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Chapter 195: Chapter 194: Mysterious Small Creature Chapter 195: Chapter 194: Mysterious Small Creature Night fell.

By the campfire, Russell rested his head on the back of the Red-eyed Rat King, who was gnawing on a bone. He chatted leisurely with Eric, Catherine, four Knight Attendants, and Charles, who had returned once again.

“A husband tenderly comforts his wife, who is in the throes of labor, saying, ‘It’s all because of me that you’re in so much pain. I’m really sorry’…”

With the campfire crackling, Charles smugly showed off his joke, “But his wife said, ‘Don’t worry, it’s not your fault,’ hahaha! Get it? It’s not his fault, someone else made the mistake, hahaha!”

“Haha!” Knight Attendant Jack got it instantly.

Tom and the others also began to laugh, loudly praising Charles for his talent.

“Vulgar!” Mr. Eric muttered under his breath, then turned his head away, unable to suppress a curl forming at the corner of his mouth.

Catherine’s pale face flushed with red veins, she chided, “I don’t get it.”

Only Russell, with a piece of foxtail grass in his mouth plucked from who knows where, did not join in the laughter at the joke.

Nevertheless, Charles asked with a bashful expression, “Sir, what do you think of the joke?”

“Not bad, it’s a bit more refined than those colorful jokes from before,” Russell replied nonchalantly.

“It seems Sir is not satisfied with my joke. I will think it over and strive to come up with one that will make you laugh heartily,” Charles said, and then continued to amuse Catherine with some more vulgar and colorful jokes.

Through the Wolf Head Skylight, Russell could see the full sky of stars.

The stars were just as dazzling as the night view he had admired on the Snowfield. Unfortunately, Russell couldn’t recognize a single constellation, clearly indicating that the Dragon Sleep Continent was not under the same starry sky as Earth.

They might not even be at the same point in time, let alone in the same universe.

“But, I remember something about quantum entanglement theory, something about faster than light, wasn’t it? One quantum particle spins, and another quantum particle far away spins too?” Russell thought uncertainly, having watched quite a few science popularization videos in his past life.

Unfortunately, most of that scientific knowledge just passed through his brain; what came in went out and he remembered hardly any of it.

“Maybe my travel here was caused by quantum entanglement, me on Earth and me on the Dragon Sleep Continent, intertwined!”

Regardless.

Russell was quite satisfied with his current life, to wield Transcendent Power with a mortal body gave him a feeling akin to being on par with the gods.

And he was also a lord.

“Sir, your tea soup is ready,” Ram, the Personal Servant, said as he brought a pot of hot tea soup from the campfire and poured a cup for Russell.

Then he poured a cup for everyone else, too.

Drinking the steaming tea soup, the group chatted until the campfire gradually died out, and then they each crawled into their tents to rest.

Russell stopped pondering his place in the universe, slipped into his sleeping bag, and quickly fell into a deep sleep.

“Gah!”

The voice of the Little Dream Dragon announced the arrival of the Gloomy Dreamland.

Mounting it, he instantly lit up the surrounding Magic Light, but Russell didn’t pause for a moment and rode the Little Dream Dragon out of the cavern.

“Let’s go to the Snow Forest; let’s take a look and see if there are any elves or Fantasy Beasts hidden within. If not, we’ll just roam the Snowfield. We only hunted five Snow Ghosts today, so don’t eat the Ice Pellet Pearls yet.”

“Gah?” The Little Dream Dragon was puzzled, wondering why it couldn’t eat the Ice Pellet Pearls first.

“In case we come across some on the Snowfield, you’ll have a great feast. As for the ones in my pocket, I need to save a few Ice Pellet Pearls in case I need to use the Quiet Dream Staring Skill at some point.”

The Little Dream Dragon seemed to agree with Russell’s words and stopped fussing over the five Ice Pellet Pearls in Russell’s pocket.

It headed straight towards the Snow Forest nearby.

“Pick up the pace, sweep with a glance, circle around, and if there’s no obvious Magic Light, we pull out,” Russell didn’t hold much hope.

Even if there was a faint Magic Light, indicating that Spirit Insects were being nurtured, he didn’t pay much attention.

With a Little Sprite and a Mushroom Bird at home, and the Magical Medicine Field already too much to keep up with, he truly didn’t need any more Spirit Insects. So, there was no need to waste the Little Dream Dragon’s Dragonflame to rescue the wild Spirit Insects that were likely to miscarry.

However, things often turn out that, when you hold great hope, you end up with dim results, but when you hold no hope, you may discover an unexpected delight.

They had just flown into the Snow Forest when, with the help of the Dream Clone’s three-meter range, they saw a thick snow cedar tree, its trunk shimmering with a very faint Magic Light. The Magic Light was so dim that it would have been undetectable in a normal environment.

But the Dream Clone was just so big, and the trunk of this snow cedar was so thick, that no matter how dim, it stood out remarkably.

“Damn it, can it really be such a huge caterpillar fungus?” Russell’s eyes widened.

In his own Birch Forest, the thickest birch tree caterpillar fungus was only about twenty meters high, and a small child could wrap their arms around its trunk. The snow cedar in front of him was so tall that its height was unclear, but the base of its trunk was absurdly large.

It would take several people to wrap their arms around it.

“I’ve seen this tree during the day; it should be the thickest snow cedar in the Snow Forest. I even touched the trunk at the time, but I didn’t feel any Magic aura.”

Russell rode the Little Dream Dragon, circling the glowing snow cedar, slowly ascending as he carefully examined it.

“Gah.” Mist was also very curious about this snow cedar.

“So, has it become a caterpillar fungus? But the light of a caterpillar fungus shouldn’t be this dim. Or is it because it’s so large that the light is so dim?” Russell was puzzled. To say it was a caterpillar fungus, it wasn’t bright enough, and to say it was nurturing a Spirit Insect didn’t seem right either.

Plants nurturing Spirit Insects only shone with Magic Light where the Spirit Insects were being nurtured; the other parts were no different from ordinary plants.

Suddenly.

The Little Dream Dragon stopped in front of a branch of the snow cedar, then started cackling like it was smiling.

“Hmm?” Russell looked over.

There, on the part of the trunk where the branch grew, a little creature outlined by Magic Light was lying inside and sleeping soundly.

Its glow was several times brighter than the Magic Light of the snow cedar itself.

“What a delicate little thing, lying sprawled inside, no arms, but three willow leaf-like structures on each side of its body, those should count as… arms,” Russell observed carefully. “It has a small head, like layers of willow leaves…”

Its two long, thin legs also had tiny willow leaves at the bends.

Moreover, on its slender body was a tail longer than its legs, thin like an elongated pin.

“Such a weird little thing, it’s definitely not an Elf!” Russell exclaimed in amazement. “Look Ice Cream, the willow leaves and its body have curled Magic lines, the light green glow is very soft… I’ve never seen this before!”

“Gah.” The Little Dream Dragon too tilted its head, intently examining the little creature that was sound asleep.

It was certainly a mystical creature, but Russell couldn’t determine what kind of mystical creature it was: “If you say it’s an Elf, it’s somewhat similar. The snow cedar glows like a caterpillar fungus, but its glow is dimmer, and this little thing doesn’t look like an Elf at all!”

“Gah?” The Little Dream Dragon didn’t understand.

“Could it be… a Great Elf?” No sooner had Russell thought this than he dismissed it, “A little thing the size of a palm, so much more slender than a chubby little sprite, how could it be a Great Elf… I’ve seen Lady Vivie before.”

(I borrowed a picture from the internet~)