Fallen Chronicles

Chapter 90 Chapter 90: Big Gamble part 1

Succubus Demon Queen Lena, And Solo Miasma Form Suthia, has been released in chapter 00

Nova the Empress of Dragon will be released in the next chapter…

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‘Well, well!’

Renji looked at the last line of coordinates change notification on the panel of the Hearthstone Tear, and his eyelids twitched.

If he had used the [Hearthstone Tears] to teleport without realizing this change, it wouldn’t just be like a lamb walking into a tiger’s den, but more like a fish jumping onto the chopping board.

And what made Renji even more speechless was…

He turned to ask Clausius and the cat girl in his arms.

“Clausius, how did you set the new coordinate?”

“It was with a special item given to us by that person, We don’t have the power to use ‘Relic'” Clausius answered honestly, something that fell within what they were allowed to disclose by that person’

“Did she tell you where the coordinates were set to?”

Clausius shook his head in response to Renji’s follow-up question, but he said with an appearance of trust:

“The specific location is unknown to us, but that person told us that you are the hope to save Azhu’s kin, that you can stop the ruthless Empress, and you can bring change to the Dragon Nation. The task that person gave us is to use the ‘Relic’ to pave the way for you, I believe.”

“She must have teleported you to a secret revolutionary base in the Dragon Nation, right?”

Clausius’s excitement and trembling all over were evident as he said this, and the same goes for the Catgirl in his arms. Both of them seemed to see the spark of revolution about to ignite in the Dragon Nation!

Renji: “…”

Looking at the naive knight in front of him and the Catgirl in his arms, who still showed a bit of fear but mostly pleading and hopeful expressions, Renji sighed.

Because he also seemed to see, behind this pair of bitter lovers from different kin, someone like a puppet master, manipulating them from behind…

A pink-haired succubus.

‘Should I say you really live up to it, Lena?’

Renji couldn’t bring himself to shatter Clausius’s belief by revealing the truth that they were merely being played and manipulated.

Lena, as Suthia informed Renji, is the only one among ‘them’ who hasn’t entered “self-sleep” and, being the master of Sin City — the “center of the world” — she easily locked onto Renji without even needing to use her powers, thanks to her powerful succubus intelligence network.

Moreover, Lena’s methods were clearly more sophisticated than Nova’s, as she plays a more underhanded game.

Nova’s declaration of war on the Holy Kingdom had successfully forced Renji away from Suthia’s side. But now, Lena had jumped in and started intercepting, clearly intending to steal the fruits of Nova’s labor!

‘She’s a real piece of work—someone with extraordinary skills!’

Renji had a headache.

‘Things had just gotten more complicated…’

First of all, he had to go to the Dragon Nation. The reason was simple: even without a declaration of war, Nova was under his command, and with the state of chaos in Nova’s country, he couldn’t just sit idly by.

When he start the “Second Playthrough,” he had made it clear that he have only one goal: to find his wives and… well, get intimate with them. Fixing Nova was an absolute necessity. Completing the “Defeat Nova” quest was a must.

But now, with Lena sticking her nose in the middle, it had disrupted Renji’s plans.

He could indeed manipulate relics, or rather, these were the equipment and items from his first playthrough. But the problem was that in order to activate the “location-based” teleportation of the Hearthstone Tears, the user must have visited the coordinates at least once to establish an anchor point. In other words, in the game’s terms, you had to clear the fog of war, open the map first, before you could teleport.

And right now, the map of the Dragon Nation was still completely black.

The only person who could both use the relic and “open” the map of the Dragon Kingdom, Gumo, had died due to being too reckless. 𝓁𝑖𝘣𝘳ℯ𝘢𝘥.𝒸ℴ𝑚

Now, he couldn’t even find a replacement to use the relic.

Meanwhile, seeing Renji deep in thought and frowning at the Artifact, Clausius begins to worry that Renji might not believe them, suspecting there might be some deceit involved.

“Lord Renji! I’m truly sorry for hiding this from you! I… I admit, I just wanted to use this opportunity to lower your favorable impression of the Dragon Nation’s nobility and military before you go there. I thought this would make it easier for you to join the revolution. Apart from this, I have no other intentions!”

“Even if you don’t believe me, you have to trust that person! I have never seen that person care so much about anyone like she does about you. I dare to guarantee with my life that she has absolutely no intention of harming you! She genuinely wants to help you!! She cares deeply for you.”

“Stop!”

Renji made a gesture to halt the conversation.

Indeed, what ill intentions could that tsun tsun succubus have? She just wants to get him, or rather, according to Lena’s typical character, she probably wants to send him to the bedroom to be thoroughly ‘drained’.

After some thought, there was only one way to use the Hearthstone Tear.

That’s right.

From the very beginning, with the [Kobold Statue] and the [Eclipse Source Essence] to the current [Hearthstone Tears], all “Miasma items” have one thing in common: Miasma Deviation.

As the name suggests, under the influence of Miasma, items exhibit instability.

Most of the [Miasma Deviations] are negative effects.

Take the Hearthstone Tear, for example. 𝑙𝒾𝒷𝘳𝑒𝑎𝒹.𝑐𝑜𝓂

[Miasma Deviation: A very small probability to replace “Effect One” with teleportation to a “random” coordinate]

Changing directed teleportation to random teleportation point was something that no one would want to trigger in most situations. However, in special circumstances, it could be very effective, like now.

Almost all “random” elements in games are pseudo-random, and “Fallen Chronicles” is no exception. Renji had already figured out that “Fallen Chronicles” randomness is greatly influenced by the user. In reality, this means it would likely consider the user’s emotions, thoughts, and inner desires to narrow down the range for pseudo-randomness.

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