Chapter : 45

He slept so soundly that he lost all track of time.

When Yan Yunqing woke up, he didn't even know what day it was.

He was in a daze and thought he had returned to Blue Star, and the stupid dog he had raised was constantly licking his cheek, trying to lick him awake to add dog food for it.

Yan Yunqing sat on the bed in a daze for a while before he slowly came back to his senses.

He looked around.

The room was very dark, and the curtains were drawn so tightly that not a single bit of light could get in.

As a result, Yan Yunqing didn't even know what time it was.

He opened the system panel to check the time and confirmed that he had only slept until evening, not until the next day.

Only then did Yan Yunqing breathe a sigh of relief.

Hmm, isn't it a bit too quiet?

Yan Yunqing looked around hesitantly and was shocked to find that Lilian was gone.

Yan Yunqing: ???

Where did his huge portable elf go?

"Lilian?" Yan Yunqing called out, but there was no response.

Yan Yunqing frowned, opened the minimap, and confirmed that there were indeed no small blue dots around him.

Damn it, Lilian is really gone?!

Yan Yunqing was a little nervous.

He thought through all the possible reasons for Lilian's disappearance, and the more he thought, the worse it got.

He quickly got up, switched his alternate identity, and prepared to go out and find the missing Lilian.

Who knew that before Yan Yunqing could go out, there was a sound from the window.

Yan Yunqing paused, switched his alternate identity back, activated his role-playing skill, and turned back into the gloomy mage.

He saw the corner of the curtain being lifted, and Lilian flew in unsteadily.

She was carrying a large bag that was completely out of proportion to her size.

Yan Yunqing breathed a sigh of relief, went forward, and took the bag from Lilian, "What were you doing?

Why didn't you tell me? I just thought you had been captured."

Lilian tilted her head, "I woke up and found you were still sleeping.

I was a little bored, so I went out for a walk."

She pointed to the bag of things, "This time, I took them from the carriages of some rich young masters and ladies.

I've tried them all, they're delicious!"

Yan Yunqing looked down and opened the bag.

Good grief, it was filled with exquisite pastries and fruits.

Lilian had even packed the other people's plates along with them.

This was a true inheritance of his legacy.

Just learning the bad but not the good, and there was still more to learn.

Yan Yunqing put down the bag and flicked Lilian's forehead, "Tell me before you go out next time.

I'll worry if I can't find you."

Lilian was stunned for a moment, then stammered in response, looking very surprised.

"Got it."

Lilian flew over, took a deep red fruit from the bag, held it, and started nibbling.

She told Yan Yunqing what she had seen and heard when she went out just now, "The city gate is under martial law.

The reason given is that a group of people broke out of prison last night and released many dangerous criminals from the dungeon.

Everyone leaving the city will be strictly checked."

"Jailbreak?"

Yan Yunqing thought, "The incident last night couldn't be explained clearly, so they could only say it was a jailbreak... and use this to investigate the people from last night.

It seems that Yuchir from last night probably escaped."

It wasn't a waste of him throwing so many Fire Emblems there.

It probably blew up more than half of those masked men.

If they still couldn't escape, it would have been a waste of his efforts.

At the mention of Yuchir's name, Lilian's expression seemed a bit cold.

Yan Yunqing keenly noticed, "You know that Yuchir?"

"I don't!" Lilian denied, "He's so ugly, I don't know him!"

Yan Yunqing: ...

To be fair, that Yuchir wasn't exactly ugly, was he?

At most, he was ordinary and plain, the kind that wouldn't even be noticed in a crowd. It was just that his aura was very special.

"So you guys do know each other?"

"I really don't!" Lilian shook her head, "But I've heard of him."

Yan Yunqing was surprised: "You've heard of him? Is he famous?"

Now he was the ignorant one again.

It seemed he really needed to gather all the basic information about the major forces in this world as soon as possible, otherwise he wouldn't even recognize them if he met them on the road in the future.

Lilian looked at him, her expression twisted as if she had eaten a fly, and then she slowly said: "Oh... it's alright, I guess he's famous."

Why was it like squeezing toothpaste, answering one question at a time?

"Can you be more specific?" Yan Yunqing asked patiently.

Lilian: ...

Lilian shut down for a while, but finally couldn't stand Yan Yunqing's expectant gaze.

She began to introduce him haltingly, her voice as stiff as a socially anxious person trying to sell insurance:

"The leader of 'Blood Mist', a guy whose identity is a mystery.

Many people who have seen him can't accurately describe his appearance, they can only say that he is a very dangerous and terrifying person."

He's actually the leader!

Yan Yunqing was surprised.

He had originally thought Yuchir was some kind of small leader, but he turned out to be the leader.

Wait, does even the leader have to be alerted for a mission?

Then the prestige of this 'Blood Mist' seems to have dropped a level all of a sudden!

But Lilian actually knew about 'Blood Mist'.

Yan Yunqing felt that his investigation quest had hope, "Then tell me about 'Blood Mist'. What kind of organization is it?

What do they do?"

Finally, they didn't have to discuss the guy she hated. Lilian breathed a sigh of relief.

Taking a step back, she was no longer so resistant to mentioning 'Blood Mist'.

"'Blood Mist' is just a relatively mysterious mercenary group.

Their reputation isn't very good, you could say it's notorious.

They often target some nobles, and many nobles have died at their hands."

"They basically don't take private jobs.

No one knows what they will do next time they appear.

They do things quite whimsically. Last time, they kidnapped the only son of a noble family.

That noble offered a price of 500,000 gold coins to ransom his son, but the people of 'Blood Mist' killed the hostage without a second thought, chopped him into pieces and sent him back.

They didn't even glance at the 500,000 gold coins."

Yan Yunqing let out a "whoa". It seemed he had guessed wrong again.

This wasn't a vigilante at all, this was a terrorist organization.

"But 'Blood Mist' doesn't attack commoners and the poor.

Some merchants of humble origins have even been saved by them.

I heard that they also regularly send some supplies to the poor in some ungoverned border areas, so among the non-noble groups, this mercenary group's reputation is still okay."

In a sense, they were a terrorist organization that robbed the rich to help the poor?

Yan Yunqing nodded secretly.

No wonder these people were also shown as neutral on his minimap, not hostile.

Lilian glanced at the expression on Yan Yunqing's face and suddenly dropped a bombshell, "This mercenary group has been around for a long time.

A few hundred years ago... hmm, probably not long after the two great empires were founded, yes, around the time of the first demonic beast tide, it appeared.

Their first leader was Boros.

I don't know how many times the leader has been changed in between, but now it's Yuchir."

When Yan Yunqing heard the name Boros, he was first stunned, and then his pupils quaked.

Why did this name sound so familiar? It sounded like...

"Boros is...?" Yan Yunqing asked hesitantly, holding onto the hope that this was just a coincidence.

Lilian found that Yan Yunqing didn't seem to remember this name, and her mood visibly improved.

She said cheerfully, "Oh, you probably don't know this one. It's that Demon King from before, the little wolf cub he raised."

Yan Yunqing: ...

"The Demon King's... little wolf cub?" Yan Yunqing repeated with difficulty, "Is it the Demon King I'm thinking of?"

Lilian: "Which other Demon King could it be? It's that Demon King.

Boros was a little cub he picked up from the battlefield.

There aren't many records, we only know that he was a half-beastman with a high degree of atavism, and he often couldn't control himself and turned into a little wolf cub."

Yan Yunqing was silent, his eyes wandering.

Ah... it's Boros.

He certainly remembered this little wolf cub.

In the middle and late stages of his "Demon King" playthrough, the War of the Gods had entered a white-hot stage.

Homes were destroyed by the war everywhere, and there were countless children who were forced to be displaced and become orphans. Boros was one of them.

It was just that Boros was quite special.

He was a half-beastman with a high degree of atavism.

His father was a werewolf, and his mother was a half-breed necromancer with succubus blood.

Logically speaking, his parents were of completely different species.

Under the influence of reproductive isolation, he should have been impossible to be born.

But he was born, and not long after he was born, he atavistically turned into a little wolf cub.

He wasn't like a beastman, nor a succubus, and certainly not a human.

He was like an ordinary beast cub.

The birth of Boros was seen as a symbol of disaster by his father's werewolf tribe.

Sure enough, not long after, the tribe was affected by the War of the Gods, and almost the entire tribe was wiped out.

The few remaining old and weak couldn't even hold out until rescue arrived—not to mention, there were no rescuers in that era.

At that time, the Demon King's army happened to be passing by.

Seeing two gods fighting here, they casually killed them.

The Demon King saw the dying little wolf cub in a pile of ruins.

At that time, the Demon King already had many dependents.

When Yan Yunqing controlled the main character to contract with dependents, he had to consider it carefully.

He wouldn't take anyone who wasn't strong and had no special use.

Seeing this little wolf cub, he didn't treat it as an alien race at all, but as an ordinary newborn beast.

He didn't think too much and picked it up to raise as a dog.

—Because in reality, Yan Yunqing had just gotten a puppy at that time.

Out of love for the puppy, he really couldn't bear to see this puppy-like wolf cub die in this ruin.

It was just right. He could raise a dog outside the game, and another dog inside the game. Very fair.

Who knew that after picking up this little wolf cub, before the Demon King had time to do socialization training for it and teach it how to chase a frisbee, sit, shake hands, and roll over, the little wolf cub turned into a child.

The Demon King himself: ...

No, wasn't the atavism phenomenon of beastmen in the game setting supposed to happen after adulthood? How could a child atavistically turn?

Yan Yunqing felt deeply deceived, but he had already picked up the wolf cub. And it often looked at him with its wet, round eyes.

Yan Yunqing couldn't bring himself to throw the child away.

So, for the first time in the Demon King's team, there was a minor—it was just that this minor often appeared in the form of a wolf cub.

Over time, those who were not close to the Demon King only knew that the Demon King had raised a very majestic wolf, but they didn't know that it was actually a half-beastman.

Yan Yunqing gave this wolf cub a name, Boros, the same as the three-headed dog of hell.

Because it was the first cub he had raised, just like his dog at home, it was honored to take his surname, Yan Boros.

It was just that the surname and the given name didn't match, and it was also the Demon King's surname, so very few people called him Yan Boros.

They all just called him Boros.

Yan Yunqing was also more used to calling it Boros.

"So, how did he end up establishing 'Blood Mist'?"

Lilian said casually: "Because the Demon King disappeared.

When a dog loses its master, doesn't it become a stray dog?

After the Demon King went missing, Boros also disappeared.

Later, the two great empires were established, and the world also ushered in the first demonic beast tide.

At that time, all the races had just finished the war and hadn't recovered yet, and they fell into a new war."

"Boros just popped out of nowhere, gathered a bunch of humans and aliens who were homeless due to the war, and established 'Blood Mist'.

He probably wanted to find a leash for himself.

After all, after the Demon King disappeared, Boros was like a mad dog, biting people randomly."

"Biting people randomly?" Yan Yunqing was suspicious.

Lilian wasn't the least bit guilty, "Yeah, I'm not making this up.

It's all recorded in the First Elf King's notes.

The great Elf King was even bitten several times by that mad dog!"

Yan Yunqing: ...?

Seriously? How come he remembered that Boros was quite an obedient child, usually very well-behaved, doing whatever he was told to do, and particularly fond of acting cute.

Logically speaking, the Demon King had two dogs. One was the nominal loyal dog—the taciturn angel Theodore; the other was the little wolf Boros, who looked very much like a dog, acted very much like a dog, and would wag his tail and stick out his tongue crazily whenever he saw the Demon King.

Boros would go mad and bite people everywhere? And he even bit Silf? Seriously?

One of them was a frigid, lofty beauty, and the other was a cute little puppy who loved to act cute. How could they be connected in any way?

Yan Yunqing was half-believing, half-doubting, "So, Boros established 'Blood Mist' and helped some homeless humans and aliens.

That doesn't sound like a problem. How did he end up with such a notorious reputation?"

Lilian rolled her eyes, "Yeah, how did he end up with such a notorious reputation?

It's all because he was even crazier than Theodore, biting people everywhere like a mad dog.

Several of the Demon King's former dependents were bitten by him. He would go crazy from time to time!"

"Really, his strength wasn't even the strongest.

The only reason he dared to act like that was because those dependents were nostalgic for the old days and didn't completely annihilate his forces.

Otherwise, he would have been dead long ago."

There was no sense of kinship between different alien races. In fact, there would even be various frictions between them, the kind of life-and-death struggles.

If it weren't for the Demon King acting as a mediator, it would have been impossible for the alien races to unite and form an empire.

So, the fact that Boros went crazy everywhere and wasn't beaten to death was really because those former dependents tolerated him a little, seeing that he was the dog raised by the Demon King.

Lilian muttered under her breath, "I've disliked him for a long time."

"What did you say?" Yan Yunqing didn't hear clearly.

Lilian said seriously: "Nothing. Anyway, that's how it is.

There aren't many records after that.

At that time, the First Elf King had already returned to the Mother Tree, and the elves didn't pay much attention to Boros.

I only know that this organization went through several changes, and the leader was changed several times in the middle.

It was only in the last hundred years that they started calling themselves a mercenary group, and the leader was changed to this Yuchir."

"What about Boros? Did he die?"

Lilian's eyes flickered, "Who knows? Maybe he died.

Beastmen aren't a long-lived race, not to mention he was a very unstable half-beastman. Maybe he died in some corner long ago."

Yan Yunqing felt a little regretful. Hearing that people he once knew had died, he really felt a bit upset in his heart.

Two thousand years was still too long, difficult to overcome.

What a pity. He had said that Boros's adult illustration back then was really impressive. It would be nice if he could raise another one.

Yan Yunqing glanced at his quest progress.

It was really unreliable to just get information about 'Blood Mist' from Lilian.

After she told him so much, his investigation progress had only advanced by a pathetic 6%.

Sure enough, he still had to find an opportunity to get in touch with them.

Lilian found that Yan Yunqing had fallen into deep thought.

She was a little unhappy and stuffed a piece of pastry into Yan Yunqing's mouth, "Stop thinking about that Blood Mist thing! It's just a bunch of lunatics. Let's talk about something else!"

Yan Yunqing was suddenly stuffed with a mouthful of pastry.

He subconsciously chewed a couple of times, and his brows immediately furrowed.

He spat out the stuff in his mouth to the side, "Why is this pastry sour?!"

Yan Yunqing's entire face was scrunched up.

Good grief, just those two chews almost made his teeth sour. His mouth was constantly producing saliva to neutralize the sour taste.

Lilian turned her head and looked, touched the remaining pastry with her fingertip, put it in her mouth to taste, and was also shocked by the sourness.

She suddenly realized: "Ah, it's sour powder!

Hmm, let me think... oh, this plate of pastries seems to have been taken from the carriage of a pregnant noble lady. So she was pregnant!"

Yan Yunqing: "...You even steal snacks from pregnant women?"

Lilian was innocent, "I didn't know. That lady and her husband were both fat. I didn't know she was pregnant!"

Yan Yunqing facepalmed, not commenting on Lilian's behavior.

Lilian changed a fruit and stuffed it into Yan Yunqing's mouth again, "This is honey fruit, it's very sweet.

I specially snatched it from a little noble young master.

When he found that the fruit was gone, he cried so loudly!"

Yan Yunqing took a bite.

The sweet juice instantly burst out from the opening he bit, and the sweet taste spread on his tongue.

Eating a bite immediately made him feel much happier.

This honey fruit was really sweet.

Yan Yunqing chewed and chewed: "Not bad, this is delicious.

Your taste is quite good. You can get more of this kind of fruit next time."

Lilian was very proud: "Of course, my taste is unrivaled!"

One person and one elf, with their heads together, shared the small snacks that Lilian had foraged from outside, eating happily.

Lilian seemed to have suddenly remembered something and said: "Ah, right, I forgot to tell you.

When I was out stealing... no, when I was out having fun, I think I saw Cornelia."

"Cornelia?" Yan Yunqing was stunned.

After escaping from the auction house last time, they had parted ways.

He and Lilian had left the capital and went to Sunset Village, while Cornelia had stayed in the city to look for news of her sister.

"She seems to be mixed up with Feu's people..." Lilian wasn't sure.

"I didn't pay much attention, I just saw her in a flash. She was walking with a group of people dressed as maids from the prince's mansion, and in the end, they seemed to have gotten into the same carriage?"

Yan Yunqing was hesitant: "So Cornelia has infiltrated the prince's mansion to find news of her sister? But her appearance is so conspicuous, isn't she afraid of being recognized by Feu?"

Cornelia had been shown on the auction stage as a commodity, and Feu was one of the bidders at the time, so he had seen Cornelia.

Wouldn't Cornelia be discovered immediately if she tried to sneak in?

Or did Cornelia have other ways to get in?

"I don't know. In the blink of an eye, Cornelia got on the carriage.

There were a few powerful people with them, so I didn't dare to get too close.

" Lilian shrugged, "But didn't we say we were going to kill Feu before?Maybe Cornelia can help?"

That's right. With just the two of them, the possibility of sneaking into the prince's mansion, killing the Fifth Prince, and escaping successfully was not high.

If there was an insider, it would be much easier, right?

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