticia hopped out of the crest and said to Yu, “Do you feel anything?”
Yu closed her eyes and slowly nodded. In her perception, the crest left by Leticia was emitting an aura identical to Leticia’s, although it couldn’t compare to the main body nearby in terms of intensity.
If it’s this method, it seems… it seems I can do it too?
A vague thought emerged in Yu’s mind. She spread her right hand, and a cluster of golden flames gushed out from her palm, beginning to change under her control.
A crooked pattern gradually took shape, and Yu’s aura emanated from the pattern.
Leticia silently retracted her crest and completely contained her aura, fearing she might disturb Yu’s thoughts.
Just by looking at it once, she could imitate it almost perfectly. This little one was truly surprising.
After about ten minutes, the golden pattern in Yu’s hand stabilized. The pattern looked like a small bird with its head tucked in, resting on a branch. Unlike the imposing patterns of the Phoenix, this pattern gave off a very cute feeling.
It was quite fitting for Yu’s first impression, Leticia thought.
“Sister Leti, is it like this?” Yu opened her eyes, her red eyes filled with joy.
She was finally able to help Sister Leti, and she was very happy.
“That’s right. Can you shrink it a bit and press this pattern onto this pen?” Leticia nodded quickly.
“I can!”
Shrinking the golden pattern a bit, Yu found a spot that looked pleasing on the replica golden pen and placed her mark on it.
Now, this pen began to emit a special aura belonging to a deity.
Happily handing the golden pen, which had been stamped by her, to Leticia, Yu’s face showed an expression of “Praise me quickly.” Looking at it, Leticia couldn’t help but want to hug this little one and dote on her.
Alas, compared to Yu, Qila as a child was simply irreclaimable trash! The “scumbag sister” directly threw her own younger sister into the trash can in her heart.
