Chapter 701 Monster"Hurray!" the princess celebrated and so did the adults.

"Occy, move," the princess ordered the octopus.

"He's Occy too?" Ning asked.

"They are all Occy," She said without looking towards him. They watched the princess play with the beast for a while.

The princess also watched the octopus do various things but since it was only Rank 1, it didn't have any elemental powers at all.

After all, a beast only gained elemental powers once it reached Rank 3.

"Why is my hair red? I want green hair like a mother." The princess grumbled a little.

"What? Your teacher here had red hair too. What's wrong with that?" Ning asked.

"But you said red hair was bad, teacher," she said.

"Yes, I did. But I also said it won't matter to you now, didn't I? Just keep summoning and soon you will have your hair changed too. Look, ask Joann how long it took for her hair to turn orange? Ask your mother too."

"Really mother?" the princess turned around.

"Yes, it took me many, many years before I could get green hair," the queen said.

"Me too princess. I had to grow this old to have my orange hair. By the time you are as big as me, you will probably have blue hair," Joann said.

"Blue hair is better?" she asked.

"Didn't I teach you? Blue hair is better than Green," Ning said.

"Okay, then I will get blue hair," the princess finally stopped feeling down. Then, she went back to playing with her octopus.

The queen started asking simple questions to Ning about his background, which Ning evaded as much as he could.

There were things about this world he believed he still didn't know about and he didn't want to say something that made the queen more suspicious than she already was.

"So you are in the Circle and in the Arena?" the queen asked.

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"Yes, I use my time outside of Arena to deal with the Circle's quests," Ning said.

"The Circle has Rank 7 summoners now?" the queen asked.

Ning wasn't surprised to hear that question. After all, he had already seen that the queen was a Rank 6 summoner too. Meaning she could easily tell what rank others were around her own rank.

"I'm still just a Rank 5 for them. They don't have ways to confirm my rank yet," Ning said.

"How do you summon so many beasts at once by the way? I'm curious," the queen asked.

"Oh, that's… that's just double summoning. I found a particularly great beast that has many different kinds of skills and allows me to lend them for a really cheap price," Ning said.

"It does?" the queen was surprised. "It must have really taken a liking towards you. But then, why is your hair still red? It should have changed long ago."

"I… I don't think it likes me. It's more like the beast is bored and just does what it wants," Ning hurriedly said. 'Dammit, I need to change my hair color soon or it will cause more problems.'

"But still it—"

"Your highness, look!" Joann interrupted her to point in a certain direction.

Both the queen and Ning turned their head to see a ship in the distance fighting against turbulent water. However, what was weird about the turbulent water was that it only appeared in a small area around the ship.

The lots and lots of moving and splashes made it seem like the ship was fighting against the ocean when in fact it was stationary.

"Sea beasts. They're in trouble," Ning said as his vision enhanced to see what exactly was happening down there.

What seemed like a fishing ship was surrounded by beasts all around.

"I'll be back," Ning said and immediately flew off in the boat's direction.

He flew through the air at incredible speed and punched one of the big fishes that were hitting the ship.

He went into the water and caught another fish by the tails and threw it out into the air where it flew far away in an arch before falling down into the ocean again.

The other fishes and sea beasts started circling Ning. Ning looked at them and calmed himself before suddenly his body started buzzing loudly.

His body was now producing sound at a frequency that fishes hated. He didn't keep it up for long, but only a few seconds to make the fishes scurry away.

He wasn't in the mood to kill them so he only sent them away. However, they would likely come back when they realized the annoying sound was gone.

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Ning jumped out of the water and directly onto the fishing boat.

"The fishes are gone, start moving," he shouted, but he couldn't find the men.

It turned out the men were huddled up in a room on the boat, waiting for the beasts to go away.

Ning barged in and looked at them. "The fishes are gone. Start moving," he ordered.

"Who—"

"Doesn't matter. Move the ship now or they will return," Ning said.

"We… we can't," one of the fishermen spoke back.

"Why not?" Ning asked.

"The-the Anchor. It's stuck on something," he said.

"Really?" Ning ran out and found the anchor chain and tried pulling it out. However, it was in fact firmly stuck on something.

"Alright, I'll go in and get your anchor unstuck. Get ready to pull it after I give it a yank," Ning said and got ready to jump.

"NO!" a few of the men shouted at once.

Ning stopped. "What?" he asked.

A few of the men then immediately got to their knees and started praying something.

"The-there might be the monster," one of the men said.

"Stop being superstitious," another man argued.

"No, I'm not. It's true, my grandfather saw it," the man then argued.

Ning watched the men argue and sighed. He didn't have to wait for their permission.

He jumped into the water and swam to the depths of the ocean to find the anchor stuck on a large rock that was firmly embedded in the ground.

He punched a piece of the rock off and the anchor came unstuck. He then yanked on it and immediately the fishermen started pulling on it.

Ning stood on the anchor and waited as he was pulled out of the water.

Chapter 702 GalthymoreThe fishermen pulled up the anchor and immediately started moving. Ning jumped back onto the boat and looked around for people that were possibly injured.

He helped a few of them when he noticed weird looks given in his direction.

"What's up?" he asked the fishermen that were making weird glances.

"A-at the sea floor, was there no monster?" one of them asked.

"Monster? If you mean sea beast, then there were a few but they didn't attack," Ning said.

"No, no, the monster you know. THE monster?" the fishermen asked.

"I'm afraid I do not know what you mean," Ning said. "Either way, there was no monster. Your anchor was just stuck on some rock, that's all."

"See? I told you there was no Galthymore," another person said.

"Galthymore?" Ning wondered what they meant. He was about to ask the system what it was when the fishermen started freaking out again.

"What happened?" Ning asked only to find them scared because of his turtle.

"That's just my beast, don't worry," he said.

The people took a while to calm down after hearing it, but they did.

"By the way, how did you even get attacked by the beasts? Shouldn't you have some protection out in the sea?" Ning asked.

"We do, he's our recruit from the Summoning Circle," they said pointing to a young man at the end.

Ning saw that he was Rank 3 and got confused. "What happened to you summon?" he asked the young man.

"I— I sent it to the depth to dislodge the anchor from whatever it was stuck on, but it seemed to have disturbed some of the beasts which came to attack us," the young summoner said.

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"I see. Well, you did what you could. No need to feel down." Ning looked at the rest of the fishermen and then towards the sun that was halfway down the ocean.

"You guys should return now."

Ning then jumped into the ocean and swam back to the turtle before climbing back onto the top.

He shook himself a bit to get rid of some of the water, but overall he was still quite wet.

"Are you okay? You were diving for quite some time," the queen asked.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine. Nothing to worry about," Ning said.

"What about those people? What was up with them?" the queen asked.

"Just some beast attacks. Apparently, the summoner lost his summon, so the sea beast saw them as a hostile threat and came attacking. Meanwhile, their anchor was stuck, so they couldn't leave at all," Ning explained.

"Oh, that must have been a traumatic experience for them," the queen said. "Being stranded in the sea, surrounded by beasts. I worry they would've died had you not been here."

"Most likely," Ning said as he turned to look at the fishing boat that was already far away. "They likely won't fish for a while now because of their fear."

"Also, they were quite scared actually," Ning turned to the queen. "They kept speaking about something called Galthymore. Do you know what it is?"

"Galthymore? The Burning Fish? It's a folktale around these parts of the ocean," the queen said.

"The Burning Fish? I'm curious now." Ning urged her to explain some more about the fish.

"Well, the story has been passed through many ears over many generations, so I don't know how accurate it is, but here it goes," the queen started explaining.

"The folktale speaks of a burning fish-like monster with many fins and tails that likes to dwell in the sea and kill passersby."

"From time to time, the people around here go missing and they blame it on the monster."

"It's supposed to be a nearly forgotten tale, but because of the missing people recently the folktale has reemerged and is making its way through the populous."

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"Those people were probably scared that the monster was back and was going to attack them. The fear hasn't reached our kingdom yet, but the people that work in the sea are already speaking about it," the queen said.

"A burning fish? That's a weird creature to think about," Ning said. If it was burning, it couldn't be in the water. Maybe it was just glowing red or orange? Whatever it was, Ning would find out soon enough.

The sun finally set and the sea turned dark. The clouds still burned bright orange so Ning decided to return the people.

"I think you guys should return back now. If I keep you here for any longer, your people might start to get worried," Ning said.

"I—"

The queen was about to protest when she realized he was right. She wanted to stay with him a little longer, learn more about his powers and what beast it was that he was connected to.

But she also realized that if she was too desperate to have him join her group, that could backfire instead. Very badly at that too.

Besides, she had just got her legs back, not to mention her spiritual energy. So, she needed to focus on that for a bit. She wondered how happy her stupid husband would be when he saw her walk into their bedroom tonight.

The queen smiled and nodded. "Yes, let us return."

The return journey would take about 2 hours for all of them to return, so the queen got herself comfortable on the blue shell and—

Ning grabbed the three of them and instantly teleported.

"We're here," he said casually.

The queen's new feet nearly gave away when she realized that she was back in the palace.

"Ho-how? But… it's so far away!" she said as she looked around.

"Your highness!" the two servants of hers that were supposed to help move her around immediately ran up to her. However, when they saw the queen stand on her own feet, they couldn't help but show a shocked expression.

"I will return back, your highness," Ning said and disappeared suddenly.

The queen had many things to say but Ning was gone.

'I need to get him,' she thought. 'He will be a monumental force for our cause if I can get him.'

Ning found pieces of metal broken off from the side of the spaceship. The 'fins' the people had seen were giant metal arms of the spaceship, of which half of them had been destroyed already.

The spaceship was far bigger in person than he could have imagined. It was cylindrical in shape with half of its outer arms around it. There was an opening at the back for the thrusters.

The front of it was still under the sand.

Once Ning pulled the entire spaceship from the sand, he teleported it onto a deserted island and put it there.

He looked at it from top to bottom. The ship was so massive that perhaps 5 of those giant turtles he had summoned could fit into it.

And that was after most of it had been destroyed.

The spaceship he remembered seeing so majestic in his memory was now completely crushed on all sides. The glass screen on the front was fully broken in and water had completely filled the spaceship.

Ning waited for the water to escape out, and when it did, he finally decided to go in.

Ning had just stepped into the ship when he came face to face with a skeleton.

"Holy Shit!" he cried out as he backed off. He wasn't expecting to see dead people so soon.

"Shit! Of course, the crew must be dead if they fell in here," he thought to himself.

He prepared himself and walked back in. He ignored the skeleton strapped onto the front seat, its clavicle and ribs broken due to the impact.

The skeleton's head hung loosely to the side. Ning sighed and moved on forward.

He saw a few more bodies strapped in seats behind them.

Ning saw a giant hole on the other side of the ship that he hadn't seen before. Something had struck in from the side.

"Is this before or after they fell?" Ning asked his system.

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A sea beast did that after they were submerged.

"I would think a spaceship that is supposed to fly through space would be a little stronger," Ning said. "If a little water can crush it like this, what if they hit asteroids in space?"

They did hit asteroids in space. That is why they are down here.

"I see," Ning said. "Still, I can't believe the water crushed it so much."

The spaceship is designed to sustain pressure from the inside. They need to make sure the spaceship doesn't explode in the vacuum of space and that's how it is designed. They are never designed to sustain force from the outside.

"So a little water pressure and the whole thing gets crushed like a water bottle, huh?" Ning thought.

Metals spikes rose from all around, glass shards littered the floor. The sand had made its way in and was now everywhere. Ning could even see a few fish bones that must have died in here.

The walls of the spaceship were covered in moss and algae. He could see sea bugs crawling the side of it from time to time.

Ning forced open some sort of door in the giant spaceship and went through to find a few things.

This room was more or less protected by the beasts, but water, sand, bugs, and the algae had made their way through somehow.

Most of the things in this room were unrecognizable as well.

As he was thinking that, Ning came across something. He saw a bunch of rectangular metal boxes with moss all over them.

Ning walked up to one of them and wiped the mess from the top. Suddenly, he saw a face through the now clean screen.

"A person!" he cried out and quickly ripped open the metal lid. He reached in to grab the person and… they were dead.

"What? But… but they look so alive," Ning said to himself. The person in the chamber was a woman with long hair that had her eyes closed.

There was some sort of tube that went through her nose and mouth while the rest of it was fully naked.

Ning checked the pulse once again, but the person clearly was dead. Now that he looked at it, her skin was indeed turning pale.

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He then stood up and looked around him to find about a dozen or so more boxes like this one.

He went through all of them, finding men and women in them. However, they were all dead.

"System, what is going on?" he asked.

These people were put to cryo-sleep in these cryo-chambers. It was supposed to freeze their body over the course of the time it took for a space voyage.

however, due to the problems they faced, this room lost powers and they all ended up slowly thawing in the bottom of the ocean and thus died of suffocation.

"Such a horrible way to go," Ning thought. "But why haven't their bodies rotten yet?"

Before they are put to cryo-sleep, their body is regulated and frozen over a period of time.

During this time, their breathing, heart, and even their brain stop functioning.

Once their body loses all harmful gases and their cells stop developing further, the chamber is filled with nonreactive gas.

"So even after they're dead, they don't rot because their body never had anything to rot it, huh?" Ning asked.

The tubes were meant to quickly provide them with oxygen and food when they woke up, but with the system failure that never happened

"I see," Ning sighed to himself.

He started taking the people out of the chambers and brought them outside. He then brought the skeletons out too.

Then, he started digging holes in the ground for all of the dead crew members of the spaceship.

Once he was done, he started burying them one by one in the hole he had just dug up.

"Your deaths were tragic, but I hope you have reincarnated to somewhere better now."

Ning prayed for them alone and put the dirt back into the graves. After that, it was time for him to learn about the spaceship itself.

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Chapter 704 The Crew MembersNing found pieces of metal broken off from the side of the spaceship. The 'fins' the people had seen were giant metal arms of the spaceship, of which half of them had been destroyed already.

The spaceship was far bigger in person than he could have imagined. It was cylindrical in shape with half of its outer arms around it. There was an opening at the back for the thrusters.

The front of it was still under the sand.

Once Ning pulled the entire spaceship from the sand, he teleported it onto a deserted island and put it there.

He looked at it from top to bottom. The ship was so massive that perhaps 5 of those giant turtles he had summoned could fit into it.

And that was after most of it had been destroyed.

The spaceship he remembered seeing so majestic in his memory was now completely crushed on all sides. The glass screen on the front was fully broken in and water had completely filled the spaceship.

Ning waited for the water to escape out, and when it did, he finally decided to go in.

Ning had just stepped into the ship when he came face to face with a skeleton.

"Holy Shit!" he cried out as he backed off. He wasn't expecting to see dead people so soon.

"Shit! Of course, the crew must be dead if they fell in here," he thought to himself.

He prepared himself and walked back in. He ignored the skeleton strapped onto the front seat, its clavicle and ribs broken due to the impact.

The skeleton's head hung loosely to the side. Ning sighed and moved on forward.

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He saw a few more bodies strapped in seats behind them.

Ning saw a giant hole on the other side of the ship that he hadn't seen before. Something had struck in from the side.

"Is this before or after they fell?" Ning asked his system.

"I would think a spaceship that is supposed to fly through space would be a little stronger," Ning said. "If a little water can crush it like this, what if they hit asteroids in space?"

"I see," Ning said. "Still, I can't believe the water crushed it so much."

"So a little water pressure and the whole thing gets crushed like a water bottle, huh?" Ning thought.

Metals spikes rose from all around, glass shards littered the floor. The sand had made its way in and was now everywhere. Ning could even see a few fish bones that must have died in here.

The walls of the spaceship were covered in moss and algae. He could see sea bugs crawling the side of it from time to time.

Ning forced open some sort of door in the giant spaceship and went through to find a few things.

This room was more or less protected by the beasts, but water, sand, bugs, and the algae had made their way through somehow.

Most of the things in this room were unrecognizable as well.

As he was thinking that, Ning came across something. He saw a bunch of rectangular metal boxes with moss all over them.

Ning walked up to one of them and wiped the mess from the top. Suddenly, he saw a face through the now clean screen.

"A person!" he cried out and quickly ripped open the metal lid. He reached in to grab the person and… they were dead.

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"What? But… but they look so alive," Ning said to himself. The person in the chamber was a woman with long hair that had her eyes closed.

There was some sort of tube that went through her nose and mouth while the rest of it was fully naked.

Ning checked the pulse once again, but the person clearly was dead. Now that he looked at it, her skin was indeed turning pale.

He then stood up and looked around him to find about a dozen or so more boxes like this one.

He went through all of them, finding men and women in them. However, they were all dead.

"System, what is going on?" he asked.

"Such a horrible way to go," Ning thought. "But why haven't their bodies rotten yet?"

"So even after they're dead, they don't rot because their body never had anything to rot it, huh?" Ning asked.

"I see," Ning sighed to himself.

He started taking the people out of the chambers and brought them outside. He then brought the skeletons out too.

Then, he started digging holes in the ground for all of the dead crew members of the spaceship.

Once he was done, he started burying them one by one in the hole he had just dug up.

"Your deaths were tragic, but I hope you have reincarnated to somewhere better now."

Ning prayed for them alone and put the dirt back into the graves. After that, it was time for him to learn about the spaceship itself.

705 Space Stone

Ning looked at the Space Drive. While the overall machinery in the room was in general called the Space Drive, he knew that when someone referred to it, they were referring to the glass cylinder that was inside it.

The cylinder fit in his two-hand as he twisted it to the right and took it out of the device.

The top and bottom of the cylinder were made up of metal, while the walls were made up of clear glass.

He expected to see something inside the Space Drive, its power source, but there was nothing there.

"You cannot create the power source?" Ning asked.

No.

Ning continued looking through it. "What is it? The power source," he asked the system.

Something known as Space Stone

"Space stone? What's a space stone?" Ning asked.

They are solid forms of space that are created during the conception of a universe.

Just as atoms are the building block of all matter in the universe, Space stone is what creates everything that is not matter or energy. The space.

"Have I seen one before? Can you create a mock version?" Ning asked.

No, you have not come into contact with one before. They are usually only found around black holes or universes that have failed to grow

A silver rock appeared in front of Ning and he caught it in his hand. He turned it around and checked. "This is what it looks like?" he asked.

Space stones come in all shapes and sizes, but yes, this is what they look like. Except, since they are a consolidation of space itself, they do not have any mass to them and are thus weightless.

"What? Will they just fly away if I don't keep them secure?" Ning asked with a hint of a chuckle in his voice.

no. Space, while without mass, is still affected by gravity, so a space stone will always try to go towards the object with the greater gravity in the area

"Is that why they are found around black holes? Oh, is that why only these people around the black hole have figured out space travel?" Ning asked.

That is indeed why

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"Hmm… these people, the federation as you said, what unique energy do they have? The space stone isn't energy is it?" Ning asked.

They are all mostly without any unique energy. Only the ones that are far away from the Blackhole can generate unique energies

"Why? What does a black hole do?" Ning asked.

You do not have enough authority to learn about black holes yet

'This again,' Ning thought. "How do I gain more authority?"

See into a black hole with your own eyes.

"Holy sh… okay, okay." Ning didn't know what to think. He had to look at a black hole? No, into it. That was going to be quite a hard task, seeing as he was nowhere close to one.

"The closest black hole is about four and a half thousand light-years away. How the hell am I supposed to go that far?" Ning thought to himself.

Then, his eyes fell on the space drive. "I need the space stone to run this thing. How the hell do I get it?" he wondered to himself.

He tried to think of a way but he had no way of acquiring a space stone for himself at the moment.

There is a space drive at the bottom of the ocean that contains a small space stone, but it will not be enough for you

"What? There is one? Where?" Ning asked.

The system teleported him deep underwater a bit further away from the crash site of the spaceship.

Ning went through the sand and unearthed a lot of Space Drive, but only one of them even had anything.

Ning frowned when he saw the drive with the space stone and teleported back into the ship.

"What the hell?" he cursed as he looked at the cylinder in his hand. He shook it a bit, but he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"This is just a speck of dust, isn't it? Are you sure this is a space stone?" he asked.

yes

"How far will this even get me?" Ning asked.

About 500 Million Kilometers

Ning paused. "Wait what? This little thing will get me that far?" he was surprised.

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Yes

"Really? This little thing? How?" Ning asked.

Space stones as mentioned are solidified space. That tiny speck contains about 500 Million metric cubes of space.

when used with the Space Drive, it can help a ship teleport through space and reach a very far space.

Ning was surprised to hear how far he could go with just a speck of it. "If I were to use the space stone the size you showed me before, how far would I be able to go?" he asked.

About 2 and a half Lightyears worth of teleportation in an instant

"Sigh, I really need that. Any idea how I can get one of such size?" Ning asked.

Send a distress signal out. If there is someone close by, they will hear it and come rescue you.

"Oh, that's not a bad idea. How do I do that? From the control station at the front?" he asked.

Yes

Ning placed the barely functional space drive back into the slot and left to go to the front.

He quickly learned from the system how to use the spaceship and started sending a message.

He thought for a moment and sent a simple message.

- Help! ZSS Unity III is down. Multiple crew members are dead. No way of returning.-

"Alright, that should do. Now if anyone happens to be in the area, they will come to help me right?" Ning said out loud.

ZHOOM~

"What just happened?" Ning looked around but saw nothing.

The ship's space drive activated to send the message to the closest ship in the area.

"Oh, that was the sound huh?" he thought. He knew the space stone would be used, but that was necessary as, without it, the message would take hundreds of years to reach its target.

"Time to leave then."

Ning took the entire spaceship into his massive storage and teleported back on top of the blue turtle that was still roaming the ocean.

Since there was nothing else to do besides wait, he decided to learn more about Space stone.

"Can I use space stone on my own? Without the machines?" Ning asked.

Yes. You can use it as long as you pump some energy onto it to turn the stone back into space.

"Cool," Ning thought. "So that must be how the Space Drive works then. Right, how exactly do I use it once I get the space out of the stone?"

You will require a skill to control it.

However, there are better things you can do with a space stone than use it for travel since you can teleport yourself and create portals.

"Better things?" Ning got curious.

You can use space stones to create storage artifacts that is accessible in all worlds including ones without any unique energy.

"Oh, that's quite nice. But I don't need that, do I?" Ning asked.

Yes. However, with space stone, using the system's help, you can start a world in yourself.

Ning thought for a moment about what the system said. However, nothing he could think of came close to comprehending the meaning of the sentence.

"Say that again," he asked of the system.

Space stone can help you create your own little world, where you are its master

Ning thought for a moment. "I can do such a thing?" he asked.

yes.

"Wait, um… how?" Ning had a hard time wrapping his head around the concept.

A world in himself.

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The system will take a space stone and use its space to create a world.

however, it can only link up to one space stone, so you need to make sure the space stone you find is sufficient enough to house star systems. Otherwise, it will just be empty space

"That's… I would have never thought of something like that being possible. Can you tell me where the largest space stone is in this galaxy?"

You will have to find that on your own. The system can however point you in the direction of space stones regardless of their sizes.

"I know they're around the black hole. I don't need more information than that right now. Unless there is one close by?" he asked.

the nearest one is about 200 Light years away

"Thought so. Well, I guess I will just wait and see then," Ning said as a smile appeared on his face. "Today was quite fruitful. Oh yeah, make sure to intercept any messages that come from outside. We might have to respond back."

Understood

Ning spent the rest of the time simply drifting on top of the giant turtle, letting it take him wherever it wanted.

At some point, he even fell asleep.

BANG!

A loud noise awakened Ning from his sleep as the shockwave pushed him off of the turtle.

Ning barely work up in time and managed to grab onto one of the crevices of the shell to keep himself from falling to the ground.

He then quickly climbed back on top of the turtle and looked around. When he did, he couldn't help but be shocked.

Nearly 30 different battleships were surrounding the turtle. They made multiple circles of defense and all had their cannon pointed at them.

"The hell?" Ning looked around and saw men in white and red uniforms, pointing their guns at him. They were ready to fire at a moment's notice.

"Summoner, who are you? And why are you in our country's territory?" a man with a thick mustache asked with a gun in his hand.

Ning immediately raised his hands. "Please don't shoot. I'm not an enemy," he said. "My name is Ning. I didn't come to your country's territory on purpose. I had simply let my beast free rein, that's all."

"Are you saying it's just a coincidence that we're meeting you here today?" the man asked.

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"Yes. That is precisely what I'm saying," Ning said with a smile. It was good meeting people who understood easily.

"Do you think me for an idiot?" the man asked.

This man didn't seem to be one that understood easily.

"I'm not lying, sir," Ning said.

A gunshot ran at the same time and hit the turtle's shell a couple of meters away from him.

"You appear here on the same day after our prince is assassinated. Do you really think we will believe whatever you say?" another man asked from another ship.

"What?" Ning was confused. "System, give me some information."

Ning learned that he was currently in the ocean territory of the Kingdom of Yorshan. It was a kingdom about the same size as Darius, if all of Darius's 10 islands were combined together.

The King of this kingdom had been dead for some time and the Queen had been handling the kingdom until the crown prince was old enough to take over.

However, a month before his coronation —last night to be precise— the prince was murdered while in his sleep.

The young man who was barely 15 appeared to have both drowned and burned to death at the same time.

"That's just horrible," Ning thought when he got the description of the corpse. "Who could do such a thing?"

Just as Ning questioned, the system answered.

"An assassin huh? Who employed her?" Ning thought.

Another gunshot and this time the bullet flew past his ears, barely hitting him.

In fact, the man was indeed trying to shoot him down, but he had missed.

Ning thought for a moment about what he could do. Could he just tell them that he knew who the killer was? Would they even believe him? How would he even explain how he came to learn about the truth?

There were too many problems to simply blurt out an answer. For now, he needed some time to think of what to do next and gather some more information.

In a haste, he could only think to do a single thing.

"Imprison me."

Chapter 708 The Shadow's Anarchy"What the hell?" the captains of the battleships looked around at their peers with a confused look.

They hadn't expected Ning, with such a giant beast to simply ask them to imprison him so easily. 'Is he scared we will kill him?' they thought.

"Give me a rope," the captain with the thick mustache asked of the soldiers.

"Yes, sir."

Some of them immediately ran away to get a rope. When they did bring it back, the captain tossed one end of the rope to Ning.

"Tie it around yourself," he shouted.

"Uh… okay." Ning quickly did as told and before long he had finished making a tight knot.

The captain pulled on it to make sure it was properly tied and then shouted back. "Now unsummon your beast."

"Unsummon my…? Sigh." Ning understood what the captain was planning and sighed regarding the fact that so many of his pearls would sing to the bottom the moment he did so.

'I can get it back later,' he thought and did as asked.

"You're free to leave."

A massive blinding circle of light appeared underneath the turtle and suddenly the battleships shook as the water moved in the fill the gap that the giant turtle had created.

Ning fell into the water, but the captain was holding on to the other end of the rope.

"Pull!" the captain shouted and his men went up to him and pulled on the rope without wasting a single time.

Ning was pulled onto the boat like an anchor and tossed onboard.

A dozen different guns pointed at him and he had to lie there, face down with his hands far apart.

"Tie him up," the captain ordered and Ning was tied up with some crude metal cuffs.

Finally, they pulled him to his feet and the captain placed a gun on his forehead.

"Now, speak. Why do you want to be imprisoned?" he asked.

Ning smiled. "Because I didn't want to die," he said.

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The captain cocked his gun again. "One last chance," he said.

'Shit,' Ning thought. 'Well, I guess there's no use in hiding it'

"I know the assassin who killed your prince," Ning said.

"You… what?" the captain was shocked. He had been ready to shoot his gun, but now… there was no way he could shoot him.

"Who?" the captain shouted.

"It's a girl named Janean from an assassin's group known as The Shadow's Anarchy," Ning said.

"It's them?" the Captain was shocked. "Those fucking bastards! They want to ruin our country."

The Captain started rambling, quickly forgetting about Ning.

"Captain," another man that was of higher rank than the soldier called out to the captain.

"Huh?" the turned around.

"You cannot simply believe what this man is saying. We need to verify the facts first," he said.

"Yes, yes. You're right, Vice-captain. Thank you," The captain said and turned towards Ning.

"How do you know this piece of information?" he asked.

'Uh… what do I say here?' Ning thought.

"I have my ways. I cannot speak of my connections," Ning said.

"Fine, we'll make you speak. Put him in a cell and keep an eye on him. Shoot him the moment you see signs of summoning," the Captain ordered.

"Yes, sir."

The soldiers took him below the deck and put him in a cage in the middle of the room. Then, four different soldiers sat around the cage with their guns ready to shoot whenever necessary.

Ning sat on the metal floor of the cage and looked around. It didn't look like any of them were willing to speak with him, so he simply closed his eyes and opened his ears.

Many different sounds came to with such intensity that Ning nearly flinched. However, he quickly got used to it and focused on the one that mattered.

The one that belonged to the Captain.

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"Do you really believe it could be the Shadow's Anarchy that did this, captain?" the vice-captain spoke to the captain somewhere in the ship.

"I see this as the most possible case," the captain said.

"More than the other ones?" the vice-captain asked.

"What? Are you saying this was done by the queen to stay in power? Are you saying this was done by the young prince who isn't even 10? Who else but the Shadow's Anarchy could do this?" the captain asked.

"What about the late King's brother? Maybe he's trying to return from his exile," the vice-captain said.

"That's impossible," the Captain said.

"Is it?" the vice-captain asked.

"Yes," the captain said.

"But he killed the king, didn't he? What's stopping him from killing the prince?" the vice-captain asked.

"He didn't kill the king, that was just a lie we spread because we never figured out who killed the king," the captain said.

"What?" the vice-captain hadn't known about this at all. He thought for a moment and said, "that still doesn't get him out of suspicion, does it? He could have killed the king, the same way he could have killed the prince."

"I told you, that's impossible," the captain said.

"Why is that more impossible than the Shadow's Anarchy doing it all?" the vice-captain asked.

"Because I killed the damn man myself."

"What?" the vice-captain couldn't believe it. "You killed the exiled prince?"

"He was never exiled. I killed him and told the people he was exiled," the captain said.

"I… I don't understand. Why would you kill the previous prince?" the vice-captain asked.

"Because the king ordered me to," the captain said.

"The King ordered you to kill his own brother? How… why would he do that?" the vice-captain felt like everything he knew was a lie.

"Because the prince did try to kill his brother. The King was stabbed in the chest in the night by his brother. Fortunately, he missed his heart and the king could summon a healing beast for himself."

"He then captured his own brother and tried to kill him. But it was too much for him and gave me the job," the captain said as he remembered the day he killed the previous prince.

Chapter 709 The Murderer"Whew, this country sure does love killing its royal family, doesn't it?" Ning thought to himself. Had he spoken up, he would have most likely been shot.

"A king that doesn't hesitate to give the order to kill his own brother. Then the King dies for some reason and now the crown prince that is to become the king dies at the hands of an assassin," Ning thought.

"In the first place, what the hell kind of name is 'The Shadow's Anarchy'. That doesn't sound like the name of an assassin group," Ning thought. "System, a little bit of information on them plz."

Ning got a short version of the information about the group.

The Shadow's Anarchy were indeed assassins, but they hadn't started that way.

They were first established in a kingdom that no longer exists. It was a group formed by some of the oppressed people in that group kingdom that was run by a dictator.

It was a rebellious group that killed the dictator and free their country. When they were finally free and information about the outer world started trickling in, they learned that there were more people like them around the world.

People that were oppressed under tyrannical kings and governments that only thought of themselves and nobody else.

The Shadow's Anarchy formed from that same group that wished to free others as they had freed themselves.

They would go to other countries, hide in the shadows and incite anarchy before killing the Kings and heads of the country.

Once done, they moved on.

They were so successful, that most countries started reforming in fear of their arrival.

At the same time, the Shadow's Anarchy had now grown to such a scale that their members were now bonafide assassins from all the killings they had done.

Some of the higher-ups in the group noticed this and started taking in commission work. They would agree to kill royals and nobles for some price.

When they then saw how beneficial it was, and how rich it made them, they didn't need to think much.

Overnight, the rebellion group that was meant to be there for people that needed their help, turned into an assassin group that only looked out for themselves.

Now they only killed for money.

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"That's a shame. It was such a revolutionary group too, and all that changed for what? A few pearls?" Ning couldn't help but shake his head.

However, he even had to stop doing that when he saw the soldiers grab their guns and prepare to shoot.

'Dammit,' he thought and stopped moving.

He thought back to the tragedy that was the Shadow's Anarchy.

'Right, someone had to pay them to make them kill the prince. System, who was it?' he asked.

The system gave an answer and Ning's eyes narrowed. 'Really? I wouldn't have had more hope than this,' Ning thought.

'Create an illusion of me in this exact position, System I need to go somewhere,' Ning said.

An illusion of his appeared in the same position as Ning was. From the outside, it didn't look like anything changed. In fact, the illusion was even breathing lightly and blinking from time to time just like a human would.

However, on the inside, it was totally empty as Ning had already left the cage.

Ning arrived inside a room. He looked at the beautifully designed tapestry hung on one side of the wall, the unique patterns on the white ceiling, and the expensive furniture that was scattered around the room.

"AAAAAHH! Guards!"

Ning heard a woman's voice and turned around.

Behind him was a woman in white. From head to toe, the only color that wasn't white was her brown skin, and her flaming red hair.

"Assassin! Assassin!" the woman shouted when she saw Ning.

"I can assure you, I'm not an assassin," Ning said. "But I am here on that topic. I wanted to ask why you killed him?"

"What?" The woman asked with a confused expression.

"Why did you want him dead? Is there any possible reason why a mother would ever want her son dead, your highness?" Ning asked.

The queen's face paled. "Are… are you saying I killed my son?" she asked. The shock and anger in her voice sounded quite natural in Ning's ears as if she could've never done it.

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However, Ning knew it was her that paid the Shadow's Anarchy to kill the prince. After all, the system had told him that it was the queen that ordered the assassination.

"You should work in a theater with that level of acting skills," Ning said.

"How… how dare you say that I would kill my own son? Who the hell are you to say that I would kill my own boy?" the queen shouted.

"No need to act, I just want to know why. Why would a mother kill her son? Was he actually not your son but a bastard of the previous king?" Ning asked.

"Wait, on that note, who killed the previous king?" Ning asked.

"Guards!" the queen shouted again, and Ning could hear them running towards her already. He had just a few more seconds.

"You killed your husband too?" Ning couldn't believe it. "You not only killed your husband but also your son? Why? Did you only marry them because you wanted the throne?"

The guards were nearly at the door by then.

"Whatever," Ning thought and walked forward towards the queen.

"Don't come near me!" the queen shouted, but she couldn't keep Ning away.

Ning grabbed her head and immediately used Supreme Domination.

"You will tell the truth about your son's murder to everyone," Ning ordered her.

At the same time, the doors opened and he vanished.

"Your highness, are you alright?" the guards asked.

"I…" the queen looked around. "I must have been hallucinating."

"Your highness, you should get some sleep." One of the female guards spoke up.

"Yes, I should do that, but I need to find my son's murderer first," she said.

"We might get that in a few hours, your highness. Apparently, the soldiers found someone in the sea with answers. They will be here soon."

Chapter 710 Lie DetectionNing arrived back in his cage where the illusion disappeared to show the real him.

The soldiers didn't realize that had happened, and neither did Ning want them to.

He stayed in his cage, thinking to himself how he simply wanted to leave right now. If he disappeared from here, it would cause a commotion, but no one would know who he was, so they wouldn't be able to check him.

However, for some reason, he couldn't let go of the thought of bringing justice to that poor young prince that had to die for nothing.

He had checked the prince's history and there was nothing in it that would suggest he would make a bad king. Which meant, the fault was entirely on the queen for not wanting to leave the throne.

'Not only did she kill her husband, but she killed he son as well,' he thought. 'How could a woman do that?'

At the very least, she had to be mentally ill to make such a choice.

'It doesn't have anything to do with me,' he thought, but deep down he knew that he would have to help. He would feel guilty if he left right now, knowing he left a murderer on the throne for all the people in the country to suffer.

He sighed. All he could do was wait for the Queen to tell everyone she did it as he ordered her to and he could go back to his day.

While there wasn't necessarily anything for him to do, he still wanted to be there for the princess to practice her newly learned summoning skills.

The door opened and a few people walked in. Ning straightened up from his slouched position when he saw that it was the Captain and the vice-captain that walked in with a bunch of other soldiers.

"Cover up the windows," the captain ordered.

The soldiers quickly moved to pull back some very thick black curtains that completely blocked the light.

By the time they were done, it was impossible to tell if it was day or night in the room.

Ning wondered what they were doing when he heard a few clanks on the deck as a few pearls scattered around him.

Ning looked around him to see why they were doing what they were doing when he heard the captain speak.

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"Good, he hasn't summoned anything," he said. The captain then pulled up and chair and sat close to the cage. "You summon anything, my men shoot you. Understood?"

Ning nodded. At the same time, he saw the pearls around the captain leave wisps of steam-like line that flew towards him.

'He's summoned something?' Ning understood. The pearls would only lose energy at such a quick speed if there was something else vacuum that they could fill.

This meant that the Captain was currently without a lot of his spiritual energy, which in turn meant he had summoned something.

Ning quickly used his Spiritual Analysis to see what it was and was surprised to see that he was in fact summoning something.

'Lie detecting skill huh?' he thought.

"What's your name?" the captain asked.

"Ning Ruogong," Ning replied without hesitation.

"Where are you from?" the captain asked.

"The Darius Kingdom."

The captain's eyes narrowed a bit. "Do you have any connection with the Shadow's Anarchy?" he asked.

"None," Ning said.

The captain sensed that he was telling the truth. "Did this 'Janean' girl really kill our prince? And is she from the Shadow's Anarchy?" the captain asked.

"Yes, she is from the Shadow's Anarchy, and she was hired to kill your prince and did kill him," Ning said.

"Do you know how she did it?" the captain asked.

"From what I heard, she used some sort of poison that would burn a person's skin while melting their lungs such that they would drown to death from their own blood," Ning answered.

The captain was surprised by how easily Ning was answering everything and how nothing he said had been false until now. He looked down at the spheres, but only the pearls next to him were losing light. The ones near Ning remained ever so bright.

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"How do you know all this?" the captain asked.

"I heard it from somewhere," Ning said.

"Where?" the captain asked.

"I used a power to find the truth when you caught me this morning," Ning said.

The captain's face became weird at the surprisingly stupid-sounding answer, and yet, there were no lies in his words.

"What? What power? What did you summon?" the captain was surprised. Were there powers that could tell the truth to a person? Was there an omniscient beast out there that knew everything?

Ning decided to ignore the captain's question and instead told him. "I know who hired the killer too," he said.

The captain's eyes went wide. "Who?" he asked.

Ning looked around. "You want me to tell you here?" he asked.

The captain pushed back his intense curiosity and looked around at his men. "Everyone, out, now!" he ordered.

As the men were leaving, the captain made the vice-captain do the job of the soldiers and get ready to shoot as soon as he sensed any funny business.

Once everyone was gone, the captain turned around. "Tell me. Now!" he said.

Ning took a deep breath and told them. "It was the queen."

The captain's heart started beating faster from the sudden shock the information brought him. However, he pushed it down to look at Ning and try and figure out if he was lying at all.

There was not a single hint of a lie in his words.

"Dear god! Was it really the queen?" the captain couldn't help but show his shock on the outside.

Ning shrugged. "That's what it told me when I asked the question. You can try asking the queen herself if you ever meet her," he said.

"Don't worry about that," the captain said. "We will arrive at the shore any minute now. "I will take you to the queen and we will find out."

Chapter 711 The Queen's ConfessionThe captain brought Ning out of the cage when the ship came to a stop. When Ning got out, he looked out from the deck and was immediately surprised.

Yorshan kingdom was an archipelago with many small islands that were near each other. Most seemed to have bridges between them, but there were some that were too far away to have bridges.

The ship was landed on the main island in the center of the giant cluster of islands and the soldiers were preparing to allow them to disembark.

"This is?" Ning looked at the island he was on that was barely 500 meters in all directions.

"This is the Royal Island of Yorshan. This is where the queen lives," the captain told him and had the soldiers take him down.

The vice-captain got close to the captain and started speaking with him.

"Captain, do you believe what he's saying?" he asked.

"He's telling the truth. I have no doubt about it," the captain said.

"I can understand that. I know he was telling the truth, but maybe he was telling HIS truth. You know what I'm saying?" he asked.

The captain stopped. "You think he's saying what he believes is true and doesn't know exactly what happened?" he asked.

"Yes, exactly. I'm not saying the man lied. I'm saying he doesn't know the real truth and could have been fed up with this fake truth by someone else that he believes is this different power," the vice-captain said.

The captain thought for a moment. "You are right. He could be lying without knowing he's lying," the captain said. "Don't worry. I finally got the chance to speak with the queen. I will find out the truth on my own."

The vice-captain nodded and they started walking into the palace.

Ning walked in freely as there was nothing more for him to worry about. He would meet the queen, she would confess, the soldiers would apologize and he would be back in Darius within the hour, ready to go teach the princess.

He looked around the walls of the palace as he walked in. The man spears that were placed on the walls fully brightened the palace.

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One of the servants bowed in front of them and spoke up. "Her Majesty will be with you in just a moment."

The captain nodded and the servant walked away. He then turned towards Ning. "Listen up. I'm setting up some ground rules here," he said.

"When we're in front of the queen, you will not talk at all. I will do all the talking," the captain said.

Ning shrugged. "Fine by me." He didn't have anything else to talk about anyway.

He looked around the waiting area where he was seated and saw that while the designs, paintings, and furniture here were quite good, they had nothing on the things he saw in the room he had teleported to.

'Damn, did I teleport to the queen's quarters earlier?' he thought. 'Thank god I didn't get in during an awkward moment.'

A servant arrived again, bringing another message. "The queen is ready to see you."

The captain stood and brought Ning along with the servant.

Ning was brought to a room all white. The floor was made up of white marble that was polished to such an extent that he could clearly see his own reflection on it.

The walls were white too, but they had paintings and ornaments hung on them. One of the paintings was of a middle-aged man with a fit body standing on top of a boar-like beast.

'That was the king huh?' he thought.

Up ahead on the seat was the woman he had seen earlier. She was in the same white dress as before.

'Finally, I can leave,' Ning thought when he saw the queen on the throne.

"Your servant greets you, your majesty," the captain bowed while Ning remained standing as he wouldn't be needed to in front of his own servant.

"Get up, captain. We do not have time for such frivolous formalities for the moment," the queen said. "Have you found the murderer who killed my son?"

"I have not, your majesty," the captain said.

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'Sigh, Janean huh? Where is she again?' Ning asked the system. According to it, Janean was still on one of these islands, spending her time asleep in a tavern. 'So carefree,' he thought.

"If you haven't figured out who killed my child, then why are you here captain?" the queen asked. Then, her eyes turned toward her master. "And why do you have him in cuffs? Take them off."

"I'm afraid I cannot do that, your highness. We still don't know who this person is and he may be harmful," the captain said. "The reason I brought him here is that he said he knows who the killer is."

The queen's eyes went wide. "You do?" she asked Ning.

Ning was a little taken aback by her surprise and looked toward the queen to see if he should answer the question or not.

The captain shook his head and turned to the queen. "Your majesty. Before we hear his potential lies, I was hoping you would have some idea of who did this? I wondered if you knew who killed your son," the captain asked.

Ning sighed in relief. Finally, the captain had reached that line of questioning.

"What do you mean, captain? Why would I know who would want to kill my child? He was loved by everyone," the queen spoke as tears streamed down her eyes.

'Wait what?' Ning's eyes narrowed in surprise. 'Why isn't she confessing?'

"This man here claims that it was you who did it," the captain said, his eyes never leaving the queen.

The queen's face turned shocked. "I did not. I would never bring harm to my own child," the queen said.

And the captain found truth in those words.

"What the hell?" Ning couldn't help but speak in surprise. This wasn't how this was supposed to go.

The queen's eyes turned cold as she turned towards Ning. "This man dared say that I would kill my own child?"

The captain shuddered. "Yes, your majesty."

"Punish him!" the queen spoke up. "Kill him the same way my child died. Burn him and then drown him."

Chapter 712 QuestioningNing stood up with a weird look on his face. "How are you fighting my subordination skill?" Ning asked.

"Stand down!" the captain shouted with a gun in his hands.

"Go away, captain. I've indulged you long enough," Ning said as he grabbed the gun with his left hand and crushed it like paper.

The Captain tried to shoot but the bullet wouldn't leave the chamber anymore.

Ning ignored the captain and looked at the woman. "I order you to speak the truth," he said.

"Captain! Stop standing around, kill him," the queen shouted.

"Kill me? Your master?" Ning looked at her. "Are you not the queen? A body double?"

Ning couldn't understand.

The captain hit him in the back of his head with a strong arm, the strength of which he had summoned from a beast just now.

However, when he expected Ning's skull to crack open, he instead felt a blinding pain in his hand. He could feel his own fingers crack and he was certain he had injured his finger bones.

"Captain, why are you doing this? I'm trying to help you find the murderer," Ning said.

"She's not the murderer," the captain shouted.

Ning sighed. "Let me prove it to you," he said as she snapped off the metal cuffs that were simply bracelets for him now that the chains were already broken off.

Ning could try and use the Supreme Domination skill on the queen again to see if it had simply not worked the last time. However, the confession wouldn't be any sort of proof since Ning will have clearly interfered with the queen.

"Let me go find the murderer," Ning said as he disappeared right in front of their eyes.

"What?" the captain was surprised and looked around. He tried touching the air where Ning was and wondered if he was perhaps invisible. However, there was nothing there.

Just then, Ning reappeared back where he was standing. The captain jumped back in surprise before quickly returning to his feet as he looked at Ning.

Next to him was a green-haired woman who Ning had grabbed by the nape. The girl had daggers in her hand that she tried to stab Ning with, but all she could hear were clangs as if he was wearing armor beneath his simple clothes.

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"Let go of me. Who are you? Why are you doing this?" she shouted.

"Let go of her," the captain shouted at Ning as well when he saw the helpless girl struggling next to the brute of a man.

"Really? You want me to let her go?" Ning asked. "Even after you know she is Janean, the girl who murdered your prince?"

"Wha-" the captain was dumbfounded.

"Wha-wha-what? N-no, I didn't kill the prince. I don't know what you are talking about," the girl screamed on top of her lung.

Ning turned the girl towards the captain and let him see her fully.

Janean was a short girl with a petite body type wearing a fully black dress. The daggers in her hands were sharp, but the flat side of them was dull enough to not reflect any lights.

"Why did you kill the prince?" Ning asked.

"I- I did not kill the prince! I promise. I don't know what you are talking about," she shouted.

The captain looked at Janean, in shock, as his lie-detecting skill was telling him that she was in fact lying.

"What's your name, girl?" he asked.

"Lila! My name is Lila," she said.

Another lie. "Answer me in yes or no question only," the captain said with eyes that were fueled with rage.

The girl feared those eyes of the captain. She swallowed a bit and nodded quickly.

"Did you kill the prince?" he asked.

"I don't know what you—"

"YES OR NO!" the captain shouted, making the girl flinch back a bit.

"N-no. No!" the girl managed to speak despite her fear.

The captain realized that was a lie. She had in fact killed the prince.

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"Are you part of the Shadow's Anarchy?" the captain asked.

"Wha— No," the girl remembered to answer in yes or no question only.

The captain closed his eyes as he realized they had got the murderer for their prince. At the very least, his death wouldn't go unavenged.

"Do you know the man who is grabbing you?" the captain asked.

"No, I don't know who the hell this psychopath is that grabbed me in my sleep," she shouted.

That was the first truth she had ever spoken since coming here. The captain looked at Ning and realized that he had nothing to do with this.

That meant… it was very much likely that he was speaking the truth. So, with a heavy heart, he opened his eyes and asked, "Did the queen order you to kill the prince?"

"What? I did not—"

"Yes or no," the captain reminded her.

"No," the girl said.

The captain was taken aback and Ning caught the change in expression. "What is it? You got it?" he asked.

"What do you mean?" the captain asked.

"Is she lying or not?" Ning asked.

"How…?" the captain was stunned when he realized that Ning knew what he was doing this whole time. However, now was not the time to be shocked. "No, she's telling the truth."

"That can't be," Ning looked at the captain, and then to the queen. Finally, he turned back to the girl and asked, "do you know who ordered you to kill the prince?"

"Why do you keep asking that? I already told you—"

Ning suddenly turned her around and looked into her eyes. "Listen here, we already know who you are, who you are working for, and what you've done to the prince."

"I don't like violence, but I have no qualms in killing a bitch that doesn't hesitate to kill a 15-year-old kid. Now, tell me if you know who ordered you, or I will crush your throat right here."

The girl's eyes widened with fear as she knew she had been caught. In those cases, there was only one thing she could do.

Suicide.

Chapter 713 Finding EvidenceEvery assassin was sent with two fake molars that were on either side of their upper teeth.

The two molars contained powders that were normally harmless. However, when the two powders were mixed together and then swallowed, they created a poison that would painlessly kill them within a moment's notice.

Since Janean had been caught and the only punishment for a murderer would be death, she decided to take her own life.

She flicked her right molar with her tongue and then her left one. The powders fell from the two teeth and mixed with her saliva to become poison.

Once there was enough saliva, she swallowed and waited for the sweet bliss of death.

"You can't kill yourself to get away from answering me!"

Ning's voice woke her up from her bliss as she realized she was still staring into his fury-filled eyes.

'What? Why am I not dead?' she thought.

"You want to die?" Ning asked as if he could read her thoughts. "I will kill you then."

Fire immediately lit behind her as she felt her green hair burn and the fire quickly try and consume her.

"Aaah!" she shouted.

"Answer me, or I will leave you to the soldiers to be tortured," Ning shouted at her.

"I'll answer. I will," she spoke back once she realized there was no running away from this.

Ning waited for her to speak up.

"I… I really don't know where the order came from. I only do as the higher-ups ask me to. If you want to know where the order came from, you will have to ask them," she shouted.

"The higher-ups?" Ning frowned. These were the people that gave up on saving lives and instead started taking them for their monetary benefit. These were scums amongst scum.

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"Fine, we'll ask your higher-ups," Ning said and immediately teleported.

The girl looked around in shock as she realized that they had once again changed location. She had thought she was going mad the first time around, but this time she knew that she wasn't. Instead, the man beside her could do things that she hadn't seen before.

Ning grabbed her head and immediately dominated her mind. He didn't want to bother keeping an eye on her.

"Stay here. I will go look for these higher-ups."

"Yes, master," the girl respectfully said and did not move from where she stood.

Ning walked away, as he felt the ground shift beneath him. He was on a boat that was moving in the sea.

"System, give me a map of the ship," he asked and was soon provided with one. He looked through the map and realized where he was.

And he realized where the higher-ups were staying.

A man in his 40s was sleeping in a bed with pearls spread all around him. He could enjoy anything he wanted with all of this treasure, but he wanted strength instead.

While the others indulged themselves in foods, treasures, and the pleasure of the flesh, this man only cared about getting stronger. After all, only when he got truly strong could he claim the organization for his own, and no one would dare claim otherwise.

There was a constant smile on his face as he gathered up the spiritual energy to reach this goal of his.

Just then, he heard a slight bump to his left and turned around. When he did, he saw a young man standing in the room.

"This is the wrong room. If you want to be devoured by that old hag, she's in the room next door," the man said and went back to absorbing the energy.

"No, I'm looking for you," Ning spoke up and walked towards him.

The man turned around. "Why do you need me?" he asked.

"I need you to call an emergency meeting for all the higher-ups right now," Ning said.

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"Need? Hah, who do you think yo—"

CLANK

Ning produced a spear from his storage and stabbed the man through his palm and halfway into the metal frame of the bed. "I don't have time for your nonsense. I will give you one chance. Next time you say something and don't do what I say, this spear will go through your forehead," he said.

The man grunted with pain as Ning pulled back the spear from his palm. Blood spilled all over the pearls to his side, giving a red glow to the area.

The spearhead suddenly appeared next to his throat, nearly piercing through his skin. "Get a move on," Ning ordered.

"Yes, yes!" the man shouted and stood up.

Half-naked, he ran out of the room and ordered someone to quickly bring all the higher-ups to the meeting room.

Ning walked behind the man with his spear. "Good, at least you aren't stupid enough to not listen to my words, unlike that other woman with a massive mole on her chin," he said.

"S-Sarene?" the man asked in fear in his heart.

"I don't know her name. I didn't bother asking before I killed her."

The man's face darkened with fear. Would he have died if he didn't do what he was told to do?

Ning followed the man to the meeting hall with a frown on his face. His mood had noticeably worsened after coming to this ship.

Not only were there assassins that killed for money, but there were also deplorable people all over this ship.

The very first person he went to forcefully make the other higher-ups gather was a woman who was forcing herself on a young man that kept begging her to stop.

Ning had lied when he told this man that she hadn't listened to him. He hadn't spoken in the first place.

The very thing he did when he entered the room was put his spear through the woman's head and free the young man.

After that, there was no way his mood could get any better at all.

The man reached the meeting hall and sat in one of the 13 different seats.

Ning went ahead and sat in one of them as well as he waited for the rest of the 11 people to gather.

Chapter 714 The MeetingNing sat in the room with a frown on his face, waiting for the rest of the people to come in.

"Don't even think about summoning. The moment I get a hint of power from you, you will die," Ning threatened the man.

The man's eyes went wide with fear as he was just about to do exactly that. He controlled his spiritual energy and didn't use it at all as he quietly watched the spearhead that was red with blood. Some his own, some from Sarene.

They waited for a while as people started pouring in.

"What the hell, Klaus? I was just starting to have fun. Do you know how hard it is to get it up at this age?" An old man walked in wearing nothing but a bathrobe.

Another woman yawned as she entered the room. "I was having the best dream I had in a long time. Why was I called?" she asked.

"What's the emergency? Did someone fail their task? Do we need to let someone else take care of them?" another man walked in asking many questions.

Slowly the people poured into the room. Every single one of them had hair full of yellow or green color, making them some of the strongest people Ning had seen in a while.

The 11th person finally entered the room. He looked around and saw an empty seat next to the old man in the bathrobe. However, it seemed that he didn't like this man at all.

So, he instead looked for other places to seat in.

"Oi kid, leave," he said as he stood next to Ning with his hulking figure.

"There's an empty seat right there. You can go there," Ning said.

"Hahaha! This one's got quite the tongue in him. I wonder what it would feel when he uses it on m—"

The spear went through the man's skull before he could finish his words.

The people around the room suddenly got up from their chairs and walked back in fear.

"What the hell?"

"Who is this kid?"

"An assassin?"

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They all questioned amongst themselves when they saw him.

Ning pulled back the spear as it brought along with it blood, viscera, and brain matter from the man's skull. The man flopped onto the table with his eye wide open, dripping with bloody tears.

Ning grabbed the man by his shirt and threw him into the empty chair in front of him. A piece of the man's cloth tore itself due to Ning's force which he used to wipe away the blood that was on the table in front of Ning.

"Now that we are all here, we may begin," Ning said to them.

"Klaus? What the hell is going on?" one of the men shouted in fear.

"I… I don't know. I was forced to call an emergency meeting," the man that had brought Ning here spoke.

The other 10 men and women looked around in fear and confusion when one of them finally realized someone was missing.

"Where's Sarene?" he asked.

"Dead, just like you will be if you don't sit down," Ning said.

"Just because you ki—"

Ning threw his spear directly into the man's skull, exploding it into many pieces. The spear that left his hand was now akin to a cannonball because of how strong he was.

Ning put his arm up and the spear flew back into his arm.

Of the original 13 figures that ran the Shadow's Anarchy, only 10 remained.

"If you don't want to die right now, don't do anything stupid and sit down," Ning said to the remaining men and women.

The old men and women looked around before slowly getting back onto their seats, ignoring with all their life the bloody smell that was starting to come from the two dead bodies next to them.

"Who-who are you?" one of the women asked.

"I ask the questions here," Ning said while glaring back at everyone. The group feared for their life and quickly nodded.

"Now, which one of you scumbags approved the murder of a young man that wasn't even 15 years old?" Ning asked.

"What?" a few of them looked confused.

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However, one of the man-woman there took a deep breath when she realized what he was talking about.

Ning's eyes moved and he stared at her now. "It was you, wasn't it?" he asked.

"Wh-which 15-year-old?" she asked with fear audible in her voice.

"The prince of Yorshan. Did you accept the assassination request?" Ning asked.

"I… I did," the woman said.

"Do you have papers or records on the transaction that happened?" Ning asked.

"Y-yes I do," she said, not daring to lie even a little bit.

"Give me the record," Ning said.

"O-okay," the woman said. "But-but it's in my room, it's…"

Before the woman could finish her words, Ning teleported out and teleported back into the room.

Only this time he had a stack of paper in his hand.

He thumped it on the table in front of the woman and asked, "Which one is it? Pick it out, quickly."

"Ye-yes," the woman said and started flipping through the pages.

Ning and the rest of the people watched her flip through the paper, and Klaus realized that Ning was distracted at the moment.

This was his moment.

He acted like he was looking at the woman too, but instead, he was already reaching for the beast that he would always ask for powers from.

At this point, they had a certain friendly bond between them that made the beast never want to reject his offer.

Given the situation, Klaus was very generous with his offer. The beast was surprised when he heard the new offer and was quite happy with it.

As such, the power that Klaus got was far better than anything he had received before.

Klaus's hair turned from green to blue, something everyone would be jealous of. At the same time, the skills of a shadow beast went into him and he did not hesitate to use them.

When no one was looking at him, Klaus used the shadow around him and vanished.

Chapter 715 KarmaNing was watching the woman flip through the pages when he noticed something shift in his Omnidirectional vision.

He turned around and managed to see the moment right when the blue-haired Klaus suddenly disappeared.

The remaining 9 people also turned towards the seat after Klaus vanished.

They looked around, nervously as they wondered what they should do.

"Did you find the record yet?" Ning asked the woman.

"N-no, not yet," she said.

"Then search for it," he ordered her.

"Yes," she continued searching and after a while finally found the piece of paper she was looking for.

"Here!" she gave it to Ning.

Ning looked at the paper and frowned. It did not say that the one that requested the assassination was the queen. Instead, it was someone named Helerach.

"Who's Helerach?" Ning asked with a confused look.

"A- A servant of the royal family," the woman quickly answered, thinking that Ning was asking her.

"A servant of the Yorshan royal family?" Ning asked.

"Ye-yes," she quickly nodded.

"How do you know this?" Ning asked.

"W-we usually follow the person that commissions us back to their place of residence to learn who they are," the woman said.

"To learn their identity, huh? You use this to blackmail or something?" Ning asked.

"We use it to get what we want," the woman said.

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"Scumbags, all of you," Ning said with a sneer on his face. He looked at the paper for a moment as a thought came to his mind.

"The King of Yorsah died 5 years ago. Was that your doing too?" he asked.

"The King… uhh… I believe Klaus knows about that," the woman spoke.

"Klaus is… that guy?" Ning pointed to the empty chair.

"Yes," the woman said.

"Good, let's ask him."

Ning disappeared again leaving them all in surprise before returning back with Klaus in his hands. Ning was grabbing the back of Klaus's skull.

"I told you that you would die if you summoned anything, and yet you still summoned it. Are you seeking death that much?" Ning asked.

"How? How did you find me? How?" he asked.

"Doesn't matter. Tell me, did you approve of the murder of the King of Yorshan?" Ning asked.

"Who?" Klaus asked.

"The King of Yorshan," Ning said.

"I don't know. I approve of many assassinations. I don't remember every little person from a backwater country I kill," Klaus shouted.

"Is that what a person's life is to you?" Ning asked as anger flared in his heart again. "You sit here, approving whether a person lives or dies, like an executioner. Well, karma is back to bite you bitch."

"I'm the Judge, Jury, and Executioner here for all of you scumbags, and there is only a single verdict in this court. Death."

Ning slammed Klaus' head onto the table so hard that the table split in half while Klaus's face caved in.

The other older men and women moved back as they looked at Ning with fear in their eyes.

"You are going to kill us too?" the man in the bathrobe asked.

"Is there a reason you deserve to live?" Ning asked.

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The 9 remaining people realized that simply obeying what he said wasn't going to keep them alive. If they wanted to live, they needed to fight back.

That was something they hadn't done in many years, but now they had to.

They used their spiritual sense and reached into the darkness for whatever they could find.

Ning walked over the broken table towards the elderlies that were trying to summon whatever they could.

He went directly towards the woman who had approved of the prince's death and stabbed her through her heart.

Fire fizzled in her hands as she had just summoned some skills of her own. Ning pulled the spear upwards with such force that the woman's body ripped in half as it was thrown away.

A jaguar-like beast was summoned with wind trembling at its every roar. Another beast, a bull with a very sharp horn ran directly in Ning's direction.

Ning flipped his spear and use the butt of the spear to strike the bull in its face so hard that it was unsummoned.

Then, he walked through the storm the jaguar produced and beat it until it was unsummoned as well.

Lightning crackled from somewhere as one of the men threw lightning bolts at Ning. Each strike struck Ning, burning his clothes, but even as it burned, nothing happened to Ning.

Ning didn't just have a strong body anymore. He could also negate 80% of all Heat, Sound, Kinetic, and Electrical energy.

Which meant the lightning strike did nothing to him.

Ning jumped toward one of the women to the side and grabbed her when the lightning strike hit him. The woman immediately burst into fire from the strike, but nothing happened to Ning.

Instead, Ning tossed his spear directly onto the man that used the lightning strike, killing him in a single shot.

Of the remaining 6, 2 of them tried running to the door, but a simple push with his telekinesis forced the two people from not being able to open the door.

At the same time, a massive Air cutter was released from Ning's hand and cut the two people that were trying to escape.

Ning looked at the remaining four and saw the fear in their eyes. All he could think about when he saw that were the victims that would have the same eyes when they died.

That only made his fury grow more and within a minute the remaining 4 died as well.

He looked around to make sure nobody was alive. When he was sure, he took some of the blood and wrote a warning on the wall.

He left a message for the assassins that would come here. He told them that the Shadow's Anarchy was hereby disbanded. And if anyone tried to start it again, or tried to start their very own assassin's organization, he would come and do the same to them that happened to these people.

Once the writing on the wall was done, he left.

Chapter 716 The QueenNing teleported back into the throne room of the Yorshan palace. The room was empty for the most part.

From what he could see, the captain and the queen were gone. 'Was I out for long?' he wondered as he looked around, but there was no one there.

"Follow me," he said and started walking.

Janean who had teleported back with him started following him.

"Aaagh!" people shouted in the hallway and started running away from Ning. Only then did he realize just what a ruined state his clothes were in.

The lightning and various other attacks had created holes all over his shirt and the blood of the ones he had killed was still fresh on his skin.

He looked no different from a man that had returned from a massacre, just like he was.

"Stop!" Ning ordered one of the servants that were trying to run away at the sight of him.

The woman suddenly fell to the ground and started crouching as she started shouting "please don't kill me," over and over again.

Ning sighed. "System, fix it please," he asked. In a flash of light, the shirt he was wearing was reformed and all the blood that was on his body was gone.

"I'm not going to kill you miss," Ning said as he crouched down. "Please look at me."

The woman still kept shouting the same thing without turning, as she thought her death was here.

Ning sighed. He grabbed the woman's head and simply turned her into his servant.

The woman finally stopped being scared and turned around to face him. "What do you need, young lord?" she asked.

"A while ago, the captain was here to meet the queen. Do you know where he's gone?" Ning asked.

"The captain? Captain Merkel is executed at the front gate right now," the woman said.

"Wait, what? Executed? Why?" the news hit Ning like a truck. He couldn't fathom why that was hearing at all.

"The captain apparently did something horrendous in the throne room, so the queen is executing him," she said.

"Wait, so he isn't dead yet?" Ning asked.

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"He should be hung anytime now," the woman said.

"Good, I can save him," Ning thought and turned to look at the woman. "Take her to the front gate."

At the same time, he vanished and arrived in the air outside the palace.

There was a crowd of people outside, all looking at the captain that had his face covered in a black cloth.

A man was putting the rope around his neck and getting ready to put it on the wall next to them.

Ning didn't know why there was an execution platform ready so soon, but he didn't care much about that.

He turned his eyes at the woman in white with anger on her face. Once he saw her, he dove down.

Ning slammed onto the ground, putting fear into the heart of every man and woman that stood there.

Everyone immediately started moving backward while the queen fell down to the ground from the impact.

The anger in her eyes switched to fear when she saw Ning.

Ning stared into her eyes, trying to understand if this was the woman he had dominated earlier today or not. However, there were just too many things weird about this, that he decided to do it again.

Ning grabbed her head and got ready to—

"Master, what are you doing?" the queen asked.

"Eh? What did you call me?" Ning asked in surprise.

"Master?" the queen asked.

The people around started in shock and started whispering amongst themselves at the fact that the queen was calling someone master.

Ning on the other hand frowned. 'Something's wrong,' he thought. An Air Cutter was released from his back that flew towards the captain's head and severed the rope that was right on top of him.

"Everyone, leave. There's been a misunderstanding here. We have caught the murderer of the prince," Ning shouted.

The crowd got even rowdier with their murmurs.

"Tell them to leave," Ning said to the queen.

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"Everyone, Leave!" the queen ordered.

Everyone, even the executioner nodded and started walking away. The guards tried to stay behind, but the queen forced them away too.

The captain slumped to the ground and planted face first as the cloth over his head loosened.

"Captain? What? What's going on?" the queen panicked when she saw his gag and the rope around his neck.

"You were going to have him executed," Ning told her.

"What? No, I would do no such thing," the queen exclaimed.

"Yeah, I'm starting to get that," Ning said as he looked at her.

He walked up to the captain and undid his bindings. The captain was completely out of it, probably because he was drugged before the execution. So, Ning touched his head and healed him completely.

"Wake up, captain. We have a job to do," Ning spoke up as he nudged him.

The captain, completely dazed, looked around at the open sky and suddenly got up. "What… what happened? I…" he tried to remember the last thing he could.

He remembered a bunch of people holding him as the queen shouted at him for blaming the prince's death on her, and then…

There were no more memories.

"Where am I?" he asked as he stood up.

"You are at your execution," Ning said. "Had I been a couple of minutes late, the queen would've successfully killed you."

"Master, no, I would never kill the…"

"I know," Ning said as he turned towards the queen. "You would've never killed him. You don't have the heart for it."

"Yes, I—"

"But she does," Ning said as he stared into the queen's eyes again. "Don't you?"

"What are you saying, master?" the queen asked.

"I'm not talking to you," Ning said. "I'm talking to the woman hidden inside of you. The one that is capable of killing her own husband, and killing her own son."

"The other queen of this kingdom," Ning said. "I know you can hear me. Come out."

Chapter 717 Existing to be Hurt"Master?" the queen gave a confused look. "What are you— Congratulations, you managed to figure it out. So what?"

The queen's confused eyes suddenly turned to fierce, angry glare as she looked at Ning.

"There you are," Ning said. "Two different people, huh? Two identities, two personalities. I didn't know my skill only worked on one if there were multiple ones."

"Yeah, that is quite a neat trick you have there. Unfortunately, for you, you can't get me," the queen spoke.

"You were the one that hired assassins to kill your own son?" Ning asked.

"I certainly did not," the queen said.

"Right," Ning pulled out a piece of paper from his storage. "You're right. How could I be mistaken? It was Helerach that hired the assassin, wasn't it? I wonder what he would say if we brought him here."

Ning handed the piece of paper to the captain to read. He looked through it and was beyond shocked.

"You gave away the life of your own son for 20 thousand pearls? Was your own son's life that cheap to you?" the captain asked.

"Stop calling him my son. He's not my son, he's her son," the queen screamed.

Ning could hear deep hatred in her heart.

"You really like killing people don't you?" Ning asked. "First the King, then the prince, and now the captain. You really want to get rid of anyone that can go against you. Were you doing it for power?"

"No," the queen said. "That bastard deserved his death, so did the captain."

"Why?" the captain asked. "For finding out the truth?"

"No," the queen said. "For killing my only hope in this world."

The captain was taken aback. "Killing your… hope? I did not—"

"You killed Astier, you bastard," the queen shouted.

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Ning looked back at the captain and saw shock clear in his eyes. "Who's Astier?" he asked.

"The King's brother. The previous prince," the captain said

"Didn't the prince try to kill the previous king?" Ning asked the captain.

"Yes," The captain nodded and looked at the queen. "Your majesty, the prince had committed a crime. I was ordered by the king to kill him."

"And you didn't hesitate even a bit," the queen's eyes went rabid.

"He had tried to kill the king," the captain shouted.

"AT MY REQUEST!" the queen shouted back.

"Wha… what?" the captain didn't know what to say.

He remembered that day when he killed the prince nearly half a decade ago.

The prince lay on his knees on the cold, hard ground with his leg and arms tied behind his back.

The prince's face was swollen after getting beat up by the King whose chest had previously been stabbed through.

"Why did you do it, brother?" the king asked. "Why would you ever try to kill me? Do you want my throne, is that it?"

The prince glared back at the king with a clear snarl on his face. "You don't deserve to be a king. You, who have lost all of your humanity deserve nothing but painful death."

"Kill me! Kill me quickly so I no longer have to call this monster a brother," the prince grumbled with his swollen face.

The king sighed. "Do it."

The gun was shot.

BANG!

And the captain returned back to the present. His hands shook as he remembered the gun he held to kill the prince.

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The prince hadn't tried to start a coup or something. He had tried to kill his brother because the queen had told him to.

"Why?" the captain asked. "Why would you want to kill the king?"

"Why wouldn't anyone want to kill that rapist piece of shit of a human being?" the queen asked.

"Ra— what? No, the king was a—"

"Shut up," the queen said. "You don't know anything about that bastard. No one does, not even her."

"That bastard was a horny dog that wanted to do nothing but rape me. He would always try to screw me, and when I didn't agree, he would threaten to go find my sisters and screw them instead."

"She couldn't handle it at first, the poor woman. With time, however, she managed to shove it all down. All the pain, the memories, the hurt. She shoved it so much that I emerged to take care of her pain," the queen said.

"Imagine your whole existence was only there to be raped day after day after day."

"She only remembered the good days, while I suffered from the bad ones."

"I had finally managed to gain control a bit. I could hang on to the times even when he didn't rape me when I wasn't hurt. Doing that, I finally got to talk to Artier, tell him what was happening."

"That poor young man was understanding of my pain and promised to help me be free. And yet," the queen glared at the captain. "You killed him."

"I—" the captain was already shocked from hearing about his king, and now, he had to learn that he killed a good man that wanted to do nothing but save a woman from the monster that was the king.

"After his death, I realized. There was no one that could save me. Not even she could. As such, I took matters into my own hand."

"I started holing on more and more and more until I could take over her whenever I wanted. Using that, I contacted the Shadow's Anarchy and had the King killed."

"I thought that would be it, I would be free, finally. But, here I was, still not gone. Then, they told me I had to sit on the throne and keep it for the one person that still reminded me every day of the torture I went through, the pain I suffered?" the queen shouted.

"That's why you killed him?" Ning asked. "Because he reminded you of a person that you didn't like?"

"If you had a child that was born out of rape, you would do the same," the queen said.

Ning shook his head. "You're sick."

Chapter 718 Punishment and Salvation"Sick? Me? Because I killed that bastard that hurt me?" the Queen shouted at Ning. "You know nothing of the pain I went through. You have no idea what it feels like to sit there, helpless as your body wrecks with pain."

"I still have scars from the times he hit me because I dared to fight struggle. And you want to say I'm sick?" the queen asked.

"What you did to your husband is in fact commendable. Killing that piece of garbage was in fact an easy escape for him. If it were me, I would've tortured him far more than just that," Ning said.

The queen paused. "You… you agree with me? So you do understand my pain," she said.

"However," Ning continued. "Just because you've been hurt before does not give you the right to hurt others."

"You killed the king, I commend you. You killed the prince, you must be punished," Ning said.

"Heh! We'll see about that, you bastard," the queen said.

Ning walked up to her and grabbed the queen on her head.

"Master?" the queen's rageful eyes changed to that of a somber person that didn't understand what was happening.

"Sleep, I don't need you right now," Ning said. Suddenly the queen's eyes became unfocused before focusing back as she looked around in surprise.

"What's going on? Why am I back?" she looked around agitatedly. "What are you doing to me?"

"Something I wish someone was here to do for you a long time ago," Ning said as he closed his eyes.

"You've suffered a lot throughout your existence, but you've also done things that can't go unpunished."

"I hope what I'm going to do shall be both punishment and salvation for you," Ning spoke.

"What? What are you going to do to m—"

"Disappear!"

The queen's words never ended, and they never would.

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"Master?" the real queen woke up with a confused look on her face. "What's going on?"

Going in and out of consciousness had her disoriented and it took a while before she was able to remember what was going on.

"My… my son." She looked up at Ning with eyes full of tears. "Did I… did… did I really… k-kill my son?"

"Ah!" Ning realized that the queen had no idea what had happened and now knew what her other self had done.

"No, you did not," Ning said as he asked the system to remove her memories. Not just hers, he removed everyone else's memories of the situation as well.

In the end, the only one that remembered what had happened was the captain. Ning didn't want the queen's pain and struggle to just disappear forever as it had never existed.

At least someone had to remember it. Even though it would probably hurt the captain, Ning couldn't see anyone else who would be a better fit to remember it all.

"Catch that Helerach guy. He is the main culprit of your prince's death," Ning told the captain who absentmindedly nodded.

Ning then turned toward the palace door and called someone. Janean appeared next to him.

"This is the other culprit. I will leave you to do what you see fit with her," Ning said.

"Master, you must be tired. Should I prepare a guest room for you to rest?" the queen asked.

Ning smiled. "You don't have to call me master anymore." With a wave of a hand, Ning's domination came undone and the queen regained her control over herself.

Even then, she didn't feel much change. After all, Ning hadn't really made her do anything that she wouldn't have done herself.

"Thank you, young man, for what you've done to our country," the captain respectfully saluted Ning.

"Keep up the good work. I will be leaving now," Ning said.

"Thank you for helping avenge my son's death," The queen bowed her head as well. "If you ever need anything, please come visit the palace."

"I don't really have anything I will want," Ning said. "But I might visit sometime. Have a proper funeral for your son and take care of yourself. Goodbye."

Ning teleported away.

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The captain would then go on to capture both Janean and Helerach before bringing them to the execution stand where he was nearly hung.

To his surprise, no one would remember anything about the execution that had nearly happened, not even the queen.

Using the paper Ning provided as evidence, the captain would then hang both Janean and the servant Helerach, who was originally the one to suggest using the aid Shadow's Anarchy to the queen.

He had been using the queen's vulnerability to sow ideas into her head that might or might not have emerged on their own.

Once the two were dead, and the prince avenged, the queen would go back to ruling the country with a heavy heart.

There were no more heirs for her to raise, no more children. The family line of the Yorshan royal family would soon have to change.

Until then, for her son, her people, and herself, the queen would rule the nation with everything she had.

Ning returned back to the Arena cafeteria as he was incredibly hungry from having to do so many things over the last day.

He couldn't believe just how much happened in the span of a single day.

He took the princess and queen out on the turtle, saved the fishermen, and learned about the monster, which then turned out to be a spaceship that helped him learn about space stones.

Then he was stuck dealing with the murder of a prince in a nation he hadn't even heard of before.

As he sat down and ate with all the thoughts in his mind, someone sat on the chair in front of him.

"Where have you been?" the voice called and Ning looked up.

"Oh, hey Saph. I've been out," Ning said absentmindedly.

"Are they done?" she asked.

"Is what done?" Ning asked.

"My pearls. Are they done recharging?" she asked.

"Your pearls?" Ning remembered where they were. At the bottom of the sea. Ning sighed. "I'll go get them soon."

Chapter 719 The BossNing rinsed after returning from the depths of the ocean where the many pearls had sunk to. Fortunately, they had still been there and no giant sea beast had accidentally eaten them.

He decided to change before going to visit the princess for today's lesson when he heard a knock on the door.

Ning opened the door and was surprised to see staff standing outside.

"What's… did I miss a match?" Ning worried.

"No, sir. The boss is asking to see you," the staff said.

"The… boss?" Ning looked confused. Which boss was this?"

"Boss runs the arena," the staff explained.

"Ah, that boss. What does he want with me?" Ning couldn't think of anything good or bad he had done. If anything, it was Saphandra who had been more of a star in the Arena recently, not him.

"The boss will explain himself," the staff said.

Ning sighed. "Very well, let's go."

The staff took him through the wide hallway, then through a few flights of stairs then back into another wide hallway before arriving in front of two massive doors.

The staff used the ring attached to the door to knock.

"Come in," a voice spoke from the inside.

The staff opened the door and Ning walked in. The very first thing he saw when he walked in was a bunch of people on the floor, going through a bunch of slips of paper.

"What the…"

He recognized some of those papers too. Those belonged to fighters that were found in the arena and would then win Pearls from the betting area.

From the closest one he could see, someone had won 33 pearls from one of the battles today.

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"Please don't mind those. We don't have many places where we can gather up to handle the transactions of the arena, so we have to do it here," a big, buff man spoke as he walked out from behind the only desk in the room.

"I wasn't really minding anything," Ning said. "I was just thinking that you should get a few desks and chairs for the people here."

"We tried before, but it doesn't work," the man said as he finally arrived next to Ning

"Hi, you must be Ning," the man said. "I am the boss of the arena. You may call me as such."

"Hi, boss of the arena," Ning said as he looked at the man's face. Something about that face, it felt so familiar to him.

"Have I seen you before?" Ning asked.

"Me? Maybe. I walk around the arena all the time," the boss said.

"No, not here…" Ning thought for a moment and finally remembered. "Right, it's your face that's familiar. Are you part of the royal family?"

The boss's eyes narrowed. "How did you know?" he asked.

"Your face looks not that different from the king. Maybe a little chubbier. You must not exercise as much as the king does," Ning said.

"Oh, you speak as if you know the king personally," the boss said.

"I'm princess Janice's summoning tutor at the moment. So, yeah, I know the king personally," Ning said.

"You are teaching summoning to my niece? That girl is barely 6 years old," the boss said.

Ning shrugged. "They wanted me to, so I did," he said. "Besides, Age has nothing to do with summoning for the most part. After all, the princess already managed to form her first bond yesterday."

"What? Little Janice is already a summoner?" the boss asked in surprise.

"Her hair is already red. You should go meet her soon," Ning said.

"Yes, yes, I will do that," The boss said. "I should celebrate with her soon."

"Well, good for you," Ning said. "So, why did you call me here?"

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"Right, right, I almost forgot. Let's walk while we talk," the boss said as he started walking. Ning got curious and followed him.

"I watched your match a few days ago," the boss said.

"Which one?" Ning asked.

"The one where you made a mistake on your summoning and had a beast nearly go on a rampage," the boss said as he kept walking.

Ning stopped for a moment to cringe. He didn't want to remember that. He didn't want to remember the mistake he made. Saphandra had scolded him plenty that time, he didn't need a reprimand from the boss too.

He sighed. "Yeah, that was a mistake I made while I was in a hurry. I can guarantee that won't happen again," Ning said.

"Hmm?" the boss looked back with a confused expression. "Oh, no, I'm not here to tell you what you did wrong. You likely know that more than I do. Besides, that was a one-time offense and nothing bad even happened. I've seen your later matches too, you're doing fine. In fact, you're doing quite good."

"Oh, so… why am I here?" Ning asked.

"Can I ask why you chose to fight with beasts instead of yourself?" the boss asked.

"No reason," Ning said. "That just seemed more fun for me."

"Do you have anything against fighting yourself?" the boss asked.

"Not particularly, no," Ning said, still quite confused as to where the conversation was going.

"If given the opportunity, would you fight by yourself? Without beasts, I mean," the boss said.

"I'm not opposed to it," Ning said.

"You see, I saw your fight that day. Not the one where your beast fought the other beast. I mean the fight where you beat your own beast, and that gave me an amazing idea," the boss said as he dramatically turned towards Ning.

"Man Vs Beast, a battle where a single man fights beasts one after another until he is either beat or can no longer fight," the boss said. "How does that sound to you?"

"Dangerous," Ning said it just the way it was.

"It is, and that's why people will love it. The tougher the battle, the more they will cheer. The tougher the battle, the more they will bet, and if you win, you will make a hell of a lot more money than a normal battle," the boss said.

"So," he looked at Ning again. "Do you want to become our first fighter that will fight against an endless horde of beasts?"

Chapter 720 CelebrationNing thought for a moment. Keep aside the idea that one could get seriously hurt in a battle against a beast, Ning didn't see any problem with the match system itself.

However, if he were to be part of it, then a problem would arise.

"You said it was back to back right?" he asked.

"Yes. One after another we send the beasts to fight as soon as one of them is unsummoned. Or at least that's the idea," Ning said.

"What if one simply won't lose?" Ning asked.

"One will always have to lose," the boss said. "You're not god to keep going forever."

"But what if I could?" Ning asked. "What if I could fight forever and ever without losing? What then?"

"Well… then we make the most money as the odds will continue to be against you," the boss said.

Ning rubbed his chin in thought. "I wouldn't mind being the first one to do so then," he said.

"Great! I will start preparing everything then. It should be done in a few days," the boss said.

"Alright, let me know when it's ready," Ning said. "If you don't have anything else, I will be leaving."

"Okay, and thanks again." The boss returned back to his work while Ning walked out of the arena.

Ning went through the streets, straight to the palace on the western end of the island, and entered.

While he was about to go search for Janice, one of the servants told him that the King was calling for him.

"Hmm, is it to thank me for helping his daughter bond a beast?" Ning wondered. "That must be it."

Ning walked straight towards the palace hall where he had to wait for a few minutes before he was called into the room.

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The room was rowdier than ever with all the big, beefy men talking amongst each other. However, they seemed more civilized today than any of the other times he had seen them.

Ning wondered why that was for a moment before seeing the person next to the king.

'Ah, they're civilized because they're in the presence of the queen,' Ning realized.

"My friend, Ning, you are finally here," the King spoke up suddenly when he saw him. "Come, come. You have finally come to the celebration," he said.

Ning was suddenly handed a clay mug full of alcohol by someone who themselves were full of alcohol. Only then did Ning notice all the mugs by their side.

'They're all drunk, huh?' Ning thought.

"Here's to our friend, Ning. Cheers!" the king shouted and everyone shouted along with him.

Ning raised his mug as well and drank the mug full of beer in a single chug. The alcohol tried to do something to make him drunk, but his body was impossible to get to that level anymore.

It would just heal the parts that weren't meant to be that way.

"It's no problem, your majesty. I only did what I was hired to do," Ning said.

"Huh?" the king looked confused for a second before saying, "oh yeah yeah, good job on teaching my daughter to bond with a beast, but that's not what this celebration is about."

Ning was the one to be confused this time around. "It's not?" he asked. He thought the king would be ecstatic about his daughter becoming a summoner, but that didn't seem to be the main reason for this celebration.

"Then… why am I here?" Ning asked.

"Eh? You healed my wife's legs, didn't you? Look, in all the times I have been in love with her and then married her, she was always with her troubled legs. However, now she's finally healed," the king said. "Not only that, she had become a summoner again too."

"Ooohhh! Right, I did do that," Ning said. He had completely forgotten that he had healed the queen's legs. That had been such a small part of the overall shenanigans he had to go through in the last 24 hours that it was just a blip in his memories.

"Right, how's the leg, your highness? Do you have any trouble?" Ning asked just to keep them from realizing that healing such a thing had barely needed remembering on his part.

"It's good, very good. I'm quite surprised that I'm not even anorexic despite not having walked for nearly 8 years now," she said.

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"I'm glad," Ning said. "Cheers to your health, your majesty."

"CHEERS!" the court officials once again started drinking like there was no tomorrow.

Ning drank with them for a few minutes before slipping out of the room and going towards the princess' quarters.

He quickly found Janice who was clearly in a bad mood for some reason.

"What's wrong, Janice?" he asked, getting closer to her.

"I'm angry at father and mother," she said with a cute little pout on her face.

"Angry, why?" Ning asked.

"They are having a party without me," she said as she crossed her arms angrily.

Ning had trouble keeping his face from cracking up while Joann simply shook her head in the corner of the room.

"They are having an adult party. There is alcohol in there, so you can't go," Ning said.

"But I want to," The princess grumbled as she started jumping up and down, throwing her little tantrum.

"No, you don't want to drink alcohol, it's bad for you," Ning said.

"Then why do my father and mother drink it all the time?" she asked.

"They… they are drinking it only after summoning a very strong beast that won't let them be hurt by the alcohol. Can you do that?" Ning asked.

The princess quietened down quite a bit. "No, I can't. How long will it take me?" she asked.

"Not very long," Ning said.

"How long?" she asked again.

Ning sighed and thought for a bit. "You can drink once you summon Occy," he said in frustration.

The princess's eyes went wide, not in surprise, but in glee. "I can do that right now."

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