Dusk was approaching. Tess, having changed into a brand-new maid outfit, leaned against the railing and walked out of a luxurious villa.
Tess's legs trembled uncontrollably, as if she had just experienced an intense training session or a battle, yet her face wore a satisfied flush.
Even with the physical constitution of a Transcendent, which was superior to that of an ordinary person, she had not been able to withstand a nimble hand.
However, her body's recovery ability was still there, and her gait soon returned to normal.
Just occasionally recalling the scene from earlier made her feel incredibly shy, and she only looked forward to the next meeting.
Tess looked back at the villa behind her, staring blankly at an open window on the second floor.
After a long while, Tess tightened her grip on her skirt, lowered her head, and trotted away from Kings Avenue... running in the direction of the Queens District.
If Syl could see the direction she was leaving in, she would definitely be suspicious.
But Syl, at this moment, was still inside the villa, closing all the doors and windows, preparing to experiment with the Dragon Loli's skills.
If possible, she planned to see if she could find an opportunity to parasitize someone.
At this time, Tess gradually transitioned from a brisk run to a light pace. After entering the Queens District, she was surprisingly familiar with the roads.
And her target was... St. Ives Palace, where the palace of the Great Saya Empire was located.
The security here was exceptionally tight. Armed guards could be seen patrolling the outer walls of the entire St. Ives Palace, and there were even a small number of church personnel among the guards.
Those were Transcendents.
But everyone seemed to turn a blind eye to Tess, this "thief," letting her enter the gardens of St. Ives Palace. The guards at the iron gate even opened the gate to let her through, their expressions very respectful.
As soon as Tess stepped into the garden, a figure rushed out from the direction of the palace.
It was a maid.
"Princess Tess! Princess Tess!" the maid shouted breathlessly. By the time she ran to Tess's side, she was too exhausted to stand straight.
"Princess Tess... you didn't go to digest that magic potion again, did you? The Queen will be angry if she finds out..." The maid's voice even carried a hint of a sob. "Where on earth did you go? Ibiza is so dangerous right now. We've checked every orphanage in the city, but we couldn't find you. We were worried to death."
"Hmph, hmph~" Tess just tilted her head and continued to walk toward the palace with her hands behind her back, humming a song.
"This outfit of yours... every time you go out and come back, you're wearing ragged clothes... Why did you change into a maid outfit this time? The Queen will be angry if she sees this..." The maid followed closely behind Tess, chattering away.
"You're going to say it ruins the royal image again, right? Forget about her~" Tess said casually, her face full of indifference. "Anyway, my sister is so capable and good at everything. I'm just a useless person who accidentally drank a magic potion."
"Please don't say that about yourself... Let me take you up to change your clothes. We must do it before Her Majesty the Queen returns..."
The maid led the way in a hurry, completely failing to notice that her Princess's complexion was looking very strange right now.
It was as if she had been reborn. Although she was saying the same depressing things as usual, her expression lacked its typical gloom.
If one had to describe it... it looked like she was in love?
"I need to find someone to investigate who bought that place..." Tess thought to herself while changing her dress back in her room.
Originally, the maid was prepared to take away that maid outfit, just like she handled the ragged clothes Tess brought back from who knows where.
But this time, she was stopped by Tess.
Tess took the maid outfit, folded it neatly, placed it on her bed, and said to the maid: "Leave this here. I'll need to return it later."
At this moment, Tess's mind was already imagining what would happen when she returned the clothes.
"Are you going out again... Princess..." The maid looked helpless, her tone carrying a hint of powerlessness. "As a Princess, you should..."
"I'm not listening!" Like a young girl, Tess threw herself onto the bed and buried her face in the quilt.
"Sigh... Then I'll go tell the head maid that you've returned..." The maid sighed, seemingly accustomed to such things.
After saying this, the maid took her leave.
Left alone in the room, Tess lay on the bed, picked up the maid outfit she had placed beside her, and touched the hem of the skirt.
That was the place the Master had lifted.
Tess lay on the luxurious large bed, hugging this ordinary maid outfit, murmuring with a faint smile:
"Master..."
At dusk, inside the villa at 121 Kings Avenue, a white-haired young girl wearing an ill-fitting long dress was lying on the carpet, supporting herself with both hands, staring intently at something on the carpet.
"System, are you saying that I have to stuff this thing into someone else's body?"
The little girl's soft, milky voice was full of disbelief, and the golden slit pupil in her left eye flickered with surprise.
"In fact, it can crawl into the biological body it wants to parasitize on its own. Entering different organisms will also affect the strength after hatching."
"Simply put, it means that if the parasitized person is different, the hatched dragon will also be a bit different, right? From personality to various abilities."
"Yes, all kinds of factors can affect the final hatching."
"Oh—"
Syl nodded, reached out a small hand, and poked the object on the ground.
It was soft, slippery, and a little disgusting.
It was a tumor about the size of one of Syl's current finger segments, looking much like the tumor in the card before.
It pulsed, secreting creep outwards, and then retracting the creep, like a living thing breathing. This was actually using the creep to search for nutrients that might exist nearby.
"Then, do I just forcibly feed this to someone else later?"
"It can parasitize the person you want to parasitize according to your will; you don't need to do it yourself ^ ^"
"Oh..."
Syl picked up the small tumor on the carpet and casually hid it in her hair.
Although these little things looked a bit terrifying, Syl had no resistance to them; after all, they were her own flesh and blood.
It sounded a bit strange to say it like that, but this was indeed her own flesh and blood; this was a tumor Syl had just split off from her hand.
It was just that every split consumed quite a lot of Syl's energy, otherwise Syl wouldn't have been slumped on the carpet looking at the research.
Standing up shakily, Syl now looked exactly like a wobbly little doll.
There was still some time before nightfall, so Syl decided to use the Dragon Loli's body to look for someone to parasitize.
If she used other cards, she couldn't control this "seed" to parasitize others, so she had no choice but to use the Young Dragon's body.
However, Syl had to find clothes suitable for the Young Dragon to wear in the room before that.