Chapter 76 Birthday: Brothers Together [VIP]
“I, I…Ah!”
Edmund's lips moved, and he suddenly cried out in surprise. His skinny body suddenly collapsed.
"His Majesty!"
Several attendants came forward and caught the emperor who had fainted for no reason in horror.
“What happened!”
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with him?"
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
The nobles at the scene were also thrown into chaos, rushing nervously towards the fallen emperor.
Xiao Yun was worried that Yaris would be knocked down by the surging nobles, so he quickly raised his hand to protect him: "Brother——"
"It's okay—I, I'm fine! Hurry up and get a doctor over! Or, is there anyone here who's good at medicine..."
(I have a Huaxia Famous Doctor card, but I don't want to treat Edmund.)
Xiao Yun thought hesitantly.
In the chaos, Ulysses pushed through the crowd and came to Edmund, kneeling down to examine him: "Your Majesty——"
Seeing this, Xiao Yun shouted, "Everyone, be quiet! Be quiet! Don't disturb the Prime Minister's treatment of His Majesty!"
"This situation is so sudden. I actually forgot that Ulysses is good at herbal medicine..."
After catching his breath, Yaris leaned against Xiao Yun and murmured softly.
Xiao Yun hugged him: "Are you okay? Do you need me to take you back to your room?"
"Not yet... but it's really... crowded here, I'm having trouble breathing..."
"I'll take you out."
As he spoke, Xiao Yun forcibly separated the crowd and took Yaris to an open area, but when he let go, he found that a bloody scratch had appeared on the back of his left hand.
"This is……"
"Maybe I was accidentally scratched by a gem on a noble's sleeve. The crowd was so crowded, and everyone's clothes were decorated with gems... I... I felt..."
Xiao Yun's voice suddenly broke, his eyes closed tiredly, and his lips twitched slightly.
"Why...what's going on...Lucien...could it be that——"
"The gem is poisonous!"
Xiao Yun said this while trying to stay conscious, and then he fainted.
In the dim light, he vaguely heard Yaris's order -
"Send a doctor here immediately. Also...all celebrations within the Little Love God Palace are suspended. However, do not disclose this to the outside world to avoid causing panic..."
…
…
"Well……"
Xiao Yun opened his eyes, and his vision felt blurry, as if he was about to wake up.
"Lucien—"
A familiar, reassuring voice rang out.
He breathed a sigh of relief: "...Brother?"
"Yes."
"here it is……"
"My bedroom."
Yaris walked over to his brother, sat down sideways, and said affectionately, "Last night, after Edmund fainted, someone took advantage of the chaos and scratched the back of your hand with a gemstone with a poisoned surface. Fortunately, the person used a sleeping potion that temporarily paralyzes the person, so your life wasn't in danger."
"Where's Edmund? Is he awake?"
"He should have woken up."
"should?"
Xiao Yun was surprised.
Yaris: "I don't want him to stay in the Little Palace of Love, so I ordered Ulysses to send him back to the capital overnight to receive joint treatment from the court doctors."
"puff!"
Xiao Yun couldn't help laughing.
"He must have been in a terrible mood after 'waking up'."
"I'd like to know who took advantage of the chaos to scratch your skin with a gem coated with sleeping potion... If the gem was coated with a deadly poison..."
Yaris became more and more worried as he spoke. He held his brother's wrist and said, "The doctor said your pulse is stable. The gem should just be a sleeping pill. But we can't be careless. What if..."
"Highly toxic drugs may not be able to harm my body."
Xiao Yun said firmly, "You said that we are different from ordinary people. Conventional lethal poisons usually don't work on us."
"Perhaps..."
Yaris suddenly looked serious.
"What's the matter?"
"I don't feel right."
"where?"
"I can't really say..."
Yaris bit his lip in distress: "I always feel like there is something staring at me in the corner..."
"What is it?"
"...I don't know. It's hidden in the dark. I know where it is, but..."
(Could it be the Dragon Emperor's minions?!)
Thinking of this, Xiao Yun made an excuse of feeling dizzy and fell asleep on Yaris's bed.
"have a good rest."
Yaris covered his brother with a blanket, turned around and took Kelly and others to another bedroom not far away. Before leaving, he instructed the servants sleeping in the next room to take good care of Lucien.
After Yaris left, Xiao Yun "woke up", covered his head with the quilt, held his breath, and waited quietly.
…
[Huh…Huh…]
An unusual noise came into my ears, as if coming from the corner of the room, or rising from under the windowsill.
(…Is the monster finally going to appear?)
Xiao Yun opened the quilt a little and smelled sulfur. He could also hear faint heavy breathing. His usually sensitive body felt extremely heavy and he could not move.
(Danger……)
(If it was my brother lying in bed at that moment, with his usual fragility... even if he were attacked by a monster... he might not even be able to scream for help...)
The more I thought about it, the more worried I became, and I tried to break free from this situation which was like sleep paralysis.
(Well?!)
He suddenly shuddered, his brain felt like it was being stung by a sharp cold sting, and then, his rigid body regained its freedom, "Gold
, LA! )
[I just did what the system was supposed to do.]
Suddenly, space froze again.
A strange, twisted darkness descends.
Xiao Yun narrowed his eyes and saw a huge, unclear black beast at the foot of the bed.
The beast was enormous, its head like a wolfhound and a black bear, and its body, defying the laws of physics, stretched out of the tightly closed window like a centipede.
It raised its black head and slid towards Yaris's bed, with red light flashing in its eyes.
Whoosh whoosh——
Hot breath with the stench of sulfur hit my face.
(What kind of monster is this! Why is it here!)
Xiao Yun tightly grasped the "Golden Blade", tensing all his muscles, waiting for the moment when the monster would pounce -
Bang!
The blanket was lifted up, and the "Golden Blade" drew a brilliant golden light, cutting through the monster's dark body.
Foul-smelling blue blood and sticky black viscera flowed out from the broken part, dripping onto the bed and the ground. The air was filled with the smell of burnt rotten eggs.
Xiao Yun didn't dare to be careless. After jumping off the bed, he attacked the monster several times, making sure it was completely dead. He picked up the bell beside the bed and prepared to -
Something is wrong!
(There was such a big commotion in the bedroom, but the servant sleeping next door didn't react!)
Xiao Yun, who noticed something unusual again, turned around quickly and went to another bedroom that Yaris was temporarily using tonight.
…
"Kelly, open the door!"
There was no response from behind the door.
Even the magician on night duty hidden in the dark corridor did not respond.
Xiao Yun was already feeling uneasy, and seeing this, he decisively raised the "Golden Blade" and chopped at the door handle.
However, the "Golden Blade" that could easily cut off the dark monster that sneaked into the bedroom became extremely difficult to use after hitting the metal door handle, as if it had encountered an enemy of thousands of troops.
(It was a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain! No! They mistakenly thought I was next door!)
(——System! Help me!)
[At your service.]
The blazing white light superimposed on the "Golden Blade", and the originally indestructible door handle quickly melted like ice under the scorching sun, but this was by no means the beginning of good luck, because -
The moment the door handle melted into liquid, a terrifying monster that could only be described as mighty and powerful rushed out from behind the door!
Countless bodies - from babies in swaddling clothes to middle-aged men and women to octogenarians - their heads, hands, feet and other parts of the body were twisted and mixed together like plasticine to form a huge and strange body that could not be called human. And all parts were still alive, the mouths were talking, the eyes were blinking, the hands and feet were shaking desperately in the form they had in their lifetime. Driven by the huge and deformed body, they rushed out of the door bloatedly and rushed towards Xiao Yun who opened the door.
What the hell is this?
[This is……]
(Never mind! Kill him first!)
Xiao Yun, who had no time to think, raised the "Golden Blade" with stellar flames burning on its surface, and fearlessly chopped at the creepy monster that seemed to come from the depths of hell!
boom--
The "Golden Blade" cut the monster's body in half.
The monster, cut in half, didn't die. After landing, both halves of its body flung themselves forward again, their bodies, now covered in heads, arms, and legs, towards Xiao Yun. Their arms, more numerous than those of the centipede, pressed down densely, wrapping around Xiao Yun tightly and attempting to strangle him in their embrace.
"Die! Monster!"
Xiao Yun shouted and swung the "Golden Blade", continuously slashing at the monster's countless arms.
Facing the attack of the "Golden Blade", the monster's arms and fingers fell off like raindrops, but——
The entire corridor was instantly filled with its huge body, so that the limb fragments chopped off by the "Golden Blade" would always merge into the monster's rolling body like plasticine in the next second, turning into newly grown arms and hands to grab Xiao Yun.
(If this continues endlessly, then—)
"Let him go! I'm your target!"
Yaris's voice suddenly rang out.
The two halves of the body that were besieging Xiao Yun suddenly stopped moving.
Then, all arms let go of Xiao Yun and rushed back behind the door with unexpected agility!
"Can't!"
Xiao Yun quickly chased after him.
…
The world behind the door is completely dominated by an unnatural demonic white light.
The monster that broke into the room was illuminated by the light, and its entire body suddenly fell into a strange, petrified state.
Xiao Yun rubbed his eyes and saw through the gaps between the monster's limbs that Yaris was sitting on the bed with his coat on. He was protected by servants led by Kelly like a palace mistress. His hands were in seals, his eyes and lips were tightly closed, and beads of sweat kept appearing on his white forehead. It was obvious that he was almost stretched to the limit.
[——Lucien, I've temporarily blocked this thing's movements. Quickly use the "Golden Blade" to attack its core! Only by piercing its core will it truly die!]
"The core is..."
Before he finished speaking, Yaris's body shook, and the white light covering the room suddenly dimmed. The monster's body, which had been stagnant, gradually began to move frame by frame like a slow-motion movie.
[Red, red...]
"I see!"
Xiao Yun grabbed the "Golden Blade" tightly and stabbed it at the only area on the monster's body that was gradually breaking free and was faintly glowing red!
(--ah!)
The horrible, silent scream struck the brain and soul.
Xiao Yun's movements did not stop at all. After stabbing the "Golden Blade" directly into the monster's body, he put his left hand into the wound without hesitation, and together with the "Golden Blade" he roughly tore open the monster's body, digging continuously until he caught a strange thing that was flashing red light.
“Is this your core?”
Xiao Yun held the core.
As soon as he pulled his hand out of the monster's body, the monster stopped all movements and collapsed like a highly corrupted mountain of flesh.
Xiao Yun then aimed the "Golden Blade" at the core held in his left hand——
(Stop! Stop! Stop!)
The core let out a terrifying scream that struck the brain and soul, but Xiao Yun was fearless!
Bang!
The moment the core shattered, the highly decayed flesh on the ground immediately began to decompose and melt, turning into liquid and quickly evaporating, as if it had never existed.
But at that moment, Xiao Yun had no time to be curious about the monster's disappearance.
After successfully killing the monster, he quickly rushed back to Yaris and hugged his body which was stretched to the limit.
"It's okay! I've killed the monster! Yaris!"
"ah……"
Yaris opened his eyes, looked at the monster's remains that were quickly disappearing on the floor, and then looked at his brother who was hugging him. After confirming that everything was correct, his tense nerves relaxed immediately. His soft body fell into the arms of the only person he could rely on safely, like a flower bush ravaged by the wind, and his fingers instinctively grasped Xiao Yun's clothes.
"I'm glad you're safe..."
"I'm also glad I arrived in time and didn't put you in real danger."
"actually……"
"I know you saw through His plan and deliberately tricked me into staying in your bedroom so you could deal with the more terrifying monster alone..."
"Lucien..."
After catching his breath, Yaris loosened the collar of his shirt and raised his hand to gently stroke his brother's chin: "He needs me. His monsters will immediately restrain their attacks when they realize they have the wrong target and try to capture me alive, but you... He treats you..."
"It doesn't matter. Didn't we just successfully defeat two terrifying monsters?"
Xiao Yun said encouragingly.
"Even this is still far from enough..."
Yaris panted and said, "Our enemies currently have an absolute advantage. What happened tonight is not the first time, and it will not be the last."
"So we must hurry and not give him another chance to launch such a terrifying attack."
Xiao Yun frowned and thought: "...I suspect that the two creatures we eliminated this time are just like the monster knights we encountered by the lake before. They usually wear normal human clothes, so they can easily enter Maga City and even sneak into the Little Love Palace. We must find a way to catch the monsters mixed in with the crowd, otherwise-"
"These two monsters were sent to the Little Palace of Cupid by Edmund tonight."
"really--"
"Remember the two servants who looked exactly like Kairusha that Edmund forced upon me?"
"It's them?!"
"Um."
Yaris smiled bitterly and said, "I could tell there was something wrong with them right away. After you fainted from the sleeping potion on the gem, I asked Ulysses to send Edmund, who was pretending to be unconscious, away, while I sent Mikael to arrest these two guys. Unfortunately, when Mikael arrived, he only found two human skins. I guessed there would be an attack next, but I didn't expect..."
"So, the person who scratched me with the gemstone coated with sleeping potion was actually my brother, right?"
"Why do you think so?"
"Given the hatred he and Edmund hold towards me, how could they possibly apply a sleeping potion to the gem used as the murder weapon?"
"It's because..."
Yaris looked up at his brother, his eyes flickering with relief and distress.
Xiao Yun took the opportunity to say, "You designed a plan to make me faint, and then used the appearance of an assassin in the Little Love Palace as an excuse to legally drive away Edmund and his spies planted in the Little Love Palace, eliminating any potential risks, correct?"
"Yes."
Yaris nodded. "Although the incident of the royal knight transforming into a lizard monster and attacking you actually happened in the grove by the lake, even if we exhibited the monster knight's remains as physical evidence, it would be difficult for the general public to take notice. Some royalists might even conclude that my brothers harbored a grudge against Edmund and deliberately fabricated absurd and bizarre rumors to slander him."
"Even if we're telling the truth?"
"The masses are generally unwilling to accept things that go against common sense and undermine their own interests. Moreover, although Edmund has behaved badly in all aspects, for most nobles, he and the rule of the Yula Dynasty are still worth maintaining. The same is true for ordinary people. They are not unaware that Edmund is incompetent as emperor, but as long as they can still make ends meet, they tend to maintain the status quo rather than rise up in rebellion."
“…You can never wake up someone who’s pretending to be asleep.”
"That's a very apt metaphor."
Yaris smiled and said, "Only when you can't find a place to lie down even if you're pretending to be asleep, will you be forced to open your eyes and face the cruel reality."
"And we must make all preparations before the worst outcome comes."
Xiao Yun held Yaris's hand.
I want my brother to come live with me in Gora, but the environment there is still unstable and the living conditions are harsh. Your body is so weak, and if you go there, you'll definitely get sick with fevers every day and be harassed by the magicians who live in the dense forests. In short—our top priority right now is to clean up the Little Love Palace and Maga City. We can't let his power seep in again.
[I'm sorry... This frail body of mine has become a burden to you...]
[No! You are not a burden to me! You have never been a burden to me! You are——]
Don't worry. Although the Dragon Emperor's power far surpasses the three most powerful magicians in the world, he is not a god after all. Moreover, even if his power is a hundred times greater than it is now, I will not surrender to him just because I cannot defeat him!
[I know... I know this better than anyone else...]
Xiao Yun emphasized excitedly.
"He possessed Edmund, disguising monsters as Royal Knights and sending them to the Little Love Palace to monitor and intimidate my brother. Tonight, he even sent two monsters to attack us to show off his power. He attempted to mock us, goad us, and force us into submission. However, his brutality only strengthens my resolve to fight him. Repeated victories over monsters have only reinforced my conviction that the Dragon Emperor is not invincible! My only concern now is your safety! He will definitely—"
[It's okay. Although I'm weak, I'm not without a trump card...]
Yaris smiled gently, and with the help of his brother, they went to the crystal room used for communication.
After they left, the magicians appeared silently like dark ghosts, collecting the monster's limbs and residual fluids that had not yet completely melted and evaporated.
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