Chapter 255: 255, this is unfortunate touch _1
Translator: 549690339
For Su Yu, the seven and a half days he spent burning materials equate to almost three months in the game time.
During these three months, Princess Alyssa had led the remaining army of 300,000 from Forest City to Orleans City and built many military defense facilities and fortresses based on Orleans City as a foundation.
It was effortless for the Kalet’s rebels to capture Forest City.
By now, the rebels have entirely occupied 71.4% of the Empire’s land.
But the rebels did not stop.
After two weeks of rest and adjustment, their 700,000-strong army marched south with a grandiose plan to annihilate the royal remnants in one fell swoop, unifying the entire Empire.
When Su Yu arrived in Orleans City, the rebel vanguard had already made it to the city’s outskirts, and the rest of the rebel army was less than 30 kilometers away.
The Empire was truly at a life and death moment now.
Su Yu, riding on Dima, moved quickly on the wide streets of Orleans City.
Dima was as spry as ever, running energetically even powerful horses on the street were no match for her.
However, the mood of Orleans City’s residents was the polar opposite of Dima’s vitality.
Everyone on the street wore a heavy face, the atmosphere incredibly oppressive.
Not long ago, Princess Alyssa led her army to Orleans City.
The moment she entered the city gate, the princess implemented policies to increase taxes on the nobility and lower them for common people. She considerably reduced the financial threshold for entrance into the [Warrior Academy] and [Magic Academy], so children from regular families with outstanding abilities could receive a significant tilt in educational resources and a chance to become high-ranking fighters.
These policies by the princess symbolized a phased victory for the masses’ demonstrations, and the whole of Orleans City was filled with joy at the time.
Alyssa quickly gained the support of the people.
But the brief joy was just a fleeting reprieve.
Now, with Kalet’s rebel army at the city gates, under the threat of life and death, the city was filled with a solemn atmosphere, exactly like the expression of the residents when Goldfinch city was about to be captured.
After observing the overall atmosphere of Orleans City, Su Yu shifted his attention back to himself.
He began thinking about how he should plan for his next move.
After some time of thinking and analyzing, he summarized the three main things he needed to focus on next:
First, consolidate his own strength, establish a solid foundation;
Second, secure a set of fourth-rank gear for temporary transition;
Third, figure out a way to get all the skill books of the third and fourth rank from his profession.
About the first point to establish a firm foundation.
Although Prime Minister Cao Cao had provided him with a large number of medicated baths to consolidate his strength, it was still inadequate for Su Yu, who had terrifyingly advanced across two large realms in “seven days”.
Su Yu planned to apply to Tina to enter the [Advanced Secret Realm] under the Unicorn Trial Field to thoroughly consolidate his foundation;
As for the second point about equipment –
The levels of the main questline reward equipment would match that of the player who completed the quest, so he didn’t need to intentionally collect them, as he’d obtain a full set of equipment naturally by completing tasks.
Now, on the last point about skill books.
Su Yu has already collected all second-rank skill books now. All of them were rewards from two main quest lines.
The second-rank skills for the Mage profession total twelve, they are:
Fire System [Sequential Fireball (Ordinary)], [Phoenix’s Flame (Excellent)], [Flamestrike Skill (Epic)];
Water system [Ice Lance (Ordinary)], [Summon Water Elemental (Excellent)], [Ice Barrier (Epic)];
Lightning system [Lightning Blast (Ordinary)], [Thunderstorm (Excellent)], [Sky Thunder (Epic)];
Earth System [Group Earth Spike Thrust (Ordinary)], [Summon Diamond Elemental (Excellent)], [Earthquake Skill (Epic)].
With all second-rank skills collected, he now has none of the third-rank skill books, and only one fourth-rank skill book gifted by a player, [Dragon Breath Scroll].
He hopes that future main storylines will provide more skill scroll rewards!
As Su Yu was pondering, Dima had already brought him to the entrance of the princess’s palace.
“Whinny~” Dima turned her head and snorted softly at Su Yu, indicating that they had arrived at their destination.
“Oh Thanks, Dima.” Su Yu gently stroked Dima’s neck as he jumped down from her back and put her back into the horse medallion.
At the entrance of the palace, Royal Guard Keledron of the Princess had been waiting here for a long time.
Keledron’s armor was a bit worn out, there were still some charred marks on his arms and thighs, and his facial expression had also become a lot more haggard.
Upon seeing Su Yu, he placed his left hand on his chest and bowed respectfully towards Su Yu, “Master Nemesis, Her Highness the Princess was aware that you would be coming these few days, so she instructed me to wait here to welcome you.”
“I’ll lead you in now.”
“Alright, lead the way.” Su Yu let out a sigh and followed him.
Keledron’s fate was also very bumpy.
During the Princess quest line 1-5, Su Yu even helped him send a message to his family in Forest City.
However, his family didn’t survive the great disaster in Forest City. His parents, wife, most of his children all died in that calamity, only his six-year-old son has survived, his life could be considered extremely bitter.
But in the context of war, no one is fortunate. Su Yu didn’t say anything, he just followed Keledron and kept moving forward.
“Ding, your main plot has been updated, [Goldfinch Empire (51/100)].”
“Task requirement: Meet with [Princess Alyssa] and [Tina Garcia], and participate in the pre-war discussion meeting.”
“Task reward: 10000 experience points.”
Seeing this task reward, Su Yu couldn’t help but remember the [Experience Crystal Stone] in his backpack.
Because there were many large-scale battles in the second phase of Tina’s quest line, he had accumulated a great amount of experience points in his crystal stone.
The current properties of the crystal stone are:
[Experience Crystal Stone (Special Item)].
Current experience storage: 50.246 million.
Good gracious!
If the experience points in the crystalline stone could be used, he is more than capable of advancing to the fifth order!
But then again, considering the size of the crystal stone, just how large is its volume?
Thinking of this, Su Yu directly summoned the crystal stone.
After the summoning was successful, he immediately felt a heaviness in his palm.
A completely transparent cubic crystal with a side length of 30 centimeters appeared in his hand.
Upon seeing this crystal, Su Yu was taken aback!
He remembered that when the crystal first accumulated ten thousand experience points, it was only the size of an apple.
Now that the experience storage volume has increased 5000 times, the volume of the crystal stone has also increased 5000 times in size! It is even larger than a basketball!
Keledron noticed the movement behind him, turned his head and looked towards Su Yu.
Upon seeing the large transparent crystal in Su Yu’s hand, he couldn’t help asking: “Master Nemesis, this stone is quite beautiful, where did you get it?”
After speaking, Keledron reached out towards the crystal stone, wanting to feel the texture of this transparent stone.
“No! No! No!”
Su Yu got a fright and immediately put the crystal back into his backpack: “You can’t touch this, it will affect the Feng Shui of this place.”
The experience points of the crystal stone can be used by any player or NPC. If Keledron accidentally makes use of it, Su Yu would be devastated.
“‘Can’t touch’? ‘Feng Shui’?” Keledron was confused, where did these words come from?
“Enough with all that, you better lead the way.” Su Yu urged.
“Alright.” Keledron shook his head and continued to lead Su Yu towards the inner part of the palace.