The Legend of the Dragon King era.
The Star Luo Empire Grand Hotel.
A group of young people in matching military uniforms.
Were surrounding Luo Feng and forcing drinks on him.
"Come on!"
"Brother Luo Feng, bottoms up!"
"Congratulations on joining the Imperial First Mecha Legion!"
As a transmigrator,
a cheat was an absolute must.
Besides giving him the [Fullmetal Alchemist] Martial Soul,
the beginner's gift pack had also given him a super mecha.
It was the Vanguard Titan from Titanfall.
And as his strength increased and he equipped external parts,
the mecha's combat power would keep rising.
After the Star Luo Empire Mecha Corps' latest evaluation,
his Vanguard Armor had been rated a Black-Grade Mecha.
And then...
For some inexplicable reason, he'd been recruited by the First Imperial Armored Corps.
It was a steady job, rain or shine.
Not only did he receive a generous monthly allowance,
but there were also some unexpected perks.
One of them was a twenty-percent discount at this top-tier banquet hall in the Star Luo Empire.
"Thanks for looking out for me, brothers. I'll drink first!"
As the saying went, good news put a spring in your step.
Though he couldn't hold his liquor,
Luo Feng still downed one cup after another.
But just as his vision began to blur,
a handsome man and a beautiful woman suddenly appeared before him.
"Tang Wulin?"
"Gu Yue?"
As a transmigrator who'd spent ten years reading novels,
Luo Feng had blurted out their names almost without thinking.
The moment the words left his mouth,
two crafty older brothers hurried over to cover his mouth.
"You little brat, do you want to get yourself killed?"
"Tang Wulin is the man our princess has her eye on! How can you call him by his name?"
To be honest,
even though he'd been here for a while,
he'd always been stuck at the bottom, so
Luo Feng hadn't even figured out what was going on in the Douluo Continent.
He'd only heard a companion mention before
that Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect had been blown up.
That vague information had given him a rough idea of the timeline.
But today,
Luo Feng felt like he'd finally understood something.
Because, following in Tang Wulin's footsteps,
a figure familiar to every citizen of the Star Luo Empire soon appeared.
It was their princess, Dai Yun'er.
At that moment, Dai Yun'er looked as though she'd suffered some tremendous shock.
Her hair was disheveled, and she stared blankly at Tang Wulin's retreating figure.
She was still muttering to herself.
She didn't care where she was,
or that Luo Feng and the others were bowing to her.
"Tang Wulin, I don't like you anymore!"
Maybe she'd been shaken by spending the entire night yesterday crouched under a bed.
Maybe she'd felt Tang Wulin's terrifying stamina, like that of a Soul Beast.
Either way, the willful little princess's affection for him had turned to fear...
"Good grief, Bedside Douluo?"
"I finally figured out the timeline!"
At the sight of this, Luo Feng's mind cleared in an instant.
The Bedside Douluo scene was one of the most iconic moments in the entire Legend of the Dragon King.
It was also a very clear point of reference for the timeline.
Because not long after this happened,
the Douluo Plane would be invaded by the Abyss.
"You... What did you all see?"
Maybe the gulf between her hopes and reality had been too much.
The willful princess looked utterly lost.
Dazed and confused, she still hadn't come to her senses.
But when Dai Yun'er spotted these young men in Imperial military uniforms,
it was as if her pent-up despair had found an outlet.
She walked straight over.
Like she'd caught a faithless lover,
she clamped both hands around Luo Feng, the one at the front.
"Your Highness, there are plenty of fish in the sea. You don't need to give up the whole forest for one man!"
He was single himself, without a girlfriend,
but Luo Feng had read novels for long enough.
When it came to lines like this, they came naturally to him.
He didn't know that, to Dai Yun'er right now,
those words, though seemingly casual,
hit her like a sudden burst of enlightenment.
She felt as if she'd finally grabbed hold of a lifeline.
"You. What's your name? Which unit are you with?"
"Your Highness, I'm Luo Feng. I just joined the First Imperial Armored Corps!"
Though being stared at by a princess who'd just been dumped made him uneasy,
Luo Feng answered without missing a beat.
At the same time, he took a curious look at the beautiful young woman before him.
Fair skin, exquisite features, and long legs.
She was the very picture of royalty.
Especially those big, watery eyes,
brimming with hurt and sparkling with tears!
"The First Imperial Armored Corps?"
"Is your mecha Black Level?"
"Yes!"
"Good. I order you to take me with you. I want to go out and clear my head!"
What was going on?
This princess's order was a little strange.
Seeing Luo Feng stand motionless,
Dai Yun'er didn't get angry. Instead, she gave him a faint smile.
"What?"
"Are you saying the princess can't give orders to your knight corps?"
"N-no!"
"Please wait a moment, Your Highness!"
Maybe he'd realized he was being rude.
Luo Feng hurriedly stepped back twice.
Then he called toward the hotel entrance.
"BT, you're up!"
"Whirr!"
"Pshh!"
At his command,
the Vanguard Armor parked outside suddenly vented a great cloud of white steam.
Then the mecha's exterior glowed in alternating red and green.
[Pilot, I've received your message!]
[Would you like me to take the lady beside you along as well?]
The Vanguard Titan was equipped with a certain degree of artificial intelligence.
It could read the situation with remarkable clarity.
"Haha?"
"Your mecha is strange!"
"This princess has decided to come inside and see how it's operated!"
Good heavens!
They said a woman with a broken heart was the most frightening.
She could do things you'd never see coming.
The Vanguard Titan's cockpit was spacious,
but that only applied to the pilot.
If a man and a woman both climbed in,
things could get awkward!
Never mind the impropriety of a man and woman alone together.
The fact that she was a princess alone was enough to give anyone a headache!
"Whirr!"
But the Vanguard Titan didn't care about any of that.
It quickly came to the entrance
and even opened its cockpit on its own.
"Haha, you're a good one, aren't you? Let this princess see what makes your mecha different!"
Before Luo Feng could react,
the little princess nimbly jumped into the cockpit.
Every mecha in the empire had some hand-built elements and its own unique features.
But Luo Feng's was brimming with futuristic technology.
Those colorful buttons and control panels were beyond the capabilities of the Star Luo Empire,
and even the Tang Sect couldn't build anything like them.
"What are you standing there for? Get up here and explain how to use all this!"
Seeing Luo Feng standing beside the mecha, hesitating,
Dai Yun'er seemed far more at ease than he was.
It was as if she'd completely gotten over her heartbreak.
She'd devoted all her attention to the mecha before her!
"Um, Your Highness, please allow me to demonstrate..."
There was no helping it!
The princess had beckoned him.
If he kept dithering, Luo Feng would be disobeying an order!
So he gritted his teeth and jumped into the cockpit too.
Maybe it was the close confines.
Or maybe the two of them were sitting too close.
A faint, delicate fragrance wafted toward him.
So beautiful!
So fragrant!