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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 searching desperately for the token, and it won’t be long before we can enter the Royal City directly."

Hearing the good news, Eli did not seem very pleased.

"Unfortunately, we still have to rely on her power in the end. Indeed, those with high charm really get all the advantages," Eli sighed. "If I had started with an A-grade charm like her, I wouldn’t have had to resort to fighting and killing."

"High charm values are indeed very convenient," the teammate remarked. "I’ve seen those high-charm players’ Perfect Pass processes... it’s basically a record of clinging to coattails all the way through. But that doesn’t matter. Even without Su Ming’an’s help, a few of us were ready to forcefully make our way into the Royal City—the Maritime Banquet doesn’t matter at all. As long as we kill the final winning team of the Maritime Banquet, or simply overthrow the entire Pulaya Royal Family, who can stop us from ascending to the Royal City? Uh... I think the only real trouble is that SS-grade Soul Hunt, that’s a serious problem."

Eli laughed, a hint of smugness in his laugh.

That was the difference between ordinary and high-end players.

Ordinary players went through painstaking research of the rules, participated in competitions, fought tooth and nail, but the high-end players could think from a different perspective, trying to tackle the problem directly from its source.

Like those with high charm or who possessed special clues, they could entirely infiltrate key clue points through their relationships with NPCs, such as the Royal City, and directly push their Exploration Degree forward, since Perfect Completion was not necessarily about winning at the Maritime Banquet.

"That’s good then," Eli said, straightening his clothes. "My Exploration Degree has already reached 75%, and I believe that after entering the Royal City, I will be able to gain some useful help."

"—Of course, Su Ming’an has been raising favorability fast. She also undertook quite a lot of side missions from the Royal City. This operation will surely reap great rewards..." the teammate said with a chuckle.

"Ding-dong!"

Out of the blue, a system notification sounded.

All players still struggling for survival in their strongholds heard the following system broadcast.

[Attention, all players.]

[Major changes have occurred in the Pulaya storyline.]

"..." Eli’s eyes widened slightly.

Listening to the system voice by his ear, the elegant smile at the corner of his mouth began to fade gradually.

[All Perfect Completion progress related to the "Royal Family" has been reset. Players aiming to play out a complete ending must seek new storyline routes.]

[All Perfect Completion progress related to the Royal Treasury and laboratories has disappeared.]

[NPC (Princess Tulip) all favorability reset to zero.]

[NPC (Black Pike) all favorability reset to zero.]

[The organizer of "Maritime Banquet" has been changed.]

[The ownership of the "Pulaya Royal Family" has been changed.]

[—To pursue the related Perfect Pass, please proceed to the Pulaya Royal Family and seek the current King of Pulaya: Su Rin (Player Su Ming’an) to receive new tasks.]

[If the King chooses not to issue a quest, all completion routes related to the royal family automatically fail.]

...

"..." The teammate’s originally happy expression gradually stiffened:

"I was wrong," he said, "this is the correct way to use a high-charm player... What do we do, Eli, do we go and beg Su Ming’an to give us a quest?"

"Idiot!" Eli’s elegant demeanor vanished instantly, "We are competitors, and that guy who only cares about a perfect pass... How could he possibly help us push the perfect completion progress! Are you planning to serve yourself up to him on a platter?"

"Then, what do we do..."

Eli paced in circles on the spot.

On the ground, the decapitated head set up by the maid stared straight at him; in frustration, he stomped on it and it splattered open like a watermelon, brain and blood splashing everywhere.

An immaculate white envelope suddenly shot in from outside the window and landed in his hands.

Eli tore it open and the voice letter inside began to play a message.

"That person has already taken control of the situation, Eli," the voice sounded somewhat deep, and Eli immediately recognized it as that despicable guy.

The leader of those Skull guys, Augustus.

He couldn’t deny that even though Augustus was a criminal who should be locked up on Demon Island for fifty years for heinous crimes, as the head of the criminals’ guild in the current world, he oozed a charismatic persona.

Augustus and his gang of prison escapees were all experts at looting and devastating destruction. Their pursuit of chaos and evil attracted like-minded individuals, and on the morally bankrupt world forum, this group even garnered quite a few blind followers.

Clutching the paper in his hand, he felt as though he could see the crew-cut brute grinning rudely at him with a wide mouth.

"I know what you’re searching for, and I’m aware of your strategy progress. Now, that guy has truly taken control of the Royal City, all Soul Hunt obey him, and if this continues, we, the players who chose the Occupation Group, will have no chance to turn the tables," the voice of Augustus seemed to waft from the paper, carrying a laugh that suggested an attempt to control the entire game, "—Come to the Southern District docks, Eli. I need the strength of your Black Card organization; you are the finest assassins in Italy. And here, we already have a stronghold that cannot be taken. If you don’t want to be hounded to death by the oncoming Royal City Knights and Soul Hunt, then join my team. We have the capability to stand against that guy..."

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".

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