Chapter 222: Overnight Development!

Back in the game, it took Pedro two hours to create wolf transformation skill pages non-stop. And due to his hard work, he ended up with almost 70 wolf transformation skill pages and 8 random transformation skill pages.

Now, Pedro has over 384 wolf transformation skill page in his inventory bag, together with the newly crafted 8 random transformation skill page. And with this in mind, Pedro could not help but stop and rest in the meantime.

He leaned his back to the chair and pondered to himself, thinking, 'Sabrina, Mathew, Talia, Arvedar… even Lony and Roval! Why am I the only one who needs to remove all of my equipment and clothes before I transform to my Dragon form??? Is it a bug? Or it was just the way it was designed by the developers for Legendary Beasts? Should I report this to the devs?'

After almost a minute of contemplating whether to report it to the game developers or not, Pedro shook his head and grumbled deep inside, thinking, 'That won't do… The devs would just laugh in my face and say their typical annoying "Figure it out yourself, young man!" line! I would rather spend my time figuring the reason behind it, than wasting my time with those game devs whose mouths were shut like bank's vault!'

At this moment, he can't help but stare towards the last skill page he was able to successfully make and mumbled, "That said… It's been a month or so since I started playing the game… I did not even feel the time to pass by that much! Oh well… It's probably the effect when you are working non-stop to the point that you forgot the time passing by. I even barely remember that I got into an accident and was still even recovering in the hospital… If not for the times I logged out to check the status of my body, I would have not remembered such an unfortunate fate… In any case, the doctor said that my recovery was doing good! I can't wait to go out once again… The fried chicken from HappyBee… The shrimp burger and potato fries from Watdy's… And the pineapple pizza of Solitaires… Damn! I can't help but drool just remembering all of them!"

He took a deep breath as he stretches his neck by swinging it from left to right. Then, he forced out a smile and said, "Looking at it… It seems like my body is starting to get used to taking 'Lifo' as the source of nutrients and food. Though it is more balanced and controlled than your normal meal… The happiness and satisfaction that you get from good-tasting foods still can't be replaced! Well… I can probably eat food again once my body fully recovers… For now, I could only be grateful for the good tasting grilled foods here in the game."

At this moment, Pedro stood as he places the skill page in his inventory bag and said, "On top of that… Since I am essentially in a dreaming state in real life… There is really no need for me to sleep inside the game! However… It just often leaves me nothing to do in times like these. I want to hunt as many dungeons as I can before the competition starts to arise, but… I can't leave here! Not until my cunning cousin arrives!"

Since he was bored, Pedro went out of the discussion room and joined everyone else in the bed area. Then, he took this time to talk to some of his demi-human slaves who were still awake at that time.

They talked about how they became slaves and how the humans had severely treated them in the past. It was not a secret that humans and demi-humans had conflict amongst each other. In fact, if not for the presence of monsters that both pests on both communities, the two races would have long been in a war.

Pedro was not ignorant of it. Even in his past life, although the humans were working together with demi-humans like Kiths and Pops, the relationship between the two sides was not that good. Of course, to players, such a case was dependent on their personality.

Some of them love pets in real life, thus some players had a good relationship with the demi-humans. However, there were also humans—who see humans as the pinnacle of the animals, thus some selected players were a bit brutal to the demi-human NPCs.

As for Pedro, such things do not matter to him. What was important is that the demi-humans have some use to him. It was not that he was cold-blooded towards them but he knew that relationships between them sides would simply develop over time. So, there was no need for him to establish a friendly relationship with the demi-humans as soon as possible.

Besides… As they say, the faster something was built, the faster it might fall. So… Such things as relationships should not be built in a hurry. Else… It might not last longer than it is expected to be.

In any case, the demi-humans were severely treated by human NPCs. Well… It is probably because they resemble some animals or monsters—which was everyone's enemy.

Fortunately, they are now under Pedro. And if they just worked hard as Pedro ordered them, they would be able to live a decent life from now on.

Time went by as he got absorbed into the stories of the demi-humans. Hours later, another man of Duke Albert informed Pedro that Duke Ersi was able to verify Pedro's information. Unfortunately, all the members of the Royal Family, even their advisors and the Elders of the Tarala Kingdom were found lifeless in the Royal Castle's throne room.

Other than a human-sized treasure chest, there was no single trace of the perpetrators who orchestrated the said massacre. That said, Duke Ersi's men were able to identify that a vampire was definitely involved since some of the corpses had bites on their necks.

Add up the blood that even filled the throne room, Duke Ersi was a hundred percent sure that the vampires were involved in this incident. Thus, other than a few Royal Knights who seemed to be involved in the massacre, Duke Ersi had immediately ordered the capture of all suspected vampires in the Kingdom. And that they must be caught before the ball of fire rises the next day.

That said, the information about the death of the Royal Family and several high ranking officials of the Kingdom was still suppressed from everyone else. Of course, they don't want to cause panic to everyone else and even give those who are against the nobles a chance to rise up and create chaos inside the Kingdom.

As for Pedro and Duke Albert, their plans were seemingly on the right track. However, before they could proceed with any of their plans, they needed to wait for Duke Ersi to come back and discuss the next steps they needed to take.

That said, Duke Albert used this time to manipulated Baron Kireon Ealo, the son of Duke Kleon Ealo, by using the information about the Royal Family's death and the involvement of vampires, and connecting it to his father's death—which was also caused by a group of vampires.

Fortunately, although Duke Albert said earlier that the Duke Kleon that had died earlier was just a double, Baron Kireon did not believe Duke Albert and was headstrong that it was really his father, Duke Kleon.

Because Baron Kireon was seemingly knowledgeable about the presence of vampires, and that Duke Albert seemed like he did not know anything about their relationship with the vampires—and was just simply trying to hold the information about it because it happened in his territory, Baron Kireon got manipulated by Duke Albert and made him angry against the vampires, while at the same time removing his suspicion to Duke Albert regarding the death of his father.

As for Pedro's involvement, he was just mistaken by Baron Kireon as another guest who was just dragged into the mess because of the vampires' attack at the Auction Mansion last night—just like the other guests. So… Pedro was essentially out of the suspicion board of Baron Kireon, regarding the death of his father.

In the end, it was fortunate that even Baron Kireon did not want the information about his father's death to become public. Because… First of all, his father—Duke Kleon, went to the Auction Mansion together with the vampires himself. And with all the other VIP guests present, there were too many powerful individuals present to attest as witnesses. So… Baron Kireon had no choice but to keep things private.

Of course, since Duke Ersi was able to verify Pedro's information, and Duke Albert was able to take care of the loose ends, Pedro was regularly updated by Duke Albert's men about the overall progress of the situation. They were 'partners' after all.

And soon, the ball of fire rises, and a new lively morning welcomes the Tarala Kingdom. In the discussion room of Duke Albert's room in the Auction Mansion, Pedro, Duke Albert, and Duke Ersi sat across the table with dark circles around their eyes.

Pedro could not help but force out a smile and say, "Shall we start? It's already morning, but we are yet to have a good night's sleep!"