Chapter 99: Which Girl Is the Most Suitable?

That one sentence from the empress shocked everyone.

Except for Tarasha, who had gone to check if the passage was normal, the other seven people present were all rendered silent.

Even Lorraine, who had asked the question, stared at Sophia with her large azure eyes, her eyelashes trembling.

Leticia, as if her brain had short-circuited, held her face in her hands, her rose-colored long hair swaying with her little head.

Moyel, seeing that her lady’s state was not quite normal, quickly caressed Leticia’s shoulder from behind, thinking, ‘My lady, don’t be like this, my lady.’

Although she was also very surprised.

The dignified empress of a country, and she kissed Hall?

Just in the two hours they were out.

They kissed?

If Leticia’s crush on Hall during middle school and her actions only now in university could be considered a sudden explosion of feelings.

Then what was this with Sophia?

Moyel knew how pure Sophia was.

Just now, when Tarasha was explaining the art of dual cultivation, this Empress of Cateline had been blushing the whole time, looking like she didn’t know whether to listen or not.

Putting aside her empress identity, she was just like an ordinary, pure-hearted noble girl.

This Hall, he could win over Sophia in two hours?

No wonder her own lady liked Hall so much.

What magic did he have?

Moyel couldn’t figure it out, but she understood one thing.

Now that she had decided to help Leticia and Hall get together, she had to give her lady her full support.

Christine, due to her status, was unlikely to be a rival to her lady.

Ye Wangxue, a mere Eastern princess, was suppressed by her lady and not considered a strong rival by Moyel.

Himan, Hall’s cousin, seemed to care a lot about Hall, but Moyel felt Himan’s personality was motherly, and coupled with her extraordinary righteousness, she didn’t protect her own.

To say she liked Hall, maybe she had some good feelings, but other than that, it was completely unnoticeable.

Not good enough, not a rival.

Lorraine, Hall’s sister, also seemed to like Hall, but Lorraine’s liking for Hall would probably be managed by Himan.

And with Ye Wangxue and Lorraine mutually checking each other, it was unlikely that he would be stolen away.

So Moyel still felt she was not much of a rival.

As long as she had time, she was sure she could successfully bring Hall and Leticia together.

But now, if the Empress of Cateline were to join the battle, it would be a lot of trouble.

So she had to observe what was going on between Hall and Sophia.

Ye Wangxue, who was also rendered silent, glared fiercely at Hall.

A few hours ago, he had just finished kissing her, and now he was kissing the Empress of Cateline.

Why don’t you just kiss everyone here?

But she didn’t say anything.

She wasn’t a fool.

As the only one who knew Hall could replenish magic.

She could clearly see the simple bandage made from a torn piece of cloth wrapped around Hall’s left wrist, and she could also see that Sophia’s condition seemed even better than when she had cooperated with her to kill the Lost one.

It was probably after a fierce battle that he had to replenish the Empress of Cateline’s magic.

She would forgive him for now.

After they were completely safe from the Demon God’s Labyrinth and went back, she would settle the score with him.

Christine, on the other hand, was calmly observing Hall and Sophia while drinking hot milk.

She didn’t say a word, and it was unknown what she was thinking.

As for Himan, Himan was of course very, very angry.

What was Hall doing?

Kissing the Empress of the Kingdom of Cateline, this could very well become a diplomatic incident.

So she said with a grim face.

“What’s going on, Hall? Shouldn’t you explain to everyone?”

And the black-haired youth’s heart skipped a beat when he heard this question.

If it were before, shouldn’t Himan have anxiously said to him, “Explain it to me properly?”

Now, using the word “everyone” made Himan’s perspective seem a bit larger.

And his room for maneuvering and manipulation became smaller.

So he chose tactical silence.

First, he would be silent and let the girls guess what he was going to say.

Mainly because there was no good logic to his speech now.

He just said, “To be honest, cousin, there was a reason.”

“What reason could make you kiss Her Majesty of Cateline?” Himan immediately pressed.

If he couldn’t give a good reason today, he was doomed.

She had to know that he now had a fiancée, yet he had gone and kissed the Empress of Cateline.

She was very anxious.

“We killed the lord of this floor and obtained the lord’s key.”

“?”

Himan was shocked.

The other girls were also shocked.

They naturally understood the dangers of the Demon God’s Labyrinth.

According to the official statement of the Adventurers’ Guild, the seventieth-floor lord would require a ten-person team with a reasonable combination of job skills and an average level of about seventy.

Because their blessing was done by Saintess Candidate Christine, Sophia had the bloodline of the Winter Saintess, and everyone’s weapons were also very good.

Only then were they confident in their ability to conquer it.

But Sophia and Hall had killed the seventieth-floor lord without any blessing?

“Of course, it was thanks to Marquis Tarasha who came later. If it weren’t for her ambushing the lord’s vital point from the dark when we were in a stalemate, I’m afraid we would have been in a bad situation.”

Hall showed the deep purple lord’s token, which made his words even more credible.

Sophia, on the other hand, said nothing.

Because after killing Rhys, the three of them had exchanged information.

They didn’t want to make a big deal out of this.

In the Cateline Kingdom’s intelligence department, Rhys had a record.

Until the year Rhys went to the border of the Cateline Kingdom and the Elan Duchy to spread necromancy and was caught by the Judgment Bureau.

He was one of the thirteen cadres of the Salvation Church.

And it was certain that Rhys had been caught by the Judgment Bureau long ago, yet he had appeared in the Demon God’s Labyrinth.

After seeing the heretic brand on Rhys’s face, Tarasha could also be sure that the other party must have been judged, and for some unknown reason had escaped and come to the Demon God’s Labyrinth.

But it was highly unlikely for a normal person to survive in the Demon God’s Labyrinth for five or six consecutive years.

Even as a necromancer with resistance, he would be polluted and become like those Lost ones.

As for the identities of those Lost ones, they were also questionable.

They would have to wait until they got back to the surface to investigate the list of adventurers who had gone missing in the Demon God’s Labyrinth in recent years.

The strongest Lost one before was over level eighty when he was alive, so it was relatively easy to confirm the range of his identity.

In short, there were too many suspicious points.

Hall, Sophia, and Tarasha had made up a story on the way, afraid that this matter was related to the Church and would directly lead the two of them into the most dangerous plot route.

Now that they were making up stories, Sophia didn’t interrupt.

The empress was just thinking, “No one has refuted me so far, so what I said should be right. Ah, mouth-to-mouth won’t get you pregnant!”

Hall’s lie could only convince Ye Wangxue.

Because Ye Wangxue knew that kissing Hall could greatly increase her strength, which was perfect for defeating the lord of this floor.

But why did he have to choose to go after the lord when it was just him and Sophia?

It seemed deliberate.

That guy, Ye Wangxue thought of the time in the underground street, Hall’s appearance must have also been deliberate, wanting to break off the engagement early.

This fiancé of hers seemed to have a very meticulous mind.

Could Hall be deliberately creating a crisis situation, and then tricking Her Majesty of Cateline into kissing him?!

Thinking of this, she was very annoyed now.

This scumbag fiancé, was he really going to start a harem?

Originally, Ye Wangxue had regarded Hall’s ability to replenish power by kissing as a secret between them.

At this moment, she couldn’t help but feel indignant and angry.

It was one thing to be on par with Leticia, who was willing to unconditionally pay a large check for Hall.

Why, after getting along with him for so many days, was she inferior to an empress who had just met Hall a few days ago?

Did she really not have the charm to conquer him?

Ye Wangxue felt wronged and angry.

She stood silently watching Hall from the side, and even deliberately took two steps back so that no one would notice her abnormality.

But Himan didn’t know.

She just felt there were still loopholes.

She hit the nail on the head, “Hall, everything you said is right. But why did you kiss Her Majesty of Cateline?”

“Well…”

Hall thought for a moment, then said in a deep voice, “This involves a rather strange secret from long ago.”

“What?” Himan couldn’t help but get nervous.

She wanted to understand Hall.

Ever since her impression of Hall had changed, starting from that day in the underground street, she had been thinking, had she not understood Hall enough these past few years?

Or rather, she had never truly understood Hall.

Although as children, she and Hall, as cousins, had always attended various banquets together.

From elementary school to middle school, to university, they had always been in the same class.

But did she really understand Hall?

As children, it was mostly Hall who comforted her.

At that time, in Himan’s eyes, Hall was sometimes close, sometimes annoying.

Close because Hall was indeed very good to her, and also because she had someone to accompany her.

They could go home from school together, and when they were left alone after a fight, they could practice swordsmanship together.

After all, Himan had no concept of such things as a child.

Their mothers were sisters, so Himan could stay over at whoever’s house she wanted.

Her mother would even sometimes tease her about sleeping in the same bed with Hall as a child.

They were very close, yet not close.

After Hall signed up for the Black Knights’ reserves, her contact time with Hall became less.

Hall was sometimes away from Saint Louis for half a month, or even one or two months.

But after Hall came back, he would always meet with Himan and occasionally bring her small gifts from foreign countries.

A flower from Elan Park, an ice sculpture from the Kingdom of Cateline, a poem painting from the Bal Empire, ancient artifacts buried in the sand from the ancient Kingdom of Elan.

Recalling the past, and getting along with the childhood Hall, would make one feel like they were bathed in a spring breeze.

To put it simply, he was thoughtful.

But when Himan grew up, she realized that this word was called maturity.

However, it was also because of Hall’s premature maturity that Hall once became the “child of another family.”

It also put a lot of pressure on the childhood Himan.

Hearing her mother mention how excellent Hall was made her a little rebellious.

But when her friends mentioned Hall, she was proud and said he was her cousin.

In short, perhaps it was because Hall had left a deep impression on her as a child.

That when Hall was crushed by public opinion, saying he was a scumbag, changed girlfriends, and was irresponsible after sleeping with them, she couldn’t accept it when the bad impression came.

But in the end, Himan also knew that she probably just didn’t understand Hall well.

If Hall had spoken properly at that time… but the fact that he had provoked a bunch of girls now was also a fact, and that maid of his at home, Lorraine, her clothes were also very… that.

Why was Hall the subject of such rumors?

Wasn’t it because he himself was always flirting with other pretty girls?

In short, now that he was explaining it properly, she just needed to listen to him tell his secret.

Ye Wangxue was also very nervous.

Her only secret with Hall seemed to be about to be exposed.

Lorraine and Leticia just looked at him seriously, waiting for him to speak.

But they heard Hall say.

“At that time, because the lord went berserk, the Demon God’s Spring also went berserk. Those Lost ones seemed to have been completely assimilated by the Demon God’s power because they were tainted with the power of the Demon God’s Spring. So Her Majesty of Cateline was also somewhat affected by the Demon God’s power. And since I have read many theological books, I have a certain amount of divinity in my body…”

He said, “So kissing Her Majesty of Cateline was just to help Her Majesty neutralize the Demon God’s power in her body. Himan, you still remember what happened on the day of the theology class, right?”

This speech filled all the loopholes.

Not only Himan, Leticia was also there that day.

Hall’s ability to answer the questions created by Christine’s theological texts showed that he was indeed very outstanding in theology.

And the fact that divinity could neutralize the mind-disturbing effect of the Demon God’s power was an indisputable fact throughout the Papal State and the continent.

“I see. But, there were obviously better solutions. Since you were going to kill the lord, why didn’t you call us?”

“It happened suddenly. Besides, when I left, Saintess Candidate Christine was still in a daze, and Lorraine and Leticia were also a bit tired. And Her Majesty of Cateline happened to arrive. To prevent the situation from getting worse, we decided to give it a try together.”

A reasonable and heartwarming explanation, the matter was settled.

Hall looked at Himan and the others’ understanding expressions and breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart.

And Ye Wangxue also breathed a long sigh of relief in her heart and was a little happy.

The fact that Hall could replenish magic was still only known to her.

As for whether Hall was replenishing Her Majesty of Cateline’s magic or really neutralizing the Demon God’s power with his divinity as he said, that was secondary.

Because Ye Wangxue had discovered another point that, although it came at a price…

Because Ye Wangxue had discovered a crucial point, that Hall seemed unwilling to let Leticia and the others know about his magic replenishment ability.

This was very abnormal.

If Hall really liked Leticia and the others, or liked to mess around with pretty girls, he could have said it all the time and used it as an excuse.

But he didn’t.

So, could she use this point to counterattack or even control him?

Ten hours later.

After resting, the group set off on their return journey.

During this period, Tarasha also returned to the camp.

But regarding the recent little episode, everyone kept their mouths shut.

This was because Sophia had taken the initiative to propose it, saying she didn’t want the public to know about her and Hall kissing, nor did she want Tarasha to know, and wished they would all keep it a secret for her.

This was great.

Leticia and the others certainly didn’t want Hall to have another rumored girlfriend and potential rival.

Himan was even more overjoyed.

Very good, it was impossible between Hall and Her Majesty of Cateline.

Of course, they all expressed their willingness to keep it a secret.

Soon, the group returned to the sixty-ninth floor through the now stable magic door.

At this moment, Sophia had not yet sheathed the Eternal Winter Sacred Sword.

She planned to clear the way.

After all, according to the Adventurers’ Guild’s intelligence, even after obtaining the lord’s key, one would still encounter hordes of monsters on the way and it would be very difficult to bring it out.

But strangely, the number of monsters they encountered along the way was not much different from when they came.

From the sixty-ninth to the fifty-ninth floor, the total number of monsters eliminated by their group was only about a hundred.

And the few magic crystals that dropped from them were basically collected by Hall.

She said she would represent the Child family to buy these things at a price slightly higher than the market acquisition price, and the money obtained would be equally distributed to the accounts of everyone except Leticia.

Because the higher the level of the ordinary monster, the higher the probability of dropping a usable magic crystal.

On average, this was not a small sum of money.

Dozens of gold coins per person.

But among the few present, except for Hall, who was bent on running away and slowly saving up his private savings, and Ye Wangxue, who had no private savings.

None of them were too concerned about this amount.

After another day of trekking.

Hall and the others recorded and filled out the data of this expedition to the Demon God’s Labyrinth at the safe return point on the fortieth floor.

As for the most generous spoils of war, the [Shadow of the Death Crow], it was recorded as an item reward obtained after defeating the lord.

They also looked at the roster.

And found that those Lost ones might be a team that went missing in the depths of the Demon God’s Labyrinth six months ago.

At that time, the Church had sent a special person to look for them, but the result was that they were not found.

“Then let’s say our goodbyes here. This lonely one has to go through some procedures to return to the Kingdom of Cateline. As for this experience in the Papal State, this lonely one will not forget it.”

Sophia was the first to say goodbye to everyone with Tarasha.

Originally, she had wanted to investigate Hall and Christine further, for the truth about her sister’s disappearance.

But she had thought a lot on the way.

For example, why did Hall risk his life to save her?

If Hall could risk his life to save her then, would Hall not risk his life to save her sister if she was in danger before?

And the powerful divinity that existed in her sister’s wound, how to say it?

It was very similar to Christine’s domain, but Christine herself had no combat ability.

Her frailty was seen by Sophia, to the point that Sophia felt she could easily take Christine’s life with a single sword strike.

A girl like that could never have caused such a serious injury to her sister.

So, perhaps it was a mysterious Knight Captain from the high echelons of the Church, or someone else?

She couldn’t say for sure, but as a monarch, she still had to find time to visit the cardinals.

Her free time to stay in the Papal State was running out.

So she planned to leave it for next time.

Before leaving, Tarasha extended an invitation to Hall, “Baron Hall, the winter break is coming up soon. Cateline in winter is very beautiful. Do you have time to come and visit?”

To this, he declined.

But before Sophia and Tarasha left, another heroine appeared in their line of sight.

“Mr. Hall, and Miss Himan, we meet again. Hello.”

It was Julia.

At this moment, Julia looked a little disheveled, but she had a rustic beauty style to begin with, which did not affect her appearance.

And seeing Julia running towards Hall, Leticia and Lorraine, who didn’t know her, showed a wary expression.

‘Where did this woman come from?’

“Oh, let me introduce you. This is the inspiring girl Himan and I met when we went out a few days ago, Julia Lis. She comes from a small border town in the south of the Papal State…”

When Hall saw Julia coming, he was overjoyed.

Now all the heroines were here, and Julia, as the heroine with the most classic route, the most appropriate personality, the most approachable identity, and no conflict of interest or grudges with the other heroines.

She was the true great heroine.

If this game was a classic story, then she must be the first heroine, the head of the harem.

He now urgently needed Julia to help him adjust the relationships between the heroines.

“Wow, it’s amazing. All the sisters here today seem to have very noble statuses. Julia’s background will make you all laugh.”

Under Hall’s introduction, Julia shook hands with Himan, Leticia, Lorraine, Sophia, Christine, Tarasha, Moyel, and Ye Wangxue one by one.

The reason she shook hands with Ye Wangxue last was because when she shook hands, she said something different from the simple greetings to the others.

“I’ve heard of Princess Ye before. Are you Mr. Hall’s fiancée? The long black hair behind your head is so beautiful!”

“Miss Julia, you’re too kind. You don’t have to be like this. I’m not that beautiful. Most of the people here are beauties.”

Ye Wangxue didn’t expect Julia to praise her so directly.

Although she answered modestly, she still felt a little elated for a moment.

Many people had praised her for her beauty since she was a child, and she was used to it.

But today, in front of Hall, in front of Leticia and the others, Julia, this girl who looked so pure and beautiful, singled her out and praised her.

This felt very comfortable.

Tarasha then shook hands with Lorraine and the others under Hall’s introduction.

Finally, she specially shook hands with Ye Wangxue and also praised her, “It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a princess outside of Cateline.”

She had been in Saint Louis for over a month, and no woman had ever praised her for her beauty in front of Hall!

This meant that she had won, one step ahead of Leticia and the others.

“No, no, in my eyes, you and Mr. Hall are a very good match.”

“You both have black hair and black eyes, you’re simply the best candidate for Mr. Hall’s fiancée.”

Julia seemed to have no reservations in her praise of Ye Wangxue.

This made Ye Wangxue extremely pleased.

She felt like she was on cloud nine.

But the other girls were not happy.

Leticia bit her lip, pulling the edge of her skirt with her small hands to suppress her emotions.

Moyel knew her lady was anxious, and she was also anxious.

The appearance of this variable, Julia, had really caught her off guard.

It was really inexplicable.

She had instantly given Ye Wangxue the upper hand.

Lorraine’s eyes were already filled with deliberate malice towards Ye Wangxue and dissatisfaction with Julia.

As for Himan, she had a strange feeling she couldn’t describe.

Christine and Sophia were both silent on the side.

“Not at all, Miss Julia.”

Ye Wangxue spoke again, she was so happy!

“It’s true! Doesn’t Mr. Hall think so? At least that’s what Julia thinks.”

The flaxen-haired girl smiled sweetly.

Her eyes were full of innocence.

But Hall felt this question was too deadly.

Originally, he was very happy to see Julia coming, but now he had instantly fallen to the bottom.

How should he answer this life-or-death question?

But Julia was smiling so innocently, it shouldn’t be intentional, right?

But, unfortunately.

Julia was indeed doing it on purpose.

When Hall and his group appeared in the adventurer’s square on the first floor of the Demon God’s Labyrinth.

It attracted everyone’s attention.

And she had recently been looking for minerals and lone monsters on the relatively safe fortieth floor for two days with no success.

So she had gone to the forty-first floor alone to continue exploring to earn some rent and living expenses in Saint Louis.

The harvest was meager.

So when she just came back, she found many people gathered here.

And found out that it was the noble expedition team led by Her Majesty of Cateline that had successfully returned from the seventieth floor with the lord’s key.

That was the seventieth floor!

How difficult it was to bring out the seventieth-floor lord’s key, all the adventurers understood.

But Her Majesty of Cateline and Hall’s team, with an average age of less than twenty, had done it.

Such a grand adventurer’s event naturally caused a big sensation.

Julia, on the outskirts of the crowd, wasn’t paying much attention at first.

But then her gaze fell on Hall and Himan, and she suddenly felt an unusual emptiness in her heart.

The desire to go to the adventurer’s guild to quickly exchange the few rare minerals and small magic crystal fragments she had found for rewards also became weak.

Something was falling rapidly, or rather, there was a huge sense of distance between them.

Although they were only separated by less than a hundred meters of the crowd, it felt like two different worlds.

Julia stood there stunned for a long time.

After the low mood faded, she thought about what to do.

So she just observed from the outskirts of the crowd and gradually understood the situation within this team.

When she left that small town, she still remembered Moyel’s kind words.

If she lost Hall, she might regret it.

What’s more, she had traveled a thousand miles to Saint Louis just to find him again.

She wanted to have him, but she understood that she had a huge disadvantage in terms of status.

Then, just as she had thought that night.

If all the girls around him disappeared or left, wouldn’t he be hers?

Julia was very smart.

She knew that she couldn’t compete with these girls from famous families on her own.

So she planned to get close to Ye Wangxue, this fiancée, first.

Simply put.

The fiancée was also the biggest threat.

Now that she praised Ye Wangxue, Ye Wangxue would become the target of everyone’s criticism.

Tea ceremony master—Julia.

As for her tea ceremony skills, they were naturally taught by that Moyel who had been a dancer in Saint Louis in her early years and had lingered in various noble circles.

At this moment, Julia’s question put Hall in a difficult position.

The girls were also all paying attention to his answer to this question.

“I’m a good match for everyone, not necessarily just the Seventh Princess. But to hear Miss Julia say that, I’m sure the Seventh Princess will be very happy.”

He tried his best to stabilize this relationship, and he couldn’t refute Julia.

He still had to rely on Julia to turn the tables.

“Oh… Mr. Hall is a good match for everyone?”

“As long as it’s a pretty girl, it’s a good match, right?”

“Just pretty?”

“Mm, something like that.”

The continuous questioning forced Hall to maintain his persona.

But Ye Wangxue felt she had seen through Hall on the seventieth floor.

This guy really wanted to start a harem!

But Christine, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke at this moment.

“Miss Julia, do you think the Seventh Princess is the most suitable person to be Hall’s fiancée?”

“Mm, yes. You are Saintess Candidate Christine, right? As a representative of God, who do you think is the most suitable?”

Julia nodded.

She planned to set up Ye Wangxue as a target.

“That’s hard to say. Without doing a divination, I could say I am the most suitable, or Her Majesty of Cateline is the most suitable, or even that Miss Himan is the most suitable. I think it’s all just talk.”

Christine looked at Julia.

Julia faintly felt that this girl, who seemed to be studying theology, was not simple.

She suspected that Christine had seen through her purpose.

But, it shouldn’t be.

But next, Christine’s tone turned to Hall.

“Baron Hall, since you think any pretty girl will do, then would Miss Julia be included among them?”

And Hall thought to himself, ‘She is the leader, my great savior.’

He immediately shook his head!