162: Chapter 162 Who Says Princesses Are Just Decorative Objects? Max-Level Account Slaughters Newbie Village!

The black light arrow at his fingertips disintegrated into a sky full of stardust, but instead of drifting away with the wind, it suddenly plummeted like sentient fireflies, silently penetrating the thick glazed tile roof of the hall below.

Qin Ji stood atop the flying eaves, his black trench coat snapping in the night wind. He didn't immediately head to the three fallen satellite cities; instead, like a hawk crouching in the shadows, he peered through the hole in the roof, mockingly watching the show about to unfold below.

"Since she's going to be my Puppet queen, I have to see if her teeth are sharp enough."

...

Inside the hall, the crowd had receded, leaving it so empty it was unsettling.

Prime Minister Kesenluo and Grand Marshal Lorraine Muyuan, who should have left with the others, were called back by Leona. The heavy doors slowly closed behind them with a dull boom, cutting off all light from the outside.

"Your Highness, do you have further instructions?"

Lorraine Muyuan stopped, his hand instinctively resting on the hilt of his sword. He frowned, his tone carrying a hint of impatience: "If it's to discuss the attack on Black Wind City, I am willing to contribute my modest efforts, but it is late now..."

"Stop acting."

Leona turned around, her plain white mourning clothes appearing exceptionally piercing under the candlelight. She didn't sit back on the throne but walked slowly down the steps, each step firm, her voice unnervingly calm: "Lorraine Muyuan, Kesenluo, hand over the [gods blessing prerequisite quest scroll] you're carrying."

These words were like a sudden thunderclap.

Prime Minister Kesenluo's cloudy old eyes narrowed into slits, and the wrinkles on his face twitched slightly—a micro-expression of extreme vigilance. But as an old fox of the imperial court, he regained his composure in an instant and said with a beaming smile:

"Your Highness, those are the private possessions of your subjects. Isn't this request a bit over the line?"

"Private possessions?"

A mocking curve tugged at the corner of Leona's mouth, and her gaze suddenly became sharp: "When Father went on the imperial expedition, I was standing on the city wall. That Adventurer named 'Snow Emperor' could easily bypass the Imperial Guard's defenses and take Father's head—could he have done that without an insider closing the city's defensive barrier?"

"You allowed the Snow Emperor to commit regicide simply because you felt Father had no male heirs and that a mere woman like me was unworthy of the throne. So you wanted to support that Snow Emperor's rise to power, using this scroll as a token of your loyalty, isn't that right?!"

This string of accusations hit like a barrage of cannon fire, and the air instantly froze.

Lorraine Muyuan's expression turned completely dark. He stopped pretending and simply tore off the mask: "Leona, since you've laid it all out, I might as well tell you. This world is ruled by strength! The Snow Emperor is a powerhouse on the Heavenly Ranking, and you? A vase who only knows how to hide in the inner palace—what right do you have to lead the Star Kingdom?"

"By this."

Leona didn't waste any words; she took a sudden step forward.

"Boom—!!"

A terrifying aura erupted from her slender body, and a sudden gale swept through the previously calm hall. This aura was so strong that it directly shattered several nearby stone pillars as thick as a man's embrace!

The sneers on Kesenluo and Lorraine Muyuan's faces instantly froze, replaced by a ghost-like terror.

"Third Advancement..."

"Peak of Third Advancement..."

"fourth class advancement!!!"

Sensing the terrifying pressure from Leona that completely crushed them, Lorraine Muyuan stumbled back several steps, unable to even draw his sword: "How is this possible?! The Rank limit of the Star Kingdom is locked at the second class advancement. Even with Royal Secret Arts, one can only barely Breakthrough to the Third Advancement. How can you be a fourth class advancement powerhouse!"

In this kingdom dungeon where the maximum level was only 60 (Third Advancement), the sudden emergence of an 80th-level (fourth class advancement) BOSS was simply a dimensional strike!

"What did you think I was doing in the Newbie Village for five whole years? Sightseeing?"

Leona sneered, and two massive phantoms suddenly appeared behind her—on the left was a Frost Goddess emitting extreme cold, and on the right was an Ancient Hanba wreathed in Hellfire.

Ice and Fire Twins!

"Beneath the Newbie Village, an Ancient Hanba was Sealed. I spent five years grinding it to death, seizing the Fire Origin, and combining it with the Royal Legacy's Ice Origin to become who I am today!"

Before her voice faded, Leona waved her hand.

The two diametrically opposed forces of extreme cold and extreme heat converged in the air, instantly transforming into a destructive spiral beam of light that shot straight at the two men.

"Damn it! Use the National Artifact!"

Kesenluo shrieked and pulled a golden shield from his robes. It was the Star Kingdom's protective Divine Artifact, the [Star Barrier], rumored to be able to withstand any attack below the fourth class advancement.

"Buzz—"

A golden screen of light instantly expanded, shielding the two of them. Leona's ice and fire beam slammed into the light screen and was actually held back, causing ripples to spread across the sky.

"Hahaha! Leona, so what if you're at the fourth class advancement? Before this Star Barrier, you still can't kill us! Once we break out and gather the army..."

Lorraine Muyuan laughed wildly, his eyes filled with the malice of a survivor.

However, before his laughter could fade, a lazy voice suddenly drifted down from above the hall.

"That turtle shell looks pretty eyesore."

"Who?!"

The two of them looked up in terror.

From the hole in the dome of the hall, a black figure fell like a meteorite.

Qin Ji didn't use any fancy moves; he just casually pulled a rusty green copper block from his bag—the mysterious item, the [green copper block], he had pilfered from the Newbie Village.

This thing had no attributes, only one trait: it specialized in dealing with all sorts of flashy energy shields.

"Down you go."

With a flick of Qin Ji's wrist, the green copper block turned into an afterimage, accurately smashing against that indestructible [Star Barrier].

"Crack!"

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a crisp sound of shattering.

The golden light screen, claimed to be an absolute defense, disintegrated into countless motes of light the moment it touched the green copper block, like a popped balloon. The shield, which had been flowing with divine light, dimmed instantly, with a deep dent appearing on its surface.

"What?!" Kesenluo's eyes nearly bulged out of his head.

This was a legendary-grade defensive Divine Artifact! It had actually been trashed by a piece of scrap metal?

"What are you standing around for? Finish them off." Qin Ji landed, hands in his pockets, not even bothering to spare a glance at the two dead men walking.

Leona snapped back to her senses, her killing intent surging.

Without the protection of the turtle shell, the two officials, who only had the strength of the second class advancement, were as fragile as thin paper before a fourth class advancement powerhouse.

"Ice and Fire: Purgatory!"

Red and blue light intertwined and flashed, and two heads soared into the air.

Before they could even scream, the bodies of Kesenluo and Lorraine Muyuan were ground into ashes by the force of ice and fire, leaving only two scrolls emitting a faint golden light on the ground.

[System Notification: Congratulations on obtaining "gods blessing prerequisite quest scroll" x2]

Leona took a deep breath, the red and blue light in her eyes gradually fading. She turned around and looked at the man picking up the scrolls, her gaze incredibly complex.

Her proud fourth class advancement strength still didn't seem to be enough before this man. She hadn't even clearly seen how he broke the shield just now.

"Good performance."

Qin Ji casually tossed the two scrolls into his bag. These items were the key to unlocking the hidden class "Oracle." They were originally meant for the "Snow Emperor" by those two old geezers, but now they naturally belonged to him.

He walked up to Leona and reached out to tilt the chin of the new queen, looking at her exquisite but somewhat pale face:

"This place is cleaned up. Next, it's time to collect some interest."

"You mean... those three satellite cities?" Leona asked instinctively.

"What else?"

Qin Ji turned and walked out of the hall, his silhouette stretching long under the candlelight. His voice carried a shuddering excitement: "With so many experience babies gathered for a party, it would be quite impolite not to go and send them on their way."

...

Half an hour later. Three kilometers outside Black Wind City.

The air was thick with a nauseating stench of decay. Looking ahead, the once prosperous city was now completely shrouded in black Devilish Qi. On the walls and in the streets, monsters known as "Night Walkers" were packed tightly together, numbering well over a hundred thousand!

In the very center of the city, a giant bird with a wingspan of over fifty meters was perched atop the bell tower. It was a legendary-grade BOSS—the [Dark Feather Demon Vulture].

"This is the enemy you have to face."

Leona stood beside Qin Ji, looking at the despair-inducing tide of monsters in the distance. Her fingers gripping her staff turned slightly white. "With these numbers, even if I'm at the fourth class advancement, I wouldn't be able to kill even a tenth of them before my mana is exhausted."

"Who said anything about killing them one by one?"

Qin Ji stood on the high slope, the netherworld longbow in his hand replaced by a giant sword with an exaggerated design.

He stared at the BOSS perched on the bell tower, his eyes flashing with greedy light. In his eyes, that wasn't a BOSS, but a massive, mobile powder keg.

"Wait for me here."

Before his voice could fade, Qin Ji's figure instantly vanished from the spot.

[Void Walk]!

The next second, he appeared directly on the bell tower in the center of the city, landing right on top of the Dark Feather Demon Vulture's head!

"Screech—!!!"

The BOSS let out a deafening shriek. Just as it was about to lash out, the giant sword in Qin Ji's hand, carrying the force of ten thousand thunderclaps, slammed down hard!

"Die for me!"

This strike triggered the strength attribute that [Infinite Plunder] had stacked tens of thousands of times.

There was no suspense.

The legendary-grade BOSS, capable of destroying a kingdom, didn't even get to release a single skill before its head was blown apart by the strike! Its massive headless corpse slumped onto the bell tower.

[System Notification: Killed legendary-grade BOSS "Dark Feather Demon Vulture," obtained Strength +500, obtained skill book "Calamity Descent"...]

Qin Ji didn't even look at the drop list; his eyes were fixed on the massive corpse.

"The Physical Body of a legendary creature should contain enough energy to be quite potent, right?"

He pulled an ancient skill book emitting a decaying aura from his bag—a trophy he had just looted from Prime Minister Kesenluo's corpse, a necromancy skill book classified as a forbidden art.

[Forbidden Art: Corpse Explosion (S-Rank)]

[Effect: Detonate a corpse, dealing True Damage to the surroundings equal to 30% of the corpse's maximum health while alive. The higher the level of the corpse when alive, the wider the explosion range.]

30% True Damage!

One had to realize that the health of this Dark Feather Demon Vulture was in the hundreds of millions!

"This is art."

A crazed smile curled on Qin Ji's lips as he pressed his hand against the still-warm corpse of the BOSS. Countless black runes poured from his palm, frantically burrowing into the corpse.

"Bang."

He uttered a single word, then activated [Void Walk] to instantly flash back to Leona's side three kilometers away.

Leona hadn't even reacted: "You... you're back already? That BOSS..."

"Watch the fireworks."

Qin Ji didn't explain; he just reached out to cover Leona's ears and pressed her head into his chest.

The next moment.

The world fell silent.

In that instant, it was as if Black Wind City in the distance had been wiped off the map by an invisible giant hand.

A blinding blood-red mushroom cloud rose from the center of the city, followed by a visible shockwave that carried countless fragments of stone and monster remains, spreading outward like a tsunami.

The dense army of Night Walkers, upon contact with the shockwave, were like snowflakes thrown into a furnace—they vaporized instantly without even letting out a scream.

The earth trembled, and the sky was dyed blood-red.

Qin Ji watched the kill notifications frantically scrolling in the upper right corner of his vision and his experience bar soaring like a rocket. The world-destroying firelight was reflected in his eyes, and a satisfied curve formed on his lips.

Under the glow of the fire, he gently patted the shivering queen in his arms, as if soothing a frightened kitten, his tone gentle yet carrying a bone-chilling coldness:

"See? That's what you call professional."