He Nian had disappeared beyond the entrance of the Starfire Foster Shop some time ago, yet Xu Ran still stood at the doorway, lost in a daze.
The words He Nian had left him with still echoed through Xu Ran's mind.
The Nightmare Beast King's species was the Nightmare Demon Kite...
Before evolving, a Nightmare Demon Kite was a Velvet Sparrow...
And Twelve possessed the route for evolving from a Velvet Sparrow into a Nightmare Demon Kite.
He had already decided not to investigate Twelve's hidden secrets, to wait until Twelve was willing to tell him, but now those secrets had appeared before him so abruptly.
Twelve undoubtedly had countless ties to the Nightmare Beast King.
And in its roar outside the city just now, the Lava Beast King had demanded that they hand over the Nightmare Beast King's daughter.
So...
Twelve was actually the daughter of a Beast King in the Beast Domain?
At the thought of this possibility, Xu Ran could not help feeling a sense of absurdity.
Even now, with all three of his Contract Beasts having evolved into monarch species, he was still extremely far from the monarch rank.
That was why, when Gu Wu had previously spoken about the Beast Kings and Beast Emperors in the Beast Domain, Xu Ran had always considered them terrifying beings beyond his reach for the time being, listening as though it were gossip.
Never had he imagined that he would be so close to a Beast King, that he had almost formed a contract with a Beast King's daughter.
"Meow?" (What happened?)
Having also heard the commotion, the Three Little Ones had left the Training Area and come to Xu Ran's side at some point. Seeing him standing in a daze, Purple Cloud could not help asking.
When Xu