The Unnecessary Person
The enthusiastic applause was not for Poseidon's impossibly chuunibyou opening line.
It was for her.
More precisely, it was for her, this "unnecessary person."
Right now, Zhu Si's squad had to cover a defensive line spanning several hundred li. Every week, each of them had to garrison a Forward Camp alone, and even when they went on patrol, they were alone most of the time.
Aside from the Tower Spirits that came with the wizard towers and some Alchemy Dolls, they usually had no one else to talk to.
The Treants awakened from Golden Crow Wood were too young. It was already far from easy for them to understand the Wizards' simple commands; getting them to speak was harder than climbing to the heavens. The Elves raised by Zheng Su Yi Er San were much cleverer, but they could only use a few dull little words to express simple emotions. Even chatting with the Great Sprites for too long inevitably became tedious.
By comparison.
Ragdoll Fox was different.
She was only a ragdoll, not an official hunter, so she did not take up a tower-guarding slot, did not need to be assigned tasks, and did not consume the camp's resources. In other words, to all the Wizards present, she was a "living person"!
Loneliness was the greatest theme at the edge of the world.
Ragdoll Fox was the one who broke it open.
Although most of the time, that mouth of hers only complained about having too much homework, Mother Jiang being too strict, Su Ya's tail fur lacking care and losing its shine, and other such nonsense, having one more talking companion was still better than staring blankly into the air alone.
So everyone welcomed her arrival with particular enthusiasm.
Every "post-meeting meeting" held to compete