After leaving the team, the adventurer ladies regretted it deeply

The whip had thorns and barbs, and when Lin Da forcefully moved forward, the barbs pierced through his clothes and into his skin.

Each painful sting was like a slap waking someone from slumber, snapping Lin Da's consciousness awake.

Lin Da shuddered and suddenly came to his senses.

"Kafni, Monica?"

The first thing he did was look around, searching for his teammates.

Since Kafni was a deity herself, she had high resistance to spiritual attacks and stood her ground, though pain was evident on her face. Kafni was alright herself but had no extra strength to aid others.

Lin Da looked to the front side and was shocked.

Monica, trembling like a marionette, was already at the edge of the pool.

With half a foot hanging in the air, she was about to fall in!

The pool boiled again.

The thing beneath seemed very excited, ready to devour Monica as a new sacrifice.

"Go!"

In the nick of time, Lin Da unleashed his Dark Whip.

Crack!

The Dark Whip coiled around Monica's waist and yanked her back forcefully.

Lin Da held Monica in his arms.

Away from the pool, Monica's hollow eyes gradually regained clarity.

"Huh? How...how did I end up in the Captain's arms?"

"It was a spiritual attack."

Lin Da, with a grave expression, set Monica down and stared intensely at the pool, "What exactly are you, come out!"

"I didn't do anything, you know? Mortals worship deities, seeking to be embraced by them—it's an instinct. It seems your little girlfriend doesn't have a very firm will," the Dawn Goddess said in her pleasing voice. "Come, answer me instead, what is your wish?"

"Lin Xi… what have you done to her?"

"I'm sorry, I can't answer concerning other wish-makers. That's a rule," the Dawn Goddess said regrettably. "Please, make another wish."

"Then...bring Lin Xi in front of me."

Lin Da clenched his Azure Sword.

If the Dawn Goddess twisted his wish, he was ready to attack immediately.

The fact that the opponent stayed under the pool and didn't come out suggested that its combat power was mediocre.

Just a four-level hidden BOSS, at most level 20.

With 120,000 Mystical Points unused, he could directly go to level 20 and give it a taste of his Double Fatality.

Lin Da was ready to fight at a moment's notice.

—"Your wish has been granted."

Suddenly, the array's light extinguished.

The pool became clear again.

The Dawn Goddess seemed to have vanished.

Was the wish granted just like that?

There seemed to be no change.

Confused, Lin Da turned around to look, but in the hall, there were only the three members of the Phoenix Tail Flower Team; Lin Xi was nowhere to be seen.

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At that moment, the sound of water echoed in his ears.

Lin Da's gaze sharpened, he secured the Dark Whip at his waist, and had his teammates cover him as he cautiously approached the edge of the pool to look down.

A dark shadow was rapidly surfacing.

"What is that?"

Lin Da's Azure Sword, ready to strike,

but then he considered, what if this shadow was his sister?

The Dawn Goddess had said his wish was granted. From other people's logs, something always happened as long as a wish was made; it couldn't be without any event.

As he pondered, the shadow broke the water surface and, like a seal, leaped into the hall.

Lin Da was astounded.

Kafni frowned in disgust.

Monica screamed and escaped far away.

What appeared before them was not Lin Da's sister.

Instead, it was a... gigantic white flesh worm.

The flesh worm was one meter long and as thick as a bucket.

Its feet beneath its body were short and numerous, just like those of a silkworm.

Two rows, nearly a hundred in total, slowly writhed and crawled on the ground.

In front of the flesh worm's head was a spiral-shaped huge mouthpart, inside which were densely packed tiny teeth, glinting with sharpness.

If you threw a chunk of meat and bone in there, it would probably be instantly shredded by this mouthpart.

"What monstrosity is this?"

Lin Da's expression changed dramatically.

Could this massive flesh worm be his sister?

Was he going to live his whole life with this flesh worm?

Such a sister would not be desirable to any adventurer for marriage!

Kafni said expressionlessly, "Don't think too much, this is a Magical Creature, I can clearly feel the Magical Creature aura from it!"

After speaking, Kafni rubbed her hands together, preparing to kill the large flesh worm.

"Wait," Lin Da shook his head, "What if this thing... really is Lin Xi?"

The chances were slim, but he couldn't be too cautious.

Even if he killed the flesh worm, he had to investigate afterward.

In the diary, among the wishes Lin Xi had made, there was the word 'eternal life.'

As far as Lin Da knew, some simple-structured Magical Creatures deep in the ocean could almost achieve eternal life.

They had no heads and only fed on instinct.

But this indeed was a form of eternal life.

In other words, the possibility that this ugly flesh worm was Lin Xi was not 'zero.'

"Meow meow."

The flesh worm made a pleasing sound, rubbing its head against Lin Da's shoes like a small cat.

That terrifying spiral-shaped mouth had no intention of attacking Lin Da.

Even the dog he had raised for years was not this well-behaved!

The sense of eeriness in Lin Da's heart grew stronger.

He wished the flesh worm would attack him and a major battle would ensue.

This way, it would clarify that the flesh worm was not his sister, and he could kill it with ease.

But the flesh worm's affectionate actions and its unguarded behavior made Lin Da inevitably suspect: could it really be Lin Xi?

After rubbing his shoes for a while, the flesh worm coquettishly opened its bloody mouth wide, somewhat like it was begging for food.

"You two watch it; I'll go upstairs to find some food," Lin Da said as he touched his stomach, having not eaten all day, and he was a bit hungry too.

"Are we keeping this thing?" Kafni scrutinized the flesh worm warily: "We might as well kill it directly. I always feel that this thing is not normal, it might be highly intelligent, deceiving us."

"Meow meow meow!"

The flesh worm seemed to guess something from Kafni's stern expression and screamed in fear, wriggling to Lin Da's side.

The small feet in front clung to Lin Da's leg.

Though it was an ugly, large flesh worm with no 'face', it somehow evoked the image of a delicate and pitiful girl.

Lin Da sighed helplessly.

"Kafni, I understand what you're saying. However, as long as there's a slight possibility that it is Lin Xi..."

"Let's bring it to White Dove City and ask high-level Beast Tamers and Druids to see the true nature of this flesh worm."

"Anyway, I'm going to get some food first, you guys keep a close watch."

Lin Da asked two team members to monitor the flesh worm.

He himself went upstairs to look for food.

The church personnel had long evacuated from the castle, and in such a large place, Lin Da was the only person left.

It took him quite a while to find the cafeteria, where he stuffed large amounts of bread and dried meat into his Space Ring and returned to the underground hall.

As soon as he entered, he saw Monica sitting on the ground with a painful expression.

She was clutching her calf, which was bleeding profusely.

Kafni blocked the flesh worm and shouted angrily, "You damn Magical Creature, showing your true nature now, huh!"