Chapter 34 Swan Castle: If you kill them all, one of them will be a girl...
Wow, this scenery is so romantic and beautiful!
[I think I watched that Rose Spire dungeon show a long time ago. It was probably only cleared once or twice back then. The guest was a girl I can't remember anymore. I just remember there were red roses everywhere in the dungeon; you could see at least one rose in any corner of the venue.]
[I've also watched Rose Spire, mainly for Elf Prince. It's so rare to see such a sunny and righteous guest on "Heartbeat 1000%"; I've watched so many livestreams and haven't seen many like him.]
I've watched Moonlight Town twice. The first time, the female guest was nearsighted and wore glasses; she died quite tragically at the hands of the werewolves. The other time, the female guest was a very skilled veteran player; her cleansing level was almost 20%, but she was tricked by the ghost and died just before the end of the event.
Why is the Demon King staring so intently at the roses under the moonlight? Has she discovered something?
"It gets dark so early here at Swan Castle," Yu Naixin remarked. "It's only a little past six in the evening, and it's already this dark?"
[You spent so long looking at it and this is all you came up with?]
[Damn, I didn't even realize it was already past six. The banquet started at seven, right? The female guest is still wandering around aimlessly? Don't tell me she's planning to slack off?]
[The show "Heartbeat 1000%" can't let its guests continue to slack off. Each segment has a deadline, and in this segment, the deadline is clearly the start of the banquet. If she doesn't achieve a certain level of cleansing before then, she'll be eliminated by the combined rules of the segment's guests and the production team, with no chance of survival.]
[Speaking of the guest list, all the male guests arrived at the banquet hall at 5 PM and have been waiting for over an hour!]
[Aren't so many people saying this female guest is extraordinary, even amazing? Can she give the audience a demonstration of turning the tables in less than an hour?]
[When there were only one or two guest characters, she didn't make the most of the time to try and win them over. Now there are four guest characters lurking around, increasing the difficulty exponentially! Is the female guest thinking she's so great that she can act recklessly? Be careful, she might outsmart herself!]
Yu Naixin had already heard from Priest Folding Fan that all four male guests had arrived.
However, she still ignored it.
Turning away from the window where she could clearly see the red roses and the moonlight, Yu Naixin continued on her way to the places she hadn't yet visited in the castle.
A 3D map of this Swan Castle was gradually being constructed in Yu Naixin's mind.
In terms of area, Swan Castle is much larger than Cocoon Village in the previous episode. It consists of a huge circular tower-like building in the center and long corridor-like buildings on both sides. If you could look down from the air, it would look like a geometric shape with a straight line on each side of a sphere.
The banquet hall is located on the first floor of the round tower.
While the entire castle was busy hosting the banquet hall for distinguished guests, Yu Naixin was able to travel to many places to gather intelligence. However, given her lowly status as a cleaning maid, there were still many places she couldn't enter.
For example, she could only climb to the third floor of the central round tower, but there were clearly higher floors above.
For example, Yu Naixin didn't have the key to open the locks of many rooms in the long corridors on both sides.
Apart from the initial path leading to the banquet hall when entering the instance, and the main event inside the banquet hall, Yu Naixin couldn't find a single NPC to ask for information.
The entire program clearly reminds and urges her that she must go to the banquet hall in order to make any progress.
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Inside the banquet hall, four male guests sat at the four corners of the long table for VIPs. Although they did not make any moves or say anything, a tense atmosphere was palpable between them.
The vampire duke and the elf prince sat diagonally opposite each other, clearly showing their estrangement, as did the newly arrived ghost wizard and werewolf knight.
The ghost wizard was draped in a jet-black cloak that covered him completely from head to toe. Even most of his face was hidden by the brim of the cloak, with only his chin and faintly visible lips being visible.
His skin tone was between the vampire duke's dark white and the elf prince's bright white, giving him a very fragile visual appearance. His lips were also extremely pale, almost ethereal.
The werewolf knight's appearance wasn't so well concealed; he wore a suit of silver armor and had a burly build, but instead of a human head, he wore a majestic wolf's head.
On his furry wolf face was an expression of annoyance indistinguishable from that of a human. The werewolf knight spoke first: "...It's already 6:55. Where is our female guest?"
There were no clocks in the banquet hall, but the four male guests seemed to know exactly what time it was.
The Elf Prince's face showed a hint of anxiety: "There are only five minutes left until the deadline. It's impossible for any female guest to delay for so long without any reason and not even interact with us."
The Elf Prince frowned, finally turning his gaze to the Vampire Duke: "As the only one among us who has seen Miss Guest, Duke, shouldn't you give us an explanation?"
Yu Naixin can gather information from the NPCs, so the male guests can naturally also obtain information from the NPCs.
Regarding what happened between the Vampire Duke and Yu Naixin, even though the NPC's narration was extremely euphemistic, the other three male guests knew that the Vampire Duke had been teased by the female guest and then left in the banquet hall by her.
The Vampire Duke was indeed the most impatient of all the male guests. After all, he was more eager than any other male guest to see Yu Naixin appear and then kill this damned lamb at all costs.
Upon hearing the Elf Prince's words, the Vampire Duke was instantly reminded of those humiliating memories.
Noticing the werewolf knight's gaze that followed, and the ghost wizard's face turning towards him, the vampire duke could no longer suppress his anger.
With a loud "crack!", the entire VIP table shattered under the Vampire Duke's palm strike, collapsing into pieces all over the floor.
"An explanation?!" the vampire duke sneered. "I don't need to explain to anyone! Anyone!"
The surrounding NPC servants and butlers were terrified and retreated to the outside with expressions of fear.
The other three male guests were not affected in the slightest by this level of attack. The Elf Prince sat upright in place, not even moving a hair.
"Is the Duke enraged?" the Elf Prince asked coldly. "It seems you have indeed been hiding something."
A sharp glint flashed in the werewolf knight's eyes: "Vampire Duke, we have a total of four guest contestants on this show. The female guest sent by the production team is no ordinary person. We don't know what kind of tricks she has up her sleeve."
"To avoid unnecessary losses, we'd better form an alliance first, and then it'll be a matter of each relying on their own abilities, wouldn't you say?"
The ghost wizard's words were much more direct, and he let out a sinister laugh: "Heh... Your Grace, if you want to eat alone, are you sure you can withstand the combined attack of the three of us?"
The tense atmosphere finally materialized into reality. Yu Naixin, who was on the chandelier at the top of the first floor of the central tower, said that the scene was quite interesting.
Dogs fighting, I can't get enough of watching.
That's right, without any of the four male guests noticing, Yu Naixin had already quietly climbed onto the World War I chandelier in the corner of the banquet hall using the priest's folding fan.
These chandeliers are all quite large, and Yu Naixin, with her size, could easily hide in them.
[I knew she would definitely go back to the lobby, but I didn't expect her to come back in this way?]
[Something feels off here. That folding fan is way too useful! The female guest is clearly using its spiritual energy to conceal herself, otherwise the other guests would have spotted her long ago!]
[What a cautious female guest! It's almost 7 o'clock! That elf clearly stated that 7 o'clock is the deadline, aren't you going to take action yet?!]
This isn't the first time we've seen a show guest die from being a coward; it's just another one like it.
It's 7 o'clock!!!
The moment the banquet began, the atmosphere in the entire hall completely changed.
The four male guests, who had just been having a heated argument, immediately stopped paying attention to each other and instead reached out their hands to the maids closest to them!
"The deadline has arrived..." The ghost wizard laughed, his entire cloak trembling. "Finally, we can begin clearing the field!"
The werewolf knight grinned: "Anyway, the venue is fixed. As long as we kill all the humanoid female creatures, one of them will be a female guest!"
The vampire duke's eyes seemed to be filled with venom: "I'd like to see where you can hide now!"
The Elf Prince shook his head slightly: "What a bunch of rude brutes... However, I must apologize for being impolite."
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Author's Note: I was wondering why something felt off about writing this story before. Then I realized it's the first time in all these years that I've written a Western fantasy setting (lol).
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