Life Game In Other World
Chapter 505: Molt Shadow Club (Long - for Monthly Pass)

Chapter 505: Chapter 505: Molt Shadow Club (Long Chapter for Monthly Pass)

"Ah?"

Elfia blinked, staring at He Ao, stopping her movements, "You guessed quite accurately."

He Ao signaled for her to find a place to sit and talk, and they both walked over to sit on the benches in the courtyard.

Elfia looked at the sky outside the courtyard and whispered, "I am of mixed heritage; my father was from Rodan, and my mother was from Central Earth. I was born in a small village on the western border of Central Earth."

"Your martial techniques come from your mother?"

He Ao asked quietly.

"Yes," Elfia nodded, "My father was someone deeply obsessed with pursuing higher levels of Martial Arts. He visited all the masters in the Western Lands, but he never found the top-tier Martial Arts he was looking for.

"So he traveled eastward, deciding to enter the ancient lands of Central Earth in search of the Martial Arts he sought. He didn’t take a plane directly to the big cities of Central Earth; instead, he walked into Central Earth from the border, and my grandfather was a renowned martial arts master in the nearby area at that time, so he went to visit him.

"That was the time, he met my mother."

As she said this, Elfia smiled, "My mother beat him up quite badly. My mother later told me that he challenged her for half a month, and in that half month, she turned him into a ’pighead’."

He Ao watched her quietly, listening to her story in silence.

"Later, my father persistently begged my grandfather to take him as an apprentice, but he still got thrashed by my mother. Father said he knew then that he had fallen in love with my mother, while mother said it was probably Stockholm syndrome, having been victimized too much, he fell for his tormentor.

"But somehow, they fell in love."

Elfia seemed lost in her memories, "But getting married to my mother was not easy, as my grandfather was a very conservative man. He didn’t like foreigners, and marriage meant someone else joining the family; there was no option for my mother to leave the house.

"Our community was very conservative overall; men who married into the family had a low status, but my father still chose to do so."

"So, ’Li’ is your mother’s surname?"

He Ao continued.

"Yes, my Central Earth name and Western Lands name both carry the surname ’Li.’ My full name from the Western Lands is ’Elfia Li.’ Because of my father, I’ve been speaking the language of Rodan since I was a child, but I am a person from Central Earth,"

Elfia nodded, she fumbled in her pocket for a moment, pulled out a Central Earth passport, and showed it to He Ao, "Although I haven’t been home in a long time."

"So you came to Rodan also with the intention of seeing your father’s homeland?"

He Ao glanced at the name ’Li Dalì’ on the passport and asked softly.

"In a sense, I am here to find my father."

Elfia shook her head, seemingly caught in some memory, "About five years ago, my father suddenly left a letter at home saying he wanted to go home for a visit and then disappeared. He never returned, and because of this, there were many rumors. Some thought my father had betrayed my mother; others thought he died somewhere outside.

"My grandfather searched with many friends but could not find any trace of my father. My father loved us deeply; if he was truly safe, he would not fail to send a message to me and my mother. In the end, my grandfather believed my father had passed away and arranged a funeral for him.

"Later, when my pursuit of Martial Arts reached its limit, I proposed to go out and seek my path. My grandfather thought about it for three days and eventually agreed.

"But none of us had ever left our hometown. We didn’t know what the outside world was like. Only while my father was still with us did he tell me about the customs of the Western Lands and his youthful challenges against various fighters.

"So I planned to follow the path my father had traveled, to search for his footsteps, while seeking a way to break through my limits and see if I could find my missing father."

Clearly, from the wandering state Elfia was in now, it seemed she had not found the person she was looking for.

The cold wind brushed the girl’s cheeks.

He Ao, sitting on the bench, asked softly, "So your eyes are inherited from your father?"

"Mhm," Elfia nodded, "My father said, in their family everyone has eyes like these."

"I’ve walked around the neighborhood and hardly seen anyone with eyes like yours," He Ao remarked earnestly.

"Indeed, such eyes are rare," Elfia nodded in agreement, as though recalling something. "I’ve been traveling in the Western Lands for quite some time, and I haven’t come across many with the same eye color as mine. However, the people here possess a variety of eye colors, with many rare ones among them, so I haven’t paid it much mind."

Then she turned to He Ao, "Master He Ao, are you investigating something?"

Despite her innocence, she possessed an extraordinarily keen intuition.

"A matter that may or may not involve you," He Ao said slowly, "I haven’t quite figured it out yet. Once I do, if it truly concerns you, I will let you know."

Upon hearing this, Elfia paused, vaguely aware that what He Ao was investigating might pertain to her father.

However, she said nothing and simply nodded in gratitude, "Thank you."

"No need for thanks, you’ve also helped me,"

He Ao stood with a smile, glancing at the stall in the yard, and asked with a chuckle, "Did Hong Long ask you to bring your stall over here?"

Elfia appeared to be someone who followed the rules diligently. Without permission, she wouldn’t do something so presumptuous.

"Yes, the owner Hong Long, upon learning that I had a stall inside a guesthouse that I was about to clear out, suggested I push it over here, and even sell some stir-fried noodles to the disciples. After he found out that I’m from Central Earth, he took really good care of me,"

As she spoke, Elfia looked up at He Ao, "Also, he said if you allow it, I could move to the east side studio, which would also make it more convenient for work."

Naturally, Elfia wished to be as close to He Ao as possible, for her purpose in coming here was to seek the Way, not to find work.

But she was well aware that everything required He Ao’s permission. Otherwise, if she moved over rashly and annoyed He Ao, her plan of studying with him would come to an abrupt end.

After a failure the first time, obtaining another chance would become much harder.

He Ao quickly understood Hong Long’s intentions. Hong Long must have communicated with this girl and thought highly of her. The reason he wanted her to move over was probably to lift some of He Ao’s restrictions.

After all, if only He Ao lived here, then he would need to return to the compound at night to help guard the martial arts gym for Hong Long. But if Elfia also lived here, He Ao wouldn’t have to come back at night if he was occupied.

Ordinary thieves, or even those who came to challenge the gym, as long as they weren’t Transcendents, couldn’t beat Elfia.

Reflecting on this, He Ao pondered for a moment and then nodded gently, "I have no objections."

Hearing this, Elfia quickly stood up, "Thank you, I won’t cause you any trouble."

Having a place to stay was good news for her as well, considering rent was a major expense, and she didn’t have much money.

He Ao chatted with Elfia a bit more, then returned to the inner room.

He picked up his phone and opened the information about the Era of Kingdoms that Yang De had sent him yesterday.

The family of the last king of the Rodan Kingdom ruled for about two hundred years until they were overthrown five years ago.

This family was known for their strong eye color dominant genes, with the majority of them having brown-red pupils, which was one of the criteria for determining nobility during the Era of Kingdoms.

Of course, with the development of the industrial revolution, many former nobles lost their privileges and intermarried with commoners. In recent decades, the brown-red pupil color lost much of its status in Rodan, although it remained rare.

He Ao quickly turned to the Chapter introducing the family of the last king.

The father of the last king of Rodan was one of the kingdom’s wisest rulers. During his reign, he balanced the relationship between the Western Lands and the Tia Empire, initiated numerous reforms and decentralizations, leading to continuous economic growth and a flourishing trend for Rodan.

Regrettably, the old king died young, and his successor, the last king, was an outright tyrant, causing the nation’s developing power to regress once again.

However, the information mentioned that the old king had two sons. The successor, the last king, was the elder son named Ruonati, and there was also a younger son named Ronnie.

Both sons were intelligent in their youth, but the elder was better at performing and socializing, while the younger was more introverted.

The king’s family affairs are hard to keep secret, and it was rumored that his second son was especially fond of fighting. Before he even came of age, he had defeated all the martial arts masters in Eren, and after reaching adulthood, he traveled abroad to challenge others multiple times.

Then one day, this second son suddenly disappeared.

The royal family didn’t release any information, but since then, there have been no more announcements about this prince, nor has anyone seen any trace of him.

And the time of the prince’s disappearance, roughly twenty years ago, seems to match the experience of Elfia’s father.

Furthermore, Elfia’s father disappeared from Central Earth about five years ago, at a time when the internal situation in Rodan was turbulent.

If He Ao’s guess is correct, and this Prince Ronnie really completely severed ties with the royal family to marry into a small town in Central Earth and lead a humble life with a wife and children, why would he return to Rodan when the kingdom was in turmoil?

And after returning to Rodan, why has there been no news of him?

As Elfia said, as long as he was alive, he could always send a message back home.

Unless for some reason, he didn’t want to send a message, or, he was no longer able to.

However, records from five years ago show that the opposition also tried to find traces of Prince Ronnie, but found nothing.

Or perhaps He Ao’s conjecture is wrong, and Elfia’s father is not Prince Ronnie; that prince may have already disappeared or died long ago.

He Ao currently has no evidence, and there is too much missing information to directly connect Elfia’s father with this Prince Ronnie.

He Ao turned off his mobile phone and noted down this information.

At the end of the Rodan dynasty, a vast amount of wealth disappeared, but no clear heir inherited it.

And the last king was not so much inept as he was brutal; according to intelligence gathered from other nations, most states in the Western Lands acknowledged that this king was a capable monarch.

It’s just that in the last few years of his rule, he seemed to be under some urgent pressure and started to amass wealth by unscrupulous means.

Such a man, coinciding with the era of the Transcendent emergence, He Ao did not think it implausible that he had his own arrangements in the Transcendent realm, and that missing wealth may have been spent on Transcendent endeavors.

And as his second daughter, Jin Ya is a C-level Transcendent, and it has probably been a long time since she advanced to C-level.

In both the main world and the Copy World, advancing is not so easy.

For example, the C-level individuals at the Research Institute are mostly those who chanced upon the Transcendent world either a decade ago or even earlier.

Three to four years is not enough for an ordinary person to go from zero to C-level.

This would prove that the last royal family of Rodan may have come into contact with Transcendent powers long ago.

And Jin Ya, being a high-ranking member of Daybreak and a confidante of the ’boss’, He Ao had reason to suspect that the ’boss’ was connected to the last royal family of Rodan.

Furthermore, there’s some interesting information in the records about the era of the Rodan Republic.

The leaders of the opposition who initially overthrew the king were all bizarrely killed at home with sharp weapons about two years ago, with the fatal wounds being very thin, and the victims having lost a great deal of blood.

This description is very similar to the effects caused by the Transcendent item ’Shadowless’ obtained by He Ao from Jin Ya.

The blade of Shadowless is very thin, and it requires fresh blood to flourish.

So it’s highly likely that these opposition members were killed by Jin Ya or someone related to her.

He Ao leans more towards Jin Ya taking personal revenge.

Because the Research Institute’s records once mentioned that about two years ago, Sloane, who had already been killed by Liu Zhengyun, secretly entered Rodan, supposedly to capture the ’assassin’ who had killed the leaders of the opposition.

Only a C-level would elicit a personal response from a B-level, and the number of C-levels are scarce; those who had already advanced to C-level would have acted long ago if they were to act at all.

By two years ago, it was probably a newly advanced Transcendent.

Two years ago, perhaps when Jin Ya was promoted to C-level.

At that time, Jin Ya must have already been on the ’Boss’s side.

The final outcome of that incident was Sloane returning without any success, only able to sit in Eren for a while to hamper the assassination. A B-level, within his own theoretical domain of influence, unable to find an assassin, itself said something.

The ’rule’ of Moonlight in Rodan was not solid.

Perhaps the ’Boss’ himself had made a move to help Jin Ya block Sloane, but all that information had been sealed by Moonlight, inaccessible to discover.

He Ao put down his phone, looked out the window, and took a long breath.

He had a premonition that the breakthrough to finding the ’Boss’ lay with the last King.

Clarifying the ’Boss’s arrangements in Rodan would not only help him confront the Boss, but also assist him in using those arrangements to oppose the Divine Being attempting to descend into the main world.

Almost the moment he put down his phone, the screen flickered—Li Le’s message had arrived.

Li Le: [File]

Li Le: [Minister He, there are a total of thirty-five sects that have surfaced in Eren City in the last two years, suspected to be related to the Transcendents. I’ve sent you the data.]

He Ao opened the file and glanced over it.

The so-called sects that were active in Eren City were varied in kind.

Anything from the Pan-Fried Steak Sect, Must-Dip Fries in Ketchup Sect, Early to Bed Early to Rise Sect, Lie-in Bed Sect, Alien Prophet Sect, Sleep Without Pillow Sect, dazzling in variety, each strange and peculiar.

These sects all professed to have people within their ranks possessing Transcendent abilities.

But none of the more recently emerged sects appeared only when relics were descending.

After a moment of thought, He Ao realized he had misunderstood. The main world was not like the Copy World, where Evil God worship was widespread, and all Evil Gods came standard with a Sect. The Primitive Sects fundamentally existed under the guise of sects.

Those involved with Primitive Sects in the main world might not necessarily have this basic knowledge.

Moreover, having been muddled by all kinds of bizarre sects, propagating by means of a church’s name would also be difficult in the main world.

So perhaps he should shift his thinking—those Primitive Sects might not necessarily appear in the public eye under the guise of sects, but might propagate through other forms that could spread more widely and attract attention.

At this moment, He Ao suddenly remembered Alerio, who had come to challenge him the day before.

Initially, He Ao thought Alerio’s Transcendent abilities were awoken by himself, but somewhat unstable with a tendency towards madness. Now, considering what he knew of Black Shadow, the incoming Divine Being might also possess some method of enhancing human strength.

With this in mind, He Ao first replied with a confirmation and requested that Li Le expand the investigation scope, gathering information on suspected active Transcendents, especially those from World Tree and Moonlight active in South City.

Then he picked up the business card the gendarmerie leader had given him and dialed the number.

The gendarmerie leader was initially surprised that He Ao had called him so quickly but then listened to He Ao’s request.

He Ao wanted him to check where Alerio had been active in the last few days.

Li Le’s intelligence system was more aligned with Transcendents, but for local civilian intelligence, he needed the local serpent-like the gendarmerie leader.

"This is easy, give me fifteen minutes."

The gendarmerie leader said and hung up.

About thirteen minutes later, the gendarmerie leader sent a text message,

[Molt Shadow Club]

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