Chapter 71: Ghost Princess

"General?!" Hearing Fried's request, the surrounding warriors were stunned.

In fact, Fried had played a trick on You Tian earlier—he had withheld an important piece of information.

When an elf is manifested as a card, it is equivalent to its body becoming the card itself.

When someone obtains the card, they gain the right to freely control the elf.

When You Tian defeated Fried, everyone was so despondent and didn't resist—not only because their leader had fallen, but also because You Tian had taken their decks and could now control the entire Dimensional Squad at will; resistance was utterly meaningless. This book is originally published on Tiantian Kan Xiao Shuo -> ᴛᴛᴋs. ᴛᴡ, providing you with error-free, non-disordered chapter reading.

Just now, Fried deliberately used certain linguistic inducements to make You Tian return the deck, and the warriors all silently sighed in relief.

But now, General Fried is about to voluntarily hand over the deck again!

Isn't this once again placing the entire squad's fate in this man's hands?

"No!" To everyone's surprise, You Tian firmly refused.

"Hm?" Fried was momentarily speechless.

Not a single hesitation? So straightforward?

"Uh, beast… I mean, Lord You Tian, please forgive me for not explaining clearly just now."

Fried once again offered the deck with both hands, speaking with great respect.

"Through my previous Duel with you, this general has come to deeply understand that your Dueling skill is extraordinary."

"If you become our new leader and guide us to defeat the Ghost Princess and save the Elven Realm, then the power of the Dimensional Squad will be entirely at your disposal."

"In other words, you can simply take this deck!"

"No!" You Tian firmly refused Fried's request again.

Fried: …

The warriors: …

You Tian: Hmph! Old man, don't think I don't know what you're thinking. You saw that my card skills are amazing and I'm incredibly handsome, and you want me to take your empty promises and work for your squad, right?

"Ah~ General, it's not that I won't help you—I simply don't have the time right now!"

You Tian shook his head.

"To be honest, I accidentally entered this dimension."

"In our human world, there's an important match waiting for me—I must return quickly."

"Moreover, in fact, I have two companions who came here with me."

"But now, I've lost contact with 【Necroface】 and those two."

"So, my next step is to find those two and figure out how to return to my original world—I truly have no time to help you."

"I see." Fried nodded in understanding.

Then, Fried's eyes rolled slightly.

"Hahahaha! Lord You Tian, then it's clear—you absolutely must become our squad's leader!"

"Hm?" A question mark appeared above You Tian's head.

"What do you mean?"

Fried smiled and stroked his beard.

"Lord You Tian, since you're searching for people, one person's strength is inevitably limited."

"But if you become the leader of our Dimensional Squad, it's different."

"You can mobilize all members of the squad to help you search."

"Even more, I can personally contact other squads that have ties with our Dimensional Squad and get them to help you too."

You Tian rubbed his chin.

"That does make sense."

"There's more, Lord You Tian." Fried spoke again.

"You're in a hurry to find a way back to the human world—well, that method is actually in Whitebone City!"

You Tian: "What! In Whitebone City?"

Several nearby warriors exchanged glances.

Is the general lying? This is our first time seeing a human—how could he possibly know the way back to the human world?

You Tian also harbored this suspicion.

"I didn't study much—I didn't do well in high school. Don't trick me!"

Fried smiled and shook his head.

"Lord You Tian, do you still remember what I said earlier—that the Ghost Princess also came from the human world?"

At this, You Tian suddenly understood.

"You mean, since that Ghost Princess came from the human world, she must have a way to return there?"

"Exactly!" Fried nodded firmly.

"If you defeat the princess, you'll naturally be able to return to the human world!"

You Tian fell into quiet thought.

Indeed, if the Ghost Princess was truly human, she might well possess a method to traverse between worlds.

You Tian's gaze once again scanned Fried's Duel Disk.

Moreover, the Duel Disk Fried seized from the undead matches the design of mine exactly. Logically, the Ghost Princess must also be from the DM dimension—unlikely to be from some other human world like ARC5, reducing the chance I'll end up in some Xyz dimension or another human world.

If a single Duel can solve both my current problems, then becoming this leader isn't entirely out of the question.

You Tian's eyes flicked toward Fried again.

But my gut tells me this old bastard is hiding something.

……

Whitebone City, Whitebone Castle.

A gloomy forest of broken stumps was scattered across the plain before the castle, wisps of black qi drifting from the broken ends, staining the surrounding earth black as well.

Nameless insects churned across the ground, plowing shallow furrows one after another.

Boom boom boom!

Suddenly, the sound of a carriage approaching from afar drew near, scaring the insects back into the earth.

A squad of skeleton soldiers was escorting a dozen or so cage-carts, advancing toward the castle.

Numerous elves—some with terrified faces, some weeping softly, some with vacant eyes—huddled atop the carts.

And upon the towering stone window ledge of the old castle, a petite girl braced herself against the cold stone sill and sat there.

Layers of plain white bandages wrapped the girl's entire body, and a dark-red mask concealed her face.

The loose black short robe on her body rippled faintly in the wind. The girl's legs swung lightly from time to time as she watched all this in silence.

Suddenly, the girl spotted several figures cradling young elves atop the cage-carts.

She flipped back into the castle and walked toward the 【Whitebone King】, who was respectfully attending below the throne.

Seeing the girl approach, the 【Whitebone King】 could not stop trembling, faintly emitting the grinding sound of bones against bone.

The girl slowly walked up to the 【Whitebone King】 and stared straight at him through the dark-red mask.

"This young lady has already said—you may not capture young elves, and you may not capture their parents."

The girl pointed toward the window.

"Can you explain this to me?"

Hearing the girl's words, the 【Whitebone King】 dropped to his knees again and again, that skeletal face full of fear and grievance.

"Gah, Princess, please calm your anger!"

"It's not my fault either, gah!"

"According to your orders, we have to capture 5,000 elves this week."

"But you instructed us—elderly elves cannot be captured, young elves cannot be captured, elves with children cannot be captured, weak elves cannot be captured."

"Gah, with all that, it's truly very hard for us to round up 5,000 elves in one week!"

At this point, the 【Whitebone King】's pleading tone grew several degrees louder.

"So far, we've only captured 2,100 elves for you—not even half."

"To complete your order as quickly as possible, I could only let my men relax some of the requirements. Gah, this really was for your own good…"

"Are you trying to teach this young lady how to do things?" Suddenly, the girl coldly cut off the 【Whitebone King】's sophistry.

"I wouldn't dare, I wouldn't dare!" The 【Whitebone King】 denied it again and again, his skull pressed tight against the ground.

The girl: "Listen to me—I value family and children. The reason I haven't sealed you away is out of consideration for the fact that you still have children to care for."

"If you violate my orders again on your own, I won't mind sealing you… along with your children, away forever, never to be released!"

"Yes!" The 【Whitebone King】 knelt on the ground, shivering.

Seeing him like this, the girl said no more.

And so, the great hall returned to silence.

After a long while, having waited in vain for the girl's next order, the 【Whitebone King】 tentatively raised his head a little.

Sure enough, the girl was nowhere before him.

"Hoo~ gah." The 【Whitebone King】, as if a great weight had been lifted, slowly rose to his feet.

"The Ghost Princess is truly even harder to serve than His Majesty Hades!"