Chapter 62: We Were Actually Being Manipulated by Vivian the Entire Time! |
Seeing Vivian rushing toward him, Octopus Humanoid Aaron immediately noticed that she was different from before.
“Her speed has increased by at least double!”
This instantly made Aaron realize something.
“So that’s how it is. I’ve been manipulated by her this whole time!”
At this moment, Aaron felt as though he finally understood everything.
Aaron had also been present during the academy testing earlier, so he had naturally witnessed Vivian’s performance afterward.
Facing that kind of monster, Aaron could guarantee that the vast majority of nobles he knew would have been so frightened that their legs turned weak, yet Vivian had been able to fight it with ease.
And her combat talent was also the strongest he had ever seen.
Aaron simply could not understand how Vivian could be so well-rounded.
His plan within Silvermoon City had been progressing smoothly all along, yet how long had it even been before Vivian had already uncovered his plan?
And her objective had been crystal clear.
Although Connor was somewhat arrogant, he acted extremely cautiously.
Naturally, they had learned about Vivian purchasing Sacred Artifacts in large quantities that morning.
That made them realize something seemed wrong, so they immediately arranged for people to make a move against Vivian that very night.
But it seemed this girl had already known about their plan from the very beginning.
By the afternoon, before their people had even been dispatched, the Enforcement Officers had already mobilized in full force with a clear target in mind.
It was obvious that Vivian had been meddling behind the scenes.
Yet who could have imagined that at such a critical moment, that idiot Connor would actually act on his own initiative and send out Monsters?
As a result, in order to turn the enemy’s own scheme against them—
Aaron had no choice but to expose the hidden pawn he had painstakingly planted within the Enforcement Bureau.
He had wanted to use the name of the Enforcement Bureau to arrest Vivian first.
As long as Vivian was captured, handling the rest would become very easy.
Yet Vivian seemed almost like a prophet, once again detecting his plans in advance and directly choosing to strike first.
When Aaron saw Vivian making her move, he had thought he had finally regained the upper hand.
After all, her attacking the Enforcement Officers was already an established fact. Vivian had already been cornered by him.
Thus, he had immediately sent someone carrying a crystal ball that had recorded everything through mirror magic to report Vivian to the Enforcement Bureau.
At the same time, he had secretly followed Vivian while leaving marks along the way, all so the Enforcement Bureau could arrive quickly and capture Vivian.
At that point, Vivian only had two choices.
The first was surrendering without resistance, and the final result would be death.
The second was choosing to flee, but the final result would still be the same.
Yet even this had apparently been within Vivian’s expectations.
Not only had she discovered him hiding in the shadows, she had even turned his own plan against him.
The moment the Enforcement Officers arrived, she directly attacked him instead.
As a result, his identity had been exposed.
Everything had formed a perfect closed loop.
After understanding all of this, deep terror surged within Aaron’s heart.
“Damn it, I’ve been trapped in her calculations this entire time!”
“And the reason she hid her strength was all for this moment.”
“Once the Enforcement Officers were heavily injured and scattered in retreat, she would reveal her true strength and turn the tide!”
That way, dealing with the matter of her killing Enforcement Officers earlier would become very easy to gloss over.
After all, if the Enforcement Officers abandoned a noble and fled for their own lives, then unless they no longer wished to remain here and were willing to accept punishment—
They would absolutely help Vivian cover everything up.
Moreover, these cowardly people had countless excuses they could use to help Vivian escape blame.
And after killing him, Vivian could even gain even greater fame and achievements because of this incident.
After figuring all of this out, Aaron felt his breathing become rapid.
An enormous fear enveloped him.
At this moment, he felt as though a pair of invisible giant hands had gripped him tightly from beginning to end.
No matter how much he struggled, he could never escape the other party’s palm.
And once fear reached its extreme, all that remained was anger.
“Damn Vivian!”
“You think you’ve already got me cornered?!”
“Playing others in the palm of your hand... does it make you feel accomplished?!”
“You damned bastard! Do you think you control everything already?!”
A deep and furious voice emerged from the octopus’s mouth.
Immediately afterward, countless mysterious magic array patterns appeared around the Octopus Monster.
Pitch-black liquid resembling ink poured downward from the magic arrays.
Wherever the ink passed, sizzling corrosion sounds could be heard. The plants and even rocks it touched were visibly corroding at an alarming rate.
Seeing the Octopus Monster suddenly go mad again, Jiang Chen was utterly bewildered.
Faced with the enormous red Attack Prediction area, Jiang Chen immediately began operating.
If it had been his previous speed, there would definitely have been no way to dodge it, but with his current massively increased speed, Jiang Chen avoided it with ease.
“This Octopus Monster really has a lot of skills.”
After sighing in admiration, Jiang Chen looked toward the enormous deep pit corroded by the ink not far away.
Visually estimating it, the pit was at least half the size of a football field, and at least seven or eight meters deep.
“This destructive power is kind of insane.”
Even Jiang Chen was shocked by this level of destructive force.
Besides that, the voice lines from the Octopus BOSS just now also left Jiang Chen rather speechless.
Of course, it wasn’t that Jiang Chen had any prejudice against the voice lines of BOSSes or elite monsters in games.
But the battle dialogue of this game’s NPCs really made him unable to hold back.
What nonsense about “you think you’ve cornered me.”
What nonsense about “playing others in the palm of your hand.”
Honestly, Jiang Chen understood very well that the developers designed these lines to give players a more immersive experience.
“But still, these voice lines sound kind of weird no matter how you hear them.”
“If they could polish these details a bit more, it’d be even better.”
Although there were some small flaws, overall, the flaws did not overshadow the strengths.
Even while making these evaluations, Jiang Chen’s hands did not pause for even a moment.
Compared to Jiang Chen’s relaxed attitude, Vivian currently felt like she was riding a roller coaster.
Although Vivian trusted Lord Evil God’s strength very much—
This was still controlling her body, and this was not inside the Eternal Tower.
Back in the Eternal Tower, Lord Evil God could recklessly fool around however he pleased, and Vivian had not felt much psychological burden from it.
But now things were completely different.
This monster was obviously much stronger than the monster inside the Eternal Tower.
Most importantly, if she died here, she would really die.
“So Lord Evil God, could you maybe take it a little easier?!”
Watching all kinds of magic barely brush past her body while the octopus’s enormous Octopus Tentacles seized every opportunity to slam downward—
Vivian was panicking like crazy inside.
Faced with the Octopus Monster’s terrifying destructive power—
With her tiny little body, if she really got hit even once, Vivian could guarantee that she would truly die on the spot just to show the Octopus Monster.
So Lord Evil God, can’t we just run away?
My tiny little body really can’t endure this!