CHAPTER 525: CHAPTER 440 MIREL’S SPECIALTY (4600 WORDS)

"I broke through again."

Zhan Zhouzhou suddenly sent Li Zheng a private message, and upon opening it, Li Zheng saw these five words, and then replied with a long string of "?"

Zhan Zhouzhou said, "Swordsmanship Specialization can advance to Swordsmanship Mastery, and I estimate the next level is Sword Dao Specialization."

At this point, Li Zheng looked at Mirel, his face full of "?"

Could this enchanting demon, who doesn’t seem very old, be a martial arts prodigy?

Li Zheng thought for a moment, then waved to Mirel to come over and asked her, "You are... how old this year?"

Mirel tilted her head, her big eyes blinking innocently, charming Li Zheng to the core.

This little lolita is just too adorable!

She looks like a porcelain doll, with skin fairer than snow and delicate features. She appears only about twelve or thirteen, but her pure, innocent face faintly exudes a hint of naive allure.

Perhaps Mirel wasn’t yet accustomed to this way of conversing where she couldn’t understand but could grasp the general meaning. She tilted her head and was in a daze for a full thirty seconds before responding, "Mother recently hosted my eightieth birthday banquet."

Eight... eighty years old?

Did you say it wrong?

Added a "ten"?

Li Zheng looked skeptically at the little lolita before him, who absolutely deserved the highest degree of death penalty, falling into a stupor: "How do your enchanting demons calculate age?"

"About three hundred and sixty days and nights count as one year." Mirel answered with a soft and tender voice, "From my birth until now, it’s been about twenty-eight thousand and five hundred days and nights, so it’s eighty years, that’s correct."

At this moment, when Li Zheng looked at this "little" enchanting demon again, his perception changed drastically.

Cute?

Cute my ass!

At this age, she could be his grandmother!

What kind of fairy did the Enchanting Demon Queen end up sending?

And after testing the mindset, can you hand her over with peace of mind?

Come on!

You’re overthinking this!

If you just told me her age, and if I could have any improper thoughts about her, you could freely curse me as a brute!

At her age, who’s bullying whom exactly?

"Uh... Grandma Mi, oh no, Mirel." Li Zheng asked awkwardly, "At what age do enchanting demons come of age?"

"Coming of age..." Mirel put a white jade-like finger to her cheek, looking thoughtful, "Mother never mentioned it, but I heard Sister Sylvie mention in private that without any intervention, usually it takes until one hundred and sixty years to hold a coming-of-age ceremony."

One hundred and sixty years to hold a coming-of-age ceremony.

So, an enchanting demon’s ten years is equivalent to one year on Earth?

Damn!

If you count it this way, this guy in front of me is only eight years old?!

This is crazy?!

Fine... from the appearance, it could actually be considered eight, after all, looking like eleven or twelve isn’t much different from eight, as some kids on Earth develop early and look fifteen or sixteen at eight, which is also normal.

But darn it, her real age is eighty years old!

If the Heavenly Mountain Granny knew this, she would cry to death, right?

Also, the way you demons are set is a bit weird!

Didn’t you just say there’s something to interfere with your maturity speed?

Does that mean you could mature an enchanting demon right on the day of birth?

Dang, incredible!

This race is simply tailored to cater to certain special preferences; if there is a creator in the legends of the Abyss Demon Race, he must be a lustful old pervert!

"Alright then..." Li Zheng didn’t want to dwell too much on the age issue but casually asked, "Has the Queen never used the intervention to hasten your maturity?"

"No." Mirel’s demeanor was quite calm, creating a great contrast with her appearance, "Mother said that adult enchanting demons periodically have some undesirable instinctual urges, so she’s been controlling my growth, hoping I can enjoy the growth stage a bit longer."

In Li Zheng’s view, Mirel’s explanation was reasonable.

The Enchanting Demon Queen was undeniably doting on Mirel, unwilling to let her mature too early and suffer the torment of demonic nature.

And as she said, should Mirel be unable to withstand such torment, engaging in deep interactions with certain existences could affect Mirel’s potential power limits.

This is absolutely intolerable for a queen who is determined to cultivate an Enchanting Demon Emperor.

Li Zheng sorted out his thoughts and brought the topic back on track: "I see you’re skilled in long whip weapons, and the skill seems quite advanced, how long have you been learning?"

"You can see it there?" Mirel asked in astonishment, then realized: "Is it the system panel mother talked about? It’s amazing that it can display my abilities, indeed like what mother said."

This puzzled Li Zheng: "What, you don’t have a panel?"

"No." Mirel shook her head and said: "I was born long after mother entered here, and mother said, as long as you are born in the Matrix, there’s no panel or... something like a portable space."

The panel and capsule auxiliary functions are conveniences given by the Terminal to players; beings like Mirel, born in the Matrix, are not players themselves, so the Terminal did not provide them with these things.

Li Zheng thought, the Enchanting Demon Queen and her kind must have tried hunting new players before, attempting to obtain their identities to pass on to their offspring, but they failed.

Living in the Matrix, having system functions and not having system functions are entirely different experiences.