I transformed into a demonic spider lily.

The first two shameless guys who gave away their lives naturally only received two gray tickets, as did Granny Blazing Fire and Granny Netherfire. The problem arose when Granny Warfire, who was killed by Kikyo, dropped a "mysterious talisman".

In other words, this is a blue ticket.

Kikyo helped her with the injection.

"That guy's lucky?"

Higanbana glanced at the pond beside her. She should have a pale face like Kikyo, so why didn't she get any blue tickets after playing so many SRs?

In short, let's draw cards first.

First, there are four gray tickets...

[N-level Turquoise Wall*1, N-level Blue Tengu*1, N-level Yellow Tengu*1, N-level Red Tongue*1]

This is truly a hodgepodge of dog food!

Then let's talk about that blue ticket.

[R-rated virgin boy *1]

Sure enough, she knew it.

Free blue tickets are destined to be of low quality.

Higanbana didn't show too much disappointment. After all, it doesn't matter who draws cards. How can you draw your favorite SSR without spending hundreds or thousands of blue tickets?

Even if it's an SR, it will cost at least ten blue tickets.

The only thing that interested her was that Tu Bi card. She would go back today and ask Tu Bi if he had his eye on any stone wall with high rock value, so she could get him a companion.

So, Higanbana closed the gacha interface and opened [Equipment]. She still had some gold coins left, and since she couldn't enhance her Souls for the time being due to insufficient Jade, she might as well buy some equipment. Luckily, she had already seen a suitable one.

[Spirit Umbrella (Intermediate): Increases defense by 80%. Defense of B rank and above does not benefit from this boost. Upgrading to the next star level requires 20 gold and 80 jade.]

That's right, it's a protective gear that enhances defense, but the Spider Lily wants to use it as a magic tool. After all, no one has stipulated that protective gear can't be used for attack. As a monster, you need to broaden your thinking and not look at things with outdated ideas.

Having seen the precedent of "Coral Beads," Higanbana believed that these equipment only differed in their attribute bonuses. Even if she were given a suit of armor, she could easily kill a monster because the armor was tough enough, though it did somewhat damage her image.

Moreover, there's nothing wrong with using protective gear as a magic weapon. It makes you both tanky and capable of dealing damage, and vice versa. It's a perfect balance of offense and defense.

Price: 24000 Gold Coins

A rustling sound seemed to reach her ears, and the number of gold coins instantly decreased. The other shore flower glanced at the oil-paper umbrella in her hand again.

The vines wrapped around her wrist and the umbrella ribs, and the whole thing was changing at a visible speed, completely overturning its original sense of antiquity. If it weren't for the bellflower pattern engraved on the bottom of the umbrella handle, Higanbana would hardly have recognized that this was an "antique" taken from the bellflower's house.

The [equipment] within the system can not only be redeemed immediately, but can also be attached to similar items, though this is limited to equipment below the intermediate level. However, considering that high-level equipment is upgraded from intermediate equipment, this means that Higanbana has the ability to transform an ordinary sword into Mikazuki or Ōdenta. As for the shape...

Anyway, it definitely has all the functions.

No matter how outlandish its shape is, it doesn't matter.

After all, the prerequisites are also "similar".

Sensing the increasing demonic power within the oil-paper umbrella, the Spider Lily couldn't resist using it to test the umbrella's limits.

So, the spider lily raised its umbrella, pointing the tip towards a patch of blue sky, and continuously poured its demonic power into it. It quickly surpassed its original limit and continued to rise until it reached 25% of its maximum demonic power limit, at which point the pouring of demonic power stopped.

This is the limit.

The reason it's stuck at this limit isn't because of the "Spirit Umbrella's" ability to withstand it, but because the Spider Lily itself can't control that much demonic power.

Without a medium, she could control up to 10%, but with blood as a medium, it was 50%. The current 25% was neither high nor low, but she was still quite satisfied. So she held back the demonic power she was about to unleash.

That's right, I held it in.

If it were the previous "antique umbrella," it certainly wouldn't have been able to withstand the torment of the spider lily, but this "spiritual umbrella" can be manipulated by her at will.

In fact, the attack launched with this umbrella is completely different from the "Red Flower" magic bullet; it's a beam of light, and this skill should be given a new name.

"Sorcery Cannon?" That was the first thing that came to mind for Higanbana.

However, it was rejected because the name felt particularly lame. After thinking it over, since her weapons were all learned from the Flower Tyrant, it would be better to call the skill "Magic Cannon". After all, I can't stand the pain of naming things.

After all this, the other shore flower used these trivial matters to pass the time for an entire afternoon, until a fiery cloud drifted across the sky. The sunset scenery was indeed beautiful, but she hadn't come here for a vacation at all!

After waiting for a long time without the NPC arriving, Biyanhua simply opened the envelope and read the "quest introduction" again. The letter said that some villagers saw will-o'-the-wisps in the forest at night. What kind of help was needed for such a trivial matter?

...Although the number of will-o'-the-wisps exceeded one hundred.

Those must be a group of monsters.

The woods were probably where she had spent half the day. The spider lily looked around but couldn't find a trace of the demon, so she simply got up and went to find them herself.

Chapter Forty-Seven: The Fox Demon Clan

Night fell, and all was quiet.

The spider lily circled most of the forest but couldn't find a trace of demonic energy. If this happened near a human village, it wouldn't be so bad, but this was a forest! Demons are almost as common as beasts in the wild, they just don't usually come out. It's absurd that there wasn't even a shadow of one here.

call--!

Helpless, the Red Spider Lily sighed, and a strange, demonic wind blew around her, sweeping in all directions. The pressure contained within was enough to make the hidden monsters reveal their weaknesses.

When the red spider lily no longer concealed its demonic power, the surrounding birds were immediately frightened and took flight. The beasts within a radius of a thousand meters were also horrified and ran away in a panic, driven by their instinctive fear.

In an instant, the forest descended into chaos. Amidst the chaos, the Red Spider Lily sensed a trace of demonic power flowing beneath her feet. She lightly touched the ground with her toes, and the demonic power flowed downwards. Her figure leaped backward, and the ground beneath her feet instantly splattered into a crater due to the effect of the demonic power.

It seemed as if it had withstood a tremendous impact.

With a loud "whoosh," several monstrous creatures were thrown out of the pit and fled in a hurry to the other side without looking back, fearing that if they fell behind, they would be killed by the spider lily.

"boring……"

With her umbrella raised, Higanbana draped the handle over her shoulder, ignoring the monsters. Instead, she prepared to go back and complain to Kikyo about what had happened that day. She felt she had wasted so much time for no reason and was determined to get something out of Kikyo.

Just as the other shore flower turned around, a bright light flashed in her vision. So she turned her head and looked again. If it were an ordinary fire, she would have just thought it was the light of a human village. But the problem was the color of the flame. Why did it look so green?

Isn't that clearly a will-o'-the-wisp?

And it wasn't just a little bit, but a whole area, and the number kept climbing, from the initial two digits to three digits. The other shore flower couldn't help but look at the information in the letter.

Hey, we've found our target.

……

"Quick! Stop packing! Let's get out of here! A powerful demon has entered the forest. If we don't leave now, she'll kill us!"

Deep in the dense forest, a brown fox was leaping and urging someone to hurry up in front of the cave, with three eerie green flames floating beside it. These were foxfires, a skill that fox demons are born with, indicating that the fox demons themselves possessed some power.

In front of the cave, a group of fox demons were also in a panic. Although their demonic power was not strong, they had already gained intelligence. Each fox demon had at least a wisp of foxfire beside them, and it was these foxfires that attracted the attention of the other shore flower.

The fox demon chieftain, who was directing the other fox demons, suddenly felt rain falling from the sky, but the touch was not cool. So he raised the foxfire slightly upwards and squinted his eyes, but the next second his eyes widened involuntarily.

What kind of rain is this? It's clearly a sky full of petals swirling in the wind! A figure gradually descended from above, right in the center of the group of fox demons.

"You, you are..."

The fox demon chieftain's expression instantly turned to horror. The opponent's powerful demonic energy pressed down on it so much that it dared not and could not move at all. Even the words that were on the tip of its tongue were stuck in its throat and could not be uttered.

The crimson pupils swept around, and no fox demon dared to make a move. Even their breathing was cautious, for fear of being noticed by the spider lily. However, they all had one thing in common: they were filled with fear.

The red spider lily did not act immediately after falling, because she sensed something was wrong. The group of fox demons in front of her was too weak. They looked like a clan, but they were almost all low-level monsters.

There were probably seventy or eighty of them, of which one-seventh were young fox demons. Given their fighting strength, it was impossible for them to cause any trouble.

So the other shore flower decided to question a fox spirit. The first one was the fox closest to her, who looked a bit small and had a pitiful expression...

Forget it, this fox is still young, so she won't scare it. The other shore flower planned to find the strongest one among them, and then noticed the only fox demon that had spoken earlier.

Real Name: Three-Tailed Fox (R)

[Level: 13]

Oh, it's a three-tailed one.

Only then did the other fox demon notice its tails. It had two more tails than other fox demons. Although its strength was still weak, it was the only R-rank demon here.

"...I'm asking you, can you transform into human form?"

Standing before the fox demon, the other shore flower asked.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

The three-tailed fox nodded hurriedly, and then with a "bang," it transformed into a middle-aged woman with a fairly charming appearance, as well as fox ears and a fox tail. Clearly, its transformation technique was still not up to par.

"very good……"

Seeing this, the other shore flower couldn't help but chuckle. The reason she made the other person take human form was not for any special reason. It was just that she had a habit of choking the other person before asking questions.

This makes asking questions easier.

—Peng!

She stretched out a hand, which the three-tailed fox could clearly see, but she was powerless to resist. She was directly pressed to the ground by the flower of the underworld, and could only show a look of terror. The surrounding fox demons wanted to step forward, but they were all intimidated by her gaze.

"I'm asking you, what are you doing?"

The other shore flower asked a very simple question.

"We just want to relocate."

In short, it means moving.

"...Why? This place is quite nice, isn't it? I feel it's very peaceful. I haven't seen many monsters on my way here and there, except for you guys."

The red spider lily feels strange.

"No, no, no, we'll leave right away, please spare us!"

The three-tailed fox thought that the meaning of the spider lilies was that everything here was fine, except that they seemed superfluous, and it would be better if they could also disappear.

"Who let you leave?"

"!!!"

Are we going to kill them all?

The three-tailed fox was terrified.

"Why did you migrate? To be honest, I've always found it strange that you're the only ones left in this forest. There must have been other monsters here before."

Although there are few monsters in this forest, the Red Spider Lily discovered many traces left by monsters, indicating that this place was indeed a place of monster calamity before she arrived.

At least it's a place that can cause demonic calamity.