CHAPTER 128: CHAPTER 98: THE DEMON KING’S IDENTITY EXPOSED (4.4K SUBSCRIPTION REQUESTED)_2

"Don’t make it sound like they’re dead! They just heard about an afternoon tea date with a Magical Girl, so they’ve been given a half-day off!"

The Bone Frame turned around in front of Shami, gently tiptoeing and poking its sacrum out towards Shami’s face.

"Oh, that’s why. Later, we can use the Recording Crystal to capture our poses and send them to Miss Lureya and Miss Lina, who are having afternoon tea. Maybe we’ll see expressions they’ve never shown before."

"You’re completely ignoring what I’m saying!"

Shami slapped the sacrum hard.

"Go away! You’re making my hand hurt with that hit!"

"Well, I’m just a skeleton. It’s normal for flesh to hurt when hitting bones, right? Seems like Lady Shami doesn’t know the idiom ’egg hitting a rock’."

"In things like this, common sense surprisingly holds true, skeleton!"

Shami interrupted the skeleton and told it its task.

"Huh? Go to a faraway village and steal all the paintings stored there? You trust me with such an important task?"

"It’s not that important. It’s not like the village is something special; aside from their peculiar taste in aesthetics, it’s just normal villagers."

"Are you planning to use skeletons against normal people? This strategy is really sharp, Lady Shami!"

"It’s simply because your success rate seems higher. After all, once you paint the bones black, at night you’d be completely camouflaged like tools left in the field."

"Don’t compare me to stuff like that! But indeed, Lady Shami hasn’t assigned me any tasks lately. I’ve been playing with Slime all the time; I’m becoming like a pet shop owner, and my bones are getting brittle."

The skeleton stretched its arms wide and took a big stretch.

"Though listening to employees complain is part of my job too, it’s clearly an amazing job. Don’t look down on it."

Shami looked up, and the skeleton hurriedly blocked its chest with its hands halfway through the stretch.

"Lady Shami, H~~"

"So are you listening to what I’m saying or not!"

"I guarantee the task Lady Shami assigned will be completed!"

With these instructions, Shami finally released this mission.

The village mentioned in the task is the same village with the [Save the Village’s Daughter Mission] from a few days ago.

At that time, no one asked for the paintings, and being a villager himself, he had no reason to ask. So now, he’s sending the skeleton to steal all the paintings from there.

It’s not that his aesthetics have changed.

But through touch, activating the Demon King’s Perception skill, he saw the unknown attributes of those paintings.

The one that surprised him the most was a painting that arrived from outside the village, with a completely different style than other oil paintings.

The painting depicts an extraordinary starry night.

The night sky is high and distant, big stars and small stars swirl in the night, the golden full moon forms a huge vortex, while turbulent, restless blue-green streams rotate, agitate, and curl within the canvas, creating swirling nebulae that make the starry night exceptionally lively, as if the whole painting is in motion.

[Name: Starry Night]

[Type: Decoration, Item]

[Quality: Original]

[Attribute: Linen Cloth]

[Description: A painting from an unknown location by an unknown painter. It’s rumored the painter was insane and painted what an insane person sees at night. Many people fall into silence when viewing it, so it’s considered cursed.]

[Function: After viewing, depending on the viewer, there’s a probability of two buffs occurring.

Debuff: Dismal. Makes the viewer’s mood low and plunges into an empty thought state.

Beneficial Buff: Ascension. Can raise the viewer’s mental value and have a chance to gain enlightenment.]

Besides this painting, the remaining paintings with mixed colors and bizarre lines have their own introductions.

[Type: Decoration, Item]

[Quality: Original]

[Attribute: Linen Cloth]

[Description: By an unknown master of abstract oil painting.]

[Function: Hanging these paintings at both ends of a corridor forms a gallery, which can lower the San Value of those passing through and trigger unexpected effects.]

Shami was very familiar with the [Starry Night] painting and began to take interest in the remaining oil paintings.

Not to mention the inherent artistic value of [Starry Night], but simply its functional value seems like a great tool to restore mental value for viewers.

If placed properly, it’s practically a constant beneficial item.

Currently, Shami has only an empty Demon King Castle. Frankly, it’s just a bare castle. Even if a Hero arrived, took a look, they would probably only curse ’There’s nothing here,’ spit, and leave.

If [Starry Night] could be hung in the main hall of the Demon King Castle, the status of the castle would immediately be elevated!

Then hang those dozens of oil paintings along the corridors of the side halls, wouldn’t it form a gallery of artistic merit and a potential trap?

By then, every visitor would surely think the Demon King is a person of culture, hahahaha (*^▽^*)

This is a very necessary item to improve the Demon King’s taste!

They must be obtained.

Yes, this is the so-called Demon King’s treasure plundering phase!

...

Late night.

Shami used the upgraded [Briefing] to check on the skeleton’s situation.

After the [Briefing] skill upgraded by one level, it can not only monitor the movements of Demon Envoys but also observe the actions of the Demon King’s monsters a limited number of times.