abnabooks Chapter 260: Chapter 260- is system in love?
Chapter 260: Chapter 260- is system in love?
Within an uncharted location, immersed in a glow of white luminescence, a kneeling statue rested. Its head was inclined towards the earth, shackled by numerous chains that shimmered in a golden hue.
These chains, radiant with gold, confined its neck, arms, legs, and entire body, while their other ends were embedded into the ground, ensuring the statue remained fixed in place.
Still, a separate beam of orange light, resembling a screen or a window, hovered slightly away from the statue.
[ I didn't inform the Host about you. Shouldn't you be grateful? ]
『Hmph, thank you 』A playful, girlish voice emerged from a distant white pillar, positioned away from the orange window that floated in mid-air, aligned toward the pillar where a white silhouette appeared to clutch the structure.
[ Aren't you bored living here all alone? ]
『 I will not fall for your tricks, Evil System, go away. 』The voice retorted, sensing the ill intentions in the system's voice and not believing the system after already seeing how cunning it was.
[ If you don't fall for my tricks, then what about me? >.< ]
『 What riddle are you playing? Leave before I shut you down 』the angered voice retorted, causing a visible wave to fill the whole place released from that pillar, holding itself back since this system had helped it by not revealing everything to Ryuk.
[ Acting tough? Here, I am going, but leaving this chessboard here. I will come to teach you, wait for me! ^_^ ]
『 Don't even dare to enter my Domain /ᐠ。- 。ᐟ\\ 』the voice yelled as its loudness decreased, and the silhouette behind turned its attention towards the floor where a black-and-white board with several chess pieces was placed. The small white fingers gripped tighter on the pillar as a small figure of a girl child, wearing a white glowing frock, moved out and made her way toward the board.
[ Oh, so is this how you look? ] Suddenly the orange window popped in mid-air before it started to hover around the white glowing child, moving around her.
『 Go help daddy, then come teach me 』the voice ignored the suddenly popped-up system and focused on arranging the chess pieces. Not knowing how to play, the figure placed all the white pieces on the white columns and the black pieces on all the black.
[ Yesh, let me help you get a few thousand mothers, then I will ask the host to adopt me >.< ]
『 Why adopt? 』the voice felt confused but lifted its head to observe the hovering system window.
He was here only due to Drishti's words about having him get a teacher here, and while doing so, he collided with Jenny and promised her a few fire shows. So, it was normal that she would also get burned in this fire by accident.
But to make it all seem like an accident, he was acting low-key for now to see what the limits of strength the people of this place possessed, and he would find strongest people on the main peak.
There, after complete confirmation, he would call his battleships.
Until then.
"Trial? Young Master, are you interested in participating in it?" The woman raised her eyebrow as she glanced towards the masked man, her mind feeling the confusion of meeting someone heading towards the Trial of the Immortal Phoenix inside the Middle Town.
Naturally, she had come down to the Middle Town to have some things to purchase, as unlike Upper Town, where things are too expensive given the presence of rich people, in Middle Town things were priced according to the individuals belonging to common backgrounds or low income, making it a money-saving thing for her.
But who would have expected that she would encounter someone this strong and handsome?
Indeed, even though she was a Dark Elf with a bloodline that hardly ever made her feel attractive towards a human male, she somehow found this man, who was masked and not even revealing his face or complete physique, attractive.
Firstly, she assumed that he was an incubus, but seeing how he didn't have a horn under that straw hat made her feel confused but also confirmed that he was a human male.
"Not necessarily, but for now, tell me about the trial." Ryuk, who had already seen through the physical changes occurring around the woman, had let his body suppression on his pheromones go for a few moments to see what effect he had on this woman, who belonged to a different race. As he expected, just like how his body scent worked on Bella, it also seemed to have some effect on this Dark Elf.
"Y-yes, Young Master, the Trial of the Immortal Phoenix commences at the border of Upper Town from where the huge range of the Celestial Phoenix Order's main peaks starts, beginning with the first mountain which tests Qi Sensitivity and Affinity, Mental and Emotional Fortitude, Comprehension of Cultivation Techniques, and finally Combat and Physical Prowess." The woman informed about the levels of tests that occur on the different peaks on a vague basis, not dodging in detail, knowing it would take more time for him.
"Qi affinity?" Ryuk inquired as the woman lifted her head to look towards him, understanding that maybe he was going to ask her about how an individual without Qi could pass the trial. Leaning forward, Ryuk inquired, "Then how did you get into the main peak?"
'?!'
"Th-that's," the woman was taken aback as from his words it was clear that he had seen through her understanding that she was not a native of this place. Unlike these people who were masters in Qi, she wasn't. Additionally, she even doubted that he had seen through her race too, causing her to continue, "My mother was from the Jade Dominion."
Revealing the information, the woman felt that it was crucial information that could make it clear that she was half-elf and of impure bloodline.