Chapter 155: The Queen of Succubi and the Little Maid

Hall woke up from his dream.

He opened his eyes and saw the girl curled up in his arms like a golden fox cub.

“You… you still ended up sleeping in my arms.”

Actually, when they went to sleep in the tent last night, Hall had not let Christine sleep with him, but had given Christine his coat as a blanket.

But…

Looking at the result now, it was useless.

“By the way, let her wear my coat. She can’t possibly wear that somewhat damaged Saintess robe into human villages and towns.”

Hall was deep in thought.

After a night’s rest, his condition was almost fully recovered.

He propped open the entrance of the tent and could see that the sunlight outside was very faint, about six in the morning.

But if he wanted Christine to remain hidden, they couldn’t go directly to Wolfsburg either.

Although he had many blank Black Knights alias badges in his coat that he could fill in after becoming the commander-in-chief.

“I’ll go out and take a look first. While Christine is still asleep, I’ll go to the accident site.”

With this thought, Hall carefully pushed the soft girl in his arms away.

But even a slight movement made Christine grope for his hand in her sleep.

Then she moved closer to him.

This was a sign of insecurity.

A kitten that had just been bought would also act like this.

Hall of course couldn’t let her hold onto him like this again, so he carefully tried to let Christine go back to sleep by herself.

But this time, she actually woke up directly.

Her light blue pupils, as clear as a shallow sea, met his gaze.

“Hall…”

“What is it?”

“It’s nothing. What are you doing?”

“I’m about to go out and take a look, but you’re still sleeping.”

“Then are you going to leave me here alone?”

“…”

He was a little surprised that she could have such sharp words and clear thoughts right after waking up.

But thinking of Christine’s character setting in the game, he was immediately relieved.

“You’re planning to go to the place where the Holy Train exploded, aren’t you?”

“Mm.”

“You’re not allowed to go. If you go now, you’ll be discovered by the Cateline and Bal spies, and the specialists from the Papal State’s Judgment Bureau might also have arrived.”

Christine said softly in his arms.

“But I’m still very worried about Lov and the others. It’s already been a night.”

“…”

“What’s the use of worrying? If we show our faces, we won’t be able to get close to the truth of this incident, Hall. And if you’re discovered, I’ll have to go alone…”

Christine used this to persuade him.

Because Hall could see the determination in her eyes.

Just as Mandosha Flower had said, this girl was very stubborn and would surely do what she had decided to do.

If Hall went to the Holy Train accident site now, Christine might even choose to leave alone.

But her condition was not the Christine who could go solo in the simple heroine route of the game.

It would be very dangerous.

Hall could also choose to forcibly take Christine with him to meet those people.

But he hadn’t planned to choose that yet.

It would be just as dangerous.

Because the Holy Train was attacked and exploded, which meant that the attackers might have intended to kill them.

And the people on the train, only Christine and the diplomat Yabolun, had the potential to be the main targets.

He and Himan and Lov were completely caught up in this incident.

Thinking of it this way, if Himan and Lov survived the explosion, they shouldn’t be in danger.

If the attackers knew that Christine had survived, she would be even more likely to suffer a new attack.

So he just asked.

“Then where are we going next?”

“We can go to the small town near the Cateline Kingdom first to gather some information.”

“Mm…”

Hall recalled the map in the game.

He already had a destination in mind.

And Christine slowly got out of Hall’s arms.

She was thinking that Hall would find out she had lied when he went to gather information.

Last night, there were indeed people who died.

But relatively speaking, those dead people were irrelevant.

“Ah… boo hoo hoo… my head hurts so much… what on earth… what happened?”

Lov slowly woke up from her coma.

When she opened her eyes, the ceiling was strange to her.

The ceiling was made of wood, looking old and rotten, as if it would be destroyed by a strong wind.

The pillow was also not as comfortable as the velvet pillow in the Faxtius house.

She was lying on the bed.

“Huh, in bed?”

The girl was shocked.

How did she end up in bed?

Last night, shouldn’t she have…

Her memory returned to the moment the Holy Train exploded.

At that time, she hadn’t even realized what was going on when the strong shockwave almost made her faint.

And the last moment of her consciousness was Hall rushing over and holding her.

Holding her and Christine in his arms…

“Little girl, you’re awake. Judging by your appearance, you must be from the big city.”

A faint, old female voice came from beside her.

She looked at the door of the small wooden house.

A grandmother with gray hair was pushing the door open, carrying hot soup.

She didn’t know the other party, but the other party’s voice was inexplicably familiar.

It was like the voices of the elders in the village when she was a child.

That was one of the few good impressions in Lov’s childhood memory.

The old people in the village would sometimes step forward to stop her parents from abusing her.

“Grandma, I, how did I, how did I end up here?”

Lov quickly asked the confusion in her heart, but felt that she hadn’t said something, so she added, “Thank you, Grandma, for saving me.”

“It’s nothing, little girl. Your willpower is very strong. You actually managed to walk through the snow to my door last night with such a tired body… you’re not from the village, are you? The nearest town is dozens of miles away from here.”

The old grandmother showed a look of astonishment.

In her opinion, it was too exaggerated for Lov, with her body and age, to walk sixty miles alone in the sub-zero night.

But thinking of the way Lov had looked when she had knocked on the door, as if she would break in the next second, she didn’t find it particularly strange.

She herself was a strong person who had once walked alone in the ice and snow when she was young.

“Ah… was it that far? Then Young Master… Grandma, did you see a young man, about twenty years old, with black hair and black eyes? He is my Young Master. I think he must have carried me here.”

Lov was also very surprised.

But she quickly found a reason and showed a very worried expression.

She was saved, but the Young Master was not by her side.

Then wouldn’t it be…

“Young Master?”

Seeing that Lov was about to get out of bed, the old grandmother quickly pressed down on her blanket, signaling her not to move.

And Lov also felt that she was about to faint and needed to sleep again.

“Don’t worry, little girl. I’ll help you look for that Young Master you mentioned. Rest well.”

Just as Lov was about to say, “Don’t trouble yourself, Grandma,” a woman’s voice suddenly rang in her mind.

“You rest well, Lov. If you don’t rest well, you will lose Hall forever. With the way you are now, can you beat Christine?”

“?”

“I am the spirit that is currently residing in your body.”

“Gho- ghost?!”

Lov was an honest child and had an instinctive fear of ghosts.

And residing in her body…

“The great spirit, the spirit that has been suppressed in Saint Olan for a thousand years. The church has spent a thousand years to suppress me, hehe. As long as those guys don’t use the power of the Saintess and the Hero, they won’t be able to kill me, let alone completely erase my existence…”

The female voice was filled with three parts of resentment, two parts of unwillingness, four parts of anger, and a hint of something else.

“Ah, what are you saying?”

Lov was very confused.

She just had a feeling of “I don’t know, but it sounds impressive,” and she was also…

Wait, Lov suddenly became alert.

Because this voice was very familiar.

This voice was the one that had first appeared in her dream, the voice that had seduced her.

This spirit was not a ghost, but a demon.

Weren’t demons and ghosts the same kind of creature?

For Lov, the definitions of the two were very similar.

“Get out of my body, demon!”

She began to issue an order of expulsion.

But the female voice did not obey, but instead asked, “Lov, you like Hall Faxtius, don’t you? If you like Hall Faxtius, you have to rely on me. No one in this world understands men better than I do. I am the great Queen of Succubi—Lilith. Do you understand? As long as you believe in me, any man can be easily seduced.”

“Lilith?”

Lov was still confused.

But if Hall had heard this, he would surely be able to determine from the setting that the spiritual being residing in Lov’s body was Lilith, the Demon Queen who had died under the Hero’s sword in the Demon God War.

The records of this person in the game were actually not very detailed.

One could only interpret Lilith’s life story from some of the missions and lost texts in Saint Olan.

The establishment of Saint Olan was to suppress Lilith’s soul.

When Lilith had just died, countless soldiers had been seduced by her and had defected, causing a lot of unrest in the army.

Fortunately, the first generation of the Saintess had noticed the abnormality and suppressed her.

But she could not completely eradicate the remaining power of Lilith.

So Saint Olan had begun to be built after the founding of the Papal State, and a large number of clergy had settled there.

The underground of the Saint Olan Cathedral was the place where Lilith had died.

And the reason why Lilith appeared in Lov’s body was because when Hall had brought Lov to Saint Olan, and Hall had followed Parousia to track the Black Rose, Lov’s soul had been taken a liking to by Lilith.

Lov was a natural magic container, or rather, a container that did not belong to this world.

A container of the world.

The girl herself had no magic circuit, but if her magic circuit was constructed within it, it could almost perfectly accommodate it.

But because Lilith had been judged by the first generation of the Saintess with the power of the Holy Book: Old Testament, she could no longer truly revive.

But she was unwilling.

She was unwilling to let the power of the succubus race completely fade away.

And become a medium, or even inferior, race.

She had to cultivate an heir.

She had to let Lov perfectly inherit her power, become the new Queen of Succubi, and make the succubus race great again.

However…

Lov’s personality really made Lilith a little speechless.

She had had many opportunities to sneak attack Hall, but she hadn’t taken them.

She wanted to control her body to help her, but she had failed every time.

What was even more deadly was that last night, she had discovered that the girl who her beloved had been with had a sanctity no less than that of the first generation of the Saintess.

She hated that power very much, very much.

If it weren’t for that power, she would have been able to escape back then.

The Hero might not have been able to kill her, at most only seriously injure her.

Now she was in this state of barely surviving in Lov’s body, all thanks to the first generation of the Saintess.

And as the former Demon Queen of the western demon domain, her home had been stolen by that little girl, the vampire empress.

Lilith was truly about to die of anger.

“I don’t care who you are. Get out of my body.”

If she went out, she might truly die.

Lilith would never agree.

“Lov, haven’t you understood what I said?”

“I don’t understand. I only know that you tried to seduce me into doing bad things before.”

“That wasn’t seduction. That was your true heart. Don’t you like Hall? I’ll ask you again, do you dare to swear to heaven that you don’t like Hall Faxtius?”

Lilith was very anxious.

She wanted Lov to ask for her help so that she could slowly train Lov and turn her into the new Queen of Succubi.

But this person was not affected by anything.

A thousand years ago, anyone who was given power by her, the Queen of Succubi, would have probably knelt down and licked her.

She would have them lick wherever she wanted.

“Little sister, you have to understand. If you don’t have power, how can you compete with Christine and the other women for a man?”

She was very anxious, very anxious.

And Lilith also knew that the power Hall possessed was very formidable.

If Lov could have s*x with Hall, the plan to cultivate Lov as the Queen of Succubi would be incredibly smooth.

Lov’s power might become as strong as she was when she was alive.

And, just maybe, it would allow her to maintain this spirit body for a very long time, which would be beneficial to her.

In short, getting Lov to have s*x with Hall was Lilith’s goal now.

“I like the Young Master… but what does my liking the Young Master have to do with you?”

“Sigh, little sister Lov, you’re wrong about that. If it weren’t for my power, you would have been killed by the vampires in the church in West Town. And you know very well, don’t you, the gap between you and Christine, Leticia, Sula, and that Ye Wangxue, Julia, and even Eilin and Himan.”

Lilith said earnestly, “Don’t you want to be Mrs. Faxtius? Don’t you want Hall to be obsessed with you? Believe me, as long as you believe in me, Hall’s heart will only belong to you forever.”

“I…”

Lov was a little tempted, but she knew she shouldn’t be tempted, so she said, “I don’t ask for too much. I just want a place that belongs to me by the Young Master’s side. That place doesn’t have to be big, even if it’s just a little bit…”

“Heh, little sister Lov, don’t be so naive. You must have heard among your human noble young masters what an original wife does to the mistress beside the master. You’re just a little maid, and you’ll only be manipulated by the mistress. If she wants to drive you away, do you expect Hall to argue with the future Mrs. Faxtius for your sake?”

“What if the future Mrs. Faxtius tells Hall that if she’s in, you’re out, and if you’re in, she’s out?”

Lilith continued, “You’re still too young. Being pure and cute is good, but you can only be pure and cute in front of your Young Master. What’s the use of being pure and cute in front of other women? You’ll only be seen as easy to bully.”

Lov was actually not that naive.

She would sometimes unconsciously use little tricks.

For example, mentioning Leticia and Christine in front of Lorraine, and subtly mentioning that the relationship between Lorraine and Hall was more than just brother and sister in front of Ye Wangxue.

But she had never really tried to win Hall over.

She just felt that doing so would make her happier.

Now, hearing Lilith’s words, Lov also felt a sense of crisis.

She understood that once there was a Mrs. Faxtius, her fate and position would indeed be very awkward.

“So, believe in me, Lov. I will help you. Last night, Christine kissed Hall during the chaos and used her power. Do you think she is as frail as she seems on the surface? She is much stronger than Himan. Ten Himans now are not enough for her to fight.”

Lilith informed Lov.

But she also omitted a part of the truth.

For example, Christine had created a flying feather canoe out of the ten thousand feathers that had fallen from the sky after kissing Hall, and had sent the unconscious Himan and Maria floating away.

She hadn’t said that Christine had also planned to deal with Lov like this, but Lilith had already controlled Lov’s body to bite Hall’s lips a step earlier.

Making her gain power briefly.

But the situation had changed even faster.

Christine and she had encountered that woman.

That white-haired, ice-eyed woman who seemed to be able to stand alone in the world.

That woman had told her and Christine, “It seems you both have secrets, but I’m not interested. Hand over Hall, the one with you, and I’ll allow you to leave alive.”

And neither she nor Christine would agree to that.

But the situation had quickly become more chaotic.

After teaming up to temporarily repel that woman and dealing with all the chaos, Lilith found that Christine had pointed the blade of the Starfall Feather at her.

That feeling had made Lilith instinctively afraid.

When she had been sealed by the first generation of the Saintess, that woman had also summoned a pure white light sword from the Holy Book: Old Testament and sealed her, who had been seriously injured by the Hero.

So Lilith had controlled Lov to run away, all the way to here, and had only knocked on the door of this house after running out of strength.

No, perhaps she hadn’t knocked on the door, but had collapsed in the snow.

Now, no matter what, she could not let Lov go back to Hall because Christine was by Hall’s side.

Christine had seen Lov use her power.

She must have identified Lov as a heretic.

The best way was for Lov to go to the western demon domain immediately.

To Fort Noss, where her treasures from her life were buried.

And there were a few other places along the way where she had stored things.

As long as Lov followed her guidance and found them.

There would be no problem.

…

“Christine, the Cateline army has already cordoned off the surrounding mountains. We have to take a detour to enter the territory of Cateline.”

“It’s fine, Young Master Hall. Are you worried that I can’t walk? It’s fine. My shoes and socks have already been dried, hehe.”

“What are you laughing at?”

“The smell is gone after they’ve been dried, and I heard some men like the smell of white stockings.”

“You don’t have a smell to begin with, do you?”

In the game’s setting, the higher the sanctity, the cleaner one would be.

“That’s not true! Christine smells sweet!”

The girl’s dissatisfied voice came from behind.

“…Alright, alright. You smell sweet.”

Hall was too lazy to argue with her, and just calculated the route that could bypass the Cateline sentries and enter the territory of Cateline in his mind.

As for why he had to enter the territory of Cateline.

Of course, it was because the Papal State’s power was relatively weak in the territory of Cateline.

It would be difficult for them to be discovered.

Most of the people in this country were not religious.

And according to the normal way of thinking, once he and Christine were rescued, they would immediately go to Wolfsburg.

It was unlikely that they would guess that they had gone directly to Cateline.

“Hall, who do you think attacked the Holy Train?”

“Maybe the Papal State staged it themselves, maybe it was a certain cult organization, or maybe it was a subordinate of a certain Demon Lord. In any case, it couldn’t have been the Cateline Kingdom itself.”

He analyzed.

“Is that so? That’s true.”

Although Christine nodded behind him, she thought of the girl from yesterday.

That girl looked like an adult version of the current Empress of Cateline, three or four years older.

And she always felt that she and the other party had met before, or rather, she had seen someone very similar to that girl in the depths of her memory.

Christine now knew that she was missing memories, so she would prioritize the possibility that they had met before she had lost her memory.

But the fact that the other party had an aura similar to necromancy was very strange.

Could it be…

Christine had a relatively terrifying guess.

She knew that the Cateline Kingdom had a child who had died before birth, named Sophia Cateline.

She was the sister of the current monarch, Elizabeth Cateline.

What if the necro-demon lord, Saint Samigina, had obtained Sophia Cateline’s body, and some kind of necromancy had made Sophia Cateline revive, and even grow faster than an ordinary human?

Otherwise, it was really hard to explain.

The other party was so similar to the current Empress of Cateline.

And the aura contained in her sword technique was strong enough to contend with the Starfall Feather to a certain extent.

If it weren’t for the Eternal Winter Saintess’s bloodline, it would definitely not be possible.

But she did not tell Hall this guess.

She chose to keep it in her heart.

Soon, Christine said.

“Hall, since you also think that sword light was like Her Majesty of Cateline’s sword technique, after we enter the territory of Cateline, besides inquiring about the aftermath of the accident, let’s first collect information about the Cateline royal family.”

“Alright. But I feel that the Papal State will surely make a big deal out of this. We will have to show our faces when necessary.”

“Mm…”

In reality, Christine, who had been seen by Lov using her power, did not want to expose Hall’s whereabouts immediately.

At the same time.

Sophia had already arrived in Wolfsburg by Holy Train.

But just as she got off the train and greeted Duke Schneider and the others, before she could even go to the scene.

She received new intelligence.

It was a top-secret intelligence report from Marshal Lov’s confidant.

It said.

“Your Majesty, we have found the same holy power in the wound that caused Her Majesty Elizabeth to fall asleep at the accident site.”

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