novellk Chapter 375 - 372 -
Chapter 375 - 372 -
Chapter 375: Chapter 372 - "Do I look good now?"Swoosh."
Eli withdrew the noble sword in his hand, and the maid in front of him collapsed to the ground, blood spurting out.
Her body writhed like worms, and then quickly rotted into a puddle of sludge.
A pristine white envelope floated in through the window and landed in the hands of a teammate behind him.
This was a special prop between players; when the night team channel was closed, they could communicate through this hardcore method akin to carrier pigeons, promptly getting information from their teammates.
After reading the letter, the teammate became excited.
"Eli," the teammate said with a smile, "I have good news for you. Su Ming’an has already infiltrated the Royal Guard and met the Princess yesterday. She has brought the Princess’s favorability score up to forty. It seems we won’t have to keep
With a crisp sound.
Eli threw the letter to the ground with force.
"To think that I would stoop to the level of you motherless scum, dream on," he stepped on the letter, leaving a distinct footprint, "To think of turning the tides in this situation, if you lot want to die, go ahead, but I have no desire to die. If you want to directly confront that guy, go ahead and get yourselves killed."
He turned around and hurriedly headed downstairs with his sword in hand.
"Let’s go," he called out to his teammate, "call Bonnie, we’re taking a ship and leaving."
"Where to?"
"Anywhere is fine, the sea, other islands, it doesn’t matter where, just that we can’t stay in Pulaya," Eli’s eyes held a hint of unwillingness, "That mad Number One Player actually managed to seize the throne, God knows what the principle of equivalence will bring to this wretched island. Now that the situation is settled, I refuse to become cannon fodder."
"But Eli, I’m quite interested in what Augustus mentioned about the Southern District docks."
"There’s no need to worry about it, that lot is probably up to no good again, and those casual players too scared to fight always end up as their fodder..."
...
The blood-red Memory Stone flickered incessantly in Su Ming’an’s hand.
The heavy crown had been cast aside, and the Princess had already been handed over to Archilev for protection.
He was now in the Princess’s former room, where walls were adorned with a series of European oil paintings each depicting different landscapes.
His gaze lingered for a moment on the painting of the white dove of the Church on the wall, and then he looked at the Memory Stone in his hand.
After ascending to the throne, a Memory Stone appeared in his hand.
But it was special, the description of this Memory Stone differed from the previous ones.
Its name was the "Su Rin" Memory Stone.
Quotation marks were added above the name Su Rin, indicating a particular significance.
Therefore, based on the current information, it was likely that "Su Rin" might not refer to just one person.
Like the princess, they were inherited across generations.
After all, both Su Rin and the princess possessed the souls of sea monsters.
...
[He grievously wounded me and tore away half of the map from my hands.]
[I am unwilling to carry such a heavy burden anymore... It has nearly crushed me. I can no longer clearly distinguish whether I am the former Miguel or the current ’Su Rin’.]
[Let that youngster who claims to be Kaya and who killed me, become the next ’Su Rin’.]
...
This was the last will Su Ming’an had seen at the time.
It was quite clear from this last will that when a "Su Rin" died, the person who killed him could become the next "Su Rin".
The one named "Kaya" killed the previous Su Rin and seized the half map he had; he then gradually became Su Rin.
And as the bearer of the other half of the map, it was apparent that I was the "Kaya" mentioned by that corpse.
... Who was also the true husband of Gerald.
The husband who had ascended to Yun Shang City thirty years ago in her narrative, and the one who she said "didn’t have to wait for anymore".
If the princess could transfer souls, then Su Rin, who also possessed the soul of a sea monster, could naturally do the same.
But the principle behind this, who Miguel was, and the specific methods of implementation were still unclear to him; perhaps the Memory Stone in his hand would provide some answers.
This would be the final puzzle that he could not comprehend.
However, the Memory Stone presently drifted with the message [After the fourth level of the "Demon King and Brave" stage ends, this Memory Stone can be viewed], preventing him from accessing the memory for now.
As he pondered, a young woman’s voice floated over.
"— Rin, look, do I look good now?"
Flaming red hair fluttered at the threshold of the inner room’s door, like flowing fire dancing in the wind.
The girl peeked out her head.
Pale light spilled over her face, that originally wrinkled visage now exceptionally fair, and her lively eyes blinked, shaking off the gleams that hung off her curly lashes.
The pearl, said to restore youthful beauty and retrieved by Su Ming’an from the Treasury, had been ground into a powder and applied to her face like a whitening cream.
In this loop, Nailuo was still precisely transmitted to his side at just past four in the morning.
It seemed that the princess’s ruthlessly private laboratory had many more locations, and he was sending the Royal City Knights to find these labs and rescue the people inside.
After Nailuo’s arrival, Su Ming’an traded the pearl from the Treasury for the Purple Grade epic pocket watch in her possession, making a very beneficial deal.
"You look good," Su Ming’an replied nonchalantly.
He was rapidly browsing through the messages in the channel chat.
There seemed to be trouble at the Southern District dock. He knew that the Skull Guild bunch would attack there around four in the morning today, information from a prior loop. But this loop, he needed to prioritize controlling the Royal City and really couldn’t spare any attention for that place.
This bunch of criminal Players were merely making a desperate struggle.
Even if they took over the Southern District dock, they would gain nothing more than a boat and a temporary refuge, insignificant compared to the threat posed by the princess in the Royal City.
The people around Su Ming’an at the moment: Archilev was in charge of watching over the Princess and Pope, Black Pike followed them warily. With an explosive pendant around the princess’s neck, he wasn’t worried she’d do anything unexpected.
Sevya, Shadow, and Qi Ya kept guard over Lin Yin and the rest, responsible for protecting the occupied strongholds.
The maids in the Royal City who looked exactly like the princess were confined together, and Noel was in charge of guarding these maids, driving away any Players who dared to come to the Royal City seeking trouble.
With the Maritime Banquet underway, the ministers of Pulaya had fled to seek refuge, leaving him with no one available at his side, and he, the King, seemed somewhat lonely.
Now that he had obtained the throne, he found some leisure time to deal with the group at the Southern District dock.
He got up, opened the door, and was just about to leave when he suddenly noticed someone standing in the corridor.
A tall Knight of Light, without his sword, stood in the corridor.
His golden hair gleamed in the sunlight, yet his expression contained a trace of worry.
The visitor was Sherrod, a knight who had traveled with Su Ming’an for a long time.
After two friendly exchanges over barbecues, the man’s favorability had been leveled up to 75 by him. Su Ming’an had thought that with the revelation of his identity, this favorability would plummet, but surprisingly, the knight’s demeanor appeared unchanged.
Thinking about it, if this knight had been blinded by the hatred between the two clans, Sherrod wouldn’t have protected Gerald, a member of the Soul Clan, or risked trying to send her out.
Upon seeing Su Ming’an emerge, Sherrod hesitated for a moment.
His lower leg slightly bent, as if he wanted to kneel, yet seemingly restrained by the bottom line in his heart, he didn’t take the action.
Su Ming’an didn’t know what this man, who came from the Church, would think after seeing the Pope confined by him.
But all that wasn’t important.
He simply brushed past Sherrod.
Just then, he received a prompt, at the Southern District dock, a player named "Gao De" had pushed the Exploration Degree to 80%. He had to kill this person; it was his exclusive victory condition for the Maritime Banquet.
And in the moment Su Ming’an and Sherrod passed by each other.
"Trouble at the Southern District dock."
Sherrod’s voice came through.
"... Your Majesty, may I request a favor of you?"
He called him "Your Majesty".
Not the previous "Captain".