Chapter 426: This Isn't Right

PS: My brain short-circuited in the previous chapter. An otherworldly month has thirty-five days, which should convert to five weeks per month; my brain short-circuited and calculated it as seven weeks.

Hahaha, minor issue. I hope everyone doesn't mind; just pretend Miss Yun calculated it wrong () — Chapter 410: This World Is Doomed Sooner or Later (Title Revised)

Yun Mu told Brenna, Lucy, and Lita about her thoughts and plans, yet she did not expect that after she finished speaking, everyone present would look at her with somewhat strange expressions.

"Miss Yun, a month has thirty-five days, which is five weeks, not seven weeks~" Brenna covered her mouth and laughed.

A confused Miss Yun is also quite cute.

"Eh?" After hearing her words, Yun Mu finally realized what was wrong.

No wonder they were looking at her with such strange expressions. That's right, thirty-five days in a month, seven days in a week, so there should be five weeks each month.

Six months of time is thirty weeks.

"Ugh."

Yun Mu felt ashamed for making a mistake that even an elementary school student wouldn't make, especially in front of so many people.

Gulp, kill me.

For a moment, Yun Mu simply wanted to move to another planet to live.

Or perhaps she should just commit suicide; maybe she could transmigrate to another world. Of course, committing suicide over such a trivial matter would be taking the value of life too lightly. Yun Mu had a flash of inspiration and suddenly pretended to be somewhat exhausted as she fell backward:

"Sob, sob, sob, my head hurts so much, it feels like a sequela of accelerated thinking—"

"So that's it!" Watching her exaggerated acting, Lucy also very cooperatively revealed a look of sudden realization: "I knew Miss Yun wouldn't make such a low-level mistake. So it was a sequela of accelerated thinking?"

"Ah! So that's how it is? Does Miss Yun want to rest for a while?" Brenna followed suit.

You all really spoil her!

The other two people in the room, Lita and Elena, watched the three of them perform their over-the-top act and couldn't help but complain in their hearts.

"Alright, stop clowning around." Elena thought of something and said: "Wait any longer, and the dinner Lita and I made will get cold."

"What? That won't do!" Hearing a topic related to eating, Yun Mu immediately perked up.

She stood up from the bed in an instant.

"Eh? Is Miss Yun's head not hurting anymore?" Brenna covered her mouth and chuckled softly.

"It's fine!" Yun Mu feigned a tough appearance: "Although it hurts, if it's for that matter, I am willing to endure it."

She struck a pose of righteous indignation, as if the place she was about to go was not the kitchen, but a battlefield.

After speaking, not giving the two a chance to react, Yun Mu walked straight out of the room and waved her hand in passing: "Alright, no more messing around. I just woke up and I'm a bit hungry, let's go eat quickly!"

This statement of hers was actually true.

Having not eaten for so long, although it didn't have much impact on her as a Master-level being, she could still feel the hunger.

As a mortal, Yun Mu still greatly enjoyed the feeling of being full.

After all, of all things, eating is the most important.

Come forth, Burning Monarch Sargeras!

After enjoying a sumptuous dinner, Yun Mu returned to her room, clicked on the Game Panel, and skillfully found the pixel sprite representing Burning Monarch Sargeras.

The recruitment cost was 8000 Gold Coins, as cheap as ever.

This guy is a Monarch from the Abyss; even in the weakened Master-level Dungeon, he still has a level of lv78.

And for Yun Mu to recruit this guy, it only takes eight thousand Gold Coins to be able to order a Monarch from the Abyss around like a beast of burden.

Hehehe, I wonder what the real Burning Monarch would think if he saw this in the future.

But then again, because the Leaders she recruited in the past were all people who had long since died in reality or never existed at all, she had never cared about this issue.

Now, this Burning Monarch she summoned is very likely still alive over in the Abyss.

Is there really no problem with this situation?

Yun Mu could vaguely sense that the Leader bosses she summoned still had some consciousness left.

For example, Xiaobai could clearly respond to her commands, and the Scarlet Knight could even talk! "Hmm," thinking about such meaningless questions without practical application is just a waste of time. Yun Mu only thought about it for a moment before giving up.

It's better to look at her Burning Monarch instead.

【Gold Coin -8000】

The notification that Gold Coins had been deducted rang in Yun Mu's mind, and subsequently, blazing flames ignited out of thin air, and where the flames had burned, a Portal with flame patterns appeared.

Honestly, if she didn't know this was the Leader boss she had recruited, Yun Mu would have wanted to strike it with a Frost Blade Ice Tooth.

Thanks to the Dungeon and what Fen Yege had said earlier, she now felt a bit of PTSD whenever she saw this kind of Portal appearing out of thin air.

"Burning Monarch Sargeras is at your service, Demon King~"

Not long after, accompanied by the sound of metal armor rubbing against the ground, the five-meter-tall Burning Monarch walked out of the Portal and bowed respectfully to Yun Mu.

Who is this guy? Yun Mu complained to herself subconsciously.

This guy spewed quite a lot of profanity when she defeated him, yet he became so respectful upon meeting again.

It really feels quite unusual.

Arrogant at first and humble later, it's laughable!

Burning Monarch, I still prefer that unyielding look you had before!

*Cough cough*, Yun Mu withdrew from the inner monologue in her mind and looked up at the Burning Monarch in front of her.

This guy is truly tall.

She thought to herself.

When in the Dungeon, the two were in a turn-based combat state and basically kept a certain distance.

Looking at him up close now, Yun Mu wasn't even as tall as the other's leg!

Perhaps noticing that it was difficult for Yun Mu to look at him this way, the Burning Monarch considerately crouched down and knelt on one knee in front of her. Not bad, not bad, this guy is quite tactful~ Yun Mu nodded with satisfaction, then stepped back one pace and began to seriously observe this Dungeon Leader in front of her.

"You may rise." After she had observed enough, Yun Mu said.

"As you wish, Demon King." The Burning Monarch stood up, his massive frame blocking the sun in front of Yun Mu.

"What did you call me?" Only at this moment did Yun Mu notice how the other party addressed her.

"Lord Demon King, is something the matter?" The Burning Monarch looked somewhat puzzled.

"Um, no, it's nothing."

Yun Mu thought this must be the identity arranged by the Game Panel; otherwise, why would the dignified Burning Monarch of the Abyss listen to a mortal like her? But, Demon King, huh.

It feels a bit subtle.

Yun Mu then asked a few more questions related to the other party and confirmed some things.

First, this Burning Monarch has his own consciousness and thoughts, though his loyalty to Yun Mu should be fine.

Regarding this point, Yun Mu had no way to test it and could only trust the Game Panel.

Besides this, this Burning Monarch believes himself to be a clone of his true body in the Abyss, while Yun Mu is a Demon King disguised as a human.

When needed, she will summon him to the human world to assist her.

However, due to the suppression of the main world, both of their strengths have slightly decreased.

There are a lot of things to nitpick, and she finds it hard to comment, but as long as this guy is willing to listen to her, that's fine.

Besides this, Yun Mu also asked some questions about the Abyss, and the result was an answer she somewhat didn't expect.

The Abyss seems to have encountered some trouble, and it is precisely because of that trouble that the demons have begun to invade the main world.

As for what that trouble specifically is, although he was very puzzled as to why Lord Demon King wouldn't know, the Burning Monarch still did not tell her.

The reason is that the thing cannot even be spoken of; if it were spoken of, it would cause some bad things to happen.

That is about it.

"Um, why does it feel like there are more and more questions?" After sending the Burning Monarch back, Yun Mu thought with some distress.

The demons seem to have their own troubles, and it is precisely that trouble that led them to make the decision to invade the main world.

And the location the demons are invading is the Dwarf Empire. Besides that, the two poles of the world might hide certain secrets, and those secrets are being hidden by a deity driving a Blizzard.

And on the distant ocean, in that Mysterious Sea that has yet to reveal its full appearance, the parasite that Leinuode picked up—whose origin even the Game Panel cannot discern—also seems to indicate that things there are not simple.

What exactly did the God of Beastkin see on the ocean? And what was it that infected His body?

Even now, there are no answers to these questions.

Counting the Outer Gods who are peeking at this world at every moment, as well as the Evil Gods who are still active in various parts of the world to this day.

Yun Mu feels that this world is doomed sooner or later.

As for those gods?

Whenever Yun Mu thinks about how, despite such a huge commotion here in the Federation, the only one who thought of a way to solve it was the God of Decay and Necromancy Fen Yege, she feels a sense of darkness before her eyes.

The God of Wine and Victory Avala?

That was dragged over by Fen Yege.

The God of Pleasure and Chaos Vikala?

That guy just wants to advance the development of the Game Authority—though it's not quite right to say it like that, after all, the other party is truly helping.

"Sigh." She sighed with some mental exhaustion.

Truly, the more one knows, the more tired one becomes; Yun Mu could not help but lament this.

Sometimes she really envies those ordinary people; if she could, she would also like to live on without any worries.

Find a suitable place to settle down, and whenever the interest strikes, travel to various parts of the world; the life of an ordinary person before she was a Chuanzhezhe seems to be getting further and further away from her.

But there is no help for it; who told her to be a special Chuanzhezhe?

The matter of the Upper Narrator that Vikala mentioned to her last time is also very concerning.

Besides this, there are also the memory fragments about Earth in the Ether World.

It makes one have to be curious about what the connection between this world and Earth is, and whether she has a chance to travel back or something—thinking about it this way, it is actually quite motivating.

The destination for the next stop... The thoughts in her mind drifted overseas, and for a moment, many locations surfaced in Yun Mu's mind.

The same as planned before coming to the Orc Federation? After solving Elena's problem, go to the Shattered Star Sea to complete the mission the Lady of Dark Night gave her? It's not impossible... The Silver Moon Sect of the Exile Sea? Although the Lady of Dark Night gave her ten years, Yun Mu is not a person who likes to procrastinate.

It is mainly that this kind of commissioned task is like money she owes; there is always a feeling that if she doesn't finish it quickly, she will feel uncomfortable inside.

When she owes others money, she would mutter about it back and forth even while sleeping!

What's more, the Lady of Dark Night did pay a reward.

Since she has already taken the other party's things, she must be a bit more proactive in doing the work.

Besides, ten years, when you think about it, is actually not that long.

You must know, what the Lady of Dark Night asked her to investigate is the matter regarding Elsa the Bright Moon.

An event involving a deity is not simple; some people might not find anything even if they spend their whole lives tracking the traces of a deity.

It seems it is better for her to act sooner.

After the knighting ceremony here in the Federation ends, she will return to Frostfall City to rest for a while, and then take a ship to the Exile Sea! While resting, she can also go find Edward, this local, to ask about the situation there, just as a preliminary scouting trip.

If she were to be even bolder... if she could invite Edward to join the fleet, that would be even better! Yun Mu made up her mind.

(End of chapter)