Chapter 81 What princess is he competing for at the royal banquet? He already has a wife…
[Royal City Banquet] Official Livestream Room —
[Ahhhhh, it's my waifu in women's clothing! My waifu is absolutely gorgeous!]
[The opening screen was a critical hit! I was stunned by my wife's stunning beauty; I needed a kiss from her to get up.]
[A bunch of people obsessed with looks, unlike me, a career-oriented fan of Yu Yu, whose first concern is the challenges Yu Yu faces. Yu Yu is such a rational person, I really can't imagine him becoming love-struck, but why am I so looking forward to it?!]
[Qin Ke, who relies on his brains, is made a military general; Mo Rugui, who doesn't like to talk, is made a chatterbox who speaks a hundred sentences a day; Shen Su, who loves to talk, is made a cold and aloof war god; Shi Yu, who is smart and rational, is made a naive and love-struck fool. Hahahaha, this scenario is quite interesting, I'm really looking forward to it!]
[Haven't you guys noticed something strange about this dungeon? Why are all the other players playing princes, while Shi Yu is a princess???]
[Shi Yu's true prince must be Shen Su! If only the "prince" chosen by the princess can clear this dungeon, Shi Yu will definitely choose Shen Su, which is unfair to the other players.]
[Who says the princess's true prince has to be Shen Su? The system didn't give any hints about the "true prince," and besides Shi Yu being a gender-swapped version of herself, everyone else's faces are unrecognizable. Their behavior has to conform to their character settings, otherwise they'll be out of character and ruined. Do you think they can even recognize each other?]
[I watch high-level dungeon streams every day. I'm not bragging, I've seen 99% of the high-level dungeons in this game, but I've never seen this one before. Is it a new dungeon?]
I haven't seen this instance either, maybe.
As everyone knows, new dungeons are extremely difficult to clear at first.
[High-level dungeon + role-playing + new dungeon raid, this is basically stacking poison buffs! What kind of bad luck did my wife, Yu Yu, have to pull this dungeon?]
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The viewers in the live stream didn't know that this wasn't Shi Yu's bad luck in drawing the lottery, but rather a forced arrangement by the system.
Shi Yu was unaware that all the other players had received the "Prince" character, while he had received the "Princess" character.
At this moment, Shi Yu sat in front of the makeup mirror, letting the maids fiddle with her, while she thought about how to recognize her other teammates.
The instance is called "Royal City Banquet" and its theme is "Princess Choosing a Husband". The entire instance will inevitably revolve around this theme, and tonight is the first night of the banquet, so other players will definitely appear at the banquet as well.
Although his face has been slightly altered and his body size has been reduced, those familiar with him should still be able to recognize him.
Moreover, Shi Yu was confident that as long as he appeared at the banquet with this face, Shen Su would definitely recognize him at a glance.
At the banquet, he first met with Shen Su, then Qin Ke and Mo Rugui. Once everyone was there, they exchanged information and discussed how to explore the dungeon.
They didn't enter this high-level instance to do quests; their main purpose was to explore it and see if there was anything related to the system's core. Even if they couldn't find it, since the system had forcibly assigned them this instance, there must be something different inside, or something the system wanted them to see.
The next step is to complete tasks.
There were still a few hours before the banquet began, and Shi Yu didn't want to stay in his palace any longer. He wanted to go out for a stroll and asked the maids not to put any more jewelry on him.
Shi Yu had just stood up when a maid hurriedly stopped him: "His Majesty the King has ordered that the princess is not allowed to leave her palace!"
The maid explained, "The city gates are wide open for the princess to choose a husband. While the princes are entering the city, there may be spies from enemy countries among them. For the princess's safety, please do not leave your palace before the banquet begins."
Shi Yu wanted to say that he wouldn't go too far and would just wander around the area, but he quickly realized his persona—that he believed everyone who was kind to him was a good person.
The maid said this for his own good, and the king gave this order for his own good, although their motives may not have been the same.
But that's how the "princess" persona works.
Shi Yu had no choice but to believe.
Moreover, both Mo Rugui and Qin Ke have said that people can die at any time in high-level dungeons. It could be that one's left foot steps out of the threshold first, or that one does not listen to a word from an NPC, which could trigger the rules and kill them.
It's best to be cautious in high-level dungeons.
"All right."
Shi Yu sighed and sat back down, obediently letting the maid put jewelry on him.
While the princess was getting ready, one of the princes, Shen Su, dressed in hard, cold silver armor, sat on a rock in the forest with his eyes closed, resting.
He sat opposite his deputy, surrounded by soldiers who were slumped over, leaning or lying down to catch their breath, and a few soldiers were on guard duty further away.
Shen Su's face remained expressionless.
The expression on my mind is that of an elderly person on the subway looking at their phone.
Before entering this instance, Shen Su imagined high-level instances to be post-apocalyptic zombies, ghosts, dinosaurs, Godzilla, or punk steampunk cyberpunk high-tech, or at the very least, something like Cthulhu-themed mental pollution.
Shen Su is ready to enter the dungeon and wreak havoc.
Okay, the character the system gave him was indeed a war god who could dominate the battlefield, but the theme of the dungeon was "Royal City Banquet" and "Princess Choosing a Husband". The war god's dominance was of no use in the princess's choice of husband.
He also has to compete with other prince NPCs for the princess...
Shen Su was somewhat speechless.
What princess are you competing for? He's a married man.
Although his wife hasn't admitted it yet.
Then look at your character card.
Chen Su remained silent.
Character identity:
The War God Who Reigns Supreme
Character Setting 1:
The God of War was a man of few words, speaking no more than three sentences a day, with each sentence containing no more than five words.
Shen Su: "..."
This war god is also a taciturn character.
If you can only speak three sentences a day, and each sentence cannot exceed five words, wouldn't you suffocate?
But thinking about it, Shi Yu is not a talkative person. If he is a talkative person, I wonder if the role he gets will be a chatterbox?
He was still somewhat looking forward to Shi Yu's talkative nature, racking her brains to come up with topics to talk to him.
It will be absolutely adorable!
However, the restriction of only being able to speak three sentences a day made it difficult for him to communicate with his teammates. Shen Su tried to cheat by writing words on the ground with a twig, but found that what he wrote was just scribbles. He also tried tapping Morse code on his knee with his fingers, but the result was also a mess.
That is to say, "you can only say three sentences a day" means you can only say three sentences in various senses.
Character Setting 2:
The God of War will not approach the princess on his own initiative.
[Note: Players must speak and act in accordance with their character's established traits. If a player goes out of character (OOC) more than three times, the game ends.]
This setting had no impact on him at all; he entered the dungeon to explore high-level dungeons, find the system core, and discover a way to escape the game.
He wouldn't normally approach people he doesn't like, let alone NPCs in dungeons.
Fortunately, although Shen Su could not speak easily, his body remembered the hand gestures that the God of War usually used, so Shen Su used the gestures to tell everyone to rest where they were.
When Chen Su was washing his face by the stream, he found that his face had changed beyond recognition. Although his features were still handsome and deep, this face was not his face at all, and it did not resemble him in any way.
The facial features of other people were probably also altered by the system.
The system is cunning. It gives you the right to form a team, but then imposes all sorts of restrictions on you, changes your appearance, prevents you from playing out of character, and makes it so that you can't even recognize your teammates.
However, since this instance revolves around the theme of a princess choosing a husband, the character that Shi Yu obtains should also be related to the theme. He may also be one of the princes, or he may be someone from the royal palace. All players will definitely appear at the banquet, and then we can find a way to recognize each other through the secret code.
Players are unaware of each other's identities, but viewers in the live stream can see them.
The God of War, played by Shen Su, and the God of War's deputy, played by Qin Ke, sat facing each other, glancing at each other every now and then. They looked at each other for several times, but neither of them recognized the other.
Bullet comments—
What does it mean to not recognize someone right in front of you? Shen Su and Qin Ke perfectly exemplified this idiom, haha!
Thanks, but Shen Su and Qin Ke weren't really close.
[This isn't a matter of familiarity; each of them has a face no one would recognize, and a personality no one would recognize their own. I'm telling you, even if Shi Yu sat across from Chen Su, they probably wouldn't recognize each other.]
[Hahaha, poor Mo Rugui! To reach five characters per sentence, he actually said something like this. It reminds me of myself back in school, rambling on and on to reach 800 words in an essay.]
[From then on, Mo Rugui's catchphrases became "This beautiful lady" and "This handsome gentleman," hahaha!]
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Royal Palace, Princess's Bedchamber.
After spending the whole afternoon getting ready, Shi Yu finally finished dressing up. Looking at himself in the mirror, he saw a silver-white dress adorned with countless sparkling gems and pearls, long, light-gold wavy hair cascading down to his waist, a sparkling diamond crown on top of his head, a sapphire necklace around his neck, and sparkling seashell jewelry on his wrists and ankles.
Go outside and you can randomly dazzle an NPC.
However, compared to the glamorous and exaggerated clothing, the makeup was more natural, with no significant changes to the facial features. In other words, the face didn't need any embellishment to be beautiful enough; a thin layer of powder was simply applied to enhance the overall complexion.
A maid came to announce: "His Majesty the King has decreed that Her Highness the Princess may proceed to the banquet."
Just as Shi Yu was about to get up, the maid asked him to wait a moment, and then brought a white veil to put on him.
Shi Yu: "?"
Did you spend the whole afternoon doing your makeup just to cover it up with a veil?
Shi Yu didn't understand.
If you're going to cover it up, why bother spending an entire afternoon doing his makeup?
Why wear a veil?
A snow-white veil covered half of her face, revealing only her smooth forehead and a pair of beautiful, dark almond-shaped eyes. When Shi Yu asked her questions, her eyes were clear and innocent.
The maid said, "The princes must not see the princess's face. You must wear a veil when you go out for the next seven days until the princess's husband is chosen. Only then can the princess show her face to her husband."
Shi Yu: "..."
Why are you Western versions of this so feudal?
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