Chapter 172: The Unexpected Morning Notification! Duke’s Promise

"The kingdom?" Caelus looked at Brenda in confusion.

"Yes," Brenda nodded seriously. "We are forming a team to overthrow the Solaris Kingdom."

"What?" Caelus’s lips twitched when he heard this.

This person sitting in front of him was a duke of the Solaris Kingdom. If they were to hear about this, the royals would probably bleed out of their hearts.

"I am very judgmental of people, and by now, I know who you are," Brenda spoke. "Caelus Kross. You have enmity with the royals, do you not?"

"Not necessarily," Caelus shook his head. "It is not that I want to hate them, but they leave me no choice but to do it."

"They ruined my plans with the Ashborn family."

Brenda nodded at this. "I am aware."

"That is why I am here today. To invite you to join us in defeating the royals."

"You are just one man. Even if you can tap into Gold III power, it will not necessarily be helpful."

"More manpower is better than one."

"Hm." Caelus was thoughtful.

The way Brenda spoke made it seem like they were forming a team of superheroes in a movie to defeat a corrupt organization. But perhaps that was because of the way she spoke. She spoke in a refined and ladylike tone.

But what Brenda said was the truth.

Having more manpower was always good.

"Sure, I will join you all," Caelus said with a small smile.

"But I also need help with something," Caelus spoke as he thought of something.

"What is that?" Brenda questioned.

"I formed a kingdom of my own," Caelus spoke. "But I do not plan on making it affiliated with the Solaris Kingdom."

"They will definitely notice this and attack my kingdom."

"I understand." Before Caelus even finished his words, Brenda spoke up. "I will help you."

"But if you do, it will ruin your secrecy about the plans related to the Solaris Kingdom." Caelus looked at her in some shock. He honestly did not think she would help him.

But she said yes?

"I know," Brenda said with some determination. "But you are the reason I got out of the challenge domain safely, and you also helped my elite members. The Perez family is grateful to you for that reason."

"I will support you and your kingdom with all I have," Brenda added. "Even if it means that I will have to reveal myself."

"..." Caelus fell silent. Was this not too hasty?

"Do not worry. I am not dumb enough to come to the front and directly protect you, revealing my secret plans," Brenda spoke up, seemingly hearing Caelus’s thoughts.

"I will just persuade them with words," Brenda said with a smile. "I know how to do that, at the very least."

"That will work too." Caelus nodded.

After that small talk, Brenda left after giving him her number. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

She did glance at Sylvia, who was just quietly by the side.

Throughout this conversation, she did not say a word.

"That was surprising." Caelus came back and immediately sat beside Sylvia.

"What was?" Sylvia asked.

"You not participating in the conversation."

"I did not feel like participating," Sylvia replied. "I felt like I was rather rude to her previously when she tried to catch you while you were falling, but in the end, she protected you and even helped with escorting you out."

"She is not a bad person," Sylvia added.

Caelus was stunned when he heard this. What was this? Was this the same Sylvia that hated all women equally?

But at the same time, he smiled. "Could it be that you were embarrassed to say anything?"

Hearing this, Sylvia stared at Caelus for a long moment before biting him.

"Stop talking about that." She bit him as she gave a cute pout.

"Hug me," she demanded.

Caelus complied without hesitation; he scooped her into his lap and held her tightly.

She immediately wore a satisfied expression.

"How about we go out for a bit, come back, and watch some movies together?" Caelus suggested.

Sylvia was fine with that as well. They were mostly cooped up in the mansion with them going back and forth inside the domain.

They swiftly dressed up and went out for a fun outing, coming back a few hours later. They put on a new show and made themselves comfortable under the blankets, both practically clinging to each other as they watched the show.

Soon, it was nighttime. Their dungeon master result came out.

And now that the profession was at Silver, he could add an additional dungeon. He decided to just place one more on Planet Lilia and also purchased monsters for Silver.

The reward was just 200 reputation points this time.

At the same time, he noticed that ever since his dungeon became Bronze rank, fewer and fewer people had been visiting it.

"What will happen if I place Silver Monsters down? Will there even be players to steal mana from?"

That would be bad.

Hence, he decided to just stick with Bronze monsters for now

Just make the traps Silver-rank, or some of them, because if there is a higher mortality rate, the better it was for him.

Starting now, he would also get 5,000 Mana extracted.

"Once I become a king, maybe I can put it to some use."

It was either that or he waited until next year to open more servers, which would automatically use this mana he had extracted.

But he did not want that; he wanted control over the mana and the servers.

With that said, they soon went to sleep. The domain was still undergoing an upgrade, and the next day, Sylvia’s cooldown ended.

She immediately used her divine ability and got the mage talent, and Caelus gave her all the spells he knew. However, unlike him, she did not receive the parallel calculation trait when she awakened her brain matrix of the true vampire progenitor, just telekinesis and mind power, so she would need divine calculation.

The Mage was an A-Rank Talent, meaning it would take a week to cooldown. The best course of action here was to ascend and get another good talent.

Afterward, Caelus used this time to upgrade his profession levels, starting with the Engineer, he swiftly made it reach Silver II.

Just then, a new notification appeared before them.

[Ding! Domain is open!]

"Huh?" Caelus wore a stunned expression when he saw this.

Isn’t it the morning, why is the domain open now?

Following that, another notification appeared.