Xingxi was half-kneeling there upright, her silver cloak embroidered with brilliant stars, spotless.
She spent six hours traveling to Cuenca, thousands of miles away, and killed thirty-seven enemies who were sabotaging the Dark Star branch.
The other party didn't even splash a drop of blood on her body.
However, as soon as he returned, the next task came one after another.
This was nothing special to her, but she didn't expect that the tombstone would ask such a question this time.
"Where is His Royal Highness?"
Xingxi is just indifferent and aloof, but that doesn't mean she really doesn't think about it.
Although the title "His Royal Highness" was relatively unfamiliar to her, she understood the reference of the tombstone in an instant.
"I'll take you to him."
Saying this, Xing Xi stood up and tapped the tombstone in front of her with her finger, and then she disappeared on the spot.
She wasn't really disappearing, she was just moving quickly.
She moved above the dense forest, advancing thousands of meters in just a few seconds, and finally appeared in front of Su Ziye.
Su Ziye hasn't finished eating the barbecue yet.
"Have you changed your mind?" Su Ziye was not surprised by Xingxi's arrival, but just raised the kebab in his hand.
Behind Xing Xi, the black tombstone seemed to be pulled by invisible threads, and finally came to Su Ziye.
"Your Highness," the tombstone said calmly, but it was not the old male voice before, but a somewhat unfamiliar female voice.
"Are you here to respond to my previous request?" Su Ziye asked, looking at the tombstone.
"After consultation with the Star Orbit Elders Council, we agree in principle to your request to join Dark Star." Tombstone said unhurriedly.
"In principle, the intention is that I haven't agreed yet, right?" Su Ziye said with a smile.
"Yes, because we need the prince to prove his potential." Tombstone said calmly.
"How to prove it?" Su Ziye was not surprised.
"Next to you is our weapon, the most outstanding existence ever created by Dark Star. When she was fifteen years old, she successfully killed a heavenly monster in the Forest of Death and obtained the opponent's magic crystal core. , which means that she has finally completed the last step of the weapons plan."
"She had not yet entered the heavenly realm at that time." The tombstone stood in the void and spoke.
"Because of this, she became one of the overlords within the Forest of Death and had the power to maintain a territory. With our permission, she spent most of her time living in the territory."
"So?" Su Ziye asked.
"Prince, you have not yet entered the Heaven Realm. Although you hold the Blade of Disillusionment, you actually possess the Heaven Realm level combat power." The tombstone further explained: "We require Your Highness, Your Highness, to enter the Heaven Realm in the next month. During the time, we also hunted down a magical beast above the heavenly realm and obtained its magic crystal core. This process was fully supervised and executed by Weapon."
Saying this, Tombstone turned to Xing Xi: "Similarly, in the next month, you will not get new orders until His Royal Highness completes the task."
Xingxi knelt down quietly and buried her head in the rotten leaves on the ground to express her acceptance of the order.
The next moment, the tombstone disappeared into the void.
Su Ziye smiled, looked at the void where the tombstone disappeared, and shrugged helplessly: "Why, do you really think of me as a monster on the same level as her?"
"In other words, if you are not at the same level as her, you are not qualified to join your Dark Star, right?"
Saying this, Su Ziye turned to look at Xingxi: "Look, now you are my nanny. Do you want to sit down and have something to eat together?"
Xing Xi didn't answer. She just looked at Su Ziye quietly. Her usually emotionless golden eyes were a bit complicated at this time.
"Why?" she asked softly.
"If I said it was because of you, would you believe it?" Su Ziye said with a smile.
"Never trust me, I'm not worthy of anyone's trust." Xing Xi said calmly, then took a step back.
She only took a step back and disappeared into the darkness.
But Su Ziye understood that this time she was not far away at all.
Her task at this time is to supervise her to complete the hunt for a heavenly monster, so she will be secretly observing and monitoring her 24 hours a day, of course - possibly without protection.
Su Ziye just sighed and continued to eat the barbecue quietly alone.
It wasn't until he finished eating all the ingredients he prepared that Su Ziye wiped the corners of his greasy mouth, looked into the void in front of him, and asked, "If I kill animals in your territory now, will you expel me?"
After a moment of pause, Xing Xi's answer came through.
Maybe Xing Xi was a little afraid that Su Ziye would really give it a try.
"Will do."
"Aren't you afraid that I will kill you and your mission will fail like this?" Su Ziye continued to ask boredly.
"This counts as your failure in the assessment mission." Xing Xi said rationally: "Being able to adapt to the environment of the Forest of Death and survive is a necessary part of the assessment."
"I forgot that this was part of your assessment." Su Ziye said with some self-deprecation.
"Can you come out and chat with me?" the young man continued to ask.
There was no answer in the darkness.
Su Ziye knew that he was in trouble.
"Then can you tell me how many of you are left to participate in the final assessment?" he asked.
"If I remember correctly, a total of twenty-seven children were originally selected from the two groups."
"How many are left at this stage?"
There was a moment of silence in the darkness, and then came the answer.
"Seven."
"That's a pretty good number." Su Ziye looked at the sky and smiled: "So seven children finally killed the teacher who took care of them, right?"
There was a vague hint of murderous intent in the darkness, but it only lasted for a moment, and then calmness returned.
Su Ziye wiped the cold sweat from his head.
"Then let me change the subject."
"In the end, how many people successfully killed the heavenly monsters and obtained their crystal nuclei?"
This time an answer came from the darkness.
"Seven."
"It turns out it's such an easy thing." Su Ziye smiled: "But I feel like I might not be able to do it."
Saying this, Su Ziye looked towards the darkness ahead.
"As far as I know, out of the twenty-seven people who worked on the final weapons project, you are the only one who is alive today."
"Then why exactly?"
There was no hesitation in answering in the darkness.
"Because I helped them kill their mission target."
"So additional assessments have been added."
"I killed them during the assessment."
"That's it." Su Ziye said with a smile.
"You killed the teacher who raised and taught you, and killed all the companions you grew up with, so is there anything else in this world that you can care about?" he asked.
There was silence in the darkness for a long time.
It took so long that Su Ziye thought she would no longer be able to answer.
"No."
