In another world, Lu Mingfei is learning card making.

Chapter 168 is broken. The scheduled release did not have a title set.

"Me?" Emma—the white-haired maid—thought as she placed a chess piece to block Lu Mingfei's three-in-a-row black pieces, "The life I want—"

"That is, to have a big house where all my friends live; a plot of land in front of the house, specifically for planting trees and letting them grow into a forest; and not too far from the house, my farm, where I can grow plants and raise animals, and all our vegetables and meat will be provided free of charge."

"Hmm, isn't it boring?" Emma gave an embarrassed smile and shrank back slightly.

Lu Mingfei nodded slightly, indicating that he understood—in his opinion, these wine-loving maids shouldn't have gotten together at all.

After all, their wishes seem completely unrelated, so even if Lu Mingfei wanted to cultivate Chengdu, he wouldn't know how to do it.

However, a feeling slowly began to surface in Lu Mingfei's heart. It was as if there should naturally be differences among them, and that they should be refining cards in this way, rather than being forced to agree on a single idea.

Once we reach a consensus, we might not be able to forge the items hidden within this tool.

"Why is that? Isn't a unified ideology more powerful?"

After much deliberation, Lu Mingfei decided to wait. Putting everything else aside, there was still one of the five wine fox maids he hadn't asked. It wouldn't be too late to discuss the refinement after clarifying her thoughts.

"Wow, we lost again."

Emma tossed the black chess piece back into the box and simply leaned back on the sofa. She shuffled behind Lu Mingfei, wrapped her arms around his neck, and pressed her body against him—

"Dog Repair Jinsama~"

Lu Mingfei shuddered and took Emma off his body.

Yes, take it down.

Lu Mingfei only recently discovered that all the maids, like the penguin maids, have both chibi and adult forms, but only the penguin maids and the pink-haired maids maintain the chibi form.

Emma's chibi-style form has a slender body like a cat, but judging from her agility and liveliness, Lu Mingfei always felt like he was dealing with a dog—

It's still the kind of dog with extremely high energy levels.

Whether it was just his imagination or not, Lu Mingfei felt that after Emma's body was transformed into a chibi version, her movements and other stats seemed to have decreased significantly, and even her intelligence seemed to have been affected.

The most obvious thing is that her processor seems to have become single-threaded: one hand holds her forehead, and the other hand pinches her leg, and she can't react. She can only let Lu Mingfei knead her in his palm.

"Why do I feel like I've really gotten dumber? You little idiot?"

Lu Mingfei released her, and Emma twisted her body, swaying and gradually taming her limbs, before darting away like an arrow.

Fearing that she might do something like "jumping into a pot of boiling water" in this state, Lu Mingfei followed closely behind her, running left and right, engaging in a chase within the villa.

—Until she ran into a room.

"Hmm...the Wine Fox's room?"

Lu Mingfei prepared rooms for each magical elf who wanted to remain on Earth for an extended period of time, and even though there weren't enough land cards to sustain their presence for long periods, he didn't repurpose these rooms.

Anyway, the villa has enough space that it's fine to leave a few rooms empty.

He knocked on the door and went inside, where he saw Jiu Hu hunched over his writing. His large, supple fox tail swayed naturally behind him, a testament to his owner's excellent mood.

Lu Mingfei quietly walked up behind her and looked down at the paper—

The paper depicts a complex of buildings resembling an altar: six massive pillars constructed of solid wood, the sturdy trees firmly rooted in the earth, displaying an imposing presence that withstands wind and rain.

Before these pillars stood a gate resembling a torii gate, typical of Shinto shrines. Torii gates have always been seen as the dividing line between the human world and the divine, and only now did Lu Mingfei understand why this was the case:

The torii gate seems to draw an invisible line, separating the pillars from the outside world. The pillars inside are clean and sacred, untouched by any worldly defilement.

"What is this?"

Lu Mingfei asked the question quietly.

"This is a shrine, a place for rituals." The maid gently rubbed her wrist and held the painting up. "It can be used to make things for us maids—of course, if you want to use it, that's fine too."

"----ah?"

Before even crafting your own unique land card, you're already thinking about how to improve it?

Are you the Planeswalker or am I? How can I be outdone by a maid even in our professional field?

————Okay, that's all, but Lu Mingfei wouldn't doubt himself because of this.

Ultimately, it wasn't that he didn't want to plan how to improve the cards before crafting them, but he was just a Planeswalker, not the cards themselves, and couldn't possibly create a training plan based on the characteristics of each card.

"It's a special kind of sacrificial altar." The wine fox maid's expression grew even more serious as she pointed at the screen and began to explain earnestly: "The runic array in the center is responsible for providing communication to the recipient; the surrounding pillars are used to hold the offerings, and then the person performing the ritual provides power to combine them into an ornament that can provide special bonuses—"

"Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be jewelry; it could be other things that provide a boost. For example, a maid's bed, a computer,..."

Something like an electronic keyboard.

"Why does a maid's bed provide a bonus?" Lu Mingfei immediately complained.

"Of course, it's because a good night's sleep means I can work harder!" The wine-loving maid winked playfully. "Is there anything else, Master?"

"There's a question that only you haven't been asked, so I'll ask it." Lu Mingfei straightened his posture, his eyes serious: "What kind of world do you want to live in? What kind of things do you want to happen around you?"

"What kind of world?" The wine fox maid looked at Lu Mingfei's serious face and couldn't help but smile. "Any world is fine, Master."

"As long as you're here, no matter what kind of world it is, Wine Fox will accompany you through it all, whether it's a desolate wilderness with no one around, a modern world with skyscrapers, or a post-apocalyptic wasteland."

"As long as you call, the Wine Fox will appear by your side and follow you."

Lu Mingfei's face immediately flushed red. He subconsciously slapped Jiu Hu's hand on the back of his hand, grabbed her palm, and began to rub it: "Why are you being so mushy—"

Emma, ​​watching this scene, couldn't help but wag her tail.

Even though she's called "Little Silly Dog," it doesn't mean she actually wants to eat dog food (a slang term for witnessing romantic relationships).

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