Volume 5, Chapter 26 – I Can’t Cast Holy Light

Very soon, after a brief exchange with Fisiel in the royal palace, Tianyin took Fisiel and left Storm City.

They did not encounter any attacks from the Abyssal Lord on the way out. That alone let Tianyin quietly breathe a little easier.

Only after they were already far away from Storm City did Tianyin and Fisiel part ways.

To be precise…

The fact that the King of Knights had died and Yunchou had become a Throne-tier of the Kingdom was something Tianyin needed someone to tell Sister Xiaomu.

On top of that, the Northern Fortress still needed Fisiel to sit in town and guard it, so in the end Fisiel turned back along the same route under that same order.

As for Tianyin, without stopping for even a moment, she followed the System Light Orb’s earlier suggestion and headed for the Hyjal Holy Mountain, the battlefield where the Undead Grand Duke Sargus and the Throne-tiers of the Five Great Factions had once fought.

Mount Hyjal lay within the Elven Empire to the south of the Main World. On Mount Hyjal, a giant tree known as the World Tree pierced straight into the clouds, standing upright on the summit.

According to the System, at the foot of Mount Hyjal there was an entrance that led directly to the Fortress Faction in the Underground World.

Since Tianyin had learned this piece of intel through the System, once she parted with Fisiel, she went straight toward the Elven Empire.

However, although Tianyin’s semi-fusion state could last for a very long time, she was still too far from the Elven Empire of the Nature Faction in the Main World.

Even though Tianyin was moving very fast, it still took her more than half a month of travel to reach the Elven Empire.

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Only after rushing along for half a month did Tianyin barely manage to arrive at the border of the Elven Empire.

After quietly slipping across the border of the Elven Empire, Tianyin continued giving it her all, hurrying toward Mount Hyjal.

It was worth mentioning that while Tianyin was on the road, with Samael’s help she finally figured out what exactly the so-called keepsake the King of Knights had left her was.

Strictly speaking, that so-called keepsake was actually a symbol of the King of Knights’ legitimate status. When the King of Knights needed to go into seclusion to train and not appear in public, this keepsake, which was similar to a medal, would serve as the symbol of the King of Knights’ identity.

Normally, the King of Knights would only hand this kind of keepsake to someone he trusted when he was not handling internal Paladin affairs. The person who received the keepsake would then temporarily handle internal Paladin matters in his stead.

So in a certain sense, the keepsake the King of Knights had handed to her could be considered proof of the King of Knights’ identity.

“But… I am a Blood Knight… even if those Paladins refuse to acknowledge Yunchou and acknowledge me instead, I still cannot cast Holy Light…”

Although this move would indeed, just as the System Light Orb had said, bring her a great deal of convenience, Tianyin still could not help noticing a rather helpless point.

That was that she was not a Paladin.

After all, Yunchou at least was a Paladin, while she was not even that.

At best, some of their skills merely happened to be somewhat similar.

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『Well… no matter how you look at it, this thing does not seem very useful, Samael…』

「Well… I can understand you thinking that, Xiaoyin… but you need to understand something. You and Yunchou are two people where one is an outsider who slew the previous King of Knights, and the other is a Throne-tier who holds the King of Knights’ keepsake. Looking at it that way, Xiaoyin, your advantage should be much greater than Yunchou’s, right?」

Samael’s words did give Tianyin a pretty good reminder.

However, Tianyin did not care much about the point Samael was bringing up.

Whether she was a Paladin or not, whether she possessed the keepsake or not, right now she and Yunchou simply were not on the same side. Even though Yunchou had slain the King of Knights, Yunchou was ultimately someone of the Kingdom Faction.

She, on the other hand, was the leader of the Dawn Faction.

Their factions were completely different, so the King of Knights’ keepsake currently could not bring her any real benefit.

『Wuu… unless that guy Yunchou does not fit the identity of the King of Knights, or does something so stupid that everyone turns against him… well, something like that should not be possible. Yunchou is so sly, he definitely would not do something stupid.』

Although part of her was hoping that Yunchou, now that he had become a Throne-tier, would get swollen with pride, Tianyin still felt that possibility was not very big.

So, as things stood now, the King of Knights’ keepsake was basically of no use to her.

『Hey, Samael… do you think it will be really hard this time, going to the Fortress to obtain the power of Sloth?』

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On the road, Tianyin suddenly started to worry about what would happen after she reached the Fortress.

「Well, you cannot think about it like that, Xiaoyin… after all, we have gotten through so many things already. As for this trip to the Fortress, at worst it is just getting into a fight with the Fortress Emperor… besides, the Fortress Emperor, strictly speaking, is also a very straightforward Dwarf. If we lay things out with reason and with feelings, the process of obtaining the power of Sloth might turn out to be very easy, you know~」

『Eh, eh… it will be very easy?』

Hearing Samael’s reassurance, Tianyin’s earlier worry calmed down in an instant.

Of course, Tianyin did not know that what Samael had just said to comfort her was, in a certain sense, a very “accurate” prediction of the entire process by which she would obtain the power of Sloth.

Mm.

That was right. Just as Samael’s words had said, the Dwarves were indeed a very reasonable group.

Whether it was ordinary Dwarves or the Throne-tier Fortress Emperor.

All of these Dwarves were extremely straightforward types with hardly any schemes.

So afterward, Tianyin very directly and “easily” obtained the power of Sloth that had always been stored in the Fortress.

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While Tianyin was hurrying toward Mount Hyjal alone, the game’s Subworld, with its version update, began to affect the players’ real world at an astonishing speed.

Items and equipment from the Subworld could be brought into the real world.

The body in the Subworld was still synchronized with the players’ bodies in the real world.

The strength one possessed in the Subworld could be carried through into the real world.

Under the impact of the Subworld’s upheaval, the established order of the real world did not experience major turmoil right away, but many places nevertheless began to change.

The biggest change was that large numbers of elite figures in the real world began pouring into the Subworld.

At the same time, many well-known conglomerates and great families began vigorously supporting their own forces in the Subworld.

As these conglomerates and clans rose to the surface, ordinary players were stunned to discover that behind most of the well-known players, Guilds, and those lord players who stirred up storms on the rankings in the Subworld, there were more or less the shadows of those conglomerates and clans.

Even that player Andrew, who, backed by the Academy, had founded the Arcane Empire with tremendous resolve, was someone supported by a powerful conglomerate.

However, what was reassuring was that the top player now, the man who had pushed forward the version update by his strength alone, Yunchou, was still just a passerby player without any backing at all.