99: Chapter 99 Meeting Leonhart

[ "Alice" donated 50 Yuan. (Fu Hao sent those people from the Five Great Guilds to the Demon World, haha) ]

- "Hahaha, hahaha"

- "The Five Great Guilds are permanently exiled."

It was rumored that because of Fu Hao, those whose combat power rankings had risen were thrilled.

When Fu Hao started his stream, the audience immediately exploded. Although the daily view count for the Demon King battle video had exceeded 30 million, almost all eyes were focused on the incident where the Five Great Guilds fell into the Demon World.

The sudden descent of the Demon King into the human world was certainly shocking, but because Fu Hao led the Legendary team to instantly slay the Demon King, the whole battle lacked twists and sustainability, which actually made it less of a talking point later on.

In contrast, five hundred top-tier players being banished to the unknown Demon World, and how they would survive and grow, was the event truly in progress. It naturally attracted the attention of all players in the otherworld—this left Fu Hao feeling conflicted; after all, everyone's attention on him was actually less than their interest in the "fate" of his enemies.

"Look on the bright side."

He had managed to eliminate the hostile players, so he wouldn't need to restrain his streaming to prevent information leaks in the short term. Furthermore, the members of the Five Great Guilds who had participated in the Rowen Kingdom civil war and tried to take revenge on him could no longer block him; thinking about it, it was quite satisfying.

Players were the most troublesome enemies—they had more variables than NPCs, would keep an eye on stream intelligence, and even worse, could resurrect after being killed. If it weren't for the special scenario of the civil war, in the human world where PK was prohibited, the Five Great Guilds would not have been able to openly obstruct Fu Hao anyway.

But considering they might reappear in ordinary dungeons or special quests, in the long run, the Five Great Guilds falling into the Demon World was beneficial for Fu Hao with no downsides.

[ "Old Man" donated 50 Yuan. (Are we occupying the Rowen Kingdom today?) ]

The kingdom founding quest had five conditions in total. Fu Hao had currently fully completed two: "Execute Third Prince Cain" and "Execute Prince Mian"—the former was even the result of winning in the chaos by using the hand of the Envy Demon King Pablo.

Now only two remained: "Completely execute or dismantle the remnants of Prince Mian's forces" and "Control over 80% of the territory and population of the Rowen Kingdom."

Fu Hao planned to wait for the cooldown of the Mimic's Fates Luck skill to end, then fully enhance the equipment of his knights and some soldiers to +10, and then complete the Legendary Knight's second awakening quest.

It wasn't impossible to occupy the entire Rowen Kingdom with just five thousand archers and giant catapults, but he wanted to force the enemy to submit with absolute power—founding a kingdom could be done easily, but if he built an empty shell of a kingdom, it would be meaningless.

"Today is the second awakening quest for the knights..."

Fu Hao had just intended to announce the day's streaming plan when he was interrupted by Helm's magic puppet, Hofer.

"The distance to Lord Loki has narrowed to within 10 kilometers, and he is approaching in this direction."

Fu Hao was stunned. He didn't know that Loki had gifted each of The Seven Legends a magic puppet, and these puppets had the function of detecting Loki's aura.

However, because Loki's aura, while strong, was essentially still human, it couldn't perform global searches like a Demon detector and could only detect a range within ten kilometers.

"Loki? Is it because of the Demon King?"

He had thought that after slaying the Demon King, he wouldn't come, but it seemed that was not the case.

Thinking about meeting Loki soon, Fu Hao couldn't help but smile—among The Seven Legends, the person he most longed to meet was Loki.

As a Legendary-grade artifact craftsman and Great Mage, aside from Emperor Endel, Loki was the most suitable person to entrust with storing magic in +10 accessories.

Moreover, Fu Hao, who had recently obtained a +10 enhancement factory through the Enhancement Master's second awakening and taming the Mimic, had long coveted Loki's artifacts—just looking at the magic puppet Hofer and the Demon detector, one could imagine his level of artifact craftsmanship.

If he combined Item Enhancement with Fates Luck, the power of it alone made Fu Hao's heart race with excitement.

"Must recruit him."

Using the connections of Helm and Calus to directly buy pre-made artifacts crafted by Loki was fine, but if he could bring him under his command, he could customize any artifact function he wanted.

"The problem is... how to recruit him?"

A Legendary-grade existence already had the ability to establish themselves as a king. Fu Hao was currently only a Count; to recruit Loki, one of the strongest in the human world, he would need to have the kind of heaven-defying luck he had when recruiting Calus.

"Perhaps... it's not that hard?"

While looting Marquis Alfen's treasury, Fu Hao discovered a magic barrier that Loki had set up—he judged that Loki was more likely to be doing it for money rather than having a personal friendship with Marquis Alfen.

Loki was the most famous among The Seven Legends, known long before he was called a Legend—because unlike ordinary artifact craftsmen who were only obsessed with high-priced combat artifacts, he also developed many practical and cheap daily-life artifacts, significantly improving people's living standards.

Logically, Loki, who developed daily-life artifacts for everyone, should have been wealthy enough to rival a nation, but to regulate the production speed and price of artifacts, he had completely given up the patent rights to his artifact crafting methods.

High-dimensional technology research was always expensive. After the Human-Demon War, Loki focused on developing stronger artifacts to deal with the Demon invasion and needed astronomical research funds—Fu Hao guessed that he occasionally accepted commissions from Great Mages (such as setting up barriers) to earn research fees.

As Fu Hao pondered whether he could recruit Loki with money, he walked out of the lord's residence and suddenly noticed a strange flying object hovering in the sky.

"What is that thing?"

"It is Lord Loki. He has completed the new type of flying artifact he was researching."

Hofer, who was following Fu Hao, replied.

"Didn't you say it was still 10 kilometers away?"

It had been less than three minutes since Hofer sent the detection information—this meant the flying device had a speed of at least over 200 kilometers per hour.

In the otherworld, a flying device that could ignore terrain, fly in a straight line, and exceed 200 km/h was a revolutionary invention.

Even Fu Hao, who possessed a teleportation gem, was envious—although the teleportation gem could instantly cross thousands of kilometers, it required pre-recording coordinates, which was a fatal flaw. If he could combine the teleportation gem with the flying device before him, it would greatly make up for the shortcomings of Teleportation.

The flying device slowly landed, and a man wearing a cloak appeared—judging by his hair color, it was undoubtedly Loki.

"This is the first time we've met since the last Legendary Assembly, right?"

Perhaps sensing Loki's aura, Helm and Calus were already standing beside Fu Hao before he knew it.

"Aria is here too?"

"No way."

Helm shook his head in disbelief. As the flying device landed completely, Aria's figure came into view.

"...What's going on?"

Although the situation was still unclear, it was indeed Aria.

[ "Jin Hao" donated 50 Yuan. (It's getting heated) ]

- "Aria comes with her own holy light special effects."

- "Four of The Seven Legends have gathered."

- "Didn't they say Aria couldn't come?"

- "If this keeps up, all the Legends will show up."

Four of The Seven Legends had actually gathered here. At this moment, Fu Hao suddenly remembered something he had cast to the back of his mind—that target of the mandatory duel quest, Leonhardt, had also become the disciple of a certain Legend.

Since being forcibly assigned the "Helm's Disciple Showing Off" quest, Fu Hao had pestered Helm and Calus to ask which Legend Leonhardt had apprenticed under, but he never got a definitive answer—it was said that he had been silenced by Leonhardt's master.

"It's definitely not Aria's disciple, and it probably isn't Loki's either, right?"

Thinking that the two Legends who had arrived were Aria and Loki, Fu Hao suppressed his anxiety.

It was hard to imagine Leonhardt giving up his god-tier melee combat to become a disciple of a Saintess or an artifact craftsman.

Although Loki was both an artifact craftsman and a Great Mage, Leonhardt had used swords, blades, spears, and lances for over two years; it was impossible for him to suddenly choose a mage class now.

Although many players would choose a path with a tendency opposite to their original class to get the "Legendary Disciple" title and the strongest hidden class, Leonhardt had even voluntarily given up the disciple spot for Helm, so it was hard to believe he would choose a class that didn't fit his own playstyle.

Of course, Fu Hao didn't know that Leonhardt, like him, had obtained a dual class.

Seeing that both Loki and Aria had come, it was very likely that other Legends would come too. Perhaps Leonhardt's master would bring him along—after all, the "Helm's Disciple Showing Off" quest didn't specify that the duel had to take place at the Legendary Assembly.

Although Fu Hao had performed impressively in large-scale battles recently, and his personal combat power had significantly increased due to his full set of equipment being enhanced to +10, his individual ability was still slightly lacking compared to his overall battlefield influence.

Currently, on the combat power ranking, he was still temporarily ranked second, only behind Leonhardt.

"Anyway, let's focus on recruiting Loki first."

Fu Hao patted his cheeks and stared at the people walking out of the flying device.

However, behind Loki and Aria, a figure who absolutely should not be here appeared. He blinked several times, but the figure did not disappear.

Fu Hao was stunned; he even forgot the words he had prepared to say to Loki.

Just as he was dumbfounded, Leonhardt, who made eye contact with him, smiled and greeted:

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Fu Hao. I am Leonhardt."