"The entrance was quite horrifying, but its combat ability doesn't seem as terrifying as its appearance."
The battle ended very quickly—so quickly that even Leticia wondered if her strength had improved dramatically recently.
This monster looked at first glance like the kind of very troublesome BOSS from games, but unexpectedly its actual combat ability was so pathetic.
However, wasn't the Demon King usually the major boss in most games? But Miss Demon King had no awareness of being a regular major boss in games.
The monster pinned to the ground by spikes summoned by Leticia was screaming, wanting to resist and tear this black-haired girl to pieces, but her strength was really too weak.
"She can't control the divine power in her body. Those tentacles have been cleared by me." Sasha walked over carrying a book glowing with golden light. She had just gone to clear those black tentacles emerging from the shadows.
Although intuition told her these things posed no threat, having overturned just a few days ago, she felt it was better to be cautious.
Anyway, cleaning them up didn't require much effort. Better to clean up now than regret it later.
"Is this thing human or what?" Leticia crouched in front of the monster, curiously examining it.
"Should have been human before, but now, it's probably lost its sanity and become a true monster." Sasha stroked her chin, talking to herself.
"I haven't lost my sanity!" An angry voice echoed in the room.
This monster seemed capable of communication.
Leticia raised an eyebrow. If it could communicate, that made things easier. "What are you, and why are you here?"
"How should I know what I am?" the monster replied. "Since I became conscious, I've been stuck in that dark place listening to those bitter women nag. I'd like to know what I actually am."
Ah, this. Leticia began pondering how to handle this monster. Generally speaking, she would burn such things that affected the overall aesthetic of the Demon Realm to ashes.
But this monster had shown such high intelligence and could even communicate with her. Such a special existence seemed somewhat wasteful to just kill directly.
At least she should let the demon scholars study it properly before killing it.
"Xue'er, if you handled this monster, could you deal with it?" Leticia turned to whisper in Xue'er's ear.
She needed to assess this monster's strength. If its strength posed no threat, then bringing it out for study wouldn't be a problem.
But if only she in the entire Demon Realm could suppress it, then Leticia felt a corpse would also have sufficient research value.
Xue'er's assessment would determine this monster's fate, and her evaluation of the monster's strength was, "Very weak. Several well-trained mages could suppress it."
Then no problem—bring it out for study.
Leticia pulled out the spikes fixing the monster's limbs. "Can you become smaller? With your current size, you probably can't get through the passage."
Hearing Leticia's words, the monster's three red eyeballs rolled around. "I'll try."
Saying this, it walked toward the cocoon that had been torn open.
"Don't try anything funny." Leticia's finger moved slightly, and a light sword appeared before the monster, its tip pointing at its head.
"To change appearance, I need energy. I have to eat that cocoon to have enough energy."
"Won't magic power work?" Leticia asked.
"Magic power? What's that?" The monster was confused. It only knew the blood-colored cocoon contained abundant energy.
Huh? This monster really knew nothing?
Leticia somewhat speechlessly tossed a ball of magic power to the monster. "See if this stuff works."
The monster hurriedly caught the cloud-like magic power Leticia threw with its hands. The moment it contacted the magic power, its large eyes lit up: "Can I use this to shape a body?"
Shape a body with magic power?
"Um, can't you shapeshift?"
"I don't know what shapeshifting is, but my instincts tell me using this to shape a body is better than using the energy in the cocoon." the monster answered.
"Then try it." Leticia tossed some more magic power to the monster. "By the way, if you're a Demon Realm creature, you should be able to obtain magic power by burning blood."
The monster obviously couldn't burn blood. It originally had no magic power in its body, so even burning wouldn't yield much magic power.
But the magic power Leticia gave it was enough to create a new, more pleasing-looking body.
Absorbing all the magic power into its body, the monster's body immediately deflated, like a deflated inflatable doll.
"A new life is being born... This monster is very special." Sasha stared at the monster's skin, saying quietly. "If I'm not mistaken, that cocoon was actually made from flesh and blood, and this monster's body composition is also the flesh that disappeared from those skeletons."
"You mean this monster devoured those people?"
"No, more accurately, those people's corpses gave birth to this monster." Sasha shook her head. She couldn't quite understand how this monster was born either, but she could confirm one thing—this monster definitely wasn't born through normal methods.
"Then what are the bitter women it mentioned?" Leticia pressed.
Sasha shrugged, indicating she didn't know either. "Perhaps the resentment left by the dead?"
"Souls, huh? I thought that was just a legend."
"Can't really call it a legend. After all, our world has gods and magic, so souls existing is also quite normal. Don't the beast race shamans have spells that make the dead continue moving?" Sasha explained. "Those spells probably stuff souls into corpses, forcibly driving bodies to continue fighting."
While speaking, a small bulge suddenly appeared in the monster's withered body, and then a very cute voice came from inside.
"Let me out quickly!"
Leticia and Sasha looked at each other, both seeing surprise in the other's eyes.
Compared to that broken-gong-like voice from before, this voice was simply heavenly.
"That monster is a girl?" Leticia complained while lightly drawing with her finger, using wind magic to cut an opening in the monster's skin.
Then came a familiar scene, except this time the hand emerging from the opening looked much more attractive.
......
"You went down for a trip and came back with a little girl?" Bai Ling looked coldly at the little girl cowering behind Leticia, asking somewhat unhappily.
"How can you blame me for this? And don't be fooled by how cute she looks—her previous appearance could be described in one word: explosive." Leticia spread her hands, indicating people couldn't be judged by appearance. Who could have thought this fresh-looking girl was previously such a terrifying monster?
The girl looked somewhat timidly at Bai Ling. From this girl, she sensed a dangerous aura—this person definitely couldn't be provoked.
"Master..." She tugged at Leticia's hem, saying quietly.
This single sentence made everyone except the few girls who had just been underground widen their eyes.
Bai Ling's reaction was the most intense.
"You have that kind of hobby too?!"
"Damn it, don't think dirty thoughts!" How could Leticia not know what Bai Ling was implying? She immediately jumped up and punched Bai Ling's head. "This is a completely proper master-servant relationship!"
Master-servant relationship sounded improper no matter how you heard it, and the servant was such a cute little girl. Bai Ling almost immediately thought of certain doujinshi featuring masters and servants.
The little maid who, despite being unwilling in every way, was powerless to resist and could only tearfully comply with her master's demands.
Wow, could Leticia be planning to do just that?
"But Xue'er never called you master."
Xue'er and Leticia had a master-servant relationship, which shouldn't be a matter for discussion.
But after all this time together, Xue'er had never called Leticia master. She called her "Your Majesty" in private and "Miss" in front of Bai Ya, but never "master."
"Xue'er is a maid. This one, um, essentially speaking, is like a pet." Leticia again said something shocking enough to drop everyone's jaws.
"And you still say this is a proper master-servant relationship?!" Bai Ling had already drawn her sword, planning to give that trembling pet a strike.
"Hey, how is it not proper?" Leticia countered.
"Where is it proper?!" Not just Bai Ling—all the other girls thought the same.
This included Qila, who had completed today's work and returned from the Demon King's palace.
Calling such a cute girl a pet—you really couldn't blame the girls for thinking dirty thoughts.
Oh wait, there was one person who didn't think dirty thoughts.
Mo Zili stared straight at the girl cowering behind Leticia. She felt her bloodline urging her to approach that girl.
That girl gave her a very peculiar feeling—they seemed blood-related yet also completely unconnected.
Over there, Leticia spent some saliva explaining the general situation. Actually, it was quite simple: the girl used Leticia's magic power to create her body, and then somehow, some step went wrong and this girl put a contract on herself.
Yes, that kind of unilateral master-servant contract.
This type of contract couldn't be used between two demons—only one demon and one other creature could use this contract.
And demons could only be the master in this arrangement. Perhaps the creator of this contract magic designed it this way to prevent the magic from being used against demons.
Being contractable as a servant indicated this girl wasn't a demon—though Leticia hadn't considered this thing a demon from the start anyway.
"And master is only the master of this body. My soul is still free." the girl argued confidently.
Mm, why did this sound so strange?
"The contract is only with this body she shaped using my magic power. Her soul didn't sign a contract with me." Leticia added.
Though somewhat difficult to understand, that was the truth. This girl was essentially a soul that could remain in the world. She absorbed various energies to change her body, and based on the strength of absorbed energy, her own power would fluctuate considerably.
For example, in her initial monster state, though she looked terrifying, if they really fought, the current her could pin the monster-state her to the ground and rub her face in it with one hand.
Because her current body was shaped with Leticia's magic power, and this magic power was much more powerful than that foul-smelling blood energy.
"I see." Bai Ling stroked her chin and nodded. It seemed the crisis of being cuckolded had been resolved.
Thank goodness.
"Mm, there's a very familiar scent here." After discovering the crisis had been resolved, the girl gradually became more active. She sniffed and muttered quietly.
Her gaze wandered among the girls present for a moment before finally locking onto Mo Zili. The girl ran over to the girl's side and asked curiously, "Do you have any siblings?"
She felt her first body, or the materials composing that large cocoon, included Mo Zili's relatives.
"I don't know. I came to the Demon Realm to search for my family." Mo Zili shook her head. She also felt this girl contained parts connected to her bloodline, but this girl definitely wasn't her relative—she was certain of this.
"Perhaps she has your relatives in her." Leticia shared this thought. Though the girl's body was shaped by her magic power, the materials used were still the original ones.
This meant some of the skeletons in the underground chamber were Mo Zili's relatives.
"According to this, we might have already found Little Mo's relatives." Leticia pointed downward, making a small joke. "Though we can't tell which skeleton is your relative, why don't you just consider them all your relatives?"
"Miss Qianqian, stop joking about me!" Mo Zili said somewhat helplessly.
Being joked about like this, she didn't feel angry. She had never seen relatives since birth and had no emotional attachment to them.
She wanted to find her relatives only because her teacher said he would help her find them. Now that she knew her teacher wasn't a good person, she cared even less about relatives.
Anyway, her teacher bringing her to the Demon Realm definitely wasn't to find family. Perhaps, as Demon King said, her teacher brought her here to sacrifice her to a god so the god would fulfill her teacher's wishes.
"I'm not joking. The underground chamber might really have your relatives."
"But they're all already dead!"