Chapter 72: The Playground (3)

Chapter 72: The Playground (3)



Looking at Aleron coming with Princess Rias, Ben thought, 'Princess Rias is with him, so he must have good ties with the Longinus Empire. Now, the Aurspec clan must also want good ties with him.'

'Everyone wants to form good ties with him. Only I am on the chopping board, fuck.'

"Welcome, Mr. Aleron. We've been eagerly awaiting your arrival," Ben said with a smile as he bowed. "My name is Ben Frell."

"Thank you, and just call me Aleron," Aleron grinned as he recognized Ben from the broadcast screens.

'Just Aleron?' Ben sweated and weakly smiled, "That doesn't sound appropriate."

"Eh? Frankly, I am tired of people calling me mister," Aleron sighed.

"How about Young Master Aleron?" Ben suggested as he felt it was appropriate given Aleron's appearance and age.

"Young master, eh? Hahaha, alright. That sounds better."

Ben smiled and nodded, "Please follow me. I'll lead you to your temporary residence."

For the first time, Rias felt as if she was getting treated like a normal person and couldn't help but internally chuckle.

After all, her presence was a sensitive matter no matter what place or city she went to, but she turned into just any normal person with Aleron.

Soon, the group followed Ben and walked into an elevator before they went to one of the top floors.

'This building is huge and quite good,' Aleron thought as he observed. 'The aesthetics and structural design is wonderful.'

Soon, the group followed Ben into a luxurious lounge filled with comfortable couches and sofas, tables, decorations, windows, and a garden balcony showing the city outward.

"Please make yourselves comfortable. I'll come back to bring you to the Player Chamber after ten minutes."

After Ben left, Aleron jumped on the sofa and said, "I'll go and eat the pills to reach peak Legendary."

Saying that, Aleron vanished as he entered the Eldertide Archipelago.

"There are drinks here if you want," Roxen walked towards the refrigerator and showed neatly placed bottles of various types of alcohol.

"Aye, that looks good even though I am seeing it for the first time," Hua said, gulping.

"Indeed," Fang nodded with a smile.

"Let's drink then," Roxen grinned.

Rias looked at Yueha and Mei, "I am not much of a drinker, what about you two?"

"Nope," Yueha shook her head.

Mei also shook her head, "I go into shadows...to spy for Master," a gleam passed through her eyes.

"In that case, you should check out the Spatial Adventure Cube first," Yueha said.

"Good," Mei nodded and vanished from the room, leaving Rias to wryly smile.

"It's just basic investigation," Yueha smiled. "Master will be using that thing after all."

...

Aleron chugged the pills and returned back into the room before sitting cross-legged, absorbing the pills' effects as they started infusing him with power.

Just as Ben lightly knocked on the door, Mei appeared beside him out of nowhere.

"What is your plan?"

Ben almost jumped in fright. 'What the hell?! I couldn't even feel her presence. How long has she been standing there?'

"P-Plan? What do you mean?" Ben asked with a sweaty smile. 'Does she know that I've been told to push young master Aleron during the talk? But that's not really a plan.'

Mei glanced at him for a second before looking ahead, "Nothing."

'I guess there's no plan,' Mei thought.

"Oh, Ben, you're here. Haha, right on time," Aleron said with a laugh after opening the door.

"Mei, where did you go?" Aleron curiously asked seeing Mei.

"To check around this place and the cube," Mei truthfully answered.

"Oh, alright," Aleron shrugged it off and walked out with others behind him. "Let's go, Ben."

'She was snooping around?' Ben didn't know whether to cry or laugh. 'Well, nothing we can do

about it anyway.'

"Please follow me," Ben said with a smile as he led the group into the elevator.

They soon arrived in an underground hall where other people, more precisely, other players, were present. When Aleron and others entered, all of them looked at them and the atmosphere of the hall turned strange.

After all, three of the players here were forcefully brought away, with two of them getting executed by Aleron in the sky!

Players who came from other places could also live in player dorms in underground chambers, so all players knew about the news of three players getting punished.

'He killed my brother...' A young man looking like he was fifteen or sixteen clenched his fist,

his eyes turning red as he looked at Aleron.

"Teo," the woman beside him grabbed his hand and shook her head. She was in her late

twenties.

"Don't say or do anything stupid, Teo," the middle-aged man to his left said in a soft tone.

...

"These are the other players that will join today," Ben said with a smile as he turned to Aleron. "Should we arrange the thing Mr. Melkern talked about before or at the end?"

Aleron thought for a moment before he smiled, "Both. Arrange for a simple exchange at first and then I'll arrange mine at the end."

'We are already going off plan, eh? I guess we'll adjust,' Ben internally wryly smiled, but nodded, "Understood. However, let us proceed to open the Dread-mode series first."

Ben looked at the center of the hall and continued, "To open it, someone must finish a short

trial as a requirement."

At the center of the hall was a big crystal container that held a magical cube on a metal pedestal. The container and pedestal were layered with multiple magic formations. "Nobody has managed to do that yet, hence Dread-mode difficulty has been a secret for us

since the beginning."

"Well then..." Aleron rolled up his sleeves with a grin, "Let's open it today."