I Ascend to the Divine Throne through Arcane Means

"Lately, the only thing different is that more people have joined the guild," the servant reminisced while wiping a glass.

Many people came to the Mercenary Guild to gather information, including passing mercenaries and caravans.

"But there was indeed something unusual..."

The servant continued to wipe the glass, but his speech paused for a moment.

Lis flicked his right index finger, and a silver coin landed precisely in the pocket of the servant's black vest.

Hearing the clear sound of the silver coin, a smile appeared on the servant's face.

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"Viscount Kuka has been quite irritable lately, seemingly related to his daughter."

Lis looked up at the middle-aged servant and asked,

"What happened?"

The servant clicked his tongue, seemingly regretful that Lis hadn't given more silver coins but continued anyway,

"Miss Liz Kuka was supposed to get engaged to the eldest son of Count Solo's family from the north recently, just the day before yesterday, but there seems to have been some mishap."

"Mishap?"

Lis frowned, the name Liz Kuka sounding vaguely familiar—could she be an important character in the plot?

"That day, Viscount Kuka's castle was quite lively, though I didn't go see for myself."

"But I heard that the engagement ceremony was abruptly halted, and Viscount Kuka even sent out guards to lock down the city gates, which weren't lifted until the next day."

At this point, the servant lowered his voice and leaned slightly forward to Lis,

"Rumor has it they were looking for someone, so many guess that Miss Liz Kuka might have run away from the wedding."

"Run away from the wedding?"

This specific phrase rang a bell, and Lis suddenly recalled where he had heard the name Liz Kuka before.

Liz Kuka wasn't a character's name.

Or rather, Liz Kuka was remembered by players as the background of an instance.

The name of that instance was "Cresce's Revenge"!

Yes, it wasn't Liz Kuka's revenge, because she had already passed away before the players could interact with her.

This story was complicated, sad, and melodramatic—best left unsaid.

You just had to know that Liz Kuka was a noble young lady who refused to follow her family's arrangements and held beautiful expectations for love, so with the help of her friend Cresce, she escaped from Viscount Kuka's castle on the night of her engagement.

But Viscount Kuka was unwilling to let his daughter go that easily and sent people to capture Liz back.

Ultimately, Liz was accidentally wounded during the escape and died from her injuries, while Cresce disappeared without a trace after evading the guards.

This event should have ended there, but many years later, Cresce returned to Kuka City, determined to kill Viscount Kuka and avenge her lover.

Yes, Cresce was a woman, but for some reason unknown to others, she and Liz were deeply in love.

Lis made no evaluation of their relationship, but the Silver Level instance "Cresce's Revenge" was quite an interesting one.

This instance had a unique mechanism compared to ordinary ones.

In the instance, players needed to help Cresce infiltrate Viscount Kuka's castle and find an opportunity to kill Viscount Kuka.

Given the special nature of the instance's setting, unless a player were Gold Level and could power through, it would be impossible to succeed in the instance amid the numerous guards and Silver Level fighters.

From this perspective, it seemed the instance's plot was just beginning, with Liz only having run away from her wedding, not yet fatally injured.

Cresce was still around, not yet having sold her soul to the devils of Hell.

This was getting interesting—was Cresce currently in possession of that ring?

Lis smiled and flicked another silver coin to the servant as a token of appreciation.

...

Yixiao Xier sat at a small table in the corner, slowly sipping on a mug of ale.

He furrowed his brow, carefully sensing how the ale stimulated his tongue.

"This brewing method is really crude, and there are too many impurities."n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"But the malty flavor is rich, could it be because the brewing materials are good?"

"Ah, could it be the influence of 'Extraordinary Power' that makes the wheat quality different from mine?"

At this moment, Yixiao Xier, just like a professional brewer, was tasting the ale before him. In reality, he was also in this profession and had a passionate love for brewing.

After entering the "Divine Revelation" game, he had discovered that the game could indeed simulate taste and smell, allowing him to savor the delicacies of this world, which made him exceedingly happy.

So, whenever he had savings, after fulfilling the requirements for promotion, he would spend them at taverns tasting all kinds of fine wines.

Besides playing the game, he had another goal in this world, which was to taste the wines of this world and brew the perfect wine of his dreams.

As for his friend throwing a fit beside him, he didn't mind at all.

It had become a daily routine for a few hours every day.

At that moment, his friend Wutian Wusheng came over and nudged his arm.

"What's up, had enough of your wine mania?"

Yixiao Xier, who was tasting the ale, glanced at him, somewhat unwilling to deal with him.

Yes, you don't need real names to play the game, but this was a bit too much.

Sometimes, Yixiao Xier really admired this newly acquainted friend who, to avoid game restrictions, put on five or six layers of clothes and performed a striptease.

The key movements were extremely ugly, wriggling like an earthworm, which was just painful to watch.

"I was conducting an experiment, gathering information, understand?"

"Ah, let's not talk about that now, there's serious business!"

Wutian Wusheng pulled Yixiao Xier and pointed towards the direction of the bar.

"What's up?"

Yixiao Xier looked at the person sitting by the bar, somewhat unclear about the situation.

Is there something strange? Isn't this person much more normal than the one beside me?

"See that guy? Doesn't he look a lot like Lis from Bright City that people talk about on the forums?"

Wutian Wusheng was quite serious as he added.

"A bit, but isn't that Lis a Mage? Why is he dressed like this? And why would he come to a place so far from Bright City?"

Yixiao Xier was uncertain.

He did indeed know Lis, who had been very popular on the forums a few days ago.

Yixiao Xier, looking at the video screenshots uploaded to the player forums, felt his blood boiling, wishing he could fly straight to Bright City.

"Let's go and check it out, we're not going to miss out on a bit of time."

Wutian Wusheng suggested. As a former intelligence dealer active in other games, he paid close attention to information about important characters like this.

Yixiao Xier hesitated for a moment, then decided to go ask.

After all, it wouldn't cost him anything, and if he could manage to get a membership at the White Dove Chamber of Commerce, that would be amazing.

Having made up their minds, they no longer hesitated and went straight to Lis and gently asked:

"Excuse me, are you Marquis Kane?"

The handsome man sitting at the bar turned around, curiously asking:

"Yes, it's me."

"But how did you recognize me?"