Vampire Princess Guide in Progress - Volume 1 Chapter 72

Chapter 72: Miss Tilia’s Milky Fragrance!

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“What’s wrong, Ruby? You don’t look very happy today.”

In the town at night, Tilia sat as usual on the stool at the Hundred Herbs Pharmacy waiting, looking at the young girl in green cloth clothing who was continuously grinding herbs with a mortar, but her expression seemed somewhat distracted.

Ruby stopped her work and let out a light sigh, “Ah…”

She jumped down from the small stool, took the medicine jar from the counter and came to Tilia’s side, sitting down close beside her, then placed the jar on her lap and continued grinding gently.

“Doesn’t Miss Tilia know about the rumors everyone in town has been discussing lately?”

“Rumors… you mean about the discovery of an unknown colossus monster?”

“Yes. Travelers, or those adventurers called Starforgers, call it something like… a BOSS?” Ruby puckered her pink lips, mimicking the pronunciation of a few syllables. “They say it’s very dangerous.”

BOSS, huh, probably referring to the recent news about player guilds discovering and planning to raid a BOSS.

Tilia hadn’t actively sought out the details, she had only heard people talking about it on the streets, both players and residents alike, apparently because the Iris Knights had released this information.

And naturally, as a resident of the Ice Snow City, Ruby had also heard this news from neighbors and street corners.

“So Ruby feels very uneasy, it sounds really scary.” Ruby sat on the stool with her head drooping, showing a dejected appearance, and the force with which she ground the medicine involuntarily became gentler.

Tilia placed her hand on the little one’s head and said, “The travelers will probably resolve it, no need to worry so much.”

“But, but, I heard that the colossus monster is approaching our town, and if it’s not stopped in time, perhaps the entire town will be destroyed! Then everyone will have nowhere to live.”

“Although Ruby wasn’t originally from this place, ah, not a cat from this place, but I’ve lived here for a long time…”

The little cat girl said softly.

This place could already be considered her second hometown, and she had grown accustomed to the stable and warm life here. If it were destroyed, she wouldn’t know where to go.

She had heard that transportation at the Twilight Post Station was well-developed and information flowed quickly, perhaps she could find a good place to go there.

But she didn’t want to leave here.

Plus, she had her own shop here, how could it just be destroyed?

“Destroyed?” Tilia frowned slightly, she indeed seemed unaware of this claim. “Who said that? Theoretically, the town should… no, wait. A safe zone being threatened with destruction…”

Although it seemed counterintuitive, such things apparently weren’t absolutely impossible.

Because Tilia immediately thought of previous discussions about the in-game “Beast Tide event.” If there were no changes, that content would appear in the third month after the game’s launch, and now it was already the beginning of the second month.

The Beast Tide event would launch an attack on the Pure White Holy City safe zone on the first floor.

If players didn’t defend it, the main city would apparently fall.

Therefore, the fact that safe zone towns could be attacked was logical both in-game and out, in game programming terms, there was a line of code stating that certain specific monsters could invade towns.

“Hmm, hmm… I think they’re called the Iris Knights?”

During Tilia’s contemplation, Ruby finally remembered after thinking for a while.

So it’s the number one guild, then it seems the intelligence isn’t some baseless rumor, they must have obtained some information… it’s like this, so the conquest of this floor actually has a time limit?

Realizing the situation seemed different from what she had imagined.

Tilia immediately opened the game system interface and checked the Iris Knights’ announcement.

“Level 45, 1.2 million HP… will arrive by tomorrow night at the latest.”

Ruby, who was grinding medicine, also secretly peeked out.

She glanced at the World BOSS announcement content on Tilia’s Star Terminal — she could see it too, and every resident had a Star Terminal, though the players’ versions seemed to have more functions.

“So… how is it?”

Ruby couldn’t really understand the content about various matters written on it, and could only look up at Tilia with her big watery eyes.

Tilia closed the Star Terminal, then noticed the little cat girl beside her with a worried expression, eagerly looking at her waiting for an answer. The corners of her mouth squeezed into a gentle smile, and she opened her arms to hold her close.

“Don’t worry, the heroes are already formulating strategies, defeating the evil dragon is just a matter of minutes.”

“Eh, really?” Upon hearing these words, Ruby’s heart was immediately relieved.

But then! She suddenly realized that she was actually being held in an embrace!

That stunningly beautiful Miss Tilia, with her dreamlike elven appearance, angel-like gentleness, and succubus-like sexy figure!

Was h-hugging, hugging her!

Without saying another word, Ruby directly buried her head between Tilia’s two soft breasts and eagerly took several deep breaths!

Miss Tilia’s milky fragrance, hiss-ha hiss-ha… so wonderful.

Big, white, and soft.

Something a cat simply couldn’t resist!

This time, not only did two adorable fluffy triangular cat ears pop out from the top of her head, but her tail also couldn’t hide its happiness as it swayed back and forth under the stool, and then that cat tail tied with a ribbon even wrapped around Tilia in return.

“Ah, hey.” Tilia looked at the little cat girl before her.

Ruby buried her face in the sister’s soft dreamland, having just been worrying about losing everything, now completely with an attitude of having nothing to lose…

“You little perverted cat…” Tilia also helplessly raised her eyebrows, seeing that Ruby’s mood had improved considerably, she allowed her to take advantage of the situation tonight. But, later the price of medicines would be calculated at a 50% discount!

All along the way after leaving the Hundred Herbs Pharmacy.

Tilia indeed heard nothing but talk about the World BOSS. Tomorrow night was the deadline, and the frontline raiding players from the major guilds were probably all busy preparing pre-battle supplies.

The Iris Knights were likely still in the meeting room, frantically developing raiding plans.

But unlike before, this time it wasn’t just players feeling tense; because of the spread of the news, residents of Ice Snow City had also learned of the situation, and everyone’s face showed an anxious expression.

Because no one knew.

Whether they would still be alive tomorrow night, whether their homes would still exist.

“Great Starforger…” At this moment, as Tilia passed by, they secretly gazed at her with trembling eyes, or rather, they were praying and begging the travelers to help them defend the town, to protect their homes.

For players, it was a life-or-death game; for the residents here, it was the home they had lived in for more than a decade.

No longer just data, but people, true to the word…

“Argh! I just started chatting with the cute flower seller, and now it’s the end of the world! Damn it, I will protect my love!” A player with a sword in hand, shouting nonsensical words, rushed towards the guild assembly under the moonlight.