WTYTIAAN Chapter 59

Chapter 59

After wasting nearly half of his mithril, Yan Yunqing finally crafted three portable anchor points.

However, only one of these anchor points could exist on the map at a time, and it couldn’t be placed more than five kilometers away. After pondering for a long while, he decided to install the portable anchor point outside the city.

Bato Vita’s capital city wasn’t particularly large, tending towards an oval shape, wide at both ends and narrow in the middle. With the royal palace located in the center of the city, Yan Yunqing could install the anchor point outside the city and still teleport to its location after entering the palace.

After leaving the city, Yan Yunqing found a sparsely populated forest. He placed the anchor point on a large tree, ensuring that even if someone passed by, they wouldn’t witness his sudden appearance.

As soon as it was installed, the anchor point displayed a countdown. The anchor point’s existence lasted for a total of seven days, and it could only be used three times within that period. After the time was up or after being used three times, the anchor point would immediately shatter and become unusable.

After returning to the inn, Yan Yunqing deliberately wasted a teleportation opportunity to test the portable anchor point’s teleportation effect. During the loading bar, he couldn’t move, but he could do other things.

When the one-minute loading bar reached its end, Yan Yunqing felt a wave of dizziness. He instantly appeared at the location where he had installed the portable anchor point, silently and without warning. He even startled a small bird resting nearby, causing it to squawk and flap its wings as it flew away.

Yan Yunqing felt a slight pang of guilt for scaring the poor bird, so he conveniently set up a defensive magic array near the anchor point, preventing any birds from flying in.

Yan Yunqing, taking advantage of the cooldown, repeatedly grinded the [Sunset Village’s Curse] dungeon that he knew, barely managing to raise his level to thirty-five. After that, grinding the dungeon no longer increased his experience, so Yan Yunqing had to give up regretfully.

With everything prepared, all that was left was to wait for the banquet to begin.

As for Adrain, who lived opposite Yan Yunqing? In the past few days, he would occasionally come to knock on the door, inviting Yan Yunqing to eat, drink, and so on.

Yan Yunqing would politely decline, and incidentally ask a heart-stabbing question: “Do you have money again?”

At these times, Adrain would show an embarrassed expression.

On the third day before the banquet, Yan Yunqing packed his luggage, preparing to create the illusion that Edward had already left the capital. When he ganked Fei Wu, he would immediately teleport away, not giving anyone time to react, and make a clean getaway.

That way, the Edward who had already left couldn’t be linked to the joker who broke into the palace and killed the prince, and he could continue to use Edward’s identity in the future.

The ideal was rich, but the reality was harsh. He had just walked out of the room with his luggage when he ran head-on into Adrain.

Adrain glanced at the luggage in his hand, looking surprised. “Are you preparing to leave?”

Yan Yunqing cursed his bad luck inwardly, but his face remained calm. “Yes, I’ve stayed here long enough. I’m going to look for my brother.”

Adrain frowned, but Yan Yunqing’s reason was sufficient. He couldn’t possibly stop Yan Yunqing from looking for his brother, so he was silent for a moment before saying, “It’s dangerous for you to travel alone. I’ve heard that there have been many incidents of magical creatures injuring people near the capital.”

Magical creatures injuring people?

This was the first time Yan Yunqing had heard of this. He had been busy preparing for the assassination these past few days and didn’t have much time to gather information. Adrain’s mention of magical creatures injuring people made Yan Yunqing instinctively feel that something was wrong.

According to Lillian, the reason Bato Vita’s capital was built here was because there were no records of gods falling here in history, so magical creatures shouldn’t appear frequently in this area.

From Yan Yunqing’s perspective, the only people currently related to magical creatures were the Augreir Family and the Fifth Prince, Fei Wu. If there were frequent incidents of magical creatures injuring people nearby, then it was inseparable from the Augreir Family.

Thinking of the several strongholds of the Augreir Family that he had vaguely identified when collecting information some time ago, Yan Yunqing pursed his lips, deciding to destroy as many strongholds as he could before leaving.

He had to give the Augreir Family a severe blow. These people were too arrogant.

“I understand, thank you for the reminder.” Yan Yunqing nodded, picked up his luggage and prepared to leave past Adrain, but was blocked by Adrain again.

Yan Yunqing:? What exactly does this person want to do?

Adrain: “If you’re not in a hurry, you can wait… wait a few days. Where are you going? I and my guards can escort you for a while.”

Yan Yunqing: …I politely refuse.

“There’s no need.” Yan Yunqing said with a complicated expression, “My next destination is the opposite of Skarn, so I won’t trouble you with this trip.”

Adrain opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but was interrupted by Yan Yunqing, “Besides, you still have to stay here for quite some time, right? Really, there’s no need to trouble you. Goodbye, if fate allows.”

Adrain didn’t have any more reasons, so he slowly moved out of the way. As Yan Yunqing brushed past him, he reached out and grabbed Yan Yunqing’s wrist.

“I… can I ask where you’re planning to go next…?”

Yan Yunqing thought, how could he possibly tell him?

“If all goes well, I’ll go to the Romunike Empire.”

That was a lie. The second place he excluded was the Romunike Empire. The first place he excluded was the Light Church.

Yan Yunqing struggled, trying to free his wrist from Adrain’s grip. “Can you let go?”

“Oh, sorry.” Adrain let go of his hand. He quickly rummaged through his clothes and took out a piece of parchment, stuffing it into Yan Yunqing’s hand. “This is my address. You can write to me when you reach your destination. You can also come to me if you need any help.”

Yan Yunqing discovered that he had a new NPC friend, Adrain. The system readily recognized Adrain as his temporary teammate.

Taking a closer look, Adrain’s favorability was surprisingly high, almost catching up to Lillian’s. He could even initiate a private chat with Adrain one-sidedly.

Yan Yunqing: …Your free-giving nature really makes you seem worthless.

However, it was always good to have one more friend and one less enemy. Yan Yunqing still felt it was worth it, at least he didn’t think that Adrain Sawyer was the kind of scum who would associate with people like Fei Wu.

He raised his hand and took the piece of parchment from Adrain’s hand, folding it into a small square and stuffing it into his pocket. “If I need anything.”

*

Yan Yunqing, wearing the Edward disguise, left the city gate, found a deserted corner, stuffed all his luggage into his backpack, and transformed himself again before entering the capital city.

This time, he didn’t return to the inn run by the Augreir Family. Instead, he headed to the temporary residence he had found for Uncle Lyon before—the shady inn where the doorman was a level sixty-two old man.

He would stay here for the last two days. No one here would be bored enough to guess his identity.

He still booked a single room. The doorman glanced at Yan Yunqing. “Two nights? Ten gold coins, no bargaining.”

Yan Yunqing: …? It was three gold coins a night before. How did the price skyrocket by two gold coins after only a few days?

“No money?” The doorman said lazily, “If you don’t have money, go stay in the dormitory. Why sleep in a single room?”

However, Yan Yunqing couldn’t reveal that he had stayed there before. Faced with the doorman’s exorbitant price, he could only hold his nose and accept it, taking out ten gold coins from his pocket and throwing them on the table.

“Two nights.”

The doorman pinched the gold coins, muttering, “Did I misjudge again? There are so many rich people now…”

He took out the large bunch of keys from the drawer again, picked and chose before pulling one out and throwing it to Yan Yunqing, “Here, your room.”

Yan Yunqing caught it. It wasn’t the same room he had booked last time, and it wasn’t even on the same floor.

He was just about to leave with the key when the doorman’s lazy voice sounded again, “Kid, tell your friend to keep her tail tucked in a bit. It’s too obvious.”

Yan Yunqing froze. Lillian, who had been hiding under his hood, held her breath and hid deeper. He looked back at the doorman, seeing that he didn’t have any extra reaction and was still lying there like a corpse, only occasionally shaking to prove that he hadn’t died on the spot.

“…Oh.”

Yan Yunqing left quickly with Lillian. As soon as he entered the room, he immediately closed the door, checked around for any listening magic, and then released Lillian.

“What’s going on?” Yan Yunqing was a little uneasy. “Did that old man discover you just now?”

Lillian wasn’t sure either. “…Maybe?”

Yan Yunqing frowned. “Is it because the level difference is too big that he can detect you? Tch, I don’t know what that doorman’s identity is. It wouldn’t be good if he got greedy for you.”

The price of elves on the black market had always been very high. Didn’t Yan Yunqing first meet Lillian in the auction house warehouse?

Lillian comforted, “Don’t worry, I still have the ability to protect myself. Even if his level is higher than mine, he might not be able to catch me.”

Yan Yunqing retorted, “Then how did you get caught by the people from the auction house before?”

“Uh…” Lillian scratched her curly hair, smiling embarrassedly. “That was a temporary mistake! How could I make the same mistake twice!”

Yan Yunqing was skeptical. “Is that so?”

He also thought of Adrain earlier. “Did that General Sawyer also discover you?”

“That shouldn’t be the case.” Lillian shook her head. “The reason the doorman discovered me should be because my magic fluctuations are a little unstable.”

“Unstable magic fluctuations?”

Yan Yunqing was surprised. “What’s going on?”

“It’s just a normal phenomenon for the elves…” Lillian looked a little guilty, her eyes darting around, not daring to look at Yan Yunqing. “You don’t need to care too much about it.”

Yan Yunqing narrowed his eyes. “Tell the truth.”

Lillian persisted for a while, but finally gave in. “Okay, okay, it’s just that I’m entering my growth period from my juvenile period. The magic fluctuations on my body will be more chaotic, and occasionally a little will leak out. That doorman probably discovered the magic fluctuations on my body, that’s why he said that to you.”

“He might not even have discovered that I’m an elf!”

It was mentioned before that elves have two forms. One is the juvenile period. At this time, elves are elemental beings, and their bodies are basically petite. Like Lillian, they are currently no more than ten centimeters tall.

One is the adult period. At this time, the elves will grow to about the size of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old human. After that, their appearance will almost be fixed, unless the elves have some special needs and go to the Mother Tree to make a wish, otherwise they will not easily change, nor will they grow old.

In between, there is a transitional growth period. Each elf’s growth period is different. Some quickly pass through the growth period, and some even have to wait decades before passing through the growth period. It is not completely uniform.

The elves have one thing in common during the growth period, that is, the magic fluctuations on their bodies will be more chaotic, which is considered the weakest period for elves.

The Elf King only allows adult elves to leave the territory and go out to train, also because this growth period can easily put elves in danger.

Although elves are not afraid of death, no one wants their clansmen to die inexplicably due to dangers encountered during the growth period.

As the Demon King, Yan Yunqing had lived in the elven territory for a long time and knew something about this growth period.

He frowned, feeling a little troubled by the current situation.

If that was the case, Lillian couldn’t enter the palace with him. There were countless high-level guards inside, and Lillian’s chaotic magic fluctuations would be like a lamp being turned on in the darkness in those people’s eyes. Anyone would think he was strange.

But Yan Yunqing didn’t feel comfortable leaving Lillian outside alone, because after he finished his business, he would teleport directly out of the city, leaving Lillian behind. He couldn’t possibly let Lillian wait for him outside the city, right?

…It wasn’t impossible?

Lillian seemed to have noticed Yan Yunqing’s entanglement. She thought for a while and reached out to tug on Yan Yunqing’s hair. “Send me back to Yuri, then I’ll wait for you to come back at Yuri’s.”

Yan Yunqing’s eyes lit up. This was a good choice. Sunset Village could be considered his initial newbie village. In addition, he had solved the curse of Sunset Village, and the Sunset Village faction’s favorability towards him had reached trust. It was even safer for Lillian to stay there than for an elf to stay in this shady inn.

“But that way, I won’t be able to help you.”

“I can do it alone.” Yan Yunqing bent his finger and flicked Lillian’s forehead. “Don’t think of me as some weak creature. Besides, even if this plan isn’t completed, I’m 100% sure I can escape.”

Lillian landed on Yan Yunqing’s shoulder, listening to Yan Yunqing’s confident words. After being silent for a long time, she hummed, seemingly having made a decision.

*

Yan Yunqing took some time to return to Sunset Village and sent Lillian to the blacksmith shop.

Yuri, who hadn’t seen Yan Yunqing for a long time, happily pounced on him. “Brother A-Yan!”

“Little Yuri!” Yan Yunqing picked Yuri up and spun around three times, casually weighing her to feel that she was a little heavier than before, commenting, “You’ve grown taller.”

Little Yuri giggled, her laughter like a clear little bell.

Yan Yunqing messed around with Little Yuri for a while before pulling old Jason into the room.

He had told the village chief about the origin of the village’s curse before, but he didn’t know if the old village chief had made it public to everyone, so he was still prepared to explain the matter of that year to old Jason and the hunter, Uncle Rosen, separately.

“…So that’s how it is?” Old Jason was stunned for a moment, then nodded. “So, Henry and Karenna have been protecting the village?”

“Well… but after Henry decided to completely resolve the divine bones attached to Karenna… well, they should have started a new life now.”

Yan Yunqing hinted that the spirits of Henry and Karenna had disappeared. As for the two bosses in the dungeon, they were obviously just copies created by the game system, simply using the appearances of Henry and Karenna.

Old Jason was a little dazed. Finally, he sighed. “I understand. Thank you very much for everything you’ve done for Henry and Karenna.”

Old Jason’s hands, which were like old tree bark, tightly grasped Yan Yunqing’s hands, and said solemnly, “I heard that the son of the city lord of Setar City was murdered at home.”

Yan Yunqing was stunned.

In old Jason’s usually taciturn eyes, which were slightly blurred, contained complex emotions. “Good child, I know you want to avenge Henry and Karenna, but…”

“Just from hearing you talk about it, I can feel that it’s a very, very difficult thing, and it must be very dangerous.”

“My selfishness prevents me from saying please don’t continue, but I still want you to be well. You are a very brave child and shouldn’t fall into the hands of those hateful people.”

“If… you encounter danger, or you feel that there will be danger if you continue like this…”

“Then please give up.”

“No matter what, only by living will there be hope to continue.”

Yan Yunqing’s heart was filled with mixed feelings. After receiving the kindness of others once again, he couldn’t treat this world as just a game, and everyone as just people generated by game data.

He grasped old Jason’s hand in return, giving him a comforting smile. “Please don’t worry, of course I will come back safely.”

“Henry, Karenna, Adelaide, and her students… their deaths, someone has to pay the price for it.”

If no one can wield the power of justice, then he, the former Demon King, will swing this sword.

Just like he had done before.

End the war of the gods, end the darkness that has enveloped this continent for hundreds of years.