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Chapter 135 The White King, Devouring, Black Death (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
If Ji Minghuan wants to devour the legendary whale, he will have to contend with an entire nation.

Even assuming Li Qingping would side with him, it would be extremely difficult for a single shark and a red dragon to defeat the six extraordinary envoys of the Royal Court team.

Not to mention that the Whale Garden has nurtured many extraordinary soldiers, who are the backbone of this country.

However, if they can successfully guide the "White Raven Brigade" into the Whale Garden, Ji Minghuan's side will have a much stronger fighting force, and they might even be able to put up a fight.

“If the commander knew about this, he wouldn’t let such a golden opportunity slip by. This is a national treasure, a hundred times more valuable than anything at an auction,” Ji Minghuan thought. “But the problem is… how do I get Qi Yuanli to know this information and convince him of my claim?”

Thinking of this, the shark rolled over inside the crystal ball. "It seems the only way is to try to contact him through the black pupa. If he brings the White Raven Brigade to the Whale Garden, Li Qingping and I will have a much better chance of winning."

Caesar lay quietly on the bed, his arm resting across his forehead, his white hair spreading out in the moonlight.

After a long silence, he suddenly said, "Aguru, I am so worried about my father."

"Why?" the shark asked.

"My father is ill, very seriously ill."

"What's wrong with him?"

“I don’t know what the disease is, but I’ve heard from others that it’s caused by a bad guy named Bernardo.”

Bernardo?

Ji Minghuan's heart stirred slightly as she suddenly remembered that during the character creation process, the background of the first character mentioned a character named "Bernardo Edward".

That was the holder of the generational rare fragment—the "Black Death".

"So it seems the king has contracted a stronger version of the Black Death?" he thought. "No wonder... I was wondering why the eldest and second princes would dare to attack the third prince, who was favored by the king, if the king were still healthy. It turns out that they found an opportunity because the king was bedridden."

"Then what should we do..." the little shark asked. "If the king dies, won't the country fall into chaos?"

"Holy Grail."

"Holy Grail?"

Caesar nodded: "It's very likely that only the generational fragment of the Holy Grail can cure Father's illness. I think Li Qingping has been staying outside all this time to help Father find that fragment."

“So that’s how it is…” the shark murmured.

“I am very worried that my father will be targeted by bad people. Many people want the scepter in my father’s hand.”

"A scepter?"

"The White King's Scepter can disarm the power of rare fragments below the 'Mythical Level'."

"Even fragments of generational wonders would be rendered ineffective in the face of that scepter?" the shark asked curiously.

“My father said that only a few generation-level beings can forcibly break through the scepter’s suppression, but they will still become much weaker. Apart from that, most generation-level beings will be disarmed. Not to mention the fragments of wonders below generation level, all common-level wonders and general-level wonders will be nullified by the scepter in an instant,” Caesar said. “Obtaining the King’s Scepter… is equivalent to standing at the pinnacle of the Whale Garden.”

He paused for a moment: "Therefore, many people covet the scepter in Father's hands."

"Don't worry. I'll eat the White King's Scepter, then the bad guys won't be able to find it," the shark said indignantly.

"You're here again."

"I was just joking." The shark suddenly became indignant.

Caesar said, "My father is usually very good to me, but he is in poor health and I can't leave here. Actually, I really want to help my father find the 'Holy Grail' so that he won't have to lie in bed every day."

"Won't the 'White Scepter' be stolen when the king is sick?"

Caesar shook his head and lowered his voice: "My father hid the scepter in a special treasury, which can only be opened by the 'ruler of a nation'."

“Alright,” the shark said. “Speaking of which, you’re so talented, even if you don’t cultivate, hasn’t anyone taught you the knowledge of the Oddity Envoy?”

Caesar got out of bed, took the crystal ball, and went to the rooftop.

"Do you see those pointed buildings?" Caesar leaned on the railing and pointed to the tall, prominent buildings on the island in the sea.

"What are those?" the shark asked, following his gaze.

“Those are all academies of wonders, where children with the talent of wonders go to school. Their courses are different from those of ordinary children,” Caesar said. “I really want to go there to study and learn wonders with other children.”

He was silent for a moment: "But my father said that princes cannot go to school with commoners, as this would be an overstepping of their status."

"Then who will teach you?"

“The butler,” Caesar said, “comes to give me lessons every week, and he’s also in charge of my food.”

Ji Minghuan thought to himself, "The butler... could he have already been bribed by the eldest and second princes? Not every butler is as dedicated as Oda Takikage."

“Next time your butler comes over, could you share the food he makes for you with me?” the shark said.

"Of course, I have a very small appetite."

A man and a shark chatted quietly under the night sky, the fish swimming past their heads like a breeze.

Shortly afterward, an elderly man dressed in a black butler's uniform and wearing white gloves opened the bedroom door, walked in, and bowed slightly.

"It's time to rest, Your Highness the Third Prince."

"Okay, I'll go to sleep now."

Caesar returned to bed with the crystal ball and closed his eyes. Seeing this, the butler quickly turned and left, closing the bedroom door behind him.

"Is the castle safe while you sleep? Could someone sneak in?" the shark asked in a low voice.

“Don’t worry,” Caesar replied. “While I’m sleeping, the floating castle will be protected by a barrier, and no one will be able to sneak into it.”

"That's good."

Goodnight, Aguru.

"Goodnight, Caesar." Caesar hugged the crystal ball, slowly closed his eyes, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

The shark could hear his snoring right next to it.

Gazing at Caesar's slightly heaving chest, and confirming that he was fast asleep, the shark swam upwards and silently pushed open the opening of the crystal ball.

Then it unleashed the machine's skill – "Dark Current Surge," where dark blue water surged forth, enveloping the shark's body from all sides and propelling it into the air.

It swirled its body in the water, flew to the rooftop, and quietly gazed at the brightly lit islands in the sea, finally fixing its gaze on the area above the royal palace.

If all the strange and unusual fragments left by the historical members of the royal court could be thoroughly investigated, it wouldn't be surprising if this shark's actual size suddenly grew to several hundred meters.

The problem is how to get close to it... In movies and TV shows, such places are usually either heavily guarded or have some kind of ancient barrier set up, and any intruder who touches or gets close to it will be reduced to ashes.

Just then, the shark caught a glimpse of something unbelievable out of the corner of its eye.

In the darkness of the night sky, a suspended staircase stretches ever upward. Someone is climbing the stairs, slowly approaching the castle.

Upon closer inspection, you'll find that this staircase is quite magical: every time it extends upwards, a section of the bottom staircase disappears, and the extended portion and the disappeared portion are equal.

Therefore, the total length of the stairs remained unchanged.

The furtive figures walked along the seemingly endless suspended stairs, approaching the castle step by step.

“This person must have been sent by Caesar’s two good brothers… But why was he able to get close to the castle? Didn’t Caesar say that every floating city would be protected by an invisible barrier when night falls?” Ji Minghuan wondered.

As the floating staircase drew ever closer to the castle, the shark's eyes gradually revealed the face of the uninvited guest—a man draped in a black cloak, his face covered by a mask, revealing only his eyes.

“He must have used the Strange Fragment ‘Mobile Staircase’,” Ji Minghuan thought. “I remember it being a one-time use fragment that disappeared after use, but this is too convenient.”

At that moment, the uninvited guest stopped on the suspended steps.

He turned his head and looked around, his eyes fixed on the castle rooftop. Then he climbed the steps and slipped into the castle bedroom, glancing sideways at Caesar, who was fast asleep on the bed.

The man crushed a common-level card in his hand. The silver light pattern on the back of the card flashed and disappeared in the darkness.

Immediately afterwards, a humanoid figure covered in fine black hair appeared in the darkness, its muscles trembling slightly, like an engine.

With a wolf's head and a human body, and bloodshot eyes, it was clearly a werewolf.

In the moonlight, the werewolf's muscles rippled like waves. He let out a low growl and approached the bed step by step.

The next second, a shark about three meters long suddenly lunged out of the darkness. Its mouth suddenly swelled up, becoming larger than its own body, as if it had turned into a gaping maw of an abyss.

Sharp fangs reflected the moonlight, and a fierce glint flashed in the corner of his eye in the darkness.

With a deep hiss, the shark swallowed the werewolf whole and closed its mouth. The two-meter-tall werewolf remained motionless, without even having a chance to cause any trouble inside the shark's belly.

"Werewolf, delicious." The shark burped and made a sound of praise, then turned to look at the trembling uninvited guest. "Humans... don't taste good."

"What is that? He didn't mention anything about this kind of creature," the man stammered, slowly regaining his senses, his eyes filled with terror. He staggered backward, muttering, "Monster...monster, it's a monster—"

Before he could even let out a terrified roar, the shark, its entire body enveloped in dark blue water, lunged out into the air, swirling and dancing like a falling leaf, approaching the masked man at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye.

It immediately lowered its body, and the shark's dorsal fin drew a sharp arc, slashing down like an executioner's long knife, piercing straight through the assassin's body and cutting him in two from top to bottom.

The shark manipulated the dark water, lifting the assassin's body in two, spurting blood, and moved his two pieces of flesh to the rooftop, throwing them into the sea from the edge, along with the gushing blood.

"Perfect...the floor and walls are clean."

When it looked back, the shark saw a card on the ground engraved with silver patterns, clearly a common tale – "Werewolf." It used its dark blue water to lift the card and, as if savoring ice cream, put it in its mouth.

[You have consumed a "Common" level Oddity Fragment, triggering the effect of the exclusive training system "Oddity Gluttony," increasing your actual size by 2 meters.]

[The size change of Unit 3 – the Eternal Abyss Shark "Agubaru": 100 meters → 102 meters.]

"A mere common-grade fragment adds two meters to its size; surpassing a legendary whale is just around the corner!" The shark's eyes lit up.

Just then, Caesar rolled over in bed, lay face down on the pillow, and mumbled sleepily:

"What's going on...it's so noisy."

The shark quickly shrunk its size, transforming into the appearance of a Nobel shark. Then, carried by the water current, it shot into the gap at the top of the crystal ball, manipulated the water flow to lift the lid of the crystal ball, and covered the gap.

Caesar slowly opened his eyes, stared at the shark in the crystal ball for a while, and then asked softly:
"Aguru... was that your voice just now?"

“Caesar…” Agubaru said softly, “Someone wants to kill you.”

"What are you talking about? Who would kill me?" Caesar yawned.

“It’s your two older brothers,” Yagubaru said in a low voice. “They tampered with the barrier protecting the floating city from the inside, and then let the assassins in to take your life. Once something like this happens, it will happen again.”

"Don't talk nonsense... Agubaru." Caesar hugged the crystal ball, closed his eyes, and said, "Goodnight."

His white eyelids drooped, and his sleeping face looked more like a girl than a boy.

Agubaru gazed at Caesar's sleeping face in silence, thinking what a pitiful child he was. If he knew that his two older brothers were trying to kill him, his innocence would crumble in an instant.
To put it even worse, perhaps the eldest and second princes were in cahoots with Bernardo Edward, the holder of the "Black Death" fragment, from the very beginning.

It was they who put the king on his deathbed, thus creating an opportunity to eliminate Caesar, the most likely successor to the throne.

"Speaking of which, Li Qingping, what have you been protecting, you pig? If I weren't here, the Third Prince would have been dead tonight!"

Yagubaru thought to himself.

Although Caesar possesses a generational rare item, his mental fortitude doesn't seem to suggest he can calmly handle a battle.

It's like a little boy going hunting in the forest for the first time. Even with a hunting rifle in his hand, he's so frightened by the porcupines rushing towards him that he doesn't even have the courage to pull the trigger.

"Forget it, let's sleep... Su Zimai has already gone home. The most important thing is to think about how to torture her with my brother." With that thought, the shark lay on the bottom of the crystal ball, closed its eyes, and soon fell asleep in the warm seawater.

　Asking for a monthly ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)