The smell of burning, blood, and decay rushed into the nose with every breath...
The ground touched by the fingers was covered in thick dust, through which the rough surface could be felt.
Cyan rolled up from the ground, placed her hand on the Demon Blade, and looked around, finding herself inside a dilapidated house.
The floor of the house had thick dust, and some areas showed signs of being swept, looking as if it were done to cover something up.
The dirt walls had many cracks, and there was a large hole broken in the roof; the entire house looked like a dangerous building that could collapse at any moment.
An abandoned house?
Cyan noticed a stain left behind by a dried liquid right in the center of the room. She walked over, bent down, and brushed away the dust on top of it.
Blood?
Through a wooden door with a broken hole, Cyan saw the blazing houses opposite, as well as soldiers running past the front of the door, holding short swords, wearing helmets, and dressed in green and purple colored clothes.
No countdown?
Cyan noticed that this time the survival game had no countdown; the survival space had directly thrown them into this house and left them alone.
Nishi, who woke up in another room of this house, walked into this room cautiously holding a short sword. After seeing Cyan, she let out a sigh of relief, patted the dust on her buttocks, and said, "I thought we were separated in different places."
"Because of the contract between us, in a certain sense, we are counted as one person by the survival space. The survival space's evaluation of our strength is your strength and my strength added together."
Following the dried bloodstains on the floor, Cyan walked to a broken wardrobe that showed signs of corrosion. On top of the wardrobe also lived a black widow spider about ten centimeters in size, completely black, with red spots on its round abdomen.
The black widow spider noticed this intruder walking over, lowered its body slightly, raised its rear, and made a jumping motion.
"Where are we?" Nishi asked.
"The world of Knights of the Round."
"Knights of the Round? FATE? King Arthur?"
Hearing Knights of the Round, she instantly thought of the first anime she watched in her life under Erni's strong recommendation, where the female protagonist was a feminized King Arthur.
King Arthur in official history was a man!
This was something she found out after checking online.
"I don't know."
Cyan stared at the black widow spider, the pupils of her silver-white eyes contracting slightly, and an icy, surging killing intent like seawater emanated from her body.
The black widow spider, which was originally staring at the intruder of its residence, was frightened by the killing intent on Cyan's body, jumped off the spider web, ran to the corner of the wardrobe, and hid in the shadows.
"Master, don't you think you are childish?"
Nishi witnessed the whole contest between Cyan and the spider.
Cyan glanced at Nishi and said extremely seriously, "It was provoking me."
"How is that possible, you're thinking too much!" Nishi waved her hand with a smile, feeling that Cyan was a bit too serious.
Fool.
Cyan was too lazy to explain to Nishi, and opened the door of the wardrobe. A half-decayed corpse fell out of the wardrobe as the door opened, crashing onto the ground, and a foul stench of decay rushed over.
Squirming maggots fell from the eye sockets of the corpse to the ground and wriggled; someone with trypophobia absolutely couldn't stand watching it.
"Ah..."
Nishi was frightened by this sudden scene. The moment her scream started to come out, she covered her mouth and stared wide-eyed at the corpse on the ground.
"This is..."
Cyan discovered something emanating a fragrance inside the wardrobe.
[Low-Quality Perfume]
[Type: Consumable Item]
[Function: Conceals odor.]
[Remarks: This is a bottle of low-quality perfume.]
Conceals odor...
No wonder she didn't smell this foul odor before.
Cyan looked at the information of the low-quality perfume, understanding it in her heart.
The hair color of the corpse was dark red, and looking from the clothes he wore, it was a male. The chest of the clothes had signs of being pierced, with stains left behind by dried blood.
Someone killed him and then placed him in this wardrobe? Because it is a house where no one lives, and is so dilapidated with the risk of collapsing at any moment, absolutely no one would come.
Cyan drew the Demon Blade and cut open the clothes on the corpse, searching to see if there was any information regarding the identity of this corpse; intuition told her that this corpse might trigger a hidden quest.
"There is nothing..."
Cyan frowned slightly; except for clothes, there was nothing on the body of the corpse.
"Master, maybe there is something in the shoes."
Nishi pointed at the leather boots on the corpse's feet, squatted down while enduring the disgust, and pulled off the corpse's shoes. The stench of the corpse mixed with foot odor was released from the shoe as she pulled it off.
"So stinky..."
Nishi covered her nose, swung her short sword to cut the shoe into two halves, and a letter hidden inside the shoe fell to the ground unharmed under the protection of a magical power.
[Knight Royu's Letter]
[Type: Quest Item]
[Function: Triggers a hidden quest after reading.]
[Remarks: I will not die in vain!]
As expected, there is a hidden quest.
Cyan opened the envelope and understood the contents of the letter under the translation of the survival imprint.
This was a knight named Royu, who was selected by Merlin from the knights under Arthur to infiltrate the enemy's interior. This time was for the purpose of transmitting information that Scorn, a campaign knight under the evil Grand Duke Garibaldi, was leading a small squad of troops to invade Lakota Village.
What Royu did not expect was that he would be killed by a traitor in Lakota Village, so the information naturally could not be transmitted into the hands of the three warriors—Arthur, Lancelot, and Perceval—who led the knights to resist the evil Grand Duke Garibaldi, thereby leading to the tragedy of Lakota Village.
"Triggered hidden quest: Find the betrayer and avenge Knight Royu."
Find the betrayer... Currently, the betrayer is highly likely to be among the knights or soldiers led by the three people Arthur, Lancelot, and Perceval, or it is also possible that they are in the village.
After learning that Lakota Village suffered an invasion, someone would come to support very soon; the betrayer is extremely likely to be among the people coming to support.
This time the survival game is not a single-player survival game; other survivors might also be in Lakota Village.
Considering Erni's experience, Cyan temporarily did not want to come into contact with other survivors.
The survival quest hasn't triggered yet; could it be that they have to walk out of this house for it to trigger?
Cyan temporarily did not leave this house. Looking at the black widow spider curled up in the corner of the wardrobe staring over here, she thought for a moment, and a duplicate of the Super Crown appeared in her hand.
Let's try it...
However, this crown is a bit too large; can it be smaller?
Just when Cyan had such a thought, the duplicate of the Super Crown shrank to the size of a fingertip, and then shrank a bit more, becoming a miniature crown.
"Huh? Master, what do you plan to do?" Nishi noticed Cyan's actions and looked at her in confusion. What could such a small Super Crown be used for?
Could it be placed on the head of that little spider? No way, right? No way, right?
"Testing."
As Cyan spoke, she flicked her finger gently, and the miniature Super Crown drew an arc in the air, landing precisely on the head of the black widow spider in the corner of the wardrobe.
"Huh?"
With a bang, the black widow spider was enveloped by smoke, and a mature female's confused voice came out from the smoke.
The smoke dissipated, and the black widow spider turned into a half-human, half-spider existence. The upper body was a mature and beautiful female, and the lower body was the body of a spider.
It looked just like a human upper body had grown out from the position of the spider's head.
"This is the effect of the Super Crown?"
Nishi leaned her head over to look at that half-human, half-spider existence that was only the size of a palm, with a head of black and thick hair, a miniature crown wearing on her head, a pair of wine-red eyes looking blankly at everything around her, and a naked upper body with two slightly protruding things covered by the black long hair.
"Not of much use."
Cyan walked to the front of the black widow spider and looked down at her.
"What did you do to me?"
The black widow spider raised her head to look at Cyan and actually spoke human words. It was possible that under the effect of the Super Crown, she possessed intelligence equal to humans and learned human language without a teacher.
"Testing capabilities."
Cyan answered the black widow spider's question and drew the Demon Blade.
"Take off the crown, otherwise, die."
For a duplicate of the Super Crown made by consuming 100 points of mental strength, Cyan did not want to waste it on this spider.
The black widow spider raised her hand to touch the Super Crown on top of her head. When she was about to take it off, she had a feeling that if she took off the Super Crown, she would change back to that previous muddled state and would no longer have her current self.
"No..."
The black widow spider pressed the Super Crown with both hands and backed up a bit.
The Demon Blade in Cyan's hand stabbed towards the black widow spider; however, just when it was about to pierce through the black widow spider, it was stopped by a short sword.
"Reason."
Cyan looked at Nishi, who blocked the Demon Blade with a short sword, her gaze turning cold; she needed an explanation.
Nishi trembled a bit from Cyan's cold eyes, smiled pleasingly, and said, "Master, look, she is so small, and she's a venomous spider; maybe she can be of use."
"Hmm... makes sense."
Cyan felt that Nishi's words made some sense, sheared her sword into its scabbard, stared at the shivering black widow spider, and asked, "Loyalty to me, or take off the crown; make your own choice."
When facing creatures that did not have any malice towards her, Cyan would not easily use a killing move against them.
Of course, when it was for the purpose of filling the stomach, it was inevitable to hunt; that was an unavoidable thing.
"I... I pledge loyalty to you."
The black widow spider lowered her head. She did not want to change back to that muddled self; the only choice was to pledge loyalty to the terrifying person in front of her.
[Survivor No. 11766, do you accept the loyalty of the ordinary creature Black Widow Spider from the Knights of the Round world, taking it to become your pet?]
[Do you agree?]
[Yes or No.]
Pet?
Cyan received the prompt from the survival imprint, looked at the black widow spider in surprise. She thought it would be one more servant; she didn't expect it to be a pet.