Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 190 Mission: 04-1 Ouroboros

After obtaining the props for the lottery, Nero continued to move deeper into the lake area.

The closer you get to the Tolitunis Falls, the less land there is and the more water there is. Nero fiddled with the cardboard in his hand with some concern, wondering how he could quickly gather enough flowers to fill it.

The reward for the Gift Game, and also the lucky draw item that served as the container for the narcissus ovaries, was a rectangular card covered in light-colored dots. The dots were regularly spaced, eight vertically and twenty-five horizontally, for a total of two hundred. Clearly, each dot corresponded to a narcissus ovary. Once the card was fully filled, it could be used for the lucky draw.

As the ultimate winner of the long game, Nero received two identical cards. After all, the more difficult the game, the greater the rewards. This was normal. Flying through the air, Nero suddenly heard a commotion below. He looked down and discovered a bustling market in a large open space near the lake.

Curious about the existence of a marketplace within the game area, Nero glided to the ground, folded his wings, and stepped inside. He discovered that this was also the location for a Gift Game. However, this battle was even more brutal than the one Nero had just participated in, the "Hunter in the Forest," and there was no gun smoke.

This was a place of fierce competition among commercial communities, with gold coins bearing the Thousand Eyes emblem as the stakes. The gold coins traded seemed to be converted into points, displayed in real time on the shop signs. Nero immediately recognized the banners of the "Rod of Commerce" and "Perseus." The latter was completely deserted, a truly tragic sight.

Nero later heard about Perseus's abandonment of the Thousand Eyes' alliance flag. The current situation was likely a chain reaction to the collapse of credibility following his expulsion from the alliance.

The [Six Injuries] of [Dragon Horned Eagle Lion] were there too. While they were selling some specialties from the South District, they were also spending a lot of money to purchase a large number of narcissus eggs from a large number of small communities, and they didn't even care whether their lottery props would require so many flowers.

The number on [Six Injuries] remained high, even surpassing [Shang Shen Wand]. However, there was probably another important reason for this.

That is, the Six Wounds sent out almost exclusively young and energetic beastmen, and they were even wearing bikinis. This practice created a branding effect more powerful than a banner, attracting a constant stream of people to contribute to their sales.

The beauty trap is so terrifying.

Nero took a quick look. Although the average person who collected narcissus eggs and sold them to the [Six Wounds] store was about ten flowers each - after all, the flowers of this kind of flower are quite large and not convenient to carry around - but with the terrifying flow of people, [Six Wounds] basically received hundreds of narcissus eggs every minute.

Thus, Nero had the answer to her previous question. As long as she had the money, gathering enough flowers would be a matter of minutes. Unfortunately, this answer was of little use to her.

Nero had no business intervening in the competition between business communities, so she quickly planned to leave. However, at this moment, someone called out to her from behind.

"Hello, Miss Nero of Hamel."

Nero turned around in surprise and saw a boy with white hair, white clothes, golden pupils, and who looked to be only a little over ten years old, walking out of a shop.

The boy's tone was somewhat frivolous, as if they were old friends who had known each other for a long time. However, Nero was very sure that he did not know such a young man, and he could not help but ask in confusion, "Excuse me, who are you?"

As he spoke, a black-haired girl trotted out of the shop, shouting, "Your Highness! Aren't we discussing the game? If this continues, we're going to lose money!"

The girl in a black dress and swimsuit looked about the same age as the boy. Nero looked up at the shop sign. Behind the Ouroboros banner was a single, eye-catching, blood-red number.

"0"

The boy addressed as "Your Highness" calmly replied, "I know, Lin. I'm trying to figure it out right now."

Then he pointed at Nero in front of him and signaled to Lin.

"Ah!" Lin obviously recognized Nero and immediately came forward with a smile: "Isn't this our demon princess? Hello~"

Seeing that Nero was still confused, Lin rolled her eyes and began to introduce herself.

"But since this is our first meeting, you might be a little confused about what's going on, right?"

The girl introduced herself, "My name is Lin, and this is 'Your Highness'. We are both members of the Ouroboros Alliance."

His Highness nodded and said, "There will probably be many opportunities for us to work together in the future. Please take good care of me."

"[Ouroboros]?"

Logically, an alliance with such a famous totem as its banner should be well-known, but the fact that the shop was completely deserted and only had two people, a young man and a young woman, suggested otherwise. And what puzzled Nero even more was how these two people knew him.

"Is this a business alliance?" Nero asked tentatively.

Now it was His Highness and Lin who became confused. The white-haired boy frowned and said, "Wait... Could it be that Pest didn't tell you about us?"

In an instant, Nero suddenly realized.

"Are you the ones who summoned her?"

That was the only possibility. The young man and girl standing before Nero were members of the mysterious organization that had secretly negotiated with Salamander to summon Pest to attack the Fire Dragon's Birth Festival.

"Looks like he did say something." Lin breathed a sigh of relief, took a step forward, and reached out to grab Nero's wrist: "Okay, come in and talk."

"But……"

"Don't worry, it won't delay your mission." His Highness said, and also grabbed Nero's other wrist and took her into the shop.

On the way, Lin explained, "It's like this. His Highness said he was a little curious about what kind of people Little Pest summoned. He also happened to be interested in this large-scale game, so we sneaked out to participate~"

Nero nodded, knowing that Pest had summoned him with their help, but then realized something was wrong: "Wait, so you don't actually know me? Then why..."

"Ah—this one."

His Highness turned around and replied with a half-smile, "Perhaps you don't know it, but I'm afraid everyone participating in this gift game already knows your name."

"what?"

Nero made a puzzled sound.

(End of this chapter)