Milly's laboratory.
A lavish feast, Little Eight's cheerful laughter—yet Green, a Level 3 grand wizard on the verge of advancing to Stigmata, felt somewhat awkward. He merely lowered his head and silently savored the spread of wizard delicacies, saying nothing.
"What, doesn't it suit your taste?"
Milly smiled, her eyes narrowing like crescents in the sky, so gentle they could almost melt one's heart.
"Uh... no. It's just that I've spent all these years conducting tedious, boring experiments. Such a feast all of a sudden... I'm really not used to it."
Green speared a longan grape with a toothpick. It seemed to be in great pain, shedding a few tears and releasing an unusual fragrance. After dipping it in honey, Green opened his mouth and swallowed it.
"If you like it, then eat more. Don't be as picky an eater as Bahongni Weixi."
Milly sipped her wine, a faint flush coloring her snow-white cheeks. She simply watched Green quietly and said nothing more.
It seemed that even this alone left Milly deeply satisfied.
Several days later.
Cretia and Green flew side by side through the uninhabited skies of the Heavenly Abyss Mountain Range, gradually approaching the central region of this Devil Ancestor Crater.
"Several magic tides occur here every month. They are nothing to the wizards around the crater's edge, but to ordinary humans, they are the natural disasters that require the greatest vigilance. Some Magic Beasts from deep within the crater will follow the magic tides to its edge, so ordinary humans near the Heavenly Abyss Summit Experimental Base generally choose to build their villages outside the crater."
Green nodded. Beneath the Face of Truth, Eagle Eye seemed to spot something. He led Cretia lower, and within a stretch of low woodland, they discovered a formidable Magic Beast,