195 Where are the Power Sources? (1/2)

When Leon heard Lilith's words, he awkwardly asked. ”Ahem… How long have I been standing irresponsive?”

”About five minutes?” Lilith answered with her head leaning sideways, before asking, ”What happened to you? Why didn't you respond to me? It was like you were frozen in shock or something…”

Lilith casually swept the first floor with a glance. As Leon was standing near the entrance like a block of wood, she all her attention had been on getting Leon's response. Now that she was studying the building, she quickly became shocked.

”Holy Cow! What happened to the library!? It looks like it's been ransacked!” Lilith exclaimed. However, she quickly felt awkward right after. There was a venerable beast worshipped in the Wildlands as the Holy Cow for divine healing powers. If the Holy Cow knew she used its title was used as a figure of speech, it might curse her in the moo language.

”It was like this when I got here…” Leon said impassively without guilt. Nothing could be derived from his expression.

Lilith glanced at him suspiciously. ”Really?”

”Yeah…”

Leon began rubbing his chin as he looked back at Lilith in thought.

Lilith did not carry any bag on her and didn't loot anything from her building. She was looking for something else. She spent the entire time practicing the [Hundred Beast Transformation Art] when she couldn't what she was looking for.

Thinking Leon had finally taken notice, she began puffing out her chest and feeling smug.

”Go on. Praise me.”

Contrary to her expectation, Leon was thinking about an entirely different matter.

Due to the difference between their races, their culture would undoubtedly be different. The Nova Empire was a human civilization with similar building aesthetics to the Crawford Kingdom, or rather the Crawford Kingdom got their building aesthetics from studying the ancient ruins of the Nova Empire. As such Leon could recognize the library briefly, but how was Lilith able to do the same?

”How did you know this is the library?” Leon asked curiously.

”Oh that… I calculated with my fingers.” Lilith said.

Leon froze. ”…”

Lilith: ”…”

There was a brief silence between them.

Leon lowered his head and pinched the bridge of his nose as if he was suffering from emotional distress. After he recovered, he said, ”Let me rephrase. How did you recognize this building as the library?”

Lilith smiled coyly and playfully said, ”I calculated with my—”

A bright ball of flames lit up on Leon's palm as he wore a slightly annoyed expression. Once was enough. Daring to use his own excuse against him twice. The audacity.

”I see. It seems you're quite familiar with human structures. I suppose the beastkins also live in large structured cities?” Leon rubbed his chin.

”Huh!? Of course, we do! We're not savages!” Lilith was riled by Leon's remark, but her lips soon curved into a derisive smile. ”Our building aesthetics don't defer much from each other since we assimilated human knowledge after all. However, if you think this human city is large, then it shows how ignorant you are. The city my Desolate Crow Clan resides in is at least 10 times larger than your human city and our buildings are also much bigger and higher!”

As Lilith said to this point, she puffed her chest out proudly. While humans spread their influence across the lands through several cities and towns, every beast tribes congregate all their forces into one megacity.

”Oh? Why don't you tell me more about your Desolate Crow Clan and the Wildlands?” Leon said with interest. He had only been speaking from the perspective of an ordinary human in the Crawford Kingdom. Only he knew who the truly ignorant one was.

The divine cities of the Divine Realm at a minimum were at least several hundred times larger than the Capital and the population usually numbered in the hundreds of millions. This is only possible because divine practitioners didn't need to eat food to sustain themselves after reaching the Divine Origin Realm. Spirit energy was their sustenance.

”Hmph! Maybe when I feel like it.” Lilith pouted when she didn't get the response she was hoping for. This fella was only interested in Wildlands and didn't care about her claims. Maybe he thought she was just boasting? Lilith did not feel good when she arrived at that conclusion.

”Never mind then. Let's head back.” Leon smiled. He began walking off without waiting for Lilith's reply. At the same time, he tried to digest the influx of runic knowledge in his mind.

”Eh? Don't you have something to say about how I look?” Lilith finally brought up the matter.