The other party couldn’t see clearly, but Weilin could discern at a glance that the person standing at the door was Sunai.
“Little Shi, no need to follow me anymore. Go wander around on your own,” Weilin said to the empty void.
“Okay.”
The faint word drifted down as a subtle phantom flickered past her side and vanished.
Only then did Weilin compose herself slightly, curving her lips into a smile as she walked toward Sunai.
Her slender figure passed through clusters of dim ice flowers, until the moonlight draped over the girl’s delicate, lovely face like an ephemeral epiphyllum dream. Sunai, leaning against the door pillar, felt her heart struck by Cupid’s arrow at this scene, her gaze frozen for a long moment… Snapping back to reality, she ignored her bare, delicate feet and ran toward Weilin.
“Weilin… you’re finally back…”
Sunai reached up to adjust her glasses, concealing her flustered heart… it was all because Weilin, emerging from the moonlight just now, was simply too beautiful. Besides… she was also her great lifesaver.
“I’m back… That aside, why is Nainai still coming to the garden so late?”
“That’s not the point…” Sunai’s tone was rather urgent. “The point is! There’s a… a really, really beautiful girl who came to Flowing Firefly Palace twice looking for you, Weilin… Mm, and just now another ranger came to find you, and then I found out that the breathtakingly beautiful girl from before… was actually the Illusory Snow Queen…”
Weilin’s expression flickered with shock. “…Huan Xuezhi… came looking for me just now?!”
“Yeah, the second time she came was half an hour ago…” Sunai said worriedly. “Should Weilin hurry over to see Her Majesty the Illusory Snow Queen right now?”
“Of course!”
Before her words even fully fell, Weilin had vanished instantly from Sunai’s sight. Decisive. Resolute. Like forcing someone to choose between a 1060 Ti and a 2080 Ti, favoring the latter without a second thought. The wind left Sunai alone, utterly bewildered…
“…”
After a long while, the young girl sighed and shook her head gently.
Because in her view, the Illusory Snow Queen and Weilin were a perfect match. Besides… what need does a Programmer-hime have for a boyfriend (or girlfriend)?
“Eh… what is this…?”
Her gaze inadvertently fixed on the almost transparent puddle of liquid on the ground. It seemed… to be right where Weilin had been standing just now?
Curious, Sunai approached, crouched down, and dipped a finger into the liquid. It was sticky. Then she sniffed it… Eek! Th-this… th-this, this, this, this, this!!!
This is the smell of girl nectar?!?!
Sunai’s pretty face instantly ripened to a deep red. No matter how she thought about it, she couldn’t fathom what kind of divine maneuver led Weilin to produce girl nectar upon hearing Huan Xuezhi’s name… But very soon, she discovered this was no ordinary girl nectar, because Sunai suddenly found herself becoming exceptionally sensitive to the passage of time…
Her brain could process two or three times more thoughts simultaneously than before… It wasn’t that Sunai had suddenly become smarter, but rather that time had slowed down for her…
This is a… viscous fluid with Time Magic properties…?
?
Behind Cold Dove Hall lay Cold Dove Palace, the sleeping quarters of the Illusory Snow Queen.
Not daring to directly teleport into the inner chamber, Weilin first used Spatial Warp to reach outside Cold Dove Palace, but unexpectedly ran into the Ranger Airi, who was just about to return.
Seeing Weilin abruptly, Airi froze in place.
After confirming repeatedly that she wasn’t hallucinating:
“Weilin, you’re finally ba—” Airi started, then felt it was inappropriate. Her expression suddenly twisted with resentment as she raged, “Weilin, you still dare to come back! You really made us search high and low! I thought you took on such a huge responsibility, realized it was impossible to complete, and just ran off on your own!”
“Mm, running off is out of the question… Breaking the appointment was my fault, but I want to explain to Her Majesty in person.” Weilin looked at the ranger and said, “Let me through.”
“No! You are the first person in history to make Her Majesty personally visit twice! Feel honored! Then feel repentant! Once you’ve finished repenting, then come see Her Majesty!!” The ranger said hatefully. It seemed Airi had long since elevated Huan Xuezhi’s importance in her heart far above Weilin’s now.
“Tell me, how much money do you want?”
“Hey, is this really about money right now?!”
“Ranger, you’ve changed,” the girl said with a languid gaze.
The ranger bit her lip hard, glaring resentfully at the girl, then unwillingly sidestepped. “…Go on through.”
Weilin nodded and walked past Airi’s shoulder. At the moment their figures crossed, Airi’s gloomy, sorrowful sigh came from right beside her ear: “Hey… is there still time, Weilin? It’s said the Luotendo army will arrive the day after tomorrow.”
“The day after tomorrow…” The corner of Weilin’s lips curled up, then their figures fully separated. “More than enough.”
“…Her Majesty must have come looking for you twice precisely because the great battle is imminent! Don’t you go getting smug over this, you bastard!!” Airi couldn’t help but turn her head and shout indignantly.
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Listening to that declaration worthy of a loser dog, Weilin curled her lip. Her gaze remained unruffled as she walked straight to the door of the queen’s chamber and knocked.
“…Come in.”
A somewhat cold, clear voice came from within.
Unexpectedly smooth. And what’s more… this was her private sleeping quarters. To just… let her in like this?
Without any coyness, the girl pushed the door open and entered.
Just as she imagined, the Illusory Snow Queen’s bedchamber was spacious… and simple to an extreme. The ice-colored room gave one a sense of inexplicable loneliness and soul-chilling cold.
This “simplicity” was relative to Huan Xuezhi’s identity as a “maiden.”
At this moment, she sat quietly before a huge vanity inlaid with an ice mirror. Three thousand strands of silken hair cascaded down like an icy waterfall. That fragrant jade vanity, larger than a bookshelf, held nothing but a small comb. Weilin wasn’t surprised by this, for Huan Xuezhi was forever without makeup, yet her beauty outshone ice and snow.
The mirror reflected her flawlessly perfect yet coldly indifferent face. Her clear, jade-like eyes, like a pool of icy spring water, calmly gazed at her own reflection in the mirror, not deliberately following the image of Weilin reflected within.
But Weilin’s gaze never once left her celestial reflection in the mirror as she slowly approached.
“…Your Majesty, I’m sorry. I broke my promise… Mm, due to some force majeure.”
Stopping about five or six steps away from her, Weilin said apologetically.
The queen seemed to have no anger or reproach, only a slight shift in her gaze. “…What matters is that you’re back.”
Then, closing her eyes, the Illusory Snow Queen asked softly, “With the great battle imminent, how are your preparations?”
“…Uh, I’ll start preparing now. Should be in time,” Weilin replied honestly.
Start preparing now… then what was she doing all day today? Huan Xuezhi was puzzled, but could only nod and say: “…Very well.”
“Then…”
With no further topics, Weilin was just about to take her leave when she unexpectedly received a Mind Transmission from the Time Devourer.
“Master, you must obtain a strand of the Illusory Snow Queen’s hair.”
Why are you still here???
“Master’s hair contains powerful mana of the Chaos attribute. It is a rare alchemical ingredient, potent but extremely unstable… I have fortunately discovered that Huan Xuezhi’s hair, possessing the attribute of extreme cold, might even be able to neutralize Master’s Chaos attribute…”
“…………Hair…………”
Who has a death wish big enough to dare pull out the Illusory Snow Queen’s hair?
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Character Profile: Lega Weilin (Full Profile)
Lega Weilin:
Her unique life experiences have shaped her distinctive values. Highly wise and insightful.
Occasionally a bit mischievously dark and sharp-tongued, but at heart gentle, kind, considerate, and a little playful. Yet she shows no mercy to her enemies.
After inheriting the Eternal Mineshaft’s mineral wealth, she became the wealthiest girl on the continent in one leap. Her assets are simply incalculable, so initially, her actions inevitably fell into the vulgarity of a nouveau riche. Perhaps once she settles into a family in the future, she might exercise some restraint.
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I, Lega Weilin, have a dream: to yearn for an ordinary friendship.
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Lega Weilin
Race: Human / (Divinity – Evil A-)
Mage Lv: 100 (Human limit is Lv. 80)
Strength: 20
Agility: 20
Constitution: 60
Mana: 99999
Spirit: 99999
(Divinity – Evil A-): ⑴ Your attacks deal an additional 9% damage to non-divine beings; ⑵ Your intimidation and threats are more likely to make others submit; ⑶ Increases attack power against females; ⑷ You may incur hostility from ‘Good’ aligned Gods and Believers.
[Title: Master of the Eternal Mine]
[Title Talent: Home Has a Mine (10000/99999)]
—”Title Description: As the sole master of the Eternal Mineshaft, you possess absolute dominion over all mineral deposits in the world.
You can designate up to 99999 (related to Mental Strength) mineral deposits (mines, veins, shafts, caves) under your name as ‘Domains’. Moreover:
① These deposits can be detected and mined by you at will.
② These deposits can be used as teleportation points with no usage limit. However, each teleport consumes an equivalent amount of mana from the magic ore reserves within the deposit.
③ Each mineral deposit in your ‘Domain’ grants you an additional 1% bonus to mana intensity.”
[Sub-Professions: Maxed, Divine Craftsman (10th-Tier)]
[Life Skills: Maxed, Magic Substitute (10th-Tier)]
[Retainers: Huan Moxi, Elizabeth (and 24 other Crystal Companion White Mice)]
[Mage Skills:
‘Spatial Warp’ (7th-Tier): You can perform lagless spatial warping within a maximum range of 999.99 meters. Mana consumption is enormous (for an ordinary mage).
‘Rock Flow Wall’ (3rd-Tier)
‘Illumination Spell’, ‘Gentle Breeze Spell’, ‘Electric Discharge’, ‘Frost Trap’ (1st-Tier)]
[Crow God Bloodline Skills:
‘Kaka!’ (?-Tier):
Shout “Kaka!” to activate this skill. Converts your Mana to Strength at a 1:1 ratio, and Spirit to Agility at a 1:1 ratio. The conversion values can be freely adjusted.] (With Weilin’s current Constitution, she is far from being able to fully unleash this power.)
[(Revealed) Divine Artifacts: Eternal Divine Crystal, Absolute Deflection Prism, Solar Flare]
