"Is this my fanboy?"
"Absolutely."
Andrius and Yu Jin exchanged glances, then Andrius raised a paw, pointing at Dain and saying, "But I clearly heard him curse me."
"Weren't you sleeping?" Yu Jin was greatly surprised. Could it be that the Wolf King didn't need rest?
"That's nonsense, who sleeps during the day besides lazy pigs?" Andrius pointed to the bright Sky and shouted.
"He's just loving you out of hate, don't mind it so much. He really wants to hear about your glorious past experiences!"
"I don't want to." Dain refused decisively. He watched Andrius leap up from the altar below and took a few steps back.
Having just badmouthed someone behind his back, Dain was still a tiny bit flustered.
"Ha…"
The Wolf King yawned, then started talking to himself.
"Back in the day, I fought the God of Storms Decarabian…"
Perhaps it had been too long since he had spoken to anyone, Andrius completely ignored Dain's refusal and just rambled on about his youthful experiences.
During this time, Boreas also popped out to occasionally supplement the history after the Archon War.
Everyone listened with great interest, except for Dain, of course.
His face grew darker, though he still maintained his usual expressionless look.
"So, considering Barbatos was still young at the time, I yielded the Anemo God position to him." Andrius finally recounted his experiences during the Archon War in a jocular manner.
These events were clearer and more vivid than any recorded in books, though their accuracy was another matter.
At least Yu Jin felt that Andrius's abandonment of the Archon War was definitely not for the sake of promoting the virtue of "cherishing the young."
"Are you done talking? If so, we should continue forward and search for traces of the Abyss Herald."
Seeing that Andrius had finally stopped his incessant chatter, Dain didn't want to waste another second.
"What's the rush? Isn't there a fixer here who knows Wolvendom best?" Yu Jin lay on the grass.
To be honest, he was also getting a bit bored, but seeing how enthusiastically Andrius was speaking, he patiently continued to listen.
Dain stopped in his tracks upon hearing this. He looked up at Andrius, whose frost-white fur gleamed in the sunlight.
This old wolf had been in Wolvendom for thousands of years. This land was neither too big nor too small, but over a millennium, even an ordinary person could know it like the back of their hand, let alone the King Wolf of the North Wind.
"Hmph! I knew you weren't listening to my rambling out of good intentions." Andrius showed little surprise. He snorted and then asked:
"Speak, what do you want to ask? I know everything about this land, limited to Wolvendom, of course."
"We want to know the whereabouts of the Abyss Order!" Paimon immediately asked eagerly.
Although the story was good, they couldn't forget about the main task!
"Abyss Order?" Andrius recalled for a moment, "Are you talking about those guys who reek of a nasty aura and spend all day teaching Hilichurls to cause destruction?"
"Yes, those are them!" Lumine nodded.
Andrius fell silent. He closed his eyes, and then a dazzling white light emanated from his body.
After a while, the white light gradually dissipated, and Andrius opened his eyes.
"Besides those staff-wielding, furry-necked guys being chased by my subjects in the jungle, there are no other similar monsters."
"Is that so?" Paimon's tone was a bit disappointed. She turned around and said to Lumine, "It seems our clue is broken again."
"It seems those guys still have some brains." Dain, seeing this, wasn't too surprised.
"Why do you say that?" Lumine felt a bit confused.
"Andrius, the King Wolf of the North Wind. Even the Abyss Herald wouldn't want to provoke such an enemy." Dain felt the powerful aura emanating from Andrius. Even without a physical body, the power contained in his will was enough to freeze the earth.
"Kid, you have good insight, truly my fanboy." Andrius was very pleased and gave Dain an appreciative look.
Yu Jin was also very happy because it was the first time he realized that a wolf, when happy, would wag its tail like a dog.
"Are you thinking something disrespectful?" Andrius looked down at the restless Yu Jin and said cautiously.
"You're overthinking it." Yu Jin scratched his head. Why did he find this conversation so familiar?
"I emphasize again, I have no fondness for anything on the ground."
Dain was very displeased. He paused, seemingly thinking that saying this was too cold, then added another sentence.
"Of course, no ill will either."
"Is there something wrong with this person?"
Andrius leaned close to Yu Jin and whispered. He felt that Dain had an air of someone on the verge of death.
Much like the old wolves in the pack who could no longer walk, indifferent to everything.
"He might have depression, and I'm trying to treat it." Yu Jin retorted. It seemed Dain's claim that he understood Andrius for the sake of his traveling companion was true.
Because when Andrius spoke of his "glorious experiences," Dain's gaze never lingered on Andrius for even a second.
He truly learned those things he had no interest in for the sake of his traveling companion.
"Depression, it seems like a lack of love? Should we put him in the wolf pack? The pack doesn't abandon any member." Andrius offered his treatment plan.
"Forget it, Dain is a human, he won't mix with wolves. That's a terrible idea!" Yu Jin immediately retorted.
"Heh, do you believe that? Don't tell me you can't tell, that guy hasn't been human for a long time." Andrius glanced at the distant Dain and snorted a few times.
Dain's scent was like one-third Hilichurl, one-third Abyss aura, and one-third human aura combined.
If that could be considered human, then Andrius could also say he was human.
"Go back and train your eyes. What's the point of just looking at the outside? You need to look at the soul." Yu Jin pointed to his own eyes, then to Andrius's eyes, and then waved his hand, indicating that Andrius was far behind him.
This made Andrius quite angry. Before, he was always the one showing off to others, but today it was the other way around.
"Dain's soul still belongs to a human, that's beyond doubt." Yu Jin explained.
"Besides, even if he's not human, so what? Aren't you not human either?"
Andrius felt Yu Jin was insulting him, but couldn't find any evidence.
Paimon in the distance saw Yu Jin and Andrius still chatting idly and flew over to call out, "What are you two whispering about? We need to go!"
"Go away, go away, I'm going to sleep." Andrius was even more eager than Paimon, wishing Yu Jin would leave quickly.
"Oh—, I see, so Andrius, you're a pig, not a wolf. Goodbye, I'll keep this secret for you…" Yu Jin sighed, then quickly vanished.
This made Andrius's raised paw have to be put back down resentfully… "How was that? Wasn't it faster than you searching alone?" Yu Jin caught up with Dain. He looked up at the still intensely hot sun and said smugly.
"If you had just asked directly, it would have been even faster." Although Dain's words were sharp, he had to admit in his heart that asking the Wolf King directly was much faster than him foolishly searching alone.
"Isn't this for your own good? Didn't you say you understood the Wolf King's story? Now that I'm helping you understand him better, you're still unhappy." Yu Jin responded casually.
As if the story was the main point, and the traces of the Abyss Herald were secondary.
"That was something I did for my former traveling companion. There's no need for it now."
"There is a need. When you reunite, you can tell him again, more wonderfully, more detailed, better than the first time you traveled!"
Dain's steps suddenly stopped, but after a moment, they quickened, very quickly, extremely quickly.
"Holy crap, are you on steroids, running so fast?!"
Yu Jin watched Dain instantly disappear from view. Without another word, he picked up Lumine and Paimon and chased after him.
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