Chapter 52: Replenishing Mana with the Empress is Very Dangerous

Leticia, who had originally planned to do something more with Hall, was interrupted by Christine.

She looked a bit embarrassed, but she quickly turned to Christine.

How could she not understand the tone of the other party?

This was a provocation.

“You wait a moment, Saintess Candidate Christine.”

She accepted this provocation.

“Oh, Baron Hall, do you want Miss Leticia to present you with the award, or do you want me to bless you in the name of God?”

Christine was on a roll.

At this moment, she didn’t care about Leticia’s hostile gaze.

She walked to Hall’s right side, sandwiching him in the middle with Leticia.

The reporters outside were taking pictures crazily, afraid of missing this historic gossip moment.

The saintess candidate in a holy white dress with a flower crown on her head was on the right, the young head of the Child family in a rose-colored gothic dress was on the left, and in the middle was a handsome young man in a suit.

Finally, with the ambiguous posture of the three, Leticia’s index finger was still on Hall’s lips, and Christine’s hand was on his arm.

This photo, without any text, was enough to detonate the entire gossip circle of Saint Louis and top the national hot list tomorrow.

Which major newspaper would still report on today’s swordsmanship exchange competition?

The headline would inevitably be “One Man and Two Women, Hall Faxtius’s Romantic Debts Stir Up a New Storm.”

Unless the College of Cardinals personally issued a directive about a major national mobilization, all other news would have to make way for this photo.

As for Hall himself, his eyes were a bit blinded by the high-frequency flashing of the magic cameras.

He was considering the fatal problem of Christine.

Of course, he couldn’t tell Leticia to back down. He could feel that Leticia was in an extremely bad mood. This heroine had a high affection for him, and fortunately, her personality was not bad. He just had to prevent her from turning dark.

But affirming Leticia and stopping Christine was not a good way to handle it either.

If he rejected both of them at the same time, it wouldn’t work either.

There was only one option left.

Accept both of them at the same time.

Christine’s compassionate passive meant that he could only replenish mana with her, but they hadn’t reached that step yet.

Treating them equally should not be a big problem.

Moreover, Christine’s passive seemed to be unable to accept impurity in feelings. If he really acted very promiscuous, could he persuade Christine to back off?

As for Leticia, her family would definitely put up resistance if they found out she had fallen in love with a promiscuous man.

This was indeed an easy way to persuade the heroine to back off, but it could also cost him his head.

But there was no other way. He could only choose a method that still had a chance of being salvaged.

“The two are not in conflict.”

Leticia was stunned by these words, while Christine quickly laughed twice.

“As expected of Baron Hall, you want it all.”

This answer sounded like a joke to everyone.

After all, everyone knew that only in such matters could one have it all, but when it came to real feelings, one couldn’t have it all.

Especially Moyel, who was in the dark. Leticia came today, so she naturally came too.

If Hall dared to get carried away, she would sneak into the Faxtius family’s house at night and physically cut him up.

Himan was a little angry, but not too angry.

The swordsmanship exchange competition officially ended with Christine’s chanting of the divine words of protection.

Hall thought for a moment, he had made a small profit from this.

Christine’s protection was indeed very useful.

In the game, it was a positive long-term BUFF effect that could increase experience gain speed and resistance to negative statuses.

But when he left the arena, he felt Tarasha following him like a lingering ghost.

“When are you going to tell me your true level?”

“Ah, what level can I have? What you know now is my true level.”

Hall replied.

“Are you messing with me?”

Tarasha’s gaze turned cold.

“No, that’s my level. A little better than Moyel, but not particularly amazing.”

Hall couldn’t possibly tell Tarasha the details of the sword that had defeated Ye Wangxue.

He might have the Black Blade, but having the Black Blade meant that he would likely be a big boss who mastered the power of the Demon God in the future.

Sigh, he was going to die either way.

He felt that his current situation was much more difficult than many of the heroine routes he had known before he was reincarnated.

“But you… defeated Ye Wangxue, didn’t you? Her blade is very powerful, and you shouldn’t have such a powerful weapon. You… are stronger than her.”

“Just lucky.”

Hall’s tone when replying to Tarasha was flat.

But his heart was in turmoil.

Now, he understood why the people of Cateline were targeting him.

The events of that day had become known to the Kingdom of Cateline. But in that side quest, the key figures should only be Mandosha Flower and Ye Wangxue.

The Xia Kingdom and the Kingdom of Cateline wouldn’t share intelligence under such circumstances.

But in the Cateline Empress’s route, there was an option to form an alliance with the Salvation Church.

In other words, Mandosha Flower had leaked his information to the Kingdom of Cateline.

In the Northern Empress’s route, once the Kingdom of Cateline and the Salvation Church formed an alliance, they had already become invisible enemies of the Papal State.

The difficulty of the route would increase. In this route, after the alliance between the Northern Empress and the Salvation Church was exposed, he, Hall, was almost certain to be used.

As for the risks of replenishing mana with the Northern Empress.

He could only say that in this route, his death was particularly bizarre.

The general meaning was that the Northern Empress, as the bloodline of the Eternal Winter Saintess, according to the text description and speculation, her body surface temperature was lower than a normal person’s, but her internal temperature was higher than a normal person’s.

When replenishing mana, this cold and hot sensation was very stimulating, but after a long time of ice and fire, it was not necessarily bearable.

And once the player encountered a crisis, they would strive to max out the Northern Empress’s level. Plus, the Northern Empress’s level cap was very high among the heroines, reaching ninety-eight without any special items.

He would have to replenish mana multiple times in one night.

It was very likely that Hall would be directly disabled, and then it would show that Hall could no longer replenish mana. According to the text, he would die of depression not long after.

Of course, besides this bizarre death, the Northern Empress herself was also a single-line mana replenishment character, just like Christine.

If she caught Hall replenishing mana with other female characters, Hall would die.

Some players believed that the empress treated Hall as a dog in the plot, and the dog she raised disrupted her harem, so she killed Hall.

Other players believed that the empress’s yuri attribute was not that strong, and she mainly treated the other heroines as good friends. Hall replenishing mana with other female characters was a betrayal to her, and it was a disregard for her imperial authority.

It was like the empress having an affair with her brother; could the emperor not execute the empress?

There were many posts on the player forums discussing the Northern Empress’s route, which could easily lead to flame wars.

At this moment, Hall didn’t care what the empress thought of him.

He just wanted to make the other party pull back from the brink as soon as possible and not cooperate with the unlucky Salvation Church organization.

“Did you win against the Xia Kingdom princess by luck?”

“What else? She underestimated her enemy, so I won. Also, are you so sure that the information the Salvation Church gave you is true?”

He was going to turn the tables.