T0 Gaming Guild Saves the World.

Chapter 668, Section 667: You shall be stripped of your human status!

Based on his past life experience, Jiang Heyi kept a record of the entire process of sanctioning Dusseldorf.

Upon returning to the capital of Anna, he immediately handed the scroll to Kurien and also exposed several safe houses in Dussel, as well as the private residence that had been used to torture and kill students.

There's no need to deliberately hide it; the dirty tricks Düsseldorf has done have left many traces, and the center-backs shouldn't be unable to identify them.

Kurien had guessed that Düsseldorf had a problem, but he didn't expect it to be this explosive.

As Wick led the defense to complete the confirmation, he couldn't help but cover his face with his hands, remaining silent for a long time.

Right in the Mage Tower, right under the nose of the Imperial Central Government, Dussel's inhuman nature and wickedness have been concealed for decades, and no fewer than 30 students have been poisoned by his depravity.

If Jiang Heyi hadn't staged a righteous brawl, the final moments of his life would have been overshadowed by the huge problem of Renee.

I dare not imagine what would happen if he actually succeeded in inheriting the bloodline and delayed his death.

Dussel's knowledge and Renée's talent, combined, might require Jingxin to come ashore.

"Thank you for not exposing it to the public," Kurin said.

Jiang Heyi sighed: "It's better if fewer people know about this past event. If imitators appear on a whim, more innocent students will suffer."

Kurien reopened the commemorative scroll, freezing the image on the dawn redwood.

"Is she also a demon?"

“Yes, there are two demons within the Empire, but luckily, neither of them intends to harm anyone,” Jiang Heyi explained. “The one from the Great Snow Mountain only wants to protect the creatures within the Screamer Snow Mountain, and the Metasequoia is currently just an ordinary abbot of a small monastery, taking care of a group of orphans.”

"Given the unique nature of their abilities, the Empire should continue to ignore them unless absolutely necessary."

Even if Jiang Heyi hadn't explicitly instructed him, this was already Kurien's plan, and the future ruler of Anna and the inner guards should follow it as well.

After finishing their business, Kurien changed the subject.

"I heard that Fallen Star Sea has prepared the title of 'hero' and the privileges for you. Is your next step to take Ksha back with you?"

Jiang Heyi laughed heartily: "Why do you think only I am here to see you, Your Majesty?"

Upon learning that the people from the boundary between the real and the virtual had already taken the lead to the Fallen Star Sea and were enjoying the hospitality of the sea creatures, Kurien smiled wryly.

Although the naval and land battle introduced the variable of Thiago, it ultimately ended without major incident.

As Giza and Thiago's heads fell to the ground, the Falling Star Sea immediately responded.

While expressing deep sympathy for Kurien, Jingxin lifted the maritime ban on the southeastern coast.

The coastal areas have returned to their former tranquility.

The sirens swaggered ashore as usual, while the coastal fishermen, who had endured more than thirty days of tension, felt that their lingering resentment was insignificant compared to the joy of being allowed to go to sea again to make a living.

Moreover, the Empire was in the wrong in this matter, and they should have felt somewhat ashamed when they saw the siren.

"Are you and Kshatriya sure about it?"

"Why did Your Majesty think of asking these questions?"

"Nothing, I just think...they're a good match." Kurion remarked, "It takes a lot of skill to get a siren like Ksha to stick to you like that, and not everyone can do that, especially since you even got Fries' permission."

"Your Majesty is old in years but young at heart, not much different from my friends who like to stir up trouble."

“If a person’s heart grows old as they age, then they should be buried.” Kurien laughed. “I’d better try to live a few more years and take more people with me.”

He said something terrifying in a seemingly casual way.

However, Thiago, that fool, didn't die entirely without merit.

It was precisely because of his foolish actions that the nobles had previously gone to great lengths to defend Giza, attempting to use the assassination to offset the pursuit of accountability by the Fallen Star Sea, and thus prevent Kurien from finding an excuse to take action against the noble factions.

It was later discovered that the misunderstanding stemmed from Thiago's assassination attempt, which immediately caused the noble alliance to crumble and fall apart.

Some still wanted to defend Giza to the death, but seeing that Kurien was using the pretext of assassination to summon them for talks, the nobles who openly supported Thiago all fell silent and stayed at home.

The sense of impending crisis made many people wisely keep quiet.

Everyone just wants to maintain a balance with Kurien, keeping Anna a big pie, ensuring there's a slice every year, and maybe even a bigger slice. Nobody really wants to overturn the table.

They understood that Anna's existence was necessary for them to feed on blood.

The matter involves the assassination of royalty, and the charges could be serious or minor. Pursuing Charlie is perfectly legitimate, and no one can question Kurien's actions.

Thiago's death was greater than all the contributions he made during his more than thirty years of life.

The Lion King's long-cherished desire to reclaim power can finally be put into practice.

"Sometimes, I wonder if you and your companions are prophets."

Jiang Heyi simply smiled and said, "Really?"

“Even I, with my access to the entire empire’s intelligence network, cannot be as comprehensive as you. Sometimes I feel that your presence in a certain place is not accidental, but rather a quiet waiting for something ‘that should have happened’ to occur as scheduled.”

"Your Majesty thinks too highly of me."

Kurien decided not to delve into the details: "What are your plans for the future?"

"The jailer will continue painting in Fragrant Breeze City. We'll return to the jailer's manor to guard the teleportation gate for His Majesty until Anna sends someone to receive it."

“If you’re short of money, I can just provide it as payment.” Kurien couldn’t help but smile wryly. “Is it really necessary to keep doing commissioned articles like this?”

“It’s purely a hobby for the prison guard. He’s happy just drawing those things and appreciating them,” Jiang Heyi thought for a moment. “It must be innate.”

"From what you've said, it seems you don't consider the jailer's manor your home?"

Jiang Heyi said, "Blue Lake Wetland is ultimately the territory of the Empire, and it is located next to the strategic resource teleportation array. We will not stay here for long. A new settlement has been confirmed, and people are being sent to build it."

"It seems you're no longer within the Empire's territory. Would you mind revealing your location?"

Jiang Heyi took out a map and pointed to the depths of a sparsely populated, uncultivated primeval forest on the western side of the empire's territory.

"This place must be teeming with monsters."

"The monsters should fear us."

Kurien opened his mouth slightly and laughed.

Indeed, Elaeva seems to have become attached to this group, following them everywhere.

Monster: "I'm fighting Eleravie, really?"

If a monster is of sound mind, its first instinct upon feeling the dragon's magical pressure is to tremble and lie on its back on the ground.

For some reason, Kurien felt somewhat melancholy.

For many years, the boundary between reality and illusion has been one of the few people outside of Wick who he can open up to and communicate with.

Potato and his companions are pure and cannot be tainted or defiled by profit; they do things simply to satisfy their own conscience.

Such people are rare in this world.

"I will preserve the name of the Jailer's Manor for you, and I will seal off half of the area so that you can come back to live there at any time."

Jiang Heyi really wanted to change the name of the manor, but considering that the jailer had made great contributions in this reincarnation, it would be too unfair to deprive him of the right to name the manor he had drawn stroke by stroke.

Fine, let's give this kid a taste of sweetness.

Kuryn has decided to groom Sloan as his successor. A perfectly reasonable choice.

Bertrand pulled off a ruthless maneuver when he besieged Düsseldorf on the border between the real and virtual worlds.

In Fragrant Wind City, a noblewoman's head maid colluded with a potion master to sell living people and extract their body parts, a fact that the master discovered.

Coincidentally, the head maid was a forest spirit.

Keyword locked in: [Alien race] confirmed!
Taking advantage of the fact that the suspects were caught red-handed during the transaction, Bertrand led his personal guards in a successful raid, capturing several potion masters in one fell swoop, but the head maid managed to escape.

The forest elf head maid, who thought she could escape this calamity by virtue of her noble status, has run into a ghost this time.

Bertrand stormed into the manor, ignoring the nobleman's requests and warnings, and slit the throat of the head maid who was hiding in the house.

His methods were brutal, like slaughtering livestock. He grabbed the scalp and dragged the still-convulsing corpse to the center of the hall, speeding up the bleeding process, letting the spurting blood stain the luxurious carpets and walls.

The exemption of status for high-ranking nobles?
An unspoken understanding among nobles?
nonexistent!

The combination of "foreign race" and "breaking the law" made Bertrand's hands burn with excitement!

He didn't even leave the nobleman's body behind, grabbing him by one leg and forcibly dragging him away from the manor, leaving a long, blood-red path, a horrifying sight.

"Outrageous! Outrageous!"

"Breaking into a mansion and killing servants without permission, does the Second Prince even have any regard for the imperial laws?!"

Although the nobles treated the imperial laws as something that could be easily manipulated, when their interests were actually harmed, they would still feel guilty and quickly bring out the "blank paper" (i.e., a blank document).

Even now, the aftershocks of the incident are still causing intense turmoil among the empire's top brass.

Bertrand's tendency to go mad at will, to break into your home whenever he talks about killing, and to slaughter other races like pigs and dogs, sends chills down the spines of everyone who has witnessed or heard of his actions.

The key issue is that he occasionally utters outrageous statements.

For example, "You are no longer human."

If someone else said that, they would just use that phrase to describe how bad someone's behavior was, implying that the person was a scoundrel.

According to Bertrand, starting with stripping people of their citizenship, what he'll do next doesn't seem too hard to guess...

Even Bertrand's supporters, who were staunch advocates of the Greatest Anauism, were now feeling quite uneasy.

The prince she followed was in such a beautiful state of mind.

They're just shouting slogans to get more benefits, so why are you, as a prince, disregarding the consequences and your reputation, drawing your sword and personally going at it?

Unsurprisingly, Bertrand was also placed under house arrest by Kurien.

Also imprisoned at the same time was Enrique, the mastermind behind the Fallen Star Sea Potion incident, who was discovered to be behind the scenes.

The source of this trouble was finally exposed by the Imperial Guards and punished with a lifetime confinement.

Even his own brother Sloan did not plead for him.

Within a single day, both princes were placed under house arrest.

With Thiago added to the list not long ago, only Sloan remains as a promising prospect on the draft list.

Most of the nobles and magical families who were observing had already sensed the trend and began to curry favor with Sloan.

Jiang Heyi saw through it all and bluntly said, "Bertrand was deliberately placed under house arrest, wasn't he?"

“See? I told you he was a prophet.” Kurien looked at Wick beside him and couldn’t help but shake his head and sigh. “You can’t hide anything from you.”

According to Kurien, the inner guards were reporting on the details of the case involving the potion maker's underground black market when Bertrand happened to be in the study.

He didn't trouble his bodyguards or his elderly father; he solved the problem in the most "efficient" way—killing everyone to end it all.

Humans are the root of all problems; if we solve the problem of humans, the problem will cease to exist.

If the problem persists, it means not enough people have been killed.

As for being placed under house arrest?
He just wants to be placed under house arrest.

In his view, becoming emperor would restrict his actions and prevent him from killing freely.

It would be better to let his good younger brother Sloan succeed him, while he himself would become the unreasonable "guillotine" in Sloan's hands.

As a licensed "guillotine," it can go out to "hunt for food" when it's hungry.

If Sloan wanted to use him, he could have a "psychotic episode" at any time.

Wearing a license to commit murder, how wonderful!
Moreover, by doing so, not only would his father not face a difficult decision, but Sloan would also surely take good care of him, allowing him to develop his hobby into a career, and the empire would be spared many calamities.

That's killing four birds with one stone!

Kurien was happy but also worried.

Sloan inherited half of his personality from both the wolf queen and himself, so he was naturally impeccable in his treatment of his blood relatives.

Sloan understood Bertrand's good intentions and, after being placed under house arrest, would bring him food and drink every day to talk to him.

The brothers were kind and respectful to each other, and he managed to raise two sensible children, which made him feel at ease.

Bertrand's illness...shouldn't it be treated?

This is an illness. If Sloan were to make a promise to Bertrand after he passes away, the sky would fall!
"Try to be more open-minded, Your Majesty. In the past, you would have worried about brothers fighting and bloodshed. Now that Bertrand is focused on his hobby, you can concentrate on training Sloan. Isn't that good?"

Kurien covered his face in exasperation.

For him, there seems to be no better choice than this "warm" atmosphere right now.

Why did Bertrand end up like this...? When the wolf queen was with him, everything was fine.

"correct."

He suddenly thought of something and said, "The boundary between the virtual and real worlds is extensive. Would you be interested in introducing some friends to Sloan?"

Jiang Heyi was quick-witted and immediately understood that Kurien was implying something.

"Friends of the opposite sex?"

Kurien nodded.

To prevent chaos in the succession to the throne, Sloan would be better off having a partner and offspring with his own bloodline, rather than just drooling over his drawing board!
Given Sloan's somewhat fastidious approach to relationships, the path he chose was undoubtedly the same as Kurion's—he didn't believe in true love among nobles.

He also wants to find a "wolf queen".

As a father, he also wanted to persuade Sloan to accept a power alliance based purely on self-interest.

But thinking of the wolf queen, he couldn't help but want to try it out for Sloan.

"Meeting the right person is a matter of probability; you can't force fate. Let's just let Sloan take his chances," Jiang Heyi sighed helplessly. "Maybe he'll figure it out on his own?"

Not everyone can share his love for fries, and naturally develop a connection with Ketchum...

Oh right, what's this between him and Kesha?
Hit by accident?

To rekindle their romance?

Or was it a natural progression due to a series of coincidences?
(End of this chapter)