Chapter 62: Plans for the Future

Sun Fei had a strange dream.

He dreamed that Shampoo City was being invaded by enemies swarming in like bees from nowhere. Although he wildly slashed around with a Barbarian’s great axe, there were just too many enemies, and he couldn’t kill them all. In the end, he collapsed from exhaustion, was captured by the enemies, and tied up with ropes. Then, a shameless rogue Sorceress appeared out of nowhere, grinning cheekily and burning his little butt with a Fireball…

Sun Fei struggled violently.

Then he woke up.

He looked around and saw no enemies or rogue Sorceress. He had actually slept until the sun was high in the sky. The warm sunlight shone through the Great Hall’s window onto his bare buttocks…

“Damn, what happened? Did I actually sleep naked?”

Sun Fei was instantly wide awake, all sleepiness gone.

He patted the back of his head and tried to recall last night’s craziness in the square. He only remembered being surrounded by enthusiastic soldiers and civilians who kept pouring him drinks. He was the type who got carried away in the moment; once he was in the mood, he accepted every cup offered without refusal. He drank until everything went black, and then somehow ended up back here. And then… this was the result – completely naked, not a stitch on, with his little brother standing proudly between his legs.

Sun Fei almost felt like imitating those young virgins by covering his chest with his hands and letting out a scream: “This is a huge loss! Even though I’m a man, I’m still a virgin… I wonder if anyone saw my little brother.”

He sat there dazed for a long while. A gentle breeze blew in from the window.

Seeing that no one was around, Sun Fei finally got out of bed. He tiptoed to the clothes rack in the distance, grabbed his clothes, and hurriedly put them on. Perhaps as a lofty King, he could run around naked in the Royal Palace every day without consequence, but Sun Fei didn’t have such perverted habits. However, while getting dressed, Sun Fei discovered another thing that drove him crazy: people in this world didn’t really wear pants.

In the past day or two, due to the urgency of the situation, Sun Fei hadn’t had time to notice this. But thinking about it carefully today, he realized that the way people dressed in this world was somewhat similar to ancient Europe before the common era. Many commoners wrapped a large piece of cloth around their bodies, tied with hemp rope. It looked like a robe from the outside, but inside it was empty. Many people even went bare-chested. Nobles and rich people were slightly better off – they wrapped two pieces of cloth around their bodies. As for whether they wore underwear, Sun Fei didn’t know. But Sun Fei found that he, the King, only had an extra triangular piece of soft silk cloth wrapped around his crotch. Besides that, forget straight pants; many commoners didn’t even wear skirts, exposing their bare thighs. Only the wealthy and powerful Nobles could afford ‘pants,’ which were merely pieces of cloth wrapped around the lower body like women’s skirts, tied at the waist with golden thread. That counted as pants, but they were open on all sides, letting the wind through.

After getting dressed, Sun Fei felt his little brother was chilly and very uncomfortable.

After thinking for a moment, he still put on the leather under-armor of the Knight armor set. This under-armor at least had a crotch guard sewn from animal hide. Even though wearing it made his balls ache from the rubbing, it was much safer than leaving everything exposed.

The Great Hall was very quiet. Sun Fei turned and walked to the palace window.

It was called a window, but it was actually huge, almost like a giant door. This Great Hall was entirely built from massive white stones, very grand. Inside the hall, there were statues and stone pillars five or six meters tall. The walls were carved with exquisite murals. There were huge windows on the west, east, and south sides. Sunlight and the gentle breeze could pass completely through the hall, giving a feeling of being integrated with nature.

This world wasn’t like his previous life, where everything was hazy with air pollution. Here, the mountains were clear, the waters beautiful, the sunlight bright, the grass green like a carpet, birds flew and sang, the sky was clear and azure blue, very beautiful.

Because the Great Hall was situated slightly higher than the surrounding buildings, standing at the window, Sun Fei could see the entire view of Shampoo City. After careful observation, he saw it was a castle built almost entirely from white stone blocks. Except for a few structures, even most residential houses were built from these large stones. The city streets were wide, all paved with this unknown white rock. Tall stone statues, ten to twenty meters high, stood everywhere. This was the first time Sun Fei observed his kingdom in such detail. To his surprise, the functional zoning of this castle was very clear and logical. He could vaguely distinguish the residential areas, market areas, squares, training grounds, assembly areas, temples… even areas for garbage disposal were specially designated.

“Incredible. This castle looks like it was designed by a modern, high-tech civilization architect…” Sun Fei couldn’t help but sigh. Looking at the vast, grassy plain on the south bank of the Zuli River outside the city, Sun Fei felt more and more that Shampoo City seemed to hide some secret. Such a castle… it was likely that everyone currently in Shampoo City were later arrivals, not the original builders. Given Shampoo City’s current population and construction capabilities, they absolutely could not have built such a classic fortress.

While Sun Fei was marveling, he heard the sweet voice of his fiancée, Angela, behind him.

“Alexander, you’re awake. I have prepared breakfast for you… Eat it while it’s warm. After you finish, as per custom, the Nobles and ministers will come to the Royal Palace to pay respects to the King.” Angela was holding a golden plate with some fresh fruits and a cup of steaming goat’s milk.

While eating breakfast and watching Angela, who was sitting nearby smiling, Sun Fei felt unprecedentedly happy. He secretly glanced at Angela’s sky-blue open-collar robe, having indecent thoughts: “I wonder if she’s wearing a bra and panties underneath? Do the women of the Azeroth Continent, besides wearing robes, also only have a triangular piece of silk cloth wrapped down there, always at risk of exposure?”

“Maybe I should change the clothing of Shampoo City’s subjects. At the very least, every man should protect his balls, and every woman shouldn’t have sagging breasts so early!”

On a sudden whim, Sun Fei’s mind conceived a grand plan for a kingdom-wide clothing reform.

…

“What? Both Bazel and Gerger are missing?”

An hour later, in the King’s audience hall, Sun Fei sat somewhat uncomfortably high upon the giant stone throne, flanked by two lion-shaped Magical Beasts on the three-meter-high stone steps. Hearing Brook’s report, he was shocked.

“Please forgive my failure, King Alexander. The soldiers assigned to watch Bazel saw nothing unusual all night. But at daybreak, the Herald’s steward suddenly ran out in a panic to report that Bazel and his son Gerger had suddenly vanished overnight.”

Brook spoke with a ashamed expression, his head lowered.

Sun Fei was slightly stunned. According to what Brook had said earlier, Herald Bazel was just an ordinary person who knew neither Magic nor anything special. Even if Gerger knew some Magic, he was only a half-baked Magic Apprentice. It should have been absolutely impossible for them to disappear so suddenly under close surveillance. Unless…

“Brook, this isn’t your fault…” The top expert, Lampard, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke: “If Bazel wanted to leave, no one in Shampoo City could stop him. Even if His Majesty Alexander and I personally tried to intercept him, it probably wouldn’t work.”

As soon as these words were spoken, many people in the hall gasped in surprise, their faces showing confusion.

A Three-Star Warrior and a King capable of killing a Three-Star Warrior couldn’t stop a mere weak The Old Man? How was that possible?

Seeing everyone looking at him in surprise, Lampard continued: “A long time ago, I discovered that for some unknown reason, there was actually a powerful Three-Star Mage serving Bazel. I even fought that Mage privately and couldn’t defeat him… For a Three-Star Mage, wanting to take two people away from Shampoo City without the soldiers noticing was simply too easy.”

“How is that possible?”

“A Three-Star Mage? Lord above…”

“Bazel actually had a Mage serving him?”

“So that’s why Gerger was a Magic Apprentice…”

“That’s terrifying. That guy hid it so deeply…”

Hearing the top expert of Shampoo City reveal this secret, many of those present instantly looked at each other in alarm. Many of them found it hard to imagine that besides Lampard, the Three-Star Warrior who was the pride of the entire nation, there was also unbelievably a Three-Star Mage hidden in Shampoo City… It was a pity this Mage served Bazel, an ambitious schemer. Otherwise, with one Mage and one Warrior, both Three-Star experts, Shampoo City could instantly become a Fifth-Class Vassal State, or even potentially a Fourth-Class Vassal State.

In that moment, people also understood why, even though Bazel had previously controlled the kingdom’s power, done as he pleased, and coveted Alexander’s throne, Lampard, as Shampoo City’s top expert and the brother of the former King Old Alexander, had only protected Alexander’s life and stabilized the military, but had not restrained Bazel’s actions. Many people had been very disappointed about this before. Now they knew the real reason was here.

Sun Fei also nodded.

Yesterday, when he switched to [Mage Mode] in the ruined stone room of the Watchtower, he had sensed a terrifying fluctuation of Magic power near Bazel and instantly understood many things. Now that Lampard said it out loud, it further confirmed his guess. However, how could a minor figure like Bazel gain the loyalty of a lofty Three-Star Mage?

Sun Fei pondered hard but couldn’t figure it out.

“Brook, immediately order the soldiers to search the entire city. Confirm whether Bazel has really left or if he is hiding in some corner of the city preparing some scheme…” Sun Fei waved his hand grandly, putting an end to the discussion on this matter: “Also, dismiss the servants from Bazel’s residence, let them find their own way. The entire estate and all its belongings are to be confiscated by the royal family.”

After saying this, Sun Fei sat high on the twin-beast King’s throne, his gaze sweeping over the face of every person in the audience hall: Pierce, Drogba, Brook, Torres, Lampard… and the handsome Best, as well as several respected elders of Shampoo City. These people would be the main ‘leadership’ of Shampoo City’s future.

“It’s a pity the strength of this team is still too weak. It seems I need to find a way to improve everyone’s power as soon as possible. I wonder if I can do something through the World of Diablo?” Sun Fei thought to himself: “Also, matters concerning military construction and national reorganization need to be put on the agenda quickly. In this world full of war and chaos, I must race against time to strengthen my own power to survive.”