Chapter 33: Greg, the Trash
"Rodlika, huh? That's right, this is the correct order for a conversation."
As Xia Yu spoke, he took out two cups from his waist. Under Rodlika's surprised gaze, he poured wine into the two cups.
"Come on, have a drink first, and then we'll talk."
Xia Yu picked up one of the wine glasses and drank it in one gulp. After drinking it, Roderica was still in a daze, as if she had not reacted at all.
“Bang!”
"You don't give me face?"
Xia Yu suddenly slapped the floor hard, and the sound startled Roderica and she trembled all over. Seeing that the Faded One in front of her seemed angry, she weakly picked up the wine glass in front of her and took a sip.
"Ooooh... so spicy."
Enduring the spicy feeling in her mouth, Roderica swallowed it in one gulp, then stuck out her tongue and took a deep breath.
She had clearly seen the elders in her family love drinking so much before, and she thought it tasted very good.
When the spicy feeling in her mouth dissipated, Roderica stared at Xia Yu in front of her with some resentment. She was so unfortunate, yet he still wanted to play tricks on her.
Xia Yu felt a little embarrassed when Rodlika stared at him, but as shameless as he was, he naturally found a legitimate excuse for himself.
"This is a wine that warms the body. How about it? Don't you feel warmed up?"
After hearing this, Roderica felt it silently and found that her body was indeed warming up from the stomach. Her fingers, which had been a little stiff, no longer felt as stiff as before.
The other party didn't seem to be teasing her. Roderica felt a little embarrassed. She lowered her head slightly and said, "Sorry, I'm too sensitive."
" It's okay . Now that you understand, take another bite."
"……good!"
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"Woo, woo, woo, why am I such a coward? My companions have all become part of the spider, but I don't have the courage. I can't sacrifice myself and be like everyone else."
Inside the dilapidated house, Roderica drank the wine in the glass in one gulp and expressed her cowardice in tears. As she spoke, she snatched the bottle and started drinking from it in big gulps.
"Tsk tsk, this is really..."
Seeing Roderica drinking without caring about her image, Xia Yu was amazed. This side of Roderica could not be seen in the game.
How can I put it? The calmer a person is normally, the more likely they are to show the opposite personality when drunk, not to mention those who have a lot of things on their mind.
Seeing that Rodlika was still drinking heavily, Xia Yu snatched the bottle from her hand and said, "That's enough. Drinking any more will be bad for your health."
"Wow, I'm too cowardly. I also want to contribute my own strength and become part of a spider. However, to become like that I have to chop off my hands and feet, and also my head. I want to become like everyone else, but I'm really scared..."
Rodlika hugged Xia Yu in front of her, crying and complaining about her cowardice while taking something out of her pocket.
"Can you please take this child with you on the trip? It's too pitiful to ask her to accompany such a coward like me..."
Roderica took out a stone box. It was a stone box containing ashes, which contained the souls that did not return to the golden tree.
"This child's soul seems to like you very much. I think this child will be very happy too..."
While saying these words, Roderica stuffed the stone box into Xia Yu's hands without saying a word, while muttering in a daze.
"Please tell everyone that I love you. I won't be afraid of pain anymore. I will make up my mind..."
The confused murmurs eventually turned into light breathing sounds, and after her drunken crying, Roderica fell into a deep sleep.
"Well, I'll help you."
Xia Yu gently supported the girl and let her rest her head on his thighs. After she talked, the girl's originally sad brows relaxed.
"You've revealed a clue that wasn't revealed in the game. Self-sacrifice and contribution? Why do you want to become part of the spider?"
While Xia Yu was combing Roderica's golden hair like petting a cat, he was wondering why she wanted to become part of the spider.
Greg the Limb-Graconteur is the weakest demigod among all demigods. He is both pitiful and hateful. Because of his weakness, he committed the evil act of limb-graconteur. The so-called limb-graconteur means grafting other people's limbs onto one's own body to gain other people's power.
Spiders are the descendants of the "limb-attached" nobles in the game. They are the evil products of the experiments conducted by the demigod Greg. Like Greg, they have various limbs spliced onto their bodies, just like a multi-legged "spider".
Roderica said that her companions had all become parts of spiders, so her companions must have been taken by Greg for limb resection experiments.
If you cut off your hands and feet, and your head to become part of a spider, you will definitely die. But do you want to become a spider even if it means sacrificing yourself? Do you want to contribute your strength to Greg?
Why would he be willing to sacrifice himself to help Greg's limb-replacement experiment? Is there any connection between Roderica and her group and Greg?
Xia Yu stroked Rodlika's golden hair and recalled the characteristics of the Golden Family. Although it was not certain, blonde hair seemed to be the characteristic of the Golden Family.
The original god, Queen Marika, had blonde hair, and her eldest son Godwin also had blonde hair. The description of the clothes Roderica wore in the game also indicated that she was a wandering royal family member.
Although Greg is not blonde and his hair is quite ugly, his bloodline is that of a direct descendant of the orthodox gold family. When a wandering royal family member meets the orthodox golden monarch, it seems reasonable for him to want to contribute his own strength.
The legitimate monarch wanted to increase his strength by grafting limbs, and the wandering royal family members volunteered to be sacrifices.
As a member of the royal family, Roderica also wanted to contribute her strength, but because of her cowardice and fear of death, she chose to escape and hid in this shabby house.
Because they are all descendants of the Golden Clan, the limb-grafted spiders will not have limb rejection? This is surprisingly reasonable.
As for why Greg could even reattach the limbs of a mountain goblin giant with a completely different bloodline, it was probably related to the fragment of the magic ring he possessed. That was the central fragment on the main trunk that connected to other magic rings, so it made sense that it could connect to the power of other creatures.
The fragments of the ring are the embodiment of the power of the law. The laws of the intersection formed runes, and these runes were eventually pieced together to form the Elden Ring.
Now that Elden's Ring of Law has been broken, the complete Ring of Law has once again turned into pieces of Law Runes. These separated Law Runes are now in the hands of different demigods.
Whoever can restore the broken Elden Ring to its original state will be the King of Elden.
"The future is worrying."
Xia Yu sighed quietly. Now that he couldn't even kill the weakest demigod Greg, he should not think about .
"If you think about it carefully, the rune that Greg has mastered should not be the law of connection, but more like the law of life. He is indeed a scumbag who can't even use the law rune."
If you activate Greg's rune in the game, all the character's attributes will increase by five points. From this point of view, Greg's rune is more like the law of power of life.
It's a pity that this scumbag Greg has only researched such unorthodox uses as limb reattachment, which is a complete waste of the life power on the rune.
Of course, it is also possible that his own strength is too weak, so he cannot unleash the true power of the rune.
"Why think so much?" Xia Yu suddenly closed his eyes and leaned against the wall, muttering to himself, "We haven't even defeated the evil omen demon Markit yet."
