Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

After the dinner, Lord Snow Deer left Vanessa alone and took her to his office.

Of course, he handled this matter very cleverly, without being noticed by others, and even concealed it from Mrs. Theresa.

At this moment, the Snow Deer Lord stared at Vanessa with a cold gaze, and there was suppressed anger in the emerald eyes hidden behind the monocle.

"Vanessa, I didn't expect that you would become even more ignorant after growing up," said the Snow Deer Lord.

"Father, I think it would be more appropriate to call this a better understanding of 'weighing the pros and cons'."

Vanessa understood that what the Snow Deer Lord meant by "unreasonable" was that she did not obey and return to the Green Lizard Family. Now that there was no one else around, she had the opportunity to explain things clearly to her father.

However, the Snow Deer Lord did not seem to intend to communicate with Vanessa on an equal footing.

"Weigh the pros and cons? I think you have been bewitched by that wild boy Fike. Do you really think that the 'dream talk' he said could happen?" The Snow Deer Lord said with a sarcastic smile.

"Of course it will happen, otherwise I wouldn't bring him back to see you...Father, since you ask me this, does that mean you don't believe what Fike said?" Vanessa asked back.

At this moment, Lord Snow Deer really wanted to answer directly, "I don't believe it", but he also knew that if he said that, with Vanessa's intelligence, she would definitely bring up the way he treated Fike.

"Father, you hesitated."

Vanessa keenly caught the Snow Deer Lord's hesitation at this moment, and then revealed the Snow Deer Lord's mentality in one sentence.

"I know, father, that you still have some faith in Fike, otherwise he would have been beheaded by now."

As Vanessa spoke, she took out a pair of reins from the belt around her waist. These reins were used to control the green-scaled flying lizard.

Vanessa then showed her father the reins and began negotiating with him.

Since the father-daughter relationship cannot resolve the conflict between them, let's negotiate based on the "interest relationship" that the Snow Deer family values ​​most.

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"Father, I believe you already know that the relationship between Wei Pu Bi Xi and I is only one step away from signing a marriage oath between our two families..."

The reins in Vanessa's hands represent the control over the Green Lizard, and the Snow Deer Lord naturally knows what the Green Lizard means to the Green Lizard family.

"However, even if it's an alliance, there still has to be a hierarchy between the two families. As the one getting married, we, the woman, will suffer a bit, don't you agree?"

"Think about it again. At this critical moment, if we can gain new strength from the battle against the werewolf royal family and surpass the Green Lizard Family in overall strength, then the Green Lizard Family will in turn become our vassal..."

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Vanessa's explanation was very logical, and the Snow Deer Lord was a little surprised.

It had never occurred to him that Vanessa already saw things this way.

The Snow Deer Lord originally thought that Vanessa was disobedient because she wanted to fight for so-called "freedom" and "human rights". Now it seems that he was really worrying too much.

It is obvious that the blood of the Snow Deer family, which was born for "profit", is flowing in Vanessa's body.

The cold gaze of the Snow Deer Lord softened a little, and Vanessa, noticing this, immediately struck while the iron was hot.

"Father, I've already made arrangements with Weipu Bili. It won't be a problem if I return to Cuilin City a little later... Right now, the most important thing is to make good use of the werewolf royal family incident. Don't you agree?"

"Don't be so proud, it's not your turn to teach me how to do things...!"

Although he recognized her, the Snow Deer Lord had no intention of making Vanessa equal to him.

He pulled out a piece of parchment and drafted an agreement on the spot.

The content of the agreement is that Lord Snow Deer allows Vanessa to go with the troops to the territory of the Werewolf Royal Family of the Farnese Empire to investigate the situation of the Werewolf Royal Family.

However, if the werewolf royal family is not carrying out the so-called "plan", then Vanessa must return to Cuilin City immediately and must not interfere in related matters. In addition, Vanessa's inheritance rights in the Snow Deer family will be permanently deprived.

"Since you trust Fei Ke so much, you should not be afraid to sign, right?" asked the Snow Deer Lord with a smile.

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Frankly speaking, Vanessa felt a shudder when she saw the last sentence, "Permanent deprivation of the right to inherit property."

However, she immediately told herself that her choice of Long Ying would never be wrong.

"of course not."

Vanessa took the Snow Deer Lord's quill and immediately signed her name on the agreement.

Moreover, after signing her name, Vanessa added another clause to the agreement:

If the werewolf royal family is indeed carrying out the so-called "plan", then Vanessa's "annual income dividend rights" in the Snow Deer family will increase to 10%.

"Father, it's your turn to sign. Since you don't trust Fike so much, you shouldn't be afraid to sign, right?"

If language can be concrete, then Vanessa's question was undoubtedly a slap in the face of the Snow Deer Lord.

The so-called "annual income dividend right" refers to the right of some members of the snow muntjac family to receive annual cash dividends.

In the Kingdom of West, large families like the Snow Deer Family would take out part of the profits from the family business every year and distribute them to family members who were entitled to dividends according to a certain ratio.

And for a daughter like Vanessa who is scheduled to get married, let alone 1% of the dividend rights, she can't even get a copper coin.

Therefore, the "10% dividend rights" written by Vanessa was undoubtedly asking for too much from the Snow Deer Lord Lion - you know, even the Snow Deer Lord himself only has a 12% dividend right!

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In the bright office, the Snow Deer Lord looked at Vanessa silently for a while, then picked up the agreement, tore it into pieces, and threw it into the trash can.

"...Vanessa, this is not something you can get involved in. You should know when to stop joking."

Seeing her father's behavior, Vanessa knew that her goal had been achieved, so she immediately stopped while she was ahead.

"You're right. The stakes are indeed excessive. So please allow me to accompany you to the werewolf royal clan's territory... unless you think I'm a fool who would waste 'a relationship I've worked so hard to build for ten years.'"

What Vanessa meant by "a relationship that has been cultivated for ten years" here was the efforts she had made to gain a foothold in the Blue Lizard Family. She believed that after the confrontation with her father just now, her growth had been well demonstrated.

The Snow Deer Lord looked at Vanessa and indeed felt that he had misjudged her ability. He also vaguely saw in her the stubbornness of his youth.

Considering that he did not completely deny what Fike said, and because of the "Mad King Agreement" at the moment, Lord Snow Deer did not have much energy to care about Vanessa, so he decided to do his daughter a favor here.

"Hmph...Okay, you better not be that kind of idiot."

Lord Snow Deer stood up, which meant that the conversation tonight was over.

"We have to leave early tomorrow morning, so hurry up and get ready."

"Thank you, father."

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That night, Vanessa won against the Snow Deer Lord, and Jiang Ran also successfully raised his Shadow Stealing Technique to level 20.

After reaching level 20, a new entry is added to "Thief's Shadow" called "Parrot".

8.174 - Prepare for a Rainy Day

Jiang Ran had imagined many possibilities for the new entry for "Shadow Stealing", such as an entry that could increase the power of stolen skills, an entry that could reduce magic consumption, and so on.

However, this new entry called "Parrot Mimicry" completely exceeded his imagination, bringing very "interesting" possibilities to the "Shadow Stealing" skill.

The specific effect of the entry "Parrot Imitation" is that after Jiang Ran uses "Shadow Stealing" to steal any skill of the target, he can consume 500 magic points to enter the "Parrot Imitation" state for 5 seconds, with a cooldown of 60 seconds.

When in the "Parrot" state, for all the skills stolen by Jiang Ran, as long as the stolen target uses this skill again within 20 meters of Jiang Ran, Jiang Ran can ignore the skill cooldown and release this skill again immediately. If he does not release it, the cooldown time will be reset to zero.

Skills like "Shadow Stealing" were already quite unexpected in that they allowed Jiang Ran to use the enemy's skills. Now he could even reset the cooldown. Just by imagining the application scenario, Jiang Ran felt that he could refresh the enemy's perspective.

(Great, the next skill to be farmed is 『Shadow Prison Space』...)

Jiang Ran can now rely on these gradually developing skills to display impressive combat effectiveness even without weapons and equipment.

However, it was too early to be happy, as he was still a long way from being able to rescue Ice Star Shirley.

Among them, the 50,000 mana points required to use the "Catastrophe War Horn: Goblin Soul" is particularly difficult to handle.

Jiang Ran has been thinking recently whether it was because he changed his response strategy and did not go directly to the Farnas Empire that he missed some "events that should have happened" and failed to obtain "equipment that he should have obtained" or "attribute rewards".

Otherwise, how could this magic power gap of nearly 30,000 points be filled in the short term?

However, the decision that has been made cannot be changed. In order to avoid the result of death in the future, Jiang Ran can only explore new possibilities.

(Anyway, let’s continue to level up our combat classes and skills…!)

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Later that night, Vanessa returned to Jiang Ran with good news.

Jiang Ran was not surprised to hear that Vanessa had "persuaded" the Snow Deer Lord, but he still pretended to be surprised in order to boost Vanessa's self-confidence.

Vanessa's happiness now was beyond words, as if she had passed a test and defeated a strong enemy. She walked with a bounce and skipping look, completely different from her usual calm appearance, like a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old.

But if she knew what was going on in Lord Fike's mind right now, she would definitely not be happy.

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Long before today, Jiang Ran had already considered whether to travel with Vanessa.

Judging from what he saw in the "Future Death Scene", with Vanessa's current strength of level 50, stage , she would definitely be in danger of death if she went to the territory of the werewolf royal family.

If that's the case, then why didn't Jiang Ran stop Vanessa from trying to persuade the Snow Deer Lord? That's because, after careful consideration, Jiang Ran believed that letting Vanessa take the path of "going but not completely going" would be the best outcome.

The so-called "went but not completely gone" means that Jiang Ran would first let Vanessa go with him for a while, and then when they reached the border between the Kingdom of West and the Farnes Empire, he would find a way to get her back to Cuilin City.

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There are two main reasons why Jiang Ran made things so troublesome.

The first reason is that Vanessa is in high spirits, and it is very difficult to make her "obedient";

The second reason was that Jiang Ran didn't plan to go directly to the werewolf royal clan's territory. He still had some other "preparations" to make, so he needed Vanessa to cover for him to deal with the surveillance of two sixth-level Snow Deer clan elders.

The lowest level of a sixth-tier combat professional is 201, which just exceeds the level range that the Super-Dimensional Divine Eye can read minds, which forces Jiang Ran to be extremely cautious.

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By the time Vanessa finished telling Jiang Ran in vivid detail how she "persuaded" the Snow Deer Lord, it was already late at night.

A single man and a single woman are in the same room in this empty mansion. Once the air suddenly becomes quiet, it is difficult to prevent the young soul from bursting out with some pink thoughts.

In order to avoid this situation from happening, Jiang Ran took the initiative to remind Vanessa that it was time to go back and rest before she realized it.

"It's getting late, Vanessa."

"Hmm? Ah, yes, yes. Then I won't disturb Master Fike's rest for now."

Vanessa was still a little dazed from her joy and left the guest house in a daze.

She walked and walked, accompanied by her attendants, and when she arrived at the mansion where she and her mother lived, she suddenly realized that she seemed to have missed a good opportunity!

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“Ah…Ah…”

Looking at the bright moon, Vanessa sighed.

During this period of time, she would think about a question from time to time, that is, whether the relationship between her and Lord Fei Ke was a bit too "businesslike"?

Before Vanessa developed special feelings for Lord Fig, she didn't pay much attention to this, but recently, she clearly felt that she and Lord Fig were like two men. All they talked about were various plans and careers, all serious matters, and there was nothing improper about them.

If she continues like this, how can she become the queen of Lord Feike and occupy the position of the master of the harem?

Even if there is a cooperation agreement signed by two people, a marriage without love is very dangerous!

[Note: See Section 7.03 - Cooperation Agreement]

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——(I miscalculated. I should have stayed with Master Fike tonight...!)

Vanessa glanced back in the direction of the guest house and decided not to give up.

There are many spies in the Snow Deer family manor. If she spends the night under the same roof with Lord Fike when there are already places to sleep, all kinds of rumors will spread to the Green Lizard family within a month.

Although the members of the Green Lizard family all have emerald green hair, it does not mean that they all like green hats.

So, despite her regret, Vanessa still walked into the mansion where she lived as a child.

What surprised her was that it was so late and her mother was still awake. Instead, she was sitting on the sofa in the living room waiting for her.

"Mother, are you waiting for me...?"

"Yeah, who else can we wait for?"

As soon as Mrs. Theresa saw Vanessa, she stood up and came to greet her. She warmly took Vanessa's arm and led her all the way to her large room.