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Chapter 1070 - 491: Court of Oath_5

Chapter 1070: Chapter 491: Court of Oath_5

["I can’t believe you are ’Fools’!" The Red-haired Fairy crossed her arms and floated above, looking down at you all.]

["Speak! Who exactly are you, and why do you have Royal Fairy dust on you?"]

"Dust?"

Mu You raised an eyebrow, realizing they had been targeted just because of dust...

However, Royal Fairy? This term was new to Mu You; the Fairy Lady had never mentioned it before.

[You asked what a Royal Fairy is.]

["You really don’t know? Then where did your dust come from?" The Red-haired Fairy looked at you with surprise and furrowed her brows, "As the name suggests, Royal Fairies are the monarchs among Fairies, a superior existence even to high-ranking Fairies. They have carried the responsibility of leading the Fairy Clan since ancient times. However, the bloodline of Royal Fairies has been extinct for a long time, and currently, there are no legitimate Royals left among the Fairies. Tina knows about this because she was once part of a subsidiary branch of the Royals."]

["So, where did your dust come from?" The Red-haired Fairy stared intently at you: "Tina smelled your dust which seems quite fresh, like it was recently produced. Could it be that you know a living Royal Fairy?"

"A Royal..."

That’s when Mu You understood why all the Fairies they had met along the way had treated them with such deference; it turned out the Fairy Lady’s status was incredibly high.

After a moment of thought, Mu You did not answer directly but instead started asking something else.

["We are ’Fools,’ aren’t you going to capture us?" you asked.]

Mu You felt this Fairy was different from the others, and he decided to first test her attitude towards ’Fools.’

["You ask this, so does that mean you actually know a Royal Fairy?" The Red-haired Fairy became excited upon hearing this, and immediately assured, "Don’t worry, Tina has no hatred for Fools. Tina can even help you shake off all pursuers, but you must promise to bring Tina to meet that Royal Fairy afterward!"]

["Oh? How do you plan to shake them off?" the Watchman queried.]

Mu You also knew that they weren’t completely safe yet, as the text was still constantly warning him of strange beings gathering nearby, urging them to leave as soon as possible.

["Tina’s people can only help you shake off the army, but the aberrations are following the scent of you Fools and will relentlessly pursue you until you are annihilated. The only way to escape them is to sign a contract with a Fairy and become an affiliate. This can temporarily conceal your Fool’s scent. Of course, if they get too close, they will still detect you."]

["But how do you know all this?" the Watchman asked again.]

["Because Tina has seen a Fool being pursued by a massive horde of aberrations with her own eyes, and he survived by signing a contract with a Fairy just in time." The Red-haired Fairy said.]

["Are you saying a Fool has been here before?" you asked.]

["Of course, hundreds of years ago, a guy who claimed to be a ’Fool’ came to the Bitter Garden, openly spreading his ’Truth’ theories among the Fairy Clan, trying to incite the Fairies to become Fools as well."]

["However, since the Fairy Clan is a place where the Statues of Gods come from, perhaps his speeches offended the will of the deities, right after his arrival at the Bitter Garden, the aberrations there went berserk, just like your current situation."]

["At that time, he was surrounded by countless aberrations in the middle of the city, and at the critical moment, he managed to escape by urgently signing a contract with a Fairy. Eventually, he fled Sky City with that Fairy and never returned." Tina divulged a secret from the past to you.]

"It turns out to be that simple?"

Mu You sighed with relief and immediately sent a request for a contract to the Fairy Lady within the game.

[You proposed a contract to the fairy girl.]

[Both the fairy girl and Tina showed incredulous expressions.]

["Me? Really? I’m just a nobody, of no use at all, are you truly willing... to sign a contract with a fairy like me...?" The fairy girl looked at you in shock and fear, yet her eyes sparkled with a hint of inexplicable hope.]

Mu You did not reply, but instead sent the contract request again.

He didn’t quite understand what a contract meant to a fairy, but it held little practical significance to him since he could only stay here for a very short time and was about to leave soon. The contract would likely break automatically by then; for now, it was merely a temporary measure to avoid the oddities around them.

[Your resolute actions made the fairy girl’s eyes brim with tears as she gently nodded her head, agreeing to your request.]

[A mysterious invisible connection formed between you and the fairy girl.]

[Contract established! You became the protector of the unnamed fairy girl. From now on, within the same plane, you can sense each other’s locations. Until this contract is dissolved, you cannot enter into contracts with other fairies.]

["Unbelievable, with Saint Tina standing right in front of you, you chose to make a contract with a nameless fairy?" the Red-haired Fairy said, her eyes filled with melancholic resentment.]

["No choice, beautiful Miss Saintess, seems like it’s just the two of us now," the Watchman said with a resigned smile, extending his hand towards Tina with an invitation for a contract.]

["You?" Saintess Tina scrutinized the Watchman with disdain: "Isn’t your level a bit too low?"]

["Only level ten, with such a low level, typically only lower fairies would consider contracting, and Tina is a noble saintess. Wouldn’t others laugh at her if she made a contract with you?" Tina looked down on the Watchman with a sneer, her eyes rapidly shifting: "However, given Tina’s kind heart, it’s not impossible to consider a contract with you, but you must vow to take Tina to meet the Royal Fairy someday, and for the rest of your life, you must serve Tina loyally, with respect and availability at all times, wholeheartedly..."]

["Ah? That sounds troublesome, let’s just forget it then..." Upon hearing this, the Watchman decisively withdrew his request and turned to propose a contract to the fairy girl again: "Beautiful girl, would you mind having an additional contractor?"]

["Ah ah ah, enough with you two! Tina is a saintess, do you understand what that means? There are humans lining up every day to make a contract with me! You ignore Tina, preferring a nameless fairy instead, where is Tina lacking compared to her..." the Red-haired Fairy raised her hands and stomped her feet in the air in frustration.]

["I’m sorry, a fairy can only contract with one human at a time..." the fairy girl apologetically rejected the Watchman.]

["Figures I’d be rejected..." the Watchman said with regret, shaking his head before turning back to the Red-haired Fairy: "Miss Saintess, perhaps we should..."]

[Before he could finish his sentence, Tina immediately accepted the contract request, looked down proudly, and spoke through her nose at the Watchman: "Tina is being very merciful, accepting you, an unwanted wretch. Aren’t you going to give thanks?"]

[The moment the contract was completed, you felt the external anomalies immediately returned to calm, no longer converging here, and began wandering aimlessly again.]

["Thank you, most noble, knowledgeable, elegant, and kind Miss Saintess, for accepting a broken person like me. You’ve really helped out..." the Watchman felt the external peace restoring and heaved a long sigh of relief.]

["That’s more like it." The Red-haired Fairy hummed with a slight curl of her lips, then turned her head expectantly: "So, when will you take Tina to meet the Royal Family?"]

["Oh, about that, meeting the Royal Family is definitely possible, but you might need to wait a bit longer," the Watchman said.]

["How long?"]

["If we’re lucky, maybe just over a hundred years... If not, it could be much more troublesome, perhaps not until four thousand years later..."]

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