WTYTIAAN Chapter 185

Chapter 185

Comparing the two major empires, it is evident that Romunike’s economy is decentralized, controlled by nobles of varying sizes, with the royal family taking a share through the sale of titles. However, Bato Vita’s overall economic lifeline is almost entirely controlled by the Augreir Family.

Superficially, Bato Vita emphasizes bloodlines, but the power of the old nobility is constantly diluted, yet no one seems to notice… or rather, some do notice, but they are helpless.

This is because the Augreir Family produced a queen with real power. This queen not only possesses some of the Bato King’s authority, but her eldest son is also currently the eldest and most favored heir to the Bato throne.

The remaining princes and princesses basically cannot compete with Lord Shelton. They are too young. Those who are of age or close to it are all princesses and already married, making them ineligible for succession.

Ultimately, this is also due to Queen Augreir.

Because at that time, she was pregnant with the Fei Wu Fei Qi twins. After the birth of the twin princes, the royal family’s existing or soon-to-be-born children died in various accidents, until Fei Wu Fei Qi came of age, the royal family did not have newborns who could survive the first month.

Everyone knew that Queen Augreir did it, but at the beginning, everyone attributed it to a woman’s jealousy and a mother’s deep love for her sons… Wait, no one realized that the queen’s elimination of these princes and princesses was also clearing obstacles for her eldest son, Lord Shelton.

At the same time, she was paving the way for the Augreir Family to climb even higher.

The queen’s actions cannot be said to be hidden, but every move she made had a superficial meaning. Clever people could figure it out with a little thought, but it was difficult to associate it with deeper meanings. In addition, the rise of the Augreir Family was not just in the last few decades, but could be traced back more than a hundred years…

This was a plan laid out by at least three generations. Perhaps after the successive heads of the Augreir Family discovered that magical creatures could be artificially created, they began to arrange this plan. The appearance of Queen Augreir was the most striking and colorful stroke in pushing this plan to its climax.

…If Yan Yunqing hadn’t been able to see the big picture and learned from Barros that the Augreir Family had mastered the information on how to create magical creatures, he wouldn’t have been able to think so deeply.

The Augreir Family… not only wanted to become the number one noble family in Bato Vita, their ambitions were great!

They aimed to usurp the throne and assimilate Bato Vita, then open a gap in the Romunike Empire, gradually eroding the enemy country, and finally swallowing it all up.

The Augreir Family actually had the idea of unifying the Ermann Continent?

Yan Yunqing suddenly remembered the first time he met Yuqier, the masked figure in black robes who confronted Yuqier at the end. It was also at that time that he learned Yuqier’s name from the mysterious figure.

Later, he learned that those masked figures in black robes belonged to the Eternal God Cult, but he had never deeply considered the relationship between the Eternal God Cult and the Augreir Family.

After all, those figures appeared in the dungeons belonging to the Fifth Prince Fei Wu, or rather, disguised as dungeons, they were actually one of the underground strongholds for smuggling magical creatures.

“…Is the Augreir Family related to the Eternal God Cult? Are they the supporters behind the Eternal God Cult?” Yan Yunqing muttered.

Barros thought that Yan Yunqing was asking him, and was not surprised that Yan Yunqing knew about the Eternal God Cult, “It can barely be considered that way. Augreir and the Eternal God Cult have always been in contact.”

Yan Yunqing was puzzled: “Huh? Could it be that the Eternal God Cult was not secretly supported and established by them?”

“No, the Eternal God Cult existed for a longer time.” Barros said of the Eternal God Cult, a fierce look in his deep blue eyes, “These rats in the gutter emerged more than five hundred years ago. At first, they preached without hiding, but after I killed them a few times, they didn’t dare to show their heads, and changed to preaching in secret.”

Yan Yunqing: …

So it was thanks to Barros that the Eternal God Cult preached so cautiously that even Merlin and Penelope had not noticed it.

Yan Yunqing stroked Barros’s ears again, “Tell me about the Eternal God Cult.”

Barros was very receptive, saying whatever he was asked to say, and was exceptionally obedient.

…

It has to be said that Barros can be regarded as an intelligence expert. Yan Yunqing could get a little of the information he wanted to know from Barros, except for things related to prophecy.

As Yan Yunqing thought, the prophecy was indeed spread with Theodore’s tacit consent, but only Theodore knew the specific reason.

If Yan Yunqing was still hesitant at first, after experiencing that strange dream, he became determined to see Theodore.

If the dream was something that really happened, then what was the world-destroying event Sylvia prophesied?

Yan Yunqing felt in his heart that he must solve this problem. Only by solving this matter could he get all the answers.

The answer to why he crossed into this world… and even the answer to why he played the game “Demon King” in the first place.

“King.” Barros’s call brought Yan Yunqing back from his thoughts, “I got a message before.”

Yan Yunqing: “Hmm?”

Barros: “Keen… may have been resurrected.”

Yan Yunqing was stunned. After reacting to what the name and this sentence meant, his eyes widened, “Keen – resurrected?”

Barros solemnly: “Yes – but I can’t completely confirm this news. It’s just that I accidentally obtained the news when I raided the Augreir Family’s strongholds several times. They and the Eternal God Cult seem to be resurrecting someone.”

“The information I got is that they seem to have initially succeeded.”

“At first, I didn’t take this news seriously. Resurrection from the dead… This is something that even the gods can’t do.” Barros said softly, “But Merlin, that old guy… uh, I mean, didn’t Merlin say that there were destroyed necromantic transformation arrays in the city of Slanley Pa? I thought about it…”

“If Merlin is sure that all the records of that year have been destroyed, and those destroyed arrays can be brought back to light, then there is only one possibility.”

Yan Yunqing’s face was ashen, following Barros’s words: “The Eternal God Cult and the Augreir Family are resurrecting the creator of these arrays… the necromancer, Keen.”

If Keen was really resurrected, Yan Yunqing felt that he probably knew how this world would end.

That was a guy whose destructive power was comparable to or even far exceeded that of the gods.

“Boss!”

Just as the atmosphere in the room fell into an eerie silence, someone rushed in rashly, shouting boss in a somewhat panicked tone.

Yan Yunqing and Barros’s eyes turned to the door at the same time. It was an extremely young boy – or rather, a child, estimated to be only eight or nine years old.

As soon as the child came in, he saw Yan Yunqing and the wolf lying in front of Yan Yunqing, and was stunned, asking soulfully: “Where’s the boss?”

Yan Yunqing and Barros looked at each other.

Yan Yunqing asked with his eyes: Do people in your Crimson Mist not know that you are a werewolf?

Barros looked back innocently, sweeping his tail across Yan Yunqing’s exposed ankle, without making a sound.

This reaction clearly showed that he didn’t know.

That’s right, Barros had long become Yuqier to the outside world, and maybe he was hiding it very well internally, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to hide it from Divic and the others.

Yan Yunqing looked at the child, paused, “Yuqier just went out, is there anything you want? If you’re in a hurry, you can tell me first.”

The child looked at Yan Yunqing warily, as if thinking about Yan Yunqing’s identity.

However, his thinking was obviously meaningless, because Yan Yunqing had never appeared in the Crimson Mist before, and it was impossible for this child to know him.

As a result, the child’s next sentence stunned Yan Yunqing: “Ah, are you the little lover that the boss keeps in the village?”

Yan Yunqing thought he had misheard, “What did you say?”

The child looked at him with a puzzled look, as if questioning why he was deaf at such a young age, and repeated, “Are you the little lover that the boss keeps in the village?”

Yan Yunqing was silent.

Yan Yunqing looked down at Barros.

Barros turned his wolf head away guiltily, and was grabbed by Yan Yunqing, who grabbed his wolf muzzle and shook it up and down, “Lover?”

Barros: …

Barros’s pointed ears drooped down, and his tail stiffened into a line, the hair on it was about to explode, looking cowardly.

“Yes, the old people in the village say that.” The child curiously looked at Yan Yunqing, “They said that the boss brought back a lover and kept him in the village, and has been taking care of him personally these days, following him closely. Is that little lover you?”

Yan Yunqing smiled, using a little more force with the hand holding the wolf’s mouth, “Well, it sounds like it’s me, right? What do you say?”

He asked Barros.

Barros, whose mouth was pinched: …

What, what should he say?

But the child did not notice the strange atmosphere in the room at all. Hearing Yan Yunqing’s admission, his eyes lit up and he approached a little, “So it’s really you, then you’re quite powerful, you can beat someone as powerful as the boss.”

Yan Yunqing: “…”

Yan Yunqing felt a little strange listening to it. What does it mean to be able to beat someone… does this child really know what a lover means?

He met the innocent and clear eyes, compared to Barros’s pretended well-behavedness, this child really didn’t understand anything, his eyes were black and bright, and you could see to the bottom, filled with curiosity and… admiration for Yan Yunqing?

Where did the admiration come from?

“Child.” Yan Yunqing released the hand holding Barros’s mouth, beckoning in the child’s direction, “Come here.”

The child was very obedient, coming over when asked, and also introduced himself, “My name is Locke, you can call me Little Locke like the neighbor uncles.”

“Okay, Little Locke.” Yan Yunqing nodded, “Do you really know what a little lover means?”

Little Locke looked confused, but still nodded, “I know, the neighbor uncles said, it’s a relationship where you can fight together. As long as you win, the other person can be your little lover.”

Yan Yunqing: …

Yan Yunqing pressed Little Locke’s head, casting a condemning look at Barros.

Look, a good child has been led astray, doesn’t your Crimson Mist value compulsory education at all?

“Okay, Little Locke, clear all the things about little lovers from your mind.” Yan Yunqing said, “A little lover isn’t what you think, and I’m not your boss’s little lover.”

“My relationship with your boss… is a very serious relationship.”

Yan Yunqing said without changing his expression, but was struggling with how to describe the relationship between this master and his familiar.

Strictly speaking, Barros and the Demon King signed a master-servant contract, so Barros is considered… uh, his dog?

No, his wolf?

But saying this is more difficult to explain and very strange, making Yan Yunqing feel inexplicably embarrassed.

Why does he suddenly feel that their relationship is unspeakable? Is it an illusion?

Yan Yunqing could only treat it as his thoughts were not clean enough, and he could not use such dirty thoughts to poison a child, a future flower bud of the Crimson Mist. So he swallowed all the explanations behind, and did not intend to explain their relationship any further.

Yan Yunqing subconsciously rubbed Little Locke’s head. The child’s hair was soft and limp, and felt like a newly weaned kitten, with an excellent feel, a different feel from Barros’s fur.

Thinking this, the Little Locke under his hand had his head pushed away by Barros, and Barros replaced Little Locke’s head with his own wolf head.

At the same time, he circled Yan Yunqing’s ankle with his wolf tail, putting his possessiveness on full display.

Tsk, he can’t change his dog nature.

Little Locke blinked his eyes, thoughtfully, with a bit of an adult look.

“Okay, Little Locke, let’s put aside the relationship between me and your boss for now. What did you rush in to say before?” Yan Yunqing asked casually, not expecting Little Locke to say anything important.

After all, what important thing would be told by a child.

Little Locke’s attention was shifted back to his original purpose for coming in. His face was anxious again. Hearing Yan Yunqing’s question, he hesitated, as if considering whether to tell Yan Yunqing the news.

Yan Yunqing could see the expression on Little Locke’s face struggling a few times before finally turning into a look of “I’ll reluctantly tell you.”

“One of those two guys that the boss and the brothers caught back died. Zar and I found out when we went to the dungeon to deliver food.”

Yan Yunqing frowned and repeated: “One died?”

He looked at Barros, and sure enough, he saw his eyes also falling on Little Locke, his wolf face was full of solemnity.

Little Locke nodded, “The skinny one died, the fat one didn’t die. Zar has gone to inform the other brothers, and I’m here to inform the boss!”

Skinny and fat… knowing that Little Robert is a circle fatter than Fei Qi, it goes without saying who died.

Wait, Fei Qi is dead?!

Yan Yunqing’s pupils shook, “How did he die?”

He didn’t use much force when he beat Fei Qi before, right? At most, a beating would be a minor injury after checking, how could he suddenly die? This isn’t the way to fake an injury to extort money, is it?

Little Locke shook his head: “I don’t know, I ran over to find the boss as soon as that guy died.”

Yan Yunqing glanced at Barros, patted Little Locke’s head, “Okay, I will tell your boss about this as soon as possible, you go and see… if you need to notify others.”

Little Locke looked up, met Yan Yunqing’s eyes, nodded blankly, turned around and ran out quickly.

As soon as Yan Yunqing turned his head, Barros had turned back into human form, changing into Yuqier’s appearance.

As if knowing what Yan Yunqing wanted to ask, Barros directly replied: “We caught Fei Qi for several smuggling lines in his hand and a stronghold for studying magical creatures. Maybe the people below were a little too radical these few days.”

Yan Yunqing: … This means that he was beaten to death by severe torture?

As expected of the Demon King’s familiar, this level of violence is indeed comparable to the Demon King.

“So did you get the information you wanted from Fei Qi’s mouth?” Yan Yunqing asked the key point.

Barros was silent.

Yan Yunqing understood.

No wonder Barros looked so angry, his already pale face was even darker. He hadn’t asked for the clues and the person died, which was equivalent to a waste of time.

A guy like Fei Qi who doesn’t take human life seriously, it’s fine if he dies, but so many brothers’ lives were involved, but he didn’t get the clues he wanted, this is a big loss.

Yan Yunqing sighed, “Go and check first whether Fei Qi’s death was an accident.”

If it wasn’t an accident, but someone deliberately did it, then the Crimson Mist might usher in a big cleansing.

If it was really an accident, then the Crimson Mist would have to start preparing to deal with the Augreir Family’s counterattack.