Otaku Translation: The villain only wants to live a Buddhist life Chapter 372

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Chapter 372: Blood and Corpse, Who Would Emerge at the End? 2 in 1

"Have you heard about it? Preliminary battle royale! This is the first time I've seen this kind of duel mode, I think it's super interesting!"

"Me too, I originally thought that we wouldn't be able to participate in a competition of this level, but this battle royale..."

"Perhaps with some good luck, it might actually be possible to qualify!"

"Do you want to participate? The goal is to qualify!"

……

These days, Dark could always hear similar conversations whenever he traveled between the classrooms and dormitory.

Not only boys, but even the girls also seemed to be very interested in this .

As the level increased, dueling competitions would always become more and more formal. When had there ever been such a dueling mode that leaned more towards entertainment?

Even more so this kind of competition where one could compete on the same stage with seniors students.

Even if they failed to qualify, simply participating in it would already make them feel extremely happy.

The great majority of junior students basically held this idea.

On the contrary, the senior students were very reserved about it.

Most of them had enough dueling experience and knew that no matter what the circumstances were, the strong would still remain strong… and the weak would still be weak!

In comparison, the didn't seem to arouse as much widespread discussion among the students as the preliminary battle royale.

This was actually out of Dark's expectation.

But oftentimes, the development of things couldn't be determined just by the beginning.

The Easter eggs were not targeted at 's students, but were specially catered to the fans of duelers.

Being in the academy, it was impossible for Dark to have a good grasp of the reaction on the outside.

……

In fact, with the overwhelming launch of , especially after the illustration spread of were published, the Easter eggs had become a topic that people everywhere couldn't stop talking about.

In this era when the duel industry was at its peak, popular contestants and magical spirits were the ultimate weapon for attracting fans.

Their status as duelers prevented them from being used as subjects of marketing, but this issue didn't apply to magical spirits

, for instance, was extremely popular among the public.

In the magical spirits illustration spread published in the newspaper this time, the main subject of marketing was none other than the white dragon.

The academy publicly revealed that among this batch of Easter eggs produced for Easter, there was a single exclusive "living" white dragon figurine!

This made the white dragon figurine, which was actually still being rushed for production, instantly become the object the fans were madly scrambling to get.

Despite Easter still being two weeks away, there were already people who quarreled over it. Even purchasing bids had popped up on the black market...

In an instant, Saint Marian's Easter egg figurines set off a huge uproar in all big cities!

……

In the capital of the kingdom, the had recently been very troubled.

Ever since someone passed on a disgustingly rotten idea to through the 《Daily Sage》, the eldest prince had been paying frequent visits to the king, going on about how outstanding this grand duke's son was, how that count's son was of the right age... He was dying to immediately marry off the eldest princess.

The old king originally had his children late in life. Now that he was of advanced age, he also had the idea to abdicate.

When he was young, he had spent too much of his vigor to destroy the demon race. Even if he abdicated, he would have done so with the accomplishment of great merit. His name would forever be engraved in the history of mankind.

The current old king had lost the spirit he had when he was young. If he took off his fine clothes and walked into the market, he would look like an ordinary old man.

He truly no longer had any other desire. His only remaining wish was probably the same as that of ordinary old people—hoping to be "blessed with many descendants."

Therefore, after the eldest prince Charles repeatedly brought up the topic to him, it successfully aroused his interest in urging his children to get married.

Of course, in addition to looking for young men of the right age for the eldest princess, he also started looking for young ladies of the right age for the eldest prince...

In short, the old king had found a new joy.

On the other hand, the eldest princess could only suffer in silence.

Fortunately, the old king was open-minded enough and wouldn't force his children to be together with someone they didn't like.

And with the current standing of the kingdom, there was no need for political marriage.

So although this move was revolting, it had no actual impact.

……

This afternoon, after the eldest princess had just rejected a blind date proposal, she went to the mansion of the two little princesses to seek spiritual consolation.

Although the eldest princess and the two little princesses had different mothers and the little princesses were both mischievous, the eldest princess still liked these two younger sisters from the bottom of her heart.

Whenever she encountered any troubling matters, just seeing her sisters’ smiles was enough to cheer her up again.

Upon entering the mansion, she was led by the maid to the room of the .

When she pushed the door open and entered, Anna and Angie were lying on the bed in an extremely ungraceful manner, flipping through two issues of newspapers while having an extremely heated discussion.

"What are you guys quarreling about this time?"

Eliza dismissed the maid and closed the door.

The immediately clamored, "Big Sis Eliza, I said the white dragon is more powerful than the black dragon, but Anna insists on arguing with me!"

"What white dragon and black dragon?" Confusion appeared on Eliza's face.

Angie got up, waved the newspaper, and said, "They're Saint Marian Academy's magical spirits—'s [ (天穹白龙)]

and 's(暗夜男爵) [ (赤脊黑龙)]!"

Anna snorted and said, "I said that [Heavenly White Dragon] has a better record than [Redridge Black Dragon] because Silver Dragon Maiden is better than Night Baron, not because there's a gap in the strength of the magical spirits themselves. If they really fight one-on-one, [Heavenly White Dragon] may not necessarily be able to defeat [Redridge Black Dragon]!"

After listening for a moment, Eliza instantly understood the cause of the argument. She helplessly put a hand over her forehead and asked, "Say, both of you are obviously fans of the Silver Dragon Maiden, why are you squabbling over this matter?"

Angie shook the newspaper again and solemnly declared, "No, I'm now a fan of the white dragon, sister's the one who's a fan of the Dragon Maiden."

Anna glanced at her and sneered, "Just wait. After I pull the white dragon, you'll be crying and begging me for it."

Hearing this, Eliza was confused once again.

What did "pulling" the white dragon mean?

So she took the newspaper from Angie's grip, carefully read it, and immediately frowned. "Is Saint Marian short of money?"

It was clear that she directly saw through the trap.

But for things like the Easter eggs figurines, it would be useless even if one could see the trap.

As long as one had a target they wished to get, they would definitely walk into the trap.

Just like Anna and Angie. They had obviously fallen into the trap, yet they were perfectly happy to do so.

"Easter eggs, ..."

As the eldest princess's thoughts gradually diverged, she suddenly had a bad premonition.

Thereupon, she immediately began searching through the magical spirit illustrations published in the newspaper.

Then, sure enough, she really found the magical spirit she was looking for among the illustrations.

"They're actually really producing even the first-year's magical spirits... It's over!"

……

In the Duke's residence, when —the only female Duke in the kingdom—was properly doing her duties, the "Sage of Beasts" Claire Kate, holding a fat cat in her arms, directly opened the door and went inside.

"Alvette, look at what I found."

Claire enthusiastically slammed two issues of newspapers onto Alvette's desk.

Alvette shot her a look of reproach, but went on to put down the pen in her hand and unfolded the two newspapers.

Claire didn't say a word. She merely stood there and watched.

Sure enough, before long, Alvette showed a strong reaction just as she expected.

"Claire, this white cat is Dark's magical spirit, right? I remember it merged with another black cat to become a 7-star catwoman."

Claire nodded and said, "It's called , a light-attributed magical spirit."

Alvette excitedly exclaimed, "Sure enough. I wonder if Dark will participate in this Easter Duel Festival?"

Claire pointed to the other newspaper and said, "This duel competition has a special preliminary battle royale stage and is divided into two groups, upper and lower. The lower group will be from the first to the third years. I think the probability of Dark participating is not low."

"Is it the first day of April? Let me see..."

Alvette immediately started checking her schedule.

"There'll be a royal conference on the day of Easter, I'll skip it then. Help me inform Eliza, just tell her that she has grown up now and it's time for her to learn to face her competitor alone."

Claire couldn't help but smile. "How about this—it's been a long time since I held a tea party. I'll invite the princesses."

Alvette: "That'll do."

……

To put it bluntly, the Easter royal conference was a conference conducted for the eldest princess and the eldest prince to compete for public favor. It would most likely last for a whole morning.

Among the many activities of the two royal heirs, it belonged to the day-to-day category.

Nothing but a small matter.

……

Of course, one couldn’t reach a thousand miles without first taking small steps.

Even if it was a miniscule matter, the eldest princess would still go all out.

But this time, she obviously couldn't have the Valkyrie's company.

……

Different people and different matters were interrelated in all kinds of aspects.

Dark probably couldn't imagine that his random proposal would create such a widespread impact.

In the last week of March, he did a little research on [the method of crafting magic items into item cards] and then conducted two experiments, both of which ended in failure.

The level of the [] seemed to be higher than he had presumed. The requirements for its magic crafting were beyond his capability.

In the blink of an eye, it was already Friday, 30th of March. There were only less than two days left before the 1st of April.

In order to show their presence in the preliminary battle royale, the first-year magisters synchronously rushed to to purchase materials to make their final effort.

The materials obtained from the dungeon tour in early March had improved the decks of many students.

But it wasn't enough to bring the number of cards in their decks to forty.

If one wished to participate in the preliminary battle royale, they must at least meet the required number of magic cards, mustn't they?

So whether it was to make up for the number or to make a last-ditch effort, they had to craft enough magic cards.

Dark Demon was actually having a similar problem.

His core magic cards couldn't amount to forty, so he had no choice but to add magic cards like [], [], and [] to his deck.

Fortunately, these magic cards that were used to make up the number weren't completely useless.

Perhaps at certain moments, they would be able to play a key role.

……

It rained heavily on the last day of March.

But in the astronomy class this Wednesday, said that it would be sunny on Easter, so the students didn't worry too much about it.

They stepped on the mud and ran on Traveller Street, full of vitality just like the spring plants.

Upon arriving at the , Dark explained the current condition of the lion grass to .

Although Miss Cat was shocked and even wanted to buy back the lion grass from him for research, she chose to give up when faced with Dark's smile.

Dark asked for updates about the , stocked up on more "" potion for the cat grasses, and then left the Kitties Flower and Tree Shop.

After that, he came to the to try to find some unorthodox methods for crafting item cards.

But until noon, he still couldn't find an unorthodox crafting method that was suitable for the [Bloodthirsty Giant Ax].

That was until a book titled 《Blood Sacrifice》 appeared in his field of vision!

"Blood sacrifice?"

Just seeing the title of this book brought out a surge of evil energy.

Dark couldn't help but frown.

The term 'blood sacrifice' was really not a good one.

"If it's not false advertising…"

Thinking so, Dark stuck two fingers in the gaps of the book and pulled it out with force.

The dust that came out as he shook it off showed that this book must've been here for quite a long time.

"The author is… there's no author?"

Dark couldn't help falling into doubt.

This book not only had no author, but also no editor.

But he still opened it carefully.

The cover of the book was made of hard-shell material. The texture of the inner pages felt like something between cloth and leather, yet it was very thin and light and seemed to be highly absorbent.

He turned to the title page, and the first line that caught his eye was:

[Blood and corpse—who would emerge at the end?]

"The meaning is unclear."

Dark muttered out and continued to turn to the next page.

But the next page was blank.

The page after that was also blank.

Flick flick flick.

He quickly flipped through the entire book, and finally understood why it was left ignored in the corner of the bookshelf.

But of course, if he were to make a conjecture using novel logic, this kind of [wordless book] might turn out to be a treasure.

Dark stroked the page of the book, looked at the title, and suddenly had an idea: "Could it be that the blood sacrifice here means soaking this book in blood?"

"That's absorbent paper made from the skin of (洛洛树蛙). You don't need to soak it in blood, just water will do."

A sudden voice coming from behind made Dark abruptly turn around.

A smiling lady appeared before his eyes.

She had bright reddish-orange long hair, the ends of her hair that was secured with a hair tie going past her neck to hang down her chest in defined waves.

Her face wasn't particularly exquisite, but her features were soft and very gentle, looking especially beautiful when she smiled.

"Who might you be?"

Dark tried hard to remember, but he still couldn't recall where he had seen her.

"Leah, Leah Goethe(歌德)."

Leah Goethe nodded at Dark and then pointed at the book in his hand. "You're a first-year student, right? This book may not be suitable for you."

Dark then smiled and said, "Hello, Miss Goethe. I think neither grade nor age is a good choice to describe a person."

Leah similarly put on a smile: "Then let me put it another way—this book is not suitable for you."

……

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