Chapter 466: Chapter 466 Avalon

This was a sunny, invigorating morning with a brilliant sunrise bursting with life and vigor, the deep blue sky tinged with a streak of golden-red scattering bright radiance.

A day that started off pleasing to the heart.

Of course, what I mean is that my home finally got to bask in the normal morning sun.

Perhaps all of humanity–at least the vast majority of people–would never know that, in the past few days, a place on Earth had almost lost its morning light forever, and the entire world had nearly plunged into madness and bizarre occurrences. Therefore, watching this golden sunrise ascend from the east, I felt an urge to compose a poem.

Unfortunately, after racking my brain for half an hour, I couldn’t even come up with a title…

“Anyway, we saved the dawn of mankind.” Standing on the balcony facing the east, until that fireball grew from a loli-like dawn into a progressively glaring girl-like figure (by the way, how did I come up with that?), I finally managed to utter this rather bland exclamation.

Beside me, Lilina, who was lying on the rattan chair performing photosynthesis, glanced at me and then continued basking in the sun splendidly.

“Looks like the boss is idle again–stop sighing, you’ll never have the heart of a hero in this lifetime.”

Me: “…if you know, can’t you let me have my private sighs?”

“It just feels right when the boss is usually lazy and relaxed; suddenly trying to follow the path of a righteous superhuman just looks too weird.”

Lilina mumbled to herself as she turned over in the sunlight.

“But last time Lin Xue complained that I lack ambition and just coast through life…”

Struck by Lilina’s pinpoint mockery, I immediately squatted on the ground and started drawing circles infinitely.

I don’t know if Lilina, this Life Goddess’s creation, really has some plant characteristics, but every time after sunbathing, she’s always brimming with energy, completely opposite to the normal human tendency to feel drowsy under the sun. Sometimes, I even maliciously wonder if pouring a ladle of water over her head one day might actually make her grow a few centimeters taller the next…

Ahem, it seems like I’ve digressed. What I meant is, after about half an hour of photosynthesis, Lilina had finally accumulated something called “vitality points.” Then, whoosh, she jumped off the rattan chair and hopped over to me.

“Boss, boss, be honest, what did Sister Lin Xue really talk to you about that day? I’m quite curious and suspicious~~”

“Why are you curious about that?”

I tapped on Lilina’s head, which was creeping closer. This girl was already quite accustomed to switching between being an adult woman and an ignorant loli, exploiting this for her convenience tirelessly. If I don’t keep her in check, who knows what she might schemingly wheedle out of me next.

“Can’t an employee care about her boss?”

Lilina stated confidently.

“It’s about those things, like the Fallen Apostle marking me as their number one enemy–honestly, I think this is blatantly obvious intelligence. The Fallen Apostles would have to be muddled not to consider you, their enemy leader, in front. I feel like I might have been on their wanted list leaderboard for a while now.”

“Is that all?”

Lilina was completely incredulous.

“Ah, that’s all,” I said honestly, but seeing that Lilina still looked unsatisfied, I repeated the reminder from Lin Xue in full detail. Of course, I couldn’t mention the little stunt that girl pulled off or her tsundere antics, as I believed that with the ability of Prophet Lin, if I uttered even half a word, she might come charging at me with a chainsaw tomorrow.

“Information one, Fallen Apostle has listed you as their number one enemy, so I believe they will likely devise an assassination plan against you soon,” Lilina analyzed matter-of-factly, “Information two, you are the most threatening target in the eyes of Fallen Apostle–Boss, do you really think that’s merely because you are the current Emperor of the Xyrin Empire?”

Lilina’s bright eyes stared intently at me. Despite her usual appalling behavior, it seemed like this girl genuinely cared about people.

“If we talk about the role of Emperor, Sandora is more legitimate than I am; in terms of strategic deployment, let alone Sandora, even Sivis is stronger than me, in local warfare, Pandora is more experienced, regarding Empire technology, Taville is a hundred times stronger than me, and even Bubbles holds a more complete database of the Empire than any of us. Lilina, your boss is no fool. Do you really think that I would consider my identity as Emperor to be the greatest threat to those Fallen Apostles?”

Lin Xue’s predictions were definitely accurate. I possessed something that made the entire tribe of Fallen Apostles cautious, but it definitely wasn’t because of the title of Xyrin Emperor. Even a prophet nearly akin to a god like Lin Xue had many things she couldn’t express. She even had to cover them up with a series of actions that looked stupid; that girl really did try her best.

So, finding that critical bargaining chip within myself would have to rely on my own efforts…

“Don’t worry, your boss understands what’s going on,” I said, flicking Lilina’s forehead gently, and inadvertently, I also forgot about the fake Lolita whose soul was actually several years older than mine. “Your only task is to obey and wait until I sort everything out.”

“Then I’m relieved.”

Lilina cracked a sweet smile and before I could react, she suddenly leaned in; the next second, a soft touch gently pecked my cheek.

“This is a reward!~ Please accept it with gratitude~!”

The fake Lolita with a mature soul took a half step back, her face carrying a blush, either real or feigned, and she said quietly while tilting her head.

“Wait… wait a minute!” Overwhelmed by Lilina’s sudden attack, my mind fuzzed, “Reward? What reward?”

“Guess it yourself!” Lilina dropped the line and then suddenly grinned, showing a small fang, “Or could it be that under Lilina’s guidance, the Loli Fan boss finally felt a forbidden attraction towards little girls, awakening to become some terribly fearsome creature seeking more ‘rewards’ from her?”

Reward my ass!

Okay, at least Lilina finally returned to her usual dark humor, but undeniably, for a moment there, I was almost successfully bewitched by this girl in front of me… Indeed, one should never mess with a fake Lolita with a mature mind!

“Alright, I’m going to play DOTA with Bubbles after sunbathing, Boss, you continue sunbathing here!”

“Oh, and don’t forget to water the plants,” I casually added.

“Huh?” Lilina turned her head in confusion.

Me: “…never mind.”

Shoot, the bizarre thoughts about photosynthesis from earlier still hadn’t left my mind.

After Lilina left, I was alone on the balcony, and as per usual, I should probably take a nap now, and if it still isn’t time to eat… yeah, take another nap.

However, it seems such a decadent lifestyle was even frowned upon by the heavens as just when I was about to doze off, I suddenly sensed someone sneaking up on me.

“Didn’t you have class today?”

I suddenly opened my eyes and startled a long-haired girl who had leaned in close to play a prank. She screamed, “Ah!”

“Director Brother’s intuition is really sharp,” said Zuotian Tsuruya after being startled. She pat her slightly underdeveloped chest, which was quite good for a middle schooler, and pouted a bit disappointedly.

Ever since the World Gate had normalized, this black-haired girl who always wore a cherry blossom hair accessory had treated this place like her own dormitory. Usually, she would come over to kill time with us, who were equally bored. Most of the time accompanying her were a certain flower pot and Misaka Mikoto. The former belonged to Tsuruya as a semi-bound NPC while the latter was here for the thousands of Sister Misakas in Shadow City. Together with these girls averaging fourteen years old, who could still be considered lolis, and the bunch of Dollfie Doll-sized real and fake lolis at home, I sadly realized that the Imperial Headquarters had invisibly become something like an amusement park.

Oh, right, I almost forgot someone named Black, who goes by Super M, a lesbian masochist. Forget it, let’s just consider her as Misaka Mikoto’s luggage and not include her in the count…

“Director Brother? Are you spacing out?” Hands waving in front of my face snapped me back to reality. With one hand behind her back, Tsuruya leaned forward slightly, gazing at me with a puffy face, “It’s rare for me to come visit during a surprise school holiday!”

“I suppose I’m not a director anymore, right? Can’t you change the way you address me?”

“How about Emperor Brother?”

You wish you were the Fifth Brother!

“Forget it, call me whatever you want,” I was now immune to the messy nicknames people around me used. With Tsuruya’s arrival, whose energy was second only to Qianqian, it looked like there was no chance for a nap anymore. “You mentioned a sudden school holiday? What happened? I thought today was supposed to be a routine ability testing day at Zhachuan Middle School?”

“It’s because of those anomalies before!” Tsuruya seemed quite upset. “Half of the sky was bright with sunshine, the other half filled with stars. A school identical to ours popped up right next to it, and there were nights with two or three moons. All sorts of bizarre scenes that could scare someone to death. Half of the students ignored the situations due to distorted worldviews, but power users at LEVEL4 or above could somewhat detect these anomalies. As a result, there was quite unrest in Academy City. You know, Director Brother, power users in Academy City gain abilities through personal reality. The widespread distortions in worldviews shook up some students’ abilities, causing all schools there to postpone the ability test scheduled for this period, and coincidentally our school also had no lessons. So, we got a day off!”

So, these were the repercussions of world anomalies?

“Speaking of which, where are Chichun and Misaka? Didn’t Black come either?”

It felt strange that only Tsuruya showed up out of the four mischief-makers. The latter two were misses from Changpan Platform; the strict school rules might have kept them from coming over today. Although it seems like Chichun is Tsuruya’s classmate, so she should have had the day off too.

“It’s the work of the Disciplinary Committee,” Tsuruya waved her hand, clearly a bit upset that Chichun couldn’t come. “After the large-scale anomalies ended, there were lots of messes to clean up in Academy City.”

“And you’re free?” I glanced at her skeptically, “It seems like you, as an envoy of the Otherworld Empire among humans, also have important duties?”

“Ah ha ha…” Tsuruya laughed loudly, “Surely Aresta can handle it…”

Right… Aresta Skeleton Walker, the former behind-the-scenes boss of Academy City, now apparently commanded by a fourteen-year-old girl.

“Speaking of which, I’ll take you to a place!”

After briefly chatting about the current situation in Academy City, I suddenly remembered something and in a tone like the Big Bad Wolf tempting… no, not Little Red Riding Hood, more like trying to lure Pleasant Goat, I suggested to Tsuruya.

The completely unsuspecting girl immediately nodded in agreement, her face lighting up with anticipation: from experience, it certainly meant there was something fun awaiting us.

Minutes later, on a grassy area by a lakeside in the woods.

“Woah! What is this place? It’s so beautiful!”

The girl’s astonished cry piqued the curiosity of some small animals drinking by the lake. Unlike the wild animals of the outside world that were terribly afraid of humans, these oddly-shaped but pretty and cute little animals merely looked up briefly, then resumed drinking, washing their faces, or using the restroom… until some other little creatures dragged them behind a tree root for a ruthless beating.

Sweat, did Dingdang make these guys too intelligent?

“Avalon, the name I chose for this place. Well, let’s not worry about copyright issues.”

“Avalon… Elf Kingdom? Ideal Country?” Hearing this name steeped in countless legends, Tsuruya’s face immediately lit up with an unparalleled radiant glow, “No wonder it’s so magical… Oh my gosh, Director Brother, you must be a God, right? It’s true, isn’t it?”

Is it really okay for you, coming from Academy City, to say that?

“It’s just a borrowed name. I don’t know if the real Avalon exists, but even if it does, it wouldn’t be more spectacular than what we’ve created here, or it might even be less impressive.”

I meant no boasting in my words, for according to the legends of the real Ideal Country, it’s just a special space formed by planet-level laws distorting reality, and those so-called ‘magical legends’ like suspended time, shrouded in impenetrable mists and marshes, could be created by us in less than half a day at a cost not exceeding any toy in Little Bubbles’ possession. Yet, this place I named Avalon, which unprecedentedly escaped criticism from both Lin Xue and Lilina, genuinely stands as a True God’s creation. Dingdang’s power supports and shapes this altered space, while the highest technology of the Mother Nest from the Xyrin Empire manages and maintains the operation of this world. It could be said that even the ‘Divine Realm’ from the legends of Otherworld cannot compare with our Avalon.

“Director Brother… created?” Tsuruya’s face showed a stunned expression. “Created a world?”

“It’s not that impressive, I just seized an opportunity, and of course, creating this place isn’t something I could do alone.”

By the lakeside, I casually picked up a stone and sat down with Tsuruya, admiring the fairy-tale-like scenery in front of us and those quirky little creatures drinking water, washing faces, and hitting Bubbles, while I began to simply explain the origins of this magical world.

“This is… that World Fragment that nearly destroyed the real world?” After hearing the origins of this “Ideal Country,” the girl let out an incredulous gasp. Despite having seen countless miracles that humans might never encounter, she still felt that her daily exclamations were insufficient in this wondrous circle. “It’s unimaginable… it actually turned into…”

Tsuruya groped for the right words to express her astonishment for quite some time, which wasn’t surprising. A twisted and grotesque World Fragment transforming into a dreamy land resembling a fairy tale might seem as bizarre as a red, horned, triple-speed creature instantly transforming into a pettish black-dressed cat-eared girl. Just a short time ago, Tsuruya was an ordinary middle school girl, even seeing a Level 1 power user was a glimpse into another world. Now, even though her identity had rapidly shifted, it doesn’t mean she was ready to accept all the bizarre events faced by a Xyrin Apostle.

And moreover–Avalon, ah huh, such a beautiful name. Little did Tsuruya know, this also represents an unprecedentedly powerful weapon.

“Da… da da…”

Just then, a rhythmic clip-clop noise suddenly came from behind us, awakening Tsuruya who was lost in the beautiful scenery. We turned towards the sound and saw a snow-white unicorn gracefully running towards us from a grove of trees.

“Wow!” Tsuruya exclaimed again, startling a little creature that had snuck up to untie her shoelaces; it was rabbit-like but with a long tail and it bounced three feet high in fright, “A unicorn! Director Brother, it’s a unicorn! Chichun really missed out by not coming today. Camera, camera…”

I mean… did you only notice the unicorn and not see the person riding on it?

While Tsuruya frantically searched for her phone, then suddenly realized her storage was full and struggled with what to delete, the rider on the unicorn had already reached us and, amidst a ground-shaking tumult, clumsily fell off the beast.

I could tell, she had tried to make a graceful dismount, but alas… a unicorn isn’t a bicycle, silly! You jab its shoulder blade and expect it not to shudder?

After I stretched out my hand to help the clumsy rider up, I couldn’t help but want to flick her on the forehead. Meanwhile, the unicorn, partly to blame, retreated trembling and grinned so wide it nearly choked with laughter.

Again, did Dingdang set these animals’ intelligence too high?

“This is Zuotian Tsuruya, the girl I’ve mentioned before,” I started introducing the two, pushing the golden-haired girl, who was blushing from her super embarrassing entrance, forward, “And this is Artemis, a former human leader of the old world.” (To be continued. For further updates, please visit www.wuxiaworld.site. More chapters are available. Support the author, support genuine reading!)