I Live on the Land in Global Games-Chapter 412 - 400: Golden Ball Princess (Thanks to Dong Yi Guan Ye Alliance Leader for the additional - - 5/10)

Chapter 412: Chapter 400: Golden Ball Princess (Thanks to Dong Yi Guan Ye Alliance Leader for the additional Chapter - 5/10)

Mu Ying never expected to become the subject of her own spectacle.

The side effects she’d previously mocked in the story’s Human Leg Potion weren’t the result of the potion’s effect, but of Curse Magic.

As the only witch in the ocean depths proficient in Curse Magic, Mu Ying, upon seeing the catalog of Magic Potions held by the Mermaid Royal Family that Ailetta had brought out, was "compelled" to agree to a plot to trap the princess, oh no, to save the princess.

When the time came, the finished Magic Potion would be used to curse her, and Princess Lulu’s blood and hair would be sent along as well.

Mu Ying was confident in concocting a helpful, non-lethal Curse Magic spell intended to save someone.

The most crucial point was that this kind of Curse Magic, because it didn’t involve taking life, would not rebound on her.

Although the effect was a little complex, with Princess Lulu’s blood and hair as Spell Casting materials, the success rate was still high.

The deal was struck, and Mu Ying even received several potion formulas as advance payment, including the Human Leg Potion and Amnesia Potion.

While waiting for Ailetta’s Human Leg Potion, Mu Ying reviewed the essentials of the curse and started studying the semi-finished Human Leg Potion, looking to eliminate those nasty side effects.

A few days later, the Human Leg Potion was delivered.

Mu Ying spent a day infusing the Curse Magic into the bottle of Magic Potion, then handed it to Ailetta.

After that, she waited for developments.

What followed was much like the fairy tale— the Mermaid Princess took the shipwrecked prince, who had lost his memory, to the shore. This time she did not swim in the wrong direction, but swam for a whole day and night.

When the prince awoke on the beach, the first person he saw wasn’t the Mermaid Princess, but a human princess vacationing by the sea, whom he mistook for his savior.

The Mermaid Princess wanted to go ashore to find him, but just then, the Tribute Witch of the Royal Family gave her a vial of Magic Potion, a concoction that would turn her to foam if she couldn’t find love.

Then she resolutely set out in search of her beloved, firmly believing that even without his memory, the prince would fall for her again.

Instead, she was met with the engagement ceremony of the prince and princess.

Before dawn, the sisters of the Mermaid Princess brought her a dagger, telling her that by plunging it into the heart of the prince, she could return to the sea.

The Princess chose to become foam.

After drifting on the sea for seven days and nights, she turned back into a mermaid, yet she harbored no regrets.

She still longed for the human world but no longer wished to seek out the prince, for he had fallen for another.

Mu Ying, sitting on the Magic Flying Carpet, watched the entire affair unfold. The outcome couldn’t be said to be good or bad, but at least the princess had escaped the loathsome man. The princess’s lovesick brain remained unchanged, but that was no longer Mu Ying’s concern; she’d gotten the fragment she wanted.

[For your role as Mu Ying in the Emerald World’s trial, you’ve participated in a historical event, earning Source Power×1000, Consciousness Fragment×1]

Moreover, the progress toward collecting the next fragment was stirring, coming from the princess engaged to Prince Ronald.

Even with his memory of hardship lost, Prince Ronald’s approach remained the same, seeking to forge relations with the princess and using marriage politics for support.

It wasn’t a princess who rescued him, but clearly a maid of the princess. Initially, upon reporting to the princess, she wanted the maid to throw the man, who appeared almost dead, far away. It was the maid who observed his fine garments and suggested his status was extraordinary, which made the princess take a closer look at his face, and then she chose to summon a physician to save him.

When he woke up, the Princess took a look at him, and he mistook the Princess for his savior.

Of course, at first, he wasn’t smitten with his life-saver, not until a maid called her "Princess" did he start to show his love.

This Princess was none other than the sole heir to the Golden Ball Kingdom: The Golden Ball Princess.

And the Golden Ball Princess was the heroine of the story "Prince Toad".

Mu Ying discovered this while eavesdropping at a corner on the shore.

Before agreeing to Prince Ronald’s engagement proposal, the Golden Ball Princess had discussed it with the current King and Queen of the Golden Ball Kingdom and mentioned that Toad Prince.

"Even if the toad turns into a Prince, he’s nothing special, and he’s from a country I’ve never heard of—who knows if he’s lying? Moreover, he knew he wasn’t truly a toad but a man, yet he demanded to live and eat with me as a reward for retrieving my golden ball, even intending to share a bed with me. He didn’t tell me the truth from the beginning. Compared to him, choosing the Second Prince of the Green Wall Kingdom sounds much better! With such severe infighting in the Green Wall Kingdom, this could be a good opportunity to annex them!"

Those were the Golden Ball Princess’s exact words.

Hearing this, Mu Ying no longer worried that the Golden Ball Princess would be exploited by Prince Ronald—this Princess wasn’t an easy target either.

However, Mu Ying was more interested in that Toad Prince’s story—yet another fragment!

The Prince had already reverted to his original form and had not yet left the Golden Ball Kingdom.

Previously, he was one of the Golden Ball Princess’s suitors.

Their connection also coincidentally started with a life-saving favor.

The Prince had been cursed by a witch to become a toad, sealed inside a well, and only the Golden Ball Princess could rescue him.

It sounded typical enough; a witch who didn’t want to suffer a backlash when cursing someone would indeed leave an escape clause, a chance for life.

But Mu Ying checked the well and the Prince and found no curse—the witch was wrongfully accused again.

Now Mu Ying followed the supposed Toad Prince closely, eager to understand what exactly was going on, to clear up the doubts surrounding him, which should piece together the whole story and yield a new fragment.

There was no curse, and no trace of magic, so how was he a toad before?

A good while after the engagement, the Toad Prince still couldn’t find an opportunity to meet the Golden Ball Princess and then embarked on a journey away from the Golden Ball Kingdom.

But he didn’t leave on foot, rather it was on a dark and stormy night, an action that seemed quite abnormal.

Normal humans don’t travel at night, do they? Most would seek shelter or camp during the night on a journey!

Moreover, the name Zedi Kingdom was unheard of even to Mu Ying and even absent on the continent’s map; it certainly wasn’t one of the coastal Kingdoms—those lands had already been divided among the well-known Kingdoms.

If it wasn’t on the coast, then the journey must be far; to travel at night on foot—he wasn’t penniless. Although the Golden Ball Princess did not reciprocate his feelings or stay with him as he had hoped, and even broke off their engagement after he regained his human form, she rewarded him with a small box of gold and silver treasures and banished him from the Royal Palace.

Wasn’t there enough money there to buy a carriage?

No carriage, no baggage, just a small box of treasures for the road, and nothing suspicious about that at all!