Read Novel Full Chapter 229: Switching Up On Day 1’s
Chapter 229: Switching Up On Day 1’s
Immediately as Lucius said it, everyone cleared and began packing up their tents... which honestly made the entire scene look like a bunch of startled ants scrambling after someone kicked the hill.
The sudden shift from relaxed morning sluggishness to frantic work was so dramatic that Vanessa could only sigh as she crossed her arms.
"Just ask him if he wants breakfast... grapes won’t do him any good," she said with a tired expression.
Grimm nodded obediently and hurried across camp toward the two men who were still carrying Lucius on their shoulders like some kind of royal palanquin.
When Grimm reached them, he paused, unsure if he should bow or salute or just... stand.
Lucius looked down at him with an expression that was vaguely unfamiliar... his eyes were distant and his posture was very aristocratic while his hand daintily plucking grapes off the stick Ayela was holding.
It was almost as if Lucius genuinely did not recognize Grimm.
"Boss, Guild Leader said I should ask if you want breakfa—"
"Who is this ’Boss’ you speak of?" Lucius cut him off, his gaze sweeping lazily around as though searching for some peasant who dared speak out of turn.
His eyes stopped on Ayela, who floated by his side holding out a stick... now refilled with fried chicken instead of grapes. "Do I know him?"
Ayela’s face twisted slightly. She hated every second of this performance... but he was paying her one hundred thousand royals per day for the act.
That was enough to set her future vacation plans straight, so she swallowed her pride.
’One hundred thousand per day... just ten more days and my savings will be back,’ she thought.
"No, Master," Ayela said sweetly, raising her hand to her lips as if she were a highborn noblewoman hiding an amused laugh. "You cannot know someone who dresses as poorly as he does. Look at his uniform... no real design aside from that emblem of his inferior guild. And his hair... do you even comb that?"
Grimm opened his mouth to defend himself, but he never got the chance.
Because the entire Supreme Guild including the two men carrying Lucius began laughing at him.
Not just any laugh, but that annoying, aristocratic sort. One hand raised elegantly to their lips, light chuckles layered over smug expressions.
Even Lucius joined them.
And suddenly Grimm wanted the ground to swallow him whole.
"Begone, tout," Lucius said lightly, flicking his wrist dismissively. "Adjust your dressing and your hair before speaking to me again."
Grimm ran in the direction of Luna and Vanessa while they both stared back at him like they’d witnessed a social execution.
’That settles it... until the end of this trip, I’m switching up on my Day 1’s,’ Lucius thought with a smile.
Sure, Vanessa wouldn’t cook for him anymore but there were quite some beautiful women in the guild. Someone would help him, surely... plus Minerva who was currently dressed like one of them in a disguise.
...
The entire mountain top had been cleared now. Luna adjusted the straps of her new uniform, which fit her far better than her previous one.
The Squad quietly observed her especially the part where she wasn’t wearing her tech suit anymore.
Most believed her claim that Lucius had helped her awaken.
Except Felix, who stared at her chest like her new curves were some sort of crime against science.
"All right... it’s time," Luna said as she slid on the holo-glasses. The P40 drone soared into the air with a soft chiming buzz.
[Stream Starting]
Viewers poured in instantly. What they saw was definitely not the Supreme Guild they expected to be traumatized and barely functioning.
Instead, they saw a flashy, uniformed guild carrying Lucius like a crowned emperor.
"Oi." Lucius straightened on the platform. "Where’s Supreme Man’s body?"
The nearly-dead S-rank was lying off to the side like a discarded sack. Even though the Council had saved his life, Lucius clearly wasn’t planning on letting him walk around freely.
Space shimmered. Supreme Man floated upward like a puppet on strings and landed onto the back of one of the Supreme Guild men who held him as if he weighed no more than a pillow.
"Good..." Lucius said with satisfaction before letting out a nobleman’s laugh. "As for the rest of you, can your poor eyes not see where the Staircase to the next floor is?"
[ChaosPigeon: WHAT is happening right now??]
[StarGazer_777: Why is he acting like royalty???]
[CommentL1on: BRO THE SUPREME GUILD GOT REBRANDED INTO THE LUCIFANS]
[LustyLunaFan: ngl Lucius is HOT LIKE THIS]
└─ [MetalBroom: facts]
└─ [QueenSuki: he’s WORKING that attitude]
└─ [FangBlade97: bro I’d kneel too 😭]
Lucius simply lifted his hand.
Immediately, as though obeying him, clouds parted to reveal a distant mountain... its top bearing the glowing Staircase ascending into the sky.
It was incredibly far. Worse, monsters were drifting in the air between here and there, with their wings spread and ready to hunt anything that crossed.
The guild stared.
Lucius laughed again, joined by the rest of his newly-acquired noble-acting Supreme Guild.
"As Supremes, we will go first," he declared proudly, "but you’ll have to find your own way."
The guild members carrying Lucius stepped to the cliff’s edge. Everyone marched behind them, uniform white and black contrasting against the mountain’s red sky.
"Let us be on our way," he continued, "and leave the commoners to their devices."
And, dramatically, they all leaped straight off the cliff...
Only to shoot into the air seconds later as if gravity were merely a suggestion.
Behind them, the other guilds were left staring.
[MomoScreams: he is SO MEAN 😭😭]
[TowerWife: AND I’M EATING IT UP]
[ArcKnight13: idc he’s too fine]
[BroccoliMage: I want the Supreme Guild to stomp on me]
[BeverlyWrites: THIS ARC IS PURE CINEMA]
As the Supreme Guild ascended, the first flying monster appeared... a massive prehistoric-looking bird with jagged wings and a serrated beak.
It shrieked and snapped toward the group.
"Discard that trash," Lucius said calmly as Ayela fed him a piece of fried chicken. "Feed it to the bird."
The man carrying Supreme Man obeyed instantly.
He threw the S-rank like a meteor.
The resulting shockwave cracked the air.
Supreme Man’s broken body slammed into the monster with enough force to kill it instantly and both of them plummeted into the lava below.
The entire Supreme Guild, Lucius included, burst into that insufferably perfect noble laugh.
[LaughTrackLive: THAT LAUGH IS SENDING ME]
└─ [RoyalTea: they sound like villain protagonists omg]
[ValkyrieVids: lucius pls step on me]
[OHMYGUILD: THE SUPREME GUILD IS UNHINGED 😭]
[ElfEater88: This GUILD went from a 0 to 100 rq]
...
’Is this that thing I saw online...’ Raven thought as he watched the Supreme Guild soaring ahead of them like a parade of arrogant gods.
The ridiculous noble laughter echoing through the sky only made it worse. ’Switching up on your Day 1’s...’
He squinted, as if analyzing a sacred scripture.
’When you’re rich and powerful, you’re supposed to switch up on your Day 1’s because they don’t deserve it anymore... Master is teaching us again. He never lets us experience something without attaching a lesson to it. So logically... when I’m rich... I should switch up on the whole Guild.’
He nodded to himself and stroked his beardless chin like a philosopher discovering life secrets.
"Whatever." Vanessa rolled her eyes so hard it looked painful. "I’ll just make sure all of us fly after him before he leaves us behind permanently."
She lifted her hand, blood condensing at her fingertips only for Luna to put her hand out.
"Don’t worry about that. Leave it to me."
The confidence in Luna’s voice made everyone pause. Even Vanessa blinked at her.
Luna inhaled deeply, mana rushing through her awakened body like fresh oxygen. Then...
Zero Momentum.
The moment she activated it, every single person on the mountain froze mid-movement.
Their legs paused mid-step, their arms stuck mid-air and even clothes stopped fluttering.
It felt like the world forgot what momentum was.
"Wha—" Vanessa tried to turn her head but even that barely budged.
Luna let the spell sit for a second... then activated Momentum-Shift.
Immediately, everyone shot upward into the air like arrows released from divine bows.
"It’s similar to Lucius’s floating," Luna said as she steadied herself, her chest rising and falling lightly as she adjusted the flow. "Just don’t waste too much of your momentum. If you cancel too early, you’ll fall."
[SkyWatchr: Wait... did Luna just use MAGIC??]
[Puffler7: She’s flying?? Is she awakened??]
[MageTechJinx: BRO this is actually cool wtf]
[Luna4Life: MY GIRL FINALLY DID IT]
[ZoomerDragon: ITS LIKE A LUCUS MINI SPACE MOVE??]
[WiderLens: badly explained but she’s doing MOMENTUM MAGIC OMG]
[BlitzTalk: I LOVE THIS POWER]
[YeaSureMan: nah she’s cracked]
[InkFeathered: LUNA W QUEEN]
[ChalkySoup: She awakened fr??]
With another shift, she directed everyone forward and just like that, the entire squad shot off the mountain after the Supreme Guild.
[MothEyed: THEY FORGOT SUPREME MAN 💀💀💀]
[GrapeEater: bro left like luggage]
[JellySword: SOMEONE CHECK ON HIM 💀]
Luna ignored those comments completely as she focused on maintaining smooth flight.
Up ahead, the Supreme Guild encountered trouble... yet they didn’t look worried at all. A massive flock of prehistoric birds swooped down at them with their talons spread and beaks gaping.
"How predictable." Lucius said with a disappointed tone, shaking his head as if nature had personally failed him.
He flicked his wrist.
Space twisted and the entire flock redirected sharply behind him, hurtling straight toward the approaching Awakeners like someone had turned gravity sideways.
"Handle that mess, you commoners..." Lucius said casually, doing the noble laugh with Ayela feeding him another piece of fried chicken.
The rest of his guild joined in with their ridiculous elegant giggles.
Below, panic erupted.
A Saintess member screamed as a bird slammed into her, flipping her uncontrollably mid-air.
"He’s making us do all the dirty work!" she cried out while spinning hopelessly.
Meanwhile, Rita stared at Lucius’s silhouette... his broad shoulders, relaxed posture, that stupid aristocratic smirk...
Her throat tightened.
’He didn’t give me warmth last night...’ she thought with a shiver. ’I’ll take it again later... but right now... goddess, he looks so hot.’
Another bird crashed into Luna from above. But instead of being knocked back by the force...
She absorbed it.
The force rushed into her body like a supercharged battery.
’I feel... much more powerful.’
Her eyes sharpened. With one explosive motion, she redirected the gathered force into her fist and launched the bird straight toward Lucius’s guild.
The air cracked from the shockwave... BOOM sending the creature hurtling like a living missile.
It almost smashed into the luxurious formation of the Supreme Guild...
But a flash of blazing fire intercepted it.
The bird combusted mid-air, roasted into a crisp before falling into the lava below.
Becka winked and stuck her tongue out.
"Try harder next time!" she said with a graceful wave, raising her hand in that signature arrogant manner and the rest of the Supreme Guild copied her instantly, their mocking noble laughs following like echoes.
Vanessa crushed her own bird with a single punch, blood exploding outward like petals before evaporating.
But as she steadied herself in the air, her gaze locked on Lucius.
’Is he... ragebaiting us?’ Vanessa thought as her brow twitched. ’He definitely is.’