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33.33% Hail the King by Mad Blade During Troubled Times / Chapter 16: Chapter 16: The Insane Discovery

Chapter 16: Chapter 16: The Insane Discovery

As Emma stared at Fei, a mischievous smile covered her face, "The front half of your majesty's palace! There's enough space for all the soldiers. Hahaha, it depends on whether or not you are willing to do so!"

Fei's eyes brightened.

"Great idea! That's it! Brook, go ahead and organize the remaining soldier. Make sure that you're able to move all the wounded soldier to the front half of my palace. Also, notify all the doctors. It doesn't matter how severe the injuries are, tell them to try their best to maintain the lives of the wounded soldiers. I will handle the rest!"

Brook was shocked, "You majesty, you can't!"

"Why not?" Fei laughed, "They bled for me and the kingdom of Chambord, so why can't I provide them with a better place to stay and be treated?"

Emma was stunned.

She proposed this solution not to solve the problem, but to childishly confront Fei. She didn't expect Fei to listen to her... "Hey Alexander! Are you sure about this?" It was unheard of that a king would offer his palace as healing facility for the wounded soldiers.

Fei purposely rubbed Emma's head and made a mess of the hair. "Of course.... Hahaha, thanks for your suggestion, kiddo!"

"You are the kiddo here!"

"Hahaha..."

Angela didn't say a word. She simply smiled as she watched Fei and Emma play with each other. Her mood was unprecedentedly happy. How long had it been since she was this happy? Angela didn't know the answer to that question herself. The way she was looking at Fei was getting brighter and brighter.

...

The wounded soldiers were quickly moved to the front half of the king's palace.

Food, water, wool blankets and clothes were distributed to all of them under Angela's and Emma's lead. Fei had also generously given out a portion of his treasure and wealth to motivate the soldiers. At this dire moment, morale had to be high. Aside from spiritual encouragement and motivation, there had to be some material benefits too. As a student who had taken psychology courses before, Fei knew what he had to do.

Fei's action had definitely won over the soldiers' respect even more.

The cheering of "Hail King Alexander!" resounded throughout Chambord castle once more. Some wounded soldiers were touched and started crying and swore to devote their lives towards following King Alexander's commands. In this world where the lives of commoners were basically worthless, it was pretty easy to win over the support the people.

After organizing the wounded soldiers, Fei handed control over to the 'Military Guru' Brook to plan duties such as the guarding and securing the defensive wall and putting up more barriers.

He returned to the back of the palace and ordered that no one was to enter his room. He had to check on his injuries. Luckily, they weren't too severe.

His first battle wasn't bad. He wasn't injured at all when fighting the two one star warriors. Only when he was trying to take on the three star warrior Landes did he get injured. He went head to head with the [Exploding Sun Strike] and only puked some blood.

The most severe injury was when Fei's shoulder was pierced by Landes' sword. Landes' fire energy had entered Fei's body through the sword and shocked his internal organs, an injury similar to Pierce.

Fei took a gamble when he intentionally let Landes pierce him.

He brought the strength and abilities of the barbarian to this world, thinking that the defense and armour of the barbarian was also probably brought to this world. It would minimize the damage from Landes.

In fact, he won the gamble.

The energy of a three star warrior should've been able to shatter Fei's organs into pieces, but due to barbarian's sick armour and defense, the organs were only shocked. There weren't any deadly effects.

Of course, Fei had to do that. In that situation, Fei couldn't think of another way to temporarily defeat Landes except for tricking him. If Fei didn't force Landes off of the defensive wall, he would've become just another soul under Landes' sword by now.

It wasn't that Fei wasn't scared of death. It was just that he was too scared of death, so he had to risk everything he got.

...

After checking his injuries, Fei began doing something very important –

He sat on the bed and tried to enter the Diablo world. If he wanted to save the lives of his soldiers, he had to enter the Diablo world once again.

Fei's idea was simple –

If he could bring the abilities and attributes from the character in the Diablo world to real life, then he could probably bring the items and potions into the real world.

If he could bring the [Healing Potions] which could literally heal all the health of a dying character in the Diablo world into the real world, then Pierce and all other soldiers' lives could be saved.

After thinking about that, Fei couldn't wait to enter the Diablo world.

He meditated on the bed. He concentrated as he tried to remember how he enter the Diablo world for the first time. He tried to communicate with the strange voice inside his head.

The result surprised Fei. There was a quick response –

"Gamer Fei seeking approval to enter Diablo world... Soul scan valid ... Game Time verifying...Excess time left over ... Request Approved. Countdown ...3...2...1. Enter!" The cold yet mysterious voice spoke.

Fei had the pleasure to travel through the 'star gate' again as he felt dizzy and a strange wave went through his body.

...

...

The scene in front of Fei surprised him.

He remembered that he was still in the [Den of Evil] on [Blood Moor]. He was expecting to be sent back to the same place, but it definitely wasn't the case.

He was not at the [Den of Evil], nor [Rogue Encampment]

It wasn't even in the Diablo world. He was in front of a 3D projected screen.

On the screen, there were seven playable characters: Amazon, Assassin, Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer, Paladin and Sorceress. They were all standing in front of a bonfire. Every character was real. Fei could even hear them breathing. It felt like there were seven people standing in front of Fei.

"Is ... is this the selection screen in the game? Why am I here? Could it…"

As Fei was thinking, he saw a button under the screen – [Create a New Character]

Fei was stunned at first – he couldn't control his excitement.

"Create a new character? Does that mean I could play other classes and bring their abilities into the real world?"

An imaginary door opened in front of Fei. He could see his bright future. There were numerous opportunities. If he was a level 99 character in Hell (most difficult) game mode and was able to use those abilities in the real world, how powerful could he become?

All he could think about were the possibilities.

Hundreds of abilities from all seven classes would definitely create a big storm in the real world, and no one would be able to defeat him.

"This is insane!!!" Fei couldn't hold himself together.

He had to try it out to be sure. He thought about it and decided to become a fancy mage this time.

Instantly, a beautiful women representing the class Sorceress stepped forward. She waved her powerful wand and lightning came down from the sky; then she bowed to Fei.

The bottom on the screen changed to – [Confirm selection]

Fei pressed yes.

The screen began disappearing and his vision blurred. It was the sign of entering the Diablo world.

Suddenly, Fei thought of a serious question –

"The sorceress was a female character! When I become a sorceress, I won't become a female, right?! Would I?!?!?!?!?!?!"


Chapter 17: Chapter 17: The “’God’ of Toleration

The Diablo system didn't give Fei much time to regret his choice. Right after a second, everything in front of Fei had changed.

"Huuuu-"

Fei felt the zero gravity again from traveling through the 'time tunnel'. His vision blurred for a second. The next thing he knew, he had appeared in [Rogue Encampment] and was at the spot where new players would spawn.

The sky was still dark and the rain continued pouring down.

The[Rogue Encampment]was completely quiet.

Fei found out that when he changed his class to sorceress, everything went back to zero; it seemed as if he had restarted the game. He went to the high priestess Akara to receive the quest [Den of Evil], and the intelligent women treated Fei like a stranger while giving him the quest.

After he got the quest, he went back to the place where he spawned. He suddenly remembered something. He looked down his pants and hoped that he could touch something with his hand.

After a brief moment –

"Hew...ok…ok. So I didn't become a female. It would've been way too cruel."

Fei was very happy. Although the sorceress class was made to be a female in the Diablo world, his character appearance was based off Alexander in the real world. There were some minor changes, but he looked similar to the 'Barbarian Fei'.

He was wearing a coarse gray robe and holding a two yard (about 2 metres) long tree branch wand. These two items were given to Fei when he spawned; they were pretty cheap and powerless.

Quickly, the NPC Warriv had rushed over again and started talking, "Greetings, stranger. I'm not surprised to see…" With his previous experience, Fei ignored him and walked away.

At this point, Fei was certain that his hypothesis was correct.

He could choose all the classes in the Diablo world, but he would only know whether or not he could bring their abilities into the real world after he exited the game world.

...

After he proved his hypothesis, he decided to exit the sorceress character mode.

It wasn't that he didn't want be a mage, but rather it was better to concentrate all his resources into one class for now. Chambord was under a real threat. He decided to focus his time on leveling up the barbarian Fei so he could be more useful for the next battle.

As he was thinking about exiting the mode, he was automatically transferred to the 3D character selection screen without pressing any buttons.

"Damn! I can control everything now by just thinking about them?" He thought about choosing the level 5 barbarian character and his vision blurred again, along with the feeling of zero gravity. He had entered the Diablo world again as a level 5 barbarian.

"This is cool!" Fei thought. He could simply think about what he wanted to do and there wouldn't be any need for button pressing.

The place he appeared in was the [Den of Evil].

After he killed all the monsters in the den and completed the quest, he used a [Town Portal Scroll] before he was kicked out of the Diablo world. The bright blue oval was still buzzing in front of him when he re-entered this world.

There were still some items on the ground.

Fei checked his [Item Slot]. All the valuable items were picked up by him and the items on the ground were pretty much worthless. He stepped into the blue portal and appeared at [Rogue Encampment].

The dark and rainy weather had stopped, and sunlight shined onto [Rogue Encampment].

Although the sky was still a little dim and gloomy–like how the polluted skies on Earth made people feel depressed–the fresh, clean air lightened up Fei's mind.

Fei went directly to the priestess Akara. The same dialogue as the original game occurred and Fei was awarded one [New Skill Points]. Fei put this point into [Weapon Mastery] without thinking.

There wasn't enough time for Fei to distribute the points evenly among all the abilities. [Weapon Mastery] allowed him to defeat the star ranked warriors with godlike axe techniques, so leveling that ability up would significantly improve his combat effectiveness.

After he did that, he began bothering Akara.

"Honorable Priestess Akara, I have a few question..."

"I know what you want to ask, young traveller..." This spiritual leader of [Rogue Encampment] seemed like she had seen through Fei. She smiled, "I'm willing to answer your questions, but you have to know; at Rogue Encampment, everything has a price, so the key is ... do you have anything that interests me?"

"Damn, this woman is direct." Fei was surprised by the brutal honesty of Akara.

He thought that the high priestess wouldn't be moved by anything. Who knew that as a spiritual leader of [Rogue Encampment], she would directly ask for bribes? Fei felt that his respect for this woman had sunk.

"Eh…..ok, can gold coins be used as a price?" Fei asked.

"Yes." the smile on Akara's face brightened up even more: "Every answer will cost you two thousand gold coins. Of course, some answers will cost more based on the question. You might not be able to afford them at this point."

Fei was excited that Akara agreed to answer his question. However, when he checked his [Item Slot], he was really disappointed. He only had eleven hundred gold coins. He couldn't even afford one answer... He had to come up with something.

Fei felt like swearing, "Damn this Akara. Two thousand gold coins per answer? Why don't you go and rob a bank?!"

"Looks like I have to sell my items...Eh? Wait ...Items?"

Fei saw the two blue magic items. "If gold coins can be used to buy an answer, then items could probably be used too, right?"

Although he was complaining about the price of the answers, he didn't show any of that on his face. He turned to Akara and asked respectfully, "Honorable Priestess Akara, I don't have enough gold coins. Can these two items be used as a substitute?"

He brought out the [Grim Wand ]and the [Javelin]. Akara's eyes brightened up.

"Magic items?"

"Yeah, they can be used as substitutes. It has been a while since items of this quality have appeared in Rogue Encampment. Young traveller, this [Blazing Grim Wand ]and this [Athlete's Javelin] are worth eight thousand gold coins. I can answer four of your questions!"

Akara was a high priestess and had the ability to identify items without using [Identify scrolls], so she could call out the names of the items by scanning them with her bare eyes.

When she was identifying the items, she looked very serious and Fei felt a hint of sacredness in her. In addition to the purple nun robe she was wearing, she was totally different from the tricky merchant Fei had in mind.

"Only eight thousand gold coins? That's way too low!" Fei yelled in exaggeration.

He actually didn't know the right price for these two magic items. Because of Fei's bad impression of Akara, he felt the price that Akara spoke of was lower than the standard. "Honorable Priestess Akara, it's not right for a spiritual leader like you to speak of gold coins all the time. How about this, let's trade these two items for five answers. If I get more items like these in the future, I will take them to you as well."

Akara was defeated by the shamelessness of the traveler. He spoke of the gold coins as if they were filthy on one hand, yet increased the value of his items by two thousand on the other.

She thought about Fei's suggestion and accepted it.

Many years had passed and the man in front of her was the only traveler that could step into [Rogue Encampment], and he was the first to survive on [Blood Moor]. Although there were some skillful female rogues, they could barely protect the Encampment. There was no way that they could survive on [Blood Moor] and bring back all these valuable items.

Also, Akara felt that as time passed by, the power of Diablo was corroding the energy of this world faster and faster. She had many important plans that this young traveler needed to complete.

"Thanks for your generosity, Honorable Priestess Akara. My first question is, how did I come into this world?"

"Young Traveler..."

Akara stared at Fei strangely and spoke, "I don't know where you came from, but I could sense that you are not from this world. However, I'm sure that you arrival was all god's decree. This world needs you!"

"What? God's decree? This is your answer?" Fei didn't know how to respond.

"Yes, this is the answer." Akara nodded seriously.

Fei almost fainted. He was outraged. "God's decree? This bullshit is worse than not having an answer!" Fei was fascinated by science when he was on Earth and didn't believe in ghosts or gods. Akara's answer to him was completely BS.

However, Fei couldn't do anything about it. He was dealing with the leader of [Rogue Encampment].

He had to endure his rage. He quickly came up with the second question –

"So for the second question, if I'm killed by the monsters on the moor, will I be revived?"

This was the most important question to Fei. There were a list of quests in Diablo world. It would only get harder as he leveled up. He would have to face all the powerful demons from hell one day, and death would probably be unpreventable.

So, before his death actually happened, he had to make sure that it was the same as the original game where characters revived after their deaths.

Akara stared at Fei strangely again.

"Young man, I have to admit that you know way more about this world than I expected. It was true that long time ago, the travelers and warriors revived after their death by the redemption of the gods." Akara slowed down as she spoke, "But time had passed on for too long. Diablo's power is corrupting this world every second. It has been almost sixty years since a traveler has stepped foot into Rogue Encampment...So, the answer to this question is – I don't know!"

Fei was shocked, "You...you don't know? Does this count as an answer?"

"Yes, because I have told you all I know!"

There was fire burning in Fei's eyes, smoke coming out his mouth and steam coming out his nose. "WTF! This priestess isn't joking with me, is she?"

Fei was furious, but there was nothing he could do. He had to tolerate.


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