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"The robin!"
"The robin, that's me too."
"If you don't get up, I'll tickle you!"
"...Huh?"
"Arte, come here, I can't bring myself to hurt this little girl."
"Well, big brother, I'll tell you this quietly, but don't tell anyone else. This child doesn't seem to have differentiated yet, so..."
"Huh?? Little Nanliang?"
What is "Xiao Nanliang"? It doesn't sound like a good term...
"Hey! Big brother, what are you trying to do! Stop right now!"
"Ahem, I'm just a little curious..."
"Don't touch it! Don't be curious! The Keliqiu tribe also had a reproductive system before they differentiated!"
"Ah! What are those two doing?!"
The robin suddenly awoke and sat up straight.
She stared with her large, grey-brown eyes at Latis, who was tickling the soles of her feet with a foxtail grass.
"You're awake?" Latis, with her strong workaholic skills, suppressed the embarrassment of being caught out, and very familiarly put the foxtail grass in her mouth, saying, "The surgery was a success, you're a girl now."
The robin continued to stare at Latis without saying a word.
"Cough cough cough..." Latis glanced subtly at the floor, then held out his hand and said:
“Hey, I’m Latti, we just met a while ago.”
Seeing that the robin remained unresponsive, Latis's outstretched hand became awkwardly sweaty. He surprisingly squeezed the robin's foot, then turned and said:
"Nurse Art, the patient is in a daze after surgery. Could you please take care of him for a while? I have to go to my next surgery."
Seeing Latis dash off in a flash, Ateliers couldn't help but laugh. She looked at the robin, helped her put on her little boots, and said gently:
"Little robin, wake up, the devil is dead."
A glimmer of light suddenly appeared in the robin's eyes. She glanced at the gruesome corpse of the demon not far away, stood up unsteadily, ran to the demon's side, and stared for a long time at the face that often appeared in her nightmares.
Sensing that the slave contract no longer existed in her consciousness, Robin finally revealed a trace of grievance that had been suppressed for a long time. She turned around and hugged Artemis tightly, and only after a long while did she shyly let go.
"I am a robin."
she said seriously.
"I am no longer the Demon Girl Encyclopedia".
……
[The King of Torture's Wine Cellar: Current Stock 3/3]
[You have gained the sixth-circle spell - Greater Restoration, 1/1 use. The Torment King's Cellar is empty.]
[Sixth Ring Spell - Greater Restoration: Touch a creature and remove its weakening effect. Upgrade effect: Adds two more targets.]
Latis closed the notification that appeared when he had just exploited the demon, and walked towards the alchemy hut, pondering:
"The 'enhanced ring effect' seems to mean that the spell itself isn't actually a sixth-ring spell, but rather that the title skill forcibly elevated it to sixth-ring status."
"So, the range of its random skill is quite wide. Maybe in the future we'll see a sixth-circle Haste spell, a sixth-circle Giant Growth spell, or even a sixth-circle... uh, Mage Hand?"
He suddenly felt a chill and shivered, quickly forgetting his past experiences. He breathed a sigh of relief and said easily:
"Thankfully, I've already transmigrated, so I won't encounter any more cheesy plots like 'the internet has memories' anymore..."
Latis knocked on the door, then said to Yashutia, who opened it:
"Driver, have you filled up the tank? We're about to set off."
Chapter 47 Coincidentally, someone else also dreams of becoming a gynecologist (Please continue reading)
"This is the border between Dragon Horn Territory and Forest Sea Territory. The nearest place to stay is twenty miles to the west, Cugen Village."
"I think I heard some strange name..." Latis glanced at Ateliers, who was drawing a map on the blackboard, with droopy eyelids, and then began to drift off into daydreams again.
“I encountered a magical ruin near the village of Zhagen, which is the source of the wreckage that Miss Kurosawa is playing with.”
"Hey," Yashutia called out, slightly annoyed, "you ungrateful old-fashioned elf, this is excellent alchemical material, what do you mean by garbage!"
“Oh, then I’ll use a different name.” Ateliers glanced at Yashutia, who was sitting close to Latis on the cramped bed, a faint sharpness flashing in her eyes.
"The composite mineral in Miss Kurosawa's hand, worth less than two gold whites, comes from that magical ruin that may be full of gold."
Snapped!
Yashutia slapped Latis's leg hard, jumped up angrily, and shouted:
"So what if it's two gold coins? Two gold coins are still money! In the hands of an alchemist, two gold coins can become two hundred, two thousand!"
Atelius stared at the wrinkles on Latis's trousers that had been slapped open, and said coldly:
“You’re right, but alchemy is a profession not accepted by the world. As far as I know, in the Kingdom of Norard, reporting an alchemist can earn you a reward of two thousand gold whitets…”
"A mere two thousand gold coins!" Yashutia clenched her fist in anger and grabbed the AI hand at the window. "I can give you far more than two thousand gold coins! I... I'm very valuable!"
Atelius glanced at the robin kneeling behind Latis, lost in thought, and the robin immediately understood and said:
“An ordinary man’s manpower is worth less than a silver hure.”
She then looked around the entire house and said in succession:
"Homemade wooden house, approximately ten gold whites; dragon horn wood bed, one gold white; baby black eagle down comforter, five gold whites; specially made fire-mane horsehide boots, five gold whites; alchemical waste, approximately twenty gold whites; scroll raw materials, five gold whites..."
"Wait, wait, wait, wait!"
Yashutia blushed and waved her hands wildly, shouting:
"I just used up all my finished magic scrolls, and what's left are just raw materials, which aren't worth much yet! Give me half a day, and I can churn out at least four hundred gold whitets worth of finished products from this pile of scrap!"
"Really?" Artemis asked seriously, her sharp gaze suppressing the bewildered black-haired girl.
“If it weren’t for my brother’s kindness, I definitely wouldn’t be traveling with a notorious alchemist. My brother feels sorry for you and wants to take you in and teach you, but I’m not willing to risk being besieged by the mage world at any time for a mere few thousand gold whitets. If I find out that you’ve done anything to endanger my brother’s safety, I’ll definitely kill you first!”
"I, I, I..." Yashutia plopped down on the bed, covered her head with the blanket, and whispered pitifully:
"You're all bullying me. Once I level up to a fourth-level alchemist and can concoct items with twenty times the profit, I'll only give them to Brother Latis..."
"ah……"
Latis suddenly snapped out of his daze and sighed, looking up at the sky.
He glanced at the three people in the room, their atmosphere tense, and thought to himself:
"Arterifus Herold, my second brother; Yashutia Kurosawa, let's call her my third sister once they get along; and Robin Coricchio, my fourth...brother? Never mind, fourth sister. They all have one thing in common..."
Latis shook his head, banishing the words "two thousand gold Whites" and "four hundred gold Whites" that echoed in his ears, and stood up dejectedly.
He opened the door and walked out.
"They all have surnames; they're from wealthy families. I'm just a lowly farmer. Where would I ever see gold coins counted in thousands? The only time I saw them was when I was playing with my virtual pets and tricked people into thinking the village had given out gold bars..."
Latis walked slowly with his hands behind his back, looking at the sky. The fading sun cast a dazzling light on his face, as if he had seen through the ways of the world.
"Human joys and sorrows are not shared; I only find their noise bothersome. Since when can a few thousand gold coins be described as 'merely'? Damn, what a bunch of rich bastards..."
Bang!
"I'm super!"
Latis suddenly tripped and fell. His warrior muscle memory made him incredibly agile, like a dog rolling down a snowy mountain, and he tumbled more than a dozen times in a row before he could offset the slight forward momentum. Then, he looked back with a look of fright, clutching his chest, and realized that he had just stepped on the sleeping Serfal.
"That scared me to death, I almost thought I had to redo it." He looked at the ground with lingering fear and carefully returned to Serfal's side, looking at the footprints on her abdomen and gently stroking them.
"Oh right..."
He suddenly froze, muttering to himself:
"Does this silly dragon not have a surname either?"
"That feels good..." Latis stood up, looked at the sky, grabbed Serfal by the collar and pulled him back with all his might.
"What?! This dragon has been asleep for a whole day and night! Are all dragons like this?! Damn! I'm so envious..."
As Latis dragged Serfal into the alchemy hut, sweating profusely, Artemis had already drawn the entire route to Lundia on the blackboard.
"Big brother, you're back? We've already discussed it. Tonight we'll go to Thick Root Village, and tomorrow, with Lilia's help, we'll try to explore the magical ruins. Of course, if there's any danger, we'll leave immediately. Afterward, we'll head north along the side path, bypassing the Tendril Village with its large transient population, and head to Hard Stem City, where Black Swamp will purchase some supplies..."
"Stop talking about those weird names, okay!" Latis panted as he slammed the door shut, activated the overburdened alchemy hut, and then said to Ateliers:
"Arte, quickly use your invincible appraisal skill to see what's going on with this dragon! Don't let me kill it!"
"Eh?"
A glint flashed in Artemis's eyes. She hesitated for a moment, then knelt down, patted the footprint on Serfal's abdomen, touched her soft belly, and said in an uncertain tone:
"It looks like...she's about to lay an egg?"
"Oh...it's about to lay an egg. Thank goodness it's not dead." Latis was silent for a moment, then suddenly raised his voice and asked:
"Is it about to lay an egg?!"
“I think… right?” Ateliers plucked a strand of silver hair from her head and said, equally shocked:
"I've heard that dragons do indeed lay eggs asexually, but I've never... I should say this is the first time I've ever seen a dragon, let alone seen them lay eggs..."
"However, based on observation, she entered a state that consumes bloodline power, which is why she fell into a deep sleep. All things considered, the possibility of her laying an egg is very high..."
Latis looked conflicted. After a long while, he sighed, went into the room, and took out a knife.
"Big, big brother, what are you doing?!"
Latis, his face resolute and filled with conviction, solemnly stated:
"Her child is just too stupid. I really can't bear to see her child continue to be so stupid. I've heard that babies born via C-section are smarter. And coincidentally, someone I know also dreams of becoming a gynecologist..."
Chapter 48 The sun is a giant...
In the end, Latis was unable to fulfill his dream.