I Rely on Drawing Cards to Set Up a Persona

Chapter 25: Stop Arguing!

When Qiao Xingnan took Ruiert back to the room, he noticed that only one of the knights on guard outside was left, and the other one should have gone to report to the tyrant.

Although he had guessed it before, seeing this scene still gave rise to some urgency in his heart. Now, the most important thing was to get a good show with Zero and Uncle Ster before the tyrant and others made their move.

Thinking of this, Qiao Xingnan remained calm and steady on the surface, but his steps were much faster.

Ruiert, who followed Qiao Xingnan out the door, looked around and suddenly snorted for some reason. Then, he stopped looking around and took a sip of wine, and his attitude seemed a bit reserved.

The two of them quickly walked to the front of Qiao Xingnan’s room.

Inside, Uncle Ster was sitting by the table, wiping his glasses with a white hand towel, while Zero, as usual, was crouching nicely on his mat, looking up at the sunlight shining down through the window in a daze.

The two cards were not bothering each other, and the atmosphere was extremely harmonious.

The next second, the opening of the door sounded. Uncle Ster, who originally had a smile on his face, saw the master followed by Ruiert, and the curvature of his mouth instantly disappeared.

Qiao Xingnan paused in his movements, closed the door behind him, shutting off the view from outside, and said, “Uncle Ster, Zero, we’re back.”

“Ruiert is also sober now. Okay, everyone, please cheer and welcome the newcomer!”

The smile on Qiao Xingnan’s face was very bright and cheerful, ignoring the silent, cold, grim-faced Uncle Ster and Ruiert behind himself, who had an unreadable expression and occasionally took a sip of wine.

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The atmosphere was a little odd for a moment.

The clueless Zero looked at his master at the door and slowly tilted his head. His expression was wooden and dull, but as if in response to his master, the corners of his mouth stiffly pulled out a subtle curve. He stuttered and mechanically said, “Welcome, newcomer.”

It could be seen that Zero was really trying hard to welcome the newcomer.

At this moment, Qiao Xingnan felt that Zero was simply an angel!

Ruiert looked at the cold-faced Ster and then at the expressionless Zero. He raised an eyebrow, squeezed the sword at his waist, and took another sip of wine.

Whether it was intentional or not, Ruiert skipped over Ster and only waved his hand casually in greeting Zero and said, “No need to be polite, little wooden man. Now that we know each other, send some wine to brother in the future. Let me know who bullies you, brother will help you beat him up.”

“Heh.”

A disdainful chuckle suddenly sounded in the air, and a moment later, the owner of the voice said “apologetically” to Ruiert:

“How rude, but please forgive me. It is because I feel sorry for Zero. After all, it is really bad luck to be called casually by a scum.”

Ster put on his glasses and averted his eyes in disgust. When he met Qiao Xingnan’s dumbfounded eyes, he slowly smiled, “Master, it’s hard work. I’m sorry that Ster couldn’t help master. I can’t stand to breathe the same air as the waste.”

Qiao Xingnan looked at Ster, who was constantly on fire, and wanted to say something, but then turned his head to prepare to appease Ruiert.

Ster just had a poisonous mouth, but he didn’t mean anything else in a bad way.

He then noticed that under Ster’s poisonous tongue, the smile at the corner of Ruiert’s mouth remained unchanged, and his hand covered his wine.

Qiao Xingnan sighed in his heart. Ruiert is good. As long as you don’t bother with Uncle Ster, you are the most generous and broad-minded man in my heart!

But the next second, Qiao Xingnan saw Ruiert take a sip of wine, the corners of his mouth pulled, and his dark gray eyes were full of disgust.

“Master ah, why don’t you throw this old immortal into the card pool and save some for wine? Don’t your ears get tired of this?”

Qiao Xingnan: ……old, old immortal?

Ster’s gentle eyes gradually filled with coldness, his hand clenched the ebony cane, but the smile at the corner of his mouth became more and more obvious, inexplicably seeping a little: “Oh dear, the waste standing in front of me really likes to talk big.”

“Treating the elders of the card pool rudely, my poor master is really unlucky to have you.”

“Tsk.” Rueirt was a little displeased. He took a sip of wine and looked at Ster: “You have a problem with your head after spending time in the Chaos card pool? I’ve never seen you before. Your mouth is so foul. Did I steal your wine? It’s ridiculous.”

Never seen Uncle Ster?

Qiao Xingnan instantly felt that these two were not going to be over.

Sure enough, the next second, Uncle Ster’s face was completely devoid of a smile. His face took on a touch of killing intent, looking at Ruiert as he said, word by word: “You’ve never seen me?”

Rueirt nodded his head without any hesitation: “Why, are you wine ah, why should I have seen you?”

“Thirty years ago, in the central domain of the Chaos card pool, the winged race Chi Jin bumped into your wine glass. You hacked twenty tables and thirty-six chairs and swept my carefully prepared Tianming to the ground. The whole party was ruined!”

Ster’s elegant voice was full of resentment, with a vague hint of trembling: “That was my only failure in my elegant card life!”

It is really sad for those who hear and see it.

Qiao Xingnan sympathized with Ster for a second, but it was obvious that this kind of bickering would not work, and there was no end to it.

He frowned lightly and felt he had to find a way to solve the current chaotic situation as soon as possible.

In the unnoticed corner, Zero slowly inclined his head to look at Uncle Ster and then tilted his head to look at Ruiert, full of confusion. What are they arguing about?

Zero, who did not understand what was happening, was silent for a second and continued to sit on the mat with his arms wrapped around his knees to bask in the sun.

As one of the parties involved in the argument, Ruiert let out a harsh sound, his tone equally unpleasant: “So that damn party was thrown by you, then you must know that Chi Jin. Tell him that he needs to be careful with his life as soon as he gets out of the Wing territory. My snow blade doesn’t have eyes.”

“If your ears are useless, you can give them as an offering to the Spirit race, but of course, the head of the Spirit race will surely throw them away in disgust.” Ster sneered.

“I don’t care if you’ll kill Chi Jin, what I care about is that you ruined my party, and that’s the shame of my life.”

So noisy.

Zero slowly raised his hand and, after almost ten minutes, finally covered his ears.

Ster and Ruierte, however, did not feel the least bit noisy. They both felt that they were on the right side and that it was not themselves but the other who should admit fault!

The more the two quarreled, the more fiercely they looked at each other with eyes full of killing intent.

Suddenly, there was a loud clanging sound, and the porcelain cup placed on the table was knocked heavily on it. The piercing sound interrupted the two people’s noisy bickering.

Ster and Ruiert looked over in confusion, only to see that the black-haired man, who had been smiling and had a gentle attitude before, had a cold expression on his face at this time, even those deep golden eyes were full of coldness.

“Have you had enough?” Qiao Xingnan slightly raised his head, his thin lips lightly pursed, his voice cold with a hint of displeasure.

The always gentle and smiling person was angry and had an inexplicable intimidating effect that made people subconsciously shut their mouths.

Although Ster has seen the master reveal this cold, noble, and majestic appearance in front of outsiders, he has always treated him and Zero with a smile. This was the first time he had a stern voice to him, and it was all the fault of this damn Ruiert.

Ster put the blame on the other side fiercely.

The drunkard Ruiert just arrived and did not know the nature of Qiao Xingnan. Seeing that the old man Ster stopped talking, he also did not say anything.

When Qiao Xingnan saw that this worked, the cold look on his face disappeared, and he said with a smile, “That’s right, a family should be harmonious.”

“Ruiert found his wine was spilled, got angry, and fought with that Chi Jin, ruining the party that Uncle Ster had carefully organized. Both of you have your own reasons, and you can say who can’t. You can solve it privately by yourselves.”

“The only thing is that you can’t hurt each other, and don’t let the rest of the manor find out what you’re fighting about. After all, we’re all standing on the same rope now. We’re in this together.”

After Qiao Xingnan finished saying this, he didn’t care what was in the minds of the two people. He walked over to the table, told them to sit down, tapped his finger on the table, and controlled Zero to come over as well.

He took out the paper and pen from the system space.

“Next, we’ll take a look at each person’s script.”

Qiao Xingnan methodically assigned work to the three people. He recently had to brush the goodwill of the tyrant, and the three of them absolutely could not reveal themselves in these two days. They must be in accordance with their own personas.

“My master, that is to say, I need to look down on this waste, is that right?” The smile on Ster’s face was very sincere: “That would suit me too well, my wise master.”

Ruiert took a sip of wine, and he tsked, “You keep your mouth shut, I have a higher status than you in the script.”

Ster smiled politely.

Qiao Xingnan didn’t bother to care about these two. As long as they don’t show their feelings outside, they can argue as much as they like at home.

It was Zero who gave him the most peace of mind.

Thinking so, Qiao Xingnan instructed Zero with a few more words, “Zero, it’s up to you to save the scene when the time comes.”

Zero nodded slowly with a serious face.

Qiao Xingnan chuckled, lowered his head, and continued to mull over the plot, deliberately ignoring the eye fight between Ster and Ruiert next to him.

Almost an hour later, Qiao Xingnan raised his head and once again gave the script to these three and continued, “Ruiert was summoned by me with a ‘magic scroll’. The tyrant at the manor knows about it, but to cooperate with the etiquette, we need to go and talk to him. ”

“Of course, my master.”

Ster stood up and gave a slight salute, “Let’s set off then.”

Tut, he didn’t know if it was an illusion, but Qiao Xingnan felt that Uncle Ster couldn’t wait to act this time.

But this was a good thing, and Qiao Xingnan also no longer thought much about it. He stood up, his fair face cold and condescending, and took the three mysterious subordinates along behind him and walked out the door.

On the other side, Asrit had gotten the letter early – Qiao had used another magic scroll to summon a mystery man.

His green eyes flashed with a dark light as the snake head of the golden python swam towards him. He reached out to press it down and casually placed it around his neck.

“That Ster can really practice magic scrolls.”

The steward of the manor was a little surprised.

On the side, Howard and Ilir were also deep in thought.

Even in Arilance, there were not many people who could make magic scrolls. After all, the human race was not more gifted than the spirit race in this area. The extremely gifted sons and daughters born from intermarriage between the spirit and human races in their early years were more arrogant than one another.

Therefore, even their emperor had no more than ten magic scrolls in total.

“Could it be that Ster is of the Spirit race?”

Ilir guessed in a low voice.

“The existence of the Spirit race is even more mysterious and unpredictable than the Wood race, and Ster doesn’t look like it.” The steward dismissed it straight away.

“What do you think?”

Asrit lowered his eyes, and it was not clear what he was thinking. Then, he raised his eyes slightly to look at Howard and asked meaningfully.

Howard shook his head: “They are a strange group of people. The emperor, whose background is unknown, Zero, who has the bloodline of the Wood race, and Ster, who can refine magic scrolls. I don’t know if the next one may be even more mysterious.”

In fact, Howard thought for a moment that they were really from a mysterious empire on a distant continent, but he soon dismissed this thought. His reason told him that it was impossible for such a coincidence to happen. It simply did not fit the reality.

Howard paused for a moment and said, “But they are probably pawns sent by other empires to confuse people and hide the real purpose behind them.”

But if the surrounding empires were really capable of doing this and could produce these few people of extraordinary ability, they wouldn’t have been held down by Arilance for years.

Asrit gave a hmmm, his green eyes flashed, and he suddenly asked, “Is there any movement from the foreign side?”

Howard didn’t expect the emperor to suddenly ask this. His lips moved, and he reported, “No other moves of the foreign race have been found there for the time being.”

In this continent, most of the foreign and human territories don’t cross with each other.

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The sudden remark by Asrit suddenly made Howard subconsciously think of the worst possibility – it was a plot by the other four human empires uniting with the foreign races.

They spent a lot of energy cultivating such capable people, intending to come against them, Arilance.

But it has only been a few years since the last human war, so why would the foreign races and other empires suddenly target Arilance?

And if the above speculation is true, why did the enemy let those few people behave so brazenly, so openly that they instantly became suspicious of them?

The more Howard thought about it, the more his head hurt. No matter how he thought about it, it was not quite right, and he looked at the emperor sitting above him.

Asrit is the most handsome emperor of Arilance. No emperor in the history of the empire can match his appearance. The light fell on his eyebrows and eyes through the gaps, the light dots leaping, the man’s eyes dropping in contemplation, the high nose, and deep eyebrows make people can’t take their eyes off him.

He saw his fingertips move slightly, seemingly remembering something, and his green eyes flashed with a hint of coldness.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door from outside.

It was an attendant who came to tell them that Qiao Xingnan had come to pay a visit to His Majesty.

Asrit leaned back in his chair and looked at Howard with a faint expression, “Have someone bring them to the study. I will be there later.”

The study?

Howard was stunned for a moment before lowering his head, “As ordered.”