bookrandom Chapter 289 Her Commitment and Her Distracted Colleague
Chapter 289 Her Commitment and Her Distracted Colleague
The gloomy duchess set aside anything she couldn't understand.
She nodded in agreement that it was only a matter of time before she agreed to make the deal with Moe Academy; she was just waiting to see if the other party would offer even more generous terms.
Why wouldn't she agree to a deal that benefits her?
As for whether or not to actually act according to the terms of the negotiation... that depends on her mood.
"What did that broom-head guy say? What can he actually deliver on right now?"
The face mask needs to have the seal on the phone booth broken—
If she undoes it, the Dark Emperor will kill her;
To obtain the physical form, the seal on the underground waterway must be broken.
The broom-headed man firmly stated that it was impossible to let the Dark Emperor leave!
"Doing these messy transactions is really giving me a headache." She hates doing these things the most.
If the offer hadn't been so tempting, her first thought would have been to throw the person out.
She mentally reviewed the negotiation details several times, but she still couldn't figure out what gave Moe Academy the confidence to agree to give her the form that would grant her freedom.
Then she heard another noise. Frowning, she looked up and saw her old colleague, whom she had gone to catch up with, strolling back with something shiny in her hand, humming and swaying back in a very good mood.
Upon seeing clearly that it was a gold coin, the sinister duchess felt a pain in her eyes.
"Can you please put away all that tasteless junk of yours?"
She liked this thing hundreds of years ago, and it hasn't changed at all in the past few centuries, which the gloomy duchess finds utterly repulsive.
"Well?"
She seemed to only then notice that there was another person there.
"Is the eeriness still there?"
No, she just noticed it.
"You've finished talking with Director Pa? So fast. He used to talk to me for at least an hour."
As he spoke, his eyes were not at all looking at the person he was speaking to.
I don't really want to see her, even though it's gloomy.
"Talking to smart people certainly doesn't take too much time."
The profound emotions conveyed in his words were evident.
"Smart?" Rui Bu Si finally managed to tear her gaze away from the gold coins for a brief moment. "You?"
"Ha." A short, sharp sound ended the sentence.
The gloomy duchess instantly erupted in anger.
"So smart that you've been stuck in a time rift for over two hundred years and still can't get out? Well... wow."
The powerful withering spell came straight at the gold coins in her hand, but she turned around to avoid it, circled around, and sat down in her own spot.
I also glanced at the crooked chair across the way, which looked rather eerie.
"Alright, the power of the Dark Moon Stone isn't meant for you to waste like this. The Emperor will have something to say about it."
She carefully put the gold coins away.
Then he felt it was inappropriate, so he held it tightly in his hand.
"What conditions did Parsley offer you after he landed?"
"Why should I tell you?"
"Oh, he really made demands of you?"
The gloomy duchess: ...
On the verge of losing her temper, but before her anger had completely consumed her intelligence, she quickly pretended to be calm and composed, leaning back in her chair:
"If he wants to rescue these students, of course he'll lower himself, compromise, and wait for me to take pity on him without any conditions, right?"
"Maybe it really is?"
Still feeling uneasy, she felt that the gold coin should be carefully placed in a display case with more than a dozen layers of seals, and ideally, no one but herself should be allowed to touch the display case.
Is there such a frame?
Standing up, the gloomy duchess looked at her with puzzlement, waiting for her retort.
However, she seemed genuinely about to leave.
You get upset over just one comment?
The gloomy duchess did not believe it.
We are fully prepared to respond.
“Oh, right,” Ruibusi’s mind wasn’t entirely on the important matter of gold coins; she was also thinking about other trivial things. “The eerie atmosphere, how long does it take for the Reincarnation Bloodstone to form a physical form?”
"how could I know?"
Why would she bother calculating this thing when she had so much free time?
She paused for a moment after she finished speaking, and suddenly felt a chill run through her body.
Things she had never thought about before, nor was she willing to think about, were suddenly brought to the forefront, and for a moment she even felt as if she no longer existed.
—That was the feeling she often had when she was frantically collecting energy in the spacetime rift.
He opened his mouth, turned around, and saw Huangwu humming an off-key song as he left.
"Gold coins, gold coins, what a big gold coin~, wow wow, they're all mine~"
The gloomy duchess always had a sense of superiority over other spirit stone forms.
Because the Reincarnation Bloodstone is different from other spirit stones.
Its form is also different from other spirit stones.
She is the consciousness that gradually emerged from the Reincarnation Bloodstone over the long years. No other spirit stone or its form has a closer relationship with the spirit stone than she does with the Reincarnation Bloodstone.
It is precisely because her formation is longer and the process is more complex, unlike other forms that completely dissipate once they disappear, that she can be "reborn" no matter how many times she is defeated, as long as the Reincarnation Bloodstone is still there.
"Because reincarnation doesn't require the Emperor to expend extra energy, that's why he entrusted me with such a heavy responsibility..." and yet he could abandon me so easily.
Creating other forms requires a lot of energy, and the created forms are not necessarily useful or obedient; her annoying colleague is a perfect example.
“Something’s not right…it won’t work, but…be obedient?” His gaze was fixed on the direction where the desolation had left, as if he could see her face through layers of walls.
"That's not an important question. Who knows what the Emperor was thinking when he created her?"
However, she immediately thought of someone else.
Is that person... obedient?
The confusion was fleeting; her own problems became more pressing.
Although she didn't want to think of herself that way, she had to admit that the Reincarnation Bloodstone's physical form was cheap and useful; even if it ever became disobedient, she could simply recycle it...
"No!"
She doesn't want to disappear!
Don't forget everything again!
Absolutely not!
"Silence!" he shouted, calling out the names of people who might still be nearby. "Silence!"
He appeared timidly: "The Duchess?"
Instead of questioning her about talking to others or what he was doing nearby, she had more pressing concerns.
Where are those slaves now?
She still had chips in her hand.
As long as we hold Princess Naya in our hands... nothing else matters. What if we added Princess Naya to Haidi?
These two things should be enough to blackmail the Emperor into giving her a physical form, right?
If the Emperor is unwilling, she will ruin Princess Naya. If she doesn't have a good time, she will definitely not let anyone else have a good time either.
“No need to lead the way.” She stopped and looked at Wuyan. “Go and tell that group of Quark people that I can agree to their conditions.”
At worst, she can "do her best" to save Princess Naya after the Emperor has finished using her.
"However, they must first open the underground sewers."
With the Knights of the Heart present, she didn't believe they could trust her to hide Princess Naya somewhere else.
Even if it's hidden...
"Would they have sent the desolation away to tell her something?"
Reminiscing about old times?
Ah.
That's a lie.
Am I going alone?
The duchess's cautious and fearful demeanor was infuriating.
"It's just passing on a message, how many people do you want to go?"
“I’m worried they’ll kill me in a fit of anger.”
If those kinds of things are said, people will wonder whose side he's really on.
Moreover, from the perspective of the Moe Academy, he is already showing signs of betrayal.
Aside from Ginny, who always viewed everything he did with a filter—"There must be a reason for doing it this way"—unless he admitted it himself, everyone else disliked him.
The grim duchess waved her hand impatiently: "If they kill you, I'll kill them to avenge you."
Silent: ...Wouldn't he not be able to survive that way?