What did you do with the dice?

This move was based on two considerations. On the one hand, it was to weaken the military strength and express obedience; on the other hand, it was to allow his subordinates to have some political/military power. Even if they were unlucky and not assigned to a good position, at least if there was any news or decision-making from the nobles, they would be informed in advance by their own people, so that they would not have to wait until big things happened before realizing that something had happened.

Wars are not fought that frequently in the central government, so the military enlistment has always been a process, equivalent to military service.

But now is a time of war, and everyone knows that it is different from the past. The people sent this time may never come back. Male subjects who can serve as soldiers are important production assets for the nobles, so they want to find out the rules here in advance. Maybe it is different from the central government, so they can send fewer people, or use money and supplies to compensate?

There were also some trivial matters, such as Whitemai saying he wanted to build a house in Silver City and wanted Rusalka to provide him with a good location, saying that when he returned, the tailor could just stay in Silver City and save him from running back and forth; the latest batch of output from the processing plant was sent to the city, and the quartermaster wanted to ask what to do with the unqualified products; and there were some rumors about ruins in the territory recently. Many adventurers were discussing a small ruin that was recently discovered during the recent development outside the border. The guild wanted to ask Rusalka how to distribute the profits from this excavation.

For the first few things, Rusalka could only grunt and groan as if he were in an action movie, not saying a single word. Finally, he said he'd think about it later (after waiting for the Sani Tower). He had a lot of say in the last one. Although he only hummed in real life, he immediately expressed his great opinion in the PL channel: (What do you mean by how to distribute it? This is my Pearl Tear Territory. Every earthworm in the soil must be named Pearl Tear!)

The Sani Iron Tower next to him gave him a subtle look.

Over the past month, things have accumulated like a snowball. Although most of the government affairs are handled by the affairs officers from Esdi sent by the city and the internal affairs officers selected by themselves, there are still a large number of nobles who refuse to let these "servants" handle their requests. They cited the rules of the "Noble Law" and claimed that they have the right to choose to obey only the orders of Rusalka, the superior noble.

Rusalka really wanted to pick up the book "Law of Nobility", which was not thick but had a very hard cover material, and hit the heads of these people who wrote "aristocrats" but read "troublemakers".

Now there are only him and Sanitta in the office. The big cat and the little cat went to the bathroom to take a bath, the two elves went to the kitchen to order food, and everyone else went to work on things they hadn't dealt with for a month. There was no one else around except his good brother, so Rusalka could express his emotions in the most direct way - by speaking.

Rusalka knocked the small round hammer on the table. He'd bought it specifically to enhance his presence during a brief trial in Test Town. It felt incredibly comfortable to use and the sound was pleasant, so he brought it back with him. "A bunch of stinking barons are acting like this? It's outrageous! Barons are like this, weak and prone to jumping around. Viscounts might be a little better; at least they have cities as strength, so jumping around a bit is fine. But I think everyone below the rank of Marquis is just cancer. It's just the difference between early and late stages."

Sanitta didn't even bother to roll his eyes at him this time. "Although, you're a self-proclaimed marquis. According to the Nobility Law, you're actually still a Grand Knight. Even from a peerage point of view, you're not even a full baron."

Rusalka ignored her brother and sang to herself: "I am the one who was struck by the Marquis's tears. Do you think I should be self-aware? I am the one who was struck by the Marquis's tears. How much of a turnaround has my life had?"

Sanitieta laughed and scolded, "You're crazy! Get out of here and sit on the sofa. I want to read some documents."

Rusalka immediately stood up, made a "please" gesture to Sanita, then took a novel and ran to lie down on the recliner. She first patted the plush ball hanging on her head, and when she saw it swaying, her whole body felt comfortable, and then she started reading.

Rusalka told the housekeeper that they had just returned today, so they would take a day off and not receive any guests.

Sanita pays great attention to detail, especially the ambiguity in Rusalka's wording: (It means no guests.)

Anyway, Rusalka turned down the work just to fulfill his previous promise in the evening and took Hydra to play the kingdom sandbox after dinner.

But the latter didn't seem very interested in the game. Like Sanitta, she enjoyed reading ancient books in the library. She explained to Rusalka, "In Esdi, many ancient books that record the secrets of Esdi from ancient times are stored in the Wright Archives. However, that archive isn't accessible to everyone. I've never been inside either, as I can't reveal my identity."

Rusalka: “You like history too?”

Haidra replied noncommittally, "I am very concerned about Theresa's background."

Rusalka said to Sanita in the private chat channel: (Oh no, she wants to steal Theresa from me. I have aluminum copper, so now I have to be an orange cat. No, Phoenix can't live in the same room with her. Oh, there's no other way. I have to sacrifice myself and stay in the same room with Hydra tonight.)

Sanita: (The next day, you woke up with eighteen stab wounds in the back. Phoenix diagnosed it as suicide.)

Actually, all jokes aside, Rusalka originally thought that Hydra would ask to stay in the same room with Phoenix tonight to reminisce about the past. They haven't seen each other for two hundred years. A human life on Earth is only a hundred years, so they have the equivalent of two lifetimes combined to talk about. It wouldn't be surprising if they could chat for a month. How could he not agree?

He wished Phoenix could chat with Hydra for a month so that he could finish reading the interesting science fiction novel he had just discovered in this world at night.

Science fiction in this world is like fantasy on Earth. The most outrageous thing is that this science fiction actually has a technological system. Most of the scientific formulas, chemical formulas, etc. are glossed over, but the rectangular stone tablet in the book that "can be held in the hand, can activate voice transmission at any time, and act as a kingdom sandbox for people holding the stone tablet on it and elsewhere" is a "mobile phone" to Rusalka.

There are also airplanes that can fly without magical control. They use a material called "scientific particles". This "scientific particle" is equivalent to a universal substitute for all magical elements in the world. It can be understood as hematopoietic stem cells. As long as this particle is added to "different scientific instruments", all imaginable but unattainable magical effects can be achieved - for example, two different metals can be pinched together to have the advantages and characteristics of both metals, or a large number of war puppets can be created that can move independently without human use of spells and focused control.

Many of the settings even resonated with Rusalka inexplicably, so he particularly liked reading this kind of novel. Now he really became an alien in the book.

But he didn't expect Hydra to be more "generous" than him. She just picked a room and said she would stay here alone tonight. She wanted to study the demon blood and demon stones, and exercise her new power.

Rusalka's lower back was already entangled by a white tail, so she couldn't help but ask, "Don't you want to catch up?"

Hydra: "There's plenty of time during the day. It's still early before we go to Alice City. Is there anything you need our help with?"

Rusalka was speechless and was eventually taken to the bathhouse by Phoenix.

While he was soaking in the warm pool, the naked Phoenix sat by the pool and watched him, as if he was watching a big rooster that was plucking its own feathers, putting itself in the pot, and waiting to be cooked.

Rusalka must have felt uncomfortable being watched by her while taking a bath like this. This was just like going to the bathroom. She could barely stand in a double row, but she would definitely not be able to get out if someone was watching her from behind. "Aren't you going to get out?"

Phoenix shook her head: "I have washed it."

Rusalka: "Then why did you come in again? Why don't you just wait for me?"

Phoenix stood up and locked the door, then replied, "It's convenient."

As a result, Rusalka's wish to soak in the pool for a while longer was not realized. Phoenix, who thought he had washed well, ignored Rusalka's protests and directly pulled him out of the pool with the black mist tentacles and pressed him on the air cushion prepared on the side.

Rusalka had a sense of déjà vu. If she had the thought of resisting, a picture [Mary's Slap.jpg] would appear in front of her.

Now that things have come to this, we have no choice but to fight!

Two hours later, Rusalka, who had lost the desire to move, was wrapped in a bath towel and thrown into the black mist ball, and then dragged back to the room by Phoenix.

Rusalka: "Phoenix, I think it's time to go to bed. Cats that don't sleep this late are bad cats."

Phoenix: “Yeah.”

Phoenix's concise, powerful, unbiased, and unaffected answer was a path Rusalka had never imagined, and it directly killed him.

By the time he was counting the stains on the ceiling and figuring things out, he pulled the quilt that had been rolled away from him over Phoenix, who had fallen asleep out of exhaustion, and covered her with it. It was almost dawn when he chose to take a long rest.

He is very worried now. He has been fighting for several years in this damn dangerous world and cannot die. What if he returns to Earth within a few days and his "yang energy" is gone? Then he will have nowhere to cry.

Chapter 213 Rusalka's Sovereign

Rusalka was tormented by Phoenix for almost the entire night and didn't have time to take a long rest. When Phoenix finally extinguished the fluorescent stone next to her, she found that the surroundings didn't seem to get darker at all. Only then did she realize that it was hazy outside and it was already early morning.

Sanitta didn't need to restore resources, and since Rusalka was still active, a long rest alone would result in him being imprisoned in a black space for eight hours. Since there was no punishment for not sleeping, Sanitta simply didn't sleep and chose to read all night.

So she took a long rest in the early morning. Because a lot of water was lost in the Holy Healing Pool, Rusalka felt uncomfortable all over if she didn't take a long rest. Since Sanita had things to deal with during the day, she couldn't take a long rest for eight hours, so she had to go to the small dark room alone.

However, a system prompt popped up when he chose to take a long rest. Since the upgrade option does not take up real time, private chat channels cannot be used for communication, and the two of them are upgrading simultaneously, Sanitieta, who was reading a book outside, was also pulled in.

【Defeat the Demon Lord and upgrade to level 12.】

【Please select an upgrade profession. 】

I've leveled up again, and I get more rewards from killing high-level monsters.

Rusalka is now a combination of a 6th-level Paladin and a 5th-level Warlock. Although the 100-point template only requires character level rather than class level, the 6th-level Paladin is already the most cost-effective level allocation in the basic rulebook at this stage, and the benefits of going up further are not high.

The level 7 Vengeance Black Knight will have a skill called [Tenacious Vengeance]. From the perspective of the board game, when the opponent escapes from you during his turn, you can use [Reaction Action] to make an opportunity attack. If you hit, you can take a few steps. It is a very flexible countermeasure skill.

But firstly, Rusalka's character card doesn't have any reaction actions, and secondly, in reality, the opponent runs away after hitting him. Could Rusalka just watch him go? This would definitely be chasing him and biting him.

With several years of experience in time travel and upgrading, Rushaka predicted that this thing would be replaced with an [Upgrade Module], or there would be some new modification that would cheat him out of the 25 points.

He prefers the former. Although the upgrade module is indeed very powerful, what he bought are some solid values, just like compressed biscuits, which can fill your stomach with one bite.

But he is not hungry now. He has so many lives that he is not afraid even of a nuclear bomb. What he lacks is the means to kill the enemy before the Lord of Hell kills his teammates, or to impose great restrictions on the enemy like Hydra or his good brothers.

He himself couldn't help but sigh that his vision had really broadened. He still remembered that when he upgraded for the first time, he was thinking about how to fight against the chain of fireballs. When he upgraded for the second time, he was thinking about how to fight against a horse. He didn't know how, but it became about how to fight against the Lord of Hell.

There is not much benefit in upgrading the Paladin class, but it is quite different for the Warlock class. The Warlock class will definitely gain a [Leader Feature] at level 6.

Rusalka was actually very puzzled when he thought about it now. According to what he wrote when the card was opened at level 1, it should be the Demon Lord.

Although he didn't remember it clearly, he was very confident in himself. When he first made the card, the damage that this card could output in a single round in the game was already more outrageous than the drill in Tengen Toppa. So, as a card maker, he had to prevent the DM from designing a large number of monsters to kill him with numbers. In this case, he would definitely choose the [Evil Demon] Master, who at level one would gain a feature of absorbing the opponent's vitality and turning it into his own fake blood after killing the target.

After traveling through time, I forgot about this matter. After all, the two basic skills, Mana Explosion and Holy Slash, are so powerful. In real life, there is no restriction of one move per round. One sword can kill one. Who still remembers this insignificant level 1 passive?

But now that I think about it, it seems quite strange.

Rusalka was furious with her irresponsible leader: "Although I don't believe in you and have never given you any sacrifices, you can't let me go! You are disrespecting your believers!"

As a result, this Warlock class has become a ring provider and a magic contract weapon maker. Oh, and it also comes with a very useful ranged tactic, Mana Burst. I originally wanted to get the La's House Rules Triple ...

The more Rusalka thought about it, the angrier he became. He was usually laughed at by Sanitta just because he didn't know magic, so he decisively upgraded his sorcerer to level 6. He didn't believe it. He thought that the sixth level of his sorcerer was the watershed, and he further asked about the key level of the sect's main strength. Could the system still take advantage of this characteristic?

If the system really ate up her precious card opening resources and said it was going to replace them with upgrade modules, Rushaka would be furious.

After reaching level 6, his health became 190 points. Then Rusalka carefully looked at the system prompt box. There was nothing there except a prompt that said he had gained 5 free points and 20 limited points every time he upgraded.

Rusalka: "Fuck you... ahem, no, buddy, let's not ask for anything else. I don't need the interest on the spells, but can you return the principal of my upgrade module? You're too ruthless, give me a little more. The famous game master Tong Laoye once said this: although it's a game, it's no joke. System, please, we are in reality now, this is no joke, right?"

Obviously, this system, which only seemed to answer relevant questions and looked more like a search bar than an intelligent AI, ignored him completely.

Just when he was about to give up and look for something to buy for 25 points, a door suddenly appeared in the dark space in front of him.

This Rusalka gate looks very familiar. It is a gate with black flames, dark black and red colors, and a sheep's head hanging on it. Isn't this the gate of hell that I saw two days ago?

Rusalka looked at the slowly opening door. After a few seconds of brief reflection, he suddenly felt as if he understood everything. Overjoyed, he immediately used his magical weapon, summoning a greatsword in the dark space. Then he fiercely attacked the figure walking out of the door. Regardless of whether it was a sneak attack or not, he would just strike first. "So this is a one-on-one trial! Lord of Hell, take my sword!"

However, the opponent raised his hand to catch the knife, but it didn't matter, because the opponent was not using a protective shield. Seeing this, Rusalka directly chose to activate the Holy Slash.

The holy light did not illuminate this dark void as promised, because the weapon in his hand suddenly disappeared.

At this time, he took a step back and looked at the other party carefully, and found that the person who walked out was not even a slime, but a red blurry shadow, and the whole body was constantly flickering and pulling like a snow screen with poor signal.

The hand that just caught the big sword was just the shape of a hand stretched out from the shadow.

The red figure stood in front of Rusalka, who tried to summon the greatsword again with a cautious look on her face, but found that she could not. She said, "I thought it was my turn, but I didn't expect it was you who summoned me. Are you my believer?"

Rusalka thought: The format of your sentence is wrong, shouldn’t you ask “Are you my master?”

The other person's voice sounded like an old-fashioned radio that was not tuned to the right channel. Although Rusalka could hear every word clearly, the tone was very messy and vague, as if it was countless voices of countless people pieced together, which made people feel uncomfortable listening to it.

Seeing that the person opposite her didn't look like a human, and yet she could appear in her upgrade space, Rusalka asked directly, "Who are you? DM? System?"

The red figure didn't answer Rusalka's question, but instead asked, "Do you know how to use fel energy, magical energy explosion, and possess the ability of a 'warlock'?"

Rusalka: “Yes.”

Red figure: "That's right, it's you, and I am your God now."

Rusalka felt he was invincible in this space, after all, he was immune to mental control effects, so he raised his fist and pretended to strike: "You say it is? I don't believe it. I still say I am your father. You must be a DM machine or some system spirit. You are trying to trick me into recognizing you as your father by pretending to be me? I'm going to punch you first!"

The red figure dodged Rusalka's fist, his figure rapidly floating around, emitting a storm of chaotic laughter, as if mocking his meaningless behavior.

Rusalka could clearly feel a sense of being scanned from the other person's body throughout her entire body. As this feeling of discomfort ended, the other person's figure continued to twist and change in front of Rusalka.

In the end, it turned into a little loli with red eyes, white hair and twin ponytails. She had two very obvious animal ears on her head, and her body was barely covered by her very long side hair and some faint floating flames. She also had nine soft and fluffy tails on her back.

She was barefoot, with a pair of crystal-clear white feet and delicate pink toes that made her mouth water. She gently stood on tiptoe, bent down slightly, raised her head, and looked at Rusalka with a very seductive and charming look, and uttered a standard childish and cute lolita voice: "What now?"

Rusalka's mouth grew enormous. After coming to her senses, she nodded several times faster than a chicken pecking at rice and said, "I believe it! I believe it too much! I was just joking. I have always believed that you are my God! Can you give me the same one? How did you know that I like a loli mother like me?"

The other person covered her mouth and laughed, tapping the ground lightly with her toes, creating ripples in the void. Her laughter, like wind chimes, echoed in the space, and a ball of fire swirled up from her body. After the flames dissipated, he turned into a thin red-haired man in a suit with two antlers on his head.

The expression on Rusalka's face suddenly changed from "expectation" to "disappointment", while the other party waved his hand disapprovingly and sat on the throne that appeared behind him at some point.

His body transformed back into that red mosaic, constantly switching between various appearances. Not only did he take on human forms of men, women, young and old, he would even occasionally transform into some indescribable postures. "I don't quite understand what you're thinking. I'm just a useless shell, but I'm still very happy to meet a collection of forms like yours. You can call me Alastor."

In the end, he froze his body into Rusalka's appearance. In Rusalka's view, as long as this guy didn't speak at the same time as herself, it would be like looking in the mirror.

"Rusalka": "How does this image compare to the one just now?"

Rusalka didn't care about his name. After a brief hesitation, she finally chose to reluctantly abandon Loli's mother and gave her a thumbs-up: "This is good, this is so cool. So, are you here to teach me magic?"

Alastor shook his head, but his movements were awkward, and it looked to Rusalka like his head was pounding. "I can't do this."

Rusalka's face fell when she heard this. "What do you mean? Just show me a loli and you'll take my ability for free? You're even more outrageous than a honey trap!"

Alastor laughed immediately. "That shouldn't be important to you, but since you're my believer and you're really interesting, I'll give you what you want."

After saying this, he ignored Rusalka's opinion and directly shot a ball of red flame into his body.

Rusalka quickly touched her body and made a dissatisfied sound: "Hey! Why do you keep drilling into my body?"

[System prompt: You have obtained the "Blessing of the King of Hell." While holding this blessing, if you defeat any Hell Lord personally, you will gain their Lordship status and Demon Rank, replacing them and becoming the new Demon Lord.]

Seeing Rusalka fall silent, Alastor knew that Rusalka understood what he had just gained. He then opened a nearby inward-facing gate to Hell, seemingly heading back. But before leaving, he spread out his palm and showed Rusalka a red orb. "I have what the Messenger of the End wants, but she needs to eliminate six lords before I will give it to her. But you are different. I like you very much, so you only need to eliminate one, and I will give it to you. Go and work hard to become stronger, hahahaha!"

After Rusalka realized what was happening, she looked at Alastor, who had already stepped halfway through the door, and immediately shouted, "No, wait, Alastor, Master, Big Daddy! Wait a minute! If I don't want this blessing, can you give me something else? At the very least, a free Fireball would be fine."

Alastor seemed to have not anticipated Rusalka's reaction, and even his movements froze for a moment. He even walked out of the gate of hell again and turned back to ask Rusalka, "Do you know what that thing I just took out?"

In order to get something practical in exchange, even an upgrade module, Rusalka was very honest and docile: "I don't know."

Lao Deng, just wait. All my calmness now is just to accumulate heroism points. Once the level 20 bar is full, I will deliberately punch you, the damn riddle man, to death!

Alastor: "You've already collected so many so-called blessings from the gods, but you don't know what they're for? Then why do you collect them?"

Damn, who should I ask if you ask me? You should ask why they fell on my head!

Seeing that he knew she had the god's blessing, Rusalka didn't shy away from asking, "Does having 12 of them have any special effects?"

"If you want (there was a sudden silence here, Rusalka didn't hear anything), you need to gather the power of the 12 gods, plus this key in my hand, to open the door to the end." Alastor said something nonchalant that made Rusalka a little confused. "No one has done this method for a long time, so maybe you have other ways. But I believe in you, so I (there was another silence here)."

Rusalka waited for a long time but nothing came out of his mouth. But when he opened his mouth, no sound came out. She guessed he was teasing her. "I can't seem to hear the key points you said. Did you do that on purpose or accidentally?"

Alastor shrugged and made a very vivid helpless expression in the manner of Rusalka: “Oh, so you are just like that black-haired female life form called the Filin Clan, you can’t hear these.

Well, I can only tell you that you need to gather the power of all 12 gods. As for the reason, you will know it when the time comes. I am looking forward to your performance. I hope you are different from her and can bring a little fun. Only then can I provide you with some small help.

After saying this, he ignored Rusalka who was full of questions and stepped into the gate of hell no matter how the latter shouted. After the gate closed, he disappeared.

Rusalka considered whether she should chase him, hug his legs, and shout, "Onegai, if it weren't for this upgrade module, Wow Darcy—what on earth would it take for you to give me my abilities back!"

But he was afraid that he would really be dragged into the door by this guy who looked mentally abnormal. It would be better to forget about going to hell now. He was not in a hurry to reincarnate.