VAP - Chapter 59
Chapter 59: The Supreme Sage Hopelessly Obsessed with Beauty (18)
After the contract was completed, Nai Yin never wore high-collared clothes again.
Once engraved, the contract mark could never be erased. This small, blood-red crescent moon would forever remain below her collarbone.
Lord Nai Yin was delighted. Deep V-necks, wide straps, thin straps, one-shoulder dresses, off-the-shoulder tops… as long as it could reveal the spot with the contract mark, she would wear it happily.
The subordinates of Galor Castle: “…”
They were tearing their hair out.
The ordinary servants were fine; they would only scream internally at their lady’s even more beautiful and bewitching appearance. They couldn’t feel the fluctuations of magical power, so they didn’t know the meaning of that small crescent moon.
But the subordinates who were practitioners could tell!
Lord Nai Yin had no intention of hiding it at all. The fluctuations of summoning power on the mark blatantly told them—your top boss has been contracted by your top boss’s lover, and with a summoner’s contract at that.
Under normal circumstances, being willing to be contracted by a summoner who was also an intelligent being implied loyalty and obedience. But when it came to the First Dharma Saint, they really had no idea what kind of game this was.
It was probably some kind of romantic play with her ladyship.
So the question was, should they pretend not to have seen it, or should they pretend not to have seen it?
In their master’s presence, everyone feigned ignorance, keeping their eyes down and their thoughts to themselves.
In private, however, they began to discuss when the castle would host a wedding banquet.
In the end, they unanimously decided it wouldn’t be long.
Several of the more silver-tongued ones even prepared their congratulatory speeches in advance, just waiting for the Dharma Saint’s grand wedding.
The chief attendant, Tina, fell into deep thought: “…”
As a qualified chief attendant, of course she had to make preparations before her lady gave the order!
So, should she go and learn about wedding procedures?
Yue Du, however, didn’t notice the undercurrents stirring in the castle. She only saw Miss Bifula’s reaction.
When this powerful summoner saw Nai Yin, she dramatically covered her eyes, pretending she had gone blind.
“I have to hand it to you, you’re a ruthless one,” Bifula said, covering her eyes. “To actually put a contract on the lady herself. Ah! In any case, I wish you happiness. Just let me officiate the wedding!”
Yue Du: “…”
Well, thank you so very much.
And to repeat, we are not together. At least, not yet.
But this was obviously not the time to get hung up on the castle’s internal gossip.
An important node in the plot was about to arrive—
In one more Holy Day, Abio was supposed to meet the female lead, Lorins.
After the male and female leads’ first meeting, they would experience a troublesome danger together and ultimately discover a major boon in the perilous situation, successfully advancing in level.
After this battle, they would become friends—the kind who have gone through life and death together.
The mission requirement was simple: as long as Abio was prevented from getting the boon, this node would be considered averted.
Yue Du discussed it with her host, and they decided to go check on the female lead, Lorins, first.
The mission required them to prevent Abio and Lorins from falling in love, so they had to pay more attention to the female lead.
As early as when they suspected the male lead had been reborn, they had started keeping an eye on Lorins. If there was something wrong with the male lead, who knew if there was something wrong with the female lead too?
What’s more, if Abio really had been reborn, he should know that Lorins was his future lover. Would he seek her out in advance?
They had to be on guard against all of this.
However, after two years, Abio was still just diligently grinding levels, while Lorins, just as described in the original plot, was thriving in her mercenary group. Nothing seemed out of place.
However, this was all information sent back by the black-feathered crows.
As for what kind of person Lorins really was, they would only know for sure after seeing her in person.
At the Red Moon Mercenary Group’s base.
“Lorins, the weather’s nice today. Taking a mission? Let’s go together!”
“I’ll pass. I’ve been busy learning a new move these past few days.”
“Oh… remember to call me when you’re done.”
“Definitely!”
Having failed to get the vice-captain to go on a mission with her, the tall woman sighed and left the base with her squad.
They were going to the nearest mercenary tavern to pick up a suitable mission. After completing it, they could relax for a good few days.
Lorins watched their backs recede into the distance and shrugged.
Yue Du and Nai Yin arrived on the scene at this moment. Relying on an invisibility scroll, they observed from the side.
The first moment she saw the girl, Yue Du was certain. She had to be Lorins, the Wind Rose of the Ayers Continent.
Just as written in the script, the human incarnation of the Bird Queen was graceful and radiant, with hair as brilliant gold as the sun and eyes as azure as a clear sky.
She was the monarch of wind and sky. Among the many powerful species on the continent, not even dragons could steal her brilliance amidst the clouds.
Even now, with all her memories lost, this radiance still existed, sharply setting her apart from ordinary people.
“She should be the Lorins from the plot,” Yue Du said to Nai Yin with her consciousness. “If she had her memories as a magical beast, her eyes would absolutely not look like that.”
As Yue Du “spoke” this, Lorins suddenly glanced in their direction. It didn’t seem like a look of discovery, more like a casual glance.
“She noticed,” Nai Yin clicked her tongue.
Yue Du: “Hm?”
“Her intuition is surprisingly sharp, probably because her original form is a bird. She’s discovered my elemental puppets several times, and once she almost caught one.”
Yue Du: “…”
As expected of the Bird Queen, I suppose.
Lorins had only sensed that she was being watched. But since she couldn’t find the source of the feeling, she didn’t bother with it, just shook her head nonchalantly and turned to go back to her room.
She was probably going to practice that new move she mentioned?
Everything was normal on the female lead’s side, so the two of them went to the Imperial Royal Academy to check on the male lead.
Abio’s unusual nature was much more obvious. One look at his eyes and you could tell they didn’t belong to a young man. The unique vigor and drive of youth were gone, replaced by the composure of an elder and the arrogance of someone who has held a high position.
Abio was meditating. Enhancing one’s affinity with the elements through meditation is one of the main ways mages cultivate their power.
A moment later, he opened his eyes, slowly exhaled, and began to speak with the old grandpa in the necklace.
If it were anyone else, they naturally wouldn’t be able to hear the content of their consciousness-based communication. But on this side, one was the strongest Dharma Saint, and the other was a System with a cheat-like analysis skill. Eavesdropping became very simple.
The protagonist duo first chatted about problems in meditation. The specific content was as follows:
The old grandpa asked, “Have you felt the space element being unfriendly to you?”
Abio answered, “Nope.”
The old grandpa asked again, “When you meditate for a certain period of time, do you feel a pain in your heart?”
Abio answered again, “Nah.”
The old grandpa finally asked, “Don’t you have even a single question about your cultivation?!”
Abio said very sincerely, “I can’t help it, I really don’t. It’s probably because my comprehension is too good, Teacher.”
Yue Du: “…”
Praising himself without the slightest shame. As expected of a protagonist!
After this exchange, the old grandpa discovered with complicated feelings that his disciple hadn’t encountered any of the bottlenecks a normal person would face in their cultivation.
It was one thing when he was a low- to mid-level mage, but to still not have any after advancing to a high-level mage—what kind of astonishing talent was this?
“Choosing you was truly the most correct decision I’ve ever made,” lamented the necklace grandpa, who had no chance to show off. “Abio, your talent and comprehension are the best I’ve ever seen. If it’s you, you can definitely become a Magic God and help me reconstruct my body!”
Abio, who hadn’t become a Magic God even at the very end of his previous life, now felt a pang of guilt. “Mm… oh.”
It was strange. He had clearly returned to his youth, yet many things were different from his memories.
Some of the treasures that should have been waiting in some secret corner for him to discover had been taken by someone else in advance, their whereabouts unknown.
Another portion was still in its original place. Although these treasures were rare, they weren’t the most precious kind. One could only say it was better than nothing.
Fortunately, he had experience, so the speed of his advancement hadn’t slowed down.
Abio closed his eyes, looking as if he had sunk back into meditation, but in his mind, he was pondering how to walk the path ahead.
Yue Du and Nai Yin sat side-by-side outside the window, eating melon.
Literally eating melon—seasonal Imperial white-hearted melon, containing a large amount of non-elemental magic power. It had been cut into convenient small pieces by a maid, placed in their spatial storage, and was very fresh. Perfect for eating while watching a show.
The two of them weren’t the least bit afraid of being discovered by the protagonist.
Abio’s intuition and detection abilities were inferior to Lorins’s. He hadn’t even noticed the black-feathered crows that had been following him for two years, let alone a Dharma Saint who had concealed her aura and form.
“Do you think the person he knew before he was reborn was you, or the Nai Yin Galor from the original world-line?” Yue Du asked.
Nai Yin answered without thinking, “It was definitely me. If it were the Galor from your script, he wouldn’t be this calm.”
That was true. That Galor was the type to cause trouble without any warning. It was impossible for the protagonist not to be on guard against her, and as long as he was on guard and investigated secretly, the black-feathered crows would have definitely noticed.
However, Abio had never expected that Nai Yin would be the one targeting him. Even the incident last time where the First Dharma Saint helped Leo so publicly didn’t arouse his suspicion; he just thought it was an accident.
This proved that the Nai Yin in Abio’s perception had little interaction with him.
The Galor in his memory was probably a great demon lord who stayed cooped up in the Dharma Saint’s castle year-round, not caring about the world-shaking events outside, right?
Yue Du told her host her thoughts.
“If you hadn’t come, I might really have been like that,” Nai Yin said, blinking.
“Oh, come on. You rarely leave the castle even now,” Yue Du pointed out sharply.
Nai Yin: “Mmm…”
She couldn’t refute it.
They watched for a while longer. After eating all the Imperial white-hearted melon in their spatial storage, Abio was still in a meditative state, unmoving.
It seemed there was nothing abnormal on either the male or female lead’s side.
Nai Yin led the System out of the academy, looked at the sky, and decided to go shopping together to wash away the infamous reputation of the shut-in Dharma Saint.
“I hear young ladies like to go shopping,” Nai Yin said.
“You’re not interested?”
“Me? I don’t need to. The maids in charge of procurement will bring the best things to me.”
Fair enough.
Actually, Yue Du wasn’t very interested in shopping either. She was a creature of habit. In her own world, her clothes and daily necessities were almost all from fixed brands, which saved her the trouble of shopping.
However, shopping in another world was still something to look forward to. After all, who isn’t curious?
Right outside the academy gate was a commercial street dedicated to shopping for mages, warriors, and summoners. There were basically no items for ordinary people.
Besides storefronts, there were also small stalls, among which were many natural objects whose properties even the stall owners didn’t know—this was clearly a frequent location for protagonists to find hidden treasures.
Yue Du picked through them one by one.
Perhaps she didn’t have a protagonist’s good luck, but what was a System good at? Analysis, of course. She was more than proficient at the task of seeing the essence through the surface.
Just as she was happily digging for gold, she sensed something was wrong. She looked up and was drowned in the scorching gazes of the crowd.
Yue Du frowned, and as if suddenly remembering something, turned her head to look at Nai Yin.
Lord Nai Yin looked back with that unbelievably beautiful face, her expression innocent.
…Oh no.
I forgot Nai Yin is a phenomenal beauty.
And right now, this beauty hadn’t covered her face. She was wearing a one-shoulder long dress that revealed half her collarbone, standing there gracefully on the street like a goddess of beauty and radiance descended to the mortal world.
Yue Du: “…”
The next moment, she put down the little trinket in her hand, grabbed her host’s wrist, and said in a low voice:
“Retreat!”
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