Who told you I am an NPC

Chapter : 35

"This thing, rather than being related to the tragedy of six years ago, is more related to Kalenna's obsession."

Lilian seemed to half-understand, waiting for Yan Yunqing to give a more specific explanation.

Who knew that Yan Yunqing would change the subject, "Let's go, let's meet this genius mage."

Lilian:?

Following the guidance of the minimap, Yan Yunqing walked slowly along the edge of the village until he reached—the pond where he first encountered the Ghost-faced Earthworm.

A few small animals were drinking water by the pond.

Hearing Yan Yunqing's footsteps, they all raised their heads alertly and looked in Yan Yunqing's direction.

After confirming that Yan Yunqing was walking towards them, they all ran away in a few breaths.

Yan Yunqing took out the [Primary Mana Awakening Stone] and [Henry's Longsword] from his backpack.

The prompt to open the instance popped up in front of him again.

[It is detected that you have collected all item keys 2/2. Do you wish to open the instance [Sunset·The Lingering Shadow of the Curse]?]

[Y or N]

Yan Yunqing decisively clicked Y.

The space around him rippled like water.

The forest was still the same forest, and the pond was still the same pond, but it gave people the illusion that they were no longer in the same space.

...No, this is not an illusion!

Lilian became vigilant and flew in front of Yan Yunqing, her hand tightly gripping her magic wand.

"We seem to have entered a separate space.

Be careful, there might be demonic beasts with spatial skills here."

"Don't worry." This was the first time Yan Yunqing was being shielded by a tiny elf.

"Rest assured, there won't be any very high-level demonic beasts."

Because the game panel had prompted that the level of this instance was Lv.15.

It was a primary instance, and the highest-level monster would not exceed Lv.18, which was even lower than Yan Yunqing's current level.

There was no need to worry at all.

"Where on earth did you get this information..." Lilian was not comforted at all.

Sure enough, after Yan Yunqing took two steps forward, two Lv.12 Ghost-faced Earthworms drilled out of the ground.

They were exactly the same as the one Yan Yunqing had encountered before, except that the demonic beasts in the instance seemed to be a bit smaller.

Yan Yunqing, who was infinitely close to level twenty, was not panicked at all.

He didn't even take out his magic wand and directly charged at the Ghost-faced Earthworms with the longsword in his hand.

"Hey you—" Lilian was startled. "What are you doing... eh?"

The scene of Yan Yunqing being knocked over by the Ghost-faced Earthworm that she had expected did not happen.

When facing the Ghost-faced Earthworm's attack, Yan Yunqing executed a [Dodge] followed by a [Charge].

With an upward slash, the longsword in Yan Yunqing's hand was unstoppable, breaking through the Ghost-faced Earthworm's pitiful physical defense.

It was directly cut in half, with the remaining half of its flesh still connected, and a pool of incredibly foul-smelling liquid burst out.

Lilian hesitated, "Swordsman...?"

Yan Yunqing dodged again, avoiding the attack of the other Ghost-faced Earthworm, and even had the mood to look back at Lilian.

"What are you standing there for? Support, apply buffs, clear debuffs.

You can't just watch a magic knight like me tank and deal damage at the front, right?"

Lilian: "...When did you learn swordsman skills? Are you really planning to do both?"

Yan Yunqing: "Of course, who isn't a genius?"

Lilian, with mixed feelings, cast a buff on Yan Yunqing and also cleared the [Corrosion] debuff on him, watching Yan Yunqing wield a longsword and cut a path through the thorns.

This just looked so strange.

In the future, would there really be a scene where a mage, while casting magic, suddenly pulls out a greatsword and smashes it on the enemy's head?

The two level-twelve Ghost-faced Earthworms were no match for Yan Yunqing.

He quickly hacked the two ugly demonic beasts to death.

As the two demonic beasts fell and turned into specks of light, Yan Yunqing's level also rose to twenty.

Feeling a surge of power flowing through his body, Yan Yunqing tried throwing a punch and was very satisfied with the sound of it cutting through the air.

Very good, this will make clearing the instance even faster.

Following the quest's guidance, Yan Yunqing led Lilian deeper into the forest.

Lilian observed their surroundings, "Strange, every blade of grass and every tree in this forest is no different from before.

If I hadn't noticed when we were drawn into this space just now, I might not even recognize that we've entered another dimension."

"No, there is a difference," Yan Yunqing pointed, "Look, that tree.

When we entered the forest before, it was growing on the right. Now it's growing on the left."

Lilian looked closely and recalled for a moment, "Really?"

"Wait... now that you mention it, it does seem that way.

Everything seems to have been flipped?

Could this be a mirror space?"

Yan Yunqing smiled without saying a word.

This was a setting in "Demon King".

All instances were mirror spaces copied based on reality.

Everyone and everything inside would repeat the period of time copied by the instance.

Players accepted this well, but it was a bit difficult to explain to the native NPCs, so Yan Yunqing chose to remain silent.

They walked along a small path leading deep into the forest.

It was quiet here. Even the Lulu Pigs that could be seen from time to time had disappeared without a trace.

For a moment, the only sound in this space was the rustling of Yan Yunqing's shoes stepping on weeds and dead leaves.

"Hiss..." A sharp intake of breath in pain came from not far away.

Lilian was startled and whispered to Yan Yunqing, "Someone's there?"

Yan Yunqing nodded, holding the longsword, and walked towards the direction of the sound, staying vigilant for any demonic beasts that might suddenly appear.

Parting the messy bushes, Yan Yunqing and Lilian finally saw the source of the sound.

A young man with chestnut-colored hair was sitting on the ground.

His upper body was bare, and his arms and chest were covered with deep and shallow wounds.

A few were still bleeding, clearly injured not long ago.

At this moment, the young man had his head down, clumsily bandaging himself with a strip of cloth.

Seeing that bandaging technique, Yan Yunqing couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

Such a crude technique. It must hurt a lot to bandage it like that.

As if hearing the sound, the young man with chestnut-colored hair looked up and saw Yan Yunqing and Lilian.

Only then could they see each other's faces clearly.

The chestnut-haired young man was stunned when he saw Yan Yunqing, "Eh? You are?"

Then he saw Lilian and was even more surprised, "An elf, why would you be here?"

Yan Yunqing sheathed his longsword and walked towards him, "We were just passing by.

We were attacked by two Ghost-faced Earthworms just now and had to run this way to shake them off.

Do you need help with that?"

Lilian gave Yan Yunqing a strange look, wondering how he could lie so shamelessly.

However, she didn't expose him at this moment and maintained her silent style, following Yan Yunqing like a mute.

It really wasn't easy for a chatterbox to pretend to be mute!

"Ah, Ghost-faced Earthworms?"

The chestnut-haired young man frowned, a troubled expression on his face.

"Have more demonic beasts spawned?

It seems I have to hurry and take care of those two... It would be bad if they get near the village."

Yan Yunqing squatted down in front of the chestnut-haired young man and, without another word, took the strip of cloth from his hand and began to bandage him.

"Don't worry, I observed them when I shook them off just now. They're not heading towards Sunset Village."

The chestnut-haired young man was momentarily stunned by Yan Yunqing's overly familiar actions.

He watched blankly as he skillfully tied the cloth for him, even making a beautiful bow, and then took out a small bottle from somewhere, uncorked it, and poured it into his mouth.

"Mmph? Mmph! Wait... gulp... cough cough..."

Caught off guard, the chestnut-haired young man was forced to drink a small bottle of potion by Yan Yunqing.

He stared with wide, round eyes, filled with confusion and shock.

"What are you doing?"

"A recovery potion." Yan Yunqing tossed the empty small red potion aside.

The empty bottle fell to the ground and soon turned into specks of light and disappeared.

"Looking at you, I was afraid you'd die before you even found those Ghost-faced Earthworms."

"...But you didn't have to just come up and pinch my face, forcing me to drink it, right?"

The chestnut-haired young man didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"I was really a bit scared."

Mainly, the person in front of him had too strong an aura, so much so that when his face was pinched and he was forced to drink the potion, he didn't even react.

Should he say that it was a good thing this person had no ill intentions?

Otherwise, he would probably be lying on the ground now.

The expression on the chestnut-haired young man's face was too easy to read.

Yan Yunqing curled his lips, "Alright, you should be feeling weak all over now, right?

Congratulations, what you just drank was a new poison I developed.

As the first person to experience this honor, do you have any last words?"

The chestnut-haired young man:?!

The chestnut-haired young man's eyes widened again. His startled look made him seem like a silly roe deer.

Lilian was fed up.

She stood between Yan Yunqing and the chestnut-haired young man, "Alright, why are you always scaring him?

You can develop a new poison? Even I, who has been with you all this time, don't know about it."

The chestnut-haired young man: "Eh? Eh?? Eh!"

The chestnut-haired young man was dumbfounded, "So I was tricked?"

Lilian was speechless and rolled her eyes at him, "Yeah, congratulations, you finally figured it out."

The chestnut-haired young man: ...

He was very innocent, his round eyes looking at Lilian, then at Yan Yunqing, as if protesting Yan Yunqing's immoral act of deceiving people.

Yan Yunqing couldn't stop laughing, while Lilian pulled a long face, looking unhappily at Yan Yunqing enjoying himself.

After being glared at by Lilian several times, Yan Yunqing finally raised his hands in surrender and extended a hand to the chestnut-haired young man, "How do you feel?"

The chestnut-haired young man checked his body and indeed found that his injuries were mostly healed, and his stamina had also recovered.

He took Yan Yunqing's extended hand and stood up, his eyes crinkling in a smile at Yan Yunqing, "Thank you for your potion. I feel much better."

The moment the chestnut-haired young man stood up, Yan Yunqing couldn't help but take two steps back.

Because this guy was really too tall. He must be at least 1.9 meters tall, right? It wasn't obvious when he was sitting, but when he stood up, he was like a pillar standing there.

No, brother, you have such a baby face, but when you stand up, you're like a small mountain. Is this really reasonable?

Yan Yunqing, who was currently only a little over 1.7 meters tall and not yet 1.8 meters: ...

Silence, silence...

This time, it was Lilian's turn to laugh.

Indeed, smiles don't disappear, they just transfer.

It had just transferred from Yan Yunqing's face to Lilian's.