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Chapter 36 – The grudge between the two girls



Thus, Liu Yue sighed slightly and said, “Liu Lei, I knew you would ask me, I should have told you ages ago, but you have been really down, and you’d only answer me with a sentence after every three I say to you. What’s worse is that the sentence you answer with would be asking me what I said before, that’s why I didn’t really find it right to say anything. Since you asked me now, then I’ll tell you the truth!”

“Sure, I think that you and Yanyan knew each other before?” I could faintly guess what it was, but I wasn’t very sure.

“That’s right! Zhao Yanyan and I were in the same class during primary school!” Liu Yue said in embarassment. “Now that I mention it, it’s really just business between children!

I was the class rep at the time, and Zhao Yanyan was the study representative, originally we should be very friendly, but you know, a child’s envy is very powerful, especially for excellent children, they all wish to be better than others. When they see girls prettier than them, better at academics than them, they don’t accept it and would want to surpass them.

Zhao Yanyan and I… were exactly this sort of children, since a young age… en, we were both princesses at home, we had excellent family conditions, and our grades were very close, either she would be first or I would be first. Furthermore, you also know that when girls are slightly prettier, they would get a lot of attention, so both her and I became the focus point of the school…

Perhaps we were too young back then, somehow, we just got so used to fighting, we always wanted to surpass the other one… At the end, we started treating each other as enemies…

I admit, although I was childish back then, but I don’t know why, the moment when I faced Zhao Yanyan once again that day, I couldn’t help but treat her as an opponent… So, I think that Zhao Yanyan must have had the same thoughts…

Yet, now that I think back on it, it was a bit childish. Liu Lei, can you forgive me?”

I let out a long sigh, what is this, I had thought that they had some sort of huge grudge between them, in the end, it’s actually like this! ****, this is too crazy! I waved my hand and said, “You can’t be blamed for this, you don’t need to put it to heart. Zhao Yanyan is also recovering, I hope that when she wakes up, you guys…” I really couldn’t say it, I wanted Liu Yue to apologize to Zhao Yanyan, but Liu Yue can’t be blamed for this completely, both of them had a bit of responsibility!

“I understand, hehe, I naturally should apologize to her!” Liu Yue smiled, guessing my intentions, then continued. “Don’t worry, I won’t trouble you!”

Won’t trouble me? I was a bit confused, what does this mean! However, I didn’t think too much about it, instead I asked in curiosity, “Oh yeah, Liu Yue, according to what you said, you should be in our year, why are you a year higher?”

“Hehe, the middle school I went to was a three-years one, so I naturally graduated earlier than you guys! The principle of the school then was grandpa’s friend, and the school didn’t have a four year program!” Liu Yue explained.

I nodded. IN our time, primary school has already become a five-year program, only very few primary schools had six years, that’s why, most middle schools were four years, only a few middle schools that worked with the six-year based primary schools were three-years based.

“Then aren’t you the same age as us?” I asked.

“Hehe, yeah, I was born in October!” Liu Yue said.

“Oh? Since I’m born in August, this means that you have to call me gege!” I laughed.

“Who would be your meimei, there’s no benefits to it!” Liu Yue snorted.

I smiled, and didn’t continued down on this topic. That was because in my subconscious, I didn’t want to treat Liu Yue as my meimei, I had an unspeakable feeling towards Liu Yue, at the start, the impression Liu Yue gave me was that she was very intelligent and very mature. Yet, after getting into contact with her for a while, I noticed that she was very dumb at times, and would often show the side of a little girl. Unknowingly, I started to have a good feeling about her, but I still had not thought about truly turning her into my girlfriend.

Actually, I didn’t know, but Liu Yue is completely a strong independent woman in front of others, she would only show her side as a little girl when she’s with me. Of course, I knew about it all later on.

“Oh yeah, I already got people to do the procedures for the Land Rover you were interested in, you can drive it away any time. Hehe, but this is Yanjing city, we couldn’t get the type of car plate you got in Songjiang city, it seems to have gotten auctioned ages ago,” said Liu Yue.

“It’s fine, I don’t want too great of a car plate, what if I get robbed!” I joked.

Liu Yue clearly didn’t believe what I said, she clearly knew about my influence, and she also knew that I was very close with the Three Rock Gang, which was the largest gang in Asia.

“En, then take it away when you have time,” Liu Yue said.

“Hehe, so sorry, I took the car you put there for show!” I said.

“It’s alright, why’s there a need to separate things so clearly between us…” Saying that, Liu Yue blushed, as if noticing she shouldn’t have phrased it like that, thus she quickly corrected herself. “You also have a share of this car shop, so there’s no need to mind!”

I nodded without paying attention to Liu Yue’s expression. At this moment, my phone rang.

I took out my phone, and saw that it was Guo Qing. This brat’s efficiency is truly great, he must have gotten the results already.

“What, do you have the results?” I picked up the phone and asked.

“Yeah, boss! I already investigated them thoroughly, Chen’s Corporation is a listed company that focuses on real estate development, their total assets are worth 6.3 billion HKD, and the majority of it is fixed assets. Their liquid assets are only about a bit more than a billion!” Guo Qing said without care. You have to know, if a normal person heard this number, they would be freaked out, but Guo Qing is no normal person, his business is getting larger and larger, although the gangs couldn’t develop within the country, but he went to places like Japan and Korea to develop. The gang at least had assets worth several tens of billions of USD, this amount that Chen’s Corporation had really isn’t something.

“Oh, this Chen’s Corporation is rather rich!” When you compared it to other companies, this Chen’s Corporation can be counted as rather rich.

“Ah?” Guo Qing momentarily blanked and said. “Boss, you can’t not even have this much right? It was you who gave me my startup funds!”

I laughed wryly, “Guo Qing. You misunderstood me, what I meant was that in comparison to other companies, this Chen’s Corporation is rather rich. However, in comparison to us, this is nothing!”

“You scared me to death, boss! I thought you got bankrupted!” Guo Qing said. Although Guo Qing didn’t know exactly what sort of business I did, he did know that I was very rich.



 

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[Vol. 3] Chapter 10 – Stone Labyrinth III



“Waah! Sa, save meee”

 I heard a scream to my left.
 That was Drum-senpai’s voice.

“What happened?”

 As I rushed over――
 Drum got entangled in some kind of thread and hung upside down.
 The thread glitters with a golden shine and draws beautiful, radial, geometric patterns.

“Drum, what are you doing? Are you playing around?”

 Bass who was surprised by this view uttered these words.

“Are you stupid? I somehow got caught in this sticky thread and when I thought about untieing myself I ended up like this.”

“Can’t be helped. This Bass-sama will help you so wait. Pick, lend me a hand.”

 To prevent having two more people soon entangled in the thread they tried to cut it with a sword to save Drum, but…….

“Wha, what the hell?”

“Uwah, this stuff is so sticky I can’t cut it at all. I don’t want this, release me”

 Shortly Bass and Pick were also entangled in it.
 The more they struggled the more they got stuck.

“This……So it’s that after all.”

“That’s right, it does look like it’s that”

 Both Knopf and Crescent Moon were nodding at each other.
 Yeah, I think so, too.
 There’s no doubt that this looks like a cobweb.

“Was it this you were talking about when you said “I got it”?”

 I asked the beautiful priestess of darkness, Kitora.

“That’s right. It seems like I was proven right in a way.”

 Kitora shrugged as she answered.

“That being said, the thing back there is……”

“A Spider-type monster, huh?”

 Judging by the size of its nest it’s probably considerably big.

“So, what are we going to do with those guys?”

 Crescent Moon looked at the three people in question.

“Sa, save us, please.”

“Big sis, please get us out of here quickly”

 Hearing those words Kitora spoke coldly.

“This is very troublesome. If you touch it you’ll get stuck in it and aren’t able to leave, even cutting it doesn’t work. Though it might be flammable but if that’s the case these people will most likely burn together with it.”

“Stop that! I don’t want to burn to death–!”

 Pick shouted surprised.
 My seniors were going Wah, Wah as well.

“If you just move around a bit won’t it soon come out?”

“Eh……?”

 At Knopf’s words, the three people suddenly stopped moving.

“It’s surely hiding around here somewhere observing the situation. How about we use them as decoy?”

 At Crescent Moon’s ruthless words those three people shook their heads in silence.
 Even though they actually wanted to protest in a loud voice they didn’t dare to in fear of luring the spider.
 Oh boy, I feel sorry for them.

“It can’t be helped. Well then, you guys, let us know when the spider appears.”

“Head, you can’t be serious?! That’s so cruel”

“That’s right, please save us otherwise we’ll go to the afterlife”

 Even though they were protesting like this in a low voice, just a little louder than being silent, I still refused.
 Because I’m a villain, sorry.

“Then let’s wait at some remote place.”

“That’s right, we’ll immediately rush over as soon as you shout”

 Kitora and Knopf were just as cold.
 Crescent Moon quickly turned her back to them and left.

“Shout to let us know when the spider comes out. But until then you have to endure.”

“****, when I die I’ll take you with me”

“Uuh, I’ll curse you for real~”

 As one would expect from my seniors, their comments were really villain-like.
 But it didn’t have much force behind it as they spoke in a low voice.
 Well, don’t worry because we’ll come save you.
 We decided to wait for a bit.

 We waited silently.
 I felt like time was passing strangely slowly.
 Though we just waited for about ten minutes, huh?
 Then I heard the sound which stopped a while ago again.

 Rustle, rustle, rustle

 The sound of something moving slowly and quietly.
 You can tell by the atmosphere that it was considerably big.
 Finally.
 I patiently waited for the perfect timing.

 Rustle…Rustle…Rustle…

“Uwaaaah, something’s there, something’s heeeere!!”

“Head, big sis!!”

“Noo, don’t eat me, don’t eat me!”

 Those three suddenly started to panic.
 It seems like they couldn’t endure hearing that sound as it was a sign of it approaching.
 All four of us rushed over.

“It came out, there it is!”

 Crescent Moon pointed at a place illuminated by a floating fireball.
 When I looked in the direction she pointed in–it was there.
 It was a huge Jorougumo with a body being about one meter long and its legs extending to up to 3 meters.⌈1
 It had a brilliant yellow striped pattern on its black body and had its mouth wide open showing its poisonous-looking fangs.

“Aah, First large centipedes now a giant spider, why is this dungeon filled with those creepy things?!”

 While Crescent Moon was rambling on she took out her sword.
 I took out my two-handed great sword as well.
 They seemed to complain when I burned them last time so should I fight without using fire magic this time around?

 I and Crescent Moon took our stances as the vanguard and the rear guard consists out of Kitora and Knopf.

“Let’s go, Akatsuki!”

 With her Scimitar in one hand and her Gladius in the other she started her assault.
 She did a good job in dodging those eight legs and cutting it but that spider’s movements were fast.
 I also slashed at it from the spider’s blind spot as it tried to avoid Crescent Moon’s swords.
 This one’s powerful.

 My sword hit one of the spider’s legs resulting in it getting cut of and spurting out some liquid.
 The big spider jumped back.

“Sandstorm!”

“Black Flash!” 

 Then Knopf and Kitora evoked their magic.
 It looked like both spells hit and caused considerable damage.

“Alright, I’ll give it the finishing blow”

“Big sis, behind you!”

“There’s another one of them coming!”

 As Crescent Moon got closer to the suffering spider my seniors’ voices echoed though the room.

“Eh?”

 When Crescent Moon turned around she saw another giant spider different from that Jorougumo silently approaching from behind.
 Its size was about 1 meter, its colour was brown, it didn’t have long legs and fine hairs were growing all over its body.
 There were multiple eyes with a deep-black shine to them lined up making it seem sinister.

 Pyo–n

 That spider suddenly jumped 3 meters at once and threw itself on Crescent Moon.
Is that guy a jumping spider?!⌈2

 Crescent Moon’s reaction to that spider’s excessive speed was delayed.
 The spider held Crescent Moon down with its legs then it opened its big mouth filled with sharp fangs.

“Shiiit, hey, let me go!”

“I’ll help you now, you guys take care of the first one!”

 I shouted those things to Kitora and Knopf while I was rushing over to Crescent Moon.
 Crescent Moon was desperately trying to avoid the fangs trying to bite her by twisting her neck.

 Subuu!

 I pierced the side of the Spider’s body while being careful not to injure Crescent Moon.

 Kishikishikishi

 Still, the jumping spider monster didn’t let go of Crescent Moon.
 It still had its mouth wide open to take a bite.
 When I pulled my great sword out of its side I pierced its mouth from above using both hands.

 Kishikishi…kishi…

 Then the huge jumping spider slowly released Crescent Moon before it completely ceased to move.
 When I looked over to the other spider it seemed like it got stuck to the ground by some black smoke which probably got released by Kitora while it got turned into Swiss cheese by Knopf’s air rifle magic.

“Looks like it’s over”

“I, I’m saved. I couldn’t react to it that quickly. I was almost gobbled up.”

 While Crescent Moon said this she rubbed her upper arm as she seemed to feel bad.
 Well, it was only natural for her to get crept out after being held down by something like that.
 But she didn’t seem to be injured which was good.

“It seems like you took care of that one rather well”

“It was easy because Kitora firmly kept it on the ground”

“It was already considerably weakened, to begin with. This was just a basic dark spell.”

“Hehe, well, everything’s fine as long as the results are good. With this, this case is settled.”

 As Crescent Moon was exclaiming joyfully a criticising voice erupted from the darkness.

“The case is settled my ***! Help us quickly!”

“That’s right, my blood is flowing to my head. I’m at my limit……”

“Big bro, big sis, please save me.”

 Looks like those three are considerably well, too.
 Can’t be helped, shall we save them now?
 But how do we save them?

“That spider web is definitely acidic so it should dissolve if it’s treated with some alkaline water solution.”

 While Knopf was thinking she began to talk.

“Then get that Ali something and dissolve this thing!”

 My seniors were immediately reacting to that and went Wah, Wah again.

“But that thread sure is great. One can’t have enough of that. Wouldn’t this be really popular if one takes it back?”

 Kira–n

 About one person immediately reacted to Knopf’s words with sparkling eyes.

“That’s right, it would be a waste to jut cut it, burn it or dissolve it. Hmm……That’s it!”

 Crescent Moon picked up the sword Drum seemed to have dropped when he got entangled.

“Like this”

 As she put the sword on the thread she started to turn it around and around.
 Round and round and round and round she skilfully rolled it up.
 You’re pretty diligent when money is involved.

“Big sis, don’t do that, quickly help uuuus.”

“Shut up, I’ll help you soon so wait quietly!”

 Then she took her time and after Drum’s sword wasn’t enough anymore she started to use Bass’ sword to neatly roll up the spider web.
 The two people’s swords turned into spool cars.
 Besides, it’s troublesome as that stuff is sticky and tends to stick together.

 After that Knopf made some soapy water put it on the thread which coiled around their bodies and then they were set free again.
Though they were covered in bubbles but that’s not a bad thing either as they don’t seem to take a lot of baths anyway.

“Thank you, Knopf-san”

“But how should we use our swords like this?”

 My seniors grieved over their swords turned spool cars.

“Even if you have a sword you can’t use it anyway! Please be careful not to drop it or stick it to other things! If you make a mistake you’ll regret it!”

“Th, that’s……”

“Please forgive us”

 To be treated so cruelly, my seniors are pitiful as well.
 But it’s good that you somehow got saved, right, seniors?



 


  1. Jorougumo is a type of spider. But it’s also said to be some kind of Youkai 
  2. Salticidae 

VPnA – The Prequel Volume 2 Chapter 34

Here’s the chapter of the day!

Click on “Next Chapter” to see the teaser for the next chapter!

Remember, the Very Pure and Ambiguous – The Prequel Fan Art contest is ongoing, nearly half of the time limit is gone. And… As sad as I am to say this, I still didn’t get a single submission :/

Chapter 35 – Counterattacking the Chen Family



I took out my phone, and dialed Guo Qing’s number.

The call went through very quickly with Guo Qing’s voice passing through from the other side, “Boss, why is it you! How is it, does it feel great in Yanjing with the two dasaos?”

“…” I stayed silent for a bit. It’s not a surprise that Guo Qing would think that, originally, Chen Weier had separated for so long, now that we could finally be together, we must be having a good time. However, something like this just had to come up.

“Guo Qing, Zhao Yanyan got hit by a car, she’s at the hospital right now,” I took a deep breath and said.

“What! Dasao got hit by a car, which damn ******* doesn’t want to live anymore, laozi’s going to murder him!” Hearing that, Guo Qing immediately got angry.

“There’s no need to kill him, but teaching him a lesson is unavoidable!” I said.

“Alright, boss, tell me what to do!” Guo Qing said.

“Where are you now?” I asked.

“I’m in Hong Kong, we’re negotiating with the originally largest gang here, the Azure Gang!” Guo Qing said.

“Negotiate? Why did you go to Hong Kong?” I thought to myself, this is coincidental enough, it seems like that brat Chen Zelong is really unfortunate.

“Didn’t I already go and expand my power last year at Hong Kong, we have already controlled a third of the territories in Hong Kong, a while ago, the gang got into a fight with the largest local gang here due to territories, and fought so many times. Boss, you should know this, our subordinates all practiced those secret techniques, we’re capable of handling special forces, so obviously those unorganized bunch! The Azure Gang lost quite a bit, not only did they lose a large part of their territory, they have to ask to negotiate with us now and ask for peace. Of course I will use this chance to rip him off!” Guo Qing said proudly.

Only then did I remember, last year, Guo Qing did find me once, telling me that his subordinates were too weak, they relied completely on fierceness when fighting, so he wanted me to help him think of some way. Since I had nothing to do, I picked a few easy ones from the ancient martial arts that Footy taught me and taught it to Guo Qing so he can train the other brothers. However, even though it was the easiest, in the current society it’s so much stronger than those something Taekwondo. I didn’t think that my unmeaningful action caused Guo Qing’s power to grow immensely, allowing his territory to increase to all over the country.

“Not bad!” I said to Guo Qing. “When these things are all over, I have a thought that I’ll tell you later! Now, go and do something for me, help me investigate Hong Kong’s Chen’s Corporation, and tell me about their background!”

“Sure, boss! There’s nothing in Hong Kong that I can’t do right now, as long as boss says it, I ca even bomb that ****** Chen’s Corporation!” Guo Qing promised.

“Never mind about bombing, I don’t want you to become Laden 2.0!” I said.

“Laden? Who’s that?” Guo Qing asked in confusion, “A lantern dude?”

That made me remember, this was just 1998, bin Laden wasn’t known by the world yet! Thus I quickly said, “Nothing, he’s just a terrorist head in a movie!”

“Oh,” Guo Qing didn’t mind at all.

“Then that’s that, don’t take any actions after getting news, report it to me, then I’ll decide how to deal with the Chen family!” I said.

After I hung up, I couldn’t help but smile. Chen Zelong, I’m going to see when you can act amazing to.

I got the medical staff to bring me a tub of hot water so I can help Zhao Yanyan wipe her body. Aside from discussing Shuguang Corporation’s business with Uncle Zhao, I just stayed by Zhao Yanyan’s side. Originally, these type of higher class wards would have medical staff specifically in charge of the patient’s needs, but I just feel like they are not as attentive as me/

After I wiped Zhao Yanyan’s body, and helped her put on the blanket, door knocks could be heard.

I walked over and opened the door. Liu Yue had arrived, she held a thermal lunch box in her hands. These few days, Liu Yue pretty much brought me all my meals.

“What? It’s time to eat again?” I muttered to myself.

“Ai!” Liu Yue sighed and said. “Look at you, didn’t the doctor already say that Yanyan is fine! Why are you still barely eating and drinking everyday! You are never hungry when I bring you food! If you continue like this, Yanyan will only feel more heartache when she wakes up and sees you like this! What’s more, Weier-jiejie will also feel pained! Also, I will too…” Saying that, Liu Yue suddenly stopped. Only when she saw that I didn’t notice, did she quickly pretend like nothing happened.

Indeed, I did not notice. I thought to myself, Liu Yue is right! Since Yanyan’s fine now, what am I doing continuing on like this! I am someone that has been through life and death, why am I still so easily impacted! Thus, I smiled, “Yeah, let’s eat, I really am a bit angry.

Liu Yue smiled, took out the lunch box and put it in front of me.

While I was eating the previous days, I just casually ate, and did not pay attention to what was in the lunch box. Now that I had a look, it really was extremely lavish, there was meat and vegetables. To be honest, I haven’t eaten properly these few days, now that I see these dishes, my appetite also arose, so I immediately devoured all the good hastily.

Only when I put my chopsticks down did I notice that Liu Yue didn’t even break open the chopsticks in front of her. I immediately understood, so I ate Liu Yue’s portion as well!

“Sorry, it was too delicious, so I ate everything,” I said awkwardly.

“It’s okay, I bring enough for 2 people every day, you might have been too hungry today! It’s alright, I made some extra at home, I’ll just eat back home!” Liu Yue smiled.

“What! You made it yourself?” I said in surprise. I had thought that she brought me the take outs from a certain hotel, I didn’t think that she made it herself! It seems like I owe her another favor, ai!

“Yeah, I feel the food outside is just not as good as what I make, hehe!” Liu Yue said.

All of a sudden, I really didn’t know what to say. Originally, Liu Yue had a bit of responsibility for what happened to Zhao Yanyan, but I felt like there was more to it. Normally speaking, Zhao Yanyan would treat me finding girls outside with a closed eye, or even support me. However, she acted very unusual this time, there wasn’t anything going with Liu Yue and I, yet Zhao Yanyan already got so angry, that doesn’t make sense.

In this period of time, I’ve been really down, and didn’t have the time to consider these things, now it was a good chance to understand the entire situation properly, I believe Liu Yue definitely knows.

Thus, I said, “Liu Yue, I want to ask you about some things, I hope you can answer me honestly.”

Liu Yue was extremely smart, hearing what I said, she immediately knew what I was going to ask.



 

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[Vol. 3] Chapter 9 – Stone Labyrinth II



When we tried to annihilate that horde with magic white bones and weapons of several adventurers rolled towards us from the middle of the room.
 How pitiful, it seems like they were attacked by those giant centipedes in this room and turned into clean bones by them.

“Oh my, how regretful. Though those are some good bones I can’t use them if they are burned to that extent. If the bones are burned they get brittle.”

 Kitora, the beautiful priestess of darkness, looked at the remaining bones before looking towards me.
 Even though I got rid of them don’t look at me with those blaming eyes.

“Aaah, they are all burned. Those would have been valuable as well, what a waste. Neither the weapons nor the armour can be sold if they are burned like this.”

 The masked female mercenary, Crescent Moon also sighed after she poked the burned things with her scimitar.
 Aaah, god damn it, what’s with you?!
 Be little happier that you won after all that hard work!
 Hey, look, doesn’t the cat-girl magician, Knopf wear an apologetic expression?

 However, even if you defeat those things you neither gain experience points nor do the monsters drop magic stones or something.
 That’s because this is my novel’s world and not a game’s world.
 I should have created a setting to gain some kind of merit after one defeats a monster.
 Can’t be helped, next time let’s not only think about winning but also about how to “make profit”.
 Can we afford that, though?

 This room seemed to be a dead end.
 Even though the female hobbit thief Pick checked all the walls in various ways she found nothings.
 As we didn’t have any other choice we returned to the crossroad from a while ago and turned right.⌈1
 We continued the right-hand-touching-wall strategy.

 This time’s path bend left then right and then continued straight.
 On the way, there were some doors and entrances to some empty rooms in the walls.
 When we entered the first room, for the time being, we encountered two large mice.

 Even if I call them mice they were huge rats the size of a dog.
 Their front teeth were correspondingly big as well and their bloodshot eyes were rather creepy.
 Though they were very aggressive and suddenly attacked us Pick and Crescent Moon calmly killed them.
 It was particularly good that no one got bitten.
 They seemed like they carried some disease-causing germs.
 There wasn’t anything special inside.

 The next room was completely empty but the room after that had something promising in it.
 That’s right, Slimes.
 A semi-transparent jelly like object was sticking to the back of the room while wriggling.
 Its size is about 1 meter in height and breadth and it had a yellowish colour.
 Though I was impressed by seeing a slime for the first time but the others didn’t really react to it.
 Though it was approaching us it could only move slowly and as it didn’t seem to drop anything valuable either we ignored it.
 Only Bass-senpai was noisy and said “It looks so soft, I kind of want to touch it!” but he got completely ignored.
 I kind of understand that feeling, senior.

 Incidentally, slimes can absorb damage caused by blades and they are resistant against various magic systems depending on their colour.
 Therefore they are a pain in the *** and everyone avoids them.
 But there are exceptions as well.
 It’s the “Metallic Slime” which has a metallic lustre.
 Among them are golden and silver ones as well as ones that shine in the colours of the rainbow.
 It’s popular among the adventurers because it drops precious metal like silver and gold according to its colour but it’s difficult to hit as it moves fast and will instantly escape.⌈2
 ……According to the setting of my novel.
 Though you might have heard that somewhere before it’s not plagiarism it’s admiration!
 By the way, the rainbow coloured slime drops Oricalcum the material which Carlo’s and the Hero’s sword are made of.
 That explains why it’s so expensive.

 We left the Slime behind and continued on.

“Please wait a minute”

 Pick who went ahead suddenly stopped and raised her voice.
 She was carefully checking the floor of the road ahead of us.
 When she knocked on it there was a rattling noise and then the floor gave in.
 The floor completely disappeared on a considerable scale and we weren’t able to move forward.
 That’s a rather large-scale trap.

“Uwa– That was dangerous. Good that you noticed that.”

 Crescent Moon exclaimed in admiration.

“Hehe, that’s my job.”

 Pick who got praised looked proud.
 Then my seniors came from behind.

“That’s right, this is a piece of cake for us.”

“That’s right, that’s right, we’re used to this so we can recognize those things with just one glance.”

I’m sorry but I don’t think I can leave the front to you, seniors.
 I feel like you’ll absolutely overlook a trap.
 I don’t feel like I can place my life in your hands.

 Still, it’s weird that the floor didn’t already collapse.
 Could it be that nobody fell into that trap before?
 If someone triggered it then the floor should have already disappeared.

“That trap wasn’t triggered so does that mean no one came this way before?”

 As I asked that I had a slightly puzzled expression on my face then Kitora answered.

“It may or may not be like that”

“Does that mean that the trap can be triggered again even if someone was already caught in it?”

 As Kitora gave a vague answer Knopf was listening again.

“As I thought you’re rather perceptive. It’s a possibility. Well then, let’s go back”

 After she said this Kitora proceeded to go back.
 Everyone else follows her in a hurry.
 We returned to the crossroad.
 We took the right and only remaining road.

 After following this path for a while the surrounding walls, ceiling and floor turned from stone into earth.
 A Rugged rocky surface was exposed.
 The former man-made feeling disappeared and it seemed more like a naturally formed cave.

“I see, so this was made with this natural case as basis after all. So, when everything else got changed then this is……”

 While holding her chin and lowering her gaze Kitora seemed to be lost in thoughts.
 Everyone looked at her in silence.
 Not wanting to disturb anyone I didn’t know what to say.

 Still, this sure is a dreary place.
 Everywhere you look there’s earth.
 The only thing moving is a little spider running over the ground.

“I think I got it.”

 Kitora who was lost in her thoughts raised her face.

“May we hear about it?”

 Even though I asked her Kitora shook her head.

“It’s just a simple guess and you’ll naturally come to a conclusion when we advanced a bit further. Let’s go”

“What’s with you? Tell me. This is awkward, don’t you think?”

 Even with Crescent Moon asking like this Kitora ignored her without changing her expression.
 That beautiful girl is more stubborn than her appearance may imply.
 Everyone was rather tense after listening to Kitora so we advanced slowly.

“Di, did you hear something?”

 Crescent Moon was whispering in a low voice.

 Rustle Rustle……

 As everybody held their breath and listened carefully one surely could hear a faint sound coming from the darkness.
 It’s obviously the sound of “something” moving.

“What’s making that sound, big sis?”

“How should I know?!”

“You two, keep quiet or it’ll notice us!”

 They kept on quarrelling in a low voice.
I got a feeling we’ll definitely get noticed.

 After we advanced for a while the cave suddenly became bigger.
 The ceiling got higher as well.

 Rustle……

 That sound was now clearly louder than a while ago.
 I can’t see it in this darkness but it seems to come from behind.

“Hey, you guys, go back there and check.”

“Why are you saying that again, big sis?! You made us go look back at the church, too!”

“That’s right, that’s right, that’s just too cruel, big sis. Don’t you think so as well, Head?”

 Are they still troubled by that incident back then?
 Please, don’t involve me in this.

“It can’t be helped, then let’s go together”

 We left the back to Knopf, Kitora and Pick then advanced with me and Crescent Moon between my two seniors who stood at both ends.
While we were approaching the sound we heard until a while ago suddenly stopped.
 Not being able to hear a sound enhanced the tension.
 As one would expect everyone is silent and slowly advanced.
 Then a cry suddenly broke the silence.

“Waah!”
 Didn’t that voice belong to Drum? What happened?



 


  1. So the road that’s to their right now 
  2. Metal slimes from Dragon quest? 

[Vol 1] Chapter 3 – First Steps


TL: Benguin
Editors: Chichén Itzá

Time flew by in the blink of an eye, and before anyone knew it, a year had already passed. Under Wufeng’s leadership, the second platoon was engaged in extensive training without breaks throughout the year; by doing so, he became a lot more familiar with the soldiers under his command. Also, since the soldiers saw how Wufeng never displayed the same arrogant and demeaning attitude as the other members of the aristocracy, they began to interact with Wufeng with more familiarity.

Liang Chongxin was born in a family of wealthy workshop owners from the Huzhou Prefecture in the Jiangnan Commandery that is renowned throughout the world for the high quality of their four essentials materials for calligraphy and scholarship: the inkstone, paper, brush, and the ink. Many scholars from all parts of the empire enjoy using these Huzhou specialties, which is greatly driving the demand up. Making it impossible to fully supply the market of the capital.

The craft of making these quality goods is also a very skill-intensive industry, and the Liang family for many generations has been in the business with great prestige. For Liang Congxin however, he holds no interest in his family’s business, so instead he spends his time learning and practicing martial arts, and thankfully, his parents did not opposed. His way of life persisted until he was twenty some years old. Being still unemployed, Chongxin was very embarrassed, so four years ago, he kept the appearance of traveling the world and joined the army with the hope to make a name for himself before returning home, bringing honor upon his family name.

Due to the talent he showed during his time in the military, he was promoted to the rank of Corporal and squad leader. However, due to his freeman status, along with the lack of connections, he was unable to advance any more in rank; furthermore, since Wufeng was assigned to the squad as their leader despite being a recruit, many of his brothers in arms found this to be highly unfair.

Wufeng only found out this piece of information later in the year after he became more familiar with the soldiers. Being aware of this, Wufeng was also somewhat pensive, in accordance with Chongxin’s abilities, not to mention a platoon, he’s even capable of leading a battalion or a brigade as a lieutenant colonel or brigadier general.

However, facing the Empire’s favoritism for individuals with strong social background, many talents as Chongxin were neglected, decreasing the Empire’s strength day by day.

Seeing this situation, surrounding nations have also continuously provoked the Empire with border friction with the intention of seeking to exploit them in their moment of weakness.

Internally, there are a few talented magistrates on the borders who recognizes the urgency that the Empire currently faces and secretly have prepared for the possibilities of conflict. Similarly, the Imperial court isn’t completely incompetent either and have also raised more troops and weapons to prepare for the worst scenarios.

Most of Wufeng’s command consist of raw recruits, but they are young, athletic, and hard-working. The only thing that they truly lack is the experience which could only be found on the battlefield.

The Third Division that Wufeng was assigned to was a mixed division, with the Fourth Brigade and the Fifth Battalion, which formed part of an infantry Battalion. Because it was a newly reorganized, many veterans from other battalions were transferred to provide the backbone and improve the combat effectiveness of the unit. For Wufeng’s platoon, he also taught them a relaxation technique that his master taught him, allowing the soldiers to recover faster and maintain a healthier body. This technique, along with the year of intensive training, allowed Wufeng’s unit to stand out heads above the rest.

During Wufeng’s journey around the world, he studied politics, military strategy, culture, and economics at the world recognized Heidelberg University. After comparing the military doctrines of the east with the ones of the west, it gave him the idea of a revolutionary military organization system that was much more effective than the current one; however, he had to perfect it before it is ready to be implemented.


In the blink of an eye, another year had passed, entering the year 689 of the Continental Calendar. During these years, the platoon under Wufeng’s command had placed top in the war games, martial tournament, and team training. Wufeng himself had demonstrated his talent and modesty that greatly differs him from other aristocratic officers, earning the good graces of his superiors at the battalion and company level.

As such, when the first company’s Captain was honorably discharged due to a training accident and Wufeng’s Major were transferred to replace him, Wufeng was chosen as the replacement as Company Leader, promoting him to the position of Major as well. Under his recommendation, Liang Chongxin was promoted to sergeant and was chosen to accompany Wufeng as his deputy. Replacing Liang Chongxin is Kang Jianguo for his martial prowess, who was also promoted to the rank of corporal.

During these two years, Liang Chongxin couldn’t help but admire and respect his superior. Wufeng’s knowledge, analytical ability, and stratagem had all made Chongxin speechless. As for his recent promotion, when Wufeng had first recommended it, he hadn’t really put in any hopes of it succeeding, but once again he was wrong and the proposal smoothly passed.

Recalling his young superior’s actions over the past two years, Chongxin could clearly see that despite the youthful face, Wufeng displays an intellect and maturity that is far beyond his age. Even now, despite the familiar way that they acted around each other, Chongxin still cannot fathom the depth of the mystery that is Wufeng; furthermore, Wufeng had also gifted him with stacks of books with regards to military stratagem for his improvement.

What is Wufeng thinking? What is his goal of joining the army? These are questions remain unanswered, yet Chongxin feels that Wufeng is not a simple man, and his desire to help is sincere. Comparing how he had been treated in the army before and after Wufeng’s leadership, Chongxin soon decided that since the path that he will take in this life is his to choose, he will devote it to Wufeng.

After taking his post as the leader of the Third Company, Wufeng had all the company start on its training exercise, citing the second platoon’s performance as a standard. The overall length of this exercise is three months, with a focus on the improvement of the overall unit’s combat ability.

Liang Chongxin was appointed as the organizer of this excursion as well as handing out the rewards and punishments for those who acts in contempt of the command in accordance with military law.

When Wufeng had announced this at the company meeting, the crowd had an immediate reaction. Kang Jianguo was a regular soldier before his promotion, so many of his peers were jealous of his fortune; however, under Wufeng’s command, he was given the opportunity to advance. Similarly, Liang Chongxin’s promotion was also because he received recognition as part of Wufeng’s staff. For both these individuals, they would normally have been stuck in their role as foot soldiers if it weren’t for Wufeng’s help. Thus, the regular soldiers felt that this was a great opportunity to gain some attention by showcasing their talents and advance in the ranks.

However, when the company started their exercise, Wufeng did not personally lead and observe, an action that differs from his normal habits. Instead, he delegated the task to Liang Chongxin, emphasizing the importance of supervision and training methods for the best outcome before going into the city. While Chongxin did not really understand the reasons behind Wufeng’s mysterious actions, nevertheless, he did as he was asked and oversaw the training every day, bringing the original training methods of the Second Platoon to the entire company.



 

[Vol 1] Chapter 2 – Beginnings (2)


TL: Benguin
Editors: Dawnrisen

The Triumph Square was one of the largest and most important places in the capital, and the Arc of Triumph located in the square was one of the most iconic. Many important government buildings were located in the vicinity. Proudly flying the military’s banner was the Army’s recruitment office, also situated near the Arc of Triumph.

According to Tanghe Empire law, only men between sixteen and forty five years of age could enlist in the army. Once enlisted, they were not allowed to leave without the approval of the military, and those who did would be branded as deserters and punished accordingly.

Due to the large population of the empire, the manpower of the army had always been copious, leading to the creation of a professional recruiting system. Due to the empire containing a strict hierarchy throughout the entire country that was divided into several estates, many lower and middle class people joined the army as a means to change their own destinies from the few opportunities afforded them.

At the top of the estates was the royal family, which referred to the immediate family members of the emperor and his close relatives.

The second estate consists of the nobility, distinguished military personnel, and political scholars who have induced revolutionary ideas for reform and governance. Ennoblement is hereditary, but Imperial law dictates that only one individual may inherit the title in order to regulate the nobility. Also, following generations of established nobility must contribute similarly to the state within three generations, or else they would lose their title. Nevertheless, descendents from a fallen house of nobility will still be granted preferential treatment for government and military posts.

The third estate contains the upper class, containing state bureaucrats, merchants, landowners, business owners, and other similar individuals that have caught the attention of local and regional magistrates due to their positive contributions to society. To be allowed here, a person must submit an application listing their merits to the Central Imperial Administration, and once approved, they and their descendents would receive the permissions of the upper class.

The fourth estate consists of the normal citizens, officially known as “freemen”. They are simply regular citizens with nothing particularly of note, who work in various professions and spin the lowest cogs of society.

People in the third and fourth estate are considered as normal citizens.

However, there exists another group of individuals whose existence has not been recognized by Imperial Law – slaves. Having given up their freedoms due to crimes, debt, or being prisoners of war, they have the lowest standards of living. For a slave to return to being a freeman, his or her owner must produce documents detailing how they had obtained that status, and submit them to the regional magistrate for approval. The second way is for the Emperor himself to grant the freeman status to the slave.

As this social structure is rigid and there exists a long history of preferential treatment being given to nobility, those of the third and fourth estate often need to give several times more effort to receive recognition for promotion. Due to this, no matter how brilliant an individual of a lower estate is, their achievements are often buried between the upper aristocracy.
This has become a major issue for the empire, and in Li Wufeng’s mind, an even more pressing concern than the threat of foreign invasion.

Some scholars had realized the deficiencies of such a social system, and had raised inquiries with the Emperor in the past. However, due to the topic concerning the privileges of the aristocracy, the group which politicians mainly consisted of, the proposals of the scholars were met with strong opposition and were suppressed, leading to no result.

Li Wufeng had once asked his master what was necessary to achieve success. It wasn’t the martial ability to beat other experts, nor was it moral integrity; it also wasn’t knowledge of complicated stratagems, for that matter. The answer that he had reached was that it was the ability to make the right choices and manage talents well, having a heart for tolerance and forgiveness – that defined true success. However, with the Empire’s currently existing governing system, ‘commoner’ talents are often suppressed to the point of being unable to lift their heads and lead a respectable life in the Empire. Many are driven out, and end up seeking other lands. Utilizing their talents to the benefit of the Empire’s belligerents, some have even become a threat against the Empire.

When he arrived at the recruitment office beside the Arch of Triumph, the square was crowded despite it being early in the morning.

The Empire had always placed a great emphasis on its military achievements, but in recent years, the foreign war efforts that the Empire undertook were often fruitless, greatly harming its reputation with the international community. This was one of the reasons why the current Emperor had placed even bigger attention at finding accomplished soldiers and heavily awarding their achievements.

While citizens of lower estates might find it difficult to cross the insurmountable gap of social class in the political arena, the same cannot be said about the battlefield. As long as they have courage, there will be a great many number of opportunities to advance in the military, driving enthusiasm for enlistment within the lower estates to an all-time high.

Looking at the reason for the current recruitment drive, Li Wufeng saw firsthand how dire the extenuating circumstances of the Empire were, with new divisions being created to reorganize the City Guards. While these guards were stationed near the city, many of the capital’s citizens had also come out to enlist.


After waiting for two hours, Li Wufeng finally arrived at the counter. Presenting his identification to the middle-aged officer, he saw the officer’s eyes gleam with shock, double-checking his information before filling out the recruitment forms. The reason for this reaction was because it was extremely rare for a noble to enlist in the army using the commoner’s venue. Normally by using connections, those of the second estate would join the military as either an officer or as an official with the army administration.

It wasn’t long before the recruitment office approved Li Wufeng’s application, and shortly afterwards, became the newest soldier of the City Guard Army’s Third Division.

During the three initial months of basics training, Li Wufeng demonstrated his talents, gaining the praise of the officer in charge of training. With his recommendation combined with Li Wufeng’s noble background, it wasn’t long before he was appointed as a lieutenant, the leader for the Second Platoon of the City Guard Army Group, Third Division, Fourth Brigade, Fifth Battalion, Third Company.

After having received his promotion, Li Wufeng couldn’t help but feel excited. It was his first achievement following his initial step, and the path that he had chosen wasn’t easy. Usually, a normal soldier would find it extremely difficult to rise up the ranks, but despite that, Li Wufeng had already been promoted twice, receiving the rank of platoon leader having not even reached 17 years of age.

A platoon is composed of 3 squads consisting of roughly 35 men in total. Whether Li Wufeng could fulfill his duties satisfactorily and gain the respect of the men under his command was yet to be seen. It was certain that veterans and other accomplished individuals would purposely make it hard for him, and to solve this problem, Li Wufeng thought it simpler to deal with these problems as soon as possible rather than waiting for conflict to arrive.

Thinking up to here, Li Wufeng displayed a confident smile.


“Gentlemen, before everyone is seated, let me introduce myself. I’m Li Wufeng, hailing from Zhongzhou. As comrades in arms in the future, I will be acting as your squad leader, so I hope we will all be able to cooperate,” said Li Wufeng, making a concise introduction.

Standing before him were the men under his command. He could see a mixture of different emotions on their faces, ranging from surprise, dissatisfaction and jealousy. However, they all kept silent, as via military law, if one showed contempt of authority, he would be court martialed.

In a noticeably different tone, Wufeng spoke his following words, “Despite not saying anything, I’m sure that many are thinking, ‘where did this beardless brat come from? Did his relatives meddle with military affairs to allow him to make a living, but why is he all the way down here?’ I will clearly tell everyone that I, Li Wufeng, was born as a member of the nobility, but I didn’t come here to trod along for the income. Right now, I realize that many have not accepted me as being their leader. If there’s anyone who questions my ability, let him come and teach me. As fellow soldiers of the infantry, the only thing that matters is our killing proficiency! I swear upon my honor that I will not seek revenge against those that challenge me regardless of outcome, and if I go against my word, may the heavens punish me! If someone can best me, I will give you my position, and resign to be an ordinary foot soldier instead. Heeding the words of the old proverb, ‘Whether it be horse or mule, just let it try!’”

Li Wufeng’s speech had immediately caused much commotion within the platoon. As he had sworn in front of everyone, he wouldn’t be able to retract his words. There would be no negative outcome for them if they took up the challenge, and they could gain a promotion if they were to win. How could the men’s hearts not be tempted by such a deal? Besides, how hard could it be to beat a youngling?

“What, does no one have the courage?”

As soon as these words left Li Wufeng’s mouth, a shout came from a sturdy man around 23-24 years of age from the crowd.

“I will! Private Kang Jianguo seeks guidance from the lieutenant!”

Sizing up the heroic man who was holding a shield in his left hand and a sword in his right, Li Wufeng took a spear from a nearby soldier before shouting, “Come!”

After bowing towards Li Wufeng, the man took a ready position, not hesitating in any of his actions. With the shield on his left arm protecting his body, he immediately stepped forward, throwing his entire mass into his preemptive attack.

To counter this, Li Wufeng pivoted his frame and thrusted his spear towards the lower abdominal of his opponent. Immediately, Kang Jianguo struck his left arm along with the shield in a smooth downwards motion, deflecting the tip of Li Wufeng’s spear.

‘Dang!’

The sound of metal clashing against metal could be heard as the shield defended against the spear, and both people retreated a few steps. While Li Wufeng was impressed by his opponent’s martial skill, he failed to realize that his audience had already been shocked speechless by his own performance. After all, Kang Jianguo had the reputation of being the most fearsome and skilled individual among the new recruits of the entire 3rd Division, and Li Wufeng was fighting head on with him!

The disparity between the power behind each individual’s strikes was also shocking. It could clearly be seen that Kang Jianguo had used all his upper body strength to deflect Li Wufeng’s spear strike, but a shield is incomparably sturdier and tougher than the tip of a spear. In comparison, Li Wufeng had only used the strength of his arms, a noticeable difference to everyone watching.

Kang Jianguo was the person who knew best about his current situation. Despite having been able to deflect Li Wufeng’s previous strike, his left arm had already been struck numb and wasn’t able to exert any strength. However, all he could do was ignore his discomfort and continue to persevere.

Shaking his shield, Kang Jianguo executed a fast forwards roll, arriving directly in front of Li Wufeng and swung his sword without mercy. Li Wufeng was prepared for this, taking an immediate step back, avoiding the swing before thrusting his spear to Kang Jianguo’s throat without hesitation.

Turning his head to the side in an attempt to avoid the thrust, Kang Jianguo bashed his shield forward while simultaneously adopting a defensive sword pose.

Parrying the shield bash with the length of the spear, Li Wufeng took two steps back and thrusted his spear in the direction of Kang Jianguo’s sword this time. Unable to muster any strength in his arm, Kang Jianguo was overpowered as Li Wufeng swept the spear in an upwards motion, with his sword flying to the ground several meters away.

The speed in which Kang Jianguo was defeated had shocked all the people present. A silence descended upon the field.

Awkwardly standing with an embarrassed expression, Kang Jianguo was only able to awake from his stupor when Li Wufeng stabbed his spear into the ground and picked the sword up, offering it back to him. Seeing this, Kang Jianguo bowed before apologizing, “Your subordinate has committed an act of contempt of authority, and had eyes but couldn’t see Mt. Tai. Please forgive me, respected official.”

“I had already stated that I welcome everyone’s guidance. You are without fault, so there is no need for a punishment.”

As Li Wufeng finished saying this, several veterans turned their eyes towards a man standing at the very left of the line. He was around 1-2 years older than Kang Jianguo, but despite not having Kang Jianguo’s build, he emanated a presence that made others recognize that he was no newbie.

Choosing to remain silent, Wufeng simply smiled in the direction of this individual. While his face clearly displayed reluctance, the man still came out and bowed in the end, caving to the pressure of the multitude.

“This one is named Liang Chongxin, the leader of the first squad. Please enlighten me.”

His tone was incomparably more polite compared to Kang Jianguo’s.

“Please.”

Not wasting any time, Li Wufeng picked up the sword and shield previously used by Kang Jianguo. Analyzing him as he slowly walked out with a halberd in his hand, Li Wufeng concluded that Liang Chongxin’s abilities were far superior to Jianguo’s.

Li Wufeng’s actions had caused immediate murmurings among the audience. Earlier, Li Wufeng had demonstrated his proficiency of the spear, easily using it to disarm the sword and shield that Kang Jianguo had used. Now, facing against a halberd, he had switched to a bladed weapon. To the platoon members, this action meant that Li Wufeng was not just proficient with one type of weapon, but rather a master of all trades in terms of usage of weaponry.

Liang Chongxin’s nervous expression turned grave upon witnessing this. ‘Fine, since this demonstration is only to fulfill his curiosity, I’ll just try my best, regardless of outcome.’
Immediately pumping himself up with a shout, Liang Chongxin began his assault with a clean thrust of the halberd’s tip. Looking at the attack’s proficiency, the audience immediately started cheering.

However, with a simple tap against the halberd’s tip with the shield on Li Wufeng’s left arm, the force behind it was dispelled. It could be seen that Li Wufeng wasn’t slacking, and the audience cheered even louder for the brilliance behind Li Wufeng’s simple defense.

After countering Liang Chongxin’s attack, Li Wufeng threw his body forward and swung his sword at his opponent’s head. Using the blade on his halberd, Liang Chongxin parried the attack before following with a thrust towards Li Wufeng’s stomach with the spear tip. Despite Li Wufeng avoiding this thrust by taking a step back, Liang Chongxin pressed forward with the relentless momentum of his attacks, continuing to pommel the tip of his halberd in the direction of Li Wufeng’s ribs.

Knowing that not disrupting the flow of his opponent’s attacks would result in his defeat, Wufeng met his adversary’s blade with his shield, locking it in place. Advancing forwards, the blade in his right hand cut its way towards Liang Chongxin’s midsection.

As Liang Chongxin did not anticipate that Li Wufeng would choose to advance rather than retreat, he was caught unprepared, unable to defend himself with the halberd. He was forced on the defensive, but the tables were turned – it was now Li Wufeng who was unrelenting with his merciless stream of attacks, forcing Liang Congxin into a corner.

The series of consecutive attacks made it impossible for Liang Chongxin to display the strengths of a polearm, while capitalizing upon the strength of the sword – speed. It wasn’t soon after that a hole appeared in Liang Congxin’s defenses, which was able to be exploited by Li Wufeng who cut off the shoulder strap of the armor.

This action could already be viewed as lenient, as if the fight was on a battlefield, Congxin would have already lost his life from that attack.

Liang Chongxin felt that this outcome was somewhat expected. From the very beginning, he was already mentally prepared for the possibility of defeat. It could be said that having persevered for this long was already fulfilling the expectations of his peers. Noticing how his opponent was clearly holding back, it would be unreasonable if he did not admit defeat.

“Your subordinate admits his loss. Many thanks to the official for this mercy,” Liang Chongxin said respectfully, bowing in a curtsy.

“This is nothing. It was mutually beneficial; not to mention, we should all be brothers from now on,” Li Wufeng replied while helping Liang Chongxin up.

Witnessing Li Wufeng’s modesty, a trait seemingly nonexistent in youths of the aristocracy, Liang Chongxin and the other soldiers couldn’t help but be moved.

Using his own ability to demonstrate his worth, Li Wufeng had earned the respect of everyone in his unit. With his reputation secured, from that moment on, there wasn’t anybody in the second platoon that dared to view him as ‘simply another child’.



 

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Chapter 34 – Plotting Revenge



“Hello, Deputy Secretary Zhang!” I stood up and smiled towards Deputy Secretary Zhang. Through the conversation just now, I understood that Deputy Secretary Zhang was a subordinate in Grandpa Zhao’s old troops, he must have rushed to the hospital due to Grandpa Zhao.

“Oh? So it’s Yanyan’s boyfriend, hehe, Yanyan called me Uncle Zhang when she was younger, so call me Uncle Zhang as well! I am of the same generation as Yanyan’s dad,” Deputy Secretary Zhang said to me.

“Okay, then I’ll call you Uncle Zhang!” I said.

“Oh yeah, Deputy Secretary Zhang, there’s something else, you see… Liu Lei broke that Chen Zelong’s legs…” Li Zhengping said.

“So it’s like this…” Deputy Secretary Zhang hesitated for a moment. From the conversation just now, I had already noticed that Deputy Secretary Zhang is a very just person, so he was very troubled.

Thus, I said, “I’ll deal with this myself. I don’t think that the Chen family will sue me because of this, I think they will pay me back in other ways.”

“En, that’s right!” Li Zhengping also said. “However, this means that comrade Xiao Liu, you have to be careful, I don’t think this Chen family is anything good! Even if your father-in-law is Shuguang Corporation’s CEO, the corporation isn’t yours, I’m afraid that the Chen family will do something terrible to you!”

“Superintendent Li is right, I think that you have to be careful!” Deputy Secretary Zhang also reminded.

I nodded and said, “Don’t worry, I can handle it!” Then I thought to myself, if this Chen’s Corporation is going to come, then so be it, I’ll play around with them.

After a few days of having the doctors in the hospital watching over her and ensuring that Zhao Yanyann had already left her danger period, and into the unconscious period, we could only wait patiently for her to wake up.

I caressed Zhao Yanyan’s pale face as pain and suffering swelled up in my heart.

When I look back on it, I had already been with Zhao Yanyan for more than three years. Originally, getting her was my greatest happiness, yet I didn’t think that it was enough, I always attracted girls outside, although Zhao Yanyan didn’t say anything, and even supported me a lot. I couldn’t protect her, and let her get hurt so much.

“Hubby, don’t be sad, I think that Yanyan-meimei will definitely be fine!” Chen WEier comforted me.

Yeah! Since she has already left the danger period, what am I depressed for! Most importantly, Zhao Yanyan actually kept her memories of the past life as well, and she’s also a person that was reborn.

I had always treated not getting Zhao Yanyan of my previous life as some sort of regret, from the looks of it, my life doesn’t have any more regrets.

I sighed, then turned around, “Weier, go back first, I want to be alone with Yanyan for a while.”

Chen Weier obediently nodded, and walked out of the room.

Chen Zelong was put on trial, but the current law wasn’t able to do anything to him, since he merely drove without a license, and thus was sentenced to being detained for fifteen days. However, because Chen Zelong was a Hong Kong citizen, he was very quickly bailed out.

Chen’s Corporation had truly cancelled all cooperation projects with Yanjing city, but after Zhao Junsheng arrived in Yanjing city, I got him to go directly to find the Municipal Party Committee here, and let Shuguang Corporation take over all those projects. The municipal committee officials were all very happy, since they got fortune from trouble, and actually got connected with Shuguang Corporation, which meant that the investments in the future will definitely not be a small sum!

After Zhao Junsheng found out that Zhao Yanyan was fine, he finally managed to relax and hurriedly organized Yanjing city’s branch office to discuss about the bridge construction.

Originally, Chen’s Corporation had assumed that their withdrawal will definitely get Yanjing city’s government’s compromise, they didn’t think that someone would pop out in the middle and actually took over the entire project. Shuguang Corporation’s subsidiary construction company was called Xinguang Constructions, and was not related to Shuguang Corporation on the surface at all, but in reality it was fully controlled by Shuguang Corporation.

This was also done by my decision. That is because, at the start, Shuguang Corporation was a computer and high tech company, developing other industries was a disadvantage for the brand management, that’s why the subsidiary companies of Shuguang Corporation in other industries were all registered with different names.

At Chen’s Corporation’s headquarters in Hong Kong, Chen’s Corporation’s chairman, Chen Tianlei, was raging in the conference room, “Secretary Chen, just how did you guys do things, didn’t you say that the moment we withdraw, the government there will definitely compromise? Why was my son still convicted? Although he didn’t get sent to jail, this situation is already known by the Hong Kong’s entire business industry! I can’t afford to lose face like this! What will the people say? They will say that I, Chen Tianlei is incapable!”

“Mr. Chen… I don’t know why another company would take over this project so fast, also, they say that the price was also better than ours, of course the government signed the contract very quickly!” Secretary Chen said quietly.

“Heng! I definitely will not let it go! Not only did we earn loss money, my son’s leg was broken! Secretary Chen, go and investigate the background of the person that hit my son, and that something something Xinguang Construction, ****, they dare to compete with me for business, I’ll destroy you!” Chen Tianlei slammed down on the table and said.

“Yes! Mr. Chen,” Secretary Chen quickly answered.

Actually, the important officials in Yanjing city already knew about Zhao Yanyan and my background, but nobody told the Chen family, since they were no longer cooperating, why tell them so much! And this, is what caused Secretary Chen’s negligence during the investigation, resulting in the utter destruction of Chen’s Corporation.

Currently, there aren’t even many Shuguang Corporation employees that knew that Xinguang Construction is one of Shuguang’s subsidiary companies, and all treated them as unrelated. Only Uncle Zhao and a few higher-ups at Shuguang Corporation knew about this, and the outside world only thought this corporation that was rather close with Shuguang Corporation.

Uncle Zhao directly got the government to hand the construction to Xinguang Construction, and the government side only announced that they handed it to a company of a friend of Zhao Junsheng. Although Xinguang Construction has not even been established for two years, the projects it has done could be seen, and it has already become a star construction company within the country.

Since there is a business that was willing to take these low-earning, slow return projects, of course the city governments were willing. What’s more, the name of Xinguang was the guarantee of quality, adding onto the fact that Zhao Junsheng’s Shuguang Corporation was willing to vouch for it, they had no need to fear of any sort of tofu-dreg project.

What Chen Tianlei never would have imagined was that before he started doing anything to Xinguang Corporation, he was going to face immense danger.

Although Zhao Yanyan had already left the danger period and was in the process of recovery, the punishment that Chen Zelong received was far too small! The law can’t do anything to him, but I was able to teach him an unforgettable lesson!

If he could apologize and cooperate with the traffic police to solve the issue after hitting Zhao Yanyan, then I would have forgiven him, since he didn’t do it on purpose, it was a complete accident! However, I was unable to tolerate this kind of attitude of making a mistake then being completely unreasonable about it!



 

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Continue reading Chapter 34 – Plotting Revenge

Chapter 33 – The hell are you



“Li Zhengping! Do you ******* not want to stay anymore!” Seeing that Secretary Chen left in anger, Supervisor Wang no longer kept up his image and pointed at Li Zhengping, then said angrily.

Before Li Zhengping said anything, a few more people arrived at the hospital. Even the doctors and nurses at hospital were confused, what’s so special about today, why did the important officials in the city all come to the hospital! They all started guess if some important chief got hospitalized, but after thinking for a while, aside from a person that got hit by a car, and a person with a broken leg, there wasn’t anyone else? Was one of the two the son or daughter of a powerful person?

Supervisor Wang also saw the people that came in, he first blanked, the quickly went up and said, “Secretary Zhang, why did you come? Is it for the issue with Chen’s Corporation?”

The person that come was the deputy secretary of municipal party committee, hearing Supervisor Wang’s random question, he said in confusion, “What Chen’s Corporation?”

“It’s the Chen’s Corporation that is going to cooperate with our Yanjing city’s government to fix the bridge, their company’s second young master got his leg broken by someone!” said Supervisor Wang.

“Fix the bridge? Oh, I know, just leave this for now, I have urgent business to take care of!” said Secretary Zhang.

“Deputy Secretary Zhang, you can’t just leave this! Just now, Li Zheng Ping, this bas… Superintendent Li pissed off Secretary Chen from Chen’s Corporation, and they will withdraw the investments here!” Supervisor Wang quickly explained.

“Oh?” Deputy Secretary Zhang frowned, then looked at Li Zhengping and asked, “What happened.”

Thus, Li Zhengping told Deputy Secretary Zhang about how Chen Zelong drove without a license. Hearing that, Deputy Secretary Zhang actually said, “Superintendent Li, you were correct in doing so! We’re a socialist country, and a law-based society, even if a rich person broke the law, we have to punish him as well! Capitalism doesn’t work there!” After that, he glared at Supervisor Wang and said, ‘Supervisor Wang, your actions were wrong in order to attract investments and increase your achievements, you’re just going to put the law to the side? If the person that Chen Zelong hit was also the son or daughter of a rich man, will you do it like this as well? Your manner of thinking is what’s problematic! About this, you don’t need to be responsible for the investment anymore, leave it to your assistant, go and write a report for me when you get back and self-reflect!”

“I understand, Deputy Secretary Zhang,” Supervisor Zhang said with his head hung.

“Look… Having heard the stuff form you, I forgot about the proper business!” Deputy Secretary Zhang stomped his foot and said. “Ah, Supervisor Wang, you were at the hospital for so long, did you see a girl hit by a car sent here?”

“A girl hit by a car? There doesn’t seem to be any… Oh yeah, Deputy Secretary Zhang, Chen Zelong hit a girl!” Supervisor Wang suddenly said.

“Ah? Are you certain? What’s her name?” Deputy Secretary Zhang asked anxiously.

“I think she’s called something like Zhao thingy, I didn’t pay attention!” Supervisor Wang said as if he didn’t care at all.

“What thingy! You’re a thingy!” Deputy Secretary Zhang was so angry that his face was going pale as he asked, “Was she called Zhao Yanyan?”

“She seems… to be…” Seeing Deputy Secretary Zhang suddenly get angry, Supervisor Wang didn’t quite know what to do.

“Yes, Deputy Secretary Zhang, the injured is indeed called Zhao Yanyan,” Li Zhengping nodded.

“Oh wow! Supervisor Wang, you really are amazing, in your eyes, you just know that the Chen Zelong is rich, and can’t be offended. Do you know who this Zhao Yanyan is?” Deputy Secretary Zhang was really pissed in his heart, he just hoped that this Supervisor Wang didn’t do anything arrogant or mock others.

“Who is she… Could she even be more amazing than Chen Zelong’s family’s Chen’s Corporation…” Supervisor Wang muttered quietly.

Even if he was quiet, Deputy Secretary Zhang still heard it clearly. Deputy Secretary Zhang said, “This Zhao Yanyan is the granddaughter of the old chief when I was in the army, the current Songjiang’s Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Zhao Limin! Her father is even more amazing, he’s Zhao Junsheng, the CEO of the world’s largest corporation – Shuguang Corporation!”

“Wa?” Supervisor Wang didn’t react after hearing it for a while, then he said with a shudder, “Deputy Secretary Zhang, is what you said real?”

“Why would I trick you! I’m telling you, Supervisor Wang, if you pissed off Zhao Junsheng because of this, then it’s not as simple as fixing the bridge or not! You didn’t offend her, right?” Deputy Secretary Zhang asked.

“No… She has been unconscious ever she was hit, and was always in the operation room!” Supervisor Wang said.

“Supervisor Wang, what am I supposed to say to you, always on the side of the powerful!” Deputy Secretary Zhang said hatefully.

“Deputy Secretary Zhang, I… I didn’t know that, if I know this beforehand, then I definitely wouldn’t help that that Chen Zelong,” said Supervisor Wang.

“What! You are still not changing, are you? What do you mean by knew this beforehand? Yes, we have the responsibility of protecting the safety of the family of these entrepreneurs with contributions towards the society, but it doesn’t mean that we have to shield them and protect them! I think that your attitude is still not right!” Deputy Secretary Zhang said.

“I…” Until now, Supervisor Wang had been continuously cursing at that Chen Zelong, swearing that he didn’t have eyes and actually hit Shuguang Corporation’s CEO’s daughter, causing him to lose his career.

“I what! About this, go and hand your work to your assistant when you get back, then take a while off, I don’t think you are suitable on this position,” Seeing that Supervisor Wang still had not realize the issue with his manner of thinking, Deputy Secretary Zhang decided to remove him from the job.

“Superintendent Li, where is Zhao Yanyan right now, has her operation been completed?” Deputy Secretary Zhang ignored Supervisor Wang, and turned to ask Li Zhengping.

“The operation is very successful, but she’s still in the danger period, so the hospital has to watch over her for some time!” said Li Zhengping.

“Oh! It’s good that the operation is successful!” Deputy Secretary Zhang let out a sigh of relief. “Otherwise, if anything happened, it would be hard for me to face the old chief, what’s more, her father is someone that have done such amazing contributions for our country’s economy, if we cannot protect their children, how can they focus on contributing to the nation! How about this, let’s see how she is?”

“About this… Sorry, Deputy Secretary Zhang, although you are my superior, before this, I already received orders from the police department for me to protect Miss Zhao’s safety, and not allow anyone to disturb her… Look…” Li Zhengping said in a troubled manner.

“Oh, so it’s like this! That’s normal! I was rash, look, I completely forgot that the injured has not left the danger period…” Deputy Secretary Zhang said awkwardly.

Seeing Deputy Secretary Zhang say that, he also smiled, and said, “Oh yeah, Deputy Secretary Zhang, let me introduce you, this is Miss Zhao Yanyan’s boyfriend, Liu Lei, he’s also a student at Huaxia University!”



 

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Continue reading Chapter 33 – The hell are you

[Vol. 3] Chapter 8 – Stone Labyrinth I



“You, you’re handling of the horse is poor. I suppose you’re just as skilled in handling women.”

“……Please stop talking, good grief”

 The pretty priestess of darkness Kitora who was sitting behind Bass-senpai was throwing insults at him as she sulked.
 At first, he was trying to oppose her but it seems that he was broken on the way.
 Crescent Moon also kept her eyes closed as much as possible, how adult.⌈1

“Soon we’ll be close to Kouga village.”

 After a long time, Crescent Moon opened her mouth and spoke with a low voice.
 The dark corps’ stronghold, Kouga village, was located in the Mcbell territory.
 ……Hm?
 Could it be that this “dark corps” has some connection to the “God of Darkness”?

“Kitora, do you know about the dark corps?”

“I do. They are the ones believing in one of the Gods of Darkness “The Wolf God” Skoll. Those guys are gloomy”

 So it’s like that after all, huh?
 Well, I wonder if it’ll be fine cause Kitora and they might be comrades.

 Though I thought like that and advanced cautiously nothing really happened.
 As we continued to followed the way we reached a deep mountain road.
 A narrow road leading through a dark forest.

“It should be around here……”⌈2

 Although Crescent Moon was looking on the map she held in one hand with this poor light one wasn’t able to read it properly.
 The only clue we had were the trails left behind by adventurers but we were hesitant to follow them as around here every one of them got lost.

“I go scout a little”

 Pick got off her horse and began to run lightly.
 As we didn’t have much of a choice we also got off our horses and took a break while sitting on stumps.
 At some point, Pick came running back.

“I found some kind of opening”

 As expected of a thief girl, she got a good nose or should I say she’s sharp-eyed?
 We led our horses to said opening.

“This is a dungeon, right? It’s my first time seeing one.”

 Knopf admired the entrance.
 Honestly, though I pretended to be calm this was my first time as well and I was a little impressed looking at it.

 The Dungeon’s entrance was considerably different from what I imagined.
 How do I say this… I thought it would look more like a naturally formed cave but the real thing was clearly artificially made with a stone arch and stairs.
 My seniors were looking inside fearfully while still admiring it.

“Hmpf, I see”

 The dark priestess Kitora muttered as if she understood something and Crescent Moon who seemed to have regained her pace wore a joyful expression.

“That’s what one would expect of an S-type Dungeon. I can already smell the money”

 It seems like she’ll vigorously rub her hands together at any moment.
 At that moment I decided to ask her some things.

“Crescent Moon, why do you think so?”

“Well, it looks like it already. Common dungeons are naturally formed caves even if someone made one artificially they would disguise them as such. They don’t give you the feeling of “Here’s a dungeon”.”

 Kitora continued Crescent Moon’s words.

“This isn’t something depending on intuition and physical strength and we don’t know what we might gain from this. In other words, they’re “inviting” you”

“Inviting, you say, you mean us?”

“That’s why I’m telling you, you’re stupid. It’s like they are waiting for people like us to enter.”

 Crescent Moon who got bluntly insulted opened her mouth but no retort left it.
 But why would they want to lure us in?
 It’s not like they plan to take an entrance fee, right?
 Could it be there’s some attraction inside and they take money from anyone going inside?
 Then isn’t this like some overpriced theme park?

“Well, isn’t it fine? We’ll see what the other party is planning when we go inside, right? Hey, Akatsuki.”

 Well, that’s right.
 Oh well, we’ll somehow manage with these members.
 Honestly, this would be the time where I would send someone like F inside first but I never talked about Akatsuki with F.
“Alright, shall we enter then? Pick an Crescent Moon, please go first. Watch out for enemies and traps. Next will be I and Kitora and the rear guard will be Knopf together with Bass and Drum. Don’t be careless either.”

 As soon as we entered, it was completely dark.
 I called the spirit the slamander Reus and chanted the incantation for the spell “Light”.
 Soon a bright fireball was floating in the air and illuminated the area.

“You, you can use fire magic. Isn’t that convenient?”

 Looks like only I thought that this fire ball looked like a will o’ wisp, everyone else didn’t think it’s wierd.
 Knopf also used the same fireball spell and illuminated the back while I illuminated the middle.

 Inside the dungeon the ceiling, walls and every road was made out of solid stone.
 We walked along a narrow, straight road before we reached a crossroad.
 I took something like a notepad and a writing utensil out of my pocket.

“What’s the matter, Akatsuki?”

“Ah, no, I just thought about sketching a map.”

 I liked plenty old games so I bought old consols as well as old sofware and played some older RPGs.
As I bought them second-hand they were cheaper, they were tasteful and unexpectedly interesting.
Though the graphics were naturally ****** it had a certain charm.
 Unlike in recent games, mapping is absolutly necessary in those old games so I’m used to it.

“Mister sure is diligent. I always made sketches based on my memory after I left the dungeon.

 That’s because you’re too careless.
 Well, there’s the thing with the writing utensils as well.
 It’s not easy to draw with ink and a quill in a place like this.
 Actually, today I brought my secretly made pencil prototype with me.
 There’s still room for improvement but it’s enough to draw a simple map.

“Shall we first take the right way?”

 I tried to use the basic maze capturing methode, keeping your right hand on the wall.
 After taking four sharp turnes to the right we suddenly reached a large room.

“This room is so large I can’t see the wall on the other side.”

 As Drum-senpai said, the light did’t reach the other side of the room so it’s a considerably large room.
 According to the basic capturing method I went along the right wall.

“Here’s nothing special, wha–?!”

 Just as Crescent Moon said there wasn’t anything a black, long thing suddenly fell from the ceiling.
 Looking at it, it was a 1 meter long, huge centipede.
 It seems like the floating fireball scorched it while it was sticking to the ceiling resulting in it falling down.
 Its myriads of legs were moving with a washa washa sound and its winding figure was grotesque to look at.
 Furthermore, it seemed to be aggressive as it put up its head threateningly.
 I could see its big fangs at its mouth.

“A large centipede, huh? It’s not a big deal but be careful, it has poison. If it bites you the place will swell and hurt.”

 Kitora reacted to Crescent Moon’s words.

“It’s fine, if you get bitten I’ll cure you.”

 As they saw Kitora’s strange smile Crescent Moon and the men swore in their hearts to be careful not to get bitten.
 Pick carefully skewered its head and after Crescent Moon cut its still moving body in chunks it finally stopped.

“Phew, well, that wasn’t that bad, right?”

 Bass-senpai said this in relief as he looked at this scene weirdly.
 Even though he himself didn’t do anything he sure can talk well.
 Well, I do understand that feeling though as I wouldn’t want to face such an enemy as well.

 We just went around the room along the wall before we arrived at our starting point again.

“There was nothing”

 Knopf said.
 But we couldn’t check the middle yet as the room was too big.
 As it couldn’t be helped, we decided to explore the middle with all members.
 We were also careful of the ceiling this time――

“What the hell’s with thaaaaaat!!”

As we looked at the ceiling in the middle of the room it seemed to be painted black for an instant.
 But if one looked closer one could see winding figures wiggling all over.
 The moment Crescent Moon spotted them they dropped down all at once.
 A staggering number of those centipedes from a while ago were crowding the ceiling.

“Uwaaa!!”

“Hiii!”

 It’s just pandemonium.
 Both Pick and Crescent Moon desperately swung their weapons but it’s just too many of them.
 The best they could do is to prevent getting hit.

“Knopf, use magic!”

 As I shouted that I chanted the incantation for Fire Wall.
 Immediately a wall of flames emerges between us and the large centipedes.
 The centipedes caught in the wall struggled while they burned then one could smell the stench of burning insects.
 Then Knopf’s successive chants of fireball exploded on the centipedes which fell and made them wriggle on the floor.

“I, is it over?”

 Crescent Moon lowered her weapons as she was relieved.
 The seniors were also disheartened.

“My, nobody got bitten? You’re unexpectedly skilled.”

 Nobody reacted to Kitora’s joke.

“Head, if this is what happens in the first room, what will happen inside the others then?”

 Even if you ask me, I don’t know!



 


  1. So she isn’t really reacting to the insults etc. 
  2. So the Labyrinth, not the village 

Chapter 206 – The Sudden Marriage (Part Two)



The South desolate region and Terra Empire each possessed several tens of thousands of miles of territories. In addition to two more areas as big as the Terra Empire, that was the entirety of the Southern area of the immortal’s mainland. However, compared to the heart of the mainland, that was completely negligible. The Middle Earth was vast and boundless, it was located at the very center of mother earth.

To the North of Middle Earth, that was the legendary barren land of the ancient gods. As for how far it stretches, nobody knows of it. All in all, nobody had ever made it back alive once they entered the North. ⌈1

To the West of Middle Earth, that was an endless stretch of copper mountains. Legends had it that the ancestor god Fuxi lived in seclusion there. The land was boundless and seemed to stretch on forever.

As for the East side, Middle Earth faced the boundless East Sea. According to legends, even the gods were unable to cross that water body.

The most terrifying thing was that, the aforementioned was only the known territories. And, to the Northernmost of the ancient god’s barren land, to the Westernmost of the millions of copper mountains, to the Easternmost of the boundless East Sea, and to the Southernmost of the countless uninhabited islands, just what kind of unknown world that lies beyond these parts, nobody could say for sure.

Legends had it that even the celestial deities would have a hard time entering those unknown regions.

People couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration, the world of immortals was vast and boundless. It was impossible for an ordinary man to tour the whole world for a lifetime. It was unknown just how much bigger it was compared to the mortal world.

These three days, Xiao Chen was taking advantage of the ample resources from the major clans that tried to rope him in and received information on the enemies outside of the city. The people who wanted to kill Keke was a male and female tiger-kin. They are currently waiting for a powerful figure called the Fierce Tiger, otherwise they wouldn’t even dare to appear in front of Draco.

Reportedly, they came from an exceptionally ancient clan. Their veins flow with the blood of the White Tiger. The aforementioned clan possessed great influence even in the boundless Middle Earth. Moreover, the most frightening part was that, very few knew where this extremely mysterious clan was hiding in Middle Earth.

This time, the tiger woman and tiger servant did not bring the White Tiger to the South for the warbeast competition, it just happened to coincide with the occasion. They never expected that the White Tiger would die in a place like this, how could they not be furious?

The tiger woman wanted to kill Keke. As a result, she was forced to lose face at the Amber Warbeast Castle instead. The tiger servant also wanted to make his move, but he was frightened by Draco. When they learned that the Fierce Tiger had rushed to the Terra Empire from Middle Earth, they promptly requested help.

They estimated that the Fierce Tiger should arrive within a few days.

This kind of marriage, Xiao Chen did not want it, nor must he hope for it. The were no such things as a benevolent major clans. One could take advantage of them and borrow their authority, but marriage was for a lifetime, he did not want to be a cheater in this regard.

Just that, Liu Qingfeng of the Undying Sect didn’t give him a chance to explain, and the Fair family did not believe his words. Xiao Chen also did not want to be straightforward. After all, that was his trump card, how could he reveal it so easily? ⌈2

What made Xiao Chen most helpless was that, Draco really seemed as if he was his senior and took extremely good care of him. These three days, he had treated Xiao Chen to a drink, four times. This was obviously to create a misconception for the major clans.

Xiao Chen felt that he might have guessed his intention. Thirty years ago, Draco had clashed with the noble sons of a few major clans, and nearly lost his life in the hands of an older generation expert. His actions now made it clear that he wanted to fool these major clans, and Xiao Chen was that clown.

He was in fact, a bubble with no background that was being promoted enthusiastically. The major clan’s investment here would inevitably be nothing but an empty dream. They would become a huge laughing stock.

“I am a clown!” Xiao Chen mocked himself.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye. Draco arrived at Xiao Chen’s residence again and the result was obvious. Keke and Tenax were very straightforward and didn’t pay any attention to Draco.

“Hehe, I will give you guys more time. That guy known as the Fierce Tiger is very greedy. He’s currently on a treasure hunt in the Terra Empire and wants to break into the Temple of Heaven. I’m afraid that he will not be able to come here so soon.”

In the blink of an eye, one week had passed. The news that the Fair family wanted to marry off their daughter was already a well known fact. Their goal was precisely to bring about a fait accompli.

The Undying Sect also did not take it lying down and struck back fiercely. A few major clans were also making their moves in succession. There were some that added fuel to the fire, and those who got in touch with Xiao Chen in the dark.

Recently, the Zhuge fatty and Fairsky were obviously working diligently. However, Xiao Chen had a bad premonition. This kind of conduct could easily break what little friendship they had just barely build up.

Zhuge fatty seemed to be making at least three round trips everyday, “Heh-heh, brother, do me a favor. If we can have some sort of relationship with that old man in the Southern Wasteland, becoming the master of the family is not a pipe dream anymore. How about this? Why don’t you help me invite your senior Draco? Our family lord wants to entertain him.”

Even the Reagan family was sending people to communicate with Xiao Chen unceasingly, saying that everything that happened in the past was a misunderstanding, and that they would certainly help him if the need arises. Moreover, they also tactfully asked if he wanted to take a concubine.

Xiao Chen felt that it was preposterous. Everything that happened in recent days felt like a farce, they could actually do this… they were actually capable of doing this!

If there was a powerful figure behind one’s back, they could really have avoided strife for several hundred years!

Human’s ugly nature had inadvertently been put on full display.

Half a month, it was neither a long period of time nor was it a short period of time. That time was quickly approaching. It was impossible for Xiao Chen to promise this kind of absurd marriage. He felt that it was extremely ridiculous.

However, Draco finally made his move at this time. After sealing Xiao Chen’s movements, he promised the Fair family, that he would definitely attend the wedding. Once this news spread out, a few of the major clans were shocked. For Draco to attend the wedding, does that mean they ⌈3⌋ will support the Fair family? The Southern Wasteland had remained low-profile all these years, are they finally going to make their move?

Thus, it was impossible for these major clans to sit back anymore. They wanted to build a relationship with the Southern Wasteland via Xiao Chen no matter what.

Liu Qingfeng of the Undying Sect flew into a terrible rage and made the disciples tremble with fear. However, Yan Qingcheng wouldn’t yield no matter what.

“How could Xiao Chen not be a good fit for you? Securing the position as the strongest in the South is only a matter of time, why wouldn’t you agree?”

“Master… you were not like this before…” Yan Qingcheng’s lily-white face had shed tears as she continued, “I have compromised once, and since then, I vowed that I will not compromise again, even if I end up dead! I admit that he has a bright future ahead, but there is no romantic feelings between the two of us. These kind of thing cannot be forced.”

In the backyard of the Fair family; Fairsky was heaving a sigh and said to Fairsnow, who was currently appreciating the flowers, “Sis, you don’t really need to put on a facade. Yan Qingcheng does not have the intention to fight over him with you.”

“So meaningless, I originally thought there would be a competitor.” Fairsnow revealed a cold smile. ⌈4

Fairsky said, “It was really unexpected for Xiao Chen to be against the marriage. If not because Draco bound him with absolute force, he might flat out refuse it.”

Fairsnow said with a cold voice, “If not because he has relationship with Draco, why would I even lower myself to marry him? My heart is at Middle Earth!”

Fairsnow’s personality was icily arrogant. The difference between her ordinarily sweet-tempered nature was like that of the night and day. However, she looked more attractive than ever.

The Fair family practiced the Water-Lily Technique. Those who practiced this technique, regardless of male or female, would become incomparably beautiful. It was a magical technique with bizarre power. In a certain sense, there’s no ugly men or women in the Fair family.

The shortcoming of this martial art was that, the progress during the Exuvia realm was very slow. However, once they advanced to the Historia realm, their speed would pick up ferociously. It could be said to be a secret technique not only in name, but in reality.

Perhaps nobody knew of this, but Fairsnow had just broken through the Exuvia Ninth Celestial Layer in the recent days. She had concealed her power perfectly. Once she make a breakthrough to the Historia realm, her future accomplishments from now would be immeasurable.

There was an incomplete version of this martial art spread throughout the mortal world. The successive generations of the imperial household possessed one each. It was an internal secret that had never been spread around. It was known as the Sunflower Technique. The incomplete version was not inferior to the genuine Water-Lily Technique, so much so that their training speed in the initial stage was a little faster. However, the price of learning this technique was too high. Those who wished to learn this miraculous technique must first castrate themselves. ⌈5

Half a month passed by very quickly, today is the day of the wedding ceremony. The Fair family had send out invitation cards all over with great momentum. This marriage was comparable to a grand festival in the Celestial City. ⌈6

At this moment, an unforeseen event occurred in Xiao Chen’s residence. Draco laughed heartily and said, “Alright, let’s stop playing with those families, it’s getting boring.” ⌈7

And just at this time, Draco suddenly made his move. Not only Xiao Chen, even Tenax, Keke, and the Azure Dragon King was confined in a ball of black light. The powerful him made people unable to see his upper limits. Even Keke’s rainbow-colored radiance had been suppressed.

Draco had a one-eighty change in attitude and his eyes were ice-cold. His voice was as chilly as the winter of the twelfth lunar month as he said to Keke and Tenax, “The first lesson the old man entrusted to me is to have the both of you cut off your relationship with him ruthlessly!” He lifted his hand to unsheathe a longsword and held it against Xiao Chen’s neck. He faced Keke and Tenax before he continued, “If you wish to accomplish something, it is necessary to be heartless. Who is he? He’s just a human. He wants to become your master, he wants to enslave you for a lifetime. Kill him, and reinstate your true nature, to unleash your restraints. Otherwise, with his existence, you guys will never be able to manifest your potential to the extreme limit!”

Although Keke and Tenax were unable to budge an inch, they could still move their mouth as they let out a furious snarl. And the Azure Dragon King was also letting out a dragon roar, which shook the vast sky.

“Forget it, I am not so heartless as to let you guys kill him with your own hands.” Speaking until here, Draco’s ice-cold eyes gradually became gentler as he continued, “Be at ease, I won’t kill him personally either. I will just leave him at the Celestial City to let him destroy himself.”

Finishing all this, Draco transformed into a black mist and flew towards the sky with Keke and the two Dragon Kings bounded. Many people in the Celestial City saw the black cloud flying towards the depths of the South Wasteland.

They were separated… This day had finally arrived. Xiao Chen felt completely empty. From this point on, he had parted with the two little beasts. He also had no idea whether he would ever get a chance to see them again in this lifetime, because he could already feel it, that old man in the South Wasteland was really too unreasonable!

And just at this time, the people from the Fair family had arrived, to invite him and Draco to their mansion.

Xiao Chen stood up silently and undid the acupuncture points that were sealed by Draco. He knew that the crisis was on the verge of breaking out. Will the Fair family and the other major clans flip out at this point? In addition, did the tiger woman and servant already receive the news and are already on their way to kill him?



 


  1. Silva: Then how do they know for sure that Middle Earth is located at the very center if nobody knows how far North does it stretch? 
  2. Silva: What trump card?
    Fade: maybe his marriage, or revealing he was not going with Keke? 
  3. Fade: who are they, does this mean the southern group he represents?
    Silva: the “dragon” I suppose? 
  4. Silva: Okay… now she’s scaring me. 
  5. Silva: Kek so the girls cannot learn this? Or you mean they have to cut off their ovaries?
    But I doubt people of the past know of the technique to castrate girls?
    Fade: probably only for guys to castrate, to keep their silky smooth skin ….., maybe **** removal for girls? 
  6. Silva: KEK! INB4 Draco and Xiao Chen ditching the marriage 
  7. Silva: CALLED IT 

VPnA – The Prequel Volume 2 Chapter 31

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There are 2 more sponsored chapters in queue, I’ll be releasing them tomorrow~

Like I have started last week, click on “Next Chapter” to see the teaser for the next chapter!

Guys, the Very Pure and Ambiguous – The Prequel Fan Art contest is ongoing, a 1/3 of the time has past already! Do send me some submissions~

VPnA – The Prequel Volume 2 Chapter 30

Here’s one of the sponsored chapters. Thanks, Michael!

Like I have started last week, click on “Next Chapter” to see the teaser for the next chapter!

Guys, the Very Pure and Ambiguous – The Prequel Fan Art contest is ongoing, more than a 1/3 of the time has past already! Do send me some submissions~