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Leyton followed the captain to the edge of the cordon. Besides himself and the captain, all the squad members were already there.
This was agreed upon before departure. If they encountered a sudden event in the corrupted area, they would first gather at the departure point if the situation was unclear.
"Captain, what happened just now? What was that powerful burst of solar energy?" Sia asked first.
Then her gaze fell on Leyton, who was next to the captain, and her expression became strange: "It wouldn't have something to do with you again, would it?"
"What do you mean 'again'? Besides today, when else has anything had to do with me?" Leyton said, unconvinced.
"It really does have something to do with you! Tell me, what did you do this time? I'm very curious!" Sia said, her tone suggesting she knew it all along, before leaning in close to ask him in a suggestive manner.
"I didn't do anything. I just recited the honorific name of an angel, and then the angel hit a very abstract-looking monster with a ray of holy light," Leyton summarized the previous events in one sentence.
"You know the honorific name of an angel!" Ms. Jessica said in disbelief.
"And you chanted the angel's honorific name!" Mr. Kosith added to Ms. Jessica's words.
"And the angel responded to you!" Joseph continued from Josh's words.
"When did you guys become so in sync?" Leyton complained speechlessly.
"A very abstract-looking monster? What did it look like?" Sia's focus was always a little different.
Leyton carefully recalled the chimera of a giant deer and a giant tree, and said thoughtfully, "It looked like a very large deer and a tree that had been cobbled together."
"That's really abstract. I can't imagine what you're describing at all," Sia said, staring at Leyton, feeling like he was trying to fool her.
"I didn't expect the monster to look like that. It's a pity that I was affected by its cries at the time and couldn't move, otherwise I could have gone to see the monster's exact appearance," Mr. Kosith said with regret.
"Indeed, if we had arrived earlier, we could have seen that Lord!" Captain Icanton nodded in agreement.
Leyton felt somewhat out of place among them.
He could only complain in his heart: Why are these people so curious! You guys should be the secret-keepers.
"Captain, what do we do next? Do we continue to clear this corrupted area?" Leyton had to speak up to steer the conversation back on track.
"Afterwards, the Church of the Earth Mother will likely send a Saint to directly resolve the corruption in this area. What happens next depends on the situation," Captain Icanton replied.
"A Saint? Isn't the Archbishop one already?" Sia frowned slightly.
"A Saint of a higher rank. The level involved in this matter is very high, and what happened just now will make them even more nervous," Captain Icanton explained briefly.
"Also because a Church's angel suddenly appeared here and took action, right?" Sia was much more blunt than the captain.
"Are the relationships between the Church and the Church of the Earth Mother very bad?" Leyton asked.
Leyton didn't know at all. Based on what he knew, the God of Knowledge and the Earth Mother shouldn't have too many conflicting interests or positions.
"The Church has always wanted to spread its faith in Feynapotter, and Madan City is the Church's breakthrough point," Sia explained briefly.
Leyton immediately understood what was going on. Although there were no conflicts of interest or position between the two gods, the Church's spreading of its faith would definitely be mutually antagonistic. Everyone wants more followers.
"Oh right, I heard you want to raise a magical animal. I caught a rabbit and a parrot. Do you want them?" Sia naturally changed the topic of discussion.
"Are they good-looking?" Leyton asked immediately.
"They're alright. The colorful parrot should be quite pretty. The oversized gray lop-eared rabbit is quite fat, so it might be delicious. And they can both talk. They were probably pets raised by families here before the mutation," Sia said, recalling the animals.
"Delicious? Isn't that adjective a bit much?" Sia's description made Leyton think of braised rabbit heads and such.
"Delicious is the greatest compliment to an animal, you know?" Sia said seriously.
"No, that should be the last compliment they ever receive!" Leyton retorted on behalf of the small animals.
"Haha, Leyton, you're right. If I hadn't stopped Sia, that cute bunny would already be a cute roasted rabbit," Jessica also said with a smile.
"Do you want it? If you don't, I can personally invite you to eat barbecued meat!" Sia enthusiastically invited Leyton to choose barbecued meat.
"Let me take a look first. If I want to raise it, I'll treat you to even better barbecued meat as compensation later," Leyton said.
"Okay, I'll give you the rabbit right away," Sia said decisively.
"Um, I haven't made a choice yet," Leyton was shocked by Sia's foodie nature.
"I'll make the choice for it," Sia said, staring at Leyton, brooking no argument.
"Alright, I'll treat you to barbecued meat later. You can have other things too," Leyton didn't refute Sia at all.
If he didn't want to raise the rabbit, he could just give it to Sia to make roasted rabbit.
After Sia unilaterally reached an agreement with Leyton, she gave the rabbit that almost became roasted rabbit to Leyton. Also coming along was a fully grown parrot with gorgeous feathers.
Leyton was surprised by the appearance of this parrot. The colors on its body couldn't be described as colorful; they should be described as kaleidoscopic.
The colors of the feathers on its body were like dazzling lights, and under the reflection of the sun, they were colorful and varied. Moreover, as one looked at the parrot from different positions, the colors on its body would also change.
"This parrot is too gorgeous, isn't it? How did it manage to mutate so uniquely?" Leyton couldn't help but ask.
While other mutated creatures were constantly mutating in bizarre directions, this parrot was somewhat ahead of its time.
"Who knows? Do you want to take it for research? It's a good topic, but the experimental material is a bit difficult to obtain," Sia said casually.
"No, I still want this fat rabbit! This parrot is too eye-catching," Leyton shook his head and refused.
This rabbit did look like a large gray lop-eared rabbit. Its size was much larger than ordinary rabbits, and its limbs had mutated somewhat in a human-like direction. Its hind legs were very thick, and its two front legs had become much longer. Moreover, the details of its palms and fingers were emerging, although not very obviously.
The more Leyton looked at this rabbit, the more he felt that it looked like a personified animal character that had run out of a cartoon.
Regarding this, Leyton could only sigh in his heart, 'The mystical world is full of wonders. Maybe one day, I can even use the characteristics of the Sun pathway to create an Ultraman.'
"By the way, what abilities does this rabbit have?" Leyton asked curiously.
"It can grow rapidly, turning into a rabbit the size of an adult, but it's just a superficial enlargement. It can be punctured with a finger," Sia said, tugging at the rabbit's ears.
"It's even more useless than that parrot's lying ability," Jessica summarized simply.
"Nonsense, nonsense, I'm very powerful!" The rabbit, who had been silent and motionless, suddenly spoke back to Jessica.
The rabbit's voice was a bit shrill and distorted, and it was easy to distinguish it from a human voice.
"Are they not on good terms with that parrot? It's reacting so strongly," Leyton asked curiously.
"It's been tricked by that parrot several times in a row. In the end, it wanted to grow bigger to scare the parrot, but it was seen through," Jessica briefly recounted the feud between the rabbit and the parrot.
"Idiot! Idiot! Idiot!" The parrot also suddenly spoke up, mocking.
"I'll bite you to death! Waa—" The rabbit, held in Sia's hand, struggled desperately.
Then, Sia flung it to the ground, and stepped on it, deforming the rabbit's belly.
"Ah!"
"Help! Help!—"
The rabbit's screams were heart-wrenching, which made the parrot on the other side laugh even louder.
Leyton looked at these two animals in surprise. They were smarter than Leyton had imagined. It seemed that all the mutations were concentrated in their heads, so their bodies didn't become bizarre.
"Don't worry, although this rabbit is weak, it can take a beating," Sia said, thinking that Leyton was worried about it being ruined by her playing with it.
"Oh, oh! That's good, at least it's not completely useless," Leyton didn't care.
Anyway, he was raising magical creatures for fun. It didn't matter if they were powerful or not. As pets, they just needed to be good-looking and interesting.
"Do you need to sign a contract with it? I can simulate it," Sia's after-sales service was very good, and she offered to help sign the contract.
"Can you do that even if it's not a spirit world creature?" Leyton asked.
"The mutated creatures here can. Although they are not spirit world creatures, the mutations caused by the corruption here have also established a deeper connection with the spirit world. This is why they can use various Beyonder abilities. Their power comes from the spirit world," Sia explained.
"However, the effect of the contract is to bind both parties, so you need to be sure," Sia added.
Leyton was already attracted by Sia's other words. The mutated creatures here could rely on the spirit world to use various Beyonder abilities because they had a deeper connection with the spirit world, even if it wasn't strong.
"Aren't the Beyonder abilities of the mutated creatures here dependent on the Beyonder characteristics within their bodies?" Leyton asked curiously.
"No, those characteristics and corruption are just the reasons why the creatures here mutate, but their power doesn't come from that alone, or not only from that," Captain Icontton answered Leyton's question.
"So Beyonder abilities aren't only for Beyonders? As long as you can establish a certain connection with the spirit world, you can also use them?" Leyton asked further.
"In theory, yes. Like many of the Beyonder abilities that Sia and I use rely on the interaction between the spirit world and the material world, but if you're not a Beyonder, it's almost impossible to do that," Captain Icontton explained.
"Why? Is it because ordinary people can't withstand the influence of the spirit world?" Leyton asked curiously.
"That's one reason, but the bigger reason is that ordinary people can't establish such a deep connection with the spirit world," Captain Icontton was not impatient with Leyton's series of questions at all and answered very seriously.
"Do you still want your rabbit? Why are you suddenly so curious about the spirit world?" Sia interrupted Leyton's continued questioning.
"Yes, of course, I still need to study it!" Leyton nodded quickly.
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