Who told you I am an NPC Chapter 187 : Chapter 187

Chapter : 187

"Lord Traveling rchant! We have already fulfilled your request. Although the Blacksmith couldn't clarify what exactly you wanted in your order, we have collected a warehouse full of various ores that the Blacksmith would use. We guarantee that you can order your desired weapon as soon as you go there!"

[Mount Ei Monkey] finished the entire sentence without taking a breath. The surrounding players looked at her, silent—

Oh, right, I forgot I had silenced them.

I blinked. "Is that so? Thank you very much. Then please let go et that Mr. Blacksmith first. I hope, as you said, he will readily accept my order."

Players: !

Yay! It looks like this quest can be completed within the ti limit.

"Then you will lead the way for ." I pointed at [Mount Ei Monkey].

The other players' gazes imdiately fell on [Mount Ei Monkey]. The players under the Silencing Spell couldn't speak, but they still had the players' special cheating artifact: the chat panel.

Instantly, ssage after ssage popped up on the private chat panels of the players present.

[What's the situation? Does this count as her snatching the quest completion first? I rember she wasn't the first one to co over just now, right?]

[How can an NPC randomly pick soone to complete the quest? Shouldn't this kind of public quest count as completed for whoever finds the NPC first? What kind of underlying code is this?]

[Could there be a hidden affection setting?]

[Which novice village is this player from? She can't be an outsider, right?]

...

I didn't know what the players were chatting about privately, but seeing their simultaneous movents of reaching out to summon the system, I could tell their chat panels must be very lively right now.

Still a bit too inexperienced. I can now open the system panel and use system functions with just my consciousness, guaranteeing that players won't notice anything unusual.

[Mount Ei Monkey] didn't expect that this public quest might end up with her completing the final submission. She was extrely excited; this was her first ti encountering a special quest. Previously, no matter how hard she tried, she only encountered so basic quests in the novice village.

"Of course!" [Mount Ei Monkey] agreed readily, happily trotting forward to lead the way for . The other players had no choice. After all, they were all currently afflicted with the [Silence] debuff and couldn't snatch the initiative at all.

They could only hope this mysterious NPC Traveling rchant wouldn't just settle the quest imdiately.

When I appeared at the entrance of the blacksmith shop again after more than a week, rlin had already sensed it. This ti he wasn't drunk out of his mind but was pretending to study ores inside the shop.

As soon as I entered, rlin looked up at , casting a resentful glance which I, completely unaffected by the hood, saw clearly.

: Cough.

The quest I issued had indeed brought rlin so trouble.

The players were still oblivious, happily leading to rlin. [Mount Ei Monkey] said, "Mason, we brought Mr. Traveling rchant. Quickly accept his order!"

The players looked expectantly at this historic eting—

rlin glanced at : Your doing.

I smiled reservedly under the cover of my hood, unseen by rlin and the players. I took out a roll of parchnt from the wide sleeve of my magic robe and handed it to rlin. "This is what I need, Mr. Mason."

rlin raised an eyebrow, not expecting to actually produce sothing. He took it and unfolded it, his eye twitching uncontrollably.

Nothing was written on the parchnt; instead, there were two large paw prints—considering whose territory I had been in these past few days, there was no doubt whose paw prints these were.

rlin: ...

rlin glanced again at , covered tightly by the hood, still as fond of pranks as ever.

I feigned confusion. "What's wrong, Mr. Mason? Are you unable to fulfill this order?"

Players: !

The players looked at rlin with bright eyes, terrified that this unreliable drunkard blacksmith would say he couldn't do it. Then what was their frantic mining these past few days for?

For their diligence?

Truly a terrible King.

rlin sighed inwardly. He rolled up the parchnt and stuffed it into his bosom to prevent the Descenders from seeing these two inexplicable paw prints. "Of course I can, sir. Please follow ; let's discuss this order in detail."

rlin stood up, signaling to follow.

"Great, I like doing business with straightforward people." Saying this, I also stood up and followed rlin into the inner room again without pause.

The left-behind players: ???

So what about their quest? Was it completed or not?

Wait, why did the NPC leave them behind again?

By the way, what exactly is the relationship between you two? Last ti you also shut yourselves in a dark room without a word, and this ti you want a private chat after just a few sentences?

Hmm???

With a click, the door closed, cutting off the players' view. rlin, as usual, set up a soundproofing spell so people outside couldn't hear their conversation.

I took off my hood, revealing Nolan's face. rlin paused involuntarily at the sight, his furrowed brows relaxing, and his expression softened subconsciously.

I gave myself a thumbs up in my heart.

Sure enough, this face belonging to Nolan would subconsciously generate goodwill from forr kin and friends. It was probably because I had grinded affection points too high in "Demon King" before.

rlin only softened his expression for a mont before quickly recovering. He looked at speechlessly. "So next ti you co, can you sneak in secretly? You cause trouble for as soon as you arrive. Heaven knows how confused I was when those Descenders found talking about a Traveling rchant's order."

"Don't say you can't do it. I know as long as you want to, you have a hundred ways to sneak in."

I curved my eyes into a smile. "Aiya, don't you think this is fun?"

rlin didn't think it was fun and rolled his eyes at .

"Alright, alright, I just wanted to find a chance to try out so special skills." I spread my hands. "I promise I absolutely won't trouble you next ti."

rlin looked at suspiciously.

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rlin could only accept his bad luck. "Is everything okay on Palos's side? That prince... who was it again, died?"

I nodded. "Died. Couldn't withstand the interrogation, injuries were too severe, so he died."

rlin had lived for so many years and had long seen through life and death. He had no good feelings for a guy like Fitch who wanted to climb up over the lives of an entire city's people. If he died, he died.

"Augreer... tsk. As far as I know, although that Queen has always relied most heavily on the Second Prince Felton, the brothers Feu and Fitch were also very favored by her. After all, they were the twins born when her power was at its peak."

Since the Slanlipa City incident, rlin had investigated the Augreer family's public affairs thoroughly over the past few days and had heard about that Queen's deeds.

"You killed Feu. That Queen was already very angry and poured all her remaining love onto Fitch. Now that Fitch is dead, I reckon the Augreer family will make big moves next," rlin said.

I rubbed my nose. "How did you know... it was ?"

I didn't seem to have admitted to rlin that I killed Feu, right?

rlin stared at for a couple of seconds: "...Do you really take for a fool?"

"That day when you fought with Palos, the image you used, the image you appeared with in Mandiper, such obvious features, how could I not recognize it?" rlin said with interest. "What's more, you're on Bartovita's wanted list. Speaking of which, you really..."

"I didn't!" I kept a poker face. "It wasn't !"

"I haven't even asked yet?" rlin found it funny.

I rolled my eyes. "Then don't ask. Anyway, I didn't do that."

Seeing rlin was skeptical, I sighed and simply picked so shareable parts of what happened in Bartovita to tell him.

For example, coincidentally eting Cornelia who was looking for her sister, then so events in Sunset Village. Finally, I decided to avenge Kalenna and the others, cooperated with Cornelia to infiltrate the Bartovita Royal Palace, killed Feu, and incidentally promised to buy Cornelia enough ti.

rlin was stunned listening to it. "Your adventure experience is quite rich and colorful."

I gave him dead fish eyes.

"But... Cornelia?" rlin rubbed his chin, pondering, "This na sounds a bit familiar. A rmaid, huh..."

I was puzzled: "You know her?"

rmaids are the royal family ruling the Sea Tribe. Since the Eternal Empire fell apart, rmaids chose to return to the deep sea, and it was hard to see Sea Tribe mbers inland.

Of course, smuggling, trafficking, and illegal trading didn't count.

And rlin followed Isabel all year round, either in the Dragon Valley far from the ocean or running around everywhere. Would he know Cornelia who had just run out from the deep sea to find her sister?

rlin recalled for a long ti, finally saying uncertainly, "I don't know if it's the sa person, but I might indeed know the Cornelia you ntioned?"

"But the Cornelia I know is completely different from the Cornelia you described. The Cornelia I know is a ruthless rmaid," rlin said. "She's a terrifying fellow who killed an entire royal bloodline. I heard that among them was a rmaid she grew up with."

Thinking of the delicate-looking girl who smiled softly in the evening breeze, I couldn't help but type a question mark. "Huh?"

"Oh?" Seeing my disbelief, rlin smiled. "It seems the Cornelia I ntioned is very different from the one you know."

"Tell in detail?" I couldn't help being curious. "The story I heard seems quite different from what you said."

"Actually, I only looked into it out of curiosity because I heard that a branch of the rmaid royal family was wiped out by a mixed-blood rmaid."

rlin shrugged. "After all, that rmaid Prince with his trident was invincible. It's indeed unbelievable to hear that the lineage he chose was killed so easily by a mixed-blood rmaid."

rmaid Prince... Siren.

A scene from "Demon King" flashed before my eyes, of that man who possessed a beautiful transparent fish tail.

He was one of the few kin who never expressed any admiration for the Demon King.