WTYTIAAN Chapter 54

Chapter 54

After meeting with Cornelia and getting the specific time of the banquet, as well as the list of possible participants, Yan Yunqing found a corner, canceled his cat form, changed his identity, and continued to purchase materials.

The mithril required for the portable anchor point had been out of stock at the alchemy shop for the past two days. The owner said that a new batch of materials would probably arrive today, so Yan Yunqing had to hurry over and buy all the mithril.

This portable anchor point was his most powerful escape method so far. If he couldn’t make it because he didn’t have enough materials, he would have to consider other methods.

Yan Yunqing switched back to the appearance of a magician. He also gave this identity a name to the outside world, very common and popular, called Edward.

The setting for this identity is very simple: Edward is a child from a commoner background. His mother raised him and his younger brother alone. He was fortunate enough to meet a very powerful old alchemist when he was a child, who discovered that he had extraordinary talents in magic and alchemy, so he took him by his side to teach him.

It’s just that the old alchemist was too old. After teaching Edward for a few years, he passed away. Edward inherited all of the old alchemist’s estate, but when he returned home, he found that his mother had already died of illness, and his younger brother was missing. He took the old alchemist’s estate and searched the world for his brother’s whereabouts.

His gloomy and strange personality is because Edward has been living with the old alchemist since he was a child, and has never communicated with outsiders. He is rich because the old alchemist’s estate was all given to him. He occasionally stays in a certain place to find his brother’s whereabouts.

This identity is particularly useful, and Yan Yunqing has already decided to make this identity and the Joker identity one of his fixed aliases.

It just so happens that Edward becomes the identity walking in the open, and Joker is the identity who does bad things in the dark.

Of course, it would be even cooler if he could get himself a mechanical right hand.

Pulling down the slightly slipped hood, Yan Yunqing lowered his head and walked into an alchemy shop.

“Mr. Edward, you’re here!” Standing in front of the alchemy shop counter was a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old. Her face was round, with small freckles on both sides of her cheeks, and she was enthusiastically greeting Yan Yunqing with a ponytail.

This is the shop owner’s youngest daughter, who often helps her parents watch the shop here. It was her father who promised Yan Yunqing that the mithril would arrive today.

Yan Yunqing coughed lightly twice, keeping his voice very soft, and the fingers exposed under his wide magic robe tapped the table lightly. “Has the thing I wanted arrived?”

Looking gloomy.

“Dad has already told me that Mr. Edward, you ordered a batch of mithril, and paid double the deposit, asking us to hurry up and get the goods, right?” The girl squatted down, groped under the counter for a while, and took out a packaged small box. “Found it!”

She opened the small box, placed it on the table, and pushed it towards Yan Yunqing. “It just arrived this morning, would you like to check it?”

Yan Yunqing glanced at it, threw an appraisal over, and after confirming that there was no problem with the item, he took out a cloth bag from his arms and placed it on the counter. “This is the final payment.”

As he said that, he closed the small box and put it into his arms, actually directly into his backpack.

The girl didn’t stand on ceremony, and directly in front of Yan Yunqing, poured all the gold coins in the cloth bag out, counted them one by one, and after confirming that they were correct, she collected them all into the counter, and took out a small notebook to record the amount of the new transaction.

“No problem, Mr. Edward.” The girl smiled brightly.

Yan Yunqing nodded, continuing to cosplay as a gloomy little mushroom, and floated out of the alchemy shop.

The girl supported her face, looked at Yan Yunqing’s leaving back, and muttered, “What a strange person, are all magician adults like this?”

Walking in the shadows, Yan Yunqing thought about where to install the portable anchor point, but found that the surrounding crowd was a bit noisy. He stopped sensitively, pricked up his ears, and listened.

“I heard that General Soyer is about to arrive. My neighbor’s nephew saw their team when he was doing business outside!”

“Really? Then let’s hurry to the city gate to take a look. That’s General Soyer!”

…

So, Cornelia was talking about General Soyer coming back… The timing is really coincidental. Cornelia just finished telling him that General Soyer would be back, and this General Soyer is about to arrive.

Yan Yunqing thought about it and decided to join in the fun.

A level 100 genius swordsman, and a general who has been stationed on the border all year round, Yan Yunqing respects people who defend their country, and naturally General Soyer is no exception.

As for the Eleventh Princess’s matter… after all, it was the Bato King who wanted to match up the Eleventh Princess and General Soyer, not General Soyer himself who wanted to do this. Maybe he wasn’t willing.

Yan Yunqing quietly followed behind the crowd. Yan Yunqing, wearing a black wide magic robe and unable to see his face clearly, was actually a bit conspicuous in the crowd, but this is the capital city, and magicians are not uncommon here, especially magicians with strange personalities.

So, the people who passed by just glanced at him a few more times. When civilians saw the magic robe on his body, they consciously couldn’t afford to provoke the magician, and tried to keep a certain distance from him, so as not to dirty the magician’s robe, and be blamed for it.

In this way, Yan Yunqing inexplicably walked to the front position.

Yan Yunqing: …

Forget it, the view is good here, and you can see the situation at the city gate entrance more clearly.

Yan Yunqing scanned the crowd at the entrance and found several luxurious Pegasus carriages parked not far away. Just looking at the magic props decorated outside the carriages, he knew that the people riding inside were either rich or expensive.

Yan Yunqing pulled his hood again to reduce his presence.

The chat panel suddenly popped up a prompt, Lillian sent him a message.

[Lillian (Private)]：Why haven’t you come back yet?

Yan Yunqing took a look and replied that he was watching the excitement at the city gate, and by the way clicked on his personal information and tried to modify his ID.

Can it really be modified?

Yan Yunqing decisively changed the ID to Ri’an, which is his commonly used ID in the game. He always feels insecure when he sees his name appearing in the chat box.

[Lillian (Private)]：Huh? Is it fun? I want to go too!

[Ri’an (Private)]：Let’s forget it. I heard that this General Soyer who is coming back soon has a level of 100. If you come over, you might be discovered.

[Lillian (Private)]：Is that so… okay.

[Lillian (Private)]：Then bring me a box of fruit crisps from the corner of the street when you come back.

[Ri’an (Private)]：Got it.

Yan Yunqing closed the chat box with Lillian and thought, why is Lillian eating more and more recently? Speaking of which, her figure seems to have become a little bigger, hasn’t she really gained weight?

Yan Yunqing was distracted for a while, and there was another commotion at the city gate, and it was getting louder and louder.

He vaguely heard cheers. Yan Yunqing raised his eyes and saw a group of people riding Feiyun horses coming mightily.

The man in the lead had sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes. The middle of his right eyebrow was broken, and a scar crossed the middle. His thin lips were slightly pursed, and his expressionless face revealed a murderous aura. His short hair made his face more angular.

He is not particularly handsome, and also reveals a fierce look, but from the lingering bloody smell on his body, it can be seen that he is the General Soyer who guards the border.

Adrian Soyer rode into the city on horseback. He originally wanted to dismount at the guard post at the city gate to show his proof of identity, but he was stopped by his guards.

“General, you can’t dismount now. So many people are watching. If you dismount, doesn’t that mean you are bowing your head to King Bato? How long has this old thing not sent us supplies? If we give him a good face again, he will pull down our Soyer family sooner or later!”

The guard said hatefully, “We must show a tough attitude this time. Even if the Soyer family has a deep foundation, it can’t stand to be consumed like this! We still have to guard against those monsters!”

Adrian silently retracted his foot that was about to dismount, and silently stared at the city guard guarding the gate.

When those deep blue eyes without any emotion stared at people, they inexplicably gave people a cold sweat, as if the blood was frozen and unable to move for a moment.

The city guard was stunned, his hands and feet seemed to be out of control, and his whole body was stiff in place, more like a corpse than a corpse.

Adrian: ?

Adrian frowned, and the half-broken eyebrow was like a hideous beast, scaring the city guard to kneel down with a thud.

Silence…

The whole place seemed to be quiet, and even the civilians who liked to watch the excitement were silent, as if anyone who made a little sound would be beheaded by this fierce man.

He looked at the city guards kneeling in front of them, and subconsciously substituted the guards’ words. King Bato was trying to give him a disgrace before he entered the city.

Adrian’s mood suddenly became worse. He looked up and down at the city guard, thinking about what King Bato might do next.

After he received the invitation and decided to come to the capital to attend this banquet, the old people and predecessors in the family had repeatedly told him that those living in the capital were all black-hearted ghosts. Whether it was talking to them or interacting with them, he had to be careful, and someone might have dug a hole and was waiting for him to jump into it.

Adrian, who has lived for a total of thirty-eight years, thirty of which have been spent focusing on swordsmanship and killing monsters on the battlefield, is powerful and invincible, but his EQ is not as good as an eleven or twelve-year-old child.

When he decided to go to the capital, all the elders of the Soyer family were worried about it, fearing that their beloved son with well-developed limbs but a simple mind would be tricked by King Bato, whose heart was denser than a honeycomb, in the capital.

As early as a month before Adrian set off, they began to repeatedly tell him how to avoid being deceived, so that Adrian had to think about whether King Bato was playing tricks again when he saw the city guard kneeling down in fear.

Adrian: “…Aren’t you going to let me in?”

Hearing Adrian’s cold voice, the kneeling city guard couldn’t help but tremble twice. Fortunately, the old city guard behind him reacted quickly enough and pulled up the young city guard who was kneeling on the ground.

“No, no, how dare we stop you?” The old city guard waved his hand quickly and said to the other city guards behind him, “Quick, move the fence away. Can’t you see General Soyer is here?”

Hearing the old city guard’s words, the people behind him ran around and got busy a step late. In less than a minute, the fence that was blocking them was removed.

“Well, the fence has been removed, General, what do you think…” The old city guard wiped his sweat, “Why don’t you and these… well, get off first? There are more people in the city, and today I heard that you are coming back, and everyone is here to watch the excitement.”

He pointed behind him. There was indeed a crowd of people guarding the city gate. “If you accidentally step on them, it won’t be good.”

The old city guard’s reason was sufficient, and Adrian thought so too, but he was told by the guards before he came in not to dismount casually. These were all King Bato’s conspiracies.

Adrian was silent, and secretly glanced at the guards beside him. This guard was the smartest in the entire Soyer army, and was also sent by the Soyer family to be his external brain.

The guard didn’t react, and Adrian didn’t say anything, keeping silent as he had been told to do before, and didn’t move.

He didn’t move, and the Soyer army who came with him couldn’t move even more. For a while, the air was stagnant, as if the pause button had been pressed, and everyone was playing the game of one, two, three, wooden man. Whoever moved first would lose.

The old city guard couldn’t stand the pressure first, and went forward with a smile, making a please gesture, “Since the general doesn’t want to dismount, then please come in quickly. I’ll let a few young people run around and let those civilians not get too close, so they shouldn’t be stepped on.”

Adrian nodded.

Thinking to himself: So tired, I can finally go in.

He pulled the reins, and the Feiyun horse under him obediently took a step and walked towards the city.

It was not until this time that the crowd who had been silent dared to speak, but the original cheers turned into whispers. No one thought that this long-famous general would be so scary.

The city guards, who were usually arrogant and unruly at the city gate, were scared to kneel by the great general!

How amazing!

Adrian heard a few guards beside him whispering in his ear.

“I said that our general is the scariest when he keeps a cold face and does nothing. He doesn’t even need to say harsh words. Look, didn’t the city guards let us in obediently?”

“Putting aside everything else, the general’s face is indeed useful. I heard that some people in our place still use our general’s name to scare children, saying that if they don’t sleep at night, they will be caught by the evil ghost of the Soyer family. I laughed for a whole week when I heard it last time!”

“Hahaha, I also used the general’s name to scare the recruits before. Those recruits are really afraid and love the general. Last time I used the cup that the general used to make an exercise reward, but I didn’t expect those people to fight over the broken cup. The training effect for a week was better than the previous month.”

Adrian: …

So tired, the subordinates are so annoying, he already wants to go home.

If it weren’t for the food for the tens of thousands of Soyer soldiers, he wouldn’t bother to make this trip.

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The aura is indeed amazing.

Yan Yunqing took in everything that happened at the city gate and silently commented in his heart.

His sight was always on this young general. Yes, very young.

Perhaps thirty-eight years old is considered middle-aged among ordinary people, but it is indeed very young for swordsmen and magicians. After all, every time they level up, their lifespan will increase accordingly.

At Adrian’s level, his lifespan can basically reach three to four hundred years. This is based on the fact that the human race is not a long-lived species. For those races that were originally long-lived species, the level at this level is basically thousands of years.

The lifespan above level 100 is even longer, possibly two to three thousand years.

This is also why Yan Yunqing thinks that Sylph shouldn’t have died so early, because Sylph’s level had already broken through level 130 during the Demon King period.

At the age of thirty-eight, compared to Adrian’s lifespan, he can basically be considered just entering his youth.

Thinking like this, Yan Yunqing suddenly met the general riding on the horse. Those were deep blue eyes with bone-chilling coldness, and the aura filled with ice and frost made Yan Yunqing take a step back and move his eyes away.

Did he just meet eyes with that General Soyer? Why did that person look towards his direction? Is it really as Cornelia said, that the intuition of such high-level powerhouses is very accurate, and they found out that he was going to do something before the banquet started?

Yan Yunqing was suspicious and looked at Adrian’s direction again, but found that the general had already ridden away.

Coincidence?

…It should just be a coincidence, right? How could anyone really have such a bug-like intuition?

But these eyes reminded him of an old friend.

Yan Yunqing became suspicious, took two steps back, and prepared to hide himself in the crowd and go back to the hotel. This outside is too dangerous, let’s just stay in the hotel.

Before he could take the next step, there was another commotion at the city gate.

Two more cars drove over. The exterior of the carriages was not luxurious, but the mounts used to pull the cars were very precious magical beasts, fifth-order Flame Winged Horses, with combat power equivalent to level 50-60 magicians and swordsmen.

This is…?

A sharp-eyed civilian in the crowd shouted loudly: “Princess Alice and Prince William are back!”

The whispers that were there before suddenly became much louder, and several lively children had already drilled out of the crowd and shouted loudly at the carriage: “Alice! Alice, is that you coming back?”

The parents who were following behind were anxious and quickly grabbed the son who wanted to rush forward, grabbing his ears and educating him loudly, “You have to call her Princess, you impolite brat!”

“Alice doesn’t mind this!” The boy, who was being grabbed by the ears and lifted up, cried out and danced around, not forgetting to look at the carriage.

The next moment, the curtain covering the carriage parked at the city gate was lifted, and Yan Yunqing saw a neatly dressed little girl jump down from it, waving to the boy who was being grabbed by the ears, “Little Hardy! I’m back!”

Her cheeks were red and full of joy at seeing an acquaintance. Without paying attention to the carriage that was still blocked outside, she ran into the city in a puff of smoke and plunged into the middle of a group of children.

“Hardy! Long time no see, why are you being grabbed by the ears by your uncle as soon as we meet!” Alice, who had been away from home for a long time, was very excited and made fun of her former little friend.

“Isn’t it all because of you!” Hardy jumped up and down.

Other little friends also laughed and gathered around, telling each other interesting stories that had happened during their time apart.

The carriage that was originally blocked at the city gate was also released. Another carriage swayed and drove in, and another little boy jumped down from it, with light golden hair, a straight back, and an arrogance on his face that kept people away, “Alice, you’re mixing with these civilians again, you’re like this…”

Before he could finish speaking, another hand came over and hooked his neck, “Hey, William, long time no see, your little body has finally grown a bit, and you do look like a swordsman.”

Golden-haired little prince: …

William awkwardly pushed away the arm and muttered, “Just talk, don’t touch me.”

“Hahaha,” another tall and strong young man laughed, “Isn’t it because of your stinky mouth, William? Every time you speak, you’re so nasty, we can only interrupt you physically.”

After speaking, everyone looked at each other and started laughing wildly.

Alice also covered her mouth and laughed secretly, causing the golden-haired little prince to be so ashamed that he was about to jump up and down.

Yan Yunqing, who had already recognized who these two children were, stood there and watched for a while, and then glanced in the direction that General Soyer had left.

Finally, he cursed in a low voice: King Bato is really not a good thing.