Chapter 57

"You can't just round off someone's age like that."

The two of them started bickering about age again for a while.

Every time Su Yu chats with Lin Luoyue,

this topic always comes up.

After a long while,

the two fell silent for a moment.

"You really don't want it?" Su Yu's sword-like brows furrowed tightly. "I just don't want you... to run into any mishap on the Myriad Realms battlefield."

Lin Luoyue smiled, the corner of her lips curving into a beautiful arc. "Can I take that as concern for me?"

"Of course you can."

"Concern for your older sister?"

"Concern for my junior sister."

"Alright, I'll stop teasing you." Lin Luoyue looked at Su Yu with a smile and said with rather serious sincerity:

"Don't worry, Su Yu. I'm not as weak as you imagine."

"You've only been on the Myriad Realms battlefield for just over a year. How strong could you be?"

"And you've only been in for just over two months."

"I'm different from you."

"Then I'm different from you too."

Su Yu's eyes narrowed slightly. "Is it help from the Lin family clan?"

The Lin family clan is one of the four great clans of Jingcheng on Blue Star.

It is also Lin Luoyue's main family line.

But when Lin Luoyue was a child, she had already severed ties with the Lin family.

"I told you before, don't bring up the Lin family with me," Lin Luoyue said unhappily.

Her foot beneath the table pressed forward harder.

Su Yu pulled his foot back slightly, afraid his Mythic-level power would harm Lin Luoyue.

"I'm still worried about you." Su Yu's face was full of concern.

"Pfft." Lin Luoyue laughed. "Since when did the dashing, talented Su Yu become so sentimental?"

"Stop joking, I'm serious."

"Fine, then I'll secretly tell you just a little bit."

"A little bit of what?" Su Yu was puzzled.

Lin Luoyue raised her elegant brows lightly and said calmly: "One day, my troops will be invincible in battle, unstoppable in assault."

Invincible in battle, unstoppable in assault.

Such calm words, yet they revealed enormous confidence — unparalleled confidence.

Is this something a human, ranked near the bottom of the Myriad Realms' Myriad Clans Roll,

a human from a fringe planet of the human race,

should say?

If a holy scion of the Myriad Realms' seven great races said this, there would be nothing out of place.

Yet coming from a human, it could not help but seem ridiculous.

But Su Yu did not find it ridiculous.

He gazed deeply at Lin Luoyue for a moment, then smiled in relief.

He withdrew the Legendary-grade troop recruitment card.

The golden light faded away.

Lin Luoyue clicked her tongue. She really was seeing a Legendary-grade item for the first time.

"Su Yu, little brother, if you truly want to help me, why not give your sister some territory items that expand the population cap."

"Expand the population cap?" Su Yu froze for a second.

After using the Mythic item [Heart of Architecture], the reward from killing the Calamity Void Beast, his territory could build structures without limit.

Building farmhouses would increase the population cap.

Besides, he did not train troops, so he had never cared about the population cap.

Since Lin Luoyue mentioned it, he would keep an eye out from now on.

"But I won't have any reward to give in return, you know."

"After all, even using a [Realm-Crossing Stone] to exploit the rule loophole that lords from different cycles of the Myriad Realms battlefield cannot trade,"

"it's still impossible for a lord from a previous cycle to give items to a lord of the new cycle."

"If that were possible, the fairness of the Myriad Realms battlefield would be thrown into complete chaos."

Fairness?

The existence of myth itself is the greatest unfairness of the Myriad Realms battlefield.

"I don't want any reward. Every time I give you something, you just call me 'brother' once, and that'll do," Su Yu said with a smile.

"Then you'd be getting a huge bargain." Lin Luoyue blinked her large eyes. "I just called you brother. So where's my gift?"

Hearing this, Su Yu's breath caught. Lin Luoyue hadn't accepted the Legendary-grade hero recruitment card,

and he really had nothing else to give...

A beauty at his side, her large, glistening eyes gazing at you.

Rose-red lips, delicate and faintly smiling.

Though Su Yu had long grown accustomed to the world-surpassing beauty of the two mythic figures in his territory,

he still found it hard to resist the woman before him, her dreamlike, rosy loveliness as if from another lifetime.

Not for any other reason,

but simply because she was Lin Luoyue.

Su Yu's wits scrambled for a solution, rapidly searching for something — anything — aside from a Legendary Hero Recruitment Card,

something else he could bring out that would be worthy of giving as a gift.

Suddenly,

a certain item came to mind.

A black bracelet appeared in his hand.

It was what he had made from the scales of the Demonic Flame Dark Dragon,

a bracelet painstakingly carved.

Every day, he had used Radiant Sacred Brilliance, shaped into a keen blade, to carve it with meticulous care.

Only in recent days had it finally been completed.

Originally, it was meant as a gift to thank Sylph,

since Sylph had gifted him the Cloud Heaven Demonic Flame Bow — he felt he ought to give something in return.

It was just that, for a time, he hadn't found the right mood or opportunity.

Now, by a twist of fate,

he had taken it out

to give to Lin Luoyue.

"For me?" Lin Luoyue looked at Su Yu with a trace of doubt.

"Mm."

Su Yu's face betrayed no blush, his heart no flutter.

As he saw it now, the bracelet's color didn't quite suit Sylph,

so he would make something different for Sylph another day as a return gift.

"If it doesn't have any special attributes, then forget it."

"Ordinary things would only be a waste of a Realm-Crossing Stone."

Although Lin Luoyue's eyes were brimming with fondness for it, she did not want Su Yu to go to such expense — Realm-Crossing Stones were not cheap.

She had merely spoken offhandedly.