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Inès had just finished flying a kite and was sitting on the lawn of the Duke's residence to bask in the sun without any manner. She leaned lazily against Dextal's legs, yawned sleepily with her beautiful but empty little head resting on his thighs, and asked Dextal in a coquettish and annoyed voice to braid her hair.
If others saw this scene, they would probably be so shocked that they would shout "Sir Silver!"
Although Dextal was a duke, he never followed the procedures to enter the upper class, such as presentations, banquets, music salons, etc. People didn't know much about him, only that he was a tough guy born out of nowhere, and it was said that he made his fortune as a businessman and had immeasurable wealth.
This is a very important point.
In this chaotic world, if you have money, you can raise an army, even the most expensive heavy cavalry. I don't know how Dextol raised it, but that army was almost unstoppable, loyal, and disciplined. As soon as Dextol arrived, he forced the emperor to confer a duke on him. He also killed all those who disagreed with him.
He was also accustomed to some cruel punishments, and he liked to skin the nobles, stuff them with straw, make scarecrows and place them on crosses in his flower fields. Although he was usually more humble and polite than all the nobles, he was too moody, and if he was not careful, his weakened nerves would be triggered and he would go on a rampage and kill people.
People said he was insane, hysterical, possessed by a demon from hell, or in human form.
In other words, if someone like Inès spoke in a coquettish and angry way, Dexter would definitely regard it as disrespectful to him, and killing her on the spot would be the least of her worries.
But, to everyone's horror, the notorious Dextal said nothing, but slowly took off his gloves, used his five fingers to straighten Ines's red hair, gently braided it, and even took off several hair ties of different styles from his wrists. It seemed that this scene was not the first time it happened.
When Ines first followed Dextal, she didn't dare to do this. She was very smart when it came to men. She made special inquiries when she came here and had heard of Dextal's murderous reputation.
It's funny to say that she had seriously decided to be a good person and be cautious in seeking favor. She even bit the tip of the pen and diligently wrote a three-page plan in a style of handwriting that only she could understand.
Until she discovered that there were very few servants in the Duke's Mansion. Even if there were, they were only a few taken-in girls who did not do heavy work, were carefree, and did not even have any ambiguous relationship with Dextal. They were more like beautiful kittens, puppies, and lambs who were spoiled.
Her "smart" little head immediately came to the conclusion that Dexter would be very kind to pretty and obedient girls.
Ines was the most aggressive one, testing Dexter's bottom line little by little, and later found that Dexter had no bottom line at all with her.
Dexter did not treat her as a "goddaughter" as he said, but rather as his own daughter.
No, Inès had never been treated like this by her biological father.
Dextal said she was the best girl, never showed disappointment in her, and didn't think she was stupid. He always praised her every day, told her stories, played with her, coaxed her to sleep, coaxed her to eat, and made toys for her with his own hands.
Dexter was always gentle, never angry with her, and never said a harsh word to her. She was always indulged in whatever she asked for.
As long as she doesn't hurt girls who have done nothing wrong, poor people who haven't offended her, or innocent children, she can kill the rest of the human beings at will according to her mood.
She can even disobey all the rules of upper class society and do things according to her own heart.
Ines thought that the queen had the highest status among women, so she could just kill the queen who had tortured her, and take the position of queen by relying on Dextal's favor.
After taking this position, she always held banquets to cuckold the king in public, kept a large number of lovers, and forced the king to eat poisonous food every day.
This can be described as doing whatever one wants.
Even because of her words: "I don't want to abandon my father and sister to live a good life in my homeland." Dextal directly sent troops to help her conquer her homeland, and sent her father and sister who had abandoned her to be her slaves. Just like the treatment she had suffered before, she cut off their tails, put them in a wooden barrel, soaked them in sewage, and tortured them.
Ines felt that she had no other wishes. Dexter fulfilled all her wishes. No one lived better than her. She could go on like this forever.
She touched her beautifully tied hair, stood up, and nimbly jumped onto the table and sat down.
Inès is not bound by her actions.
——She had changed into a light, untied skirt in a bright red color, very similar to the color of her lost fish tail.
She swung her dangling legs back and forth like a fish's tail, and began to play with Dexstall's half-long hair with interest, tying it into a bow with a pink ribbon.
Since there was no one else here, Wu Ci let her do what she wanted.
"I simply cannot imagine, my dear Dextal, what would I be like now without you," Inès suddenly sighed.
Wuci shook his head and said in a missionary tone, "Mundane and real things are often connected to the roots of power and desire. You are an excellent child, Ines. I tell you the truth, even without me, you will get what you want after suffering."
He was telling the truth. Regardless of whether he existed at this stage in the long river of time or helped Ines, in the future Dark Star, Ines would be the ruler of the entire Eternal Night Royal Family. This was an unchangeable fact.
Although Ines is superficial and stupid, she knows what she wants and is very resilient and flexible. She knows how to work hard and will not be discouraged.
She put her hands on her hips and quoted the truth that the witch had said before. "Dextall, you taught me that suffering is just suffering and is not worth singing about. I understand what you said, but I really have no interest in going through suffering to become a person who is not bullied by others."
"My dear Dexter, I am honored to be your goddaughter. Although I don't understand much of what you teach me, I like listening to you. I am willing to listen to you talk about these boring things forever." Ines winked playfully, "Anyway, I regard it as a bedtime story. Every night when you tell me these, I will sleep soundly."
"Ines, I'm not teaching you bedtime reading." Wuci shook his head helplessly, "You must not believe in anything you like, including false jesters and flatterers. You must obey everything I say, even if it's boring and annoying, even if it's trivial things or the way of survival. Because one day you will lose me, and when you forget, you will suffer the pain of being alone."
Ines felt that Dexter's words were becoming increasingly obscure and difficult to understand. She nodded pretentiously and explained a little aggrievedly, "I know what they will do to me. They hate me. They have shown their disgust towards me before."
"They will surely be convicted." Wu Ci touched her head.
This is not comfort, at least not just comfort.
"You're not going to help me exterminate all human beings, are you? There's no need to be so radical. I think it would be nice to make them all my slaves."
"...Well, I still need many male favorites. I want to let the old emperor know the dangers of women and make people love me. I am so beautiful, I should attract more attention, become the focus of the world, and have more men's love."
Wu Ci shook her head. "You don't need to be obsessed with whether a man loves you, Inès. Power should be the most attractive charm of a woman."
Inès looked up innocently and smiled sweetly, "But I am already the queen, have you forgotten? Even the king has to share the throne with me."
"You still don't understand, my dear silly girl." Wu Ci smiled, bent his knuckles and tapped her forehead lightly, "The throne is not big, your skirt is enough to cover it."
"What do you mean?"
"I need you to do one more thing for me." Wu Ci smiled without saying anything. He placed a golden lotus button in Ines's palm and said softly, "Starting tomorrow, believe in Lord Silver. Go to church to pray every day, confess your sins, and get closer to Lord Silver."
The Golden Lotus Button was given to him by Tianzun in the previous round. At the beginning of this round, Wuci discovered that [Dextol] inherited this button. In addition, the chess piece representing the Broken Heavenly Dao given to him by Ines in the real world and the projection of Tianzun's finger bone given to him by Yuping as a deposit also appeared at the same time.
Perhaps because of the Tianzun's authority to conceal the secrets of heaven and secretly receive orders, Sir Yin did not realize that he was carrying such a high-ranking item.
Wu Ci guessed that perhaps the Heavenly Master felt that he was too slow and gave him "help".
It means both "help" and "urge".
Millions of years have passed, so what makes Him so urgent now?
"I'm not going to confess! I don't want to believe in that inexplicable thing of Sir Silver, which represents the authority of mankind and men! I didn't do anything wrong! You said you believed me and there was nothing wrong with it, and I believe you too."
Ines interrupted his distraction in a coquettish voice, and snorted in dissatisfaction, "What crime have we committed? Besides, you act like a missionary every day, but you don't believe in the Silver Lord, do you?"
"You don't need to repent. There is no God in the world. God is each of us and myself." Wu Ci laughed. "Don't let me down, Inès... Remember what I said, remember everything I said, we will get what we deserve."
With the help of the Golden Lotus Buckle to conceal Sir Silver, Wu Ci made Dextal put the ring that mobilized the legion and all his property on Ines' hand.
Wu Ci believed that Inès would not let him down.
——Inès is the same person as him.
Mean, greedy, conceited, and vicious. He even thought that he was as stupid as Inès.
However, after being influenced by the outside world, they all know how to climb up regardless of everything, and know how to... change themselves. Therefore, they don't care about dignity and personality, don't care about the price, and they can do anything to survive.
"I don't understand your moves." Sir Silver, who was sitting opposite Wu Ci, said, "Do you think you are going to lose and finally start making stupid moves? Let this ordinary pawn waste your turn?"
"I've said before that I won't lose. You can wait a few more steps and see."
"You are so arrogant... I may know what you are thinking, but your pawn's qualifications are not good enough, so I am afraid I can't get what you want."
"Mind your own business. If you lose to a mortal like me and lose the Way of Heaven, you will disappear, right? Or become a homeless dog? Will you be eaten alive by other mysterious spirits and heavenly masters?" Wu Ci did not hide the malice in his humble words.
"You deserve to go to hell, Dexter," the Ranger said with his usual flirtatious sigh. "You are more cunning than the most despicable devil, and more greedy than the most ignorant goblin. Don't think I don't know what you are thinking.
You want to upgrade that chess piece, right?
Don't overestimate mortals. In this game, even if she makes it to the end, she will never have a sufficient status upgrade."
The "promotion" mentioned by Sir Silver is a special rule in chess that is the same as "castling". It means that when a "pawn" reaches the bottom horizontal position, it can be transformed into one of the following: queen, rook, knight, or bishop.
Because the pawn is the strongest chess piece in the future, it will be transformed into the queen in most cases. Therefore, the process of the pawn becoming the queen is also called "transforming into the queen".
Wu Ci ignored the advice and placed the [Soldier] represented by Inès on the bottom row.
[Ranger] spread his palms, a strange smile on his face, "Not only is she not qualified to become a queen, she is not even qualified to trigger my rules."
On the chessboard, the pawn that was supposed to move to the bottom row and become the queen was actually swallowed up by the chessboard!
"You break the rules." Wu Ci looked unfriendly.
"Appropriate breaking of rules is the privilege of those in high positions." [Ranger] tapped the chessboard with his finger. "At most, even if I use my turn to pay for this violation, you cannot apply for a ruling against me."
Wu Ci said nothing.
[The Ranger] waved his hand, and two glasses of the same wine appeared on the table.
"This seems to be what you like, so let's take it as a farewell. Be happy, dear, so that your soul will be sweet enough."
Wu Ci sneered unhappily, "Can you still see what I like?"
[The Ranger] shrugged his shoulders. Everything was obvious.
Wu Ci cast his eyes on the wine on the table.
The main ingredients are absinthe and Bols Blue Curacao, which reflect the turquoise color in the ice. A sugar cube is placed on top with a spoon.
[Rogue] smiled and said, "You have no more chess pieces to use. Do you still want to make a final struggle?"
Wu Ci did not answer him, but instead talked about something completely unrelated, "This cup of wine is called 'Elegy for the Innocent'."
[Rogue] took a sip with great interest, then put down the cup with a strange look on his face. "It doesn't taste good. You have a really strange taste, and I don't want to comment on it."
"Yes, it doesn't taste good," Wuci said, "so no one is willing to give it a review, just as no one is willing to listen to an innocent person making excuses for himself."
He smiled meaningfully, completely attracting the attention of [Rogue], "The slanderer knows your innocence better than you do, so the excuse is irrelevant, but at least the innocent can recite a silent eulogy for themselves before they die."
[Rogue] didn't understand what he meant, "Don't we need to add the sugar cube on top of the cup?"
Wu Ci did not reply.
The sugar cube on top of the wine is indeed part of the wine, but it cannot be added to the glass of wine. It is added for others.
The sugar cube will only exist above the wine until the wine is finished and will disappear when you look down at the wine. It is used as a accompaniment to food after drinking to make its sweetness more intense.
Sir Silver didn't get Wu Ci's answer, so he dropped his next chess piece. "You are already a kite whose string has been cut by someone, but you still want to light a candle in the wind to illuminate the way ahead for those who are trying to cut off your retreat... Can you protect yourself?"
As the chess piece fell, Wu Ci's "King" was only one step away from being captured.
The perspective from Dextal was instantly cut off. Wu Ci recalled the remaining scene before the perspective was cut off, reached out and touched the neck of his original body, and felt a line of blood.
——Dextals had his throat cut by a blade that appeared out of nowhere in the void.
This is unavoidable due to the rules of association that exist at this high position on the chessboard.
However, the [King] has not been captured yet, proving that Dextal is not dead, but just seriously injured and unconscious. He can no longer be controlled. At the same time, he can no longer control his [King] to move away to avoid Silver Lord's attack or capture.
This did not have much impact, as Wu Ci had already calculated all the outcomes.
Watching the chess piece dropped by Sir Silver, Wu Ci picked up his remaining chips.
He had already won, both the bet and the game.
The [Soldier] with the incomplete Heavenly Dao landed on the position of the [Soldier] that had just been devoured. The Heavenly Master's Finger Bone was also pushed onto the chessboard, temporarily blocking the Heavenly Dao effect of Sir Silver.
Witchcraft puts all the chips on the table.
"Holding a candle in the wind, with such exquisite precision, doesn't this just prove my ability?"
Raising his hand and dropping the last chess piece, Wu Ci drank the bitter wine in the cup in one gulp, picked up the sugar cube that represented the high position with his index finger and thumb, and with a flick of his tongue he tasted this overly sweet victory, then stood up from the table.
When he passed by Sir Silver, he paused for a moment, and with a hoarse voice due to the cut throat, he laughed in Sir Silver's ear, "Checkmate."
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