Let's play cards! In a different world of swords and magic

"Knock, knock, knock! (Knock on the door). Don't sleep!"

Boom boom boom!

At the end of the dream, the rapid knocking on the door overlapped with reality.

There was indeed someone knocking on the hotel door.

He got up in a daze, probably because he hadn't dreamed for too long. You Ling got up, but his consciousness remained in the bed and he hadn't woken up yet.

"I'm coming, I'm coming." You Ling responded almost instinctively based on his memory and opened the door: "Let me sleep a little longer, sister."

"How dare you call me sister?"

Outside the hotel room door, Alice Carlos appeared in You Ling's hazy sight.

The effect was outstanding, You Ling woke up instantly.

Oops, I slept too deeply just now and confused dreams with reality.

When You Ling opened the door, he actually thought it was his sister knocking on the door to urge him to get up.

The result seemed to be a direct hit.

After Aisha's self-destruct switch operation yesterday, You Ling probably thought that the last thing Alice wanted to hear was him calling her "sister".

"But..." You Ling scratched his head, trying to save the situation: "If you don't call me sister, what should I call you?"

"You should just call me Alice."

"Okay, okay, Alice."

At the beginning of a new morning, You Ling was greeted by an extremely embarrassing opening of the door.

Obviously, only Irena knew the location and room number of the hotel. How could You Ling guess that Alice would knock on his door so early in the morning?

Alice narrowed her eyes and guessed, "You Ling, are you wondering why I know you live here?"

My mind was read. What a scary woman.

You Ling nodded honestly.

"There are no secrets in a small country town like this. If I ask a little, I can find out where you stayed last night."

That makes sense. Because he was brought back by Aisha, You Ling would become the focus of attention when he walked on the streets of the town. It was estimated that quite a few town residents saw him last night.

"So, is it convenient for us to come in and talk?"

"Oh, that's convenient. Alice, come in."

It was indeed very rude to let Alice, a girl, stand outside the hotel room door and talk.

After getting You Ling's consent, Alice walked into the room, closed the door behind her, and then locked it further.

Accompanied by the crisp sound of the door handle locking.

Okay, now this is a secret room.

You Ling had no idea what Alice was going to do.

Looking at Alice Carlos, who was sitting on the sofa in the hotel room, she had both elegance and seriousness.

You Ling even felt that in the next second, the classic plot of the family elders meeting the grassroots male protagonist would unfold.

Alice would suddenly pull out a gold card from her bosom and say to herself, "There is 100 million in the card, leave my sister."

This makes it difficult for You Ling to refuse. (×)

However, the plot that You Ling expected did not happen.

Perhaps after a difficult psychological struggle, Alice, who had been sitting on the sofa for a long time, finally spoke slowly.

"You Ling, actually, I already know about you and Ai Xia."

"Forehead?"

You Ling's first reaction was that he didn't expect Aixia to confess.

This means that Alice Carlos should know that she is the ghost behind Aisha and has been living in her sister's body for half a year.

But it seems that Alice is not as angry as You Ling imagined.

"You Ling, are you wondering why I'm not angry?"

"Alice, can you turn off your mind-reading hook?"

"It's impossible for me not to be angry knowing that my most important sister's body is being used by another man."

With her brows furrowed, Alice gave You Ling a fierce look.

This is the truth.

"But as Carlos' acting head of the family, I have no right to be angry at what you have done, You Ling."

Then, Alice's tightly furrowed brows slowly relaxed, and her delicate eyes revealed extremely complex emotions.

This is also true.

If You Ling hadn't been there, Aixia would have been expelled from the college because of credit issues.

After that, if You Ling hadn't carried the whole game in the royal capital, he would have defeated three generations of the Slint family by himself.

The Royal Capital Incident would not have been resolved so satisfactorily, Aisha would not have become a Royal Knight, and the Carlos Family’s rise would not have been as smooth as it is now.

As Carlos's acting head of the family, Alice is able to distinguish right from wrong.

Under normal circumstances, when a family encounters such a noble person, it is not excessive to erect a monument for him in the family.

Being the younger sister's boyfriend? I guess if a family met You Ling, they would ask him to marry into the family so that they could add a record to the family tree.

But what makes Alice extremely embarrassed is You Ling's other identity.

The holder of the divine weapon, the spirit behind the thousand-year-old building blocks.

It doesn’t mean that after You Ling obtained a body, he lost his identity as the spirit behind the Millennium Brick.

As the spirit behind the Millennium Wheel of Wisdom, Ai. Ra has more say on this.

Since the soul originally resides in the Millennium Brick, the relationship between You Ling and the Millennium Brick is inseparable, and it has nothing to do with whether or not he has a body.

It is better to say that having your own body is a disguised form of enhancement.

This is why, after obtaining a brand new body, You Ling was able to unleash the hidden power of the Millennium Brick even better than before.

The content of the deal signed by Alice and Ai La is to collect all seven thousand-year-old artifacts.

I thought the Millennium Bricks on Aisha were the easiest to get. Alice knew better than anyone how easy it was to fool her sister and how much she listened to her.

But because of You Ling's existence, and the fate that the holders of divine weapons will inevitably be attracted to each other, Alice has a premonition that this battle is inevitable.

The inevitable final battle will be fought, but not now.

At present, the Millennium Artifacts in Alice's hands include the Millennium Wheel of Wisdom, the Millennium Eye and the Millennium Staff obtained by killing Thunderbolt Set in the Battle of the Royal Capital, as well as the Millennium Scales obtained during the chaos in Akset.

The only three items missing are the Millennium Key, the Millennium Jewelry, and the Millennium Building Blocks.

Every time she obtains a Millennium Artifact, the power of Alice's overall deck will be enhanced. For example, after obtaining the Millennium Libra, Alice obtained [Primitive Life Form Nibiru].

So if a battle with You Ling is unavoidable, Alice hopes to do it after obtaining the remaining two artifacts.

The thousand-year-old key has been sleeping underground in Fusheng Academy.

Alice had tried several times before to sneak into the underground space of Fusheng Academy and take away the Millennium Key.

But in the end, they were all stopped by a female teacher named Irene Rockefeller.

Although he usually looks like an unreliable, lazy teacher who smokes and drinks, he can always accurately detect Alice's infiltration.

And Irene Rockefeller was extremely powerful. Even if she won, Alice would have to pay a heavy price to fight against the legendary fused Shaddoll.

Then the remaining thousand-year-old artifact that can be obtained is the thousand-year-old jewelry on a girl in the Saint Varian Empire.

Recently, Alice, a noble of Levolden, just happened to have a reason to go to the Saint Varian Empire.

"You Ling, I can understand why Aisha relies on you so much. Because of your existence, Aisha was awarded the title of Royal Knight. Or rather, this title should have been yours."

After that, Alice pulled out the invitation letter from the Saint Varian Empire from her shirt pocket and displayed it on the tea table in the hotel room.

It was the one that You Ling had seen in Alice's study before.

《The Saint Varian Empire sincerely invites the Carlos family and the distinguished Rivaldon Royal Knight Aisha Youna Carlos to attend the birthday party of His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire》

"So the person actually invited by this invitation should be you, You Ling."

"But it says Aisha Carlos."

"But I want you to come along."

"Hey?"

As for the so-called birthday party of the emperor of the empire, You Ling had no interest at all.

I guess he is that kind of old emperor who is high above everyone else, sitting on the throne, listening to the flattery from beginning to end from the nobles who were invited to the banquet.

"Right now, the relationship between the Saint Varian Empire and the Kingdom of Livolden is very delicate. You Ling, you should know this."

"Yes, because of the battle of the royal capital."

"This is the first official invitation from the Empire since the war. Whether for the sake of the overall situation or for the peace of the continent, even the royal family Caesar has expressed his wish and hopes that the Carlos family can agree to this matter."

"It means that it will be troublesome if I refuse casually."

Nodding, Alice continued, "But the situation within the Saint Varian Empire is much more complicated than imagined. The current emperor, Quaides, is known as the strongest emperor in the history of the empire."

"Quaides?" This didn't sound like the name of an uncle emperor, but rather a little girlish: "But isn't the title of the strongest emperor usually boasted about for other countries to hear?"

After all, bragging doesn't cost money, the strongest emperor is always the next one, and it can also gain a certain degree of deterrence when countries communicate.

"Not entirely. In front of everyone's eyes, Quaides defeated the previous emperor with the power of water and ascended the throne. His strength is unquestionable. But he was too young. The emperor was only 17 years old."

"A 17-year-old emperor?" You Ling was surprised: "Are you referring to the puppet regime?"

Generally speaking, the younger the emperor is, the easier it is for him to be controlled by the eunuchs hiding in high positions.

"That's right. The empire seems peaceful, but in fact, due to the existence of the new emperor, Quaides, there are undercurrents within. This is why the Slint family, one of the three major families in the empire, can do such outrageous things as a surprise attack on the capital and provoke a war."

"Alice, why are you telling me this specifically?"

"To let you know, going to the Saint Varian Empire is not an absolutely safe thing. So You Ling, I plan to invite you to come with me in the name of the head of the Carlos family. If you encounter danger, protect Aisha."

"Is it enough for our companions to protect Aisha? What about you, Alice?"

"You Ling, you don't need to worry about me. You just need to protect Aixia."

"You don't need to worry about me, Yu Ling. Leave the money-making to me."

Strange hallucinations occurred again.

Alice actually said words that were very similar to what her sister said in You Ling's dream last night.

Why are they so similar?

Not only do the cooking taste similar, their attitudes when angry are similar, but even their feelings of considering their younger sister (brother) more important than themselves are similar.

"I promise you, Sister Alice."

"Ugh?"

Alice raised the end of her slender eyebrows. She didn't expect that You Ling would agree so easily.

The other excuses I prepared in advance were completely useless.

This made Alice suddenly lose her rhythm and she didn't know what to say next.

"Well, then... the departure time is in two days. I know you have taken a week off from the academy, so you should be able to make it back in time."

"Does Aisha know about this?"

"She was still asleep when I left. I'll go back and talk to her now."

For Alice, persuading Aisha has always been the simplest and easiest task of all.

Except for what happened to You Ling last night.

After checking the time, Alice slowly stood up and said, "It's time to go back and wake up my sister who's been lying in bed. You Ling, do you want to go back and have breakfast with me? I made this myself."

Having said this, Alice was indicating that she was no longer angry about what happened at dinner last night.

Since Alice gave him a way out, You Ling would naturally not be ungrateful.