A monster standing a full three meters tall walked beneath the faint starlight.
It had two heads. The one on the left bore a pair of thick, flat horns, its blue-black bull horns curving dramatically backward. A golden nose ring hung from its nostrils, covered in densely packed, flyspeck-sized Runes. The head on the right bore a pair of round, short horns, still coated with a fine fuzz like sika deer velvet. This head wore no nose ring, but a pair of brass earrings, likewise engraved with dense Runes.
Several layers of thick, long mane piled up behind its sturdy neck. Zhu Si, half-transparent, clung to the mane and eagerly climbed up and down.
That petite black cat was sprawled at the fork between the monster's two heads, lazily purring in its sleep.
The four or five spheres of light summoned by "The Little Stars Shine" circled the monster, casting down a hazy glow. The area covered by their light had shrunk considerably, and their brightness had dimmed as well—after passing through the "unexpected place" created by Zheng Qing, the adventuring party beneath the Night Veil had finally grown somewhat weary of the unchanging surroundings. Even the black cat had relaxed its vigilance, allowing the two groups that had originally marched separately to merge back into one.
Zheng Qing had summoned this Minotaur after the party regrouped.
At the time, he and Jiang Yu had been talking about last year's opening ceremony. Jiang Yu mentioned the Merlin Medal the young wizard had received, and Zheng Qing immediately dug it out from the deepest part of the Gray Cloth Bag, then showed her the spell the Alliance had fixed onto the medal.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Si, after waking up, became very interested in the enormous two-headed bull monster. She kept climbing up