WTYTIAAN Chapter 64

Yan Yunqing didn’t know that Alice at this moment had already regarded his plan to kill Fei Wu as the first whetstone the teacher was testing her with.

At this moment, Yan Yunqing was indeed a little uneasy. He wasn’t quite sure if Alice would turn around and report him, so he used the plan to kill Fei Wu to test Alice.

If Alice really brought someone over, and he killed Fei Wu, Alice would be completely tied to his ship, and Yan Yunqing could safely confide in Alice.

If Alice failed, or simply reported him, Yan Yunqing could run away at any time with his teleportation skill. He would only lose an opportunity to kill Fei Wu, which wasn’t much of a loss.

Anyway, with Alice, Yan Yunqing only lost the identity of two of his layers. The core of his true self was still well hidden. However, in that case, he would have to consider avoiding Alice in the future. The effect of the Eye of Truth was too buggy, it was a natural counter to onion-layered people like him!

Yan Yunqing took the Emerald Shadow from his backpack. In the past few days, he took the time to learn archery from Lillian. With the assistance of [Archery: Absolute Aim], the special training effect was very ideal. Yan Yunqing could guarantee taking the enemy’s head within thirty meters.

He held the Emerald Shadow in his hand, constantly paying attention to the movements on the mini-map, and his eyes kept scanning the bottom of the bell tower. Even in the brightly lit royal palace, there were corners that the lights couldn’t reach, but this was not a problem for Yan Yunqing’s night vision ability.

He could clearly see the patrolling guards who occasionally passed by. No one noticed that an assassin was hidden on the dark bell tower.

Time passed by minute by minute. Yan Yunqing frowned. Just as he was thinking about whether to give up waiting for Alice and go back to the banquet hall to lure Fei Wu out himself, several figures walked over from afar.

Yan Yunqing concentrated and saw that it was Fei Wu, slightly drunk, surrounded by two beautiful girls. Their postures were extremely intimate, and they were saying flirtatious words in what they thought were small voices, staggering towards the bell tower.

Alice actually did it? But what’s the situation with the two girls beside Fei Wu? Are they Alice’s people? Or is it purely coincidental?

Yan Yunqing was a little worried about accidentally injuring friendly forces, but this was indeed a very good opportunity.

He raised the Emerald Shadow bow, pinched the bowstring with his right hand, input magic power into the bow, and slowly pulled the bowstring open—a green arrow condensed from magic appeared in Yan Yunqing’s hand.

[Archery: Emerald Shadow]

This is a bow and arrow for beginners, made by elves themselves. When using it, inject magic power, and pulling the bow will generate an arrow made of magic, which comes with a wood-attribute spell attack bonus.

The passive skill [Archery: Absolute Aim] on the skill panel lit up slightly. As Yan Yunqing gradually pulled the bowstring to its full extent, the passive skill also corrected Yan Yunqing’s aiming direction.

As Fei Wu approached little by little, Yan Yunqing counted silently in his heart.

Three, two, one—

The thirty-meter entry in [Archery: Absolute Aim] lit up, indicating that the attack target had entered the thirty-meter range, the hit rate was increased to 90%, and the critical hit bonus was 40%.

Yan Yunqing let go, and the arrow constructed of magic flew out instantly. There was almost no sound of breaking through the air, and it instantly arrived in front of Fei Wu. Fei Wu, whose brain had been numbed by alcohol and whose mind was entirely focused on the two female companions beside him, naturally couldn’t have noticed this arrow quickly approaching him from the darkness.

With a swoosh, the arrow pierced through Fei Wu’s head and plunged into the ground behind him.

Fei Wu’s flamboyant smile was still hanging on the corner of his mouth, but it was eternally frozen. The whole thing happened too quickly, and not even blood splattered out. It wasn’t until a while later that the red and white liquids flowed out of the penetrating wound in Fei Wu’s head.

The two female companions who were being hugged by Fei Wu didn’t react at first, until their hands were covered with the flowing red and white unidentified liquid. Two high-pitched screams then pierced the sky one after another.

Yan Yunqing confirmed that the experience of Fei Wu’s death had been added to his character panel, and it even gave him a small level up, breaking through the watershed of level thirty-five.

Planning for so long, but ultimately ending with such a hasty result, made Yan Yunqing feel inexplicably out of sorts.

Mainly, he didn’t expect that he could get such a big help from Alice after coming in.

However, what follows is the most exciting part.

Yan Yunqing glanced at the skill panel and finally lit up a skill he had hesitated for a long time, [Unbreakable Will].

Just looking at the name of this skill, it seems like a buff-type skill, but in reality, it is a skill similar to an invincible golden body.

[Unbreakable Will]

After activation, locks health and mana, gains 120s of invincibility, ignores all physical and magical attacks, cannot use any skills during the period, and after the skill ends, the locked health and mana quickly burn to 1%, while also adding the [No Healing] debuff, cannot be healed in any form within 30s, cooldown time 120min.『Burning unbreakable will, you will be invincible!』

This skill effect is very buggy. After activation, it ignores all physical and magical attacks for two minutes, but at the same time, you cannot use skills during this period. In addition, as soon as the two minutes are over, not only is there only a sliver of health left, but there is also a thirty-second no-healing debuff, which makes this skill very useless.

Moreover, the skill points required for this skill are too large, a total of thirty skill points are needed. Compared to other skills that only require five or ten skill points, lighting up this skill is too wasteful.

It can only be used as a life-saving method, and it is not even very useful. After all, just one [No Healing] debuff has already made it lose its life-saving effect in many scenarios.

Therefore, Yan Yunqing has always hesitated about whether to light up this skill. Finally, the level up from killing Fei Wu provided him with 5 skill points. In addition to the things he promised Cornelia, Yan Yunqing gritted his teeth and lit up this skill.

Watching his skill points being completely consumed, Yan Yunqing felt his heart bleeding.

No, he has to put on a big show later, otherwise it would be too much of a loss.

The screams of the two female companions below attracted the nearby guards. After discovering the blood hole in Fei Wu’s head, the guard was shocked and shouted at the top of his voice: “Enemy attack—”

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The banquet hall was still a scene of lively festivities.

Alice stood beside King Bato, with a proper smile on her face. Although she had a young appearance, her every move was elegant with noble etiquette, and there was no trace of childishness.

Who would have thought that this Eleventh Princess had been raised in the folk since she was a child, and had not even received formal aristocratic education before her magical talent was tested.

And in front of Alice stood the tall Adrien Sawyer, like a small mountain.

Adrien still had a poker face, while Anthony beside him was talking eloquently. However, this scene was obviously a matchmaking arrangement created by King Bato for Alice and Adrien.

However, both parties were very awkward.

In this other world, there is no custom that one must be an adult to talk about marriage. Commoners may marry later, but nobles basically settle down early. If there are plans for a marriage alliance, then the two families will let the marriage partners begin to cultivate feelings from the age of twelve or thirteen, and get married around the age of sixteen.

However, the age gap between Alice and Adrien is quite large. Even if one is a swordsman and the other is a magician, their current age is very young when measured by their lifespan, but the difference in appearance is indeed too obvious.

What’s more, the tested Adrien obviously had no intention of marrying. He didn’t give any face at all, so that Alice, who was pushed out by King Bato, was in an extremely embarrassing situation. She had a smile on her face, seemingly listening to Adrien and his external brain, and clashing with King Bato on military expenses.

In fact, all of Alice’s mind had already drifted away, thinking about whether her teacher had succeeded.

Alice can be said to know Fei Wu, the Fifth Prince, very well. After all, his birth mother, the current Queen, is the murderer who killed her own mother. Alice has never forgotten this point, and has carefully understood the Queen and the three princes born to the Queen.

Fei Wu’s shortcoming is lust. For the twenty-third prince’s birthday banquet, King Bato invited so many celebrities and nobles to participate, and created such a good environment for them. Even Fitch knew to talk to nobles from several powerful families, but Fei Wu was constantly flirting with beauties.

He even brought three beauties to the banquet on such an important day, which was really a slap in the face to the twenty-third prince’s birth mother.

Didn’t you see that the Marquis of Rupert’s face darkened for a moment? The Rupert family, from which the twenty-third prince’s birth mother came, has a considerable influence in Bato Vita, second only to several grand dukes. Although they are not as financially powerful as the Augreir Family, it is hard to say who would be more injured if they really fought.

Fei Wu is really a waste, just like his name.

Alice only let her maid say some ambiguous words to Fei Wu, and successfully aroused Fei Wu’s interest, who then took two female companions and left the heavily guarded banquet hall, heading towards the route Alice had arranged for him.

However, there was a variable in the middle. Alice’s eyes inadvertently swept over the sea-blue figure resting on the sofa in the corner. That woman was clearly also brought by Fei Wu, so why didn’t she go out with Fei Wu?

A bit strange.

Alice was a little uneasy. She originally wanted to follow behind Fei Wu to ensure that Fei Wu followed her plan and went to the bell tower, but as soon as she was about to go out, she was caught by the people beside King Bato. She could only come over and listen to these three people probing and clashing back and forth.

How boring.

Alice sighed in her heart. Her good father really couldn’t understand the situation. Judging from the current war situation on the border front line, allocating more funds to transport some supplies would not only feed the appetite of the Sawyer Family, but also win the hearts of those soldiers who are fighting on the front line in Skarn.

With people’s hearts, even if General Sawyer is more outstanding, he will not betray the country—although their royal family does not have combat power above level 100, there are quite a few above level 90. Can Adrien still fight ten with one?

But her father insisted on holding back the supplies from the front line, allowing the Sawyer Family to win people’s hearts. Regardless of whether the Sawyer Family did it intentionally or unintentionally, their actions also gradually put King Bato on the fire to roast.

If this continues, it will be over sooner or later.

After arguing for so long, Anthony’s face was about to cramp from smiling, but King Bato remained unmoved, never mentioning the matter of supplies, and only wanted to push the Eleventh Princess to their general.

Anthony was about to be driven crazy, but he could only continue to smile to prevent the surrounding guards from thinking that he wanted to assassinate King Bato. He kept cursing in his heart, took a deep breath, and revealed his true intentions: “Your Majesty, the situation on the front line is already…”

“Bang—”

Before Anthony could finish his words, there was a loud noise outside the banquet hall, followed by a commotion. With the hearing of Anthony and Adrien, they both heard the guards outside shouting “Enemy attack”.

The two frowned at the same time. King Bato was startled by the loud noise, and the guards around him immediately rushed forward and surrounded King Bato.

Before they could react, there were several more explosions. The lights on the four walls of the banquet hall exploded instantly, and raging flames ignited. The noble lords and ladies in the banquet hall could no longer maintain their noble etiquette and screamed in despair.

“What’s going on?!”

“What happened… Help!”

Purple-red flames burned, and guards had already tried to find water to extinguish the flames, but it was useless. Ordinary water could not extinguish these strange purple-red flames. Only water balls condensed by magicians above the intermediate level could barely extinguish those flames.

However, there were too few magicians in this banquet hall. Even if a little was extinguished, the flames in other places would sweep over again, igniting the gorgeous and exquisite horizontal tables along the carpet laid on the ground.

In just a few minutes, the banquet hall had become an ocean of flames.

“There is an enemy attack! Quickly cover His Majesty and leave here!” The guard shouted and acted quickly.

Seeing this, Alice knew that her teacher had succeeded. Those things that exploded in the lamps were what Yan Yunqing had arranged with her own eyes.

She also pretended to be panicked. The surrounding guards did not forget that there was an Eleventh Princess here. Several of them immediately opened the way for her in front of her.

Adrien frowned as he looked at the flames burning around him.

Anthony asked Adrien in a low voice with some nervousness: “General, this is someone who is coming for the royal family, are we going to take action?”

Not only is Adrien a level 100 great swordsman, but even Anthony, the external brain sent by the Sawyer Family, has reached level 53, which is considered to be a leader among the younger generation.

The two of them have been through many battles, so they are not panicked at all when they encounter this spectacular fire that has not actually injured anyone.

Adrien pondered, then shook his head gently, “No need.”

There are so many masters in the royal family, why do they need to take action? Besides, he just doesn’t like those tricky things, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t hold grudges.

King Bato’s evasiveness this evening successfully annoyed Adrien.

It’s not an enemy attack aimed at him, why should he help?

Hearing his general say this, Anthony followed behind the general with peace of mind, walking slowly behind the chaotic crowd, and went out through the only door that was not surrounded by purple-red flames.

Cornelia mingled in the crowd, looking at the flames burning around, knowing that Yan Yunqing had begun to act.

Strange, she couldn’t see Yan Yunqing’s location at all. Could it be that he had turned into a cat again and sneaked in?… But cats would also be very conspicuous here, right?

She couldn’t care so much. Since Yan Yunqing had already started to act, according to their agreement, Yan Yunqing could only delay for fifteen minutes at most, or even less.

She had to start acting.

Her eyes fell on the short and fat figure in the middle of a group of guards, and her eyes gradually turned cold.

Like looking at a dead person.

The speed of the fire spread too quickly, and the thick smoke gradually covered the entire banquet hall. The group of small nobles on the periphery were the first to discover the escape route and had already rushed out first.

The great nobles behind them were not so lucky, because the guards outside were rushing in to protect King Bato, and the people inside wanted to rush out. The two groups squeezed together, those who wanted to come in couldn’t come in, and those who wanted to go out couldn’t go out.

In addition, with the thick smoke covering everything, some people had already begun to cough constantly and had difficulty breathing.

Standing on the roof of the nearest palace, watching all this, she rubbed her fingertips and detonated several devices fixed on the walls of the banquet hall again. This was the [Firecrackers] made by Lillian, which, unlike the Fire Emblem, would not produce difficult-to-extinguish flames.

After a few loud noises, another escape route appeared in the banquet hall, but this route looked extremely dangerous, and it was not even known if there would be another explosion.

Some of those who were extremely scared could no longer care so much and rushed straight to the ruins exit, even tripped over a falling stone and fell straight out.

“Cough cough cough—” King Bato covered his chest. He was afraid of death, and his breathing would naturally speed up when he encountered such a thing. For a time, he inhaled too much black smoke, and at this moment, he only felt chest tightness, and was dizzy for a while.

“Father!” Prince Filton, who had finally arrived, nervously supported King Bato’s arm, “Are you alright? What’s wrong with you?”

Behind him was Queen Augreir, dressed in luxurious clothes. She, who always maintained a dignified posture, now looked a bit embarrassed, with several black marks on her face.

She looked at King Bato, and then found Alice beside him, frowned, and a trace of displeasure flashed in her eyes, “What’s going on? Is His Majesty injured?”

The guards looked at each other. They were the first to rush up to protect King Bato, not giving King Bato any chance to be injured. How could King Bato be injured?

Filton didn’t get an answer, so he glared at the guards around him, “Is this how you take care of my father?”

The guards all lowered their heads. They were all high-level guards, and these thick smoke did not have a significant effect on them. Therefore, only King Bato’s condition looked very bad among them.

Filton patted King Bato on the back, “Father, don’t worry, I’ve been by your side to protect you.”

Alice watched all this with cold eyes, coughing twice in a low voice. She was also choked by the thick smoke, but fortunately, magic was running in her body, and she would not have an accident for the time being.

Alice pointed to the newly blown-out exit and said, seemingly panic-stricken: “Why don’t we go out from there? There’s too much black smoke here, and I can’t breathe.”

Filton disagreed: “No, there was an explosion there once, and there may be a second explosion. We cannot put Father’s safety at risk.”