Chapter 669 The old house and the temptation. Temptation
The three-story brick-and-stone structure is somewhat dilapidated and outdated. It is in the style of three centuries ago. The clean steps still have the flavor of the years. On top of the decorative murals are the paintings of the ancestors of the Lan Kingdom.
Heroic deeds, and the worn murals still smell of paint, which is the result of recent renovations.
In front of the small building, under the pine trees, is a flat garden and open space.
The rusty brass railings blocked off this small world. There was still some green grass in the flowerbed, but at this time, there were only some dead grass and branches left.
"Back then, I practiced swordplay under this tree..."
This is a quiet corner of the palace of Donglan Principality, and it is also where a certain fool and I lived.
When it was confirmed that I was still alive in the world, Sister Kelly opened the dusty little yard and had it renovated and cleaned, and new furniture was moved in. When I returned to the Northland eight years ago, this place was still under reconstruction.
They didn't tell me, but this time when I came back, the palace's housekeeper Kelly directly put me back in this courtyard and gave me a surprise.
The small building is as before, the garden is as before, even the iron railings still have scratches from when the teenagers compared their heights... They are all twins, does this make sense?
The memory of the past seems like it was just yesterday. Looking at the scenes that are almost the same as in my memory, is this the feeling of home? But the empty old scene makes me feel a little lonely and a little sad.
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I can no longer remember the appearance of my parents or the courses I took back then, but these rusty and scattered memories have survived because they are not very important. Should I be grateful?
"It's a bit annoying..."
"Click."
The rusty railings were opened, and the sound of metal interrupted my thoughts. When I looked over, it was the current owner of the palace, Her Royal Highness Renee.
"You, you, you, you...who? Is it Brother Roland?"
I was stunned for a moment, then immediately came to my senses, and quickly adjusted the time accessories, adjusting the age of my mother to about twenty years old.
"Oh, this is a little toy made by Margaret, which can adjust the age of the baby."
A perfect true lie. Although I told the truth, the combination of my movements and expressions made people think that I meant that I was transformed into a child state through this jewelry.
Renee nodded slowly, with a weird smile on her lips, as if she had seen through everything. Damn it, I had forgotten that these ape-like creatures use their muscles to think and their intuition to distinguish authenticity.
"Oh. What is that? I seem to have an impression...the fruit of dusk?"
Although it is a question, it is an affirmative tone. After all, this fruit that looks like a ghost-faced skull is too shabby. Although the taste is okay, I feel very awkward every time I bite it... I can feel the designer
That full of malice is probably the work of Amyra.
I regretted a little and had already ordered the guards not to let anyone else in. I just ate fruits here and adapted to my new life without worrying about how the palace guards could expel the owner of the palace. I am afraid that with her gesture, the guards could not even report.
Save it for me.
Well, at this point, what I am doing hiding here by myself has almost been revealed.
Yes, I avoided taking height-increasing drugs...the fruit of age. But the age-increasing effect cannot be accomplished in one breath.
Every time I eat one, it will take me a while to adapt to the changes in my body, to avoid the changes in my body being too drastic and causing the soul and body to be incompatible, and to avoid eating too much in one go and turning into a magical version of Urashima Taro after eating it.
It's been half a month now and I've only eaten ten, adding fifty years... But to be honest, I have despaired of this bloodline. When I look in the mirror, I probably feel that I have gone from the fourth grade of elementary school to the fourth grade of elementary school.
In the second half of the grade, I am still far away from graduating from elementary school.
But these fruits did work. I can feel that my limbs are stronger than before, and my mind seems to be a lot clearer. If I use the system to explain it, I have at least gained "strength +1" in my fifties.
", "Intelligence +1" effect, this is a real and substantial improvement.
And every time I asked that damn system about how old this bloodline is when it reaches adulthood, this guy would always change the subject weirdly or pretend to be stupid, which made me even more uneasy.
In a sense, this world is somewhat fair. The more powerful a bloodline is, the harder it is to reproduce and the more time it takes to mature. Dragons, Titans, and Giants are the most typical examples, and the elves are also a hundred or two hundred years old.
He has only come of age, and the Golden Elf of golden blood has been an adult for thousands of years... I feel more and more that the Moon Elf was a bastard back then, for bullying a little girl whose father died before she reached adulthood.
The price of silver bloodline is one or two hundred, many of gold bloodline are over a thousand, diamond bloodline... To evaluate the bloodline of double diamond, theoretically, it is normal for it to be over 10,000.
"My noble goddess, if it really takes over 10,000 yuan to reach adulthood, believe it or not, I will die with you! What did you think at the beginning!"
[Tsk, now the blame has been put on my head. Who was hungry for the strongest bloodline back then? I kindly added my own and Cynthia’s bloodline, you should be grateful.]
These words did not make me happy, but made me more and more desperate. I knew that this situation was wrong no matter how I looked at it. The evaluations of these diamonds were randomly judged by the goddess. Creation goddess-level bloodline? This cannot be a hundred thousand years of adulthood.
Well, then no matter how powerful the bloodline is, what’s the point?
"... Let's not talk about the increase in strength after adulthood. I have been a bachelor for more than three hundred years. You don't plan to cheat me for tens of thousands of years."
[...Probably not. Cynthia and I were adults when we were born. I didn't expect that I would end up like you now...]
It's rare to see a guilty conscience in the system's words, and it seems to have revealed some secret. It turns out that she didn't deliberately deceive me, but it was an unexpected accident. But I really can't be happy. From one side, the situation has completely changed.
Losing control means that the system cannot be relied upon at all.
I became more and more unhappy, but what was surprising was that the system actually surrendered.
[Don’t be like this. In fact, I can compensate you. Didn’t you look for Niang’s drowning spring before? I can give you a copy. 】
"Can you do this? Wait a minute, I'm not looking for the mother's drowning spring, it's Kross who's looking for the male drowning spring."
[It’s all the same. In the words of that world, it’s just modifying the attribute data constants of an individual. It’s very simple. But if you do something for me, I will give you the task reward... reward. 】
"What?"
I was a little surprised. This was the first time that the system took the initiative to give me a task. I could feel the anxiety in her words. What made the goddess of creation so nervous? Could it be that the next task for me was to challenge the abyss?
Lord God? Or poaching the Ancient Dragon King?
[Help me pour Niangdongquan on your subordinate! I can feel that those elves and beasts are giving birth to terrible creatures. The world is already chaotic enough, and we must not produce more strange creatures! Absolutely not! Why is the world
I can’t stand this kind of bastard! This guy is definitely not my creation!]
I was stunned. That guy was so unbelievable that he could actually make the goddess of creation scream so hysterically. It seems that his descendants are creations that challenge common sense and normal aesthetics.
At that time, two magic bottles suddenly fell out of the air, one blue and one red. Even mission props and rewards were given in advance. This did not look like a small-minded system. It seemed that she was really on the disaster list.
The top one was stunned.
Use Niang's drowning spring for the sad wind? Just thinking about that scene is too beautiful to look at.
And why do I think that even if he was changed by Niangdongquan, the system will still fail, and the final result will definitely be blind... But it's not wrong to try, anyway, it's not me who is unlucky.
As for rejection? After much thought, I really can’t find a reason to refuse. It’s such an interesting and exciting thing... Well, I mean to do justice to God, maybe I can be on the natural disaster list for this.
"Brother Roland, are you practicing your sword skills?"
Renee's words brought me back to my senses, but made me carefully take another look at the red and blue bottles in the space bag. If these two bottles were broken, I'm afraid something would happen.
Renee's question was still in my ears, and I nodded directly. This man was standing half-shirted in the open space. What other explanation could there be for him other than practicing swordsmanship? Could I explain that he was afraid of accidentally transforming into something violent?
Clothes?
I nodded, but Renee's face was full of joy.
"Then, brother Roland, let me practice with you. I have made considerable progress over the years."
I glanced around, then smiled, then nodded and said...
"I refuse. I will not fight with an idiot who cannot fully control his power. Once the power is leaked, this courtyard will be destroyed. This place is very important to me..."
There was no need to say the second half of the words, I just refused without hesitation. Looking at Renee who didn't hesitate to hide her disappointment, I felt a little happy.
"...By the way, Brother Roland, I heard that you are going to resurrect Ansuna?"
This must be the reason why she came to find me. I nodded. Since I have started to prepare, naturally the city is already full of excitement.
"Um...I heard that only the naturally deceased can be resurrected?"
Renee's eyes were full of expectation, as if she wanted to get a different answer from me. I frowned. I almost knew the purpose of her coming here.
"You want to resurrect your family?"
"……Um."
"I can't do it. No one can do it."
A few minutes later, looking at Renee's back full of frustration and disappointment, I became more and more frightened.
I did not tell lies, but I did not tell the whole truth either. At least the limit of the natural undead was nonsense. My ability to resurrect was far more powerful than it appeared.
Renee's will is strong enough, but even she can't bear the temptation of resurrecting her relatives. If I say that I can resurrect individuals who have died in a short period of time, then the whole world will probably go crazy. Countless relatives have just died and are about to die.
Strong men, kings, will come to trouble me.
"...Fortunately, I have prepared in advance, but you still have to be prepared for trouble."
Even if I tell you the limitations of resurrection, there will always be people who will see through the illusion, or have the expectation of "just in case they can be resurrected." As long as there are ten such transcendents, their methods will definitely be very fierce, my trouble
Still not small.
"Then, let's make this resurrection even grander, so grand that most people can't afford the reward..." (To be continued.)
