The Boss King actually disguised himself as a novice village chief?!
Chapter 441 - 371 Little Li

Chapter 441: Chapter 371 Little Li

Fuller chose to flee.

He was a "Thief," he was good at escaping.

Dozens of strides allowed him to quickly disengage from the battle.

To hell with glory, to hell with the mission!

Let the undead hold the line there while he could run to a safer place.

It was only when death drew infinitely close that Fuller realized what he truly feared.

Now that life in the Rand Kingdom had returned to normal, perhaps he should go back instead of desperately fighting on the front lines. The general wouldn’t care about the life and death of a sentry; the war would definitely be long, and he embraced various feelings of relief.

While he was panting heavily, his mind was rapidly spinning.

The trouble was it had already turned completely dark, and he had trouble distinguishing directions.

Not until he stepped into some kind of soft mud did he realize he had definitely fallen into the black river water he had previously tried to avoid.

His body was rapidly sinking, the gurgling sound was like boiling soup in a hanging pot, and he was the poor bug about to be devoured.

Just then, a hand suddenly reached over and grabbed Fuller’s arm.

"Don’t struggle, the more you struggle the deeper you sink!" said a girl’s voice.

It was like the voice of heaven.

He tried to slow down his body, letting the other pull him out of the dark muddy soup that was swallowing him.

"Thank you." Fuller wiped the paste that had splashed on his face due to struggling, having only sunk to thigh level before being pulled out.

The day had turned completely dark, and he could only vaguely make out that the other’s figure was rather thin.

Not wearing armor meant she wasn’t a member of the Expedition Army.

"I’m Fuller, a sentry of the Kingdom." Even though he was now a deserter.

"Li, you can call me Little Li."

Only when Little Li lit a fire did Fuller see clearly that she had ice-blue skin and a lovely face.

Night Demon Girl.

"I’ve seen your portrait," Fuller said.

"Portrait?" she puzzled.

"I mean, the portraits of your species."

"We sometimes interact with the people from that village, I heard that’s the case, probably left from that time," the Night Demon Girl said.

Either way, it was best for the two to cooperate this night.

They naturally collaborated, both just pitiful bugs in the night.

He didn’t want to talk much about the Expedition Army; it was hard to guarantee if the girl in front of him might also encounter the Expedition Army.

Suddenly he regretted telling her his name; for a while, "Fuller" would surely be ridiculed among the Expedition Army.

The Night Demon Girl, Little Li, talked a lot.

"I want to return to the Twilight Pool. We worship the Lady of the Night, guarding her key, but that key always gets lost."

She wanted to go back and fetch the key to fulfill her duty, but the way back was difficult.

Just as she was about to give up, she encountered Fuller.

"I can accompany you for part of the way," Fuller said, "Speaking of which, you said you didn’t come through the Gate of Mephisto?"

"Yes, there’s another path, arranged by the Empress for us to live on."

She spoke in fragments; Fuller had to focus hard to piece together useful information from it, much like her elusive nature, starting with the topic of walking and suddenly jumping to a never-discussed Empress.

This meant she was naive and inexperienced.

Fuller asked, "Can you tell me how to take that path?"

"Of course, I also need to go back. We can go together."

The Night Demon Girl was curious about the human world, wanting to hear all about it from Fuller, but Fuller, now a deserter, was reluctant to mention it.

"Twilight Pool?" He could only try to divert the topic.

Little Li was easily distracted: "Yes, we are born there, natural believers of the Lady of the Night, and we devote our lives to serving her and guarding the key."

"What key?"

"A key that always gets lost." Little Li suddenly stared at Fuller’s face for a moment, her face wary.

"I’m not going to steal the key; I just heard about it today."

Fuller, piqued by her actions, also grew curious, "What can that key do? Open all locks?"

Some locks were magic locks, impenetrable without breaking the magic, and it was said that Lind’s treasure was hidden behind such locks.

But that was just hearsay.

"Why open the lock?"

"But it’s a key."

"It can do much more!" Little Li said, looking seriously at Fuller, "Much more!"

"Like what?"

"Summon the Lady of the Night."

The Lady of the Night was probably a powerful deity, but Fuller had no interest in a key that could not bring wealth, glory, or other such things.

To a non-believer, encountering a foreign god was no blessing.

Fuller had prepared enough dry food, discarding those soaked in the muddy soup, and the remainder was still enough for them to eat.

The road of departure was tough, and to ensure safety, they continued along the black river.

"Is there actually something else?"

Fuller had assumed the river would devour everything, and nothing could survive within it, but the huge thing ahead made him widen his eyes involuntarily.

It was a mountainous, corpulent creature, its claws as long as a bastard sword, spread wide like a rack of weapons.

Its eyes were pupil-less and completely blank.

However, what baffled Fuller was that Little Li showed no reaction to this enormous thing, not at all like her usually jumpy self along the way.

Suddenly, the monster’s body began to tremble, Fuller hastily retreated, and then he understood why Little Li felt no fear.

The creature was already dead, countless roaches as big as leather boots crawling in and out of its carcass.

The corpse appeared to tremble from afar due to the roaches nibbling away at it.

The monster, too, was merely prey.

"Bugs are the most dangerous things," Little Li said.

"Like man-eating flies?" Fuller inquired.

"Yes, but not just man-eating flies."

They found a place to hide and rest at night, then moved on at dawn. After two days and nights, they finally arrived at a sloping descent, which was the temporary residence of the Night Fiend.

According to Little Li, this was the place the empress had instructed them to stay. The empress had to leave temporarily due to some matters but would soon return, and she had taken some people with her.

"Is the empress also a Night Fiend?"

"No, she’s not of our kind; she just rescued us along the way."

Little Li felt deep gratitude and respect for the empress.

The sudden "whoo-whoo" of a wolf’s howl immediately tensioned the two.

Fuller grabbed Little Li’s arm and pulled her behind a rock to hide.

"It’s a mad wolf, that kind of creature that burrows holes in your body with its tongue, then shreds you into pieces with its claws and teeth," Little Li said, then covered her mouth.

They held their breath to avoid making any noise.

As a thief, Fuller had plenty of experience in this regard, but the mad wolves seemed sure there was something amiss here, the sound of their paws pressing on the ground growing louder.

Fuller gripped his dagger, tense and waiting, not wanting to encounter those bloody creatures.

"Aooo—!"

Screams of agony from the mad wolves followed by the sound of heavy bodies thumping on the ground came from outside.

"Little Li!" a woman’s voice called out.

The two stood up from behind the rock, four mad wolves lay on the ground, their heads smashed, and two other Night Fiends with the same ice-blue skin.

They held their hands in strange gestures, the light of magic dispersing from their wrists.

"Is this magic?" Fuller, relieved, asked the two Night Fiends.

"A magic exclusive to us," they responded.

The Night Fiends only gave Fuller a brief nod, then began to scold Little Li for her dangerously reckless behavior of wandering off on her own.

When they learned of Fuller’s wish to leave, the Night Fiends pointed out a path and even provided him with a horse.

"It’s like an interesting experience!" Fuller flicked the reins, but regretfully the horse was too old and slow, it would take him a long time to get back.

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