Who told you I am an NPC

Chapter : 28

"It was His Highness Feu who told me to do it.

He wanted to teach that ungrateful woman a lesson."

"Back then, His Highness Feu greatly admired Kalenna's appearance and wanted to make Kalenna his woman, but Kalenna never agreed.

Later, His Highness Feu discovered that Kalenna really had someone she liked, so he had me lure a demonic beast to teach that woman a lesson."

When Yan Yunqing first heard this name, he didn't realize who it was and was stunned.

Lilian, however, immediately frowned and reminded Yan Yunqing.

"It's Feu Bartovita, the Fifth Prince, the guy we met at the auction house."

Lilian's expression was full of disgust, "So it was him. With his stupid, lust-driven, and vengeful personality, it's indeed something he would do to have someone lure a demonic beast to slaughter a village."

Recalling the prince he had seen at the auction house that day, a trace of understanding flashed in Yan Yunqing's eyes.

So it even involved the royal family... It's no wonder that a castellan's son could completely suppress the matter after committing the act of slaughtering a village, because it was the royal family who was behind it.

Feu Bartovita...

"Dean, tell me in detail how Feu made you do this, and how you managed to lure the demonic beast to Sunset Village."

Dean had already struggled before, his will couldn't pass the check.

Now that Yan Yunqing continued to question him, he could only recount the past events in a stiff tone.

...

Kalenna, a woman of commoner origin, yet exceptionally beautiful and talented.

From the moment she entered the magic academy, she had always been a leader among her peers.

From a beginner, she rose through the ranks to become a junior mage at the age of seventeen.

Kalenna's reputation in the academy was very well-known.

Everyone knew she was beautiful, and what was even more outstanding than her appearance was her magical talent.

Therefore, Kalenna was also taken as a student by Lord Adelaide, who was also a female mage of commoner origin in the academy at that time.

After she became a junior mage, the Fifth Prince of Bartovita, who was also in the academy, developed the idea of possessing the beautiful and talented Kalenna.

His Highness the Fifth Prince of Bartovita proposed to a commoner mage without a surname.

It was a development like a fairy tale—yet this damned commoner girl actually rejected the noble prince!

"Kalenna said she already had someone she liked, so she couldn't accept His Highness Feu's feelings.

His Highness Feu was very angry.

I said I could teach that ignorant mud-blood a lesson for him."

"That day, I heard that Kalenna had applied for leave and was going home.

I had someone transport a demonic beast to the forest near that village, and sprinkled a potion that attracts demonic beasts outside the village, and killed that woman just like that."

Speaking of this, a crazed smile appeared on Dean's dull face, "She deserved to die.

How could a lowly commoner who grew up from the mud possess such a powerful talent—it must be her damned mother, who seduced some noble somewhere and gave birth to such a lowly commoner."

"She deserved to die... she couldn't possibly have such a powerful talent... she deserved to die..."

Dean repeated this sentence.

When Yan Yunqing continued to call his name and ask questions, he no longer responded.

Lilian endured her disgust and went forward to check his condition, "The hypnosis spell is about to wear off. You should prepare to evacuate."

Yan Yunqing clicked his tongue.

There were still many questions he hadn't asked clearly.

But if they stayed here any longer, once Dean completely woke up and called for people, he and Lilian would be in danger.

"Should we go?" Lilian asked.

Yan Yunqing lowered his eyes, "Wait a moment. Lilian, you should cast some other magic on him first, and don't let him wake up for now."

"Alright." Lilian waved her magic staff decisively and cast a deep sleep spell on Dean, "But this hypnosis spell has side effects. Dean will probably be able to break free from the control of the deep sleep spell soon.

You'd better be quick with whatever you're going to do."

"Very quick!" Yan Yunqing quickly took things out of his backpack and arranged them in Dean's room.

After everything was arranged, Yan Yunqing finally stood in front of Dean's bed, took a deep breath, drew the sword Old Jason had given him, aimed the tip of the sword at Dean's heart, and thrust it down hard.

Dean, who was still in a deep sleep, twitched a few times.

The desire to live made him struggle out of the deep sleep spell.

He looked in horror at the black-robed person who had appeared in his room at some unknown time.

Who—

Who had broken into his room to kill him?

Dean felt his life force rapidly draining away.

He subconsciously used the magic power in his body to hang on to his last breath, his eyes wide with rage, "You..."

Yan Yunqing was expressionless.

Seeing that Dean could still speak, and it didn't look like his heart had been pierced, he decisively pulled out the sword.

With a swish, blood splattered, and he once again stabbed it fiercely into the other's chest.

The second wound that pierced through his chest was obviously not something a mage in his thirties could withstand.

Dean's face quickly turned pale. He trembled his lips, and finally murmured in a whisper: "Why..." Why kill me...

Yan Yunqing confirmed Dean's death but still felt it wasn't safe.

As the saying goes, if you don't cut the grass by the roots, it will grow again in the spring breeze.

So he decisively cut off Dean's head.

At this point, even a feigned death would have to become a real death.

The first time he had truly killed someone, Yan Yunqing's heart was surprisingly calm, without a single ripple.

Yan Yunqing calmly shook the blood from the longsword.

He didn't put the sword back in his backpack, but equipped it directly.

He could already hear chaotic sounds from outside—as expected, for nobles like these, the monitoring of their descendants' vital signs was very strict.

"What's going on?

Why has Young Master Dean's life lamp gone out?"

"Where is Young Master Dean?!"

"He should be in the bedroom at this time—quickly, go and check on Young Master Dean's condition!"

"Enemy attack! Alert! Enemy attack! Alert!"

"Let's go." Yan Yunqing pushed open the heavy window of Dean's room.

Lilian glanced at the decapitated Dean, then at Yan Yunqing, and decisively hid herself back in Yan Yunqing's hood.

Yan Yunqing propped himself up on the windowsill and glanced down.

Probably because Dean's sudden death had thrown them into disarray, several patrol teams' routes overlapped, and they were involuntarily heading in their direction, which weakened the security on the periphery a lot.

Yan Yunqing had Lilian cast Levitation Spell and Concealment Spell on him, then climbed out the window and jumped down, landing on the protruding ledge and quickly jumping down.

When he was playing the role of a cat before, he had become very proficient in running and jumping in such places as if it were flat ground.

Coupled with Lilian's assistance, he quickly jumped into the landscape bushes without attracting attention.

Relying on the pitch-black night, he, dressed in black, blended into the bushes.

The next moment, a pair of patrolling guards hurried past, not suspecting the bushes at all.

Watching the red dots on the minimap pass by, and confirming that there were no other little red dots nearby, Yan Yunqing poked his head out and, crouching, quickly ran towards the periphery.

Just as he was running out, a loud boom came from the room they were originally in.

"Boom—"

A burst of fire lit up the side of Yan Yunqing's masked face, flickering, creating an inexplicably strange atmosphere.

Yan Yunqing didn't need to turn around to know that the patrol team that had rushed into the room to check on Dean's condition had triggered the trap he had set.

Suddenly, several small sparks with tails shot up into the sky, and at their highest point, they blossomed into breathtakingly beautiful fireworks.

A firework show brought about by an explosion.

Everyone's attention was drawn to the fireworks, and Yan Yunqing took the opportunity to break out of the encirclement.

The fireworks left over from the previous event in his backpack also came in handy.

"There!" Lilian clung to Yan Yunqing's shoulder, responsible for casting Levitation Spell and Concealment Spell on him, while also being on alert in the direction Yan Yunqing couldn't see, giving him reminders.

Yan Yunqing did a forward roll and quickly hid behind a flowerbed, his back against the cold stone slab, and watched as a team of shadows hurried past on the ground.

"They're all gone."

Lilian poked out the tip of her head, observed the surroundings, and pointed in a direction for Yan Yunqing, "The guards over there are weak, let's break through from there."

The direction she pointed to was exactly the location with the fewest red dots on the minimap.

Yan Yunqing didn't hesitate to activate stealth and rush in that direction, always paying attention to the enemy's position on the minimap.

However, even with such caution, he still couldn't avoid running into a patrol team.

"You are—" Before the word "who" could be spoken, Yan Yunqing had already drawn his longsword and slit the other's throat. Lilian followed up with a fire spell to destroy the corpse and eliminate the evidence.

The fluctuation of magic power attracted the attention of other patrolling guards nearby, "Who's there!"

But Yan Yunqing had already run far away.

By the time the fireworks that were constantly exploding in the sky had completely disappeared, Yan Yunqing had also successfully escaped from the Castellan's manor.

He hid in a small alley, furtively taking out a small blue potion to drink.

Very sneaky.

Lilian also took a sip, smacked her lips twice, and commented: "It has no taste at all, not good."

Yan Yunqing thought so too: "Next time, I'll try to see if I can add some berry juice—to adjust the taste."

The skill of making small blue potions and small red potions required unlocking the [Pharmacy] life skill.

Coincidentally, there was a self-taught physician in the village.

Yan Yunqing had unlocked the [Pharmacy] skill while doing a quest.

However, he hadn't practiced this skill much when he played "Demon King" (he had gotten the bound healer support, Elf King Silf, at the beginning of the game, so he didn't need to drink potions to replenish his stats).

He didn't have a single high-level recipe, so he could only make the lowest-level small blue potions and small red potions now.

In Yan Yunqing's memory, elves were indeed just like the stereotypes other races had of them: beautiful, powerful, and made of pure elements—very pure beings.

Perhaps because they were all born from the Elven Mother Tree, every elf had a simple personality, loving nature and peace.

Thinking of Silf, Yan Yunqing found himself a little distracted.

It was quite a coincidence, now that I thought about it.

When I played "Demon King", the first recruitable non-human kinsfolk my character met was also an elf.

My character's home was destroyed by a war between gods, and all his friends and family died in that war.

As the sole survivor, my character was hunted by the gods' believers and fled deep into the forest.

Along the way, he was attacked by a wild beast and passed out from excessive blood loss.

It was Silf who saved my character.

——This is the elves' territory. Human, why have you appeared here?

　——Your home was destroyed... I see.

Then you may stay for the time being. Leave once your wounds have fully healed. The elves do not interfere in any wars.