VCRMM: Chapter 430

The moment Happy Cultivator uttered these words, everyone watching was taken aback.

The one who was most shaken was undoubtedly Leopold.

The information from Happy Cultivator was so overwhelming that he was trying to digest it when he heard this sentence.

Did he want to go back? Of course, he did!

The question was whether this young man called Happy Cultivator could really take him back to Roland? This was a question that didn’t need to be considered.

He smiled bitterly and said with a dejected expression, “I appreciate your kindness but I’m afraid you can’t go back now.”

Leopold reached out and patted Happy Cultivator’s shoulder hard.

“I’m already so happy to have the news you just brought back for me. Thank you so much!”

He found out that his two children were still alive and that his sister, whom he thought had died far away, had returned to Roland. In addition, the son he had long worried about, Snow, had grown into a capable emperor and led Roland to prosperity once more.

This all sounded so unbelievable, but Leopold was willing to believe that this wonderful news was true!

Happy Cultivator immediately received a series of notifications indicating an increase in favorability. The late emperor had a very good impression of him!

What puzzled him was that the late emperor didn’t believe he could go back.

He wasn’t a card master and couldn’t turn them into cards, using the death return method to bring them back, but now there was a home system!

Each house owner had three property usage cards which could be given to players or NPCs.

With this card, the person could accept the home owner’s invitation and teleport to the home owner’s property together, or return to the location marked on the property card.

However, there were two restrictions on the property usage cards. First, they had to accept the home owner’s invitation and travel to and from the residence at the same time. The second was that it could only be given to one NPC.

Furthermore, they needed to reach a certain level of favorability with that NPC.

Of course, Happy Cultivator had already met the conditions for building a good relationship with Leopold, and he hadn’t given away his property usage card yet.

As Happy Cultivator was thinking, Leopold continued, “Anything else? Many things must’ve happened in Roland since Brenda and I left, right?”

“You just said that Val piloted a mecha developed by Roland? Roland already possesses such research capabilities?”

This didn’t sound very real at all.

“Yes, this was done by the team that His Majesty Snow brought back from outer space. They are all concentrated in the Imperial Research Institute. They have many amazing inventions.”

To improve his favorability, Happy Cultivator had to temporarily put aside the matter of going back and answer his question first.

“Brought back from outer space?” Leopold raised an eyebrow.

“Yes! Speaking of which, His Majesty Snow is a business genius!”

After players started to venture into the interstellar space and could use the Star Network, some of Xu Sili’s past deeds were unearthed by research enthusiasts. These posts were read by Happy Cultivator.

“His Majesty Snow is a sound elementalist. He earned his first bit of money by singing Roland folk songs with special effects on the Star Network.”

“Later, he opened a milk tea store on the Star Network and advertised it by doing a food broadcast at the most popular event in the interstellar world through Marshal Si Sheng. This directly boosted its popularity!”

“According to the statistics, this milk tea store has a daily turnover of several hundred million cosmic coins! Isn’t that amazing?”

Leopold was shocked once again.

First of all, Snow actually awakened his sound talent and became a sound elementalist?

Secondly, a milk tea store with daily sales of several hundred million cosmic coins? Thinking back to when he was in power, he felt it was so unreal, especially when thinking about how hard Val had worked to raise ten million cosmic coins in a year.

Hearing his questions, Happy Cultivator scratched his head. “His Majesty Snow is very powerful. He is now the top sound elementalist in all of Roland and his level is already five stars.”

His words caused not only Leopold and his two companions to become restless, but also the other eavesdropping elementalists.

Rosam teleported over, looked at Happy Cultivator and asked in a flustered manner, “Are you saying that Roland’s current ruler, His Majesty Snow, has reached five stars in strength?”

Happy Cultivator’s stats were so poor that they hadn’t realized anything was wrong despite him having three stars in strength.

Happy Cultivator nodded, causing Rosam to say in a deep voice, “Do you mean that the elementalist level restrictions on Escher Star have been lifted?”

“Yes, it has recently been unlocked to six stars but no one has broken through to that level yet.”

Seeing how excited the NPC was, even Happy Cultivator was a bit confused. Didn’t they feel it here?

Rosam pondered on it for a while. Then he stared at the young man and asked, “Do you mean that the level restrictions on Escher are currently being unlocked one level at a time?”

“That’s right. It is…”

Before Happy Cultivator could finish speaking, Rosam asked eagerly, “Do you remember when you unlocked six stars?”

After the two sides compared their information, they found that Roland had unlocked the six star elementalist level on the very day that the colorful crystal released a golden light, helping them defeat the eight star interstellar beast!

Moreover, the previous appearances of the golden light roughly coincided with the time when Roland lifted the restrictions on elementalist levels.

The golden light appeared a total of four times, which was consistent with the number of times the elementalist level was unlocked.

According to Happy Cultivator’s description, a golden light would appear throughout the nation when His Majesty Snow released the level restrictions. Those who bathed in it would receive benefits.

Therefore, it could be confirmed that the golden light they encountered was the holy light that appeared when the level was unlocked.

So why did the appearance of the holy light cause the seal of the colorful crystal to break and intensify?

Rosam frowned deeply and the others also fell into deep thought. At this moment, Leopold suddenly asked, “Happy Cultivator, you just said that it was Snow who lifted the elementalist level restriction?”

“Yes.” Happy Cultivator nodded. “But I don’t know the specifics of how it works.’

“In short, it will unlock once in a while.”

He initially thought it was just a normal game update. He never expected that there would be such a deep meaning hidden behind it.

Rosam looked up at the colorful crystal in the sky. As the most powerful elementalist here, he sensed nature more deeply than others.

Finally, he whispered, “If I’m not mistaken, this colorful crystal should be sealing an elemental elf.”

“Or rather, most of the consciousness of the elemental elves.”

He offered his speculation. “Therefore, at the critical moment of the interstellar beast invasion, the level of all elementalists suddenly dropped, falling directly to two stars and no one could break through the bottleneck for the next one hundred years.”

“Only those of us who were summoned here by the elemental elves at the beginning as the last line of defense weren’t subject to the level restrictions.”

In fact, it was only after Leopold and Brenda arrived that they learned about the level restriction.

Now everything made sense.

“As the level restrictions are unlocked, the seal on the elemental elves gradually disappears and the barrier formed by the colorful crystal will break.”

“His Majesty Snow must’ve found a way to unlock the seal!”

Upon hearing Rosam’s speculation, everyone’s expressions became complicated.

This was the front line and last line of defense for Escher Star. If the barrier broke and they couldn’t hold it, Escher would once again face a large-scale invasion by interstellar beasts.

But did this mean that those remaining on Escher Star shouldn’t lift the seal?

“This… is also a good thing.”

Rosam whispered, “We must hold on here until the people of Escher Star grow up completely! No matter what, we must fight for the last chance of survival for our descendants!”

“I think this is the mission that the elemental elves have given us!”

Inspired by the old man, all the elementalists present hardened their gazes.

Seeing that all of them looked like they were about to die, Happy Cultivator was completely bewildered. In fact, he was also processing Rosam’s words. He felt like he had come across the deepest secret hidden in the game.

But…

Happy Cultivator’s gaze fell on Leopold. He still felt that bringing this guy back was the most important thing! He absolutely couldn’t be allowed to get hurt!

So he leaned towards the silver-haired man again.

However, before he could mention the home system, Leopold suddenly lowered his voice and asked him, “You said that Snow sings on the Star Network? What is his ID?”

“Oh, it seems to be His Majesty Roland.”

Then Happy Cultivator saw the handsome and majestic former emperor’s expression suddenly distort.