After confirming the list, Su An'an happily munched on five strawberry-flavored nutrition bars.
Paired with a Blood Frenzy Pill, it was double the nutrition.
"This pill is pretty good."
Su An'an took one Blood Frenzy Pill a day. Her Spiritual Power Tentacles lost one point of energy every two days, so by Saturday, she should still have 96% charge.
Totally enough!
[Princess, you can only increase the Level of your Spiritual Power Tentacles by having more intimate contact with your Beast Husbands.]
"I want to pet the Big Cat to recharge too!"
Su An'an sighed.
"But the Big Cat won't come back. What can I do?"
'As for the cold fish and the psycho snake, I'll just avoid them. Recharging from them is too risky.'
[You can exercise your rights as their Female Master.]
[Order them to return and fulfill their duties as Beast Husbands.]
Imperial law stipulated that Beast Husbands must prioritize the needs of their Female Master.
As long as the Princess desired it, it didn't matter if they were on the battlefield or in a sickbed.
Even if they only had half a life left, they had to lie down and obediently... wiggle.
"Forget it. A forced melon isn't sweet."
Su An'an didn't want to go down the original owner's old path.
She had finally managed to ease the tension with Ying Jiuyao and Lan Cangming.
She had to maintain this advantage.
[A forced melon may not be sweet...]
[...but the process of forcing it is so satisfying!]
"Are you a devil? Where did you learn that meme?"
Su An'an asked, puzzled.
Little Pink displayed a smiley face.
"Stop chatting. Let's continue testing the properties of the Frenzy Pill."
Su An'an shoved the green vine into her smart-brain.
"This pill is more nourishing than motherwort. The side effects section says 'painless frenzy,' but I couldn't even get a single hair to stand on end."
[Activating Pill Transformation Story!]
Little Pink's Light Screen simulated one hundred Beastmen, who acted as 'Test Drug White Mice'. After swallowing the pill, their pupils all exploded in red.
"So the core of a Frenzied Beast is magma red!"
Su An'an pointed at the red-eye effect on the Light Screen and ordered the green vine, "Big Mouth Whiskers! Simulate the red-eye effect! Let's make this Blood Frenzy Pill pop!"
Big Mouth Whiskers furiously consumed three bars of energy and quickly refined five hundred scarlet, special Blood Frenzy Pills.
Su An'an tried one tablet.
Whoa! Her scalp was incredibly itchy.
It felt like a weird brain was about to sprout out.
[Detecting the Princess's Frenzy Value has surpassed ninety. One more tablet and you will experience the effects of frenzy.]
"No need to try. As long as it works, it's fine."
Su An'an scratched her scalp hard and instructed:
"Send six tablets to Noland. After the live broadcast of the successful soothing, give them to those three."
[Yes.]
Little Pink directed the steward robot to pack the tablets. Seeing Su An'an scratching nonstop, it asked with concern:
[Are you all right?]
"I'm fine, much better now."
Su An'an checked the time. The frenzy effect lasted for about three minutes.
For combat-type Beastmen, three minutes was enough time to overturn a battlefield.
「Mermaid Fleet, Medical Bay.」
The surface of the medicinal treatment pool shimmered with a faint blue light, and the air was filled with a light, herbal fragrance.
A sudden BEEP BEEP shattered the silence.
Lei Ya, soaking in the treatment pool, glanced down at his smart-brain.
The next second, eight brown tentacles exploded from under his arms, punching straight through the ceiling.
"I got picked! I got picked!"
He waved his tentacles in a frenzy of joy, and the entire medical bay was instantly wrecked.
Instruments toppled, medicine bottles shattered, and even the ceiling began to crumble, showering dust.
"Emergency call! Lei Ya's frenzy is out of control!"
The dolphin Medical Officer, Kula, paled and slammed the red alarm bell.
CRACK!
Frost spread from the doorway, freezing the entire treatment pool into a mirror of ice.
Lan Cangming walked in slowly, his tall, slender figure as perfect as an ice sculpture.
His silver-blue hair fell to his shoulders, and his cold, fair skin was almost transparent under the light. His blue-green eyes were more captivating than the coldest abyss in the deep sea.
"Marshal!" Kula said anxiously. "Lei Ya suddenly went into a frenzy! The potion is ineffective on him. I'm afraid the only option is to send him to the Mad Beast Institute!"
"I'm not mad!"
Trapped in the ice, Lei Ya struggled to lift his smart-brain. "I just won a spot in the [Beastman Soothing] live stream!"
Kula's eyes widened. "How is that possible? They're all low-Level females there. How could they possibly soothe an A Level male beast with severe drug poisoning?"
Lei Ya's tentacles twitched within the ice as he struggled to shove his smart-brain's screen in Kula's face. "They even sent the contract! See for yourself!"
Lan Cangming's gaze shifted, and the frost silently melted away.
He lowered his eyes to scan the contract, and a faint flicker of emotion passed through his ice-blue eyes.
"Are you sure this kind of soothing will be effective?"
Lei Ya had just thawed from his ice sculpture state. His eight tentacles were still dripping wet, but he was already waving them excitedly.
"Absolutely! I used my ancestral tortoise shell for a divination. It's a sign of great fortune!"
Lan Cangming glanced down and saw the words [Manufactured in Interstellar Year 2025] engraved on the inside of the tortoise shell. A flicker of speechlessness passed through his ice-blue eyes.
"One week of leave."
He turned, Ice Crystals forming where his military boots stepped. "If you don't succeed, you're going to the Mad Beast Institute."
But Lei Ya suddenly leaned in close, lowering his voice conspiratorially.
"Marshal, I did a divination for you and the Princess, too. 'A harmonious union between male and female, a sign of great fortune!'"
"Aren't you really going to go back and see her? She must really need you right now!"
BANG!
Lei Ya was instantly frozen back into an ice sculpture, with only his eyeballs still able to move.
Lan Cangming stood before the ice sculpture, his long fingers slowly adjusting his white gloves. His handsome, godlike face showed no trace of emotion.
But if one looked closely, they would see his ice-blue pupils constrict slightly.
'That female who bought Forbidden Medicine needs me?'
'Hah, ridiculous!'
"Marshal, as an F Level female, the Princess must have paid a great price to successfully soothe you."
"You should take this opportunity to repay her properly."
"Strive to claim the title of number one Beast Husband."
Lei Ya persuaded him with a pained heart.
"The Snake Clan is famous for being cold-blooded and merciless."
"They've topped the list of the most unpopular Beast Husbands for years."
"You absolutely must not be influenced by Executor Night Abyss."
"He's twisted himself, and he doesn't want to see you happy either."
"Shut up! Get lost!"
Lan Cangming mercilessly kicked Lei Ya out of the Mermaid Fleet.
As he turned, his silver-blue hair cut a cold arc behind him. As the hem of his military uniform swept across the floor, Ice Crystals bloomed silently.
Kula followed beside him, not daring to breathe, and was about to sneak away with his head lowered.
Lan Cangming stood before a porthole, a faint blue frost gathering on the hem of his uniform.
His long fingers tapped lightly on the control console, and Ice Crystals spread silently with his movements.
"Inform Ying Jiuyao about Su An'an's fine."
He paused, his ice-blue pupils flickering. "Also, convert all my Contribution Points to Gold Coins and deposit them into the Beast Husband account!"
'Consider it payment for that foolish female's medical expenses for soothing me!'
Kula's eyes widened. He turned and immediately sent a message to Lei Ya.
[Earth-shattering gossip! The Marshal is going to give the Princess money!]
[Looks like the Marshal isn't so heartless toward the Princess after all.]
「Mermaid Fleet, Recreation Area.」
Lan Cangming leaned against an Ice Crystal chair, his long fingers toying with a crystal glass. The Coral Dew within shimmered with a faint blue glow.
His silver-blue hair fell to his shoulders, shimmering with a cold luster under the light.
Until the sweet, cloying scent of cream wafted by.
His fingertips paused. The scene from that night suddenly appeared in his mind.
The young woman's cheeks had an alluring flush, more delectable than the freshest cream.
The bead of her lip was as full as a ripe cherry, as if silently inviting one to have a taste…
CRACK!
The crystal glass shattered into a powder of Ice Crystals in his palm.
'I must stay away from that temptress, Su An'an!'
'But why, just from remembering her scent, did his ear-fins burn as if scorched by the sun?'
'Worse, he was actually seriously considering whether he should have another taste of that night's "cream."'