Chapter 74.1 – The Reader and Protagonist Definitely Have to Be in True Love

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Chapter 74.1 – The law: A fool cannot survive.

Xiu summoned the nightmare and rode off with Du Ze. The nightmare neighed, lifted its hooves and ran towards the statue’s location.

When they arrived at the statue, nearly everyone was already there. As Du Ze dismounted from the back of the nightmare, his legs gave way and he almost tripped and fell. Due to the undead magic that Xiu cast on him, he cannot feel pain but his hands and feet are very limp and soft.

Xiu held Du Ze in his arms, letting Du Ze lean on him. Because of the Lich’s death aura, no one dared to ask the gloomy Lich what was wrong with Du Ze. Xiu’s dark eyes scanned the entire place. When he saw the clearly intoxicated first Mage God holding a jug of wine, the soul flames in Xiu’s eyes shook slightly.

“Young man, we meet again. Little Honey told me what happened, hic, earlier.” Antonio shook his jug and sigh with an unknown emotion: “I did not think you would be willing to save these little bastards …”

The words of the first Mage God seemed to contain other meanings. Xiu’s pale face was gloomy under the dim light. Antonio and Xiu looked at each other; the bleary eyes locked on the dark eyes. “They gave you their tickets, didn’t they?”

Xiu did not avoid Antonio’s eyes. He slowly nodded: “Yes.”

The atmosphere suddenly became quite serious. Antonio was still looking at Xiu in the eyes while the gold mercenary team stood in the center, glancing back and forth with bewilderment at the two. In the middle of this volatile situation, Antonio suddenly drank a few mouthfuls of wine and sighed heavily: “Then there’s no way.”

The first Mage God stretched out his hand. Muir and the others were on guard but when they saw a black flame appear on Antonio’s palm, they relaxed.

“Take this old man with you, too.”

Du Ze watched as Xiu silently received Antonio’s ticket, then glanced at the gold mercenary team and was enlightened.

Moe Lord: The plan succeeded.

With Antonio’s help they didn’t need to search the books for the answers or steal other people’s checkpoints. Antonio was like a living encyclopedia; it seemed as though there were no questions that he couldn’t answer. A group of people were powerleveled by the first Mage God and easily reached the last checkpoint. This time it was not a sphinx statue that greeted them, but rather a real sphinx. The beast was standing on the path but behind him was a void. It had the face of a beautiful woman. When it saw Du Ze and the others, it shook its wings and changed its posture so that it was sitting down.

“This is the last question and you only have one chance to answer.” The beast with the lion’s body and a human face said: “What creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?”

Du Ze almost fell down in surprise. The last question was this simple! Who hasn’t heard of that famous Greek myth? Everyone knows that the answer is “man.”

“I’ve never heard of this kind of spirit beast …” Rachel sighed: “I’m too ignorant.”

“I think we need a detailed spirit beast encyclopedia now,” Enoch said gloomily.

Honey pulled on Antonio’s robe. “Does grandpa know what that is?”

“Little Honey, grandpa doesn’t know everything.” Antonio reluctantly opened the jug, drank a mouthful and sank into meditation.

Seeing everyone’s reaction, the silly, cute reader realized that he was not on Earth. If one didn’t know the answer beforehand, the riddle is really difficult. When he first heard this question, he couldn’t answer it at all.

****! He has not had the benefit of spoilers for a long time!

“The answer is man.”

Everyone looked at Du Ze. The black-haired young man, was pressing on his headphones and his expressionless face was strangely calm.

“I think the answer is human.”

“You made the right choice.”

The monster with a lion’s body and a human face showed them a beautiful smile then burst into a golden powder which formed a long road into the void. Most of the people present did not know how to react but Enoch scratched head and asked Du Ze curiously: “Hey! Dude, how did you come up with the answer?”

Seeing that Xiu was also looking at him, Du Ze wanted to explain but as he was about to speak, he stopped and broke into a cold sweat – he seems to have underestimated the problem.

The sphinx said he “made the right choice” rather than “your answer is correct.” The riddle referred to birth, maturity, and old age. On Earth, the only answer to this question is “man” but this is a different world where the beastkin, elf, and gnome are all possible answers to this question. The answer to the riddle is therefore no longer unique so you need to pick the one that is the most satisfying to the sphinx …?

When he saw that the cold-faced Du Ze did not answer, Enoch just shrugged. He ran in front of the group, as was his habit, and told everyone to hurry up.

“Let’s go, let’s go. I think it’s time to get out of this shithole. This thief’s hunch is always accurate!”

Because in front of us is the BOSS, young man.

The path created by the golden powder was slowly dissipating. Thus, Du Ze and the others were again pushed onwards by the Tower of God. Du Ze was still thinking of that problem while he walked on the golden road. He’s lucky that he selected the best answer, what would be the result if you chose another race as the answer?

— He isn’t one of us; his heart will certainly be different.

That was when Du Ze finally realized that this was the human race’s trial.

There were numerous clues: the story of Edward, the way the tower climbers fought each other, the setting of a library, the sphinx that symbolizes wisdom and knowledge, and, most obviously, the final riddle, they all pointed to the race whose characteristics could be summarized by this sentence:

[The Humans gave away their tolerance, received learning.]

The golden road’s terminus was a medium-sized reading room. A man with long brown hair sat in a comfortable chair reading a book. Beside him was a long, slender wooden staff; the crystal ball at its top was emitting a soft light.

“There are three things in this world that others cannot steal. One is to the food that is already in one’s stomach after eating it, second is is the book in one’s brain that one has read, third is the dream hidden in one’s heart.” With some regret, the man closed the book and looked at them. “But my dream has been stripped away from me.”

The man did not look old but his manner and the way he was reading made him look like he had experienced many vicissitudes.

“Welcome to the Temple of Wisdom, I am Soth, Lord Ruler of the gods of the human race.”

****! It really was the trial of the human race. Du Ze looked at the god sitting on his chair who seemed to have no intention of fighting them. Based on the previous checkpoints, the BOSS fight should be a test of riddles and knowledge?

 

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Translator’s Note:

Ahahahahaha! Here we have the aftermath of the previous “harmonious health education” activity. Poor Du Ze’s body is completely limp now and the others (except for Ariel) obviously know what they those two were up to but they were too intimidated by the Lich to even joke about it. I bet if Xiu was in gnome form the others would be like: *wink wink* *nudge nudge* “Oh, I see you two were busy *cough* …. doing a lot of …. *wink* research.”

I notice not a lot of people left comments on the last chapter at the Ainushi website. Leave a comment here if you like. What did you think of the Lich Xiu X Du Ze scene? Good? Bad? Disappointing? Awesome? Would you like a popsicle?

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42 thoughts on “Chapter 74.1 – The Reader and Protagonist Definitely Have to Be in True Love”

  1. Really liked popsicle climax. Though I have to ask if the dragon have two things why is they facing an extinct crisis 🤔.

  2. The last chapter reminds me of Boku no Pico. Among the form…I think the Dragon Form is the best one lol. Altho that might be the sadistic side of me talking.

    1. Actually it’s quite hot. I read some h manga that a hole can withstand 2 sticks with just a little pain. Maybe if Xiu can be more gentle he can do it? ****, my broken brain 💀

  3. i honestly would have made a joke , cause *wink*wink* it would have been an opportunity that i would not want to miss😂

  4. Oh…I already said before the undead form is my favourite one…I just want to hug and gives all my love to Xiu…this is actaully the first time that I feel envy of Du Ze…

    1. I think because humans are naturally curious, but impatient! And as eager for knowledge to, like, advance! I guess it refers to human nature lol

  5. Wow Du Ze is lucky to have a hubby that is eight in one!

    Eight races in one person! Xiu can even turn into a popsicle! Wow! I need this in my life sadly Xiu is limited edition onky for his wifey Du Ze 😏😏😏

    So, I have a question if Xiu was in Lich form and Du Ze would suck his “big ass sea creature” then would it taste like popsicle? 😂😂😂😂

  6. Omg popsicle?!
    Now I will never be able to see popsicles the same again 😂😂😂
    And I know that I may not seem very sincere saying this….but I’m very sincere when I say that I really feel that every chapter of this feels better than the last and I seriously won’t be able to pick out any that are my absolute favourite as I love each and every one of them 😆😆😆
    Thank you for the amazing translation 😘

  7. omg Du Ze was soft legged and the others knew? I didnt read it like but man imagine everyones internal thoughts
    ‘Did they..? No we cant say anything if we want to live…’

    But I imagine enoch being like
    ‘Oh what happened to bro? Oh no one’s saying anything’

    I was also like oh shit when Du Ze reflected on his answer like thank the sky this was the human trial

    Now that you reminde me about the gnome I really want to see that form again (‘ v ‘ )

  8. “Would you like a popsicle?”

    LoL, the comments is really amusing.

    But for me, nahh, that’s Duze’s special meal only. Only the best when it’s serve by Xiu ^_~

  9. I think they have the best sex scenes for most danmei. Lich form was no exception. Except let’s keep the dragon form sober and to a minimum. Du Ze is so cute, and Xiu is so sweet in a terrifying way.

  10. yo si quiero una paleta….

    La escena en la que nuestro lector moe es “acosado” por un cierto protagonista yandere fue tan kawaiiiii, dulce, dulce,muy dulce, casi morí de diabetes pero valió la pena….aunque no quiero morir,quiero seguir leyendo,* aplauso para todos los lectores*

  11. Hm… Du Ze seems surprisingly slow to catch on in this chapter? Usually he’s pretty quick on the uptake (except when it concerns a certain yandere), so I’m a bit surprised it took him that long to figure out it was the humans’ trial…

    1. He just did the *snu snu*, you can’t blame him if the blood hasn’t returned to his brain…

      Okay, maybe he could have noticed earlier. But since there were questions about magic and the humans are not the only ones to use it, maybe that’s what had him distracted.

      Thanks for the chapter!

  12. “It really was the trail of the human race.”
    —It think it’s trial instead of trail

    Wonder what would have happened if DuZe choose more than one answer, would they have to defeat more gods?And…*cough* Will they do dat in every form? *cough*

    Thanks for the chapter!!

  13. All I can say about the previous chapter is “semi-public library s**, achievement get!”.
    Jkjk, It was a bit off putting since I kept in wondering how close it was to necro*****a since it’s a fantasy world but it was a s** scene between DZ and moe lord so it was gratifying. Thank you for the wonderful chapter <3

  14. Lol. Would you like a Popsicle? I sure would. Haha, if he was in gnome form… well I’m quite interested in that scene. The previous chapter was great *wink* *wink*
    Thank you for the update

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