Chapter 55

On the city wall,

Mei Li looked at Lu Kan and the Dagonite, her brow involuntarily furrowing slightly,

She felt that these two were becoming stranger and stranger, more and more like true knights serving a king.

But only she knew that Su Ya was a fake, and in truth he didn't really want to be the king of Britannia,

If not for her threatening him with a dagger at that time, Su Ya wouldn't even have bothered to lie about pretending to be king; this poor wretch's dying wish was actually to hide in a mountain ravine and train martial arts until he was invincible under heaven.

He is undoubtedly a very sincere person.

But it is precisely this sincerity that has gradually steered events in a strange direction, causing those who wanted to use him to quietly alter their original intentions, and even making Mei Li feel somewhat reluctant,

When she saw that peculiar battle pattern growing on his body that day,

recalling everything she had experienced,

Mei Li, harboring a great resolve, finally gave up the idea of making Su Ya king and then swindling him out of a sum, thinking that as long as she reached the capital and reclaimed what she had lost, she would give him some money and then send him to a mountain ravine where no one could find him.

In such a chaotic world, yet possessing such talent, this poor wretch is hard not to attract the attention of those with ulterior motives.

Just—

It seems it's already too late.

Lu Kan then turned his head with a smiling squint and asked:

"So, Miss Mei Li, what do you think?"

"I'm lying down to look."

Mei Li really did just lie on the battlement, propping her feet to watch below as the boy struggled to tumble and leap,

"You called me over in the middle of the night—what exactly do you want to do?"

Lu Kan immediately bowed slightly and pleaded:

"I would like to ask you to teach the king how to connect to the Grand Source, replenish magical power, and use magical seals."

"Then, to master 【Magic Power Release】."

"For Miss Mei Li, who bears such an emblem, this should pose no problem, right?"

Mei Li snorted with a laugh, as if she had heard some joke,

"Releasing magic power also requires magic power; perhaps for him, magic power doesn't need to be paid for with life, but merely needs a full meal to arise naturally."

Having said that, Mei Li turned her head with an amused expression, looking at Lu Kan as if he were a source of entertainment:

"But, you pauper, can you currently afford his appetite?"

"Oh~ your thoughts seem already written on your face,"

"Ah ya ah ya, you swindler, how are you so not a swindler?"

"As a despised rat that everyone shouts at, yet you actually want to cultivate a true king of all Britannia?"

Mei Li coldly shouted:

"Are you qualified, Lu Kan?"

"Have you truly made up your mind, Lu Kan?"

"You won't abandon Su Ya just as you abandoned Yuse Wang, will you, Lu Kan?"

"And what do you intend to use him for, Lu Kan?"

The smile on Lu Kan's face froze.

But soon he laughed indifferently and said:

"Then, thank you for tonight's reminder, Miss Mei Li."

"I will solve the food problem."

"【Magic Power Release】 is the content of the next stage of instruction; before that, I will let you see my sincerity."

Mei Li coldly stared at Lu Kan, the lion opening its mouth wide:

"50,000 gold pounds."

Lu Kan didn't even blink an eyelid, decisively nodding:

"Deal."

Mei Li turned her head, glanced at him in astonishment, then somewhat irritably scratched the white cowlick on her head, just about to regret it.

However,

at this moment—

the Dagonite's voice suddenly came from beside them:

"Wait, look—what is that!?"

Mei Li responded by turning her head, following the Dagonite's pointed direction, and looked toward the north side of Pandon Castle.

Under a night sky glittering with countless stars,

about 25 kilometers from Pandon Castle, a small blue-green flame suddenly flared up.

And from above that cluster of suddenly lit anomalous light,

thick smoke shot up into the sky!

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The night was as dark as ink, swallowing the entire western Cornwall plains and hills.

Suddenly, the first burst of firelight pierced the darkness, exploding from the clock tower of Sole City—

it was pine-resin-soaked oak that had been ignited!

Flames danced wildly in the cage, licking the damp air, crackling with sparks, turning the guards' silver-white plate armor blood-red.

Several guards of Sole City, with grim faces, threw sulfur lumps into the fire,

sulfur quickly mixed into the blaze, and a wisp of eerie blue-green flame shot up from the orange-red.

This is the code word for "Enemy Encounter".

And soon,

Twenty-five li outside, a sentry on a stone tower squinted as he dozed, and suddenly a patch of odd-colored light from the distance reflected in his half-open, half-closed pupils.

His expression froze, he blinked in disbelief, then jolted awake from his daze, immediately turning and shouting downwards:

"Enemy attack!"

"Sorel City, enemy encounter!"

"Quick, light the fire!"

On the watchtower platform below the lookout point, two soldiers sprang up in a carp leap, and without a word immediately lifted the waterproof cloth, took out a torch, and thrust it into the beacon tower.

The moment the torch touched the bottom, a muffled "ge-la ge-la" sound rolled up with thick smoke into the sky!

As if a giant dragon hibernating underground were spewing its fiery breath,

In an instant,

The third, fourth, and fifth.

Crimson points of light raced toward the southern occupied territories, jolting the entire slumbering Cornwall awake!

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A corner of Pendragon Castle,

"Whoosh!"

Su Ya shot out his last throwing knife from his hand,

The later throwing knife struck the earlier one at a greater speed, and then one after another they collided, continually changing the shooting angle and pushing forward!

The foremost throwing knife, after fourfold 【Throwing】 enhancement, suddenly surged in speed, its blade faintly reddened, then like a hot knife through butter it pierced a tree trunk ten meters away, swished through a row of branches, and finally lodged into the stone wall.

"Hiss!"

However, this time the sound was not the clear tinkling of a diamond-edged blade, but a translucent, slit-splitting "pfft" that sliced the whole wall along a tiny crack!

The throwing knife's remaining force undiminished, it flew through the wall for another ten-plus meters, finally embedding in the opposite wall before stopping.

【You have mastered: Throwing (Mastery).】

【You have mastered: Swift Step (Mastery).】

【You have mastered: Roll (Mastery).】

【You have mastered: Bow Form (D, Proficient).】

At this moment,

Su Ya then withdrew from the flow state of his single-minded practice, first glancing at the accumulated content on the panel, then moving his somewhat fatigued limbs.

He instinctively reached for the piece of shapeshifter bird meat placed to the side,

which was loot dropped after defeating Pergeos,

The mage who had plotted against Su Ya hadn't really died; as researchers devoted to uncovering the source, these shut-in mages never left their homes, valued their lives immensely, and would never personally risk danger.

Mei Li, who had been forced out to banditry after losing all her money to gambling, was among the rare few.

Shapeshifter bird,

This is a familiar enslaved by Pergeos through spirit-binding, its body forged by alchemy into a living vessel capable of storing will, so these master mages can temporarily store magical energy and go out for a snack; its true form is a special monster found in Ireland,

able to perfectly transform into other creatures, but after death or if the alchemical patterns collapse, its true form is revealed.

The wings are quite tasty.

But when Su Ya instinctively wanted to take another bite of the bird meat, he realized that, unbeknownst to him, the monstrous bird the size of a cow had already been devoured by him,

And at this moment,

Thud, thud, thud, thud!

Continuous urgent footsteps echoed in his ears,

Su Ya slightly lifted his head and saw that it was now broad daylight; inside the castle, three hundred soldiers were constantly moving supplies, leading horses, donning armor, or wiping weapons,

Mei Li stood among them, responsible for directing and coordinating.

Every person passing in front of Su Ya bore a stern expression.

This made Su Ya slightly puzzled; just as he was about to step forward to ask, his peripheral vision accidentally caught sight of the city wall—

The sky outside the city,

was already obscured by countless swaying columns of smoke!

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