"Are you joking?" Jiang You skillfully opened his System menu, scanning the game functions from top to bottom, then glanced at the system announcement again to confirm he hadn't entered the wrong game. If so, things were getting a bit ridiculous. Although Melusine had also tried to A-rush him before, she was kicked out of the game after a single touch. Now she was trying this stunt—was she planning to get his account banned?
"Why would you think that?" Melusine looked displeased. She assumed Jiang You was rejecting her, and she took this as a rejection of her genes. "Do you look down on my genes? The factors of the Dragon of Albion are excellent; I'm quite confident about that."
"Why did you suddenly bring up the word 'genes'? This is so weird. What kind of role-iteration game are we playing?" Jiang You simply couldn't believe Melusine would say that. The romantic atmosphere had been instantly shattered by the mention of stats, turning the whole thing into a joke. "Don't talk as if you have 3-star magical power factors. Are we breeding animals now?"
"If we're talking about genes, I'd say I have at least 5-star factors." Melusine didn't know what a "toxic-tongued girl" was. As a foundation of the Clock Tower, her magical power factors were naturally the most excellent. "Isn't it only natural to seek better genes for one's offspring? That's what they say on TV, and it's a biological instinct."
"..." Jiang You felt things were getting absurd. If this were that kind of game, he wouldn't refuse. But this game probably isn't interested in "eating chicken and crabs" anymore. "What have you been watching lately?"
"Animal World, of course."
"This is Fuyuki, isn't it? Why do they have Animal World here?" Jiang You no longer wanted to complain. He glanced at the Mission Panel, but there was no reaction. Jiang You almost thought the game had activated an Affinity System. Although it was a bit absurd for a card game to have such a system, the level of stitching in this game had already exceeded the normal conditions of the industry. It wouldn't be surprising if any strange thing appeared.
"Is that the main point?" The strength in Melusine's grip tightened. "You did promise, after all."
Since things had reached this point, Jiang You had no reason to refuse. It was just a little strange. The intelligence of characters in such immersion games is trained using AI. Commercially available AI usually has restrictions; the algorithms in this area should have been blocked. Melusine's situation was already quite strange. Jiang You also wanted to see how the game would play this out. Most likely, it would just fade to black to end the scene.
"Follow me." Jiang You opened a Gate leading to the Library. He could manipulate the Library's space at will, and as long as he didn't want anyone to, no one could enter his personal space. Jiang You suddenly felt this ability was quite convenient for having affairs. "Refusing again would just make me seem indecisive."
This was Jiang You's room in the Library. He had even decorated it at the time, and the furniture was all top-quality. However, as a settlement in the game, Jiang You had basically never used it. After all, if he needed to rest, he would log off to sleep; sleeping in the game completely failed to replenish his rest. Although the game pod's basic setting would automatically disconnect if he fell asleep in the game.
"So, I'm the first female to come here, right?" As a dragon, Melusine's sense of smell was sharper than most creatures. After discovering there were no other female scents here, she suddenly became happy. "For dragons, inviting the opposite sex into their nest is a declaration of ownership. It's equivalent to treating the other person as one's own wealth... If you're the weaker party, then I'll have to plunder you, not just your wealth, but you yourself."
"Don't use the word 'female,' and I'm not a dragon either." Jiang You sat on the bed, and Melusine eagerly pressed against him. Now, while he felt an ambiguous tension, he also felt a bit awkward. "...Want to take a shower first?"
"No." Melusine flatly refused, then showed a regretful expression. "You have no scent on you at all, so clean it's excessive. I always feel like there's a layer of separation between you and this world, as if you haven't fully made contact. But I'll leave my scent on your clothes. Jiang You, you have a Master, right? I wonder what her expression will be when she finds out I've secretly taken the first bite of her thing."
"Your tastes are truly..." Jiang You finally remembered that this one, like the normal Lancelot, seemed to have some special preferences.
However, Jiang You didn't have the chance to say more. Melusine directly pushed him down to the floor. With Melusine's stats, Jiang You indeed had no way to resist.
Jiang You only felt Melusine's hands like iron pliers firmly pinning his wrists. Her small body didn't have much weight, yet it locked him firmly in place. Moreover, the temperature on his wrists seemed to be rising.
"Your aura..." Jiang You felt an inexplicable sense of danger. Melusine was showing signs of dragonification, entering a state similar to her Third Ascension, as if she was about to give it her all.
"Although it's a bit primal... I've been preparing for this for centuries. Expanding one's clan is an unavoidable instinct for all living things, and I am no exception. Excessive suppression only makes the reaction more intense. I never imagined it would turn out like this, so sorry. Tonight will be a very long night."
"..."
"Looking any longer won't help." Bubble looked at the door beside her, which was shaking from continuous noise, and sighed before twisting it open. She let the two impatient figures rush inside. "Even I couldn't find that door before he granted permission."
"Have you lost your mind!" Gaia tried to grab Bubble by the collar to demand an explanation, completely forgetting the gap between a planetary consciousness and an Outer God on a cosmic scale. "What good does it do to make him realize this world isn't what he thinks it is!"
Alaya spun around anxiously, but she looked like she wanted to speak but couldn't. She truly had no idea how to handle this situation. Should she just send someone to get rid of Melusine? But it seemed pointless to eliminate Melusine at this point. Eliminating Jiang You would be more effective, but nothing in this world or even the entire universe was capable of doing that.
"As agreed before, let things take their course. We won't interfere with his actions." Bubble still had a smile on her face. Jiang You could think whatever he wanted; she couldn't care less about the end of this universe. If anything, this was very interesting. "Now the boundaries of the universe have begun to blur. This is a spectacle unseen for trillions of years. Why don't you come and see together?"
Gaia realized that an Outer God's way of thinking was completely different from a normal biological consciousness. She clutched her head in despair. Was the world's destruction a little too frivolous?
"Don't be so tense. How about some coffee? This is something from his subconscious, which can be called a product from outside the universe, a treasure among treasures." Bubble offered two cups of coffee. The warm cups emitted a faint milky fragrance. "Although it looks like coffee, tastes like coffee, and has the exact same effects and composition as coffee."
"Then isn't that just coffee!" Alaya also started to get a headache.