Chapter 22 - Arcane Dominion

Chapter 22: 22 - Arcane Dominion

Seeing that Iris said nothing and only shook her head, King just snorted in disdain. As expected, how could a mere character in a novel possibly understand the great will of a reader like him?

[Master’s thoughts are completely correct. ’A few lines of text’ are not qualified to understand the greatness of a reader like you.]

[If there really is a dangerous situation, I’ll just send you straight into the tower to farm monsters and level up.]

[How could a mere rank VI like her possibly understand your greatness and extraordinary nature? As long as you have enough time inside the tower, I guarantee you’ll reach rank IX, 9-star before Iris reaches rank VII.]

At first, the system was also quite stunned by King’s way of thinking, but after thinking about it, it was no coincidence that he was the person most suited for the system.

Although King might occasionally cause troublesome problems for the system with this kind of thinking, someone this good at ’causing trouble’ was exactly what was needed to travel to all kinds of worlds.

"The system really understands me much better than some stupid little girl. How could a great reader like me be afraid of ’a few lines of text’?"

After just being annoyed a moment ago, King’s expression now changed one hundred and eighty degrees. His satisfied yet arrogant expression made Iris feel extremely annoyed.

Her finger moved slightly, and her sword flew toward King. It flew faster than he could react, and the hilt hooked onto his collar and brought him in front of her.

By the time King managed to react, he was already right in front of her. Her gaze seemed even more ’terrifying’, and she was even licking her lips as if she was about to swallow him whole, making him flinch.

"Stop! What are you trying to do again?"

Even though she had not done anything, King’s face had already turned red. King understood that Iris could only deal with him using shameless methods like this now, since she had no other way.

Iris spread her arms wide, the smile on her face becoming more and more devious. Her sword kept pulling King closer to her. No matter how much he struggled, he could not escape.

"Hehehe, aren’t you very brave? Why are you getting flustered now? Come here obediently and let me give you a hug."

King’s face turned red, and he shuddered at the same time. How should he describe this feeling? There was definitely excitement, but Iris’s expression just looked so devious and dangerous.

Since he could not escape, King raised both legs and kicked hard toward her. With his strength, he could not even hit her if he wanted to, because she was much more careful than the first time they met.

Iris’s hands were as fast as lightning as they slipped between King’s legs and immediately pulled them apart. Her sword brought King even closer to her. The two of them were now only about a hand’s width apart.

"Hehe, the more you resist, the more excited I get. Oh, it seems your heart is beating faster and faster. So you actually like this feeling of helplessness?"

Iris’s tone made King’s face turn dark. It felt as if he were a helpless young woman while she was a big, strong pervert about to do something indecent to him.

At this rate, in just a few more seconds, King would have to bury his face in her chest again. It should have been a good thing, but King felt more like the victim right now.

[Master! You have a new notification.]

[The Arcane Dominion World has sent you an invitation. The protagonist Elias Vane is about to face a life-threatening danger and needs you to save him.]

[Do you want to teleport there now?]

"Yes!"

Seeing Iris’s chest about to touch his nose, King immediately shouted and disappeared silently right in front of her.

Running away like this was extremely cowardly and made him unhappy, but he had no choice. If he stayed any longer now, he could only become an even bigger laughingstock.

Iris’s pupils contracted, and the sword immediately flew into her hand. She immediately stood up, her spiritual power bursting in all directions.

This technique is called Spiritual Sense Pulse. It takes her body as the center and releases spiritual power around her. It can only detect all cultivators within a certain range. As for more specific information, it cannot tell.

"How is that possible?! I can’t sense him at all."

She frowned and hurriedly changed clothes, quickly getting dressed at the same time. While changing, she contacted Adrian.

"Adrian! King suddenly disappeared. Whoever’s free, go look around here and see if you can find him."

After saying that, she immediately stepped onto her flying sword and flew off to search for King. If she took her eyes off him for even a little while and he died, she would not even have a place to cry. Humanity’s future could not die this early.

While everyone was frantically running around looking for King, he was stuck in some strange space. It was so dark here that he could not see a damn thing, as if he had been thrown into an empty region of the universe.

What the hell was this place? There probably wasn’t even anyone here, so where was the protagonist supposed to be?

"System! Are you messing with me?"

King was so pissed that he started cursing loudly. In this damn place, he did not even have anywhere to stand and could only float in the void.

[I sincerely apologize, Master. There was an unexpected accident just now. The Arcane Dominion World is rejecting part of the power within you, so you cannot teleport there.]

The system was also a little surprised by this accident. It had not expected to encounter a problem like this halfway through the journey.

"Rejecting what? I leveled up twice in total. The first time was because you leveled me up, and the second time was because I absorbed dark qi myself..."

King frowned, then his eyes widened. He seemed to understand where the problem was. The system’s power given to King definitely had no problem, so the only suspicious thing was the dark qi.

"System, there’s something wrong with the dark qi, right?"