Chapter 162: Arrival at Winter City

Forget it, an increase in Destiny Points is a good thing after all.

If she could gain a Cat Point every time Brenna brushed her hair, she wouldn't necessarily mind... ahem.

Yun Mu, oh Yun Mu, do you still want any dignity? Are you really going to abandon the decency of being human just for a few Destiny Points? Bu, but Brenna brushing her hair is actually quite comfortable.

"I, I need to rest." Yun Mu got up from Brenna and said.

Her Spirituality was over-depleted, and she had felt the urge to fall asleep since just a moment ago.

But because she was lying on Brenna's lap, she worried that falling asleep would affect her, so she forced herself to stay awake.

Having persisted until now, she really couldn't hold on any longer.

"Mm, get some good rest." Brenna noticed her weary expression and said.

"Mm."

Forcing herself to perk up, Yun Mu walked to the corner of the private carriage, where there was a wooden bed fixed in place with nails.

The effect of the painting 【Mechanical Heart】 had already been tested.

And on the Game Panel, there was still that long string of message notifications she hadn't studied yet.

As for the newly acquired Path, the traits, and that so-called Legendary Status, she would study them after she woke up; she was simply too sleepy now.

Taking off her shoes, Yun Mu fell headlong onto the soft bed.

Closing her eyes, she drifted into dreamland.

"Good night." Brenna said softly after Yun Mu lay down.

She placed her palm against her left chest, carefully feeling the strong and powerful beating of the Mechanical Heart within her chest cavity.

Afterward, she looked up at her drawing board.

On it was the design she had drawn halfway.

After thinking for a moment, Brenna pushed the half-finished design aside and took out a new sheet of drawing paper.

She couldn't pin all her hopes on that painting of Yun Mu's; as the Princess whom Elena served, she had to muster up some motivation too!

【Using pure motive power as the machine's energy source is too stupid; never mind the Orc Federation's Magic Engine, using your Frost Kingdom's Steam Core would work too.】

The words of the God of Decay and Necromancy surfaced in her mind.

The Magic Engine was out of the question; this thing was considered a Taboo item in any region outside the Orc Federation.

Brenna herself did not like this kind of device that used Pure Ether as an energy source.

And when a Steam Core released energy, it inevitably generated a large amount of heat.

If a Steam Core were used as the energy source for the Mechanical Heart, it probably wouldn't take more than a few minutes for the other organs inside the body to be roasted.

"It seems I can only make major modifications; I hope Elena won't mind her new body." Brenna muttered.

A single DX-II Steam Energy Bar could keep a Bionic Doll functioning normally for a week.

Just to power the Mechanical Heart... considering the intensity of Elena's work as a Shadow Guard, maintaining it for a month should be no problem.

Then, she would hollow out a small window in the back to replace the Steam Core that might be damaged, as well as the depleted Steam Energy Bar.

"The modified area should be as small as possible."

Brenna recalled the hard-to-ignore sense of unease after her heart was replaced with a mechanical one, and thought to herself.

Time flew by as Brenna worked tirelessly on her design.

Just as she finished the draft of the design, the Steam Train had already pulled into the train station inside Winter City.

As the slightly distorted broadcast sound rang out, Yun Mu, whose Spirituality had fully recovered, also woke up from her sleep.

"Have we arrived at the station?" She looked at the slightly dim environment outside the carriage and asked. "Yes, we have arrived." Brenna put away her drawing board and said: "The train ran very smoothly the whole way, and we didn't encounter any Monster attacks."

"And it was 18 minutes faster than the estimated arrival time." She looked up at the clock hanging on the wall of the private carriage and said.

"Let's get off the train quickly and find a hotel." Brenna reached out to Yun Mu and said.

"Okay."

Yun Mu let Brenna take her hand and pull her down from the bed.

"Don't forget to take this."

Before the two left, Brenna chuckled and put the sunglasses on Yun Mu's face.

It was lucky that Yun Mu had the night vision granted by the trait 【Sharp Eyes】, otherwise, with it being so dark outside and wearing sunglasses, she was truly afraid she would trip and fall to the ground because she couldn't see clearly.

"Is this Winter City?" Leaving the station in Winter City, Yun Mu looked at the streets, which were clearly much more prosperous than those in Shuangluo.

"As the Royal Capital, prosperity is inevitable." Brenna, who was long used to these buildings, shook her head and said.

She pulled Yun Mu's hand and walked toward a Steam Taxi parked outside the station, waiting specifically for passengers.

"To the Red Thorn Hotel."

Casually opening the door of a taxi, Brenna sat in the back seat with Yun Mu.

"Okay... wait, you are the Princess!?" The driver first agreed immediately, then as if discovering something, said with a face full of disbelief.

"It is me." Brenna nodded with a calm expression and said: "Take us to the Red Thorn Hotel, please."

"No trouble at all, no trouble at all!" The driver said with some trepidation, then stepped on the gas pedal, controlling the taxi as it drove into the distance.

"You're quite famous." Yun Mu teased.

In Shuangluo, when the two of them took a Steam Taxi, no one had ever recognized Brenna's identity as a Princess.

As it turned out, here in Winter City, the very first person they encountered recognized her.

"This is the Royal Capital, after all; there are more people with spare money to buy newspapers, and everyone considers that they might run into someone they can't afford to offend, so naturally, they will carefully remember various famous people."

"My silver hair is indeed a bit too conspicuous." Brenna replied to Yun Mu in a low voice.

As the two were Transcendental, they whispered to each other, and the driver naturally could not hear them.

But through the rearview mirror, he could notice that the Princess was whispering to the girl wearing a men's suit and sunglasses.

Could this be a guard by the Princess's side? Did I have a problem with my attitude just now... The driver felt inexplicably flustered.

After a nervous drive, the driver stopped the Steam Taxi in front of a building with a house number manually carved and surrounded by Thorn Entanglement.

"Princess, we have arrived." Not daring to interrupt the conversation between the two, the driver spoke only when they had both stopped chatting.

"Mm, alright."

Brenna nodded lightly, then took out five Silver Frost coins and gave them to the driver.

This was the standard price for a Steam Taxi in Winter City.

As for the taxi driver, although he did not quite dare to accept money from the Princess, he also did not dare to speak up and return the money.

He could only put the money away and silently watch the two walk out of the Steam Taxi.

PS: I'm so hungry.

Let's splurge and order takeout today.