Volume 2, Chapter 37 – The Problem at Hand

The situation was truly getting out of hand.

Even though she had turned into a loli, and not just any loli, but one so cute that even she herself couldn’t help but gush blood from the sheer adorableness, truth be told, up until now, Tianyin had never actually… touched herself…

Strictly speaking, this was just a game, so naturally there weren’t any physiological urges or needs to deal with… which meant, more precisely, Tianyin had never really looked at her own… body…

So even though she knew that she was herself, when she thought about it, since she was just way too cute, Tianyin had never once considered doing anything questionable to herself…

‘But wait, hold on, that’s still me! If I start having weird thoughts about myself… wouldn’t that make me some kind of pervert, ahhhhhhh!’

That was the thought she clung to as she firmly rejected such an idea.

But now…

Something completely unexpected… had happened.

“Master, Master, I’m sorry, I really didn’t mean to, ahhh…”

Even though some time had passed since the incident, Tianyin’s little face was still flushed bright red.

No, not just her face, even her neck was red…

“Master, Master… I really… really didn’t mean it…”

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The flustered voice apologizing sounded truly panicked.

But for some reason, the moment Tianyin heard that voice, the image of herself being pinned to the ground by Xiaomengyao, faces so close they could feel each other’s breath, flashed through her mind.

All at once, her thoughts turned into a jumbled mess again. The composure she had barely managed to regain was once more thrown into chaos.

Though… to be fair, there was still a tiny bit of reason left in her head.

“I… I… I forgive you…”

She stammered, forcing the words out.

It was hard to imagine that this same girl, the adorable little loli who had single-handedly annihilated tens of thousands of players, was now blushing and shyly saying, “I forgive you.” If those players saw her like this, their jaws would definitely hit the floor.

After Tianyin said that, Xiaomengyao’s face, which had been filled with guilt and unease, instantly brightened into a smile. Her eyebrows curved, her eyes gleamed, and the beautiful, adorable expression she showed made Tianyin momentarily lose herself.

“Eheh, Master really is the best~”

Then, in her excitement, she threw herself at Tianyin again, happily knocking her over to the ground once more…

Honestly, it wasn’t like Tianyin wanted to be knocked down by Xiaomengyao. But ever since losing the power of the Seven Deadly Sins, even though her level was as high as 104, under the passive debuff of her skill 【Light Body, Easy to Push Down】… getting knocked over by her loli disciple was something completely out of her control.

It all depended on the strength of the one doing the pouncing, not her own Strength stat…

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So…

That was how it happened again.

Tianyin was once again effortlessly, joyfully pinned to the ground by Xiaomengyao.

Tianyin: “…”

Xiaomengyao: “…”

……

Half an hour later, after properly educating her loli disciple on not casually tackling her like that ever again, Tianyin finally returned to a somewhat normal state of mind.

And once she had calmed down, she realized something serious that needed her full attention.

That was… after her power, comparable to a Throne, had been exposed, the NPCs had begun to regard her as their leader…

Even though, in the eyes of everyone else, Tianyin looked nothing more than a young, tiny, and impossibly cute silver-haired loli…

“This is kind of troublesome. If I don’t leave, they won’t leave either…”

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Just as she said, whether they were from the Stronghold Faction or the Kingdom Faction, the NPCs had all chosen to remain where they were, patiently waiting.

Many of the commanding officers capable of leading these NPC troops had died in the previous chaotic battle. The highest-ranking officers left were merely Blue-tier NPCs whose levels were higher than common soldiers but whose tier remained low.

Before, such Blue-tier NPCs could only serve as Centurions at best, the lowest ranks among the army’s officers.

Now, the army’s overall strength and morale had fallen to rock bottom.

The only thing that kept the NPCs holding onto hope was Tianyin herself, the one whose strength seemed to have reached the very ceiling of this world, someone who possessed Throne-level power.

That was why the NPCs had chosen to stay.

At the very least, having someone with Throne-level power meant there was still hope, that maybe she could lead them out of what had already become the Graveyard Faction’s backyard.

Though that was technically true, on the surface, it only looked that way.

In reality, Tianyin’s true stats were still as ordinary as could be, a plain Blue-tier template, and with all her core attributes being nerfed by that damn System by a whopping 80%…

So while she fully understood the NPCs’ desire to cling to someone powerful, the problem was that she could only maintain that form for five minutes, ahhh!

Which meant, against the Graveyard’s overwhelming undead hordes, five minutes of power was practically useless…

“What should I do, Xiaomengyao…? Because I forced revealed my abilities, now it feels like they’re all clinging to me…”

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Tianyin didn’t know how else to describe it, so she could only explain her predicament as “the NPCs trying to leech off her.”

“Hmm? What do you mean, Master? Are you saying Master’s going to become this army’s commander?”

From the way Xiaomengyao spoke, it seemed she had already noticed this earlier.

Well, she wasn’t wrong either.

But Tianyin just couldn’t accept that she, a mere little loli, would suddenly be in charge of an entire army… that was just too much!

“But, Xiaomengyao, I don’t think this is a good idea… I mean, I never had any connection to these soldiers before, and now I’m supposed to lead them? Isn’t that way too sudden?”

Honestly, what she really wanted was to go back to how things were before, quietly following behind the group, daydreaming, chatting, and joking with her loli disciple Xiaomengyao.

But things had changed.

With Karl dead and countless commanding NPCs gone, only Orgum remained, yet the Kingdom’s forces barely listened to him anymore. And now, after Tianyin’s overwhelming display of power, Orgum’s authority among the Beastmen had almost completely vanished too.

And that was how the awkward situation before Tianyin now came to be…