Chapter 3 Are you just going to feed my king potatoes?
Author: Sister's Bride
Chapter 3 Are you just going to feed my king potatoes?
Having said that, I want Qiu Yuan to live happily in this world.
But now Qiu Yuan, who lives in a small wooden house and gnaws potatoes bitterly, does not look happy at all.
Qiu Yuan's expression when eating potatoes now has the painful expression of "a subway old man looking at his mobile phone.JPG".
"You only feed my king food made from the roots of this plant?" Melina felt a little dissatisfied when she saw this.
You must know that even the delicacies in the border area are not just this one, such as desperate meat, green flowers, beast pills, cooked shrimps and crabs, and a lot of delicacies.
There are so many kinds of food in such a desperate world on the border, but these strong men from other prosperous worlds only feed potatoes to the heroes of their world?
"As mentioned before, if the things in our world want to stay in Qiuyuan's world for a long time, they need to continue to consume Qiuyuan's happiness crystals, and even if they materialize, they will be tasteless, like chewing wax."
Xili also sighed and told Melina that if you don't become a family member, you don't know how expensive food, rice, oil and salt are.
"So the food in our world cannot be given to Qiuyuan, and most of the animals and plants in Qiuyuan's world have been devoured and polluted by mimicry."
"We spent a lot of energy during this year to rescue some potato and rice seeds that were not contaminated... and then handed them over to a square man named Steve to cultivate, and then we got these potatoes and rice.
"
"This is the best food we can provide Qiuyuan now."
Of course Xili also wanted to entertain Qiu Yuan with Toussaint’s wine and various delicacies from the wizarding world, but unfortunately she couldn’t do this...
"..."
Melina also quickly understood the difficulties of Xili and the others. She turned her head and glanced at Qiu Yuan who was eating potatoes on the surveillance camera and said.
"My king just said that he wants to eat meat, right?"
"He has been thinking about it for a long time. We can only provide him with this kind of food for Qiu Yuan every day. We actually feel very guilty."
"So we have been sending people to look for uncontaminated meat in the world of mimicry. Although we have already got a lot of clues... the next step is actually still being planned."
While talking, Ciri handed a large stack of information about the world of mimicry to Melina to read.
All this information was brought back by members of the tavern who are good at stealth and espionage warfare.
Basically, it covers the general framework of the empire composed of this mimic creature, as well as the social structure, living habits, and combat power of this mimic creature. All aspects are very detailed and integrated in this report.
Since most of the games Qiu Yuan plays are in Simplified Chinese, the game characters from various worlds gathered here all recognize Simplified Chinese even though they all have the native language of their respective worlds.
Melina carefully read the information about the Mimic Empire and found that although this group of Mimics was terrifying, their various aspects, including their social structure, were very interesting.
First of all, mimicry is a terrifying empire that spans all major planes, not some primitive creature.
Secondly, the basic citizen composition of the Mimic Empire is 'human mimicry', because humans seem to be the most common intelligent creatures in all major planes that are 'well-balanced in all aspects'.
So just looking at their appearance, it wouldn't be a problem to say that the Mimics are a meta-human empire.
Then the social status of mimicry is roughly divided into three levels. The lowest level is animal mimicry. This type of mimicry does not have advanced intelligence and mostly mimics creatures such as pigs, cows and sheep.
They are just rations in the eyes of other mimics with advanced intelligence, that's right... Mimics with advanced intelligence rely on eating those of their own kind that can only transform into pigs, cows and sheep.
The second level is human mimicry. This type of mimicry is the most basic form of citizens in the mimicry empire and has the most basic civil rights, but... it is only the most basic.
Under certain circumstances...human mimicry may also become food for higher-level mimicry.
The third level is extraordinary mimicry, which has mastered various extraordinary powers.
It can even incarnate into extraordinary creatures that are far stronger than humans, such as dragons, monsters, demons, extraordinary beings, saints... In short, they are all kinds of mimics that can drive extraordinary power.
Melina read this and looked at the promotion mechanism of the mimics.
If you are a mimic of a pig, cow or sheep from birth, you will only have the fate of being eaten by other mimics in your life, with no possibility of turning over.
But if it is human mimicry, there is still the possibility of being promoted to extraordinary mimicry.
As for the method of promotion... Melina studied it in detail and found that it was partially similar to the soul world she was in.
If human mimicry wants to advance to extraordinary mimicry, it needs two conditions, one is the 'element body', and the other is 'combat memory'.
As the name suggests, the 'primary body' is the body of those extraordinary creatures. Mimicry relies on swallowing the bodies of those extraordinary creatures to imitate various characteristics of their bodies.
Like dragons, demons, demons and the like.
The second is ‘combat memory’. Combat memories are the memory crystals left by those extraordinary creatures... who have experienced some cruel battles.
Mimics learn the abilities of extraordinary creatures by devouring this memory crystal, such as magic, superpowers, psionic powers, etc.
To use the description in the game, the 'body' is the fragments of the character in the game...literally the fragments that make up the various parts of the game character's body.
‘Combat memory’ is the soul of this character, the extraordinary power he has mastered, skill points, etc.
There are various religious forces within Mimicry, and they believe in various gods, extraordinary creatures, or other things.
If a human mimic wants to be promoted to a transcendent mimic, he must choose a religious force to join. Only by making a certain contribution can he receive the corresponding 'blessing' of that religion.
After reading all the information about the mimics, Melina suddenly had an idea in her mind.
"Since we personally come to my king's world, we will consume a lot of happiness crystals... Then why not support a group of forces loyal to my king in the mimicry?" Melina looked at Ciri and asked.
"We have also tried this, but unfortunately we have never had a particularly good exchange chip."
This is also something that troubles Xili. First, everything that manifests into the present world needs to be maintained by happiness crystals. Second, no one among them has the missionary skill.
There is one person who is particularly good at killing missionaries.
"I think... maybe I can give it a try." Melina planned to take on this important task.
"Then have you thought of any particularly good bargaining chips? Those mimics are very clever. If you want them to follow you wholeheartedly, Mr. Wang needs to pay something." Xili said helplessly.
"I can grant them the most precious thing 'knowledge', and it is also the reason why you worship my king, which is my king's battle memory."
A ball of light appeared in Melina's hand. If Qiu Yuan could see the name of the item, this ball of light would be the 'King of Elden's first battle memory'.
"You actually have the ability to materialize Qiu Yuan's battle memories? This... is indeed a great temptation for those mimics who long for extraordinary power."
Ciri looked at the ball of light in Melina's hand in shock, feeling that this was indeed the reason why a lot of mimics willingly loyal to the King of Elden...
after all…
"That guy Qiu Yuan's fighting posture is indeed the reason why we admire him."
When Xili said this, even though she was a arrogant girl, her tone was filled with sincere admiration and yearning.
"Does my king also have a corresponding incarnation in your world?" Melina listened to Xili's sigh and was a little curious about what Qiu Yuan's incarnation looked like in the wizard's world.
"No, no, it would be nice if there was. Qiu Yuan controls me and Geralt respectively in our world, but...how should I say this?"
Xili couldn't describe the wonderful feeling when she was controlled by Qiu Yuan.
"I know this!" Futaba stood up at this time and said, "It just... feels like a machine and a super-skilled pilot, right?"
"Probably... like this?"
To be honest, Shiri didn't understand Futaba's statement. She just awkwardly echoed it and then gave a more appropriate example.
The white wolf's daughter pointed at a demon hunter with silver hair and a red coat in the corner and said.
"That one is Dante, a very powerful demon hunter, and sitting next to him is his brother Vergil. Under normal circumstances, their strength is about the same."
"But if Qiu Yuan controls Dante and Vergil to fight, Dante can completely defeat Vergil without getting hurt. If Qiu Yuan controls Vergil, Dante will not be able to survive Vergil for five minutes."
"Hey! I'm listening to what you said, little girl!"
Dante shouted dissatisfiedly from the corner, and Ciri shrugged to show that he didn't hear him.
"Virgil, don't you have any objections at all?" Dante called to Virgil, who came with him to check on Qiu Yuan's condition.
However, Virgil was currently sitting on a chair in the food stall, wearing a sound-isolating headset and playing "Bury the Light" on a loop to block out the noise coming from his brother's chatter.
"In short, this is the general situation. If you use Qiu Yuan's battle memory as a bargaining chip, I think it is indeed very possible to recruit a group of mimics loyal to the King of Elden... If they can really form a fighting force, they can help me save money.
A lot of happiness crystallized.”
After saying this, Xili raised her voice and shouted in the tavern.
"Everyone should have heard our conversation, right? The voting has started, and those who decided to support Miss Melina's proposal raised their hands," Shiri said.
The use of Qiuyuan's Happy Crystal in the tavern adopts a voting and debate system, that is, voting first, if there is a disagreement, then sit down and have a quarrel, and then continue voting after the quarrel.
However, since the visitors in the tavern are either a group of temperamental people or a group of wise men, they all know what to do at this stage, so the use of happiness crystals is mostly approved by multiple votes.
This time it was passed unanimously.
Qiu Yuan's crystallization of happiness is now almost exhausted, and he cannot sustain the consumption of the shielding circle if he continues to consume it.
Melina's method of recruiting mimics to follow King Elden is indeed the most cost-effective way to break the situation at this stage.
"Then it's up to you, Melina."
Xili took out half a fist-sized crystal of happiness and handed it to Melina and said.
"This can keep you active in the world for five to six days, but you can only use magic that hides your body at most. If it's that kind of destructive magic, it won't last long."
"I will recruit the most devout believers for my king."
Melina held this half of the crystal of happiness, and disappeared into the tavern with the expectations of everyone in the tavern, and went to the real world to spread the great gospel of King Elden to the mimics.