Volume 2, Chapter 88 – The Astonishing Strategist

“Tell me, little Tianyin, have you ever heard of a player named Yunchou?”

Yunchou?

Tianyin looked at the glowing orb of the System, her face blank at the mysterious name that came out of its mouth.

“Yunchou? Who’s Yunchou? A player?”

“Mm, it seems you really don’t know him.”

Seeing Tianyin’s confused reaction, the System’s light orb made that conclusion.

However, Tianyin couldn’t help but feel strange. Just who was this Yunchou the System mentioned?

After all, there was no way the System would bring up such an ordinary-sounding player’s name without reason. Since it mentioned him, there must be something behind it.

“Well, Yunchou is just an ordinary player. But to be honest, I didn’t even know there was a player called Yunchou in the game until today.”

Huh?

You didn’t know there was a player called Yunchou until today?

What kind of international joke is that?

That’s not funny at all!

Tianyin looked completely stunned.

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“You mean you only found out about this player today? If that’s the case, then why are you even asking me if I know him? You’re the System, right? If even the System didn’t know about this player, how could I possibly know!”

Tianyin was completely baffled. Even the System’s light orb hadn’t known about this player before, so how could she?

What, do you think I’m some all-knowing loli goddess?

Sorry, I’m just a slightly cute-looking silver-haired loli, that’s all.

Tianyin thought in resignation.

“You don’t know? Well, I did calculate that this could happen. But indeed, before this, I truly didn’t know there was a player named Yunchou. Still, I thought you might know.”

“How could I possibly know! You really think too highly of me!”

“No, no, it’s not that I wanted you to know. It’s that I thought you already did.”

The System’s light orb suddenly started playing word games.

“I thought you knew, but in fact, you didn’t. I assumed you should’ve known, but it turns out you don’t. So now, only I know, and you don’t.”

“……”

So this System in front of me is actually this dumb?

How did I not notice before?

Tianyin began to doubt if she’d been blind earlier.

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The way the System was acting right now, it didn’t look anything like the calculating and scheming System she had imagined.

So, was all that just an illusion of mine?

“Alright, alright, forget whether I know or not. Just tell me, who exactly is this Yunchou?”

“A player. And more importantly, he’s a player who’s very closely connected to you, little Tianyin~”

This time, the System’s light orb answered honestly.

“Huh? Connected to me?”

“Mm. You could say this player called Yunchou has been hiding very deeply. If it weren’t for the conversation today between the Death Knight Karl and the Undead Grand Duke Sargus in the Graveyard, I really wouldn’t have noticed his existence.”

“Death Knight Karl?”

Among the System’s words, Tianyin quickly caught a name, Death Knight Karl?

Karl, and a Death Knight at that?

Wait a minute, wasn’t the previous captain of the Paladin Order also named Karl? Why is there now a Death Knight named Karl?

“You’ve noticed it well, little Tianyin. As expected of me and my creation. My loli really is extraordinary~”

I thought of that myself, so why are you acting so proud?

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And what’s with that “as expected of me”? You make it sound like I figured that out because of you!

Tianyin sighed helplessly.

But now wasn’t the time for sarcasm.

“Could it be that this Death Knight Karl was transformed from that legendary Paladin? But what I don’t understand is, what does the conversation between the Undead Grand Duke Sargus and him have to do with this Yunchou player? No matter how I look at it, the two don’t seem connected at all.”

“They’re connected, little Tianyin. In a sense, the Undead Grand Duke Sargus is the leader of this newly reborn Death Knight. But in truth, Karl doesn’t serve Sargus. So far, he’s only serving the Graveyard under Yunchou’s orders.”

Judging from the words, “serving Sargus” and “serving the Graveyard” sounded similar.

But in reality, there was a vast difference between the two.

Serving Sargus meant loyalty, like how Sharl or Orgum served Tianyin as their lord for life.

But serving the Graveyard was much simpler.

That kind of relationship had nothing to do with loyalty at all. Which meant that Karl’s allegiance wasn’t to Sargus. What he served was the Graveyard as an organization.

In other words, if one day the Graveyard were to fall into internal conflict, Karl could freely join the faction opposing Sargus, simply because his service was to the Graveyard itself.

And moreover, Karl was acting under Yunchou’s orders.

That last line from the System’s light orb made it perfectly clear who Karl’s true master was, Yunchou.

Still, even after understanding what the System meant, Tianyin couldn’t help but frown in confusion.

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“Didn’t Karl die? He was killed by those players, but that was in the Graveyard’s territory! And his body was a recently deceased Legendary corpse. Of course the Undead Grand Duke Sargus would’ve revived him… unless…”

Tianyin suddenly thought of a possibility.

That this player named Yunchou had actually been among the players who attacked and killed their group back then.

“Yunchou, he was among those players?”

“Yes. It’s precisely because he was part of that player group that he had the chance to use Soul Summon before the Graveyard forces arrived, reviving Karl and making him his subordinate.”

Then it all made sense, why the System’s light orb had only discovered Yunchou’s existence during Karl’s conversation with Sargus today.

Because Karl’s true master wasn’t Sargus. What was even more shocking was that a Legendary Death Knight, a former Paladin Captain, now served a player, an incredibly weak one at that…

That was… truly astonishing.

“So…”

Tianyin looked at the System’s light orb before her, taking a deep breath.

“This Yunchou… he actually appeared before me back then?”

“Yes. And not only that, little Tianyin, you personally saw him talking to Karl~”