In a vast expanse of darkness,
a faintly glowing object appeared.
It was a small, irregular crystal shard, emitting a pale blue luminescence, its surface uneven and rough.
It looked like a small fragment broken off from a larger, complete crystal.
“Snap!”
With a crisp sound,
the crystal shattered.
It transformed into a sky full of pale blue light, then vanished.
Karna suddenly opened his eyes.
Such a familiar object.
“Your Highness, you’re awake.”
Hearing this, Karna quickly turned his head and saw Aliris struggling to rise from the straw pile.
He quickly got up and walked over.
He scanned her condition.
The minor, unwrapped wounds had already healed, and the bloodstains on the bandages had dried, with no fresh blood visible.
It was impossible to tell how well her broken leg had recovered, but it likely hadn't fully healed that quickly.
“You lie down first; I’ll unwrap the bandage and check.”
Karna said, gently pressing Aliris back into the straw pile.
After unwrapping the bandage, he saw that all the scars had scabbed over, and even a small portion had healed.
He had to admit, the recovery was too fast; yesterday, it had looked like mangled flesh.
But then again, for someone with a bit of strength, these injuries were merely superficial.
Plus, there were healing potions and regular medicinal powders.
The fantasy world was like this.
“To be safe, let’s wrap it one more time.”
Karna said, discarding the blood-stained bandage and picking up the unused portion to continue bandaging.
Aliris initially wanted to stop him, but Karna halted her with a look.
Her eyes were fixed on Karna, who was bandaging her.
“I never thought you knew these things, Your Highness.”
Here it comes.
Karna knew that the drastic change in his demeanor couldn't be hidden.
Even if he wanted to feign it, honestly, he couldn't replicate the uselessness of Prince Karna.
“How long have you known me? Before the fall of the Royal City, you had only just become my knight a week ago, hadn’t you?
Not to mention, you barely saw me that week, and your understanding of me must have come from gossip.”
Karna had already prepared his answer.
Based on the original owner’s memories in his mind, and his understanding of the game’s plot, background, and characters.
Hearing Karna say this, Aliris involuntarily nodded; it seemed to be true.
A week before the fall of the Royal City, she had qualified from the Knight Order.
She had sworn allegiance before Prince Karna.
Then, throughout that week, she probably hadn’t met Karna more than twice.
After that came the fall of the Royal City, a continuous flight, during which she was entirely engaged in combat and escape.
However, his shouting and screaming during the escape, and his near-urination from fear upon seeing corpses and monsters, couldn't be faked.
Of course, she didn't actually say it out loud.
“I am merely the Fourth Prince; as for the throne, it’s almost impossible for me.
Since I can’t contend for the throne, I might as well enjoy life.
But as you’ve seen, with the current situation, enjoying life is clearly out of the question.”
Karna said, shrugging his shoulders helplessly.
Seeing Karna like this, Aliris also nodded involuntarily.
It was indeed so.
Watching Aliris believe him, Karna breathed a sigh of relief.
To be honest, this excuse had many loopholes and would only fool someone as blindly loyal as Aliris.
Even if he didn't make an excuse and just brushed her off, Aliris wouldn't do anything; she would still protect him.
“Hiss~” Aliris suddenly cried out in pain.
“Ah, sorry. It seems it’s only half-healed. For your left leg to fully recover, it will take another day or two.”
Karna said, readjusting the tightness of the wooden splint and carefully placing her left leg to the side.
“It’s fine; I was too incompetent,” Aliris quickly said.
Hearing this, Karna looked at Aliris and said with a smile, “No, I have seen your loyalty, and I ask that you continue to guard me in the future, my Knight.”
Upon hearing Karna’s words, Aliris’s face instantly flushed, and she frantically nodded.
She even tried to get up and bow.
However, Karna immediately placed his hand on her shoulder: “But before that, you should rest well, so you can protect me better, isn’t that right?”
Looking at Karna’s smile, Aliris nodded dazedly and lay back down on the straw pile.
She stared blankly at the ceiling.
So, so this was the true Prince?
He… he’s so kind.
A smile, unnoticed even by herself, appeared on Aliris’s face.
Karna, sitting back down beside her, examined himself.
His wounds had fully healed, and the previous headache and fatigue were gone.
He checked his attribute panel.
“Character: Cana Safro Sater”
“Level: 1”
“Status: Normal”
“blood: 10 / 12”
“Mana: 4 / 12”
“Constitution: 6”
“Agility: 5”
“Spirit: 6”
“Evaluation: Clown Prince!”
All abnormal statuses were gone, and with his body’s constitution, it was impossible to recover so quickly.
It seemed the Dataization of his body offered multiple benefits.
Constitution and Spirit had also increased by one point.
Here, the function of attributes needs to be explained.
Constitution, as the name suggests, is related to physical fitness, blood, strength, and other aspects.
The maximum blood is twice the Constitution.
Agility does not refer to movement speed. Instead, it refers to agility of action, balance, hand-eye coordination, and other aspects related to athletic ability.
Spirit is not related to intelligence but to the strength of the brain and soul, an attribute strongly correlated with extraordinary power.
The maximum Mana is twice the Spirit.
The two attribute points gained should be the improvement brought by his battle yesterday.
It shouldn't be experience points; it's more like he received training.
After all, his body was simply too weak before.
But as for this evaluation, honestly, it’s very inaccurate, and I don’t like it at all.
The evaluation on the attribute panel changed.
“Evaluation: A potentially useless person.”
Hmm, that’s more like it.
He put away the attribute panel.
Karna began to think about his future plans; everything happened too quickly after he transmigrated, leaving no time to think.
First, he could confirm that he had transmigrated into a real world, a world highly related to the background story of the virtual game “creation stone” that he had played.
As for whether it was possible, like in those novels, that he had transmigrated into the game, Karna was skeptical.
Because he had played the game, and although it was a virtual game, there were still very obvious differences from reality.
For example, it couldn't simulate smell or taste.
It could only simulate vision and touch through special wearables.
But even so, this virtual game was already very impressive.
So Karna was very certain that he had transmigrated into a real world.
“creation stone” was a large MMORPG game constructed with a fantasy background.
Before he transmigrated, it had gone through several versions and had accompanied players for 10 years.
According to his memory,
it should be the 876th year of the Holy Calendar now.
The game’s plot should begin in the 878th year of the Holy Calendar.
The blood Conspiracy happened this year; well, he was now a firsthand participant.
The Blood Disaster would erupt next year, and before that, he had to leave here, leave the country of Safro.
There were also pursuers behind him who wanted to turn him into a blood kin.
In the former plot, the original owner of this body was dragged back and transformed into a blood kin.
No, no, he absolutely couldn’t accept the appearance of a blood kin, much less their lifestyle.
That was almost as good as death.
So, where did his power, this Dataization power, come from?
In this world, there was only one possibility, coupled with the dream he just had.
Karna seemed to have made a judgment.