545: Chapter 548 Finding Nianwei

"Your Excellency!"

Aicklin suppressed his anger and said in a deep voice.

"That brat just publicly humiliated me. I want his life!"

"Sure thing."

Pires said dismissively.

"As long as you can convince the Jones Family, feel free to make your move. I won't interfere in this matter."

As his voice fell,

Pires turned and boarded the Airship.

He vanished into the sky like a streak of light.

Doflair also couldn't be bothered to waste any more words with Aicklin.

He immediately led the group through the air and departed.

He didn't want to stay any longer and listen to Aicklin spew nonsense.

"You Luo, what kind of personality do you think Nianwei will have in this lifetime?"

Lu Chen asked silently in his heart.

Doflair pushed his speed to the extreme,

fearing that Aicklin might launch a sneak attack on the way.

Just like that,

they crossed ten thousand miles in just five minutes and arrived at the capital of the Santuan Empire.

Along the way,

Doflair continuously used his energy to shield Lu Chen, Rosen, and Yundou Luojia.

This speed was already unimaginably fast for Yundou Luojia and Rosen;

but in Lu Chen's eyes, it was slower than a snail crawling.

He took this opportunity to take in all the local customs and scenery along the route.

Many Dungeons were scattered across the land like stars.

Some had magnificent and grand entrances, while others appeared small and exquisite.

Lu Chen secretly made up his mind.

After the Jones Family was settled, he must explore these Dungeons thoroughly.

"Rumble!"

The five people landed steadily on the ground.

"Welcome back, Old Ancestor!"

The guards outside the mansion immediately bowed in salute upon seeing them.

Soon,

everyone from the Jones Family rushed over,

wanting to see exactly who the esteemed person the Old Ancestor personally brought back was.

Lu Chen stood calmly to the side;

Rosen curiously observed everything around him;

but Yundou Luojia was the most nervous among the three.

"Luojia, are you alright?"

Yundou Luolin hurried forward, her eyes full of worry.

Ever since she learned that the Old Ancestor had personally taken action,

she had been anxious for her husband and younger sister, her heart practically lodged in her throat.

"Sister, I'm fine."

Yundou Luojia replied softly.

She turned to look at Rogers.

She immediately noticed the injuries on him and quickly stepped forward, asking with concern:

"Lord Rogers, are you alright?"

Before Rogers could reply,

a majestic voice rang out.

The speaker was Daur Jones...

the current head of the Jones Family and also Rogers's father.

Doflair's gaze fell upon Rosen, and he commanded in a deep voice:

"It's him. Go prepare two bedrooms."

"Two?"

Daur asked with some confusion.

"Why prepare two? Who is the other one for?"

They only knew their father had brought back an SSS-Rank Genius, but they hadn't expected another person.

"The other room is for Lu Chen."

Doflair stated.

"Starting today, he is a member of the Jones Family, and a core member at that."

"Rogers will explain the specifics to you. I'm going back to my room first."

After speaking, Doflair turned and left.

"Brother, isn't this old man a bit too unreliable? Just throwing us to a bunch of strangers like that."

Rosen leaned close to Lu Chen and muttered quietly.

But he forgot.

Everyone in this mansion possessed extraordinary strength.

His words reached everyone's ears without missing a single syllable.

Doflair's mouth twitched, but he didn't say anything more.

After all,

Geniuses always had eccentric tempers; this was very normal.

Lu Chen glanced at Rosen with disdain and said coldly:

"Get lost. Don't try to get close to me; I'm not familiar with you."

After saying that,

he turned his head away and ignored Rosen.

"What do you mean?"

Rosen was stunned at first, then immediately felt a chill down his spine.

He subconsciously looked around.

He saw hundreds of cold gazes fixed squarely on him, filled with hostility.

At this moment,

a maid stepped forward and said in an icy tone:

"Young Master, please follow me. I will take you to your room."

Lu Chen waved at Rosen and said gloatingly:

"Bye-bye for now. I wish you continuous good luck in the days ahead."

Rosen was, after all, still a novice who had just started out.

He hadn't had the System for long.

He still had a long road ahead of him, with countless lessons awaiting him.

Just as Rosen left with the maid,

Lu Chen suddenly felt someone pat his shoulder.

He instinctively turned around.

The moment he saw who it was, his mind went blank.

Standing in front of him was a young girl identical to Luo Nianwei.

Lu Chen's mouth involuntarily wanted to curve upwards, but he forcibly restrained it.

"Hey, kid, I heard you stood up for our Family today?"

Nianwei Jones put her hands on her hips and said proudly.

"Although your talent is low, you certainly have guts."

"How about it, want to be my follower?"

"I am the most beautiful woman in the Empire. This is a great opportunity you'll never touch in your lifetime."

Lu Chen was instantly struck speechless.

He could already tell.

Nianwei in this life was definitely extremely narcissistic.

As for her other personality traits, he would have to observe slowly.

"Thank you for the offer, but I'm not interested."

Lu Chen refused without thinking.

"I don't want to attract a heap of unnecessary trouble just by being the follower of the Empire's foremost beauty."

"Hahahahahaha!"

Yundou Luolin couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Nianwei, I truly admire you! This kid actually dared to reject you so directly!"

Even Yundou Luojia, standing nearby, couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle secretly.

Nianwei Jones felt like she had swallowed a fly.

She felt extremely disgusted.

This ordinary-looking, low-talent brat actually dared to reject her?

She could hardly believe her ears.

"Kid, I must have misheard you."

Luo Nianwei said through gritted teeth.

"Say that again?"

"Madam Luolin, could you please have someone take me to my room?"

Lu Chen ignored Nianwei and instead cupped his hands towards Yundou Luolin, saying:

"I am truly too tired."

Yundou Luolin was also stunned.

A teenager could actually resist Luo Nianwei's temptation?

How was that possible?

Did this kid have some kind of physical defect in his body?

Yundou Luolin silently grumbled to herself.

Then she quickly instructed a maid to take Lu Chen to a room to rest.

As Lu Chen brushed past Nianwei, he didn't forget to give her a look filled with disdain.

"Want me to satisfy your narcissistic desire? No way... Because only by doing this can I attract your attention."

Lu Chen secretly chuckled.

Luo Nianwei stood rooted to the spot like a wooden stake, completely dumbfounded.

In her sixteen years of life, wherever she went, she was the center of attention, with everyone fawning over her and trying to please her in every way possible?

But today...

it was the first time someone had rejected her so ruthlessly, even treating her like air.

How could she swallow such humiliation?

"Grandpa!"

Nianwei Jones suddenly shouted loudly.

"Quickly give the order and make that brat my follower!"

Doflair instantly appeared in front of her and asked with doting affection:

"What's wrong with my little princess? Who made our precious girl angry?"

Luo Nianwei immediately squeezed out a few drops of crocodile tears and pouted:

"Grandpa, it's that brat you brought back!"

"I kindly asked him to be my follower, but he actually dared to refuse me! Quickly issue a Family decree and force him to agree to my request!"

Doflair sighed helplessly.

He had seen it just now.

That kid actually dared to ignore his precious granddaughter.

One must know,

his granddaughter was as beautiful as a flower. He usually had to assign special guards to watch over her, afraid some scoundrel would snatch her away.

But that kid, instead, acted as if he couldn't see her.

"Alright, alright, Grandpa will teach him a lesson for you. You go back first."

"Alarm! Alarm! Alarm!"

Just then,

a piercing alarm suddenly echoed throughout the entire city, and the whole city instantly entered the highest alert status.

"What happened?"

Doflair's expression changed, and he quickly grabbed a guard and asked.

"Could it be that the S-Rank Dungeon has gone out of control?"

"Old Ancestor!"

The guard's voice trembled.

"In the city... a Scarlet-Rank Dungeon has appeared in the city!"

"What?! A Scarlet-Rank Dungeon?! How could one appear in our capital?!"

Doflair's face instantly turned pale.

Lu Chen hadn't gone far.

Hearing this, he stopped his steps and quickly asked in his heart:

"You Luo, what is a Scarlet-Rank Dungeon?"

"[Host, a Scarlet-Rank Dungeon looks no different from ordinary F-Rank to C-Rank Dungeons on the outside, but only young people under the age of eighteen can enter.]"

["Fifty years ago, a Reverse Dungeon once appeared within the Empire. That was also the first Reverse Dungeon to appear in this world."]

["Because only hunters under eighteen could enter, the parents at the time were firmly against letting their children venture inside."]

["They felt that even if the Dungeon truly went out of control, only low-level monsters would escape, and with their strength, they could easily handle it."]

["But no one expected that twelve hours later, that Dungeon would directly upgrade to an SSS-Rank Dungeon and instantly go out of control!"]

["That was the most tragic disaster in the Empire's history. The entire Empire was almost completely destroyed, and all hunters below SS+-Rank within its borders perished."]

["In the end, it was the Hunter Association President who personally intervened to barely quell that catastrophe."]

"So, if the hunters under eighteen cannot clear the Dungeon within twelve hours, this Dungeon will upgrade to SSS-Rank and then completely lose control?"

"Yes, Host."

"Interesting,"

Lu Chen murmured softly.

"I want to see what choice they will make this time."

"Grandpa, I want to go!"

Nianwei Jones suddenly spoke.

The spoiled tone in her voice had completely vanished, replaced by an unprecedented firmness.

"We're going too!"

Several other young disciples under the age of eighteen in the Family also stepped forward.

They all clearly understood the rules of the Scarlet-Rank Dungeon,

and they knew what this meant.