Lampard didn't even look at him: "Go? Aren't you going to explain your offensive behaviour towards the king?"
"Ah, Explain? Well...you know... I was only joking. Yeah! Joking! You know I had grown up with him, right? I just didn't control my magic properly. I'm only a novice mage, not even a star rank."
Gill quickly found an excuse. He was BSing so fluently that he almost believed in what he was saying. As he was spewing out excuses, he sensed a cold stare as sharp as a blade on his neck from Lampard. He knew that this man could kill him as easily as an ant. He was scared to continue to say anything, so he shut himself up and sheepishly smiled.
Lampard had a disgusted look on his face. He closed his hand, and everyone in the palace felt an invisible pressure. But Lampard's face showed that he had thought of something. He hesitated a bit; then opened his palm again, and the pressure was gone. "
Get out of here! There's no next time!"
Lampard said as if he were shooing away a fly.
"Ok, ok, ok.."
Gill was relieved like a prisoner who received a death penalty just got a pardon. He exhaled rapidly and bowed down to the tall man carrying the sword.
"Wait!"
As Gill was preparing to leave this place, Fei suddenly stopped him. Gill looked at Lampard, but the old man didn't say a word. He had to stop and listen to what Fei had to say. Fei gave his widest smile as he got closer and closer to Gill. He casually put his hand on Gill's shoulder. Everyone thought the king was going to say something to comfort Gill because of his friendliness.
However, He didn't say anything and started to slap Gill on the face like crazy. "Don't ever do that again! Don't ever fucking do that again!" He kept on yelling as he was slapping.
"Pia – Pia – Pia – Pia —"
The sound of the slaps almost formed a symphony.
Fei's action sent Angela and Emma into shock once more. The "cold" faced Lampard was surprised by this as well.
"Is this brutal and crazy man the king? Is this really the idiot king Alexander?"
Poor Gill didn't know what to do. The appearance of Lampard had scared him into not using his abilities, and now he's afraid to even defend himself against Fei's assault.
Gill regretted what he did as Fei got his revenge.
"If I knew Alexander became this shameless after being shot by an arrow, I'd never have come here!"
He cried in his mind.
Fei finally stopped as his hand became numb. Gill thought his nightmare was over as he stopped sniveling like a bitch. Who knew that Fei rubbed his hands and kicked Gill right in the nether regions? He screamed in pain. His body quickly reacted by mimicking a fried shrimp. He bent his back and started to desperately crawl out of the palace as if he were escaping hell.
He had finally learnt his lesson and didn't want to ever see this insane king again.
"You got lucky this time!"
Fei yelled at Gill. He was a simple man. He was not going to take any sort of humiliation and act like nothing had happened. He wanted revenge on the spot.
After releasing his anger on Gill, he felt much better. As Fei turned around, he saw the shocked expressions on Angela, Emma, and Lampard's faces. They were staring at him as if he were some unknown monster.
"Shit! Did I overreact?"
Fei thought.
"Oh! My head is dizzy, I'm fainting!"
He fell onto the floor.
Angela and Emma, who still had a hand mark on her face, got nervous; they thought the arrow injury was recurring again. They dragged him to the bed.
Lampard looked at Fei. He was suspicious of Fei's terrible acting, but he didn't say anything. He asked Angela about Fei's arrow injury, comforted both Angela and Emma a little, and left with a ton of questions on his mind.
"My Majesty, the enemies are still besieging; it looks like your soldiers can't defend any longer."
This is the last thing Lampard said before he left. Angela and Emma stood by him for a while. After seeing no sign of Fei waking up, Angela took Emma to the priest to get her face treated.
...
After only Fei was left in the palace, he calmed down and started to think about the whole situation. Obviously, he was in another universe. Not only did Angela and Emma, but that meatball-shaped magician's magic and that mysterious old master's powerful skills have proven it. Fei was a poor graduate student. He grew up in an orphanage. He was in a hopeless situation because he had incurred a lot of debt for university, but couldn't find a job to pay it off. After thinking about it, Fei concluded that becoming the king in another universe was not a bad thing.
"As a king, I probably can do anything I want!"
He thought.
He couldn't wait to use his powers. He started to map his situation.
"Looks like on my way back to my apartment, I was hit by a bright disk of some sort. I'm probably dead on the spot, but somehow my soul came to this universe and possessed the body of this Alexander."
From what has happened, Fei pieced together that this young king only had the intelligence of a 3-year-old. He didn't know what had happened to the last king, but the throne was taken by this Alexander. Obviously, all the ministers were opposed to this young king.
Fei remembered getting shot by an arrow and then waking up in this bed.
"Probably by the time on the wall, my soul had just gained possession of this body. I'm not sure where the 'original' Alexander went, but I'm the new Alexander now!"
The original Alexander, the king, was really an idiot.
Fei possessed his body and, for sure, took over his memories as well. All he got was the basic information, such as the language spoken in this kingdom and some simple hobbies that the previous tenant of this body had. Other than that, Fei had no idea how big this kingdom was and how everything else worked. He only knew Angela, hifiancé,ecé after he woke up in this world for the first time, and he had no recollection of Gill and Lampard.
"Thank God this guy was dumb; from now on, when I mimic him, no one can tell I'm someone different."
Fei touched his chin and nodded. But suddenly, he remembered something else.
"Before Lampard left, he mentioned something about enemies sieging the castle and that the soldiers can't defend any longer!"
"Damn it!"
Fei almost jumped out of bed.
"Am I going to be a slave right after I become the king?"
The pressure of survival and reality scared Fei.
"Maybe I should pack up and sneak out of here? Shit! How can I sneak out when the enemies have already surrounded the castle? Can 'master' Lampard kill them? Wait, he is just one man; how can he face off an army? Plus, the enemies probably have 'masters' too!"
Fei had no idea how he was going to get out of this situation. When he was on earth, he was just a student. He had no talent in the military or in fighting. The best he could do was to handle a drunk dude at the bar. If you want him to lead an army, he didn't have enough strength to wear a full metal armour.
Fei was furious.
"Why can't I just live my ordinary life on earth? I don't want to be the king anymore!"
At this moment,
"Collecting players' information .... 20%.... 50%.... 88%.... 100%. Game system installation initiated ... Scanning brain capacity ... requirement met ... install ...."
A mysterious, mechanical-sounding voice appeared out of nowhere. It scared Fei almost to the death. This voice appeared directly in his mind.
"Shit, what is this? Ghost?"
He got no replies.
"Installation complete. Entering the Diablo world in 3...2...1... enter!"
Like the characters in the TV series Stargate who travel through the stargate, Fei felt dizzy, and a mysterious and strange wave went through his body.
[Rogue Encampment]
Fei stood like a zombie at [Rogue Encampment], where the new players spawn in the game Diablo. His mind was blank. He had been standing here for the last 5 minutes. 5 minutes ago, after the 3-second countdown in his mind by the voice, his vision blurred, and he landed here. This was a real Diablo world. A perfect and lively world. This was the conclusion Fei came to after 5 minutes.
The sky was dark, and the rain was pouring down. An unknown dark green bryophyte had grown all over the ground. Dark soil appeared further away. The camp was empty.
"Cluck, cluck, cluck"
Only a few hungry hens were seeking food in the rain. A cold breeze blew through Fei, and he shuddered in the cold. The vivid sensation from every nerve in his body reminded him that this was real, this was a real world, not a stiff 2D computerized screen.