Ch159 - Abuse the protagonist or we won’t pay money (1/2)
12.2 – Abuse the protagonist or we won’t pay money
translator: xiin
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It wasn’t that Xue Ling felt pity for Ivan, but changing the end of his story hinged on changing Ivan’s fate. And in order to change his fate, the first thing he needed to do was to go up against those three ‘gongs’.
One was the King of mankind, one was the Devil King, and one was the Beast God… When this kind of line-up was compared to Xue Ling’s current weak body that had absolutely no fighting power, the situation was simply laughable.
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The most miserable thing in this world – aside from the Holy Saint Ivan – was probably Xue Ling’s current body.
The wolf cub was originally a three-star Flame Ink Wolf. Its black fur contained traces of red that formed a flame-like pattern on his body that would emit heat when touched. Flame Ink Wolves had very high attack power, and fully grown Flame Ink Wolves could match up against four-star demonic beasts. Oliver’s childhood was quite good thanks to his parents’ power. After all, the rank above four-star was that of the legendary demonic beasts who lived in the heart of the Demonic Beast Forest and rarely emerged.
But his parents had been encircled and captured by Kent’s men and poisoned to death. Kent wanted to gift their beautiful, warm fur to his royal mother to fight for his position as heir. Sure enough, his future path did become much smoother because of his good performance at that birthday party.
Back then, Oliver had been hidden in the grass by his parents, a witness as Kent poisoned Oliver’s parents, killed them, and then skinned them for their fur. After that, due to Kent’s discovery, the value of Flame Ink Wolves soared, and everyone wanted to wear clothes made of their fur. From then on, Oliver could do nothing but continuously flee. If he hadn’t encountered a fortuitous event while fleeing and discovered a legendary demonic beast’s inheritance that allowed him to take on human form, he probably would have had no chance to reach Kent at all.
His hatred for Kent was what allowed Xue Ling to take over this body. That towering hatred still existed in this body, and it was probably due to this hatred that Oliver had no way to accept Ivan’s betrayal. To make it worse, Ivan added the curse to their contract, and pushed his anger to the extreme. He forcibly annulled the contract between them, even damaging his demonic core to the point where he could no longer take on human form.
In the later part of the story, even though he entered the Devil World and became a true ‘demonic beast’, Oliver never became a man again. Xue Ling smiled as he asked the system, “Shouldn’t you explain what this is about?”
The system acted silly and sweet as it replied, “The one who can’t take human form was him, not you. Host, you have already experienced so many worlds where you changed shape – you’ve even been a tree before. What’s there to be scared of?”
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Xue Ling laughed dryly, and was thoroughly convinced that his system was incredibly unreliable. He picked through his own memories to find everything related to the legendary demonic beast’s inheritance, and after looking for a while, finally found some information about the Sacred Pool that could be found in the deepest part of the Demonic Beast Forest in a corner of his mind.
Rumor said that the Sacred Pool was the holiest spring on the entire continent. It could completely baptize a person’s soul, and give them a new life.
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But the Sacred Pool could choose; only people that it liked could see it, and only people it liked would be allowed to enter.
If the Sacred Pool liked a Holy Saint like Ivan, then Xue Ling would have no chance of success. But he also had no way to change the plot in his current situation. What could a weak, powerless wolf cub who couldn’t even speak accomplish? Ha-ha.
After arriving in this world, Xue Ling inexplicably wanted to laugh about all kinds of things.
After making the system provide him with a map, Xue Ling discovered that the place he was now hiding in was an entrance to the Demonic Beast Forest. However, the entrance had been abandoned for many years, and ordinary adventurers would not pass by, which was why he had been able to hide safely until now.
Xue Ling was not interested in exploring why a good entrance like this had been abandoned. He stretched out his head, and then promptly lay back down on the ground again…
Forget it, he would leave when the pain receded. Waiting a while wouldn’t hurt.
The continent was vast, but the Demonic Beast Forest covered two-thirds of the continent, and the rest was where people lived. Xue Ling was now at the Elder God Academy where Ivan and Kent studied. According to the legends, it was an academy that had been built by the God of Light. It should have been a very famous academy, but the God of Light had already fallen, and the light magic he left behind has been gradually fading away, so this Elder God Academy gradually disappeared from everyone’s view.
Kent came to this Academy because there was a rule handed down in the royal family that those who to become king must attend the Elder God Academy for further studies. And Ivan came here because he had a once-in-a-century light magic physique. After the God of Light fell, these kinds of blessed physiques no longer appeared on the continent, but now that it appeared on Ivan, he became the hope of the Elder God Academy.
The Elder God Academy was situated close to the southwest entrance to the Demonic Beast Forest. It was abnormally busy every day as students and hunters entered the Demonic Beast Forest to hunt. But similarly, demonic beasts would hunt human beings that entered the forest. This high-stakes game had existed ever since human beings first stepped foot on this continent.
In fact, the huge Demonic Beast Forest had boundaries that divided it into three layers.
The outermost and largest area was the demonic beast layer. Ordinary demonic beasts and some beasts that had not yet gained awareness and could not communicate were situated here. They were the most prolific, their numbers basically inexhaustible, and consisted of the largest part of the demonic beast population. There were many hunters and warriors who depended on hunting and selling what they killed in the Demonic Beast Forest for their livelihood.
The Elder God Academy guarded one of the entrances. After entering, the hunters were required to pay a certain percentage of what they hunted as a fee when they left. Although students did not have to pay the fee, they had to rely on patrolling and maintaining order in the outer ring of the Demonic Beast Forest to obtain the qualifications to enter.