? Prince CH 3 (2/2)
With that, I hurriedly bade farewell to members of Rose Team and returned to my seat to enjoy my meal
I tucked intothat there was soon and I went on a stroll through the city in order to digest the huge meal we had just eaten
“Prince, have you thought about foron asked me
“What’s so good about a party?” I asked, tilting my head to one side
The knowledgeable Lolidragon began to explain it to er, so it’ll probably becoht thee, it’ll be easier to take them down We would probably level up even faster than we do now too Also, with a party we could go to the Adventurers’ Guild and accept group quests If we coood quest rewards, money, increase our reputation, etc”
“Hood to me “Then let’s form a party!”
Hearing that, Lolidragon rolled her eyes “It’s not that siht now, there’s only the two of us”
“That–”
“Hold up, the two of you in front,” a lovely voice called out i me
Confused, I turned about to see the pretty huirl from Rose Team I’d met her just a little while before… I think her na the matter?”
Her hands were on her hips She see deiven her sht hulking guys suddenly appeared behind her…
What is going on? A robbery? In Star City? Lolidragon and I were thoroughly puzzled Nearby players stopped to watch, clearly curious about as going on
“If I may ask… What business do you have with us?” I said, still entlemanly smile
So hot… Fairsky thought with a worshi+pful expression Her resolve intensified – she would definitely get this gorgeous man to take her as his wife! Thus, the lines she had co to her lips
“The way is mine to clear and the tree is h here… With The Hottie You Must Part”7
…All of us – Lolidragon,players that is – were simply stunned
Seeing no response from me, Fairsky stamped her foot “Listen, Prince I want you to duon, and become myhusband I’ll feed you, house you, equip you, clothe you, and I’ll even give you an allowance” She proudly raised her chin in assurance “Don’t worry, I definitely have ive you fifty thousand gold first”
I was confounded “You mean… You want to take care of me?”
“That’s right!”
In secret, Lolidragon had long since started to laugh till her sides split; however, for the sake of her i corners of her mouth were the only evidence of her mirth
The spectators, on the other hand, had long since burst into laughter Amidst the babble, I could hear a few remarks, like: “Whoa, what a manly babe”, “Take care of me too, babe”, and “Che, why don’t you take a look at yourself first!”
“What to do, Lolidragon… And stop laughing, will you,” I PMed her plaintively
“Ahahaha! …Just turn her down, obviously After all, what can she do to you on the streets in broad daylight anyway?” Lolidragon replied, choking with laughter
Ignoring the two-hundred-decibels-loud laughter around us, I had no choice but to force an apologetic expression onto my face Waaah! I’m an innocent party… “I’ my wife, so please… Look for a husband elsewhere!”
daon with apparent fury The latter, however, appeared to be totally unconcerned and was busy exaed Fairsky further “Boys, kill that woman and send her back to the rebirth point”
Her eight underlings looked at each other in hesitation – after all, to kill such an exquisitely beautiful woman was simply…unthinkable!
Furious, Fairsky shouted, “Hurry up and do it! If you kill her, I’ll give you fifty thousand!”
The two of us paled and Lolidragon seeer “Don’t you dare to even think of doing so to us out here on the main street!”
Tes slowly approached us Hurriedly, I shi+elded Lolidragon with an to le sentence from Fairsky made them hesitate to involve theet these boys to kill you over and over again until you return to level one”
“Prince…” Lolidragon’s face was now pale as a sheet as she hid behind me
“Don’t be afraid If you die, I’ll die with you After all, it’s just a level, we can always retrain,” I coon, who see my words
“I’ll ask you again, Prince Will you be o”
Fairsky’s self-centered speech nearly drove Lolidragon into an inarticulate rage “You damn bitch! Even if you kill me until I hit level one, Prince will still be MY husband!”
Hearing that, Fairsky was incensed “Kill her”
One guy, dazzled by the proold, decided to rush in ahead and clai in, forcefully wielding a double-headed axe In response, I reached into rabbed ely at Fairsky’s hirelings
“Meatbun, use Poisonous Meatbun” As Meatbun fleards their heads, it released a streaas
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Once Meatbun returned tofull use of the teht caused by Meatbun “Nine-headed Dragon Strike!”
Nine-headed Dragon Strike was a a that I’d copied andwith h the use of my Continuous Attack ability
At present, it allows for ten continuous attacks, so perhaps I should renaon Strike’…
When added to the attack power of e from Inferno Slash, the result was an insanely powerful move – one that could be considered est– had turned into a pile of broken bones before the move could be completely executed
“Aaaaaaargh!” Thug A let out a blood-curdling screa into the sky
I iulping down the contents The greatest probleon Strike lay in the ah, the others were all too stunned by the sudden violence to grab the opportunity and attack me
Re how Kenshi+n would always look at his enemies coldly and cause the seven thugs and spoke in an icy tone “If anyone thinks he can survive on Strike, I’d like to invite him to step up!”
The thugs had finished dosing themselves with major antidotes, but none of the watched me replenish e over would be offering the others a free meat-shi+eld!
“bloody hell! We’ll take hi seven-on-one!” Thug B finally roared All seven thugs caether
What followed could only be described as a brawl I relied on her than theirs – to dart about in that sea of blades However, I still wound up taking a nuon’s situation was no better She had sustained no daher than mine, but without much attack power, she could hardly injure the enemy either
“Hngh!”
In the instant I was distracted, one of the thugs had used an ability and chopped down onwithinto o down in flaon Strike It caused a pillar of white light to shoot into the sky, but the cost to h; I took another five or six blows I was on the verge of death…
“Prince…” The blood drained fro Chun Li’s ultimate move – we’ll call it Helicopter Kick for now!To ed tonon-stop with both hands still on the ground She lacked the physical strength, so her legs couldn’t possibly deal e, but she had actually fitted hidden blades onto the tips of her boots Froon, the blades must have been coated with her most powerful poison, Seven Steps Soul Scatter
Of course, you wouldn’t really die in seven steps, but with a HP degeneration rate of -50/s, a regular player would probably be dead within a minute if they didn’t cure the poison
The poisoned thugs were horrified to see their health dropping at such a rapid rate, and hurried to search their inventories for antidotes Making use of the confusion, Lolidragon dashed over and hauled uzzle down a health potion
Before I could put a second potion to ain God damn it!
Lolidragon and I both paled noticeably Nearby players, seeing that no one else had stepped up all this while, decided to just continue watching froirls could not bear to watch any longer, however They left, shi+elding their eyes froht
Looks like Lolidragon and I will really have to die for the sake of our ‘love’, waaah! Can I choose not to die under such bizarre circumstances?
Just as I was about to exchange bloith the thugs, a thunderous, bestial roar filled the air “STOP!”
All heads turned to look at the source of the voice It wasn’t too hard to spot the target, since it was a beastray fur and, as far as I could estiantic fist seemed like it could send a man to hell with one blow and his ars were probably thicker than my waist
Panic filled the eyes of the reht ly creature in front of them
The hideous wolflare “SCRAM, UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE SHREDDED TO PIECES!”
They gulped nervously and retreated a few steps, but were still reluctant to run away
Making use of the opportunity, I drank my last health potion With my health replenished, I stood up and, as if to e stance for the Nine-headed Dragon Strike That, coaze in my eyes, led to the desired outcome: Terror
Fairsky, standing to one side, was also pale with fright She had only intended to kill Lolidragon, and not to hurt her Prince Char tone, she asked, “Prince… Do you really love Lolidragon so much, to the point that no other woman would do?”
I heaved a troubled sigh This face of ht I’m sorry…”
Hearing that, Fairsky’s eyes filled with tears With a low sob, she finally fled, crying Taking stock of the situation, the thugs realized that the fifty thousand were forever out of their reach, so they left as well
I watched as the thugs scattered and breathed a sigh of relief Thinking of an to feel afraid again Without realizing it, round Just then, however, a soft, coht enveloped me…
“Are you all right?” the ugly wolfman asked me, concerned I liftedat me I smiled back in reassurance, ly face seemed to be very friendly and trustworthy
Lolidragon, however, looked at the gray, ugly wolfman with an extremely astonished expression
“You… You’re a priest?” Lolidragon stuttered What the ugly wolf spell…
The wolfman answered with some embarrassment, “Yes, I am a beastman priest”
I was stunned for a“Did…did we just use a priest, an injured warrior and a thief to scare off SIXwarriors? Ahahaha…” As I broke off into laughter, Lolidragon and the ugly wolfan to chuckle as well
Lolidragon and I exchanged a glance We saw in each other’s eyes a shared ad,nobody else in that crowd dared to come forward and help us, but he, a priest with no attack power, actually had the courage to step up Doesn’t that call for adratitude?
“What’s your na hily at all anymore
“I’ name,” he said with a smile However, I could see that the look in his eyes was one of painful hu of sorrow and made up my mind…
“Then… Wolf, iven out onup my arms helplessly
“Certainly, certainly,” he said quickly
And so, with one aron’s, we slowly made our way back to the hotel
As alked, I said, “Wolf, we need a priest, and I ondering if you ht be interested…”
[½ Prince Volume 1 Chapter 3 End]
Footnotes
1 Iori Yagaahters who nature moves, where Iori uses several nor his ene them up (Doesn’t sound like it can be done even in Second Life, though) The ht nuns in a dressing room…
2 Kenshi+n’s Nine-headed Dragon Strike: Kenshi+n is the a Rurouni Kenshi+n, and the on Strike (“九頭龍閃” in japanese kanji, prn kuzu-ryūsen) is one of his moves It is an unavoidable and deadly technique that requires a lot of speed to strike at the body’s nine vital points Prince often uses this attack in later chapters
3 Yang Guo’s Melancholic Palonist of the novel The Return of the Condor Heroes, written by Jin Yong Yang Guo was the son of Yang Kang, the villain in the prequel novels The Legend of the Condor Heroes Even as a young boy, he was shunned by row up to be just like his father He onist, a martial arts practitioner five years his senior who also beco Nü literally on’s name, but because on”, we’ve stuck to using that)
Their supposedly “indecent” relationshi+p, as well as theirNü’s beauty led them into a lot of trouble and they were separatedNü were poisoned by their enele dose of antidoteXiao Long Nü later vanished, leaving behind an obscurefound another cure, and telling Yang Guo that they would reunite in sixteen years Everyone (excepting Yang Guo) understood the truth, which was that Xiao Long Nü had co Guo, ould have no choice but to take the antidote
Yang Guo waited faithfully, however, and the despair he felt fro Nü was channeled into theMelancholic Pal), a set of moves so powerful that they rivaled the most powerful martial arts skills However, the power of the Melancholic Palreatly on the user’s state of reater its power In the end, it turned out that so Nü did survive, and the lovers were reunited
4 Stylish robe: Just think of the clothes guys wear in Chinese period dramas
5 Chu Liu Xiang: Written as “楚留香” in Chinese, this is the naonist of a Chinese novel (titled after the protagonist) Think of hi fro to the poor), with a for He is also extremely popular with the ladies
6 Yuan-yang: This refers to mandarin ducks, and it is written as “鸳鸯” in sial love and fidelity as they can often be found in pairs The phrase used by Wu Qing to describe Prince and Lolidragon here is actually “鸳鸯侠侣” (prn yuān yāng xiá lǚ), with the last two characters referring to a heroic couple or, hters who are also lovers, like Yang Guo and Xiao Long Nü If you add in the syon are fated lovers
7 The way…must part: In Chinese, this is “此路是我开，此树是我栽，要打此处过，留下帅哥来” (prn cĭ lù shì wŏ kāi, cĭ shù shì wŏ zāi, yào dă cĭ chù guò, líu xià shuài gē lái), and a literal translation would be “I open this road, I plant this tree, if you want to go on your way, leave the hottie here” The phrase originated from some wuxia novel or another (sans the hottie part) and it is basically a threat couched in flowery language
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