Goddaughter

The grass was sparse in the long fields, and the wind swirled the desolate, dry ferns across the ground.

Rather than calling it a wasteland, it is better to call it a desert. The yellow sand wrapped around the convoy, which was bumpy and shaken by the wooden-wheeled carriages guarded by a team of cavalrymen, and loaded with many tightly tied large wooden boxes.

——Those are treasures from the Kingdom of Carnia.

As a defeated country in the Crusades, in order to prevent the people from being massacred and the royal power from being replaced, King Carnea almost emptied his treasury and sent his eldest daughter, Princess Ines, to the Solomon Empire as a hostage to the Emperor of the Solomon Empire, Pitler II.

The convoy was loaded with corals, agates, and huge pearls, and at the very end, four slaves were carrying a wooden water tank as tall as a person.

Wu Ci, wearing a black cloak, stood on a high place and looked down at the convoy.

Wu Ci knew what was in the opaque water tank...it was Princess Ines of the Kingdom of Carnia.

He simulated that he had checked online before and found that the Kingdom of Carnea that perished during the reign of Solomon was a maritime kingdom whose citizens had ear fins, legs that were fish tails, and could breathe underwater.

It sounds mysterious, but in fact, apart from their appearance and the ability to breathe water, they are no different from ordinary people. They are probably just a hybrid species produced by the combination of marine life and humans caused by spiritual energy. After a long time, they became a tribe and founded a kingdom.

Now, the Kingdom of Carnia has fallen.

The price of everything in the world is a scale, so Ines, who was not as heavy as the other end, was abandoned, like the treasures mentioned above. She was like an object locked in a water tank by her father, far away from her hometown, brought from the sea to the land, and presented as a gift to the emperor who invaded her country.

Of course, she was not cherished because she was from a foreign country.

In the previous round, the identity simulated by Wu Ci died. After the simulation ended, the history of development determined the future direction.

After arriving at the palace, Inès was considered by King Bittre II to be a lowly mixed race, no different from livestock, because her appearance was different from that of a human and did not conform to the aristocratic aesthetics of the time period.

There was no clean water in the water source environment in the Middle Ages, and even drinking water was replaced by brewed wine. Because Emperor Pythias II disliked it, Ines was often soaked in dirty sewage and pushed to exhibitions for the nobles to see like monkeys. When they got tired of watching, they had Ines's fish tail and fins cut off.

She miraculously grew a pair of new human legs and became like an ordinary human. Only then did she climb into the emperor's bed, and then, relying on her relationship with other nobles, she staged a coup and killed her husband to take the throne.

So it's no wonder that Ines had a bad reputation during her reign, and was accused of being cruel and tyrannical. She was not from the same tribe, and she was treated cruelly here, so she naturally hated ordinary humans.

However, the fact that she took special care of the family whose identity she simulated in the first round of Wu Ci means that she is actually a very good girl, and will even repay a favor with a spring.

Now, the team that was called an escort but was actually an escort was passing through the narrow passage below Wuci.

Wu Ci was not one to play tricks. He was afraid of scaring his precious title... No, no, he was afraid of scaring his precious princess. He quickly found a trap from the "Heavenly Book" that would not turn the scene into a cruel and bloody one, and used the spiritual power source in his body to attract the spiritual power floating in the air.

Perhaps it was because the blood energy in the ancient battlefield was too strong and the restrictions of the world were a little weaker than those in the Qian Dynasty. The cyan spiritual power of Wu Ci during the Qian Dynasty turned into a blood mist, allowing people to smell the strong smell of blood.

How should I put it? He could barely pretend to be decent during the Qian Dynasty, but now one move makes people feel that he is not a good person.

Fortunately, due to the weakening of spiritual power suppression, this small formation that required the cost of one finger in the Qian Dynasty now only required a cut on one's palm.

Of course, it doesn't matter if he cuts off his fingers. Now the Tianzun lineage has the vitality of the flesh and blood and the way of reproduction of the bones. Even if Wu Ci only has a head left, as long as he is still conscious, he can use the flesh and blood of living things accumulated by [Blood and Flesh Infusion] to restore himself.

Before using spells and the like, I had to think twice whether it was worth it, considering the cost, so I usually used physical attacks and sword moves.

With [Flesh and Blood Infusion], except for the cost of life which cannot be restored, the body's organs have completely become renewable resources. He can go the self-mutilation route and turn into a spell turret.

Now if you casually cut your palm, it will heal in the next second without any pain or itching.

Wu Ci pulled down the hood of his cloak, pulled out the dagger tied to his leg, slashed his hand with it, and formed a formation with one hand.

The valley was shrouded in a scarlet magic array, and blood mist began to spread.

Ines, who was soaking in the water in the wooden box, heard the terrifying commotion coming from the convoy.

She was in a dark, sealed wooden box and could not see outside. She could only feel the wind coming through the ventilation gaps.

Maybe they encountered wolves or robbers? She thought: Scream, scream, let me hear your screams before death, it’s better to die cleanly.

——It’s better to die here together.

Ines was thinking this with secret joy and relief, when the commotion outside stopped, and the shaking of the wooden box being carried by the slaves even stopped.

No wind could be heard through the holes in the wooden box; even the air had stopped flowing.

There was no sound outside, it was completely dark, and I had lost all five senses.

Ines suddenly became afraid again. She patted the wooden box that was locked by the outside world with all her strength and shouted angrily, "You lowly slaves who deserve to be whipped! Don't leave me here! I am the most noble princess of Cania! I am a gift to your emperor! If you dare to lose me, watch out for your skins! I will let my father order that your skins be made into my lampshades!"

With a click, the lock on the outside of the wooden box was opened.

"Please close your eyes first, Princess." A gentle and calm male voice came, "If you stay in the dark for a long time and then suddenly see the light, your eyes will be hurt by the light."

Inès raised her voice, speaking with an air of arrogance. "Who are you? I haven't heard your voice in the entourage!"

"You can call me Dextal," Wu Ci said. "Also, please don't say that you will be presented to the emperor as a gift. This kind of knowledge is fundamentally despised by people. Do you want to acknowledge your status as a gift?"

"Dextall" is the transliteration of the word "Dark Star", a pseudonym randomly chosen by Wu Ci in order to make Ines recognize him by this name and to prevent him from passing the title to the Folster family, who are impersonating his father, as soon as he dies.

Unexpectedly, Inès, who was kind and considerate in his first simulated memory, did not appreciate it at all and even retorted, "How dare you! What do you mean, you nasty fellow?"

Difficult...

Wu Ci had not expected that Princess Ines had such a spoiled temper. Even after being locked in a box, she was still arguing with him.

In the previous episode, due to her status, Ines was quite polite and never embarrassed him. Of course, this politeness was limited to the nobles of the Solomon Empire who could control her life and death.

Wu Ci believed that this kind of politeness that bullied the weak was simply because Inès had been a princess in her own country for too long.

There were only two princesses in the Kingdom of Carnia, Ines and her sister Isis. The king doted on his eldest daughter, and her sister Isis always gave in to her elder sister, so everyone was servile to her, which made Ines develop an arrogant and domineering temper.

As a result, Ines was not only cruel and brutal to her slaves, treating them like livestock and killing and torturing them at will, but she also looked down on the lower classes.

Now Wu Ci came and mentioned a name she had never heard of, and was being evasive. Of course she would not give Wu Ci a good look.

Ines's character is indeed very unpleasant. Cania, as Ines's motherland, also describes her as bullying, stupid, vicious, vain and frivolous.

Even if she is in a position where she needs help, she will not have such self-awareness and will only take the help of others for granted.

It feels like she has been spoiled by her father, King Carnia, and her sister Isis... I don't know if it's because they spoiled her or if they deliberately flattered her, but she is so empty-headed and too stupid. I don't know how much suffering she will have to endure in the future before she can climb to a high position like in history.

However, with Ines's intelligence, she is estimated to be in the same lineage as Tianzun. If her appearance meets the aesthetic standards of Tianji Dao, she will definitely become a favorite of Tianzun.

To deal with this kind of person who is extremely self-centered, disrespectful of others, and unwilling to listen to nice things, Wu Ci estimates that he will have to use [Preaching], and he will have to use the eyes and face to maximize the effect, and turn this passive skill into an active skill.

In that case, don't blame him for being reasonable!

Wu Ci touched the faceless mask on his face and the hood of the cloak on his head. After confirming that he could take off the mask decently without messing up his hair, he pulled the hood of the cloak upwards, calculating that the wind speed would blow it away at the most perfect angle.

He chose to sit down and talk!

Wu Ci took the initiative to talk, avoided Inès's question, and whispered, "Please close your eyes first. I am going to open the box."

The light gradually grew larger. Ines subconsciously covered her eyes with her hands, but found that the light was not particularly bright.

How can the sunlight in the wilderness not be dazzling?

Ines thought: It seems that because of her bad attitude just now, the man who called himself "Dextall" was afraid that she would not close her eyes to show her strength, so he deliberately blocked some light to look after her.

But she is a princess, and that's what Dextal is supposed to do!

Inès took it for granted, raised her head proudly, and took in everything outside.

——In the blood mist shrouding the valley, Wu Ci, who was dressed in a proper suit and a hood covering his face, revealing only the chin of a faceless white mask, and called himself "Dexterstock", pushed open the sliding lid of the wooden box with his silver-studded cane.

Ines has long, thick, curly red hair that looks like seaweed, pearly white skin, light red, transparent ear fins that are as thin as cicada wings and glow brilliantly under the dim light, and deep red fish tail scales that are so bright that one would think they are seeing gorgeous corals.

She was indeed very beautiful, but her face was too warm and full of vitality, and her cheeks were often flushed with a healthy and energetic blush. It could not be said that she was related to the mainstream aesthetic of morbid necrosis that was popular during the Solomon Empire. It could only be said that she had nothing to do with it.

No wonder Emperor Bittrell II said he felt disgusted when he first saw her. But when he got used to this kind of beauty and Inès grew legs, he immediately made her queen, giving her the opportunity to carry out her evil idea of ​​killing her husband and taking the throne.

Ines is stupid, but beautiful.

Wu Ci didn't want to care about her previous offense and just asked gently, "Are you okay?"

Ines was stunned for a moment, and felt that her performance was inferior to Wu Ci's, so she put her hands on her hips to increase her momentum, and spoke with the unique sarcasm of the upper nobility, "Oh! Stay away from me! Your ugliness behind the mask makes people feel uneasy. If you want to know how I feel, why don't you take off the mask and let everyone see it!"

Wu Ci chuckled and said, "I am wearing this mask for other reasons, not because I cannot see anyone. If you insist on asking, I will do as you wish."

He raised his hand to take off the faceless mask without any facial features. The moment he lowered his head, the wind inadvertently blew off the hood of his cloak.

Wu Ci raised his eyes, and looked directly at Inès with his pale blue eyes, gentle and calm.

Every seemingly ordinary movement has been carefully designed by him. Even the hair that is messy in the wind but does not lose its original shape perfectly shows an unintentional sense of movement.

"you……"

After the full-powered [Preaching], Ineska was stunned for a moment. She turned around and looked at the people who were bound by the blood mist and did not move at all, and the slaves who were supposed to carry her wooden box. Her contemptuous tone finally became polite, "What happened to them? Are you here to rescue me, Dextal?"

"They are just tied up, their lives will not be harmed." Wuci grabbed the cane with his leather-gloved hand and pushed away a slave who was blocking his way. He turned back and smiled at Inès, "Besides, are you sure you want to leave, Princess? If you leave, your motherland will be liquidated by the Emperor of the Solomon Empire. Is that okay?"

"That's great." Inès smiled, as if she had heard some surprising news. She could not help but raise the corners of her mouth, revealing her vicious nature that people in the Dark Star reality usually judged her to be.

"Since they abandoned me for their future, this is what they deserve. It would be better to turn them all into slaves, especially my father and sister..."

She smiled innocently and cruelly, "My father, who always said he loved me, but sent me here to stabilize his throne. Isis, who was beautiful, kind, and sensible, wanted to take my place and inherit the throne of Carnia... Oh, I can't wait to see what happens to them."

"In that case, then, in exchange for taking you away, I hope you can help me get something."

"Anything is fine. I promise." Ines narrowed her eyes proudly without asking Wu Ci what he wanted. It seemed that in her mind, there was nothing she could not give, even in her current situation.

"But I also want you to do me a favor, my dear Dextal." She smiled and said, "Skin these slaves and knights, dig out their eyes, and open their heads. I want to see, I want to see, I just want to see why they despised me before and turned a blind eye to my call."

Ines folded her smooth and slender arms, and lay on the edge of the wooden box. She shook off the water with her fishtail as gorgeous as flaming red coral. She looked up at Wu Ci and said with a cruel smile in a dreamy tone, "I hope you should... you should let them dance naked and bloody on the red-hot iron to apologize to me.

I tell you, maybe I will whip them with my noble hands to reduce their crimes, so that they will remember my kindness in hell.

Wu Ci was silent for a moment, then asked without emotion, "Ines, do you know that they will die if you do this?"

"Oh, will they die?" Ines raised her eyebrows in surprise, thought for a moment, and smiled sweetly again, "But what does that have to do with me? It was obviously Hades who reaped their fate."

She seemed to have forgotten something, and recalled innocently and with interest, "I never knew at what point they would die, and I didn't remember the faces of the servants and slaves every day. Anyway, I could always replace them with new ones the next day. You know, maybe they fainted, or pretended to be dead to avoid my punishment.

But...even if they die, they are just slaves and inferiors. You may not know that for them, death is always an easy thing. "

"I have decided to make you my goddaughter, Inès," Wu Ci said slowly, "I will teach you what is right... You can do whatever you want, and you can kill them for any small reason you want, but you must never underestimate the lives of the lower class."

"To commit evil deeds for the sake of purpose and unresolved hatred is noble, but to do it for pleasure is shameful."

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