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Chapter 10: Cheat

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What should you do if somebody gives you bait when the other side holds complete superiority while you were in the dark?

The answer was very simple: use the bait to ferret out the enemy.

Xing Ye had countless ways to reach the imperial city, so why did he insist on using the route the manipulators designed for him? It was because he wanted to find the people behind the scenes.

There were always opportunities if you were ready. To walk into the opponent's trap and turn the tides, it was a must to be absolutely prepared. Throughout the journey, Xing Ye thought of countless plans. He started with the system's point of view: what did the game itself want from the players? After understanding that, he moved onto analyzing the rules the game hid from him.

Next, he thought from the manipulator's point of view. He inferred from the senior maid's behavior that the three manipulators could contact one another. In other words, the first conclusion was something they decided on together. Under these circumstances where they held absolute dominance, if he was a manipulator, he would definitely set two completely different endings according to the direction of the plot.

Whether Claire was killed by the queen or Claire defeated the queen, Xing Ye would ultimately lose. These two conclusions together with the senior maid's would push him into a corner. It seems that Earl Luca's manor was just a test and the true endings would be set in the imperial palace.

The last viewpoint Xing Ye considered was his own. He would often think back to everything that's happened since he first scanned the QR code until now, occasionally finding details or irregularities that he hadn't considered before.

Apart from pondering on these things, Xing Ye's time with the knights also helped him learn more about this world. There was a huge gap between civilians and nobility. There was a balance between the royal family, aristocrats, and the church. He only decided to instigate the knight captain after considering all of these things.

Xing Ye silently released a little sigh of relief when he saw the knight captain start to get angry.

It seems like the other camp still treated this world as an ordinary game world and weren't aware that it was actually a complete, whole world. Every "NPC" were people with their own soul- the ones who intruded the world were the players.

For things like body searches, nobles and civilians should be split up and respectfully brought into private rooms. For aristocrats with an especially high status, they should be personally greeted by the guards' lord and entertained for a while before being carefully searched by people who were at least knights.

In a complex world like this, without considering every side, you couldn't make people obey even if you had power.

"Dignity". "Etiquette". These were words that seemed useless but many nobles would rather buy grand castles and land even if it built a high desk of debt just to maintain appearances befitting their rank and uphold their dignity. Since ancient times and even now, no matter what era it was, the importance of a person's pride should never be underestimated.

Duke Garcia's knights started to riot. Talk about their disrespectful treatment started to spread through the crowd.

Although the civilians in line didn't care, it was almost the queen's birthday so most of the people waiting at the doors were transportation groups on behalf of nobles. The long line wait originally made people discontent so when such a rumor was circulated, many of them started to resist.