Capítulo 575: Chapter 93 The Mysterious Duchess

“Let’s first try to approach and touch it to see if we can trigger any changes. If that doesn’t work, there’s no harm in taking action afterwards.”

Watching Anvis’s figure gradually moving away, the duck player finally made up his mind and hopped towards Anvis.

They had been here for a while now and had a general understanding of how the animal residents interacted with each other on a daily basis.

Unlike the outside world, the animal residents here were generally unguarded and very enthusiastic towards other unfamiliar animals.

As long as he behaved like the other animals here, there would be no risk of exposure.

“Please wait a moment, Mr. Rabbit.”

Under Anvis’s deliberately slow pace, the duck player named Swanneck quickly caught up.

“Is there something you need, strange duck?”

Hearing his approach, Anvis stopped in his tracks, slightly turned his head, and stared straight at him with his pink rabbit eyes.

“I… um…”

For some reason, when Anvis was staring at him, Swanneck suddenly felt his breathing hitch slightly.

As absurd as it sounds, he indeed sensed some kind of elusive ‘momentum’ from the rabbit dressed in a suit, with a serious demeanor.

“…May I ask, do you need any help?”

Under the intangible mental pressure, the duck forgot all the script he had prepared and after struggling for a while, he finally managed to muster the standard opening line for players.

“…This idiotic duck.”

In the distance, the other three players ‘secretly watching’ immediately covered their faces, unable to bear watching anymore.

“…Thank you for your kindness, if that is your aim, then I do indeed need a follower right now. Here, carry this box for me.”

However, Anvis did not reject him, but after scrutinizing the duck for a moment, he simply threw the golden box he was carrying to him. He then pulled out an exquisite silver cane and walked ahead, assuming the airs of a noble accompanied by a house servant.

The item currently belonged to his task items, and players could not store it in their backpacks; even Anvis himself couldn’t put it into space items, so Anvis wasn’t worried about any issues after handing it to the duck player.

Upon receiving the golden box, Swanneck instantly felt the weight in his hands. The box didn’t look big, but it was unexpectedly heavy. Merely holding it, the endurance bar on his panel began to slowly decrease.

At the same time, however, a task completion notification appeared on his panel along with the next step of the task: [Follow the White Rabbit].

Seeing this, Anvis covertly glanced toward the direction of the other players and noticed that their panels also showed the prompt.

The tasks of these players seemed the same: to acquire the golden pepper, and as long as one person in the team touched it, it counted as acquired.

“Alright, now keep up with me, don’t think about slacking off, you lazybones, move it!”

Withdrawing his gaze, Anvis looked back at the duck, who was barely able to keep up with a stagger, and without a good expression, directly tapped the base of its webbed feet with his cane.

As for why Anvis suddenly behaved this way, it was because that’s the persona of the white rabbit.

And a little later, they were to meet the so-called ‘Duchess’, and Anvis wanted to play the role of the white rabbit well for the time being, hence he was preparing to ‘get in sync’ with his temporary follower in advance.

Being tapped by Anvis’s cane, Swanneck meekly agreed, shrinking his neck and picking up the pace, looking utterly obsequious.

However, in the small team channel of the four players.

“…I take back what I said about this place before, this dead rabbit’s words are really infuriating. Can I knife it?!”

“Geese bro, just let it be!”

“Hold on, think about the level of risk and the reward for this task, impulse is the devil.”

“…”

Under the dissuasion of others, the crane-necked swan had no choice but to continue playing the role of the reluctant sidekick. However, it soon encountered a new problem.

“This won’t do, this chest is very heavy, my Endurance has already dropped by half, someone else come and help me!”

Struggling to follow behind the lightly equipped Anvis, after five minutes, the crane-necked swan could hold on no longer.

Helplessly, one of the four Player rats stood out and also volunteered to follow Anvis, thus the number of Anvis’s cheap followers increased by one.

Subsequently, the rat took over the chest from the crane-necked swan’s hands, while the latter immediately opened its backpack and took out a wide leaf lettuce to chomp down on.

Due to the extremely low cost and fairly good Endurance restoration, using wide leaf lettuce to recover Endurance had become very popular among mainstream Players.

“I didn’t know that you ducks would eat this kind of stuff too?”

At that moment, Anvis, who was walking in front, suddenly made a cool comment.

“Coincidentally, I heard that the little pigs at the Duchess’s house also like to eat this.”

“…”

The crane-necked swan’s anger rose again, almost unable to resist throwing the lettuce at Anvis.

In any case, after a little hiccup, everyone finally managed to reach a grand mansion in the Upper City District before the pocket watch struck twelve.

“Oh, dear Mr. Luo Bet, have you brought the items I requested?”

Inside a colorful and fairy-tale-like lavish drawing room, the dignified Duchess sat on the throne at the principal seat, looking down at the several ‘people’ below.

Unlike the small animals in the city, she had a completely human form and exuded an extremely powerful Momentum, even vaguely reaching the Eighth Rank.

“We have brought them, respected madam. Quick, you two lazybones! Hand over the items to the noble Duchess!”

Facing the Duchess in the principal seat, Anvis respectfully bowed, and then he turned to the duck and rat beside him, which were as tired as dead dogs, instantly changing his face.

He commanded the two Player followers with an air of entitlement as naturally as if they were not just met on the road but longtime House Servants of his.

However, the moment he saw the Duchess, Anvis’s gaze became serious.

He could sense the Dream Realm aura on her was obscure and complex. Perhaps no issues could be seen on the surface, but its inner nature didn’t quite fit with this Dream Realm.

In other words, she was also a Trialist, and a Senior Trialist with substantial experience in many dream trials and profound strength.

Why would such an entity appear in his trial?

Or is it that his first trial is actually a ‘large-scale multiplayer instance’?

Watching the duck and rat present the chest containing the golden pepper, Anvis pondered thoughtfully.

This is definitely not the difficulty expected for a normal first trial. The main storyline of “Fiona’s Dreamland” had only progressed a small part, yet a powerful Senior Trialist has appeared.

So, if the storyline continues, will there be a second, a third, or even more Trialists?

Why are these people here, and will they conflict with him?

While Anvis was considering this, the Duchess had already opened the chest and picked up a pinch of golden pepper that looked like pure gold dust from inside.

“Achoo! Achoo!”

She did not notice Anvis’s anomaly; at that moment, she brought the golden powder on her fingertips close to her face, took a deep sniff, and immediately started sneezing violently.

“The items are indeed excellent; I am very satisfied, tch—And the lesson here is: If you know something will have a negative effect, don’t do it.”

After a long time, the Duchess finally recovered from her unique method of inspection, speaking with a heavy nasal voice.

“However, Mr. Luo Bet, those two followers of yours seem a bit peculiar, don’t they?”

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