Chapter 75: 75. (Centaur’s Lingering Feelings) _1
Translator: 549690339
After the private chat, Su Yu spent 500 spiritual energy coins to teleport to Orleans City.
Buzz—
The teleportation magic circle erupted with a deafening roar.
Accompanied by a dazzling white light, Su Yu’s figure disappeared into the massive magic circle.
Long-distance transportation usually comes with some negative status effects.
For instance, after teleporting, Su Yu felt dizzy, nauseous, and unsteady.
But Su Yu was prepared.
After drinking a bottle of [phase potion] he bought from the teleportation gate mage, his symptoms of dizziness were significantly reduced.
At this moment, a system prompt arrived on time:
“Ding! Congratulations on successfully starting the main plot [Orleans City Saint 1/100].”
“Task requirements: Go to 213 Pinecone Street to meet Tina.”
“Reward: 200 Experience Points.”
“[Orleans City Saint]!” Su Yu gazed at Orleans City in front of him and sighed faintly.
The first expansion had four main quests, one each for Tina and the princess, and two for the rebels.
He did not expect that in this life, he would scoop both plotlines of the winning side, and he wondered which lucky player would get the rebels’ ones.
“Let’s go, Dima, to see your master.”
Su Yu patted Dima’s neck and proceeded towards the city along the street.
Main quests are difficult to complete, side quests are slightly easier. So, Su Yu decided to complete the [Centaur’s Lingering Feelings] side quest first before focusing on the main quest.
Orleans City is a large city in the southwest of the Empire, with a population of 3-4 hundred thousand permanent residents.
Being far from the warfront, the streets were peaceful and full of song and dance, and people’s faces were filled with smiles.
At the Warrior’s Guild, Su Yu found the Warrior Instructor, the beautiful Quinn.
Outside the guild’s gate, Quinn looked at Dima with a headache, “Adventurer, you were right to guess that Tina indeed left this horse behind in the village in order to become a unicorn knight.”
“Tina also has deep affections for this horse, but there’s nothing she can do. Given the pride of unicorns, they absolutely wouldn’t allow a knight to have another mount.”
It seemed that Dima could understand human language and lowered its head to the ground, listless.
Su Yu shrugged, “What should we do then? Right now, this little mare is losing interest in food and drink, losing weight day by day. If this continues, she’s sure to fall ill. If she dies, won’t Tina feel even worse?”
Hearing Su Yu’s words, Dima very cooperatively acted weak. Trembling as if she might collapse at any moment.
“Perhaps we could call Tina over, let her make the decision?” Quinn suggested, massaging her aching forehead.
“Good, I was thinking the same thing.”
During the third phase of the quest, Tina came to the Warrior’s Guild to see Dima.
“Wuu wuu, Anna, I’ve missed you so much!” Tina hugged Dima’s neck, crying heartbrokenly.
“Anna” was the name she had given to Dima.
Tears flowed from Dima’s eyes too, as she whinnied in pain.
A woman and a horse, hugging and weeping together.
Quinn, arms crossed, didn’t know what to say as she watched this emotional sight.
After a while, she finally sighed, “Tina, there’s no use crying. This isn’t solving anything. You need to carefully consider what has to be done in the future.”
“I’ve decided!” Tina stopped crying and stood up straight, “I’m going to take
Anna to the Unicorn Troops and make her my mount!”
“Have you lost your mind?” Quinn was taken aback, “Bringing an ordinary horse to join the Unicorn Troops? Their leader will never allow it!”
“No problem.” Tina spoke determinedly, “I want to prove to the troop leader that the strength of a ‘Unicorn Knight’ lies in the knight, not the unicorn! As long as I can defeat an official unicorn knight riding on Anna, I have the right to be part of the troop!”
Then she turned to Su Yu with her big, tear-stained eyes, “Adventurer, will you help me?”
But at this moment, she recognized Su Yu, “It’s you, Nemesis?! I can’t believe you actually came to Orleans City to find me!” (She had been too focused on Dima earlier and hadn’t noticed Su Yu.)
“Yes, it’s me.” Su Yu smiled, walked over, and took Tina’s small hand,
“Let’s solve Anna’s problem together, don’t worry, I will do my best to help you!”
“Tha… Thank you.” Tina’s cheeks flushed.
The following stage 3 to 8 tasks were very simple for Su Yu, as they were all monster hunting tasks.
Su Yu accompanied Tina in killing wild beasts, challenging elite opponents, and eliminating bosses.
The defeated monsters yielded a vast amount of materials, which Tina took to a strengthener called Kelly in the city, who enhanced her entire collection of equipment.
Armed head to toe with +6 enhancements, she glistened with power!
While enhancing herself, Tina also made sure to boost Dima’s stats.
She asked the city’s best blacksmith to forge a set of armour for Dima, which was then steeped in the essence of a monster.
Due to the essence imbued, Dima’s attributes have significantly improved!
Dima used to move rather sluggishly with a bad weight capacity, making it so that even Su Yu, clad in leather armor, would be huffing and puffing.
After the enhancements, however, Dima appeared to be in excellent form; bearing Tina equipped with a full suit of armour and holding a huge lance, they were as swift as the wind.
For the 9th stage of the quest, Tina was officially challenging a fully-fledged unicorn knight.
Orleans City’s main arena.
The arena was packed to the rafters, with many local residents coming to watch the match.
The two competitors were the genius girl, Tina, riding an ordinary horse, and the battle-hardened knight, Ruiel, on a pure white unicorn.
In the minds of ordinary citizens, Tina, who was riding an ordinary horse, represented the common people, whereas Ruiel, who was riding a pure white unicorn, represented the nobility.
The official betting odds were set at 1.2:3.6, a win for Ruiel would be 1.2 times the bet, while a win for Tina would be 3.6 times the bet.
Over 90% of the citizens bet on Ruiel’s victory, but that did not stop them from cheering for Tina, hoping that she could triumph over the noble class as a representative of the common people.
Su Yu also bet a million on Tina’s victory, as a gesture of support.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to bet more, but the officials directly set a betting limit, much to his confusion.
On the viewing stand, the upper echelons of the Unicorn Knight team were quietly discussing the duel below, looking very confident.
The battle began.
As everyone had expected, Tina was immediately put on the defensive.
Ruiel had rich combat experience and a mighty mount in the form of the unicorn, which not only was majestic but also had the ability to cast light magic spells, giving Ruiel a huge advantage.
This gave her a huge upper hand.
But against all odds, Tina held on miraculously.
She was like a small boat floating in a violent storm, each wave trying to swallow her, but she kept struggling, always managing to re-emerge on the surface.
The battle reached a stalemate.
Twenty minutes later, the battle finally drew to a climax.
After a fierce struggle, there were more than a dozen bloody holes in both Tina and Dima.
Lying on the ground, Dima was at death’s door.
Tina was semi-kneeling on the ground, laboriously covering the wound on her abdomen with her hand.
However, the determination on her face remained unchanging.
On the other side, Ruiel was also pale, though her wounds were much lighter compared to Tina and her unicorn was constantly releasing [Healing Skill] to heal her wounds.
Ruiel pointed her lance at Tina and slowly began to walk towards her, saying:
“Surrender! For holding your own against me on an ordinary horse, you can count as the strongest among your peers. But what do you have left to fight me now?”
Tina’s head drooped, seemingly unable to hold on any longer. But just then, a mischievous glint flashed in the corner of her eyes.
“You’ve fallen for it!”
“What?” “Take this!”
Tina pointed the [Village’s Best Sword] which Su Yu had given her at Ruiel.
Clang!
The rusty blade fell to the ground; Ruiel was stunned for 3 seconds..