novelonline Chapter 3677 Iluna's Role (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader)
Chapter 3677 Iluna's Role (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader)
Chapter 3677 Iluna's Role (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader)
“Shad, Dorothy just told me that you seemed to have gone out in the middle of the night, is that right?”
Early Thursday morning, the view outside the window was still hazy and gray. The smog situation in the "steam city" was still severe at the end of winter, which resulted in not only the city being dark, but also most of the houses looking gloomy.
But at least the gaslights in the restaurant at No. 6 St. Teresa's Place provided ample light. The family sat around the table, and Mia stood enthusiastically beside Shad, watching the maids preparing to bring breakfast from the kitchen.
As Shad was reading the newspaper article about the trade protection agreement of the Kingdom of Delaurion, Galina suddenly asked him this question.
Tifa, who was in the kitchen, subconsciously stopped what she was doing, but only for a moment. She continued with her work, while Shad nodded without changing his expression.
"I went to drink a glass of water, and then I couldn't fall asleep for a while, so I changed my clothes and went to Vistalin to create a few star dewdrops. I put the dewdrops in the study, and I'll take them to the snow mountain later to give to Vanessa and the others."
What did you use to make it?
Galina asked suspiciously, and Shad replied with certainty:
"Blood. Don't worry, we didn't make many this time. We were mainly worried that something unexpected might happen over there. I wanted to make sure everyone had at least one Dewdrop."
"If I had known you were going to be a star dewdrop, we would have gone to the Moon Sanctuary for a hot spring last night. Once winter ends, the snow in the forest will disappear."
The witch muttered to herself, and then Shad saw Dorothy smiling at him. The writer clearly knew more, but of course she wouldn't expose her; after all, Lacey found the whole thing quite amusing.
Shad wasn't exactly lying; to avoid disturbing others, he actually did take Tifa to Vista Grove later—the maid also had a spatial rune. Aside from the fact that the dewdrop's raw material wasn't blood, he was basically telling the truth.
Tifa was indeed a very good comforter. Shad had a lot of thoughts and struggles yesterday, otherwise he wouldn't have had such a strange dream. But after he and Tifa returned from the woods, he slept very well all night without any dreams, and was in excellent spirits at the moment.
Thinking of this, Shad glanced at the head maid in the kitchen. Watching her retreating figure, Shad recalled the lamb in the snow under the holy moonlight last night. The lamb's skin, unlike snow, didn't reflect moonlight, but was as delicate as milk and silk. He remembered the shiver when he deliberately sprinkled cool snowflakes on the lamb's back.
"You can't think about this now."
He banished his distracting thoughts as footsteps approached from downstairs, followed by Daniste. Last Friday, she had mentioned obtaining the [Space] rune, saying it was related to Shad, making it very convenient for her to come from the academy.
"Good morning, what are you talking about?"
Daniste handed her coat to a maid and pulled out a chair to sit next to Dorothy. The maids then served the professor, who had "traveled from afar," the prepared breakfast, and Shad put down his newspaper.
"Star Dewdrops, the ones I brought you yesterday, how are they doing? I made a few more last night, and Galina seemed a little unhappy that I went out alone."
The duchess then complained:
“Dannister, you don’t know Shad. After he and I fell asleep together last night, he went out to work again. It was so tiring.”
The manager laughed:
“Jalina is right, Shad, you don’t need to spend 24 hours a day working. We’ll worry about you.”
This made Shad feel extremely guilty, knowing what he had actually done the night before.
Vanessa and Iluna will be arriving soon, so Shad doesn't need to rush to leave home today, making breakfast this morning exceptionally leisurely.
Galina and Dorothy were naturally curious about the process of forging destiny, so they chatted and laughed with Shad and Denise at the breakfast table, which made breakfast unusually long that day.
At the dinner table, Shade mentioned that Iluna would use a snake skin, which led to a discussion about Iluna's possible "role".
“Although Emilia, who is also a chosen one, is an important supporting character, I feel that Iluna is more important. That girl is obviously different from the others in Shad’s eyes.”
Galina said that she was not only often by Shad's side, but was also Iluna's nominal "teacher" and knew both of them very well.
"Beyond the important supporting characters, there are the protagonist candidates and the protagonists themselves. Considering that the protagonist is always the chosen one, could Iluna also be a protagonist candidate like Miss Stella Larson?"
Dorothy asked, then saw Mia, who had finished eating, jump off the dining table. Seeing that Shad didn't seem to be planning to go out, the cat decided to lie on the back of the sofa and watch him.
"Didn't Shad say that besides the five normal roles, there are other identities? Perhaps Iluna will be more special."
Daneste also shared her opinion, and ultimately she was right. Soon after, Iluna, who arrived with Vanessa, displayed her sloughed snake skin—
Name: Iluna Bayas
[Rank: Ring Warlock (Nine Rings)]
[Fortune: Up Up]
[Story Character: Special Guest Star]
[Personal Storyline: To protect this world, your ninth adventure begins once again. Amidst howling snowstorms, you arrive at a snow-capped island in the southern part of the Old Continent, where the story of destiny has already begun and welcomes you to the stage.]
Although this story doesn't center on you, when you appear on stage, the brightest light still shines upon you. Holding the power of balance and judgment, your arrival will bring an even more captivating performance to this tale. As the spear of sunlight flashes across the sky, you are the hero who arrives with hope to punish evil; destiny is made more brilliant by you.
Neither the "special guest star" nor Shad's "audience" roles fall into the five normal categories, which proves that even among all the chosen ones, Iluna remains the most special one.
Having used the serpent's molt, Iluna naturally also obtained the "Dice of Fate." In the four acts of the story that have concluded so far, although Iluna only participated in the battles against the "House of the False Man" and the "Fallen Star Beast," she dealt with quite a few Infinite Serpents due to her connection with the church.
Therefore, in addition to the two brass twenty-sided dice, she also has 14 black iron six-sided dice, and the number of each black iron six-sided die is not particularly low.
Of course, the key point is the number of dice you get from participating in the "main story". So even though Iluna has a lot of dice, her average number of points is actually about the same as Stella's, who participated in every story.
"When we forge destiny later, use my dice."
Iluna took the initiative to suggest:
"Shad has the highest points right now. Saving them might be useful in the final battle. There's no need to waste them here."
But Dorothy smiled and said:
“Iluna, keep your points. There’s no point in keeping my points. Since you and Shad both have special identities, don’t waste your points so easily.”
Vanessa agreed to the suggestion, so Shad and Iluna did not insist.
So they all went to the basement, where Shad, who had devoured the "tainted essence of the earth," served as the "key"—that is, the fragment of the heart of the earth. He whispered:
May the earth protect me who stands here.
The trapdoor on the ground opened, revealing a thick, cotton-like fog below. The six people jumped down together, and as their feet touched the ground, the dense white fog that had been spreading around them gradually dissipated.
What is displayed before everyone is a dilapidated stone house surrounded by a small circle of ground lava. The house, which is built with three walls and an arched roof, is somewhat hazy in the fog, but you can still see that almost all of the building materials are black stones with a similar color to the "Heart of the Earth".
Inside the building is a huge stone furnace that connects to the magma outside. The furnace has a very simple structure and can be opened from the side and top.
"Aside from upgrading alchemical tools a few times, Shad doesn't seem to have used this place much, does he?"
Daniste looked at the furnace and asked, but Shad shook his head:
"The Dragonscale Sword, the amulets everyone gave me, some alchemical bullets, and some unique alchemical tools that I asked my friends to make. Well, apart from these, I don't really use this place often. After all, both forging and strengthening involve consumption."
“I often come here to do some enhancements. I participate in battles more often than Shad. After being enhanced by the Earth Core Forge, alchemical items will have new properties that are related to the properties of the enhancement materials, as well as certain earth-related powers. For example, explosives will increase earth-attribute damage, and alchemical weapons will gain the property of ‘heavy’.”
Iluna explained that the cost of using the "Earth's Core Furnace" was "the aura picked up from traversing the earth." In Iluna's simple understanding, this was actually "the number of steps taken around the world," and she, who frequently traveled, and Shad, who often went to various mysterious areas, possessed the most of this aura.
The furnace is very easy to operate. Simply put the materials you want to enhance into it and wait for the enhancement to finish.
Shad retrieved the star-blue Ring of Fate and the "star fragments" that Granny Cassandra had helped him process; these were the only two main materials for this forging. While adding other items wouldn't have been impossible, this was his first forging attempt, and Shad wanted to gain experience through a simpler approach.
"Then let's begin. Be careful. I don't know what will happen next, and I called you here to prevent any unexpected events from occurring."
Shad reminded him, and opened the furnace drawer from the side, putting the Ring of Fate and the crude ring forged from "Star Fragments" inside.
Dorothy also took out dice from her snake skin. She was involved in more stories than Iluna, so she took out the dice from the events of "The House of the Pseudo-Humans" and "The Fallen Star Beast".
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