Attribute Farming System

After a bonking session that took far longer than it should have, Knox returned to his original question.

To which Cela responded with a chilling voice:

"That blade bastard and his sword servant bastard actually dared to target you, Darling. I'll kill them."

Observing her total personality flip, Knox sighed in resignation. "So you came to back me up? Don't tell me you left your territory completely unprotected…"

"Yep, yep!" Cela goofily giggled. "I brought everything at my disposal~! I'd do anything for Darling~! A.n.y.t.h.i.n.g~"

Silence…

'This chick is batshit crazy, but her heart is in the right place,' Knox thought, conflicted. 'She's good to me—too good for someone like me…'

Knox lightheartedly karate-chopped Cela's head.

"Ouchies! What was that for, Darling??"

Knox looked away from the charmingly pouty girl, his eyes glossing over the massive army she had brought with her. "Stop being dumb."

"Dumb?" Cela repeated in confusion. "What did I do that was dumb, Darling?"

'I feel like her blind obsession with me will end up with her dying a very stupid death one day…'

Knox couldn't even muster up another sigh. He simply karate-chopped her head before floating away.

"Tell your army to return to your territory," he instructed calmly, his back turned to Cela. "You yourself should also go back. I don't need you here; you'll only get in the way."

Contrary to how she should have reacted, Cela's smile blossomed. "That's fine, Darling! I like being in your way; that means we'll always be close to one another~!"

Couldn't this yandere girl catch a damn hint!?

Following him would only lead to her being exposed to even greater dangers! Was she unaware of that, or did she simply not give a damn??

"Haiz," Knox sighed. "Just don't stray too far away from me. If you die, don't haunt me as a ghost."

"If I die, I'm not leaving your side!" Cela said as she interlocked her arms with his. "Whether in life or death, you'll never be able to escape me, Darling~!"

"F*cking great," Knox accidentally blurted out. "Still, tell your army to go back whence they came. I don't need mine, so I naturally don't need yours either."

"Kk, Darling~!" Cela replied before turning toward her huge levitating army. Her demeanor took a 180 as she coldly shouted, "Get your lousy a*ses back to the capital! If a single one of you is still here by the count of three, I'll gut you and display your mutilated corpses in front of my castle!!"

"Yes, Ma'am!"

Everyone dispersed, their fear still lingering in the atmosphere.

"…This girl," Knox quietly muttered to himself. "Just what sort of crazy have I unknowingly linked myself to…?"

Turning back to him, Cela's icy expression vanished without a trace. She tightly embraced him, her ahoge hair taking on the shape of a heart.

"Teehee, Darling~"

"Don't teehee me, you insane woman!" Knox attempted to push her off, but she clung to him like glue. "Get off me; you're too close."

"Uhn-uh~" Cela shook her head, giggling. "Likes it right here. You told me not to leave your side ever and to stay with you forever, so that's what I'll do~"

*Snuggle, snuggle*

A vein bulged on Knox's forehead. "Don't make yourself comfy, dingus," he snarled, finally pushing her off. "Don't come within six feet of me. Whatever disease you have is something I don't want."

Cela pouted.

That was when she remembered something she had meant to give him. "Here, Darling, I saved this for you," she said excitedly, taking a shimmering half-black, half-gold pill out of her Spatial Ring. "And don't worry, the weird time-flow of this world hasn't lessened the medicinal efficiency of the pill!"

She shoved it into Knox's hands, seemingly not the least bit reluctant to give away an item that could have helped her tremendously.

'This woman makes it so hard to keep her at a distance,' Knox heaved a deep breath. "Fine, you can be within six feet of me."

"Really!?" Cela beamed, latching onto him right away. "If someone looks at us like this, do you think they'll assume we're marri—"

"Don't get ahead of yourself," Knox said. "And also, you must take this pill back. I won't let you be so close unless you do."

"B…But—"

"I don't care what you have to say," Knox's voice cut through hers. "Either take the pill, or watch as I throw it away. I don't like the color of it, so I'll be getting rid of it one way or another."

Looking between the outstretched hand holding a Heaven-rank Pill and the handsome face belonging to its owner, Cela's heart-shaped pupils pulsated. More hearts floated off the top of her head as she rubbed herself all over him.

"I love you, Darling~" she earnestly declared as she picked the pill from his hand with her mouth and tongue. She then swallowed it and traced her hand from her throat to between her bosom and finally to her stomach. "Also loves what you put inside me~"

Knox might have been slightly taken aback when she suddenly said those three words, but that shock quickly turned into visible disgust. He bonked her before flying far away.

"Wait for me, Darling!"

"No, go f*ck yourself!"

"Only if you join me~!"

A pair of mentally unstable young cultivators zipped through the skies at many times the speed of light. They traded insults and love declarations in an endless cycle as the otherworldly-looking man led them toward another powerful kingdom to conquer.

Little did they know that a short red demonic imp was watching them from the folds of space.

"Master, they're on the move," it said through a soul connection. "They'll be passing by your territory at some point."

"Good."

A voice came from the other side of the connection. It belonged to none other than the second eldest son of the Blade King—Lucidador.

He swirled the cup of wine he was holding, his sinister expression reflected in the crimson liquid. Right beside him was Lenon—a genius of the sword who wore an expression eerily similar to his senior brother's.

Their plan had worked!