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Chapter 123 - Double Happiness
update icon Updated at 2025/4/19 4:10:12

Liran Day brought all the living beings in the Sand City all to the frontier of the Blood race, all as labor to build coastal fortifications.

"All that can be used can be moved away, and those that can not move away can be burned together with the entire city."Liran Day ordered.

"Yes, General." The bloods saluted and began to carry out the order.

The sun had not yet risen, but the air was already filled with the chill of the dawn, and the grass was covered with gray dew.

The white figure is as light as a dragonfly, accompanied by the sound of the wind. The delicate hand reaches out to the iron sword in the scabbard, the wrist gently rotates. The sword is like a white snake spitting out its tongue, hissing and breaking the wind, pointing the sword and up, suddenly like lightning, the leaves fall, and the white soft body seems out of place.

Iris was already sweating heavily at the moment, and then she withdrew her stance. In the past two years, under Liran Day's guidance, Iris's swordplay has improved by leaps and bounds. She is now able to use two of the swords in "Hardening" skillfully in practical combat. The third sword, "Ethereal Blade" is extremely complex, with 999 moves. Iris only practiced eighty-one of them. Because there were so many moves, Iris could only practice one group of nine moves a day, and the rest of the day was spent meditating.

In the past two years, Iris has not improved much, only the three systems have all reached the high level three. The Dark Shadow System cultivation is the first to reach the high level three, so Iris does not need to worry her breakthrough will fail. Besides, two shadows help Iris together with the cultivation, simply half the effort. So Iris only needs to get their cultivation results.

The cultivation of Summoning System is troublesome. After going through three consecutive breakthroughs in the high level, Iris has failed. But the good thing is that there are more resources, and Iris’s cultivation hasn’t dropped because of the failed breakthrough.

The Fire System goes through as usual. Anyway, there is chaos to help Iris cultivate the Fire System. The speed of cultivation is quite okay, but Chaos has not spoken to Iris for more than a year.

A woman in a maid's outfit came in front of Iris, saluted respectfully, and said, "Your Highness, Her Majesty the Queen is looking for you."

"I see."

The maid then bowed again and left.

This is why Iris thought the rules of the palace were troublesome. She has to salute when she meets and she has to salute when she says goodbye. And even when she wants to sleep, she has to go to find her mother and aunt before she can go to sleep. Other aspects are also troublesome. If Iris is in the court, she is not allowed to call Lilia as Dear Mother. She has to call her Her Majesty. In the military camp she can not call Liran Day aunt, but she can only call her General.

Iris has learned and followed the etiquette education well for the two years, otherwise the barbed cane would not be full of cobwebs.

Iris took a towel and wiped the sweat from her forehead, then came to Lilia with light steps, each step full of grace, showing the princess' manners. In fact, Iris has practiced this walk for countless times, and this lady's walk has deeply engraved in her mind.

"What is the matter, Dear Mother?" Iris bowed and said.

"I heard from Violet that you secretly hid Dicos's weapon, is this true?" Lilia looked at Iris sideways.

"Yes, but I have given it to Summoning System." Iris did not hide anything. She told Lilia what had happened, and what was in her mind at the time.

Iris is no longer Iris of two years ago. Two years ago, Iris liked to tell lies, play fraud tricks, and say foul language but now all the other bad habits have been changed.

"These months, I am very satisfied with your performance. I have asked someone to sell that weapon , and the money is saved in the blue crystal card, all as your pocket money!"

"Thank you, Dear Mother!" Iris received the blue crystal card after seeing the five digits on it. She is about to jump with joy. After two years of etiquette education, it does not let Iris look so rude. Now Iris just smiled elegantly.

"Come with me!"

"Huh?" Iris has not yet recovered from the joy of getting pocket money.

Lilia slowly got up and led Iris to her bedroom.

"Why do we come to your bedroom, Dear Mother?" Iris looked at the black and white decoration in front of her and was slightly confused.

"Lift up your clothes and lie down on the bed."

"??" Iris was even more puzzled and asked, "Why lift up my clothes?"

"Oh, do you want the disciplinary mark to be on your back for the rest of your life?" Lilia asked rhetorically.

"Oh!" Iris, knowing her mother's intentions, lifted up her dress and then lay down on the bed. Then Iris quietly waited for Lilia to remove the disciplinary mark from her body.

Lilia bit her finger and dripped blood onto the disciplinary mark on Iris's back, while uttering spells. Iris felt there was a suction force from her mother's blood which slowly sucked out the disciplinary mark. Without the rose disciplinary mark, Iris felt her back very smooth,which made people want to touch it.

"You can put down your clothes. After the mark is removed, you can still be the same as before. If you do something that damages the face of the royal family, don't blame me for using the disciplinary mark on you again. Then you will wear this mark for the rest of your life, and I won't remove it for you again no matter what.

"Understood, Dear Mother." Iris replied.

"If all is well, can I leave?"

Lilia nodded slightly as Iris bowed and left the bedroom.

After leaving, Iris bounced out into the street humming a song, in a very good mood. Not only had she gotten her allowance, but her mother had also released her disciplinary mark, so it was a double happiness.

The streets of the Bloods are not only busy but also quite lively, with teahouses, taverns, pawnshops and workshops on both sides of the street. There are also many vendors with large umbrellas on both sides of the street.

The high fluttering store banners, the coming carts, the endless flow of pedestrians, and the happy smiles all reflect Lilia's accomplishments.

Iris walked through the crowd, and somewhere a pure scent of wine came over her, warming her heart.

Following the scent of wine, Iris looked up at the plaque and murmured, "Just a cup has gained great happiness."

Iris did want to go in and drink, but in her heart she was afraid of her mother. Although the fragrance of wine was gluttonous, her mother's cane was even more frightening.

After some thought, Iris chose to leave and ran to a store to buy her favorite snacks.

It was hard to have some pocket money, so Iris couldn't have her pocket money confiscated for drinking. Besides, it was hard to get rid of the disciplinary mark today. Iris didn’t want to get involved into the disciplinary mark again due to drinking.

So Iris continued to walk and found that there was a group putting on a play. Iris watched with interest for a while and left, then walked in the direction of the Flame Tower.

The Flame Tower is a tower filled with fire magic, and the speed of practicing fire magic in the Flame Tower is greatly increased. There are ten levels in the Flame Tower, and the speed of meditation is increased by 50 percent on the first level, 100 percent on the second level, and so on...

The Flame Tower is assigned a quota, and this quota is earned by strength. Iris, Princess of the Blood, the future queen, has too many privileges. Others need to get through a battle and get what they want, but Iris does not even have to ask, and Lilia will personally arrange them for Iris. And Iris will get more than what they get when they fight.

"See Your Highness." The two soldiers bowed and saluted.

"Don't salute!" Iris raised her hand, then stepped into the tenth floor of the Flame Tower.

Seeing that Iris had entered the Flame Tower, the dark guard behind her returned to the Sleepless Temple to report Iris's every move to Lilia.

"I already know. Iillian, you can leave now."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"It seems that this little guy’s self-control is not bad." Lilia murmured, and then began to deal with official documents again.