Chapter 92: Chapter 92: Kindhearted Alice
Shen Sui had a good sleep.
When he checked his phone, the headlines in the news were all about the disturbance last night.
The media began to criticize Life Card Duels, calling this kind of event a poison to teenagers, blaming the game for the modern youth’s decadence and lack of ambition.
Shen Sui skimmed through it and found that the rhetoric was similar to what those so-called media figures in his previous life said about games, and he quickly lost interest.
He wasn’t even interested in arguing with them.
He checked on Alice.
She and Hali were happily "blasting fish" in the Deceitful Monster Cave.
As the most famous newbie leveling spot in Dawn Link, even Shen Sui had relied on the Deceitful Monster Cave to get through the first 60 levels.
Alice had just reached the fifth tier, and the cave’s difficulty was just right for her.
Anna always stood outside the cave, ready to provide the necessary supplies to the hard-working girls. Although due to the Sinful Chalice, Anna couldn’t freely use extraordinary power, she still learned some Dark Magic under Andori’s guidance, granting her some self-defense capability if needed.
However, Andori, as the Wood Element Empress, didn’t master much Dark Magic.
When playing games, Shen Sui’s most frequently used Dark Magic was turning off the lights.
But such tasks were usually left to the Dark Element Empress; Andori wasn’t quite good at it yet.
Alice’s magic skills were visibly proficient.
Her talent in Fire Magic was even beyond Andori’s imagination.
As the Wood Element Empress, Andori naturally feared Flame Magic, but it was precisely due to this fear that she constantly studied Fire Magic to counter its high damage, turning her fear into mastery of Fire Magic.
Perhaps she couldn’t understand the Fire Element as well as the Fire Element Empress, but Shen Sui thought she was more than capable of teaching Alice.
Unexpectedly, in just half a month, Alice had exhausted all of Andori’s understanding of Fire Magic.
Although Alice might not be able to use higher-level magic due to her current rank, her understanding of flame had already surpassed Andori’s.
Just, damn, you have quite the understanding...
[Alice found your storage box.]
[She encountered a mercenary group’s attack.]
[The Enzos Mercenary Corps seemed to be after the storage box too.]
[Alice, Hali, and the Enzos Mercenary Corps erupted in battle.]
[This was a strong mercenary group, with members who were once famous top-tier fighters, though their reputation wasn’t good. They were occasionally a mercenary group but often bandits. They backstabbed employers, robbed civilians, ravaged maidens, and committed all kinds of evil; they used to be followers of the God of Sin.]
[The head of the mercenary group, Enzos, was attracted to Alice and Hali’s beauty. They toyed with Alice, intending to capture Alice and Hali, planning to ravage such pure maidens in the filthiest of places.]
[Alice and Hali were not their match.]
[The mercenaries pursued Alice, not rushing to act; they were enjoying the thrill of cat and mouse.]
[Alice led them into a closed cave.]
[The mercenaries followed in without a second thought.]
[Because Alice seemed weak enough, because Alice was beautiful enough.]
[Alice used Fire Magic recklessly in the cave, yet her magic seemed too clumsy in most mercenaries’ eyes.]
[The Enzos Mercenary Corps’ average strength was at the seventh tier.]
[However, just as Enzos intended to deal with Alice in this place, he suddenly felt dizzy.]
[His subordinates fell one by one, and he noticed something was wrong with his body too.]
[What’s happening? This was his last thought before he fainted, his hazy gaze landing on the distant girl who seemed so untouchable.]
[We clearly dodged her magic....]
A bunch of idiots....
Shen Sui, seeing this, made a quip.
Alice intentionally lured them into this cave.
Her goal was never to burn her opponents with flames.
Though she didn’t fully understand the principle, her experience of helping to burn firewood in the village told her that if you burned firewood for too long in an enclosed space, you’d suffocate.
Really, as a Fire Mage, not using flame magic to directly defeat enemies but instead depleting oxygen to suffocate them shows quite the understanding.
Shen Sui thought to himself.
But why was it that only Alice was unharmed...
Moreover, these people seemed weakened, eight or ninth-tier experts fainting from suffocation is kind of amusing...
[Alice, still in shock, touched the Qishala on her neck. If it wasn’t for Qishala, she wouldn’t have dared such a gamble.]
Alright, having Qishala makes it reasonable, its passive ability weakens those around it.
[The young, beautiful Miss White Dragon yawned.]
["Praise Qishala!" Alice shouted happily, "You are Claude’s only one!"]
[Miss White Dragon’s soul hadn’t fully returned yet, but her body instinctively loved Alice’s words, letting out a joyful cry.]
Damn! Alice! Do you even know what you’re saying?!
["They seem to be wanted criminals in the Roland Empire." Hali remarked, looking at the fallen mercenaries on the ground, "If we hand them over to the local sheriff, we might be able to get a hefty bounty."]
["They won’t be unconscious for long." Alice calmly said, "We don’t have the means to control so many people."]
["Plus, if we let them fall into the hands of the empire, they will surely endure a lot of torture." Alice felt it was too cruel, she had once seen at the village entrance how the Roland Empire’s sheriffs punished criminals, it was among the most painful, vicious methods in the world.]
[Alice had a kind heart, unable to bear seeing others suffer.]
["So, what should we do?"]
["Feed them all to the Sinful Chalice," Alice blinked.]
Initially thinking Alice had a Holy Mother syndrome, planning to log in and give her some life advice, Shen Sui exclaimed at this line.
This damn thing is even crueler than handing them over to the sheriff.
Giving them to the sheriff is at least physical torture.
Feeding them to the Sinful Chalice is a torment of the soul; all souls will endure hellish torture within it.
Shen Sui vividly remembered, in the game, if you were unfortunately swallowed by the Sinful Chalice, you would have to go through a dungeon-like the eighteen layers of hell to have a chance of escaping.
The Sinful Chalice would slowly chew and swallow their souls, ultimately turning them into a force of sin.
[Alice called Anna over.]
[Anna summoned the Sinful Chalice.]
[The Sinful Chalice devoured all the members of the Enzos Mercenary Corps.]
[It had a full meal, feeling refreshed, deciding to take some time to digest, temporarily refraining from consuming Anna.]
[Anna gained the temporary right to use the power of the Chalice without cost.]
Goodness.
Can the Sinful Chalice be bribed?
Even Shen Sui didn’t know this, after all, in the game, he wouldn’t just feed the Sinful Chalice stuff for no reason.
[Why were they confident about opening Claude’s treasure box?]
[Alice curiously checked the relics of the Enzos Mercenary Corps.]
[Alice acquired Vivian’s Hairpin.]
[Ding! You have obtained the Equipment Card: Vivian’s Hairpin]