WTYTIAAN Chapter 35
by Volare“This thing is less related to the tragedy six years ago, and more related to Karenna’s obsession.”
Lillian seemed to understand, but waited for Yan Yunqing to give a more specific explanation. Who knew Yan Yunqing would change the topic, “Let’s go, let’s meet this genius magician.”
Lillian:?
According to the small map guidance, Yan Yunqing walked slowly along the edge of the village, all the way to—the pond where he first encountered the ghost-faced earthworm.
Several small animals were drinking water by the pond. Hearing Yan Yunqing’s footsteps, they all raised their heads vigilantly and looked in Yan Yunqing’s direction. After confirming that Yan Yunqing was walking towards them, they all ran away in a few breaths.
Yan Yunqing took out the [Elementary Magic Awakening Stone] and [Henry’s Longsword] from his backpack.
The prompt for opening the dungeon popped up in front of him again.
[Detected that you have collected all the item keys 2/2, do you want to open the dungeon [Sunset · Lingering Shadow of the Curse]?]
[Y or N]
Yan Yunqing decisively clicked Y. The space centered on him rippled like water. The forest was still the same forest, and the pond was still the same pond, but it gave people the illusion that it was no longer the same space.
…No, this is not an illusion!
Lillian became vigilant and flew in front of Yan Yunqing, holding her magic wand tightly in her hand, “We seem to have entered a separate space, be careful, there may be magical creatures with spatial skills here.”
“Don’t worry.” This was the first time Yan Yunqing had been blocked by a tiny elf, “Don’t worry, there won’t be any magical creatures of too high a level.”
Because the game panel prompted that the level of this dungeon was Lv.15, which was a primary dungeon, and the highest-level monsters would not exceed Lv.18, which was lower than Yan Yunqing’s current level, so there was no need to worry at all.
“Where did you get the information…” Lillian wasn’t comforted at all.
Sure enough, after Yan Yunqing took two steps forward, two Lv.12 ghost-faced earthworms emerged from the ground, exactly the same as the one Yan Yunqing had encountered before, except that the magical creatures in the dungeon looked a little smaller.
Yan Yunqing, who was infinitely close to level twenty, didn’t panic at all. He didn’t even take out his magic wand. He directly held the long sword and rushed up to fight the ghost-faced earthworm.
“Hey you—” Lillian was taken aback, “What are you doing… eh?”
The scene of Yan Yunqing being overturned by the ghost-faced earthworm did not appear as expected. When faced with the ghost-faced earthworm’s attack, Yan Yunqing used a [Dodge] followed by a [Charge].
With an upward pick, the long sword in Yan Yunqing’s hand was like a broken bamboo, breaking through the ghost-faced earthworm’s pitiful physical defense. It was directly cut off by one-half, and the remaining half was connected by meat, bursting open a pool of extremely smelly liquid.
Lillian hesitated: “Swordsman…?”
Yan Yunqing dodged again, avoiding the attack of another ghost-faced earthworm, and still had the mood to look back at Lillian, “What are you doing in a daze? Assist with buffs, clear debuffs, you can’t just watch a magic knight like me tanking and dealing damage, right?”
Lillian: “…When did you learn swordsman skills? Are you really planning to do both?”
Yan Yunqing: “Of course, who isn’t a genius?”
Lillian gave Yan Yunqing a buff with a complicated mood, and cleared the [Corrosion] debuff from him. She watched Yan Yunqing wield a long sword, cutting through thorns and obstacles.
This looks so weird, will there really be a scene in the future where a magician casts a spell, suddenly pulls out a big sword and smashes it at the enemy’s head?
Two level twelve ghost-faced earthworms were no match for Yan Yunqing, and he quickly hacked these two ugly magical creatures to death.
When the two magical creatures fell and turned into light spots, Yan Yunqing’s level also rose to twenty.
Feeling a force flowing through his body, Yan Yunqing tried to swing his fist, and was very satisfied when he heard the sound of breaking through the air.
Very good, this way he can clear the dungeon faster.
According to the task guidance, Yan Yunqing led Lillian to the depths of the forest.
Lillian observed her surroundings, “Strange, the grass and trees in this forest are no different from before. If I hadn’t noticed when we were included in this space, I might not have recognized that we had entered another space.”
“No, there are still differences.” Yan Yunqing pointed, “Look, that tree, it was growing on the right when we entered the forest before, now it is growing on the left.”
Lillian took a closer look and recalled for a moment, “Really?”
“Wait…it seems that this is really the case. All things seem to be reversed? Could this be a mirror space?”
Yan Yunqing smiled without saying a word.
This is the setting in “Demon King”, all dungeons are mirror spaces copied based on reality, and everyone and everything inside will repeat the time copied by this dungeon.
Players accept this well, but it is a bit difficult to explain to native NPCs, so Yan Yunqing chose to remain silent.
Walking on a path to the depths of the forest, it was so quiet here that even the Lulu pigs that could be seen from time to time disappeared without a trace. For a time, the only sound in this space was the sound of Yan Yunqing’s shoes stepping on weeds and dead leaves.
“Hiss…” A gasp of pain came from not far away.
Lillian was startled and whispered to Yan Yunqing, “Someone?”
Yan Yunqing nodded, holding the long sword, and walked in the direction of the sound, while being vigilant about the magical creatures that might pop up again at any time.
Parting the messy bushes, Yan Yunqing and Lillian finally saw the source of the sound. A chestnut-haired youth was sitting halfway on the ground. His upper body was naked, and his arms and chest were covered with deep and shallow scars. Some of them were still oozing blood, which was obviously injured not long ago.
At this moment, the young man was bowing his head, holding a strip of cloth and clumsily bandaging himself. Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but twitch his mouth when he saw the bandaging technique.
What a rough technique, it must hurt a lot to bandage it like this.
Seemingly hearing the sound, the chestnut-haired youth looked up in the direction of Yan Yunqing and Lillian. Only then could they fully see each other’s faces.
The chestnut-haired youth was stunned when he saw Yan Yunqing, “Eh? Are you?”
Then he saw Lillian again, even more surprised: “Elf, how could you appear here?”
Yan Yunqing put away his long sword and walked towards the other party, “We were passing by, and were attacked by two ghost-faced earthworms. We had no choice but to run this way to get rid of those two magical creatures. Do you need help?”
Lillian glanced at Yan Yunqing strangely, wondering why he could lie without changing his face, but at this moment she didn’t expose him, and kept her silent style, following Yan Yunqing like a dumb person.
It’s really not easy to pretend to be a mute for a chatterbox!
“Ah, ghost-faced earthworm?” The chestnut-haired youth frowned, showing a bad expression, “Have magical creatures been generated again? It seems that I have to hurry up and get rid of those two magical creatures… It would be bad if they ran near the village.”
Yan Yunqing squatted down in front of the chestnut-haired youth, took the strip of cloth from his hand without explanation, and began to bandage him, “Don’t worry, I observed when I got rid of those two magical creatures, they didn’t move towards Sunset Village.”
The chestnut-haired youth was stunned for a moment by Yan Yunqing’s familiar operation. He stared blankly as he skillfully tied the strips of cloth, and tied a beautiful bow. He also took out a small bottle from nowhere, pulled out the stopper and poured it into his mouth.
“Hmm? Hmm! Wait…Glug…Cough cough…”
Without paying attention for a while, the chestnut-haired youth was poured a small bottle of potion by Yan Yunqing. He stared with round eyes, revealing confusion and shock, “What are you doing?”
“A recovery potion.” Yan Yunqing threw away the empty small red bottle. The empty small red bottle that had been drunk fell on the ground and turned into light spots after a while, disappearing.
“Looking at you like this, I’m afraid you’ll die before you even find the ghost-faced earthworm.”
“…Then you don’t have to pinch my face like this and force me to drink it, right?” The chestnut-haired youth didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, “I’m really a little scared.”
The main reason was that the person in front of him was too strong, so that when he was pinched in the face and forced to open his mouth to drink the potion, he didn’t react at all.
Should he say that it’s good that this person doesn’t have bad intentions? Otherwise, he would probably be lying down now.
The expression on the chestnut-haired youth’s face was too easy to understand, Yan Yunqing curled the corners of his mouth, “Okay, you should feel weak all over now, right? Congratulations, what you just drank was the poison I newly developed. As the first person to experience this honor, do you have any feelings you want to express?”
Chestnut-haired youth:?!
The chestnut-haired youth widened his eyes again, looking like a silly roe deer with his startled and jumpy appearance.
Lillian was convinced and stood between Yan Yunqing and the chestnut-haired youth, “Okay, why are you always scaring him? You can newly develop a poison? I’ve been with you all the time and I don’t even know.”
Chestnut-haired youth: “Eh? Eh?? Eh!”
The chestnut-haired youth was stunned, looking at Lillian with round eyes, then looking at Yan Yunqing, as if accusing Yan Yunqing of the immoral act of deceiving people.
Yan Yunqing couldn’t stop laughing, while Lillian looked at Yan Yunqing with a very unhappy expression.
After being glared at by Lillian several times, Yan Yunqing finally raised his hands in surrender and extended his hand to the chestnut-haired youth, “How are you feeling?”
The chestnut-haired youth felt his body and found that his injuries had healed by a large margin and his physical strength had also recovered. He used the hand extended by Yan Yunqing to stand up and bent his eyes at Yan Yunqing, “Thank you for the potion, I feel much better.”
As soon as the chestnut-haired youth stood up, Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but take two steps back.
Because this guy was too tall, this height must be at least 1.9 meters, right? It wasn’t obvious when he was sitting, but when he stood up, he was like a pillar standing there.
No, brother, you have such a baby face, but when you stand up, you look like a small mountain, is that really reasonable?
Yan Yunqing, who is currently only a little over 1.7 meters tall and less than 1.8 meters: …
Silence, silence…
Now it was Lillian’s turn to laugh.
Sure enough, smiles will not disappear, they will only be transferred.
It’s just that it was transferred from Yan Yunqing’s face to Lillian’s face.