The Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich
chapter-588

Chapter 588: Unreliable Reinforcements

Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu

Conservation—she was a powerful Undead Emperor, a genius who managed to achieve Main God power level all by herself, and an individual with the greatest… misfortune possible.

In her first fight against Roland, she’d gained much inspiration from him, and advanced herself significantly in her field of energy research. She successfully entered a realm that nobody had ever achieved before. But just as she ambitiously began her plans to conquer the mortal plane, she met with Roland yet again.

In her second fight against Roland, Conservation hadn’t been in top condition, as she had only recently descended into the mortal plane. Neither had she had the time to use her trump cards when she was seriously injured by Roland’s shameless tactics. Then, since she started absorbing the power of death from Roland’s Hell in order to help herself recover, she became bound by the dimensional laws of Hell, and became a part of Hell for eternity.

This hadn’t been Roland’s original plan. Even he didn’t expect Conservation to instinctively start absorbing the power of death from Hell after she was injured.

This was an accidental trap, the most difficult type to defend against.

But since this was already set in stone, Conservation could only let it be water under the bridge. One advantage that geniuses had over ordinary people was that geniuses would rarely be stubborn about something. They would know how to be flexible ¹ . And for any mage, being foolish would be the most unacceptable character trait. It would also be impossible to become a mage if you had a low Intelligence stat.

Since she was an Undead Emperor, Conservation’s Intelligence stat couldn’t possibly be any lower than 30. She soon accepted the fact that it would be impossible for her to leave Roland’s personal Hell world… Yep, by soon, that actually meant after she sent a barrage of several hundred forbidden spells against his world, confirming that his world was indestructible. She then theorized that even if this world was somehow destroyed, she would end up destroyed together with it. That was when she finally calmed down.

“Roland, you still dare to come see me?”

“Of course. Just think about it. Maybe it will be easy for you to kill me, but if I die, will this world of mine still exist…?”

As he was the creator of this bug-like world, this world would only exist as long as Roland lived. And if this world no longer existed, then it was easy for Conservation to understand that she would no longer exist as well, for she was now permanently bound to Roland’s world.

Alright, it seemed that Roland had indeed done a wonderful job, judging from the results. But if you looked at it morally, this truly seemed like a crime.

And once Conservation calmed down yet again, Roland successfully had a difficult yet effective negotiation, which pretty much went like this…

“Just try killing me if you dare! Haha, just kill me! Wahahaha!

“Hahaha, you really don’t dare to kill me anymore, eh? You don’t dare to kill me, right? You don’t dare to kill me, heeheehee!

“Wahaha, if I die, you die. If you die, I’ll still have a fun life out there. The world out there is so beautiful! The weather today is truly wonderful!

“Cough, I should stop acting ridiculous now, so we should probably talk about serious matters now. Yep, let’s start with the rent. There’s also the water utilities and electric utilities along with the rent. Do you intend to pay me with your body? Or pay me with cash? How do you feel about camping outside? I do have a trailer home here, but it’ll be a little expensive. Of course, I can also help to purchase any consumables or extravagant items that you need…”

Perhaps this seemed like the author intentionally trying to pad the word count. Still, it would be difficult for the author to describe just how childish Roland had been without quoting these words.

Naturally, Roland still had a grudge regarding Conservation beating up so much on him. Since he now had the opportunity where he could do anything he wanted during negotiation with no consequences, it was only natural for him to act so childishly.

Of course, Conservation could have refused to negotiate with Roland. But for someone as sly as Roland, as long as negotiating didn’t go well, he would unhesitatingly disappear for an entire day at a time. He would then reappear the next day as if nothing happened. He was actually hinting to Conservation with this.

“Hey now, it doesn’t matter to me. I can just abandon this world if I have to. What about you, though? Are you intending on isolating yourself from the outside world forever? You want to live by yourself in this tiny world for the rest of your life? You’ll be all alone in a pitch-black dimension for countless years. You’ll also have to worry every day that I might suddenly die, which will cause my world and you along with it to die as well. Heeheehee, this is probably even more pitiful than being exiled to another dimension.”

Since the sides in this negotiation were on completely unequal footing, this negotiation basically became nothing more than pure one-sided extortion.

Conservation would have accepted this result sooner or later even without Roland acting so ridiculously. But, with Roland acting like this, even though this only made both sides’ distaste for each other grow even further, this indeed helped Conservation to calm down quicker and reach an accord with Roland.

Actually, just the fact that Roland had directly caused Aso’s death, when Conservation was Aso’s lover, would already make Conservation and Roland into mortal enemies. Conservation and Roland had already battled to death every time that they met. And even though they now had a “ceasefire”, it was impossible for the two of them to start a friendly relationship.

Roland agreed to all of Conservation’s conditions… he put the floating Yongye City into his personal world for Conservation to live in, he put some of Conservation’s servants into this world, and purchased some female articles for everyday use for her… Since this unfortunate Undead Emperor was no longer able to leave Roland’s world, that was just about all she could ask for.

Meanwhile, Roland’s conditions were way overboard.

“I will provide you with research topics and materials. You do the work researching them for me, but you have to share all your research results. You need to develop this world and become its manager, yep, basically becoming an administrator in my place. You have to help me whenever I need you to. Relax, I would never ask someone who has Main God level power like you to deal with any ordinary opponent.”

And so, Roland gained a personal magical assistant who absolutely hated his guts, yet she would be forced to pray for his safety. That arena which Roland previously used to trap the Onibabas in was also something that Conservation’s servants had constructed. His personal bug-like world of Hell seemed like it could now potentially develop into an undead country.

Of course, Conservation could refuse to cooperate. In that case, all Roland needed to do was stop visiting her at set times, which would truly isolate Conservation from the outside world.

Roland was also capable of leaving his personal world at any time he pleased, so he wasn’t worried about Conservation doing anything to him.

“She’s so similar to me from back in the day, but I think she’s even more pitiful than I am…”

Harloys’ assessment seemed mysteriously sad. Things seemed even more sad with Roland’s comment of “If I die, you die. If you die, I’ll still have a fun life out there.”

And now, it was time for Conservation to act out her half of the agreement. It was time for her to fight against Roland’s enemy.

I opened up my miraculous world, where a gigantic arena now surrounded myself and Lasnina. This time, not only were there undead spectators watching, there was also the Main God level Undead Emperor watching from the sky in my Yongye City.

“Conservation, I need your power!”

“I refuse.”

“What?”

Hey, this wasn’t supposed to be how the story went! How could she go against me at such a critical moment?

When I looked up at the sky, the ethereal figure floating in the sky had already transformed into a physical one. Her beautiful face covered by a black veil seemed so pale as if lacking any blood. It was unmistakable that her eyes were burning with pure hatred for me.

I instantly understood with a single look. Conservation had gone insane! She intended to kill me no matter what, even if it cost her life!

[As expected, her previous compromises were only in order to lull you into mistaking her true intentions.]

“Those who commit too many evil deeds will definitely meet a deserving end. Women are such creatures who view their emotions with more importance than their lives.”

“System, could you please stop stating such things after the fact? Silly cat, why act like you’re an expert in this area? At most, you count as a female cat! You don’t even count as a woman!”

But for some reason, maybe I had some type of harem luck upon me? Recently, there had been so many powerful women trying to kill me.

[That’s not what harem luck is supposed to mean…]

“Hey, stop blaming fate for your problems. Please first self-reflect to see if there’s a problem with your own personal character. Since your ability to attract hatred is wondrously strong, you should stop blaming the pitiful God of Fate.”

One beautiful woman was above me, and one beautiful woman was in front of me. Both of them were directly staring at me with death glares. It was unmistakable that both Conservation and Lasnina wanted me dead even if it cost them their lives. I suddenly became rather excited.

“Hey, hey, hey, isn’t that the wrong style for this story? I’m almost dead, so why would I be excited? Harloys, can you please be a little more serious with the narration? Stop pretending to narrate in my voice!”

I no longer had any time to waste. In just this short moment, Conservation had swiftly begun casting spells. She already tossed several spells in my direction.

Some of her spells were buff and healing spells on Lasnina. Some of her spells were undead curses to debuff me. Even though she already knew that it was probably impossible for her to stop me from leaving with any space magic, she still sent plenty of dimensional anchoring and slowing spells in my direction.

“You stinky woman, I’m going to lock you up for half a year to self-reflect when I get out of here!”

“You’ll have to survive first, heehee.”

Conservation smiled so beautifully as if she was a blooming night lily. She appeared to be very self-confident and scholarly. To be honest, this was the first time I had ever seen her smile. She even appeared to be somewhat cute. However, it was impossible for me to be happy as her smile was because she looked forward to my death.

“Crazy woman!”

I didn’t immediately leave my personal world. Instead, I raised both my hands and shouted, “Fire at Roland!”

At that instant, every single cannon and mage tower in Yongye City lit up, and countless attacks and fireballs all shot towards… Conservation.

There was no helping it. I would have preferred to attack Lasnina, but I had already preprogrammed my Yongye City to attack another target.

“Both of you are so underhanded…”

Even Harloys wanted to make a comment about how dirty our tactics were as smoke clouded our vision. It would seem that both Undead Emperors who’d signed so many cooperation and alliance agreements with each other had still been trying to kill each other after all.

I didn’t have any time to joke around with the silly cat anymore. When Lasnina confirmed that the powerful existence in the sky was truly my enemy, she unhesitatingly used a sudden ultimate attack against me.