Four Split Personalities

Leaning against Wang Ba, Motan shook his head and smiled, "No need. As long as we’re careful, there shouldn’t be too big of a problem. Once we leave the Dragon King’s Tomb, you can teleport back to Sky Pillar Mountain. To be honest, if we really encounter something I can’t handle, whether you’re here or not wouldn’t make much of a difference."

"How can you say that."

Ji Xiaoge huffed while washing the pot and retorted, "Think about that trashy dragon’s test, could you have made it here without my help?"

Motan helplessly waved his hands, "That’s a different story."

"Just let Sister Night Song follow us."

But Wang Badan lazily spoke up, turning to Motan, "Are you dumb? Even if someone wants to pick a fight with us, with Sister Night Song’s looks, just standing in front of them might immediately turn a bunch of them into our followers."

"You’re overthinking it. Night Song might be pretty, but not to the extent that... Wait!"

Motan was speaking when he suddenly paused, then abruptly turned to look at Ji Xiaoge, who was stuffing various bottles into her backpack, and exclaimed, "You’re not wearing your headgear!"

"I’m not wearing my wha—"

Ji Xiaoge blinked and took half a second to realize, then hurriedly touched her head while opening her character panel, only to find that she indeed wasn’t wearing any headgear and the [Allure] talent’s ’A Glance Can Captivate A City’ was indeed always active.

Wang Ba looked curiously at the two, wondering, "What are you talking about? What headgear? What is that?"

Nobody paid him any mind.

"Oh! I remember now!"

Ji Xiaoge hastily pulled out a plain silver hairband from her backpack and hastily tied up a few strands of hair while muttering, "I took it off when I looked in the mirror earlier on a whim, thinking you, Mo, would definitely remind me. But then you never mentioned it, and I forgot to wear it. You didn’t notice either."

After Ji Xiaoge finished tying her hairband, Motan felt much less pressured but then wondered why he hadn’t noticed this detail earlier, pondering for quite a while before shaking his head, "I have no idea... Normally I’d notice something like this instantly, but this time..."

He thought carefully and realized that although he had quickly recovered his clarity after she retriggered the ’A Glance Can Captivate A City’ effect, he hadn’t noticed anything amiss. Based on past experience, despite stabilizing his mind, he would still be in disarray, but this time...

[No, it’s not right. I was in disarray before, it’s just that the impact was not strong so I didn’t notice.]

After organizing his thoughts, Motan frowned, realizing he was indeed affected, but the impact was limited, so he didn’t immediately notice the issue. In fact, he had already unconsciously done many things inconsistent with his usual style.

Seemingly attracting opposing arguments on purpose...

Elaborating his reasoning process as if showing off...

After nearly being beheaded by the First Generation Rune Body, he didn’t retreat immediately to figure out a solution but instead chose to perform an extremely risky probe with [Charge]...

Intentionally avoiding Ji Xiaoge’s gaze during the operation, yet frequently ’unintentionally’ staring at her...

And muttering the Great Compassion Mantra and many other details, yet he was completely unaware, without any realization of the discrepancies before Ji Xiaoge reactivated ’A Glance Can Captivate A City’.

[This is terrifying...]

Thinking about it, a cold sweat broke on Motan, and after a brief organization, he concluded that for some unknown reason, he had developed some resistance to Ji Xiaoge’s indescribable charm in her ’The Beauty That Overthrows the Country’ state. This resistance allowed him to not be completely thrown into disarray as before when with her but also made him unknowingly influenced.

Because it was purely ’charm’ and not the mind-corroding ’Deceive’, even a resolute person like Motan, with some resistance, found it hard to withstand the influence of Ji Xiaoge’s charm.

As for when he had no resistance...

When there was no resistance, it was simple—just remind her to put on her headgear right away.

[This is not a good thing.]

This was the judgment Motan made in the first moment; he is neither wood nor stone. If influenced like this for a long time, even with a resolute will, it would still be difficult to guarantee not developing feelings for Ji Xiaoge.

Due to some complex reasons, his current persona really did not wish to harbor that unique kind of affection for Ji Xiaoge. Even if such feelings arose, he didn’t want them to arise in this manner...

Somewhat absurd, somewhat sentimental, and somewhat stubborn, that’s what Motan thought, he himself didn’t even know why.

"Hey~ what are you daydreaming about?"

Ji Xiaoge didn’t think so much. After fixing her hair ornament and seeing Motan in a daze, she directly asked.

[Forget it, why think so much. It’s just a special situation this time. Usually, she would definitely activate ’Remaining Aloof from the World’.]

Motan gently shook his head, throwing those chaotic thoughts out of his mind, and turned to face Ji Xiaoge, who looked curiously like a baby, smiling, "Nothing much, just pondering how we should get out. If we return the same way, I feel like that First Generation Rune Body seems dangerous."

"There’s no need to return the same way."

Wang Badan, known also as Emperor, abruptly interjected, nodding towards the stone platform where he had been as an egg, "The three of us just need to stand on that, and it would work. My old man, when he was alive, had a good relationship with Sky Pillar Mountain and even sponsored many materials for that goblin Luwei from your memory, Brother Mo. That outside Combat Puppet and this platforms that integrates stagnation, sealing, preservation, deodorization, constant temperature, and transportation, were obtained from him using favors, um, also cost some money, not sure exactly, not important anyway, you two just need to use my pure Golden Dragon Descendant blood to activate the teleportation."

"Oh, I know this platform, it seems it can store up to ten one-time coordinates, does it teleport directly to the Dragon King’s Tomb?"

Ji Xiaoge, who hadn’t learned skills from Luwei for long, really knew this stuff.

"If I remember correctly, it should be three locations."

Wang Ba lazily retracted his limbs and tail into his shell, murmuring: "The first is the bottom floor of the tomb, where my old man rests; personally wouldn’t recommend it as there are no grave goods; the second is the vault; and the third is somewhere southwest of Pride of Giant Dragon... well, it should be called Descendants of the Dragon Clan now, roughly that’s the intention, father originally planned for us to raid the vault first before leaving, but I think it’s not necessary now."

"Why is that?"

"Because about three hundred years ago, I had just woken up and sensed a mage, who knows from where, sneaking in. He knocked over a dozen armed Puppets and emptied the vault. I was shocked at that time, and by the time I reacted, the man had already run off, ah well, doesn’t really matter, since he didn’t come here through normal channels, even if I call him to save my life, I might not dare to."

"Did the mage have any distinctive features?"

Motan suddenly had an inexplicably bad hunch.

"White hair, young, and very strong."

"emmmmm..."

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Two days later

Holy Calendar Year 9571, Month of Poetry and Prayers, Day 5

Game Time PM15:13

Shaven Empire, Konda Territory, Boundary, In the woods

Five hundred well-trained warriors stood like spears on the ground tinged with a faint smell of blood, watching the temporary commander who was praying for the dead not far away, their gazes dense and faces solemn.

After a long while, the slightly slender young man enveloped in a massive black cape slowly stood up, gently wiping away a splash of fresh blood that had landed on his mask not long ago, and after a light sigh, turned towards everyone, tiredly smiling...

"Thank you all for your hard work, let’s continue as planned."

Chapter 593: The End