Chapter 143 - A Conversation!

Zion hid behind one of the pillars inside the room and observed what the two of them were doing. He still had a few minutes before he would be forced to turn off the cloak invisibility. At this time, he could only hide and pray to all the Gods that these ladies would stop their conservation within the time limit.

After thinking like this, he hid well in case the conservation went on and on, longer than how he anticipated.

When Odina heard those words, she didn't react, and walked toward the dhampir princess and stood beside her bed, watching the girl expressionlessly. After what it felt like hours, she finally opened her mouth. "You have officially left the kingdom according to the rumors."

Lia rolled her eyes. "Of course, otherwise how would you dare to keep me locked up?!"

Odina ignored these words and lowered her head as she squinted her eyes at the dhampir princess and said, "You really don't know what kind of danger you are in, do you?"

"Oh, I'm so scared. Someone save me~" Lia cried out in a high-pitched tone and chuckled. "As if you are going to listen to me. But I'm curious. I have done nothing wrong, but you still want to keep me locked up. Why?"

Her eyes narrowed at the elf queen as if she were trying to determine something. She initially had a hunch about this queen, and she prayed desperately for her hunch to be false. It was because if her hunch were proved to be true, she would be in grave danger. But if her hunch wasn't true, then who could explain why this elf queen was acting like a villain at a time like this? It just didn't make any sense!

Odina just kept staring at the dhampir girl and finally replied when everyone thought she wouldn't, "I got intuition that I should keep you locked up for some reason. So I decided to lock you up here."

"Do you not fear that the dhampir royals would find out what you have been doing behind their backs?" Lia spat out those words as she glared at the elf queen in anger. "There are still people left behind who will come after me by following my trail! Then let's see how you respond to them!"

"I don't think your broken and lost kingdom can afford to send anyone after you, especially after the death of your father."

"Don't talk about my father from your filthy mouth!"

The girls glared at each other before averting their eyes at the same time.

Zion, who was observing this scene from behind the pillar, frowned after hearing their conversation. He didn't know what to make of it yet. From what he heard, he could tell that the feeling of hatred was mutual, and Odina, for some reason, didn't want to let this dhampir girl go easily. This made his job 101% more difficult!

He exhaled a long breath and focused on the scene.

The girls didn't say another word to each other, and lastly, Odina turned around and said, "I still haven't found your human servant."

"Hah! You're being led around the nose by a human!" Lia chuckled thinking of that. "Let me tell you something about my human servant. You better not see him face-to-face, and if you do, your demise is confirmed!"

Zion facepalmed himself. Why the heck was this cheap master talking about him like this? It almost seemed like she was extremely drunk to understand what she was saying. He took a deep breath and glanced at Odina's face, which remained expressionless as usual.

The elf queen didn't say a thing. She just clapped her hands as butterflies started floating above Lia's face again. The dhampir princess, who was laughing and talking just a while ago, went silent. It seemed as if Lia had never been the one to converse with the elf queen just a while ago, and instead, she was deeply asleep.

Zion frowned when he saw this. He had a hunch that if he were to go near her and tried to wake her up, the butterflies might end up triggering something to stop him. It might also be that the elf queen would be notified of how someone was trying to sneak Lia away.

This made things even more difficult. So difficult in fact that he was having second thoughts about making an escape with the dhampir princess. What should he do now? His brows furrowed even deeper.

His lips pursed as he quickly thought of a solution. He would give himself a day. In any case, if he needed food, he would ask the system about it. He had solved the case anyway, and the system has still not provided him the rewards. He could purchase food at a cheaper rate to keep his body up-to-date.

After thinking of this, he relaxed and waited until Odina was out of sight before turning off the invisibility function of his cloak. Then he took it off and sent it off to the inventory before calling out to the system. "007, I see you have gone lazy these days."

"Not lazy!" The system in his ancient Chinese attire came out with pouting lips. "I said, I was on a vacation! After pursuing my dream system for so long, she finally responded! What was I supposed to do? I went with her to an ancient Chinese park to play, and I was just about to win a prize for her in a race when you forcibly called me back! Do you have any shame?!"

Zion had no patience to deal with this stupid system. He directly initiated the topic of discussion. "Where're my rewards?"

"What rewards?" The system tilted his head, almost looking like a cute little chibi character with a huge question mark above his head.

Zion didn't get angry at this time and explained, "I passed the case, didn't I?"

"You did?" The system was himself surprised after hearing those words. He muttered something under his breath and went to check the notification. After reading for five minutes, he exclaimed, "Yes! You really did! Congratulations, host!"

Zion gave 007 a blank look before rolling his eyes. "I knew I did, but the point is, why couldn't you get me informed about it sooner?"

The system coughed awkwardly and averted his eyes. "Well….My vacation."

"Okay, nevermind that." Zion got a headache whenever he thought about how irresponsible his stupid system was! "Tell me the details of the rewards."

The system opened another document in front of the detective and said while poking his head out from behind the document. "As you know I have been through a major update, even the rewards have changed. Now, can you head over to the dashboard?"

Zion clicked on the dashboard, and was almost blinded by seeing so many points in his account.

470 points?! How come he got so many points at once?! Did he win a lottery or something?

Just as he was thinking about it, the system replied, "You got 200 points as a reward for finishing the case 100%. You not only helped identify the real criminals, but even got them punished publicly while getting the burden off of your and Lia's shoulders. And because of that, you also triggered two more rewards including double points and an extra lifeline."

Zion nodded and closed the dashboard before focusing on the system expressionlessly and said, "So, I can purchase high-grade magical tools, right?"

When the system heard that, he instantly nodded and said, "Of course! But I wouldn't advise you on that because you can get more benefits once you reach a milestone."

A milestone. Zion's mind went back to the time when 007 had been explaining everything, and still hadn't told him a thing about the milestone. He frowned and said, "You haven't told me about it yet."

"I didn't tell you?" The system thought for a while and nodded. "Okay, nevermind then. I'll tell you now. A milestone is a thousand points, and after reaching it, you will get the rewards for reaching a milestone, which is powering up! That's right! As an upgraded system, I'll help you power up, and make your body more strengthened! You're gonna be so powerful that you can't even imagine! I-"

"The process!" Zion interrupted the system's blabbering words and said, "What's the process of powering up?"

"Well, I'll tell you in the future. For now, just consider that you'll be able to power up every time you reach a milestone. So, host, it is absolutely necessary for you to save your points!"

Zion nodded and opened the shop without any delay. His first thought at this point was to find something that could help him escape with Lia, or if not, he at least wanted to put a surveillance camera here to keep an eye on Lia's situation until he could power up and come back to take Lia away.

After searching the miscellaneous items section for a long time, he finally found a few things that could be useful. For instance, he found a bomb kind of thing that can only be used once, and after using that, he could break the magical spells in that area. No matter how powerful the spell was, this bomb could break it easily, but the cost of this item was very high. It almost reached two milestones!

He frowned as he continued to scan the area.