Chapter 12: Delusion of Persecution

Several knights carefully lifted the plates, as solemnly as if they were lifting a ritual, and after placing them on the altar, they went back to kneel and pray.

Li Chengxi only felt a question mark pop up in his head. He had never asked for a sacrifice.

He scrolled the mouse wheel, zoomed in, looked up, down, left, and right, and no matter how he looked, it was a plate covered with a cover.

I have seen people offering sacrifices to gods with cakes, livestock, and fruits, but it is okay to just put the plate up.

Or did Viola's understanding of wooden plates be too superficial, thinking that the plates meant that Li Chengxi was hungry?

To be honest, he was indeed hungry.

The small restaurant next door was closed, and Li Chengxi could only survive on instant noodles these days.

Okay, I hope I don't see anything scary.

He reached into the screen and pulled it back, and then he heard a soft ding sound of something hard hitting the plastic on the edge of the screen.

The 16-inch laptop screen is indeed small.

So Li Chengxi took another HDMI cable and connected the laptop to the surveillance screen in the store.

This time he reached in again, and a large silver, hemispherical dinner plate was barely pulled out with a wave of the screen.

He knocked on the dinner cover for insulation, and it seemed to be really silver.

Li Chengxi's mobile phone and the desktop computer upstairs automatically installed the AAI game as if they were infected with a virus. He has been using a laptop because he thinks that if he wants to interact with people in the game, he must use a touch screen, and ordinary screens will not work.

But since the surveillance screen can also be used, it should be okay to use any screen.

Why is this the case, or why he can directly use his hands to affect things in this game, and can take things out of the game, Li Chengxi has never had any clue.

But as the saying goes, it is a blessing, not a curse, and it is a curse that cannot be avoided. Anyway, just play it now, and wait until there is a real problem.

Put the dinner plate on the cash register, remove the dinner cover, and a layer of warm water vapor gently hits Li Chengxi's face.

Then he saw a bowl of vegetable soup, a plate of fried meat steak, and a large piece of white bread on the plate, all of which seemed to be freshly cooked and still steaming.

He lowered his head and sniffed. The meat steak should be lamb steak, with a strong smell of mutton, and not much spices were added to cover the odor.

Although Li Chengxi didn't like Western food very much, it was much better than instant noodles.

He took a bag of barbecue seasoning from his own shelf and sprinkled it on the meat steak, then Li Chengxi took out two large plastic bowls given with instant noodles and transferred the vegetable soup and meat steak to them.

"The bread is a bit hard... Is this really what the nobles eat?"

The taste of the bread is more like biting a slightly fluffy dead dough pancake, not as soft as imagined, and dry and tasteless, not as good as the cheap stuff on the shelves of his own store.

If you think about the background of the game carefully, it's good to have white bread to eat. Despite the existence of magic, the level of social development is not much better than the Middle Ages.

I remember that when he looked at the villagers of Heim in the morning, he found that they were eating black bread, which needed to be soaked in hot water first, and then mashed into paste before eating. This was the staple food of the farmers.

In comparison, white bread was already a treat for the emperor.

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Demon King Calendar Year 648,

April 2, night.

The golden wine cup slammed on the table with a thump, and Lord Leon exhaled a breath of wine:

"What is your Highness doing? Why don't you recruit soldiers and leave quickly? If this goes on, my territory will be destroyed by war!"

The young lord, who was only 30 years old, complained dissatisfiedly. He thought the princess would only stay here for a few days and then leave. He didn't expect Viola to have the intention of staying in Leon's territory for a long time.

If the Avarus Demon Kingdom was still there, it would be a good thing for the princess to stay here for a long time. But now that the kingdom is basically gone, it is a huge hidden danger for the princess to stay here for a long time.

"Does the princess intend to leave recently?"

"No, sir."

The butler beside him diligently refilled the golden wine glass with wine and whispered:

"Your Highness has been talking to civilians in the city recently. I am worried that those civilians may say something bad about you."

"Humph! I don't care what the lowly people say!"

Lord Leon said angrily:

"Your Highness has no awareness of causing trouble to others. She is indeed an arrogant royal family."

"Your Highness is right."

The butler echoed:

"When the princess came, we shouldn't let her into the city."

"You idiot! In name, I am still the lord of the Avarus Demon Kingdom. How could I not let her into the city! Do you want to leave a stain on the reputation of my family!"

"I said the wrong thing. Please forgive me, lord."

Nobles value reputation. Some poor nobles have to maintain their dignity even if they swell their faces to pretend to be rich, not to mention openly refusing to serve the lord they should serve. Once it gets out, Lord Leon will have no face to see people.

But reputation is one thing, and whether Lord Leon is willing to let Princess Viola continue to stay in the territory is another.

The capital of the Demon Kingdom of Avarus was captured by the four-nation coalition, and the country was basically destroyed. Even Lord Leon, who was in the border, had heard about it.

He didn't care whether the country existed, as long as he continued to be his local emperor in this remote place.

Originally, he planned that no matter which country in the four-nation coalition sent troops, he would immediately open the city, surrender, and pledge allegiance in one click.

Loyalty?

Loyalty also depends on strength, okay.

There are only more than 100 soldiers in Leon who are responsible for guarding the gate and maintaining public order. They have no power to protect themselves. It is wise to change camps quickly.

But Lord Leon never expected that Princess Viola, who should have been surrounded, could escape from the capital and pass through the encirclement into Leon.

Lord Leon had no choice but to show a warm welcome when he saw Princess Viola, otherwise he might be hung on the city gate to dry on the spot.

Frowning, Lord Leon asked again:

"What did the princess do today?"

"The stalker said that the princess went to Heim Village outside the city."

"Heim Village? What are you doing there?"

The housekeeper shook his head:

"The stalker only saw a burst of light appear near the village entrance. Specifically..."

"A burst of light..."

Lord Leon suddenly thought of something.

"You said before that the princess transformed the audience hall into a chapel, right? Did you see the statue inside?"

"Well, although the statue is still being made by a stonemason, there is a palm-shaped holy emblem inside."

The butler gestured with his hand:

"Her Royal Highness the Princess leads people to pray inside every day."

"No, it's strange. Although I rarely go to the capital, I also know that there is no god involved in the Avarus Demon Kingdom. If Her Royal Highness the Princess is a believer, it should have spread long ago."

After thinking for a while, Lord Leon said:

"Which god do they worship?"

"No, I heard them mention some demon king god."

Lord Leon has some impression of this name. He remembers seeing it in the family library when he was a child. It is said that this demon king god created all the demons and is the true ancestor.

"I see!"

Hearing this, Lord Leon stood up and shouted:

"Princess Viola wants to take my territory!"