WTYTIAAN Chapter 62

Chapter 62

Yan Yunqing suddenly erupted, and Majina couldn’t react in time. He actually succeeded for a moment. But when Yan Yunqing’s palm touched Majina’s neck, Majina took advantage of the situation and struck out with a palm, wanting to knock Yan Yunqing back.

This palm carried a strong wind, and the sound of the air being torn apart came. Yan Yunqing lowered his body to dodge the palm, then clenched his fingers, grabbed Majina’s neck and slammed her to the ground. He didn’t give Majina any time to react, and his other hand quickly attacked. The power amplification ring on his right hand lit up with a faint light.

Power amplification, activated.

Yan Yunqing pinched Majina’s neck with one hand and pinched Majina’s chin with the other. He twisted his hands in opposite directions, and with a snap, Majina’s neck was broken by him. She didn’t even make a sound before she died.

Majina’s eyes quickly dimmed, her eye sockets widened, and her eyes were still filled with disbelief.

She probably never thought that an ordinary guard could instantly kill her, a level 42 swordsman.

Yan Yunqing shook his hand. Before Majina died, she tightly grabbed his wrist. The strength of a level 42 swordsman was still terrifying, and his wrist hurt.

Yan Yunqing looked around and quickly dragged Majina’s body into the bushes, casually discarding it to the side.

Majina was a red name. Killing red names, even outside of a dungeon, could give Yan Yunqing experience. His experience bar increased by a small amount, almost reaching level 36.

“This is still a small elite monster.” Yan Yunqing muttered to himself, “The experience given is really rich.”

Most of the guards in the palace were yellow names, indicating that they were neutral. When Yan Yunqing was not completely discovered, they would not attack Yan Yunqing, and Yan Yunqing would not gain experience by killing them.

Of course, in a sense, yellow names also meant that these people were not bad. They would only become red names later because they belonged to different camps.

As for the palace maid Majina beside the Queen, the name above her head was so red that it was almost dripping blood, indicating that she had done many evil deeds and could never be in the same camp as Yan Yunqing. Therefore, she was a red name from the start. For Yan Yunqing, the player, killing her would grant him corresponding experience growth.

Yan Yunqing originally only planned to knock out a palace maid and use her identity to enter the palace. When he saw Majina’s red name, he instantly changed his mind.

There was no need to be soft-hearted when facing red names.

Besides, even if Yan Yunqing wanted to be soft-hearted, he had to see if Majina would give him the chance. What if he held back his strength and was killed instead?

Yan Yunqing never dared to underestimate the red names of this world.

Yan Yunqing used the Roleplay skill to transform from the guard’s appearance into Majina. He also casually threw a few Flame Emblems beside Majina’s body.

After tidying up the palace maid dress on his body, Yan Yunqing was a little unaccustomed to the empty feeling underneath, reminiscent of when he first transmigrated and had nothing on.

Yan Yunqing tugged at the hem of his skirt, trying to get used to this strange feeling, and then, imitating Majina, placed his hands crossed in front of his waist, straightened his back, and walked quickly towards the interior of the palace with a dignified gait.

On the way, he even encountered several patrol guards. Yan Yunqing didn’t look sideways, but those guards would stop and nod to him as a greeting, suggesting that this Majina had a high status in the palace and should be a close aide of the Queen.

Even the palace maids beside the Queen were red names, so it seemed that the Queen was not a good person either. However, Yan Yunqing’s target this time was not her. Killing Fei Wu was already hell mode, and he didn’t have the time to deal with another Queen.

No hurry, this debt could be settled slowly. When the group of players from Blue Star logged on, would he still be afraid of not having the chance to kill the Queen?

For Yan Yunqing, he had to consider many aspects when fighting alone. For the players who were not afraid of death, as long as you dared to show your health bar, they would kill even God for you.

As Yan Yunqing walked through the palace, he threw Flame Emblems, placing them in very hidden corners. With the button-sized volume of the Flame Emblems, they couldn’t attract anyone’s attention in the night.

Yan Yunqing mixed into the interior of the palace all the way, and he received even more attention. Several palace maids straightened their backs as soon as they saw him, pretending to be very serious.

Majina’s identity received too much attention. He had to change to a less conspicuous identity.

Yan Yunqing frowned slightly. A palace maid beside him, who had been observing him with the corner of her eye, suddenly staggered nervously. The tray in her hand fell, and several bottles of wine shattered on the ground, splashing a pool of purplish-red liquid, even spilling onto the hem of Yan Yunqing’s skirt.

The palace maid was shocked and quickly knelt down in front of Yan Yunqing, not caring that there were shards of glass all over the ground. “I, I’m sorry! I’m so sorry, Lady Majina! I didn’t mean to, I was just too nervous…”

She spoke incoherently, and Yan Yunqing frowned even more. He looked displeased and scolded sternly, “How can you be so careless?”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry—” The palace maid couldn’t help but sob, her voice trembling with fear.

Yan Yunqing glanced at the crowd who were vaguely surrounding them, put on an angry expression, and shouted, “Why aren’t two people coming to drag this troublemaker down and lock her up? You’re all useless.”

His stern shout made all the palace maids present lower their heads, not daring to make a sound. They all acted like quails. The palace maid who was being dragged away didn’t dare to cry loudly either, only covering her mouth and silently weeping.

Some people with good eyes and quick hands came up to clean up the mess on the ground. Yan Yunqing took the opportunity to walk out, pretending to go and change his clothes, but in reality, he followed the palace maid who was being dragged away from a distance. He kept following her until she was locked in a dark, small room, and then the two palace maids left.

After confirming that the other party would not be in any danger for the time being, Yan Yunqing quietly sneaked in and knocked out the palace maid. After looking around, he found that this was just a changing room.

Wasn’t this a coincidence?

Yan Yunqing rummaged through a cabinet and found a clean palace maid uniform. After canceling the Roleplay skill, he changed back to an ordinary face and put on the palace maid uniform. He was now a palace maid in this palace that no one recognized.

After quickly changing his clothes, Yan Yunqing walked out of the changing room again. He hadn’t walked far when he ran into an old palace maid with a mean face.

Her sharp gaze swept over Yan Yunqing’s clothes and frowned. “What time is it? The banquet has already started, why are you still here?”

Yan Yunqing lowered his head, imitating the palace maids he had just seen, and acted like a quail. “Yes, yes… someone made Lady Majina unhappy. Lady Majina asked us to bring her back, so I stayed behind… stayed behind…”

Yan Yunqing glanced nervously at the direction of the changing room. The old palace maid seemed to understand something, and her frown deepened. Her entire old face was like a wrinkled chrysanthemum. “I don’t care what grudges you had before. Today is an important day. No one is allowed to make mistakes. Since Lady Majina asked you to bring someone back before, I won’t pursue your fault for now.”

“Now, immediately, go back to your post!”

Yan Yunqing shrank his neck and responded in a low voice, “Yes, Madam.”

After saying that, he quickly bowed and turned to walk towards the banquet hall. But the old palace maid suddenly spoke up, “Wait.”

Yan Yunqing’s footsteps paused, and his entire body tensed up, ready to kill at any moment.

The old palace maid walked to Yan Yunqing’s side with a thumping sound on her low heels. Yan Yunqing lowered his head and didn’t make eye contact with her. She carefully sized up Yan Yunqing and reached out her hand—

The veins on Yan Yunqing’s arm, hidden under his long sleeves, bulged out. He was about to twist the neck of the yellow-named old palace maid in front of him, just like he had twisted Majina’s neck, but unexpectedly, the other party only placed her hand on the bow in front of his chest.

The old palace maid straightened his bow tie and then straightened his wrinkled skirt. Her voice was impatient, “How many times have I told you before? Iron your clothes before today. Don’t come out to meet people with wrinkled clothes. You’re losing the face of our Bato Vita Royal Family.”

While she was mumbling, she smoothed out the wrinkles on Yan Yunqing’s skirt, and finally clapped her hands, looked Yan Yunqing up and down, and hummed, “Now you look presentable. Go.”

Yan Yunqing relaxed his tense muscles and responded softly, “Yes, Madam.”

Turning around, under that gaze, Yan Yunqing walked towards the banquet hall.

This time it was to celebrate the twenty-third prince’s birthday. Yan Yunqing didn’t know if Bato King had finished his speech while he was dealing with the old palace maid. In short, by the time he entered the banquet hall, the birthday banquet had already begun.

This was a huge palace, divided into several areas. The main area was a group of prominent nobles and royals, and in the middle were the female companions and male companions they brought. Each one was dressed gorgeously. The outer ring was made up of small nobles who were not important enough, holding wine glasses and chatting while keeping an eye on the nobles in the middle, planning to find an opportunity to go up and talk.

The crystal palace lamps above gently swayed, and the lamps powered by magic refracted brilliant lights as time changed. The gorgeously dressed nobles clinked glasses and laughed. Palace maids in uniform shuttled through the crowd, fulfilling all the nobles’ requests.

There was also a circle of guards hidden around. Yan Yunqing swept a glance and saw that their levels were all above level 50. The closer they were to the middle, the higher the levels of the guards were. Yan Yunqing could not possibly kill them by leveling up.

As expected, the security was tight.

Yan Yunqing scanned the surroundings and found his target in the very center, [Lv.40 Fei Wu], with a red name dripping with blood above his head.

Tsk, his level was a little higher than him. As expected, this assassination was not a simple matter.

Yan Yunqing looked at the layout of the banquet hall, holding a tray with a few glasses of red wine on it. He lowered his sense of presence and slowly walked around the surroundings, stopping and going. When nobles called him, he stopped to serve them, not attracting the attention of any guards.

So Yan Yunqing slowly walked around the banquet hall, throwing Flame Emblems into every wall lamp, and also installed several ‘firecracker’ magic items provided by Lillian.

With all the Flame Emblems installed, Yan Yunqing also thoughtfully left an exit for these nobles, of course, an exit closer to the outer circle of small nobles. As for the nobles and royals with high status inside, they could only pray for their own good fortune.

The preparation for the first stage was completed. Next was to lure Fei Wu out and kill him without any guards around.

Killing Fei Wu was simple, the problem was how to lure him out without attracting the attention of the guards.

According to Yan Yunqing’s understanding of Fei Wu, he only needed to play the role of a beautiful palace maid, go up and pretend to clumsily bump into Fei Wu, attract Fei Wu’s attention, and then find an excuse to leave the banquet hall. Nine times out of ten, Fei Wu would follow.

But this way, he would be more conspicuous, and the guards’ attention would be more focused on him. The palace maids in the palace were obviously strictly trained, and this kind of reckless behavior was very inappropriate. Maybe the guards would guess that he wanted to seduce the Fifth Prince.

No matter what they thought, their attention would definitely be focused on him, which would cause him trouble to some extent. With this density of guards, his plan would be difficult to succeed.

Of course, there was also another option, to let Cornelia cooperate with him and lure Fei Wu out…

Yan Yunqing’s eyes fell on the center of attention, the sea-blue-haired woman who was holding Fei Wu’s arm, thinking about whether to meet with Cornelia.

“Magician?” A childish female voice sounded beside Yan Yunqing. Yan Yunqing didn’t react for a moment, thinking that the magician was calling him, and subconsciously looked to the side.

Alice?!

Yan Yunqing was shocked in his heart, but his face didn’t show the slightest mistake. He bowed slightly, “Eleventh Highness, do you have any orders?”

Alice blinked her round eyes, and a hint of a smile seemed to flash in her reddish-brown eyes. She leaned closer to Yan Yunqing and lowered her voice, “Magician, I know it’s you.”

Yan Yunqing: …???

Yan Yunqing was stunned, not knowing whether Alice was trying to trick him or had really recognized him—

No, Alice didn’t know he would appear at this banquet, how could she suddenly come to trick him? She couldn’t possibly trick every stranger, right?

Yan Yunqing was uncertain, not knowing whether he should admit to being the magician. Alice looked around first and tugged at his skirt, “This is not the place to talk, come with me.”

Yan Yunqing: …

Yan Yunqing glanced at Cornelia’s direction again, wondering if Cornelia had revealed his purpose to Alice in advance.

That was not fair, accomplice lady.

Helpless, Yan Yunqing followed Alice’s footsteps, walking behind her with lowered eyes and a docile expression. None of the guards thought there was anything strange about them, only thinking that the Eleventh Princess needed a palace maid to help her with something.

Alice smoothly led Yan Yunqing out of the banquet hall and took him around a few turns to a small, empty corner.

Alice pushed a wall, and a hidden secret door in the middle was pushed open by her. Alice waved to Yan Yunqing.

Yan Yunqing looked at his mini-map and then looked at the secret door, surprised to find that the secret door was not displayed on the mini-map at all.

Alice took Yan Yunqing for a while, passed through a few secret passages, and entered a spiraling staircase.

Yan Yunqing was a little tired from walking, but found that Alice had not stopped.

The surrounding handrails were very high, and there was no end in sight to the spiraling staircase. Hanging on the wall were not bright magic lamps, but old-fashioned oil lamps. As Alice walked past, one lamp after another was lit by flame magic. Yan Yunqing felt like he and Alice had fallen into a rabbit hole, as if they had entered a dreamlike fairy tale space.

“Where are we going?” Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but ask.

Alice made a “shush” gesture, “There are my father’s hounds in the palace. Their noses are very sensitive. Be careful not to be discovered by them!”

Yan Yunqing closed his mouth and sighed in his heart: Cornelia didn’t tell him about this.

He had already begun to think about when it would be better to run away if the plan failed.

Alice led him to the top of the stairs, pushed open a hidden door, and the narrow view suddenly opened up.

Yan Yunqing looked at the ancient clock. This… was actually the top of the clock tower in the palace.

“Welcome to my secret base!” Alice opened her arms and spun around in front of Yan Yunqing, showing him the clock tower. The exquisite skirt lifted in a beautiful arc. “How is it? Looking down from here is very beautiful, right?”

Yan Yunqing looked in the direction that Alice was pointing. The magnificent palace was displayed in front of him. Even though it was already night, bright magic lamps were lit everywhere in the palace. Looking down from the highest clock tower, it was like shining stars were lit in a magnificent castle, as brilliant as magic.

It was indeed beautiful and shocking, but under this magnificent shell, he didn’t know how much unbearable and decadent truth was hidden.

Yan Yunqing met Alice’s bright eyes, confirming that the other party had indeed recognized him. He sighed, “How did you recognize me?”

Alice tilted her head, “Didn’t I say that I can see people very accurately?”

She pointed to her reddish-brown eyes that seemed to be flowing with flames, “My eyes can see the aura flowing through everyone’s body!”

“Aura?” Yan Yunqing was stunned, and suddenly realized: “This is your talent skill?”

In this world, in addition to becoming a magician or swordsman, there were also a group of people who were born with special talent skills. These talent skills were different. Yan Yunqing’s skill was [Demon King’s Advent], Cornelia’s was [Wrath of the Sea God], and Lillian’s was [Lord of the Forest].

It was difficult to identify the specific effects of these talent skills just by looking at the names. For example, Yan Yunqing currently only used [Demon King’s Advent] as an aura buff to scare people.

Yan Yunqing tried to add Alice as his teammate. Because Alice’s favorability towards him was also very high, the temporary teammate buff was added, and Alice also smoothly entered his NPC friend list.

He saw Alice’s talent skill – [Eye of Truth].

Yan Yunqing clicked his tongue. Good lord, this name didn’t look simple. Could it be a skill that could see through all disguises? That was simply a counter to his Roleplay skill.

“Yes.” Alice smiled very cutely, but Yan Yunqing didn’t think she was a naive child at all.

“Mr. Magician, you have a very beautiful aura, like a sparkling galaxy.” Alice couldn’t find a word to describe it, “In short, it’s very dazzling in the crowd. I noticed it as soon as you came in!”

Yan Yunqing: … The entrepreneurial journey ended prematurely. She had seen through his biggest trump card as soon as she came up. What could he do?

Yan Yunqing had already prepared the teleportation skill, ready to TP away at any time.

“Did I scare you?” Alice noticed Yan Yunqing’s intention to escape and stuck out her tongue. “Sorry, I was just a little curious, so I brought Mr. Magician here. I have no malice.”

She raised her hands, indicating that she was sincere, “Mr. Magician, what are you going to do here? Is there anything I can help you with?”

Alice asked with great interest, “Um, I saw your little actions in the banquet hall. Are you here to assassinate my father?”

Yan Yunqing: “…There are so many guards around your father, I can’t possibly succeed even if I wanted to assassinate him, right?”

“Ah, is that so?” Alice was a little disappointed. “I thought there was finally an assassin who would attack my father. I wanted to help you.”

Yan Yunqing: …

What a filial daughter, this was simply too ridiculous.

Yan Yunqing twitched the corner of his mouth, “Do you hate your father that much?”

Alice was silent for a moment, and the scattered strands of hair slightly covered half of her face. She thought for a while: “Actually, it’s okay. I always thought that hate is the other end of love. I will only hate him if I still have hope for that man.”

“But I’m already disappointed in him.” Alice spread her hands. “So I don’t hate him that much, but I really want him to die.”

Alice took two steps forward, leaned on the stone pillar and looked down, looking at the magnificent palace. She pulled Yan Yunqing to sit on the edge.

“The high and mighty King has always been unable to see or hear the wailing of the people at the bottom, and enjoys his golden life in a dreamlike way.”

“How disgusting.”

Alice said, “Since he came to power fifty years ago, the Skane Front has faced countless defensive crises. He still doesn’t listen or look, and even delays military spending to suppress the Sawyer family because the Sawyer family’s reputation has gradually increased over the years.”

“If it weren’t for Adrian Sawyer of the Sawyer family, the Skane border would have been broken long ago.” Alice said calmly, “Or rather, twenty-three years ago, the Skane border did break once. The losses caused by that time, after twenty-three years of recovery, Bato Vita still hasn’t recovered.”

Twenty-three years ago, it was the time of the third large-scale monster wave riot in the Ermann New Era.

“After I entered the Sigret Academy, I was searching for information about this aspect, and finally I came to a conclusion—”

“If it wasn’t for that person’s constant suppression of the Sawyer family and the Sawyer army, then the young General Adrian Sawyer, who was already known as a genius at the time, and my eldest brother Lancelot together, would have had the opportunity to suppress the monsters before they broke through the defense line.”

Lancelot, the only son of the Bato King and the former Queen, was the first prince of Bato Vita. He had received much attention since birth, and he had also shown talents that met everyone’s expectations since he was a child.

He was a genius swordsman who was more famous than Adrian. He was gentle, talented, and was a highly anticipated next Bato King.

If he hadn’t died in the monster tide riot twenty-three years ago, perhaps his achievements would have been higher than Adrian’s now.

Unfortunately, he died too early. Now, people only remember the genius Adrian, not the genius Lancelot.

Alice smiled, “The tragedy of twenty-three years ago happened once, but he still hasn’t changed. He seems to think that those monsters can never set foot in the capital, and will never threaten his life. He is still suppressing the Sawyer family, forcing the Sawyer family to take advantage of the twenty-third prince’s birthday to come here and personally ask him for military expenses.”

“And the result? That man didn’t mention any military expenses, but wanted me to marry over to balance the power of the royal family and the Sawyers.”

Alice was really helpless: “Actually, I don’t care. In the royal family, it is very difficult for me to control this kind of thing, but that young general of the Sawyer family obviously doesn’t mean that.”

“I really don’t know what that man is thinking. Perhaps if an assassin comes and kills him and replaces him with a new king, this country can become a little better?”

Alice vented her unhappiness in front of Yan Yunqing, saying fierce words, but Yan Yunqing heard some childishness in them.

Was this little princess a little too trusting in her talent skills? She didn’t suspect that the skills would go wrong at all, that he was actually a bad person?

Yan Yunqing gradually relaxed and found that Alice just wanted to find someone to talk to, not to expose him. So he also switched to chat mode. Anyway, the banquet was still long, and he had enough time to win over this little princess, although her position seemed to be vague.

“Then do you think that after he dies, will you be the next Bato King?”

Alice was stunned and hesitated: “Should…shouldn’t it be? Bato Vita has never had a queen. If he dies, the next Bato King will probably be my second royal brother, Felton.”

“He has the strongest support from his mother’s family, and he is the eldest son of the current Queen. He is the oldest and has decent talent. He is currently the most powerful heir.”

Alice struggled, “He does seem to be a nice person… but I always feel that his aura is not right… Tsk, if I had to choose, it would be best if William became the next Bato King.”

“I grew up with William. I know all his secrets. Although he is a little dishonest sometimes, he is indeed kind. It might be better for this country if he became the Bato King.”

Alice never mentioned her own succession. She seemed to exclude herself subconsciously. Even when Yan Yunqing raised this possibility, she denied it because Bato Vita had never had such an example.

Yan Yunqing reached out and rubbed Alice’s head, “I think that no matter who takes the throne, Felton or William, this country will not change. It will only maintain the status quo or get worse.”

In order to play《Demon King》, Yan Yunqing had read countless historical materials and knew too much about the evolution of a country. If you want to save a country that has begun to rot from the roots, only a leader who has truly awakened a super-advanced consciousness, rather than a ruler, can take the throne.

Not to mention Felton for the time being, William, who was most optimistic about Alice, was obviously not this leader.