Chapter 474 The Succubus

For Izhaks, the whereabouts of his daughter were the most important thing in the entire world. He couldn't wait to pack his luggage and set off that very night to go back to his hometown to rescue her, but after calming down, he knew that these things had to be planned carefully. He needed to tell Hao Ren and his group of helpers the details of his hometown, prepare for battle, figure out how to disguise themselves and gather information once they arrived, and also let Lanina recover from her injuries.

Lanina was different from Izhaks. Just by looking at her, one could tell that she was not a strong, sturdy demon skilled at fighting. Her physique was naturally much weaker. Her leg had been broken by a spaceship a few months ago, and she hadn't been able to rest and recover properly since then. Now, she had serious aftereffects, and without advanced medical technology, it would probably be impossible to cure her completely. Fortunately, Hao Ren had no shortage of medical equipment—there was a whole row of it in the basement.

He and Izhaks led Lanina to the basement, pointing to the row of silver-white coffins: "Just pick one and lie down in it, and your leg will be restored in thirty minutes at most. Then, tonight, you can stay with Vivian. There are no empty rooms upstairs."

The Four Heavenly Kings had occupied the last two empty rooms after they arrived, and although Vivian lived in the basement, it was spacious. They only needed to add a temporary cot, so Hao Ren arranged it this way.

The female demon looked at the coffin-like silver-white devices with some surprise, blinking at Hao Ren: "So you're a necromancer?"

Hao Ren: "...Just lie down, why ask so many questions? Can't I just have a unique sense of aesthetics?"

The female demon gave an "oh" sound, lowered her head, found the nearest hibernation pod, and lay down inside. The device closed and began to scan the body structure of the internal organism and develop a repair plan. Hao Ren breathed a sigh of relief after the graceful female demon, who always had a strange charm, lay down inside: "Damn... being with her is really stressful."

"Stress?" Vivian, who was sitting on her bed nearby, packing her things, looked at Hao Ren curiously, "What stress can there be from being with a girl?"

Hao Ren was a little embarrassed: "Uh... you wouldn't understand. I think Lanina is weird. She's pretty... but theoretically, I shouldn't have this feeling of seeing a girl for the first time. But I don't know why, every time I face her, I feel a little overwhelmed. Her eyes make it hard to look away."

Hao Ren was honest at this time, telling the truth about his feelings when he saw Lanina, because he thought this feeling was really strange, not like something that came from his own heart, so he didn't take it seriously at all. Vivian immediately frowned and snorted after hearing this: "Oh—so you like this type, with horns, goat hooves, and a whip-like tail, tsk tsk, your tastes are quite heavy, only looking at faces and breasts, huh?"

Hao Ren quickly explained: "No, no, it's not about aesthetics. Honestly, her face isn't even as pretty as yours. I just think..."

At this time, Izhaks spoke up to help him out: "It's normal. Lanina is a succubus. Seduction is her racial talent."

Hao Ren was immediately surprised when he heard this: "A succubus? So this is a succubus?!"

"Yes, I don't know if there are succubi in this world, but the succubi on my side are like Lanina," Izhaks nodded. "They are good at seduction, using the souls of male creatures as a source of power. They like to play with emotions, but occasionally they will seriously date human or other humanoid male races for a while. They are one of the few demons who use their brains more than their muscles. This is the characteristic of succubi on my side. However, Lanina is a more alternative succubus. She is not interested in seducing others, and she has never seriously trained in this area. What you just encountered was just her instinctive temperament that was inadvertently revealed. Being able to resist it means you have a firm will."

Hao Ren was a little speechless: "That was just the temperament that was accidentally revealed... how powerful are the real succubi?"

"The most powerful can brainwash ordinary people with a single look, and make trained warriors swear allegiance to them with a single sentence, but it is only effective on men, and the effects are temporary," Izhaks explained casually. "Actually, their charm is just a means for them to survive, not their strongest point. In my hometown, succubi are mainly valued by other demons for their intelligence. They are very smart, and as long as the master is strong enough, they will be loyal enough, so they are valued strategists for many demon lords or demon kings. At the same time, succubi are also very good at dealing with intelligent races such as humans, which makes them even more valuable."

"Is that how Lanina became your strategist?" Hao Ren suddenly became very interested in the demonic ecosystem of Izhaks's hometown, and suddenly thought of Lanina's unusual respect for Izhaks. He immediately felt that he had seen through everything. "Wait... based on Lanina's mental state, and the fact that she doesn't like to seduce others, could it be that she likes you?"

"Don't talk nonsense," Izhaks said with a serious face. "I adopted Lanina when she was young. Her relationship with me is similar to that of a father and daughter. Later, I saw that she liked military strategy, so I let her be a strategist. We don't have that messed up sugar daddy culture over there."

Hao Ren thought he had seen through everything: "Hey, you're just oblivious. This girl obviously worships you to the point of losing control, and she even sealed her succubus's natural seduction ability, isn't that because she has someone in her heart..."

Izhaks spread his hands: "But she likes women."

Hao Ren was immediately stunned, and Vivian, who was not far away, was originally sitting on the bed listening to the excitement. At this time, she directly jumped up two meters high from the spot, scattering into a large pile of small bats on the ceiling and falling down with a flutter. After she gathered back into shape, the first thing she did was stare at Izhaks: "What did you say?!"

"Lanina likes women," Izhaks was also a little dumbfounded. "I don't know if it was a problem with my education or if she was just like this... anyway, she kept her distance from men, and that's why she abandoned her seduction ability. To make up for the resulting decline in power, she has been studying magic and battle skills."

At the end, Izhaks helplessly pointed to the place where Lanina was lying: "She is the first succubus in history to focus on exercising..."

Hao Ren added the second half of the sentence in his heart: Because she didn't "eat" properly since she was a child.

Vivian's face changed drastically several times, and then she rushed towards Hao Ren, grabbing the latter's shoulders: "You said you wanted me to sleep with her tonight?"

Hao Ren was shaken by Vivian's shoulders for a while, and things were almost blurry: "Let... let go... I'm just planning..."

Vivian released Hao Ren's shoulders, her face almost green: "What's going on, I keep meeting strange guys, aren't we weird enough?"

"Don't be prejudiced against people," Hao Ren waved his hand. "And who else can she stay with if not you? Only your room is spacious. The other girls' rooms only have a single bed, and there's no place to put a second bed."

"Let her mess with Big Dog!"

Look at Vivian's choice of words, she used "mess with" at this time.

"Don't, you know Lily's personality. If something really happens, she'll tear down the house easily," Hao Ren glanced at Vivian. "To be honest, I still think your place is the most suitable—you've accumulated a wealth of offensive and defensive experience in your long-term struggle with Hesperides..."

Vivian was about to say something when she heard a "ding" sound from the hibernation pod next to her. The lid slowly opened, and Lanina sat up from inside.

The female demon jumped out of the coffin lightly, and after walking back and forth a few times, she was pleasantly surprised to find that her injured leg, which had already left stubborn problems, had really recovered as before, and even her whole body had been adjusted to an unprecedented peak state. She bowed deeply to Hao Ren with joy: "Thank you for your help, you are the kindest human I have ever met... um, is there a problem?"

She found that the atmosphere at the scene seemed a little strange.

Hao Ren quickly shook his head: "It's nothing, we were just discussing the action plan."

Vivian was very straightforward: "Lanina, can I ask about your sexual orientation?"

"Sexual orientation? What?" The female demon, although a succubus, was confused by these high-end words from Earth. Vivian directly transliterated them into the demon language, and no matter how advanced the translation plug-in was, it could not forcibly create a non-existent word in Lanina's mind.

Vivian put her hands on her hips: "It means do you like men or women? I heard you like women?"

Hao Ren was sweating on his forehead, thinking that he never expected that Vivian, who was usually gentle as water, could be so rough. She was obviously anxious.

Lanina really deserved to be a succubus. There was basically no change in her expression when she heard this question. She just shook her head blankly: "Who said I like women?"

Vivian's expression just relaxed a little when she heard Lanina's follow-up: "I just don't like men..."

Vivian's face turned green again...