Can't I develop my own character?

"Brother Ryan, where is the Grand Duke?"

Iverson looked left and right, and then he got the carriage as instructed.

Ryan silently closed the game interface and said, "He said he was going to change clothes."

"Change clothes?" Iverson felt the word was unfamiliar. "What else could the Grand Duke change into? I've never seen her wear anything other than her battle armor."

Ryan spread his hands. He had seen him twice. One time was when Maganna and he sneaked into the castle in the middle of the night to steal treasures in Childe City, and the other time was when he was watching the moon at night in Silver Front City. However, he was just wearing ordinary clothes. It was obvious that this Iron-Blooded Prince did not like to dress up on weekdays.

That's right. I go to the battlefield every now and then, and I'm too lazy to change my armor when I have nothing to do. Even if I am confident in my own strength, I still need to have complete equipment.

As the two were talking, they suddenly heard the sound of crisp footsteps.

Ryan turned around and was stunned.

It was Magna who came over.

At this time, Maganna changed out of her armor and wore a black Lolita dress with delicate lace. She wore a red lace hat decorated with gold flowers and feathers on her head. The hat was worn sideways, and her long white hair cascaded down along both sides of her shoulders. She looked petite and delicate, like a doll from a fairy tale.

Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta.

The black Mary Jane shoes made crisp sounds as they stepped on the ground. Maganna proudly puffed out her chest, like a proud fighting peacock who would never lower her noble head.

"Has the carriage arrived? Let's go."

Magna walked over to the carriage and saw that neither of them moved, so she turned around in confusion, "What are you standing there for?"

Iverson continued to be stunned: "Grandpa, how come you have changed? You were not like this before."

Magna was stunned: "What was I like before?"

Iverson wanted to say something, but Ryan immediately said, "The Grand Duke is elegant and generous, always like this."

Iverson asked, "Huh?", confused. Is that so?

How does being elegant and graceful fit in with the Grand Duke? Isn't the Grand Duke as violent as he can be?

However, Ryan did not give him a chance to speak again, and took the initiative to get on the carriage and set off.

If it had been a little later... Tsk~ The Grand Duke was so angry that blood shed for five steps.

In the carriage, Maganna sat with her legs together, a book on her lap, and was reading it carefully.

"Grand Duke, what are you looking at?" Ryan asked.

"Information about the Western Barbarians." Magna held up the book. The cover was black and wrinkled, without any information. Seeing Ryan's confusion, she explained, "This is a relic, the 'Book of Darkness'. It will reveal whatever information you desire."

Ryan was stunned. Is there such a treasure?

"What's the price?"

"Soul, it needs to be fed with enough soul before it can be used."

"Death Passage?"

It seems that each god has his own way of getting what he wants from his believers through a seemingly equal transaction.

For example, the priest Janus passed by got the answer when he asked for information about the Wild Hunt, but the price was a large number of sacrifices.

It is hard to say which one is more costly. If the Grand Duke uses it, this book will naturally be more convenient, because the battlefield is full of souls.

Ryan suddenly thought, could he use this method to find the fragments he needed for advancement?

Although we have not yet reached the second-order limit state, it is necessary to prepare for a rainy day.

"You want to use it? Here." Maganna handed the book to Ryan.

When he took the book, the densely packed contents suddenly disappeared and became a blank page.

"That was the answer I asked for just now, but you can't see it."

Ryan suddenly realized that it was no wonder that he had trouble seeing the words in the book.

"There are still many souls stored in this book. You can try it and just recite it silently in your heart." Maganna said.

"Is anything okay?"

"Theoretically, you can ask anything you want. The more complex the request, the harder it is to get the answer, and the more souls you'll need to spend."

Ryan hesitated for a moment. He didn't want to reveal the secret of the fragment to others, but the Grand Duke was trustworthy, and no one else could see the contents of the book.

Thinking of this, Ryan asked the Dark Book in his heart.

Wow~~

The blank pages began to tumble, and a dark flame burned on the book. Wisps of souls were released and merged into the flames to burn.

These were all dead souls, ownerless souls that Maganna had 'picked up' from the battlefield. They were essentially a type of energy, and as long as they were burned, they could activate the power of the Book of Darkness to obtain the desired answers.

Normally this is the case.

But this time it was different. As more and more souls were burned, the black flames grew higher and higher, and finally almost burned to the top of the car hood.

tumultuous!

The Book of Darkness burst into flames, and then everything returned to calm. Fortunately, the fire was from nothingness, otherwise the carriage would have been burned to ashes.

Looking at the still blank pages of the book, Ryan was a little confused: "Grand Duke, what's going on?"

Magna was also a little confused: "What did you ask?"

Ryan was confused: "Just asking."

The Grand Duke was stunned: "The soul is burned out. There are a full hundred thousand soul powers stored in it."

Ryan was confused: "A lot?"

The Archduke was confused: "There are so many. You can even get the answer if you ask Pope Janus what color underwear he likes to wear."

Ryan thought that this kind of problem shouldn't require burning 100,000 souls, right?

But judging from the situation, his problem was indeed that he burned 100,000 souls, and it was obviously not enough. You know, these 100,000 souls should be more than enough for the sacrifice of Janus. In other words, the secret of his advanced fragments is far greater than the secret of the King of the Wild Hunt?

Ok?

Ryan discovered that an exquisite silver badge suddenly appeared on the originally blank page.

"This is?"

Magna asked, "Did anything appear?"

"A small thing appeared, but I don't know what it is."

"how is it like?"

"A badge, silver."

Ryan described the badge as best he could. Since it appeared in the Book of Darkness, it must have a special meaning. The Grand Duke was knowledgeable and might know it.

"Hmm... It seems to be the emblem used by the Wildeyan royal family." Maganna frowned and thought for a while. "Yes, it should be. Five years ago, the Wildeyan royal family came to the August Empire. I saw it once."

"Wildea?"

Ryan was stunned. Oh my god, he was connected to the game character again.

Elvian is the king of Wildea.

However, with just this badge, Ryan didn't know where to start looking. The answer burned out of 100,000 souls was too cheap, right?

"What exactly did you ask?" Maganna was also a little curious. One hundred thousand souls, just gone like that. If Iverson did the same thing to her, she would definitely beat him to death.

"I'm asking... well, how can the Grand Duke unify the Northern Continent? This might be a bit general, but it seems we need to start by uniting all the people in the North."

"How could the Dark Book possibly know something like this?" Magna said unhappily. "Even if they were gods, the answers they knew were only definite answers to certain situations. They couldn't answer uncertainties like this, because the way they achieve their goals is completely different from ours."

It’s like, God, how can we achieve immortality?

But God said, life but not death.

How to rule this country?

But God said, let them all believe.

"Ah sorry Grand Duke, it's a waste."

"Forget it. It's my fault for not explaining it to you clearly. Anyway, we'll get it after a few battles."

Magna waved her hand nonchalantly.

Ryan looked out of the carriage, his thoughts drifting. He'd been thinking about building a new account these past few days. Tools were definitely needed to rule the empire. And what about Wildea? A new map had just opened up, so why not take advantage of the opportunity to explore it first?

"One hundred thousand souls were not burned in vain."

Come to think of it, if I hadn't asked about obtaining the advanced fragments, but instead asked what that thing was, I wonder if I would have gotten the result.

......

Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta.

The carriage gradually drove into the towering castle.

Through the curtain, Ryan saw several other carriages traveling on the road, all of them luxurious and majestic, with pony cars and BMWs. He had no knowledge of horses, but he knew they were valuable from the gold-plated decorations on the carriages. Some of them even had royal emblems on them.

"That's the Senate's carriage. I think it belongs to Prince Odysseus."

Magna squeezed her head out and looked at the most luxurious carriage among the many carriages and said, "That guy is Kahn's younger brother and the most powerful person in the Senate. However, he has no military power and only the title of prince."

"Although that old guy hasn't been doing well in recent years, he did do a lot in the past, and he held all the power in his hands. No one in the entire empire dared to resist him."

The power of the Inquisition, the Senate, the Fire Covenant, etc., these institutions are all in the hands of the old emperor. Maganna spoke quite well of the old man, but it was a pity that he had lost his integrity recently and was betrayed by the Eye of Dawn and Dusk.

Although the Senate has the power to vote on imperial affairs, in reality most of the people in it are the old emperor's confidants. Moreover, because they only have the title of senator, they are the type with name but no power, so they are not a big threat.

On the contrary, a general like Karkart who leads an army is much more threatening than this so-called prince.

Maganna pointed at the carriages along the way.

Occasionally someone would lift the curtain, but when they saw Maganna they were so frightened that they quickly dropped it and the carriage sped away.

Soon, everyone gathered in the castle's parking lot. When Ryan walked down, he could clearly feel countless pairs of eyes looking at him.

Some were surprised, some were confused, some were puzzled...

"Is that Magna?"

"It's her."

"I almost didn't recognize you dressed like that."

"That Magna actually has this side to her?"

"Oh my god! This has to be fake! How could that devil be so charming?!"

Although Maganna does have a bad reputation outside, I have to say that the Grand Duke is indeed charming today... well, if she doesn't speak.

"Stop making so much noise! ​​If you keep shouting, I'll pull out your tongues!" Maganna cast a deathly glare, and the nobles around her immediately turned around and left.

"Humph!"

The proud black peacock, Maganna, walked towards the palace in the middle of the castle with her head held high.

Ryan followed her. He felt that Maganna was the kind of person who was born with absolute confidence. No matter what they said, I would just do what I wanted to do.

But she is still powerful, and those who are annoyed and dislike her can't do anything to her.

Take this outfit for example. Although it may seem a little strange at first, after a few more glances you will realize how charming the Grand Duke is.

Very good, the portrait of Grand Duke Lolita has been unlocked.

Speaking of which...

Ryan glanced at Maganna's black Mary Jane shoes. Aren't the soles a little too high? He hadn't noticed before, but it seemed like every pair of Maganna's shoes had unusually high soles. So...was the Grand Duke about 5 feet 4 inches tall?

"Hmm?" Magna suddenly tilted her head. "What are you looking at?"

Ryan broke out in a cold sweat: "I was looking at the brand of the Grand Duke's shoes, they look pretty good!"

"This, I had someone custom-make it. If you like it, I can also ask them to make you a few pairs of men's styles."

"No, no, these shoes can only be worn elegantly by you, Duke. It would be ridiculous for others to wear them."

"Hehe~"

Maganna was very happy to be photographed.

She thought Ryan had good taste.

Someone had noticed her shoes before, but that guy actually doubted her height first. Humph! Go to hell, shit.