Chapter 48 - The Female Lead of the Arcane Dominion world

Chapter 48: 48 - The Female Lead of the Arcane Dominion world

This was the system’s disclaimer. It did not want King to suddenly have some urgent business later and blame it for not being able to stuff a phoenix into the system space.

"Hmph, are you talking without thinking? Who am I? I am a reader! An existence higher than even this ’fictional’ world. A phoenix is meant to be ridden, meant to be shown off so everyone can see just how high-class I am. Do I look like I need to pull some sneaky tricks like hiding it away?"

King curled his lips in disdain at the system’s ’lowly’ way of thinking. The reason he needed to use the system space now was that he could not touch it, not because he had any intention of hiding this egg.

He might not have the strength, but he could not lose his arrogance. If others found out that he was a reader, yet all he could do when looking at these ’fictional’ characters was run away and hide his belongings, it would be too embarrassing.

[My job is to inform you. As for what you want to do, I have no right to interfere.]

The system would go along with whatever its master wanted. As soon as it finished speaking, the system stored the phoenix egg in the system storage.

The moment the egg disappeared, a space vortex appeared in front of King, looking exactly like the one at the dungeon entrance.

"Stepping into this takes us back to the starting point?"

The entrance gate had already been buried by rocks and soil. This was the only gate left now, so King was quite sure that both gates led to the same place.

[That’s right.]

As soon as the system finished speaking, King took Elias and stepped through the gate together. The space suddenly changed, and he once again appeared in the small cave on the cliff.

The moment the wand left the dungeon, the gate immediately disappeared. From now on, no one would be able to enter this place anymore.

"Hey, how exactly does this gate’s mechanism work?"

King looked at Elias, his brows slightly furrowed. It seemed like he had accidentally done the right thing just now. Otherwise, he would have run into trouble.

[Once the wand leaves the dungeon, the dungeon will disappear. So normally, the person recognized by the wand is the one who leaves last if they are traveling in a team. Of course, there are still cases where someone plays dirty and leaves first, leaving their teammates trapped inside forever.]

"Do you call that a teammate? They’re clearly just a group cooperating for their own benefit. Real teammates would never stab each other in the back. You need to reconsider your choice of words in that sentence."

[...]

Every time it talked with King for a while, the system would somehow get blamed for something that was not even important.

In this situation, the system really could not argue back. It was only casually giving an example. Did it really need to pay that much attention to the wording?

"Forget about the wording for now. If I had thrown Elias out earlier, I would have been trapped inside, right?"

[Yes, master. But you don’t need to worry about being trapped forever. With the system here, that can never happen. Not to mention, this world’s Heavenly Dao wouldn’t just stand by and watch its honored guest get stuck like that.]

Hearing about his status as an ’honored guest’ once again, King proudly nodded. But this was reasonable too. If even an honored guest of the Heavenly Dao could not feel proud, then who could?

"How do I go back now?"

He only asked this for the sake of asking, because King knew the system would take him away in the blink of an eye, just like when he came to this world.

There was not a trace of dark qi inside his body now, so there was definitely no chance of getting stuck halfway anymore.

[You can go back whenever you want. Go back when you’ve had enough fun. Just treat it like traveling to another world.]

This freedom with time made King nod in satisfaction. But right after nodding, he suddenly thought of a few games he had played for quite a long time and said.

"That’s how it should be. How could I be restricted by time and keep doing missions like a coolie for these worlds?"

[Master! Anyone who dares to make you work like a coolie, I will be the first to object. Even if it’s the Heavenly Dao, the system will still fight it to the end.]

For some reason, King’s thoughts had somehow gone in the direction of becoming a ’coolie’, but the system would not miss such a good opportunity to show its loyalty.

"Your attitude is pretty good too. Of course I won’t work like a coolie. No one can make me work like a coolie in these fictional worlds anyway."

While talking to the system, King had already climbed up the cliff. He did not intend to heal Elias or anything and only planned to put him here and leave. But before he could even put Elias down, someone had already arrived.

The person who came here was a young woman with long white hair combined with ice-blue eyes, making her look even colder.

She wore an outfit quite similar to Pip and Bob’s but designed for a woman. Moreover, her outfit was clearly much more expensive. Blue and white dominated the colors, as if it had been specially designed for her.

The wand she used also looked far from ordinary. It was even better than the wand Rudy used.

King needed no more than a second to determine her identity. With such top-tier beauty and such a standout outfit, who else could she be besides the female lead?

"Hey, how did the female lead get here? Why did she show up at exactly this time? This script feels a little too forced."

Just now, after the battle with the boss, the thirteen mages of the Grey clan had coincidentally appeared. And now Seraphine had also coincidentally appeared. King felt that his experience in this world was not quite real. Everything was far too forced according to the script.

[Master, this time it isn’t a coincidence. Seraphine has always been keeping an eye on Elias. Not long after Elias was tricked by Pip and Bob into coming here, she had already chased after him. She has been wandering around looking for Elias for a while now.]

"Damn it! Could the female lead be a pervert who likes keeping an eye on trash?"

After hearing what the system said, the corner of King’s mouth twitched. A weird protagonist combined with a weird female lead... It was pretty reasonable.

"You bastard! What did you do to Elias?"

Seraphine pointed her wand at King. Her eyes were quickly shifting from hostility to wanting to kill King.