Chapter 173: Chapter 173 - Morning Star
Since Lilian was in the Core Formation realm, Leyvi wouldn't worry that much. If Anda or Valenia were the ones who requested, he would have declined. They didn't have a tough body like him to face a high-level demonic beast head-on.
After everyone agreed with the plan, they exited the hovering stationary airship and faced the demonic crow that was still trying to damage the airship.
"Oi stupid bird, can you stop being so noisy?" Leyvi shouted at the giant crow.
Caw-caw!
"What the heck! This human can understand me. Haha, he must be a special human. A special human usually has many treasures!"
Caw! kraah-kraa!
"Special human! From now on, you will be my slave! After I kill the others, you will be my translator to read many human things that I can't read! Robbing humans will be a lot easier. Haha."
Leyvi's eyebrow twitched. This bird is asking for a beating. If the demonic crow had a better personality, he might try to recruit it, but it seemed like a violent demonic beast that had killed a lot of humans.
"Anda!" Leyvi signalled.
Anda immediately conjured multiple fire rings to restrict the crow's movement.
Caw?
The demonic crow realized that its wings were stuck in the fire rings that suddenly appeared on both sides. The fire rings were hot, and they quickly burned its feathers. Since it couldn't flap anymore, the crow just hung mid-air, struggling to get free from the fire rings.
Awk! Awk!
Dammit! It burns! Ouch ouch! How dare you humans! I'll eat you!
Seeing the crow getting restricted by Anda, Lilian wasted no more time because she knew Anda couldn't do this for long.
She created three long thick vines and interlaced them together to create a single thick vine. After that, a huge, scary-looking fruit started to form at the end of the braided vines. Countless sharp spikes also formed around the fruit soon after. The huge fruit was the Metallic Durian Leyvi won for Lilian in the Beast Tamer tournament.
Leyvi's eyes almost popped when he saw the Metallic Durian. That must be the new weapon Lilian was talking about! The sharp spikes, the hardness, and the heaviness of the fruit would add to its destructive force when used as a weapon.
Previously, Lilian only relied on her thorny vines as her weapon, which wasn't very lethal. Now, she had the dreadful Metallic Durian as a weapon. Even Leyvi had goosebumps. What if he got hit by that? Could his body take it?
Lilian controlled her plant-based morning star and swung it around to gain momentum. The morning star moving through the air at high speed produced a loud 'whooshing' noise that could intimidate any living being near it.
Even the demonic crow forgot to struggle as it stared at the terrifying thing quickly coming to it.
Caw-caw?
"Oh shit. I messed with the wrong humans. Am I going to die?"
"Hahaha! Stupid crow, you want me to be your translator? Keep dreaming and goodbye!" Leyvi mocked it just before Lilian's attack landed.
CRACK!!!
Lilian's morning star smashed the crow's head with full momentum from above, directly shattering its skull to pieces. The crowd died immediately from the impact.
Boom!
The attack also destroyed Anda's fire rings, sending the dead crow crashing to the ground.
Holy! Leyvi felt amazed by the power. With the addition of the Metallic Durian, Lilian could be considered a heavy hitter alongside him now.
Leyvi, Nala, and Valenia didn't even participate this time. Anda and Lilian were enough to take care of the crow. No, he believed that Lilian absolutely could face the demonic crow alone. There was no doubt about it. He could sense that she only used a small portion of her Qi.
"Good job Lilian! My introverted wife has become so strong!" Leyvi came closer to her and praised her.
"I'm not introverted anymore! My sister said I am a big girl now." Lilian pouted, looking cute.
"Don't worry, you are always the biggest. Fifi comes close second." Leyvi said mischievously.
Nala and Anda giggled at Leyvi's joke while Valenia rolled her eyes.
After Leyvi collected the demonic crow's dead body on the ground, they continued their journey again. Although the crow bragged about robbing many humans and possibly had stashed many valuable items, he didn't want to waste time searching for those things.
Since then, they met more and more flying demonic beasts along the way to the Mercenary City. Every time any demonic beast came picking a fight with them, they would stop and use the opportunity to train.
Leyvi felt disappointed because all the demonic beasts they encountered were very hostile to humans, so there was no chance for him to recruit any. It was probably because humans and demonic beasts were hunting each other constantly around this region.
"The nearer we got to the Mercenary City, the more the demonic beasts we encounter. No wonder they said this place is the best hunting grounds." Leyvi commented.
When they returned from the Holy Cat City and along the way up to the Homun Family territory, they hadn't met a single demonic beast. But now, there were already multiple encounters in a few days.
"If we are around the mountains on the other side of the Mercenary City, the flying demonic beasts would attack us in groups. This area is considered tame." Nala explained.
"This is already tame?" Leyvi was in disbelief. If a group of high-level demonic beasts came to attack them, they could only run.
"Are there any commander or general-level demonic beasts around the Mercenary City?" Leyvi felt curious and worried at the same time.
Nala smiled. "Don't worry, the elites from Mercenary City would immediately arrange a hunting mission if any commander-level and above demonic beasts entered the city's safe zone perimeters."
Leyvi nodded. The more he listened about Mercenary City, the more interested he became. However, there was a thing that he didn't understand. How did the women of the city get mistreated, causing them to come together and create female-only mercenary groups?
A day later.
"There's no demonic beasts tried to court death today. That's weird." Leyvi said.
"That's because we are already near to the Mercenary City. We should be able to see it soon." Nala replied as usual. She had turned into a sexy tour guide during this journey, answering every question from the tourists.
Soon, they started to see mercenary groups hunting demonic beasts on the ground. Each group wore something to differentiate itself from the others.
Another hour later, Leyvi and the group finally saw the sight of the Mercenary City. They saw tall reinforced walls that encircled the entire city and the walls had many watchtowers on them. Leyvi estimated that the size of the city was only as big as Bara City, which was considered small. However, that was just a surface-level observation.
Nala, as the sexy tour guide, once again explained that the Mercenary City primarily consumes demonic beast meats as food consumption. So, the land for agriculture inside the city was very small compared to other cities.
If the size of the cities was calculated based on the population, the Mercenary City ranked second behind the population of the Holy Cat City. Of course, this was only the rank in the South Region. Nala said that some West Region cultivator cities had denser populations than the Holy Cat City.
Soon, they arrived outside of the Mercenary City walls and disembarked.
"Hahaha! We are here! Holy! They really made the walls here super tall. But why is the grand formation not covering the walls?" Leyvi tilted his head upward to see the top of the wall while asking.
"Hehe. This is Mercenary City. Of course, they prefer fighting rather than relying on formation. But if the situation becomes unfavorable, they could just activate the grand formation to cover the walls. It's not a big deal." Nala explained.
Leyvi nodded. "The culture around here all become closely related to fighting, huh? Interesting. I wonder if the women here required men to beat them in a battle first before getting into relationships."
"Wow! Darling is smart. They really have this kind of culture." Nala praised while leading them to the city gate.
Leyvi was dumbfounded. He just made a wild assumption since their culture revolves around fighting and it turned out to be true. It must be hard for weak men in this city.
"Leyvi, this is a good chance for you!" Anda chimed in.
Leyvi looked visibly confused. "Huh? What chance?"
"You can beat all the ladies and bring them all back home! Maybe you can bring back a hundred concubines like this. Hehe." Anda said, appearing very excited.
Leyvi rolled his eyes. "Horny panda, just say so if you want night battle reinforcements. You can beat them yourself and add them to your squad. I won't be contributing to my potential defeat."
He had a dominating streak in night battles for a long time now. There was no way he would sabotage his records by helping Anda recruit more horny ladies.
"Big Madam, don't worry. I know a few girls that we can recruit for our night battle army. I'm confident we can beat Darling with their help." Nala happily suggested to Anda. She was fully on board with Anda's mission.
"Oh Nala, you are my best ally. I love you so much! Muah muah!" Anda hugged Nala and kissed her cheeks.
Leyvi was speechless. What are these girls doing?
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