By the time Li Wei returned to the lair, Remlu had already arranged her Tribe Members' assignments to perfection. She lay motionless atop the treasure pile at the lair's center, peaceful as a salted fish that had lost all hope.
"Mm-ee." Even seeing Li Wei return only made her shift her dull, vacant green-bean eyes. She seemed to be silently protesting that he was already working her so hard at such a young age.
Even for Remlu, who could now control part of the collective consciousness of the slimes, getting a million of them to work together on a single task was no easy feat.
"Thanks for all your hard work, little one." Back in his Silver Dragon form, Li Wei breathed out a gentle puff of cold air to cool down the little one's overworked brain.
A Winter Storm seemed to sweep through the entire lair. Remlu, caught by the chill, sprang up in alarm, nearly frozen into a lump of ice by the rapidly expanding Frost Ring.
"Mm, mm, mm, mm-ee!" Still shivering from her near-death experience, Remlu pointed a tiny tentacle at Li Wei, voicing her fierce condemnation and protest.
Never expecting his innate aura to have grown so much stronger, Li Wei hurriedly changed back into his Red Dragon form.
The ice cave instantly melted away, turning back into an Infernal Furnace. The little one got a genuine taste of Ice-and-Fire Double Heaven.
Drops of water seeped from her cell walls, turning into wisps of steam. It looked as if she would evaporate on the spot within minutes.
A dragon's innate aura was usually most domineering right after he returned to his true form. The violent elemental power suppressed within him would pour out in an instant, resonating with the world around him.
Li Wei had