The Art of the "Duck Pose"

Was the Water of Life produced in the Elven Forest just the hot spring water where elves had bathed?

The prestige of the elixir suddenly dropped to the level of mere alluring potion!

"What? In the capital, the Water of Life produced in the Elven Forest is highly valuable. Nobles and adventurers vie for it as a potent healing elixir!" Lureia said, looking at Xia Mi with discontent. "Isn't it a bonus that an elf has bathed in it?"

"Not at all!"

Xia Mi shook his head firmly.

He might have accepted it if only the flat-chested elf before him had bathed in the spring.

But there were male elves too!

Drinking the bathwater of a male, was there something wrong with him? Game designers, was there something wrong with you too?

"I'll just keep it for now."

Xia Mi stored the Water of Life in his Demon King ring, planning to keep it aside for a while and only decide upon its use when absolutely necessary.

Lureia rolled her eyes. "If you're so disgusted by it, when I return to the Elven Forest, I'll bathe alone in the small spring and then give you some of that water. Would that be acceptable?"

Xia Mi nodded subconsciously, then immediately shook his head.

He wouldn't accept it. Why should he drink the bathwater of a flat-chested elf?

Drinking someone else's bathwater was completely abnormal!

Moreover, in the setting of this elixir, elves were completely reduced to mere ingredients.

"Do you want the spring water or not? If you do, return my necklace to me, and I'll be on my way."

"So that was your aim," Xia Mi realized. After all the circling around, the flat-chested elf's ultimate goal was still the necklace. "Of course not. I have no interest in such things. Drinking it will surely make me sick."

"Tsk! No good deed goes unpunished."

Lureia crossed her arms in anger. "The Demon King is quite cowardly."

Xia Mi tensed up instantly.

"Don't worry. The Spirit Protection Barrier has a good soundproofing effect. Nobody outside can hear our conversation."

Only then did Xia Mi relax a bit.

Lureia sat on the bed, slowly sipping the water in her hand. Her long golden hair was tied into twin tails, looking fluffy as they were tied midway. The hair ends were a shade darker, almost an orangish gold, even reddish in some lights.

Being an elf, her long and thick eyelashes were also golden, making her large eyes resemble vivid green gems even more.

The skin of her limbs exposed outside her clothes was exceptionally fair, whether her slender fingers or her delicate collarbone, everything looked like a natural masterpiece.

Lureia was indeed proud of her appearance, and for good reason.

Seeing that Xia Mi seemed ready to leave, she sneaked her legs onto the bed and sat in an 'M' pose, revealing her white legs.

​[Level 1 Ultimate "Duck Pose" for Seducing Men!]

In such a posture, girls appear exceptionally delicate and vulnerable, evoking a strong protective instinct in the opposite sex. If paired with a pitiful look, it could charm 99% of them.

Having been ignored by Xia Mi several times before, Lureia was determined to get his attention this time. She stole a glance at him.

"I have to go now. I need to wake up early tomorrow."

Xia Mi stood up from his chair. A portal, the Demon King's Warp, appeared in the room.

"So soon?" Lureia blinked, quickly looking his way, her eyes shimmering. "You can stay a little longer~"

The portal disappeared.

Xia Mi had already left.

The room became quiet again.

He wasn't charmed at all, damn it!

The flat-chested elf felt deflated.

After exiting the portal, Xia Mi returned to his home, finding himself breathing a bit more heavily than usual.

What was happening? Was the flat-chested blonde elf actually cute when she spoke in a soft voice?

He quickly tried to shake off that image from his mind.

...

The scene where Xia Mi might return through the portal again didn't happen.

Back in the inn room, the blonde elf lay back on the bed, bored.

"See you tomorrow, pretty-faced Demon King..."

Lureia murmured to herself.

She lay in bed for a while, planning to recite her usual pre-sleep prayer: 'Even though I did nothing today, I still worked hard~', then took out a pillow from her storage space to sleep.

But she found it hard to fall asleep. After thinking for a while, Lureia got up and sat at the table.

Xia Mi had started creating monsters like slimes, indicating that he was strengthening the demon race's power. As the only person currently aware of his identity as the Demon King, Lureia realized this wasn't the time to slack off.

Currently, her seduction skills seemed utterly ineffective.

The Demon King was continuously improving, and for the day she could defeat him and retrieve her necklace, she couldn't lag behind. She needed to strengthen her abilities.

Lureia took out an elven tome from her storage space and began to read.

...

At night, Xia Mi began his daily summary.

Firstly, he successfully resurrected the common monster slime and unlocked more information about it in the monster codex.

The slime, being one of the most common monsters on the Aelran continent, was prolific and highly reproductive. Common monsters were akin to common jobs in the human world, and a slime's max level was 50.

But as a Demon King, he didn't need to breed slimes one by one. He only needed to nurture a level 30 slime, let it mutate into a reproductive slime, and then it could naturally split into new baby slimes.

Level 30 was a watershed for common monsters. At this level, a common monster can undergo various mutations, akin to humans changing jobs. They can also reproduce and possess greater autonomy and intelligence.

At level 30, a common slime can mutate into ice slime, water slime, venom slime, and other types.

A max-level slime acts as the central nervous system of the species. Xia Mi can control the entire species' survival, reproduction, and tribal development by controlling this central system.

Of course, all this information came from the Monster Codex, known only to Xia Mi and previous Demon Kings and Demon Envoys.

[Codex Quest 1: Gather materials and resurrect the common monster, Goblin]

[Codex Quest 2: Nurture a level 30 slime and reproduce 100 common slimes.]

Currently, there were two tasks in the monster codex. One was to develop in a new direction by resurrecting another common monster, the goblin. The other was to continue the current progress and delve deeper into the slime species.

Doing both at once would be challenging.

After some thought, Xia Mi decided to focus on developing the slime species first.

On another note, after reaching level 3, Xia Mi automatically learned one of the most crucial skills of the Demon King: the Demon Envoy Link.