Chapter Ch121.1 - Mistress

translator: xiin

editors: apricot & juurensha

In the fifth elimination match, each instance segment could be traced to the death of a ghost, and the password represented the ghost’s obsession.

Caesar hastened to contribute his two cents, “The password is eleven letters! Lu-yi-shi-si…”

Vera’s lips twitched, and she quickly pulled over a biography of Louis XIV from the side, “Louis XIV, 8.”

Wu Jin mused: “Louis XIV’s name…”

Vera: “Louis-Dieudonne, 14 let––” She paused suddenly, “The Sun King, le Roi Soleil, 11 letters!”

Wu Jin took the score away, and the three of them walked down the corridor in Versailles at full speed.

In front of the grand piano, Caesar’s little sister teammate, who was busy eating cashew nuts, was stunned, “You didn’t get lost!”

Caesar was dissatisfied, “How could I get lost! Watch your words!”

The young woman looked back and said, “Heehee, I don’t blame you. And you even brought Sister Vera and Little Witch.”

Then, she gave each of the three of them a handful of cashews.

“Little Ran.” Vera greeted the young woman and told Wu Jin, “A predictive player focused on self-preservation. Her specialty is in hiding, and she’s also known as the Hyacinth phantom tank. In the previous match, she hid all her food and waited for all the other contestants to be eliminated through fainting from starvation while hiding in a tree, and survived to the end.”

Little Ran smirked, then offered Wu Jin another two cashews, her eyes full of care, “Little Witch, can I feed you one…”

Wu Jin froze and was pulled away by the excited Caesar, “Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, the code for the password box!”

Vera’s almond eyes ticked up, and the pressure of her aura increased.

Little Ran snorted and stuffed the cashews into her own mouth, “Stingy. That wasn’t what you said when you first put together the support group! Something about eating sugar together, cleaning up problems ogether, and even in the end, insisting on cleaning up the CP fans––”

Vera slowly raised up her hand.

Little Ran squeaked and pasted herself up against the side of the piano.

The score for <Te Deum> was put up on the music stand. When Caesar finished cleaning up the scene, the piano rang out melodiously.

The important cornerstone of this French composition was to bring out the magnificent style of Lully’s music to the extreme. The five part string, trumpet, and chorus were summarized in the black and white keys, and flowed out slowly from Wu Jin’s fingertips.

The youth looked up against the light.

At the bottom of the score was the chorus of this 17th Century composition.

We acknowledge thee to be the lord.

All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting––

The music started from the King’s suite and spread out through the ancient castle.

Caesar and Little Ran’s eyes lit up at the same time, “The code box is surfacing!”

Lully’s ghost was alarmed once again, giving up its attempts to seclude itself to try and remove all the trainees who were touching the piano. In the corridor leading to the Hall of Mirrors, Wei Yan held up a machete and snatched away a brand-new instance card from a shivering C-level trainee, and was now looking at the clues on the new card.

Outside the Coronation Hall, Zoe finally passed the instance and was now searching for the next card. Ming Yao suddenly ran down the war corridor, shocking his teammate, “You’re running so fast… aren’t you hungry?” Ming Yao was delighted, “I just saw our captain!”

In the Petit Trianon, Wen Lin had his task items snatched away by Qin Jinbao and was currently comforting his red-eyed teammate, “Don’t worry, there will be other cards.”

Peace Hall, Palace of Versailles.

Chu Chu wore a small skirt and scurried after Wei Shi, taking every opportunity to build up a good relationship with this big god, “What an amazing move! Wonderful! 666! We’ve taken over the entire Grand Trianon and tossed all the cards that don’t have enough people to the Palace of Versailles. When the players step into the net on their own, it’ll be like fishing––oh, that’s not right, it’ll be like exploding the fish, exploding them!”

“With all these players for you to use, do we even need to worry about the big plan? Wahahaha! ––Eh, the piano is playing again?”

Wei Shi made a gesture, “Quiet.”

The sun shone down on the earth, and Versailles went from morning to noon. The music slowed down before reaching a peak, the notes low and powerful, and the traditional three holy chants that lasted for four bars, floated to the top of one’s heart––

O Lord, save thy people,

And bless thine heritage.

There was a click.

The locked box popped up completely. Caesar grabbed the letter input and spelled out the words according to the note Vera had given him.

Le Roi Soleil, the Sun King.

The ghost who’d been silently scolding Caesar slowly turned to read out this line of text.

His lips moved as though he was trying to say something.

He even forgot to try and drive away the trainees beside the piano, and was indifferent when Caesar took away the light blue card inside the box.

Wu Jin looked up at Lully.

The 17th century court musician was reciting the lyrics to <Te Deum>.

The last part of the piano music finally matched up to the musician’s lips.

––O Lord, in thee I have trusted,

––Let me never be confounded.

The court musician looked towards the Apollo Hall in the distance, the place where Louis XIV had lived in for the longest time. He may have seen the scene of the child quietly accepting the dance shoes from his own hands when he was young, watched his little Louis who had clung to him before the performance, or seen the Sun King who accepted the pilgrimage of all the people in Versailles.

The musician went to the grand piano, and the old, transparent hands coincided with the hands Wu Jin was using to play the piano.

The last two bars of music were repeated.

––O Lord, let me never be confounded.

The ghost faded away.

Lully instance cleared.

Caesar unsurprisingly obtained the Jean-Baptiste Lully character card. Little Ran was happy and divided up the remaining cashews in half for Wu Jin and Vera, “Have some, have some, they’re good for the kidneys!”

Vera raised her brows and reluctantly accepted them. After a whole day and night, all the players were hungry.

“I looked everywhere, but there were only snacks.” Little Ran sighed, “I guess that there’ll only be proper food during the dinner party.”

Wu Jin then remembered that he had a ball invitation in his pocket, which was set for the evening of September 5, 1680. The calendar beside the piano was currently at September 4, 1680.

“There’s still one more day and night.” Wu Jin gave the Lemoyne painter card to Vera. From a safety perspective, in terms of keeping important items, Vera’s fighting power was far more reliable than Wu Jin’s.

Vera accepted it, then dug out the invitation again. The words on it had changed slightly.

Invitation card (activated) invites Vera, the chief court painter, and dance partner Wu Jin.

“The invitation has been activated! And there’s titles.” Vera was surprised.

Wu Jin thought about it and wasn’t surprised, “An identity card is the key to the ball. If a team is unable to obtain an identity card before the start of the dance––” He paused, “It’s very likely that they’ll be turned away from the ball.”

Vera thought about it, “The first batch of instances are over. The competition for cards will become more intense than before.”

Wu Jin nodded. Before he could speak, Vera spoke decisively, “Let’s obtain another character card just in case.”

Wu Jin didn’t object. From the invitation, it was clear that he could completely rely on Vera’s identity to enter the ball, but the extra day and night that they still had could be used to continue to accumulate materials for their team.

On their watches, the number of survivors had dropped to 322.

“At the start, players only had their fists to rely on. Later, there were long swords and machetes, and in some special instances, there were also blunderbusses.” Wu Jin explained, “The elimination rate will only become faster and faster. We need to find the next card as soon as possible.”

The two of them finished eating the cashews, and the first thing they did after that was to hide from the crowd and check the storage room where the ‘sword and armor lady warrior’ was locked in. To their surprise, even the machete they’d obtained from the Napoleon instance was no match for the long sword.

Wu Jin could only lock the female warrior back in the room again.

“The purple card hasn’t been activated yet; the card is blank.” Wu Jin spread his hands, “After all, a purple card is more difficult than a blue one.”

Over the next two hours, the two of them practically rummaged through all corners and looked everywhere to find cards. Finally, it was Vera with her excellent eyesight who was able to pick out one that lay at the foot of a low table.

The card was bright blue and blank.

“If it was really left here, then it should’ve been discovered earlier…” Vera thought out loud.

According to the program, once a card in the same instance was picked up by a contestant, the program team would use various ways, including the ghosts, to urge other trainees to obtain the cards and activate the instance clues.

Wu Jin wasn’t anxious. Now that they had a clue card in hand, he took the time to make up some sleep.

xiin: oh, Caesar…