Out Of The Throne Room

 

 

 

The same day that Yun Beishang went back to his old apartment and accepted back the students from this mysterious 'Master', was also the same night that everyone in the Peaceful Rain Villa would finally go back into Rising Essence. Ever since the first update, Yun Beishang didn't even know what First Class Advancement there were for all basic classes, but only of that of hidden classes instead. Yet, there was already the Second Class Advancement available after the second update also came to be in Rising Essence.

This wasn't the same case for everyone else in the Villa though, as everyone but Yun Beishang had been crazily farming levels and items to grow along with each other in their own small little journey. From them, Yun Beishang also understood that everyone was given the same introduction, like the previous war, cruel blurred sceneries that he saw but that nor Faouzia nor Heliss Dirnn; instead, only Alexys Forchirch remained in the installations that even until today, no player has ever been able to find out about.

In any case, after just a month, the pro and elite players were already at either LV85 and starting their quest for Class Advancement which Yun Beishang only heard of a little from his people; or simply trying to get there. The overall level of casual players around the world was of LV50-LV70 with most players of that group being at LV60 and a fewer amount in the LV50 and LV70 marks. Then, there was the amount of dedicated players who spent lots of hours in the game every day... every few hours after resting. Which were right on the elite and pro players' tails.

Thanks to the achievement of not only being the first to kill one, but also alone, Mythical grade being/BOSS; everyone, including NPCs -well, especially NPCs-, still remembered of Tongqiu who was now once again become disappeared with his character remaining at LV61.

It was laughable, for as most -if not all- people 'knew' that Tongqiu had probably assassinated an injured, low level and from an special event-kind of BOSS. No one believed that he genuinely defeated one, let alone killing one. In a way, it was truth, since Yun Beishang actually defeated a Legendary grade BOSS but ended up finishing off a Mythical grade BOSS instead. Even then, for an enemy that could've easily killed Yun Beishang with just a blow of air from their mouths, Yun Beishang could only consider himself lucky because of Harlofk's unique and special racist skills. It may sound a bit ugly, but it is what it is. There's no denying that this 'Harlofk' who, in Yun Beishang's point of view, would have had become the vanguard for the Human Race in the upcoming events; was a machine made to kill anything that wasn't human and that his motives were especially destructible without a cause.

'Hmmm, he is in some ways... similar to me? Like, uncaring for others in the most lowliest of ways... ah...' As Yun Beishang thought of such while carrying a tired Diana that had just started planning the next step for the maids and little maids training as well as the others', he also took out his new gloves from his pockets -as uncaring as always- to look at them. Like before, when he put them on, it didn't feel as if they were different from his own hands. Their material was also different, it was now cooling yet of a great, perfectly balanced temperature that still felt incredibly refreshing. Meanwhile, it changed to alternating between lagoon-black and angelical-white colors as the main and secondary coloring on the design. The main color was basically the entirety of the gloves' body and structure while the secondary color were some little chip-like patters all around the gloves. It was pretty cool to wear and look at; basically.

"Alright~, I brought the little monster to bed, the others are all in the Living Room already, waiting for you." Yun Beishang spoke to Natalia after gently and slowly lying Diana on their bed, as Natalia was reading some books with the lights on.

"Mwah, what a little monster indeed, hehehe." Natalia said playfully after kissing Diana's forehead who was slightly woken up, murmuring things like 'I'm not monster, you~' and 'big sis kisses are the best~' before falling asleep again. Natalia watched Diana mumble and fall asleep like a silly child again before adding with a low and soft tone: "She's way too tired, this silly Diana... Well, I'll tell the rest that you'll stay here to take care of the sleeping beauty; and I'll also bring Yona and Itnia with me. She deserves to sleep with you alone, don't you think?"

Yun Beishang was already preparing his spot on the bed while listening to his dear Naty corner him into a Diana-only night, when she finished speaking, he silently and caringly looked at her with a tilted head before smiling and nodding in response.

"Mn, okay-mwah- you take care too. I'm looking forward to see you back in the game, darling." After a quick peck on the lips, the devilish Natalia flashed a radiant smile, super-effectively hypnotizing the ever-strongest in mentality Yun Beishang into a daze. Giggles resounded through the hallways by the time the foolish-looking enamored bird came back to his senses.

Shaking his head, Yun Beishang went over to turn off the lights before coming back into Diana's instinctive need to embrace him at the scent of his body being so close to herself, as well as to nuzzle against his own chest or right below his chin. Truly enjoying this treatment out of Diana's instincts, Yun Beishang only entered back into Rising Essence once he confirmed that the cute little Diana was fully resting and peaceful.

'Log in.' His not-heavy-at-all eyelids closed down as Yun Beishang felt his gloves working wonders in a way that he could never have had experienced before, the information of every little thing that was made by those gloves along with; and to his body, were directly transmitted to Yun Beishang's head which he could strangely understand it perfectly at once.

Before Yun Beishang could delve into this feeling, however, he 'saw' himself appear into a room with grey and dark walls and flooring as well as ceiling, in a perfect state; no sign of a previous battle before.

***

 

Looking at his surroundings, Yun Beishang realized that he could still not make use of his Mental Power so, instead of checking the endlessly long logs from the system right then and there, he moved towards where he remembered that the gate of the throne room should be at.

When suddenly...

"...so you've finally come. Kgh..."

...Harlofk's voice came to his ears in an ethereal and echoing manner.

"How?! You're still alive?!" A confused Yun Beishang questioned the image of Harlofk's upper body on the floor of the small hallway at the gate that looked exactly like that of those Unwilling Souls from the Courtyard of the Heroic Souls. Harlofk's body was also almost transparent while his lower body disappeared; in fact, some of the left side of his torso disappeared, with his left ribs being totally gone. Yet, there were some guts and blood as well as some pieces of flesh coming out from the rest of his torso, as if it was somehow still alive.

"Heh heh, I'm afraid I've already died. And that your precious empowering effect, that from which 'Journeyers' depend to grow stronger on, is not going to help you this time, hahahahaha-KlhgwaRGH!" Harlofk responded in a 'not giving a fuck' manner, his stance very clear. Since he was already dead, why bother with previous misgivings and with the pettiness of the living?

"Are you a Fall-"

"A Fallen? Oh god, no. Thanks to this throne room, I'm not..." Yun Beishang only wanted to trigger this response from Harlofk, after all, if Harlofk ended up becoming a Fallen; wouldn't that be as bad as meeting a Legendary Mortal's Terror like before? Oh dear, no thanks.

"Thanks to this room, your meaning?" Frowning, Yun Beishang pressed for answers but the only thing he got was the lifeless gaze of the man he killed.

"...Then, what do you want?"

"Oh nothing, I'm just waiting. I was waiting for you to appear. Listen, when you get control of this throne room, don't ever let the unkn-"

"It's not for me, for my lover. Just... get the fuck out so that I can come out, alright? The defense system or whatever the fuck is still on and I'd rather be in a place I know I'm not in a total disadvantage."

"..." Befuddled, Harlofk seemed to finally remember the reason why he came to hate this person so much despite the strength from this person and his race. But then he shook his head, seemingly in resolve with an 'it can't be helped' attitude before once again turning to look at Yun Beishang.

"Named Tongqiu, I also don't know how come I'm still alive...? Maybe, because of some unfinished business or because of the... incredible and-and-and... strange way that you killed me. But I... I-I don't know!" Harlofk was slightly weary from speaking about himself again, he was waiting for Yun Beishang to silence him again but he didn't do it. Naturally, Yun Beishang decided to let him speak. A dying man's last words aren't to be trusted but, this seemed to be a rather unique event, probably even impossible to partake in when getting rid of Harlofk in conventional ways.

"I know!" After a few seconds of murmuring like a delusional, dying man, Harlofk's eyes finally sparked as his words arrived at the indifferent Yun Beishang.

"Th-this, the dagger that that girl gave you before I- nevermind, take it out! Let's see if-"

"Hold on, why would I? I'm not interested in any of this, can't you just open the damn gate, or die? So that I can finally get out?" Once again interrupted, this time positive, Harlofk speechlessly looked at Yun Beishang with an unclear expression on his face.

"But... but I'm already dead."

"Then go away! Shoo shoo."

Harlofk: "..."

Yun Beishang: "..."

Harlofk exasperatedly let out a sigh with his almost transparent head growing blurry: "Sigh, forget it. I just thought that it may be the key to obtain this throne room... heh, this damned throne room. When one seeks to take the 'throne', one must show an item that they deeply adore and that was gifted to them by another or others along with a heart that compliments it. For the barbaric ones, it would mean a double sacrifice involving one's spirit and one's fleshly body. But in truth, is about showing this throne room your own true heart. Your own beliefs and... your wishes."

"That girl must have wanted to take it for herself, don't trus-"

Before Harlofk could continue even further, a cold and murderous voice invaded what was rest of his being: "Stop. You of anyone else can speak to me about anyone! Speak if you must, but do not dare speak of what you should not. Unless you want me to take you out in an even more horrible way."

Yun Beishang wasn't threatening emptily, as long as he took out his essential bow and arrow, he could yummy up with them, the whatever existence of this Mythical being remained in ways Yun Beishang himself didn't understood.

"Gulp, sorry. It's been too long since I could trust a Human." With Yun Beishang only responding with a non-caring 'Mm.', Harlofk continued: "I don't know much of the world. Our world, Tongqiu. Even if you and the others are 'Journeyers', I can still feel the beating hearts of every single one I've met, and I can see the lights in their eyes. Though mostly greedy, there are some who are hopeful for life. Yet, you are one of the most strangest of them all, to have such a heart, but to be so full of... weight."

After another slight, dramatic pause, Harlofk continued with a heavy tone: "I would've liked to see you get rid of that weight, Tongqiu. It's a pity indeed, if only we- no, I. If only I wasn't so, so damn lost and absurd. Maybe we could've grown to see each other face to face without our weapons, and talents, drawn out. It's a pity... indeed... my daughter... never... found her... I-"

Seeing, and hearing, the previously 'alright' Harlofk turn slower, more transparent and ethereal in his tone of voice, Yun Beishang's brain clicked at once as he interrupted the dying 'man': "I'm not going to destroy this world, if that's what you're afraid of or something. I don't know; it's weird. Ehem, for as I've already seen that kind of persona and change in humanity. I've already fell for those as well. In fact, if you weren't my 'possible' objective just then, I wouldn't have had attacked you myself, yet you did all by yourself. Even if I didn't planned to at the beginning, just by hurting her, even once; I would've still killed you."

Yun Beishang went closer to Harlofk then half-knelt on the ground, with his face now above Harlofk as he could no longer move by himself, Yun Beishang saw no longer the hope from before that was present in Harlofk's eyes; only painful disappointment and shame of failure. With a non-caring attitude, he then added: "As for your daughter; don't worry, she was lucky enough to have met me before. Well, not just me per se. Oh well, she's in good hands, better than yours at least."

Clap, clap

After finishing saying so, Yun Beishang stood up at once with his two palms dusting off the imaginary dirt on his hands while looking back at the throne in the distance. He then looked back down at Harlofk, this fucker wouldn't be able to give him Experience as Yun Beishang killed him before obtaining his First Class Advancement. Closing his eyes for a little while, until he sensed Harlofk's existence about  to disappear, Yun Beishang then opened his mouth to utter some more words to the completely lifeless expression of Harlofk: "I'm also going after those hiding behind everything."

Ka-Cha!

Pointing at the ceiling, or rather, at the sky as he said that. Yun Beishang didn't though that that would trigger his old buddy the blinding white and purple thunder to emotionally respond to his words and meaning. He was sure that it was the same entity, those sounds could not be manifested by any other, and Yun Beishang was sure of it.

While Yun Beishang was looking at the ceiling in a lost manner, Harlofk's transparent, light blue body finally disappeared.

Pu-tong-tumtumtum...

The sound of a mechanical system working and that of a heavy object being forcefully moved awakened Yun Beishang. And as he looked at the source of the sound, the gate, he finally took a look at what was the sight of light from the moonlight.

'Guess it's a night 'day' today.' Shrugging his shoulders, the only man alive, the last one standing; finally took out his restrained body into the outer wild!

. . .

 

Rustle~

Tap.

"Hm? It should be here- ah! Beibei!" A crispy, girly woman's voice sounded out, first confused before then becoming elated.

Thud!

"Mmmgh~, could you not call me that? Unless you want some discipline?" Responded an 'annoyed' male voice that then took in the rapidly approaching young, slim woman into his arms as he almost fell to the ground with just the impact alone.

"Wow! Miriam, you've grown strong, eh?"

"Mn, my my! I thought I would've been able to tackle you down with my current stats and equipment. Who would've known..." With a pair of vacant eyes and a pout, a very cute and intoxicating face of a beauty was suddenly dangerously close to Yun Beishang's face -dangerous for the beauty- as he couldn't help it but devour that beauty's face after a mere thought.

"Mmb, mgnhaah~... Mplah! You know making those sounds-" A female ragged breathing voice sounded out, sending Yun Beishang into a fiery passion even further.

"With our lips."

"Mou... making those sounds with our lips, really drives me crazy, Beishang. Mmg? Oh~, mwah, mwah, mmgh..." Miriam said so, but her next actions were completely incongruous with her words. Becoming entranced at the sight of Yun Beishang's lips posing for her with her own saliva on them, then diving in to take them for herself, Miriam appeared to be a little hungry rabbit that was taking the food directly from the wolf. Bold, shy, careful yet incapable of keeping her hunger in check, giving in to her instincts.

"Ah~, wait BeiBei, I- ughn-mnghh... Wait! Not here... I want you to make me your woman in person, so-angh, stop..."

"Mwplah! Ah, sorry, slurp; I really needed and wanted to touch you again. Miriam." Finally stopping at those words, albeit with difficulty, Yun Beishang retracted his hand that were charmingly moving like snakes on her hips before truly stopping once he exerted his willpower and draw shapes inside his mind continuously to avoid getting uncontrollable; lustfully uncontrollable and insatiable.

Rustle~, swish.

Standing up while accommodating their virtual clothing, Yun Beishang looked at the rosy cheeks, neck, lips and even shoulders of Miriam as he once again exerted his full concentration on letting big bad wolf Yun Beishang hypnotically satisfied. After a while, as Miriam glanced at him enchantingly and provocatively, he spoke at once in an informative manner: "Well, I killed the bad man and also kept your Cherished Dagger. Here you go."

"Ah! You... you didn't use it?" Miriam caught the Cherished Dagger with her hands, her face showing a bit of sadness.

Seeing her like this, Yun Beishang's lips formed a smile subconsciously as he moved his hands to cup her little head and spoke to her caringly: "My little Miriam, I don't need such a thing like that throne. Sure, it has aesthetics but, I rather have my Miriam bouncing up and down on me with those bunnies swaying and those thighs growing rosy on their own from riding themselves to pleasure."

Miriam: (っ˘ڡ˘ς) ♥‿♥ ლ(´ڡ`ლ)

"Ah, wait... are you calling me weak?" After the initial melted expression on her face; those damp, limpid eyes and salivating mouth then turned into an unbelievable face of 'what are you insinuating?!' as Miriam expressed her 'wronged' feelings, emotions and mental health.

"Oh... weather is good today, yes?"

"..."

"..."

After giving Miriam the Cherished Dagger, sweet nothings and tender smooches all over her face and even ears, she left for the throne room with a pair of shining eyes. While Yun Beishang revised his system's logs, very much getting his attention garnered right away by one of them...

*PING*...your pet 'Rosey' has evolved from Legendary grade to Mythical grade.

 

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