Chapter 108 What Happened To Your Tail

Actually, Hao Ren occasionally wondered, although there was a bunch of wacky and weirdly ingenious Yi Chang Sheng Wu (anomalous creatures) in his house, the most idiotic among them was probably not Lily. This lively husky girl might be a wise person deep down. It's not that she usually doesn't use her brain; it's that she cleverly found the easiest way to live: if she can eat and drink her fill by just laughing and goofing around every day without thinking about anything, why bother being a smart person?

Take the current situation, for example. He absolutely didn't believe that this husky spirit relied on her foolishness to raise an army of magical beasts in the past month. The law of the forest is so cruel. When she was the Alpha Wolf, she must have been very shrewd. It's just that now, after finding her long-term meal ticket, this girl decisively shut down her self-reliance module and chose to return to the realm of huskies...

But looking at the satisfied expression on the dog girl's face, Hao Ren couldn't say much. It was already touching enough that a husky spirit who was said to be carefree could still remember to find a "feeder," not to mention that this stubborn girl still insisted on paying three or four hundred yuan in rent every month...

At this moment, Lily had already circled the small hill again and returned with a frustrated expression: "Those two cult leaders ran away?"

Hao Ren waved his hand nonchalantly: "It's okay, let them run. They won't end well."

Lily put her hands on her hips: "But they stole our stuff!"

Hao Ren glared at her: "You're quite conscientious for a husky spirit who's supposed to guard the house!"

Kalasos watched the interaction between the two people, but he couldn't relax like Hao Ren. Two high-level Annihilation Cultists escaped right under his nose, which made this high-level cultivator feel like he had a fishbone stuck in his throat: "They used dark forbidden techniques to leave. They can draw this kind of power from the depths of Chaos. Their status in the Annihilation Cult must be at least 'Harbingers' or even 'Agents.' After guys of this level run away, they will cause endless trouble."

"No need to worry," Hao Ren smiled. "I've already made arrangements."

Kalasos wanted to say something, but seeing Hao Ren's expression, he swallowed the rest of his words. In any case, the escape of the cultists was already a done deal, and saying anything more would only add to the regret.

Hao Ren then patted Lily's arm: "By the way, I haven't had time to introduce them yet. These people are—"

"Oh, right, introductions," Lily finally remembered this and quickly pointed to the "mixed troops" next to her, introducing them one by one. "This is Knight Commander Tridis from the Black Raven Fortress. She's the commander of these Black Raven Knights. This uncle is called Kalasos. He's from a place called the Sanctuary. The people he brought here are the Sanctuary Investigation Team. They came here to look for some 'light.' I don't know what that means. Finally, these tall and strong guys are my personal guards! The Alpha Wolf Personal Guard! I brought them from a floating island in the south. They've been following me all the way."

The magical beasts immediately clamored noisily when they heard the Alpha Wolf introducing them. Lily glared at them, and they instantly fell silent.

"Oh... you have quite a high prestige among them," Hao Ren couldn't help but tease when he saw this situation. As he spoke, the corner of his eye swept to the back of Lily. He was immediately shocked, "What happened to your tail?"

The situation was too chaotic just now, so he didn't notice. Now that things had quieted down, he realized the husky girl's abnormality. Lily's tail, which she had always cherished, didn't know what had happened to it, but it was almost half bald, looking like an old broom head.

Hao Ren frowned: "...I know you usually have the habit of biting your own tail, but it shouldn't be this serious, right?"

Lily seemed to realize something at this time, and quickly covered her butt with her hand, jumping up with a howl: "Don't look!!"

Hao Ren looked surprised: "...So what exactly happened to you?"

Lily's face turned red, and her ears were twitching: "I... I did it to protect the tribe! Well, and to maintain world peace!"

At this time, Kalasos couldn't help but speak from the side: "The Alpha Wolf possesses powerful divine power of Order. She used her fur to make talismans to help the beasts resist Chaos. This is a great sacrifice."

Hao Ren glanced at Lily strangely, thinking that the girl's recent experience was probably even more bizarre than his own. But now was obviously not the time to continue teasing her: a dog will jump over a wall when cornered, and if Lily gets anxious, who knows how much trouble she will cause, so he quickly changed the subject and turned to look at Kalasos and Tridis: "The cultists must have a reason for staying here. Let's leave some people outside to keep watch, and the rest of us will investigate the ruins. What do you think?"

Of course, no one objected to this proposal, so after leaving most of the people behind for perimeter security, Kalasos, Tridis, Lily, and Hao Ren led a few Sanctuary monks into the "Hogus Cabin," which was now in a semi-destroyed state.

Because they were worried that there were still cultists hiding in the ruins preparing to ambush them, everyone kept their weapons in hand.

After the previous fierce battle, this ancient house, which had been preserved until now due to magical power, finally couldn't hold on any longer. Half of the house had collapsed, and there were ruins everywhere. Dark red纹路(wenlu) could be seen on the broken walls and roofs. Those were the evil runes left by the Shadow Mage Hogus centuries ago. They once summoned the power of Chaos to the orderly kingdom, but now these runes had lost their power. Eroded by dark magic, they were mottled and peeling off, adding a gloomy and terrifying atmosphere to the ruins.

The corpses of the cultists were everywhere, but nothing special had been found yet.

While casually observing the situation inside the ancient house, Hao Ren made a new discovery on Lily: "By the way, why have you been glowing all the time?"

Lily was holding her tail at this time, feeling sad—before, after her tail became bald, she had been using a wolf skin cloak to cover it, so it wasn't so embarrassing. But the wolf skin cloak had been torn during the transformation just now, which could be said to be the biggest loss for the husky girl in the previous battle.

Hao Ren's words finally made Lily, who was in a state of sadness, raise her head. She looked at her glowing arm and suddenly remembered this: "Ah, that's right! Landlord, I was just about to ask you! What's going on with me glowing all the time?"

"This is the sacred light of Order," Kalasos interjected from the side. "Alpha Wolf, this is a gift from the Creation Goddess..."

"More like a gift from nature!" Lily glared at him. "It's so bright that I can't even sleep! Okay, don't interrupt. Landlord, it's like this..."

She then told Hao Ren everything that happened after she left the southern floating island, including how she led the team to encounter the Chaos Storm, and then how she started to glow when Chaos attacked, and then how she accidentally saved a group of Sanctuary Investigation Team, and then how she used the "holy light" on her body to open a path in the Black Forest... The whole process was described in detail and vividly. After removing the background of the characters, it sounded like an advertisement for an xx light bulb factory.

In short, there were two points: This dog suddenly lit up; this dog doesn't want to be so bright, but this dog doesn't know how to turn it off!

After speaking, Lily blinked her eyes and looked at Hao Ren, expecting the other party's answer: The landlord is so powerful, he must know what to do.

As an experienced pope with a certificate, how could Hao Ren not understand the husky spirit's situation at this time? He touched his chin and thought for a moment, then realized what was going on and looked at Lily with a particularly meaningful expression: "Usually, the food I get from Raven 12345, you end up packing it all away, right?"

Lily nodded repeatedly, taking it for granted.

Hao Ren spread his hands: "You've eaten too many natural treasures, and you've become a natural treasure yourself."

Lily didn't react for a moment, but after thinking about it for a while, she realized what it meant and suddenly became anxious: "What should I do! Will someone stew me? Am I like Tang Seng now, gaining immortality by eating a piece of my meat?"

As she spoke, she raised her hand and looked at it, hesitating for a long time before asking a question: "Landlord, what do you think I taste like?"

Hao Ren: "...That's not the point!!"

Lily looked sad: "Then tell me how I can stop glowing."

"Based on the current situation, you only glow when you are in a chaotic environment. This should be a passive phenomenon caused by the natural conflict between Order and Chaos," Hao Ren touched his chin. "To be honest, it's very difficult to actively control divine power. Even I, who have a certificate, have been specially trained to master the knack of controlling power. You probably won't learn it in a short time... In the future, either try to stay in the orderly realm as much as possible, or learn to get used to it. At least that's the only way before 'leaving this place'."

Lily was obviously not satisfied with this answer. She grabbed Hao Ren's arm and shook it wildly: "Landlord, tell me the trick, maybe I'll learn it! I'm telling you, I'm not stupid, I graduated from Peking University four times! Tell me how you train..."

Hao Ren glared at her: "The first step in mental control is to calm your mind and be as still as water."

Lily's ears drooped instantly: "Then I'll try to adapt to the current state, it's good to glow and generate heat..."

It seemed that she was quite self-aware of her husky nature.

Just then, the female knight Tridis, who was walking in front, seemed to have made a discovery. She made a gesture to stop the people behind her and whispered, "There seems to be something ahead."

Everyone immediately became vigilant. Hao Ren tiptoed forward and stopped beside Kalasos: "What is it?"

"Dark magic, primal magic from the Sea of Carnos," the high-level monk made a sacred sign on his chest. "A blood sacrifice, a cultist's evil ritual."

Hao Ren looked up and saw a bloody altar in the center of the half-collapsed room in the distance.