Chapter 89: Summoning the King

Li Shuyi, pressed step by step by Wen Nan, found herself locked in an unbearable inner struggle.

Her love for her dead husband would not allow her to accept another man’s closeness, let alone on the anniversary of his death.

And yet the man before her, Ye Jiu, seemed to possess some strange power that drew her toward him so deeply she could not bring herself to refuse.

Her reason told her to reject him and order him out of her home; the hunger in her body, and the hidden desire buried at the deepest place in her heart, kept giving him room to overstep again and again.

That tug-of-war left her as though trapped in a whirlpool, bewildered, wavering, unable to escape.

Until...

Trying to avoid the scorching gaze of the man before her, she was forced to turn her head aside, and her eyes unexpectedly fell upon the brooch on one of her late husband’s coats.

9527: Warning. Target “the ravenous young wife next door” has dropped to minus 10 percent.

That brooch was a gift Li Shuyi had given her husband on their wedding anniversary five years ago: a silver bullet set with diamonds, antique in appearance.

The day he received it, her husband had someone engrave the back with the words “Love Shuyi.” After that, no matter what occasion he attended, he would always pin the brooch to his jacket. And before leaving home, he would tap his chest and tell Li Shuyi, “Wife, wherever I go, you will always be in my heart.”

Now, Li Shuyi clenched that brooch in her hand, her fingers touching the black bloodstains on it.

That was her husband’s blood, splashed onto it at the scene of the car accident three years ago...

9527: Warning. Target “the ravenous young wife next door” has dropped to minus 30 percent.

In an instant, a sob of anguish burst from Li Shuyi’s throat.

Then the pale skin on her face began to crack in mottled patches, like a long-dried white wall.

Beneath the cracks, dark blood seeped out drop by drop.

When she turned back and looked at the man before her again, shyness and struggle had vanished from her eyes, leaving only fury and pain.

9527: Warning. Target “the ravenous young wife next door” has dropped to minus 50 percent.

9527: Warning. Target “the ravenous young wife next door” has dropped to minus 70 percent.

The speed at which her progress was falling was faster than a dying patient’s blood pressure could ever drop.

Listening to the system notifications updating nonstop in his mind, Wen Nan glanced quickly at the woman on the bed and realized that the brooch clenched in her hand was the culprit.

Almost instinctively, Wen Nan reached out, intending to take the brooch from her palm.

But before he could get it, his movement only further enraged the woman before him.

9527: Warning. Target “the ravenous young wife next door” has dropped to minus 90 percent.

The woman let out a shrill, miserable scream from her throat, then, as though she had risen from the dead, suddenly sprang upright from the bed.

From her fingertips, five nails lengthened at terrifying speed, like blades leaving their sheaths, stabbing straight toward Wen Nan’s chest.

Wen Nan, who had remained on guard all along, rolled sideways away at top speed, barely dodging the attack.

With an agility rating of 230 at level 5, he narrowly escaped the claws thrusting at him at breakneck speed.

But the opponent’s strike came too fast, and Wen Nan’s lips still could not avoid being grazed; the skin soon split, and blood welled up.

With one hand braced on his knee as he crouched beside the bed, Wen Nan raised the other and casually wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

Two hundred and thirty agility, plus two hundred and thirty armor, still left him stretched thin against Li Shuyi in her berserk state.

The Safety Bubble only worked on targets below four stars, and the Attribute Experience Card could only add one hundred points of attributes...

He had plenty of items in his backup slot brought out from the trial map, but none of them could be used in a level 5 dungeon.

Sigh.

Wen Nan sighed inwardly, unable to help thinking that beautiful women were terrifying when they got angry.

9527: Warning. Target “the ravenous young wife next door” has dropped to minus 99 percent.

9527: Warning. Target “the ravenous young wife next door” has exceeded the extreme threshold! Extreme dangerous berserk state detected! Please avoid contact!

Wen Nan’s expression darkened. Looking up, he saw that Li Shuyi, who had only had her nails mutate before, now had sharp blades sprouting from every inch of skin on her body.

At first glance, she looked like a porcupine.

In the blink of an eye, that “porcupine” was already roaring and smashing toward him.

As Wen Nan dodged to the other side, he clenched the golden master sigil in his palm.

Yet the system prompt rang in his mind—

9527: Sorry. Your bound exclusive character, Yu Shujun, has been detected outside the responsive range and cannot be summoned.

9527: Your master sigil is a highest-tier golden sigil, granting all-domain summoning privileges that ignore dungeon restrictions and work at any distance.

9527: All-domain summoning privileges have now been activated. Full-spectrum information will be sent across the entire game world...

9527: Information transmission failed.

9527: Sorry. Your bound exclusive character, Yu Shujun, has been detected outside the responsive range and cannot be summoned.

Wen Nan: ...

Seriously, bro? You went through all that just to circle back to the same thing?

This little servant usually stayed glued to him, practically wishing he could tread on his heels every day. When there was gossip to watch, he always stood in the best spot, enjoying the spectacle in crystal-clear, uncensored detail. But now that trouble had come and he needed the guy to show up, he ran faster than a rabbit?

And...

What did it mean, outside summonable range?

This was the highest-grade golden sigil, and even all-domain summoning didn’t work?

Yu Shujun was just a game攻略 character—where could he possibly run off to? Not even full-spectrum transmission could reach him? Had he crossed over into some other world?

Though he was grumbling in his head, Wen Nan did not dare delay even a moment in dodging Li Shuyi’s attacks.

In her porcupine form, Li Shuyi was no joke: full output, lightning-fast speed.

This tiny bedroom simply wasn’t enough for Wen Nan to evade in.

And he couldn’t fight back either—despite her berserk state, she was still a woman, and a woman he was currently pursuing. He had principles; he did not hit women.

Timing it carefully, Wen Nan dashed for the bedroom door, intending to leave this dangerous place.

However...

The moment his hand touched the doorknob, a blade shot out from the side and stabbed straight toward the back of his hand.

Wen Nan tried to draw his hand back as fast as he could, but it was useless.

His agility was being utterly crushed; in the other woman’s eyes, his movement was practically in slow motion, with no chance of escape at all.

His palm was going to be pierced...

That was the only thought left in Wen Nan’s mind.

But the next moment, a flash of golden light appeared.

A clear clang of metal striking metal rang beside his ear.

Wen Nan narrowed his eyes. Before he could even react, the “porcupine” not far away had already let out a scream and returned to normal human form.

A figure in armor stood before him, holding a longsword horizontally in both hands and shielding Wen Nan behind his back.

Wen Nan: ...

What’s going on?

Did I summon Saber?

The golden sigil in his palm shimmered with an unusual radiance.

The system prompt sounded in his mind—

9527: Your golden master sigil has been updated. A new bindable character has been detected: Jun Wuming.

9527: Confirm binding?

Wen Nan: ?

Jun Wuming?

Who is Jun Wuming?