Great! I'm surrounded by villains!-Chapter 447 - 366: Records of Strange Monsters

"And from an academic perspective, you are not an ’Impure’ but rather a monster known as a ’wolf demon’ on Blue Star."

Duan Mingyuan had read about wolf demons in the "Fox Demon Chronicles".

The friendship between the wolf demon clan and the fox demon clan dated back a long way, and there was still contact between them to this day.

However, the infamy of "ferocious beasts" forced the wolf demons to seclude themselves in isolated places, and it had been a long time since anyone on Blue Star had seen a wolf demon.

"The creation of the ’Impure’ is due to the remnants of Scorching Sun Power still flowing in their bodies, which is a testament to your past as followers of the Sun King."

The wolf demon girl gnashed her teeth in anger but was unable to refute the claim.

As the leader of her tribe, she knew all too well what had transpired in the war that decided the fate of the real-world plane and the Land of Eternal Night.

The testimony of the Sun King’s followers was also the testimony of traitors.

They betrayed the Sun King and accepted the gifts of the Void Demons.

The demons transformed their bodies, making them more powerful and even welcomed them to become members of the Void Demons.

They had once believed, like converts, that the Void Demons would ultimately triumph.

As the war was lost, they were exiled to the Land of Eternal Night along with the other demons and lived there in the form of werewolves for the long millennia that followed.

Duan Mingyuan had also seen descriptions of the traitors in the scriptures of the Ashen Church; compared to the inherently evil Void Demons, the Sun King’s Angel Envoys despised those who were beguiled and betrayed their kin even more, and werewolves were just one of the many traitors. In the dark age of Savagery, demons had bestowed upon them the fierceness and agility of wolves.

"Enough talk, just do it quickly!"

The Wolf Demon Girl glared at Duan Mingyuan fiercely, but her annoyed expression was far from lethal.

Duan Mingyuan looked at the primitive tent and found the contrast quite amusing.

In the scriptures of the Ashen Church, it was mentioned that the Sun King’s followers and werewolves lived in the same era. They were of the same lineage. Yet looking at their present state after several thousand years, the Ashen Empire had spread the seeds of civilization to various star systems. Their right path was the stars and the ocean, while their kin were still living in tents as primitive as those of the earliest humans, and their social structures hadn’t changed much from thousands of years ago.

As a result, when he conversed with the Wolf Demon Girl in the tent, there wasn’t even a light bulb there, only a woven bag casting a faint glow.

Inside the bag were some lower-order demons that glowed, commonly used as wicks in the Land of Eternal Night. Once captured in the woven bag, they had to work day and night for decades until their energy was completely exhausted and they were extinguished.

This was far more tragic than any worker Duan Mingyuan knew of.

No wages, no freedom, and no rest whatsoever.

The Land of Eternal Night was a realm beyond the reach of sunlight, meaning the wicks often had to operate all day long.

It seemed that upon arriving in the Land of Eternal Night, the werewolves chose to embrace the demon’s qualities, causing their societal progress to stagnate.

Duan Mingyuan thought he had found the reason for the Void Demon’s failure. After being exiled to the Land of Eternal Night, it couldn’t understand why, with such an apparent advantage, even having turned insiders from the Sun King’s people, it had lost the war. This was also why it divided its consciousness and sent it to the real-world plane.

Simply put, demonization could indeed enhance a creature’s combat abilities but at the cost of a significant decline in their intelligence.

This was vividly demonstrated by the werewolf tribe.

Duan Mingyuan had told the Dark Night Witch that perhaps he would adopt a scorched-earth tactic, destroying the Land of Eternal Night, but now his view had changed.

"After all these years, haven’t you ever thought about developing something?"

"Develop... develop what?"

"You have a Crystal Ball. Through the Crystal Ball, you can see some scenes from the real-world plane."

"So what?"

"Your previous kin lived in large houses and even built spaceships capable of leaving the planet, while you still dwell in primitive tents."

As he spoke, Duan Mingyuan looked up and tapped the tent’s structure, "If a catastrophic weather event were to occur, a tornado would blow your tent away, wouldn’t it?"

"If it’s blown away, we’ll just build another. It’s not troublesome."

The Wolf Demon retorted stubbornly, "Do you think I would envy them?"

"You are the leader of this tribe, and every decision you make affects the future development of your people."

"Under the leadership of past leaders, we have become one of the largest tribes among the Void Demons!"

At this point, pride welled up within her.

After defeat, the werewolf tribe was scattered and fragmented. In the Land of Eternal Night, a place of savagery where the strong prey on the weak, they had nearly become slaves and food for other demons multiple times. It was only under the guidance of heroes through the generations that they were able to thrive until now.

And she was one of those heroines of the werewolf tribe.

She could have even become the greatest heroine, as long as she led her people to fight back against the real plane, to eradicate the followers of the Sun King. Her greatness would have been beyond doubt. However, the arrival of Duan Mingyuan changed everything.

This detestable Angel Envoy of the Sun King had used despicable tricks on her.

A true warrior should settle it in the arena.

"If you have the guts, lift the curse from me, and let us fight to the death in the arena!"

She issued a challenge to Duan Mingyuan.

Despite the slim odds of victory, it would at least allow her to die like a warrior in the presence of her tribe, rather than becoming a laughing stock as "The Impure."

"No matter how many times we start over, the outcome will not change,"

Duan Mingyuan shook his head regretfully. He did not like superfluous actions, "But I do have a way to ensure that your people will not scorn you for how you look now."

"What do you plan to do?"

The Wolf Demon suddenly had an ominous premonition.

"This is the experiment I plan to conduct to verify a hypothesis of mine."

With that, Duan Mingyuan walked out of the tent alone.

Not caring about the risk of being discovered by her tribe, the Wolf Demon Girl also ran out following him.

As expected, the werewolves guarding the entrance stared in disbelief at her current form when they saw her.

But their confusion did not last long.

When the azure-green glow fell upon them, the guards writhed in pain on the ground, forced to undergo the changes happening to their bodies.

Human skin, frail limbs.

They became just like those "Impure."

A sapling burst forth from the ground, rapidly climbing upwards at a visible speed, and in a blink, it turned into a towering giant tree.

(To be continued)

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