Chapter 220: Return to the Beginner Village

Within the territory of the Rose Kingdom, above a bottomless great rift, stood a gloomy and sinister ancient castle.

This castle had once been the prison of the Goddess of Death. Later, it was remodeled by the necromancer Mingdie into Beginner Village Number Four Thousand Four Hundred Forty-Four, and finally renamed “White Night Castle” by two otherworldly travelers.

Now, those two otherworldly travelers had finally returned.

Inside the first-floor hall of White Night Castle, accompanied by a thunderous boom, an ornate patterned array gradually traced itself across the floor. As a burst of white light surged forth, two girls were “spat out” along with the light.

“Uwah!”

Bai Yue Ling landed hard on her backside. The burning pain made her shudder slightly, and she quickly dropped to one knee, reaching under her skirt to rub at the spot.

“Ow, ow, ow… Yingye, why did you come back too?”

Yingye landed lightly on the ground. Her soft chest, wrapped in a ninja outfit, swayed slightly above Bai Yue Ling’s head as she looked down and asked in return, “Am I not allowed to come back?”

She narrowed her eyes. “Or do you have some unspeakable secret with Mingdie that you refuse to tell me?”

“N-no, of course not.”

Guiltily, Bai Yue Ling glanced aside and saw a familiar figure she had not seen for a thousand years.

Mingdie reclined lazily on a bone chair, her perfectly proportioned, exquisite body displayed without restraint. A trace of grievance seemed to linger in her smoky-eyed gaze as she said languidly, “So you still remember to come back?”

Her posture resembled a resentful wife who often stood at the doorway, looking into the distance and waiting for her spouse working away from home to return. The fragile feminine charm in that demeanor made even Bai Yue Ling feel a little guilty.

Still rubbing her backside, Bai Yue Ling explained, “I’ve been a bit busy lately.”

Mainly because she had made a round trip to Songyuan City, which delayed things quite a bit.

“Very well,” Mingdie sighed faintly. “I’ve already waited a thousand years anyway. What’s a little longer, right?”

Mingdie was stating a fact, but to the uninformed Yingye, it sounded like deliberately exaggerated sweet talk, teasing Bai Yue Ling right in front of her.

“A thousand years?” Yingye squinted at her. “Miss Mingdie, how did I never notice you were this devoted to Xiao Bai before?”

Resting her chin on one hand, the white finger bones faintly visible beneath her translucent skin, Mingdie replied evenly, “There are many things you don’t know.”

“Oh… is that so.”

Yingye kept smiling, but her fists slowly clenched. She thought, Sistana is one thing, but when did Mingdie get involved with Xiao Bai? How do I not know about this?

Does Xiao Bai really like this super-voluptuous older-woman type that much? Even a necromancer isn’t rejected?

Bai Yue Ling, sensing the atmosphere turning tense, shrank her neck and quietly retreated to the side.

At that moment, something soft suddenly slammed into her back. The powerful impact knocked her flat onto the ground.

“Xiao Bai! You finally came back! Without you all this time, I’ve suffered so much…”

The succubus Luoluo Yue hugged Bai Yue Ling tightly, like an old lover reunited after ten years, rubbing against her over and over. The heart-tipped little tail on her backside wagged joyfully without stop.

Bai Yue Ling struggled to push her away. “Idiot, don’t start casting charm on me the moment you see me!”

“I just wanted to test whether your mental strength had regressed.”

Propping herself up on her arms and looking down at Bai Yue Ling, Luoluo Yue’s lips curved into a seductive arc, her bewitching beauty on full display.

“Too bad I still can’t charm Xiao Bai. Otherwise we could go straight to fun things. Sniff sniff… huh? Xiao Bai, why do you smell like one of my kind?”

Like a puppy, Luoluo Yue sniffed all over Bai Yue Ling. The confusion on her face deepened. Tentatively, she grabbed—and sure enough, felt a protrusion at the base of the tailbone.

“Hehe. Xiao Bai, what’s this?”

“W-wah! Th-this is…”

Having the base of her tail suddenly seized, Bai Yue Ling’s face flushed bright red. Her hands, which had been braced against Luoluo Yue’s shoulders, fell limply.

“Xiao Bai, why do you have a succubus tail? Why?”

Lightly rubbing her fingertips, Luoluo Yue grinned wickedly. “That arrogant little female brat who used to swagger around has now fallen into becoming the very succubus she once despised… Xiao Bai really is adorable.”

“Mm… ngh! Don’t…”

“Your sensitivity seems quite a bit higher than an ordinary succubus. What’s going on?”

“W-wait…”

Just as Bai Yue Ling, her weak point seized, was about to be utterly defeated, Yingye suddenly drew her black blade and pressed the cold edge against Luoluo Yue’s neck.

“Miss Luoluo Yue, if you don’t release my Xiao Bai right now, I’ll cut you down.”

“Ahaha, sorry…”

Under Yingye’s forceful defense of her partner, Bai Yue Ling finally broke free, panting as she pulled the gelatinous padding on her chest up a bit higher.

She used to think wrapping the tail was enough. Now it seemed even the tail root could not be neglected.

“In any case, from now on we’re intimately connected kin!” Luoluo Yue rubbed her hands together curiously. “So, Xiao Bai, how did you acquire a succubus bloodline?”

Bai Yue Ling sighed. “One of my job-change materials was ‘Blood of the Succubus Queen.’ After the class change, I became like this.”

She had never wanted to gain a weakness out of nowhere. Facing older women already left her with no power to resist.

“So you’ve become a succubus…”

At the side, Yingye’s eyes flashed with repeated glints. Knowing Bai Yue Ling intimately, she was clearly imagining many interesting new possibilities.

Mingdie had personally witnessed Bai Yue Ling’s class change a thousand years ago, so she had long expected this transformation.

Swaying her plump, rounded hips, she walked over. Sliding her right hand into the deep-purple robe through the collar, she fumbled for a moment, then took out a small ring that was warm and emitted a faint fragrance. Before the other two, she slowly pushed it onto Bai Yue Ling’s ring finger.

“Returning this to you,” Mingdie said softly. “This is an engagement ring that has crossed a thousand years.”

“An engagement ring?” the three exclaimed in unison.

Luoluo Yue tilted her head in puzzlement, not understanding when Mingdie and Bai Yue Ling had become so close.

Yingye was the same. Her breathing grew heavier and more rapid as she silently placed “Mingdie” at the very top of her kill list.

Damn it… how did I never think to give Xiao Bai a ring?

No, once we return to the Royal Capital, I must arrange one for Xiao Bai!

Bai Yue Ling, meanwhile, narrowed her eyes and complained, “Can you not take advantage of me with this sort of thing?”

Calling a small ring an engagement ring out of nowhere… if that wasn’t taking advantage, what was?

In the past, only Bai Yue Ling took advantage of older women—like when she had suddenly called Sistana “Mom.” But until now, this was the first time an older woman had taken advantage of her in return.

Mingdie’s expression remained blank. “Instead of nitpicking that, you might as well look at the ring’s attributes.”

Equipment Name: Ring of the Dead (Millennial Improved Version)

Quality: Epic

Defense: None

Equip Requirement: None

Stat Bonuses: None

Additional Skill: “Styx Communication” — freely converse with other ring wearers.

Description: A ring nurtured on the necromancer Mingdie’s body for over a thousand years. It not only contains the necromancer’s rich magic power, but has also gradually taken on Mingdie’s unique faint mature fragrance. Under its influence, undead of relatively low intelligence will not actively attack you, but will regard you as another undead.

Note: Guess which parts of Mingdie’s body this ring was kept on for nourishment over the past thousand years.