novelraw Chapter 1012 715: Are You Crazy? You Say This Is the Destruction Race?
Chapter 1012 715: Are You Crazy? You Say This Is the Destruction Race?
"Is this the Wilderness area where the Destruction Race resides?"
Mirel looked around at the picturesque scenery, a bit surprised, "This doesn't match the personality of the Destruction Race as the Black Dragon ancestors described."
Li Zheng also seemed a bit puzzled as he observed the scenery around him, "Could it be that the Black Dragon elder hasn't seen the Destruction Race in so long that they've moved away and no longer live here?"
[There are signs of biological activity five kilometers ahead, perhaps we can ask someone there.]
Prelis' Eye provided a hint.
"Let's go." Li Zheng called Mirel, saying, "Let's head over there and find out."
The two walked side by side, heading down a small path.
Feng Yue walked behind, quietly following, hardly making his presence felt.
Little Sakura was left in the Outer City by Li Zheng, entrusted to Zhan Zhouzhou to supervise her daily training.
The little one protested solemnly, only to be heartlessly refused by Li Zheng.
She fussed for five minutes and, seeing that Li Zheng was determined not to take her, accepted the situation.
"It's so beautiful here." Mirel snuggled up to Li Zheng, wearing a peaceful expression, thoroughly enjoying the ambiance.
This path was obviously regularly maintained, the road surface very smooth, and the sides manicured as if by a compulsive perfectionist. No matter where you measured from, it was precise to two decimal places in width.
Flowers and plants lined both sides of the path, carefully tended to and growing impressively. Each flower, each blade of grass, each leaf, even the petals falling with the wind, seemed perfectly placed, just a slight shift would ruin the harmonious beauty here.
"Whoever tends to this place must be a perfectionist, fussing over the smallest details." Li Zheng quietly commented, even Intelligent Humanoid cleaning models couldn't be this meticulous.
Feng Yue murmured from behind them, "As far as I know, the Destruction Race wouldn't bother with such tedious activities. Their only desire is to destroy everything, to ravage all the beauty in the world."
This desire was something inherent, a nature that couldn't be altered.
"So the residents here definitely have nothing to do with the Destruction Race!" He concluded with certainty and exactitude.
"Not necessarily," Li Zheng disagreed, "Every race has individuals who are unconventional. Perhaps the one maintaining this place is such an individual from the Destruction Race?"
These unconventional individuals, in common terms, are usually called "lunatics," "madmen," or "psychiatric cases."
Nonetheless, Li Zheng recalled the Destruction Race member he encountered in the Gluttony Sin Domain, remembering their maniacal demeanor and destructive tendencies, doubting his previous statement a bit.
If everyone from the Destruction Race were like that, could their kin possibly produce a person appearing as… oddly normal as the one he's encountering?
Five kilometers isn't far, but remarkably, the scenery remained unchanged the entire way!
At one point, Li Zheng thought he was treading in place on that path, if not for the Prelis' Eye indicating the target was growing closer, he would've suspected being trapped in some powerful illusion even he couldn't see through.
The "biological" entity Old Prel mentioned was in the flower bushes by the path. As Li Zheng looked, it was a young girl wearing a green straw hat woven with a ring of flowers.
The girl had a graceful figure, clad in a simple white dress, her exposed skin gleaming like fine jade. However, on closer inspection, it seemed to have a slight blue tinge.
"Excuse me..." Li Zheng began. The girl was crouched tending to the flowers, but upon hearing him, she stood up and turned around.
Under the hat was a youthful face with a bluish complexion, her refined features rivaling the beauties Li Zheng had met, like Mirel.
Upon seeing Li Zheng, her pale gray eyes slightly narrowed, and she greeted him sweetly, "You're here."
She spoke with the familiarity of a childhood friend, "Wait for me there a moment, I'll be done here soon."
With that, she bent down again, pruning excess leaves and buds from a few flower stalks.
Li Zheng asked, bewildered, "Are you the Destruction Saintess?"
The girl answered, "I am the only remaining Saintess of the Destruction Race, but not the Saintess you mentioned."
The only remaining Saintess...
Such a peculiar way to phrase it.
"Does the Destruction Race have multiple Saintesses?" Li Zheng wondered.
Feng Yue whispered softly from behind him, "All female members of the Destruction Race who remain virgins upon reaching adulthood are considered Saintesses. They hold procreation in high regard, and a Saintess cannot easily marry an outsider. They must wait for the triennial clan competition to decide who may take a Saintess for the sake of procreation."
"And also..."
Here, Feng Yue glanced at the Saintess' back, lowered his voice further, "It's rumored that to strengthen their bloodline, the Destruction Race doesn't exclude outsiders from the competition. As long as they win, they can marry a Saintess."
"This was once popular in the Outer City, but for reasons unknown, it ceased to be mentioned."
"Because most outsiders have reproductive isolation from our race, combining with them not only hampers our bloodline's growth but makes our reproduction more difficult," the Saintess chimed in, finishing her task and admiring her work with satisfaction, continuing Feng Yue's explanation. "Therefore, aside from races without reproductive isolation, we no longer permit outsiders to participate in the competition."