The Fontaine storyline had ended.
But that did not mean Mu Yang's life in Fontaine had ended.
While Lumine was off exploring everywhere, Mu Yang was busy acquiring shops and residences.
The infrastructure in the Court of Fontaine's Soft Light Harbor was also nearing completion.
He needed to prepare early for the goods from Yilong Wharf.
As for the residential area, he had of course "casually" bought several buildings.
Furina's residence happened to be among them.
So now, Mu Yang could be considered Furina's landlord.
Some connections were worth securing in advance, whether they would be useful or not. It was better to have them under control.
The little cake-lover was still the macaroni weirdo.
She stayed shut in her room all day and only went out once a week.
She would go out to buy macaroni and various different seasonings.
Of course, landlord Mu Yang would not disturb her.
Five hundred years — digesting the emotions and pressure accumulated over five hundred years was not something a stranger like Mu Yang could resolve with just a few words.
It was better to wait for the Traveler of the world — Lumine — to handle it.
There was also Clorinde.
He wondered what she was thinking. Was a simple apology and invitation really that hard to say out loud?
Never mind. These matters should be left for the people involved to worry about themselves.
Mu Yang only needed to pay attention to one thing: the day Furina received her Vision.
He had to make proper waterproofing preparations.
That night, she would definitely get too excited, become engrossed in researching it, and then cause a flood that would submerge the entire apartment…
Now that the apartment was his, he still needed to guard against it.
After finishing all this, Mu Yang waited for Navia to come find him to discuss the project.
It was about the upcoming cooperation between the Spina di Rosula and Chenyu Vale.
Oh right, there was also the invitation from Hotel Bouffes d'ete.
The Knave seemed quite interested in Mu Yang.
However, both matters were still some time away.
What he should do now was check his performance in Fontaine and his popularity value.
Mu Yang opened the system panel. He could only say — yes, everything was within his plan.
His screen time was neither too much nor too little. He did not steal the players' spotlight, nor did he overshadow the protagonist's brilliance.
At the same time, his own grandeur did not drop.
This could also be considered making good use of Rene's side storyline.
Regarding this storyline, Mu Yang had looked at the comments from parallel Earth.
Many people said they still felt a bit confused after watching it.
This was also within Mu Yang's expectations.
When he had played it himself back then, he hadn't understood many things either.
Because the information was really too fragmented.
Some were in weapon descriptions, some in artifact stories, and some scattered in various corners of the map…
"Maybe I should still write an analysis?"
Mu Yang thought this way. After all, he had made use of Rene.
If his intervention caused Rene's reputation to be damaged, that would indeed be somewhat inappropriate.
Writing an article to clear his name would not be out of line.
Just as he thought of this, the system tossed him a link.
It was a video Silver Wolf had just posted — "Full Interpretation of the Narzissenkreuz Series Quests."
Alright, looks like he wouldn't have to busy himself with it after all.
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On parallel Earth, Silver Wolf had just finished uploading this massive project and was almost exhausted to the point of collapse.
This time had really been too difficult.
She had organized and combined various fragmented pieces of information, finally piecing together the entire storyline of the Narzissenkreuz Ordo and the relationships between all the characters.
Completely worn out, she fell asleep with her head on the desk.
When she woke up, she discovered that in the small group chat, Guinaifen and the others had already praised her to the skies.
Little Gui was the most honest: "If you hadn't posted it, I wouldn't even know how to brag about the plot to the family."
Sparkle was a lazy dog. She couldn't be bothered to look for those fragmented pieces of information herself. Now that someone had sorted it out, she could just enjoy watching.
"I'm not watching for free. I tossed in two coins and liked it too."
"Mom" felt heartache and gave her a pat.
Mu Yang had also been spamming gifts like crazy in the livestream room even though he wasn't streaming, directly maxing out the popularity.
The other streamers were all sour about it.
[Is this how people make money nowadays? This is just collecting rent, right? Not streaming and still getting boss donations?]
[My cold-legged uncle is genuinely envious. Boss Mu Yang, throw some my way too.]
[The amount of gifts he sent is already many times higher than the earnings from that video itself.]
[Our little wolf deserves it. Steamed bun, you got a problem with that?]
For the current Mu Yang, such "big spending" behavior didn't actually cost much popularity.
Besides, this video was indeed well made.
It explained everything in great detail. Aside from Alain's ending, which was currently unavailable,
Silver Wolf had basically covered everything.
Including why Mary-Ann fused, why she created An, and the assistant Caterpillar, among others.
It also let Mu Yang reminisce once more about Rene's story —
This story had to start from the Gray River Purge.
The endpoint of Fontaine's urban optimization was that the sewers became a city beneath the city.
Those sewers were the Gray River.
The adults were kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see the poor, so they drove all the poor people into the sewers.
And the ones maintaining order in the Gray River were naturally not the bureaucrats of the Court of Fontaine.
It was a man named Eduardo Baker.
At first, he simply picked up copper pipes (4-star weapon: Gray River Ferryman) to drive away crocodiles.
Later, he protected merchants and shopkeepers from extortion by strongman gangs.
In the end, he became the leader of the Gray River —
Mediating disputes among his Gray River compatriots and blessing newlyweds.
"Let those under the sunlight have what belongs to them. What belongs to the Gray River is ours."
[Gray River Godfather Eduardo, right?] (These are video comments)
["Kind-hearted bureaucrats"]
[Fontaine seems a bit too urbanized]
[Finished the main story with a confused face, came running to watch the analysis]
[Isn't this what Yu Qian's father did? (funny)]
It was obvious that Fontaine's urban optimization had no end.
This time, even the Gray River became the target of optimization.
The people of the Gray River did not sit and wait for death. However, in front of the hounds of the gears, they were no different from throwing eggs at a rock.
How could bandits and ruffians fight against the Marechaussee Hunters?
Soon, Eduardo and his followers were captured.
Everyone was sentenced to exile in the desert.
During the escort, Eduardo's subordinates successfully rescued them. The group, together with bandits active in Autumn Mountain, occupied Poisson Town.
They took the members of the Maison Ordalie responsible for the escort as hostages.
[They've gone up the mountain]
[Brother!]
[Those black stockings!]
While the Court of Fontaine and the Gray River were in a stalemate,
A reporter named Karl Ingold began traveling between the Court of Fontaine and Poisson Town.
His purpose was to convey the demands of both sides.
He believed that the conflict between the Gray River and the Court of Fontaine was not irreconcilable.
The reporter was still very young at the time, full of vigor.
He believed his efforts would definitely lead Fontaine toward a brighter future.
For this reason, Karl specially went to Poisson Town and took a group photo of the several leaders at the time.
In the photo were Gray River leader Eduardo and his son Jakob,
Poisson Town's mayor and his son Rene,
and the great magician Parsifal's family.
At that time, Jakob was still a shy young man tugging at Rene's sleeve.
Rene stared at the camera with eyes full of curiosity.
The adults looked forward, their faces turned pale by the camera's flash.
What they were gazing at seemed to be neither Ingold nor the camera,
but the future under the sunlight.
However, facing the "unreasonable demands" of the "Gray River rebels," how could the nobles of the Court of Fontaine agree?
They dispatched the Marechaussee Hunters, who attacked Poisson Town under the cover of night…