Am I going to be controlled by the players too?

Especially now that Liu Ruyan's death was suspicious and Navel has given up the election—Harari is the only candidate left, but she hasn't received many votes at all!

“Doesn’t Sylvia want to become queen?” Karen asked. “If she announces her candidacy and has our support, she should be able to gain public approval and complete the ceremony quickly.”

“But she hasn’t announced her participation yet!” Vilette roared.

When I promised Sylvia in the dungeon, I hadn't heard anything about the Empire's movements—at that time, there was still a possibility of finding the "Hanged Man," and at the very least, there was time and room to increase public approval through propaganda.

If he announces his candidacy now, he will only be pushed by his ministers to ascend the throne quickly, and he might not even be able to complete the ceremony and die a miserable death on the spot!

“Then it’s time to announce it,” Karen said seriously. “Vilette, I know you don’t want your daughter to take risks, but you should also know that if there is no queen to ascend the throne, the entire kingdom will be at risk.”

"When the nation is destroyed, or even the primordial forces descend... the most urgent task is to introduce a queen who can command the respect of the people."

Villette remained silent.

What is justice?

Is the justice of a nation greater than the justice of a family?

Villette's expression was uncertain. After a long while, she sighed and said, "Tomorrow is my daughter's coming-of-age ceremony... I'll announce my candidacy then."

That concludes this discussion.

The prime minister breathed a sigh of relief and began discussing with his ministers plans to increase military spending, station troops on the frontier, and confront the imperial army.

…………

13 Mink Street.

There are no leads on the Inverted Demon for the time being, and the remaining Gold Saint of the Primal God Cult is also nowhere to be found... For a time, everyone was free of missions, so Sylvia and Paul went home to prepare for their coming-of-age ceremony and, incidentally, to campaign for their future election.

Now everyone else has nothing to do.

It wasn't entirely without incident. Cheng Cheng could control Freya to eat, drink, play, and level up at her own pace, while Li Xianyu said she was going to the cemetery... Cheng Cheng knew what kind of illegal desecration of corpses this girl was planning to do again, but he wasn't interested in stopping her.

Because all he can think about now is the cuckoo.

Ah... cuckoo, my cuckoo...

Thinking about it carefully, although he was forced to undergo a major overhaul, Cheng Cheng not only suffered no loss, but even enjoyed it. Moreover, Bugu was exactly Cheng Cheng's aesthetic, with a delicate and cute body, and she was also very juicy. Apart from not having reached the maximum level of affection, there seemed to be no reason for him to refuse.

After Cheng Cheng obtained the soul body, he planned to spend three days with Freya, and two of those days he planned to play with Sylvia and Bugu.

However, in the end, it was Cheng Cheng himself who was devoured.

Although this girl had clearly kept a lot of things from him and her purpose was definitely not simple, he should be wary of her—but Cheng Cheng just couldn't bring himself to dislike her.

Perhaps it's because men can't forget their first love.

So the question is, why did she do that?

Cheng Cheng really wanted to find her and give her a good talking-to—after all, he didn't know her at all. He was only targeted after entering the dungeon, and then she inexplicably joined the team, inexplicably kidnapped him and gave him a good beating, and then inexplicably left. Freya, Li Xianyu and the others hadn't forgotten their teammate Bugu, but when they asked, no one had her contact information and thought it was perfectly normal.

Hypnosis apps have turned us into all sorts of people.

"Ah... cuckoo, my cuckoo..."

Cheng Cheng threw away the controller, closed his eyes, and unknowingly found his mind filled with scenes of pleasure with Bugu in the dungeon.

Just then, the door was knocked open, and Li Xianyu walked in excitedly: "Freya, Freya! Tomorrow is Sylvia's birthday, have you prepared a gift?"

He looks very happy; it seems this guy had quite a haul at the cemetery.

"Have you thought it through..." Cheng Cheng said after a slight hesitation, "But I plan to send two copies."

One was for Freya, and the other was for Cheng Cheng himself.

He planned to tie his soul form with ribbons and send it to Sylvia's bed... She would surely be very happy, right?

Freya's gift was simple: a pair of earrings.

It doesn't have any fixed magic or divine protection skills; it's just a very pretty piece of jewelry. It's a collection Freya took with her when she escaped from the palace—worth 230 million credits, which isn't expensive for royalty or nobles. Freya just liked it, and Felix had asked for it for a long time but she couldn't bear to give it to him.

If Freya hadn't overheard Cheng Cheng mentioning during a casual conversation that he wasn't interested in jewelry like anklets, navel studs, and shin rings—items that didn't increase attack speed—she wouldn't have been willing to give them away...

"What are you planning to give?" Cheng Cheng asked.

"A necromancer!" Li Xianyu exclaimed, spreading his arms wide. "A huge necromancer!"

I guessed it would be like this...

"Let me remind you, apart from you, there are probably very few girls who would be interested in a rotting corpse," Cheng Cheng kindly reminded her.

"Of course I know!" Li Xianyu said matter-of-factly. "How can you give someone such an unlucky thing as a rotting corpse as a birthday present?"

"You know it's unlucky too..." Cheng Cheng was pleased that Li Xianyu had a normal way of thinking.

"Of course!" Li Xianyu nodded seriously. "Birthdays should be lively! Even if you're sending off a corpse, it should be one that just died on the battlefield, still radiating fresh, hot blood and a strong aura of killing intent... It's both lively and practical!"

“I apologize for momentarily thinking you were normal,” Cheng Cheng sighed. “But I think Sylvia isn’t interested in fresh corpses either…”

"That's why I want to send a guardian spirit!"

As Li Xianyu spoke, she grabbed Cheng Cheng's hand and ran towards the basement.

Along the way, Cheng Cheng saw his own followers of the Primal God unloading body bags from trucks and carrying them into the basement, which made him a little hesitant: "Well, although our kingdom values ​​death and the corpse industry has even formed a futures market... it's still not a good idea to dig up so many from the cemetery, is it?"

Digging up someone else's ancestral graves is utterly immoral.

"Don't mention this, it makes me so angry!" Li Xianyu said indignantly. "When I got to the cemetery, I found out that the capital had already passed a law requiring all burials to be cremated fifty years ago... How could they waste necromantic materials so blatantly? Did the person who enacted this law have their brains eaten by a donkey? I curse them to have sons with blond hair who can drive ghost fire, and daughters who will be kidnapped by blond-haired kids and have children out of wedlock..."

If I'm not mistaken, the person you're calling brain-dead is Sylvia's father.

It's her birthday tomorrow, is it appropriate to say that?

"Fortunately, the cemetery keeper introduced me to a friend named Prison A, who brought in quite a few corpses, all of them gruesome deaths from starvation and other causes. The first death record is excellent!" Li Xianyu said, hands on her hips. "Speaking of which, Prison A is actually from the same hometown as me; we're both Imperial Elves..."

As Cheng Cheng listened to Li Xianyu's incessant chatter, he soon arrived at the basement.

At this moment, the array originally used to sense the primordial demon was moved aside, and in the center of the hall was a magic array composed of various corpse parts.

So-called "corpse parts" are various materials, devices, and equipment made from human bodies as raw materials... such as common ashes, relics, and some magical prosthetics, all of which fall into this category.

The production and sale of the body parts were handled by the kingdom's pharmaceutical group, the very force behind Harari, one of the queen's candidates.

The pharmaceutical group was originally a front for the Kingdom's necromancer faction, which had always wanted to turn all the rich people into vampires and then transform the entire kingdom into a necromancer empire... In the witch's trial, she even conspired with Liu Ruyan to create a mess of altering people into souls, and was eventually burned to death by Cheng Cheng.

If Li Xianyu hadn't accidentally joined Cheng Cheng's new Primal God Cult, she might have quickly displayed her talent in the Necromancer faction and been recruited by them.

Thinking about it, Cheng Cheng looked at the large formation curiously and asked, "What is this?"

"It's one of the masterpieces of the Necromancer faction, the 'Taiyin Fengdu Borrowing Generals Formation'," Li Xianyu explained. "In our Necromancer faction's legends, all undead return to the primordial demon of death. Thus, the great necromancer ancestor, 'Youming Blood Lord,' founded Fengdu, intercepting souls before they entered the abyss."

"From then on, the dead could live in Fengdu, or drink Meng Po's soup to forget their 'memories,' and then be sent into reincarnation... The endless cycle of reincarnation for all living beings in the world is all thanks to Him."

"So, what does this have to do with gifts?"

"This isn't the end of the explanation," Li Xianyu said. "This formation is to summon a guardian spirit for the person undergoing the ritual by contacting Fengdu."

"Guardian spirits are not the undead themselves, but projections of all living and undead beings in the records of Fengdu. They can bring good luck to their master, help them resist a certain degree of soul attacks, mental attacks, and undead attacks, and can even communicate with their master and deliver messages for them... The materials for the corpses required for this ritual are very expensive. If I hadn't made a fortune on the fifteenth floor, I wouldn't have been able to afford it..."

Cheng Cheng glanced at the formation and asked curiously, "Can you specify which guardian spirit to summon?"

He wanted to pull out the projection of the cuckoo and ask her how she really viewed him...

"What level of guardian spirit one can summon depends entirely on the summoner's rank and destiny," Li Xianyu said. "But if you don't like it, you can refuse... Freya, would you like to give it a try?"

"of course."

Cheng Cheng tried standing at the edge of the ceremony, then chanted the incantation Li Xianyu had taught him, infusing it with magic, and softly recited: "Heaven has nine heavens, earth has nine springs. The moon obscures the sun, the gates of Fengdu open..."

At the same time, she kept repeating to herself, "She must be a beautiful girl, she must be a beautiful girl..."

"...Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!"

As the final sound rang out, the magic circle lit up, and a glowing shadow appeared in the center of the circle.

As the light faded, an old man appeared, riding backwards on a blue ox. He had white hair and looked frail.

Cheng Cheng thought the old man was too old and let him go.

The second person to respond to the summons was a bald man who pointed one finger to the sky and one to the ground, shouting something like "I am the only one who is supreme in heaven and on earth." Cheng Cheng thought he was a pretentious chuunibyou and chased him away.

The third one looked even less capable. He was carrying a basket with five pancakes and two fish in it. Cheng Cheng wasn't hungry, so why would he need a fishmonger? He simply waved him away.

The fourth person scooped up a handful of water from somewhere and wanted to drink it—Cheng Cheng wasn't thirsty, and even if he were, he would have drunk a beverage, so he was let go.

After four summoning attempts, all that was summoned were unreliable men. The beautiful girl guardian spirit was not summoned, and all the magic power was used up.

"Sigh, Freya, the guardian spirits you summon don't seem very reliable." Li Xianyu sighed. "You're clearly a princess; your destiny and status should be enough to summon very strong guardian spirits."

"Maybe I'm just unlucky." Cheng Cheng scratched his head. "I'll rest for a bit and try again tonight to see if I can summon the one I want."

…………

"Heaven has nine heavens, earth has nine springs. When the moon is obscured, the gates of Fengdu open..."

"...Borrow your indestructible body from the Nine Netherworlds to be my gatekeeper...The Moon knocks on the gate, Fengdu lends its generals..."

"...Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!"

Silverlight City, an underground ruin.

Harari looked at the guardian spirit he had summoned and immediately showed a joyful expression.

I never expected I could actually summon this...

Chapter 93, Birthday Cakes are the Tombstones of Youth

"Unexpectedly, modifying the 'Taiyin Fengdu Borrowing General Array' using the methods of the Primordial God Cult can actually summon this being..."

Harari watched the crimson figure slowly rise from the magic circle, his heart surging with emotion.

This is because the man before them is the first progenitor of the vampires, the vampire who is determined to die and will die a thousand deaths—Lord Distobia Vitoso Suiseid!

Vampires.

This race, created by the legendary Blood Lord of the Underworld, is the ultimate masterpiece of the Necromancer faction.

In the distant past, before the abyss descended and before the Amber God roamed the earth, the vampires were once the leaders of all races. However, they weakened for unknown reasons and were eventually sealed away by six intelligent races, including elves and humans, completely disappearing from the world.

Then, the primordial demons of the abyss descended.

Just as civilization was on the verge of extinction, amber became a god, sealing the entrance to the abyss and bringing a thousand years of peace to the world.

However, the necromancer faction that worshipped the Netherworld Blood Lord never stopped searching for the vampires, and eventually unearthed an ancient ruin from which they obtained the primordial blood of the first progenitor.

By diluting the source blood and injecting it into the body, vampires with unlimited lifespans can be created—this is what Harari claims to be the vampire modification surgery.