Thousand-Faced Dragon

Chapter 221 The Scoundrel Lex

[The current truth has reached 49%.]

What's meant to happen will happen eventually, but some people are used to hiding in the shadows.

Even though new intelligence has been gathered, the Heroic Soul Card remains on the verge of activation. Is this just a coincidence?

"You really don't want to be awakened?"

Rean was a little numb. He had tried his best, but the numbers were still not going up. If he still didn't realize that this was the resistance of the heroes, he would really be a bit stupid.

Perhaps the truth of the matter requires the parties involved to admit it, or perhaps it is the extremely strong will of the brave, but the progress of the truth is always stuck on the verge of being unlocked.

"Do you think I want to get involved in your mess? The bomb's about to explode, can't you cooperate a little?!"

However, no matter how much Rean yelled, complained, or tried to persuade him, the Heroic Soul Card refused to unlock.

Rean was increasingly helpless. Marianne was about to arrive, and the Queen's sister would definitely do something. In the end, it might be a battle between gods, and he would be the one who died!
"Avoidance won't solve the problem. At least lend me your strength so we can survive."

But Rean's words were meaningless, as if the Heroic Spirit Card were inanimate objects. But given the precedent of the snake, it would be foolish for Rean to believe that it was truly an inanimate object.

Rean felt like he was being pricked by thorns, but he was anxious. The spirit of the card, however, was not anxious at all and simply continued to remain aloof.

"The Queen will be entering the city tomorrow morning. How much longer do you think we can hide?"

In the end, Rean could only sigh and obediently go to sleep to conserve his energy.

As he fell into a deep sleep, the Heroic Spirit Compendium on the table moved automatically without any wind, the faint golden light emanating from the only Heroic Spirit card.

"Ugh! Where have I been taken?!"

When the spring breeze blew by the lake and the smell of sand filled the air, Rean Lex Thorne was completely stunned.

"Tsk tsk tsk, so what if you didn't pay the fare? You just dumped me like that, how stingy! Ouch, it hurts, it hurts so much, my leg is broken, pay my medical bills."

"Lex" swung his fist and roared at the back of the carriage, even grabbing someone's leg to extort money, but once the carriage was far away, he lightly jumped up and stood up.

He dusted himself off and glared at the onlookers.

A broken leg? For the strong and robust Lex, climbing a carriage barehanded is just a daily routine.

It wasn't the first time I'd been thrown down and rolled around; I didn't even break a scratch!
Few people know, well, apart from himself, nobody knows that when the hero first entered the capital, he not only didn't pay the import tax, but he didn't even pay the fare.

He even tried to fake an injury to extort money from the driver, but the driver, having seen enough of all sorts of scoundrels and hooligans, ignored him completely.

"As expected of the capital, so many beautiful girls." The kingdom's capital is filled with tall buildings and beautiful artificial lakes, but Lex never looked at the buildings.

Having been caught off guard, Lex simply looked around and then laughed happily again.

He dusted off his hands and whistled at passing girls, but no one paid him any attention. A dusty country youth squatted near the city gate. Every day, many people came and went, but how many of them could stay?

"Hehe, I definitely came to the right place! Every girl here is someone I'd never meet in the countryside. I'm determined to marry a beautiful girl from the capital!"

The era is forever filled with dark history, and the heroes of the continent can probably be regarded as the embodiment of dark history. Lex, who is not yet an adult, suddenly ran from the countryside to the city. Books have countless explanations, such as his desire to improve himself, his premonition of his destiny, or his divine revelation.

But reality is far too ironic; the real reasons are often quite absurd.

His strong drive to act stemmed solely from his desire to marry a beautiful woman from the capital, and the root of this desire was even more profound.
"She's even prettier than that tax official's daughter!"

A country youth with nothing to do happens to meet a young noblewoman from a lower class who has come to escape the summer heat. It sounds like the beginning of a love story. But in reality, the hooligans harass the noblewoman and get beaten up by the guards.

Which tax official's daughter was Lex looking for? In fact, he had even forgotten her face; he only remembered how beautiful her skirt fluttered, how smooth her hair was, and how fragrant it smelled when he got close. That's right, from beginning to end, he was lustful at first sight.

Beauty comes at a price; even those who are naturally beautiful need money, time, and patience to maintain it. A country girl may be youthful and beautiful when she is young, but she often ages very quickly.

Looking at the tax official's daughter and her seemingly young, wealthy mother, Lex suddenly found those country girls who called him "brother" less appealing.

So he came to the capital.

In every respect, he seemed quite "lion-like".

Incidentally, he later ran into that young lady again by chance. But he remembered her through her father, a tax officer, while the young lady and her mother became very attached to her, and he had completely lost interest in her.

"Let's eat first, then go see the girl."

In many ways, Lex Thorne was quite peculiar; at least in the very early stages, he thought with his lower body and acted on instinct. Like many unskilled country lads, he initially supported himself through manual labor, but soon discovered his full talent for swordsmanship and swindling.

He had worked as a pickpocket, a security guard, a bard, and even a gangster. His last job ended when he discovered that the gang was involved in human trafficking.

He saved the girl, and he has saved many others.

Unfortunately, the girls still didn't like him. Unlike later on, he was actually quite innocent during this period. If a good girl had taken a liking to him, perhaps there wouldn't have been the story that followed.

Of course, it's also possible that the entire kingdom will disappear.

In fact, he chose to become a knight of the kingdom because he heard that with a good status, girls from good families would be interested in him.

However, he didn't even serve as a knight's apprentice for very long.

Why? Does flirting with royalty count?
"Beautiful lady, may I have a drink with you?" the polite knight asked the beautiful lady at the bar.

Regardless, we're all from the same lion clan, so let's give each other some face.

"Get lost." The blonde girl didn't even lift her eyelids.

"Well, there has to be a reason for refusing, right?" The young man clutched his heart, seemingly hurt.

"I've been sitting here for half an hour. I'm the fourth person you invited who declined. Did you give me a reason? If you did, then I'll do the same. If not, isn't it enough that you hate philandering men?"

The bar erupted in laughter, but the womanizing man shrugged, unconcerned.

The lighting was too dim; he couldn't even make out the woman's face at the bar.

Then he went to the fifth one, and who knows which one he succeeded on, the sixth. Anyway, he went upstairs to a private room amidst the cheers of the onlookers and spent a pleasant night.

At this time, he was not yet an adult, but he was already a well-known scoundrel.

But the next day, he saw it clearly.
"This is Mary. She'll be interning here for a while, while also managing a small team and investigating a minor case. Uh, Lex, you should have plenty of free time."

"Of course I'm free, I'm always free, especially if it's a beautiful lady."

Lex, still as flirtatious as ever, finally saw "Mary" for who she truly was. But this meeting turned out to be quite unpleasant.

The gentle Marianna? That was the adult Marianna. In fact, the young Marianna was very similar to Dania. Both of them had a troublesome and impatient personality.

Lex didn't like her because she looked down on him from their first meeting.

Even though she looked beautiful and refined, wearing dwarf glasses, the sharpness and impatience in her large eyes were undeniable.

Lex's intuition worked very well; with just one glance, he saw the disdain in the other person's seemingly gentle eyes.

The beginning of a bickering couple? The start of a boring and dull love story from the older generation? That would require Lex to be a normal person.

"Tsk tsk tsk, you look down on me, but you still want me to help you solve cases?"

As a result, the investigation ended rather unpleasantly; a large amount of funding was inexplicably wasted, the informant became quite uncooperative, and Lex spent a pleasant time on Red Street.

Ultimately, Mary, having run out of money and time, had no choice but to leave, receiving a major failure in a certain subject. Having learned everything through some channels, she also remembered the scoundrel Lex.

Then, Lex was kicked out of the Knight Apprentice team. Don't get me wrong, it was a legal and compliant kick. It's too easy for this scoundrel to find fault with you.

Lex also remembered the noblewoman who had complained.

The next time they met was during the Hero Selection.
"Father, that man has some character flaws. Remove him from the selection list." Thus, Lex lost his eligibility to be selected as a hero.

But she said it to his face, in front of Lex.
"Slap!" Under the watchful eyes of countless nobles and commoners, Lex, who had just slapped Lex across the face, was immediately sentenced to prison.

However, he remained quite cheerful when his roommate asked him, "How did you get in here?"

"Criminal charges? Does beating up a princess in front of the king and knocking out one of her front teeth count?" In prison, Lex, realizing what he had done, even cheerfully composed a little bar tune.

"Ah, the toothless princess, the pitiful princess, she accidentally walked into a bar and broke her front tooth."

Then, he was pleased to see the princess staring at him from outside the cage.

"Ha, she really has no teeth, no front teeth!" one of the foolish prisoners pointed it out on the spot.

(End of this chapter)