This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist

Chapter 319 High Tower - The Candlebeast

After a moon fox dies, as long as one tail is chopped off, its body will immediately turn to smoke and return to the embrace of the Moon Goddess. Of course, there is also the possibility of trying to exploit a bug by chopping off all its tails at once, but that would result in none of them staying behind.

The situations with the moon fox's tails were experiments done by Blue Star players from a past life who tried to make moon fox tails into a scarf. However, the first tail of the moon fox is not completely impossible to handle. Rita thought of a workaround: players with telepathic abilities could interrogate a moon fox. It would be tedious, though.

But the most troublesome items were the Candlebeast's flame tail and the Undead Spring drop from a death's heart.

The Candlebeast is a species with seven flames growing from their tails. The stronger their power, the closer their flame color is to white, and the flame tails of the seven royal families of the Candlebeast are pure white flames.

As soon as a Candlebeast dies, their flame tails go out immediately—not a second longer—and while they are alive, these flame tails are an extremely powerful skill. Even if a Candlebeast falls unconscious, the flame will automatically protect its master, and its power will increase drastically if the master loses consciousness.

The Undead Spring is even more difficult. It can transform a deceased person into an undead, which means to obtain it, one has to find those who were halfway converted into undead.

But here's the issue. Becoming an undead is not hard, even without the Undead Spring. The problem is that these half-converted undead are often shunned by their original races because their fate and divine gifts are transferred to the undead race after death, and other factions view this as a betrayal.

On the other hand, there are some undead who are highly valued. When a loved one dies, the undead will search for the precious Undead Spring, using it to turn their loved one into an undead. The undead turned by the Undead Spring are purer, retaining more of their strength, and their fate and divine gifts return to their original race after death. The transformation is only slightly weaker than those converted by the Undead Monarch.

So, the question is, the undead capable of being transformed by this precious Undead Spring are not going to be low-ranked ones. And even if one manages to find a high-level undead that was converted later, killing them might not guarantee obtaining the Undead Spring.

Just thinking about it was giving Rita a headache.

Rita asked Nivalis, "Don't tell me you guys need something from the Dragon Clan too?"

Nivalis replied, "No way. When I descended to Blue Star, I didn't sign any contracts, and the Dragon Clan is not participating in this war."

Rita felt a little more at ease, but then she suddenly stopped walking, grabbed Nivalis from her shoulder, and pulled her face-to-face, speaking in a serious tone, "I have some questions for you."

Nivalis, now nervous, took a deep breath and became serious. "Go ahead."

Rita asked, "I've always wondered, how do Candlebeasts wash their hair?"

In the end, Shadow.Q not only had to rap in a bubble voice but also had to carry Sanchez to escape, eventually having to use her bubble voice to scold Sanchez. If it hadn't been for the moon foxes chasing them, both would have been caught.

After they barely escaped, Shadow.Q ignored them for three days.

When Sanchez returned, she looked aggrieved: "You don't know, she scolded me in that bubble voice! I couldn't stand it!" Afterward, she squeezed her throat and imitated her, which immediately made Shadow.Q use her skill to teleport Sanchez away.

Now that they had developed, things were starting to stabilize. Someone from Eclipse Vanguard was contacting them?

Rita didn't want to assume the worst, but she wasn't interested in teaming up with a stranger joining halfway through.

Over the years, unless there was a reward too tempting to ignore or a task impossible for a single person to complete, she wouldn't have teamed up with Sanchez or Shadow.Q.

And... who knew if this person had been assimilated?

Even if the timeline was different, it had been 27 years since they entered the tower. That was long enough to be considered a whole lifetime.

She sent a message back to Shadow.Q.

[Pinebloom]: I won't be returning to the base for a while. If something comes up, let me know via the friends list. Stay updated through My Virtual Library Empire

[Pinebloom]: Be careful.

[Spicy Onion]: Don't worry, I understand. It's only been 27 years, it won't be so quick.

[Spicy Onion]: Whatever they can offer, Eclipse Vanguard can offer more.

That was true, but Rita thought back to the Eternal Night Fortress she saw when she stole the Moon Sand.

[Pinebloom]: What if the Oak Owls have been in contact with the heroic spirits here all along?