"Black, go over there and see what happened!"
Black took the order and walked over to the fallen guard. He reached out and touched the guard's chest:
"Prince... His Majesty the King! This is bad! He... he's dead!"
Everyone present erupted in an uproar!
This was the first time they had ever seen such power—the power to kill anyone you pointed at!
Could it really be their ancestor showing divine favor?
In fact, nothing could have been further from the truth! An Xinghe had killed this guard in advance, then revived him with the Corpse Manipulation Technique.
The instant Vanessa pointed at the guard, he dispelled the Corpse Manipulation Technique, and the guard naturally collapsed!
This move was nothing more than borrowing the fox's might to intimidate the tiger!
But it had been more than enough to frighten this group of merfolk!
Danmaku.
[An Xinghe's plan is seriously brilliant.]
[Despicable two-legged beast!]
[Why do you think An Xinghe was willing to help Vanessa ascend to the throne?]
"What are you talking about? They're married. Why wouldn't he help his own wife?"
[Actually, I think Princess and Empress might feel different...]
[The person above got it right!]
[So I was just too innocent!]
[We're all kindred spirits! We'll slowly modify the XP System!]
Here Will Become Paradise
After shocking everyone by pretending that their ancestor had shown divine favor, Vanessa pointed at the guard beside William and shouted:
"You people are still stubbornly following him! Aren't you afraid of being punished by our ancestor?!"
The guards' hearts wavered instantly!
They had never truly been loyal to William. They had only been forced into it by the circumstances!
As the saying went, they would support whoever won!
William knew that if he failed to display his authority now, he would lose all face afterward! He would not even be a legitimate king!
He had no choice but to emerge from the guards surrounding him. He aimed the trident in his hand at Vanessa:
"Little sister! Go ahead and use your ancestor's divine favor against me! I'll show you who is truly chosen by fate to rule the merfolk!!"
With that, William leaped high into the air and thrust his weapon toward Vanessa's neck!
At that moment, Vanessa instead closed her eyes!
She shouted:
"Xinghe!"
"Coming!"
An Xinghe descended from the sky like a god of war and landed beside Vanessa. He raised a finger and pointed it at William, sneering:
"You finally decided to come out from among your guards! I've been waiting for this moment for a long time!"
The moment William saw An Xinghe's gesture, he knew things were bad! Back then, An Xinghe had used this same move to blast away half of Marlon's head!
Now, it was his turn!
The Spirit Ball shot out from An Xinghe's fingertip! William, charging forward, had no way to dodge!
The Spirit Ball pierced straight through William's chest and destroyed his heart!
William, having lost his life, fell from the sky. In the final moment before his death, he looked at the high-spirited An Xinghe.
He wondered why someone like this could not work for him!
If the viewers in the livestream knew what he was thinking, they would certainly have shouted the same answer in unison!
Because you're not a pretty girl!
At the same time, William's death marked the end of this palace farce.
The guards lowered their weapons together.
They were not fools. They would not oppose the living Princess for a dead prince!
With An Xinghe's open and covert efforts, Vanessa gradually won over the other ministers and stabilized the situation, which had been thrown into complete chaos.
Jennifer was also successfully released.
Then An Xinghe prepared to leave.
He had to go! After all, he still had a mission assigned by the horror game!
But he did not leave without saying goodbye. Instead, he asked Queen Vanessa for a long vacation to visit his family.
Vanessa was extremely unwilling, and forcibly worked An Xinghe for three days before reluctantly agreeing to let him return.
Riding the seahorse Vanessa had prepared, An Xinghe followed the ocean currents and finally returned to shore.
By sheer coincidence, he saw Lin Yan harassing female tourists passing along the shore:
"Begone, you monster! Watch me rid the people of evil!"
"Holy crap! That voice! It's you, Old An! You're finally back!" Lin Yan stared at An Xinghe in great excitement. He even abandoned his attempt to flirt and came straight over to put an arm around An Xinghe's shoulders:
"You really made me wait!"
An Xinghe pushed him away with a look of disgust. "Stop getting handsy! You've been waiting here the entire time since I left?"
"Of course! After you fell into the water, I didn't receive any notification that you'd died, so I knew your ass had pulled it off again! So? Did you bring the scales back?"
"I did."
"Great!" Lin Yan's face lit up. "I've got good news too! I found the land of Sleeping Beauty!"
That was definitely good news! An Xinghe hurriedly asked:
"What land is it?"
"The Beastman Empire!"
"Oh, the Beastman Empire. Wait! The Beastman Empire!" An Xinghe's eyes widened abruptly. "Then could this Sleeping Beauty also be... a beastman??"
For some reason, Lin Yan wore a lecherous grin:
"Hehehe, of course! If I hadn't been waiting for you, I would have gone there myself! Think about it—aren't kemonomimi girls wonderful? Aren't cat ears wonderful? Aren't fox tails wonderful? Aren't cat paws wonderful?"
An Xinghe retorted, "I think you're only suited for a centaur."
Livestream.
[Holy crap! Hearing Lin Yan put it that way, doesn't that mean the Beastman Empire is full of kemonomimi girls?!]
[Paradise! It has to be paradise!]
[Brothers, don't get excited. Something feels off to me. In a medieval fairy tale like Snow White, are beastmen really kemonomimi girls?]
[Now that you mention it, I feel like something's off too...]
[The concept of kemonomimi was invented by the Neonese, wasn't it?]
[I think the beastmen in this world will probably be modeled after Warcraft.]
[You're being too modest. Warcraft is already the beautified version.]
Watching Lin Yan remain excited, the audience could not help feeling a bead of sweat for him.
The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment...
This Time, It's Your Turn to Shine, Lin Yan
The Beastman Empire was quite a distance from Narrow Beach, but fortunately, An Xinghe had plenty of travel money given to him by Cinderella and Snow White. On top of that, Vanessa had stuffed him full of pearls, so much money was practically spilling out of his pockets!
The current An Xinghe could easily be called a wealthy tycoon!
He directly bought a luxurious carriage and countless provisions, then hired a driver to head toward the Beastman Empire.
Lin Yan complained about his tendency to live off women, but his body honestly followed him into the carriage.
The original story of Sleeping Beauty was simpler than those of Cinderella and the others.
A witch had cursed Sleeping Beauty, saying that she would fall into a deep sleep the moment she was pricked by a spindle.
The king then ordered every spindle in the kingdom to be burned.
Unexpectedly, Sleeping Beauty discovered an Old Lady weaving in a dilapidated bell tower, and the Old Lady had a spindle in her hand.
As in the witch's curse, Sleeping Beauty was pricked by the spindle and fell into a deep sleep, taking the king, Queen, and servants in the entire royal palace down with her.
Time passed unbeknownst to them. Three years went by.
[ Ding! Players An Xinghe and Lin Yan have arrived at the Beastman Empire. Mission progress has been updated! ] [ Ding! Mission hint: Sleeping Beauty can only be awakened by someone wearing the Protagonist Halo! ]
The moment he heard this prompt, Lin Yan stared eagerly at An Xinghe.
An Xinghe instantly understood what he meant:
"I'm not a pervert! I'm merely a gentleman under the name of a pervert!"
[ Ding! The Protagonist Halo has been transferred. Owner: Lin Yan ]
Lin Yan excitedly grabbed An Xinghe's hand:
"Brother An! I can only repay your great kindness in my next life by working like an ox or horse for you!"
With that, Lin Yan eagerly stepped into the capital of the Beastman Empire!
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