Successors of all mankind

This is not a disguise.

It's true, a person is burning up at a speed they can see.

Seeing this, Yu Le finally nodded and said:

“Then I agree, Your Majesty, I will temporarily serve as the princess’s knight.”

Having received a satisfactory answer, King Rongguang slowly closed his eyes.

He's not dead yet, and he can't die. Too many things are still unresolved, too many people are still waiting for him. He just needs a moment to catch his breath.

He closed his eyes to relieve the immense fatigue he had just experienced, and said to Maris:

"Then, Maris, spread this message to the people!"

Chapter 13 Humans Above!

Outside the gates of the throne.

The royal knights stood on either side, quietly protecting those who did not need their protection.

The ministers anxiously peered at the tightly closed gates, pacing back and forth, whispering amongst themselves.

The appearance of this nobody completely disrupted their entire plan.

They only hoped that the other party would persist a little longer, and that His Majesty would be a little wiser—please don't let the other party really become the princess's knight.

Curiosity, vigilance, hostility, and scheming.

Countless emotions intertwine here, and everyone eagerly awaits the answer.

But time always seems to pass very slowly while waiting for an answer.

This was agonizing. It even made the princess anxious.

However, this feeling also made her feel novel. She hadn't had such strong expectations for anything in a long time.

Finally, the front door opened from the inside. Maris strode out, stood on the steps, and cleared his throat:

"Lord Constantine will become Her Highness the Princess's guardian knight. May the King's will bless them, and may the glory of mankind protect them."

There was a moment of silence in front of the door. Then it exploded like boiling water.

"This is impossible!" a minister blurted out, his voice shrill with shock. "How could His Majesty agree to this? Who exactly is he?!"

"We don't even know his background!"

"This doesn't follow the program! This doesn't follow the program at all!"

A wise and virtuous monarch confined to the throne often leads to the arrogance and unbridled behavior of his vassals.

...

Maltey did not speak.

He simply stood at the back of the crowd, frowning deeply as he watched the golden door behind Maris close again.

He had anticipated this outcome earlier than others, but he couldn't believe it had actually happened.

The princess stood at the very front of everyone.

Those golden eyes shone with an unusual brightness for the first time in the sunlight.

She genuinely believed that today would be another day of failure.

She was used to her choices being questioned, denied, and rejected with the reason that "His Majesty would not agree."

She had become accustomed to every expectation falling short at the last step, and accustomed to losing interest in everything in advance.

But this time, it didn't disappoint.

She was even taken aback when she heard Maris announce it.

Then the previously blurry halos became clear, like someone who had always lived in overcast skies seeing the sun break through the clouds for the first time.

This should have been a happy day, but the buzzing of flies was really annoying.

So she spoke up:

"You question me, and now you're even questioning my father?"

She turned her head and looked at the group of ministers who were still buzzing incessantly.

"What exactly do you want?"

The moment the last character landed, the royal knights behind her simultaneously lowered their spears.

The sounds of metal colliding were perfectly synchronized, and at the same moment, all the sounds disappeared.

In the 3072nd year of the Glory Calendar, on the 17th of the Blue Moon.

The Golden Princess's happiest day.

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The princess finally found a satisfactory knight, and outside the slave Nor, before the Great Ruins.

A traveler wiped the sweat from his brow, took off his hood, and looked at everything before him with immense satisfaction.

Then, he took the water that his companion behind him handed him.

"You'd better drink this sparingly; this is our last bit of water."

"Don't worry, Anna, we're out of the ruins! What a wonderful journey!"

"Look, we crossed the Great Ruins in just three months, a place teeming with deformed monsters, orcs, and even dragons!"

The travelers excitedly pulled out their notebooks, which circled every place they had passed through and the corresponding time.

"I will be one of the greatest explorers of all time!"

His companion, however, gave a perfunctory reply:

"Oh, great explorer, could we put these things down and quickly find some clean water?"

"After all, because of your great adventure, we were chased into a swamp by orcs, covered in monster pus, and almost burned alive by dragonfire..."

"I want to take a shower, I'm being suffocated by you and myself!"

"Don't worry, Anna, our Nur is just ahead, and there might even be local villages nearby!"

As they talked, the traveler's eyes lit up and he pointed to a settlement ahead, saying:

"Haha, see that? A settlement! Come on, Anna, let's get some water and food."

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The tin can looked warily at the two travelers who had just arrived.

His intuition told him that the traveler before him was easily defeated, but his female companion was in great danger.

The only fortunate thing is that the two people are not particularly distinguished in appearance, so they are definitely not nobles. They are probably ordinary people or roughnecks.

But then I thought of the benefactor I had met not long ago...

But the door is no longer so certain.

The traveler then took out a huge, amber-colored claw from his cloth bag:

"Hey friend, see this? A dragon's claw! I'll give it to you in exchange for a clean house and some nice hot water. How about it? It's a super deal!"

After exchanging a glance, Iron Can and his companions accepted the henchmen and let them into the settlement.

This kind of transaction is rare.

The two travelers were in a room where there were only two large buckets of clean hot water.

Anna, the female companion, did not shy away from the travelers, but she took off her clothes afterward.

Instead of immersing himself in the bath, he turned around and helped the traveler change his clothes and bathe.

The other person was clearly too excited; even while submerged in water, they continued to chatter on about everything they had encountered on the road.

After her lips twitched, Anna shoved the other person into the water. After a series of bubbles rose, the other person finally calmed down.

This allowed her to smoothly finish washing up and immediately send him out so she could enjoy this rare moment of peace and quiet by herself.

After Anna changed him into clean clothes, the traveler, feeling completely refreshed, could only wander around the settlement alone.

Then, he said towards the door he had come to:

"Hello, sir, where is the Divine Calculator? I need to pay homage to it and thank humanity and the Divine Calculator for their protection!"

This is a perfectly normal request, especially since they are a major client.

So the gate led the traveler directly to the divine machine.

The traveler, without any particular thought, earnestly knelt and prayed.

But slowly, the traveler suddenly noticed something.

The slightly furrowed brow dismissed the traveler with a casual remark:

"Sir, could you please call my companion over? She should also come to pay homage to the divine strategist!"

"Of course."

As he left through the gate, the traveler straightened up and walked behind Shenji.

Then, he stared blankly at the broken wires and the machine that was still whirring.

Humans above, how the hell is this possible?!

Chapter 14 A Sudden Realization

After changing her clothes, Anna, who had intended to soak in the bath for a while, was unhappily called over through the front door.

However, before Shenji, she set aside all her emotions and knelt down earnestly to pray.

Soon, the chaos and destruction of the Qidou Naihe Valley came to an end.

"I want to soak in it for a while longer!"

"I know, I know, it's just..."

The traveler carefully leaned close to Anna's ear and whispered:

"But this amazing machine isn't powered! The power cord is broken, and it's still producing at high speed without any power or even raw materials!"

That's impossible.

This was Anna's first reaction. But then, she immediately followed up with:

Why do you think that is?

Impossible, but she wouldn't doubt him.

The traveler did not answer, for he could not understand either.

He could only look at the main gate beside him and ask:

"Sir, it's rare to see such a pleasant experience from a machine spirit. May I ask how you managed to achieve this?"

"It's not us, and you don't need to call me 'sir,' I'm just a third-class person."

The doorman jokingly corrected the other person's honorific title.

Then, after careful consideration, he said:

"As for the divine plan, it's not because of us, but because of a benefactor. Not long ago, a benefactor visited our settlement."

"He helped us repair the divine machine and made the machine spirit very happy!"

"A benefactor? What kind of benefactor?"

"He's just a benefactor. A benefactor is a benefactor, what's there to describe?"

The gatekeeper responded politely with a greeting.

Anna then quietly asked the traveler a question:

Have you ever seen a noble of this caliber before?

The traveler did not answer immediately, but instead spoke in riddles: