"Your Majesty, it's time to get up." The head priest opened the curtains to reveal the splendid underwater scenery outside the glass window.
Ming Yue groaned in dissatisfaction. "Five more minutes."
High Priest Sean smiled helplessly. "It's been seven 'five minutes' already, Your Majesty."
Ming Yue "..." Alright. This guy is just as diligent as always. When she was still playing the game, she thought this lavender-eyed, blond beauty was so charming and gentle and her heart would always feel warm and fluffy whenever he greeted her every morning and reported the daily issues and happenings in the kingdom. Now when put in reality, however, she couldn't help shedding a few tears. Heartwarming her a*s! This guy was sent to torture her!
It's been a week since she traveled into the game and there was not a single day when this guy failed to wake her up every morning to give his daily greetings and reports on the various 'blahblahblahs' of the underwater kingdom.
"Sean dear, I have a very useful proposition."
"I'm all ears, Your Majesty."
"Why don't I set up a statue of myself in the main hall and you go there to pay your greetings instead. Won't that be nice? You wouldn't have to swim all the way to my chambers and spend so much effort to wake up lazy me every morning, no?"
High Priest Sean's smile remained unchanged. "Your Majesty's statue is good."
Ming Yue's eyes lit up.
"But it wouldn't be as good as the real person."
Ming Yue "..." (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ D*mned hypocrite! I think you're just holding a grudge at me for letting you work so hard to manage the kingdom in my stead all these years and is specifically using these so called morning rituals to bother me!
"Fine. Whatever makes you happy."
"Getting a glimpse of Your Majesty's divine countenance every morning is the only thing that makes this subordinate happy."
Hehe. She'll pretend she didn't hear such cloying words.
Getting out of bed, she swam all the way to the main hall, sat down on her gilded throne and slowly closed her eyes.
"Your Majesty, are you going to sleep again?" A helpless voice came from beside her.
Ming Yue's face was full of black lines and she opened her eyes to glare at him. "I'm meditating. Meditation! Got it?!"
Sean nodded perfunctorily. Not believing her at all. "Indeed. Your Majesty is diligent and wise."
"Scram!"
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After sending away her bothersome subordinate, Ming Yue finally regained her peace and she leaned back lazily on her throne.
"System, are you there?"
[Yes Beloved Host. What can Xiaoqi do for you?]
"Show me my STATS."
[Will do, Beloved Host~]
Name: Ming Yue
Identity: Sea Goddess
Territory: Seven Seas
Level: 49/100
EXP: 66, 741/ 67,000
Charm: 48/100
Luck: 47/100
Gold Coins: 237, 090,051
Jewels: 3, 742
Ability: Water, Air, and Wood Control
...
Ming Yue frowned. "System, what's the matter with this data?" She had been busy doing tasks these past few days in order to brush up her experience points and had no time to check her status yet the moment she did, what did she see?
"I can understand that my already maxed out level had been reduced in half due to the use of energy in transporting me to this world but what's wrong with the sudden decrease in both my level, charm, and luck?" Logically speaking, after doing daily tasks issued by the system during this week, her level should have gone up. Why did it drop instead?
[ Xiaoqi's Darling Host~ It may have something to do with the fact that you haven't absorbed the essence of the sun and moon ever since you came to this world which caused a drastic decrease in your vitality. Reminder: Not absorbing the essence of the sun and moon for a whole seven days will cause a decrease in level, a drop of two points in charm and minus three points of luck~]
Ming Yue "..." Essence of the sun and moon? Was she in a Western Fantasy Game World or a Chinese Immortal Cultivation Novel World? Moreover, ignoring those settings, the essence of the moon is fine since underwater creatures tend to have a yin* type of physique but what's the matter with the essence of the sun?
Doesn't that mean she'll have to go ashore and bask in the sun?
Although she had the mindset of a salted fish, she didn't have the intention to literally become dried fish,ah!
(A/N: Salted Fish refers to people who tend to live in a leisurely way. Not competting or doing anything unnecessary. Just lying down to win.)
"If I don't?"
[My sweetiepie's level will continue to drop.]
"Tsk. You win."
Hurriedly packing a few of her necessities, Ming Yue left a message detailing her short departure to High Priest Sean before setting off to the surface. She'll be gone for a week in minimum and a month at most so there's no need to worry much about her absence.