Chapter 111: The White Silk Knight Begins to Panic

Saint Olan, the largest city in the western Papal State.

Most of the trade with the Bal Empire had to pass through here, and some goods from the Cateline Kingdom or the ancient Kingdom of Elan might also pass through this customs port.

The customs duties had always been plentiful, and anyone with a mind for the political and commercial aspects of Saint Olan was rolling in money.

It was a lucrative post.

Otherwise, the Howard family, who held the good northern military region, would not have coveted this place and felt unbalanced.

In fact, most of the people in Saint Louis who disliked the Faxtius family did so for two reasons.

One was that Duke Faxtius had been a carp that had leaped over the dragon gate in his youth.

The second was that this carp, after leaping over the dragon gate, had in turn suppressed the old dragon gate in terms of personal influence.

Hall was also very clear about this.

In Sophia’s route, there was a game segment called [Monthly Warring States].

If the Papal State launched a war and occupied Saint Olan.

The national tax revenue would either soar or it would show that the trade of many countries in the Western Continent had been damaged.

In any case, it was crucial.

If it weren’t for the heavy burden of death on him, he would have really given up long ago.

To live a simple, boring, and tedious life every day.

At this moment, the Holy Train was stopped at the platform.

Hall and Lov were eating the dinner sent by the waiter, each a well-done steak from the Duchy of Elan and an iced drink, as well as a large two-person shrimp pizza.

The snacks were six golden fried chickens and ten skewers of Eastern specialty snacks.

To be honest, it was a lot for Lov’s appetite.

For Hall, if he only ate half, it would be just right.

But while waiting in the carriage, waste was a common sight.

Most of the other guests were eating slowly, using this brief time to talk business or flirt.

That’s right, even on Hall and Lov’s table, the waiter had thoughtfully lit a magic candle that emitted a rose-colored light.

So Lov was still enjoying this one-and-a-half-hour stop.

And now Parousia had also come to the sixth carriage, sitting opposite them and eating.

This couldn’t help but make Lov alert.

This woman was the big-breasted woman the Young Master had been paying attention to when he had just entered the station.

She was also in the first-class carriage, which meant she was at least the young lady of a viscount’s family.

Maybe she even knew the Young Master.

“Aaaah… Lov, who had thought she could travel alone with the Young Master this time, was a little depressed.”

She had met a woman on the way who seemed to have met the Young Master before.

What if this person also wanted to have something happen with the Young Master on the road?

…

Lov began a fierce ideological struggle, and her fork stopped.

Parousia also noticed Lov’s gaze and thought to herself, ‘Why is Hall’s little girlfriend looking at her?’

However, as a vampire viscountess, her pride still wanted her to suppress Lov, so she immediately puffed out her chest, deliberately letting Lov notice.

Now Lov was very unhappy.

But more than that, she felt inferior.

Her little face drooped, and she didn’t know what to say.

“Why aren’t you eating, Lov?”

Hall was still eating.

After running out of Saint Louis, his mood was incredibly relaxed, and the food was delicious.

“It’s nothing, Young Master. I just have a bad premonition…”

Lov deliberately voiced her uneasiness about Parousia.

But before her words had finished, a violent explosion sounded from outside.

Then Parousia and Hall’s gazes simultaneously turned to the outside of the train, and at this moment, the carriage also shook violently.

“Young Master!”

“Don’t worry, Lov. Someone just attacked the train. With such a big commotion, it’s probably not aimed at us. It should be… attacking the second carriage.”

“Someone attacked the west station of Saint Olan a moment ago, Brigadier General.”

“Attacked the west station of Saint Olan? That train should be at the west station now, right?”

“Yes, Brigadier General. The first emergency response team has already rushed to the scene. Should we order the mobilization of more personnel, even the army?”

“No need. Those who dare to attack the station of the Holy Train in the city must be some elites, not a large number of cultists. We only need to send our most elite personnel to apprehend them. Have the people from the Judgment Bureau branch started to act?”

“They should have, Brigadier General. I heard that there is an important person from the Church on that Holy Train.”

“That’s right. There is indeed a Saintess Candidate on the train. It’s Ilora from the Saint Gregory’s official residence on that Holy Train.”

Stationed at the foot of a mountain about twenty miles outside of Saint Olan was the first brigade of the third division of the first army of the tenth crusader army of the western Papal State.

Their brigadier general was Andre Faxtius.

Andre Faxtius’s original surname was not Faxtius.

He was just a nameless young man from a small town.

Twenty years ago, because the previous Pope had suddenly died, the Demon Lord of the southern demon domain had led his demon army and was eyeing the southern border.

And with the pressure from the Xia Kingdom.

The situation at that time was not very optimistic.

Duke Faxtius was only a captain at that time, but he was appreciated by the Russell family, who married the current Mrs. Faxtius to him.

And soon after their new marriage, he was ordered to go to the south of the Papal State to clear out the monsters that had entered the Papal State’s territory in his first battle.

Andre, as a bounty hunter at that time, was also cooperating with the government’s army.

But the unit he was in was not designed to deal with the Demon Lord’s retainers and fell into a trap.

If it weren’t for Duke Faxtius arriving with the elites of Saint Louis, Andre would have been a corpse long ago.

From then on, he simply gave up his free bounty hunter work and began to follow Duke Faxtius on his military career.

Until ten years ago, when Duke Faxtius was promoted to duke like a rocket, commanding the entire western military region.

He also gradually rose to the position of brigadier general with his seniority and Duke Faxtius’s promotion.

His defense area included the crucial Saint Olan Holy Train station.

“You first distribute the situation to the various troops. I will personally go and lead people to deal with it later.”

Andre thought for a moment, then took out the travel list that the Church had given him from his drawer.

He had to handle this incident well.

Ilora on the Holy Train at this moment was actually just the first wave.

Because the Saintess Candidate of the Bal Empire had lost her ability, creating a vacuum of faith.

This made the three cardinals in the Papal State all intend to get involved.

“The train carrying Christine will depart in three days. The same thing cannot be allowed to happen then…”

Andre lit a cigarette and muttered to himself as he looked at the list.

Then he took out the list of the first-class and special-class carriages of this Holy Train and looked through it.

To see if there were any other powerful and noble people who needed to be protected.

“Russell?”

“A child of the Russell family? Who is William Russell? And who is this Lov Russell?”

As Duke Faxtius’s personal guard before, Andre had been to the Russell family’s banquets a few times with Duke Faxtius.

He considered himself quite familiar with the younger generation of the Russell family.

But these two names were very unfamiliar.

Although he didn’t know them very well, since they could sit in the first-class carriage, it was still necessary to meet them.

“Young Master, where are you going?”

“I’m going to check the situation. The people from the Saint Olan emergency response team have arrived. You go and take shelter for now. The shelter specially built inside the station is very safe. This is our Faxtius family’s crest. If you encounter danger, you can show this. No one in the military of Saint Olan doesn’t know it.”

Hall gave his family crest to Lov.

He gestured for her to follow the non-commissioned officers who were guiding the first-class carriage passengers to take shelter.

“Mm, alright. Young Master, please be careful. Lov will wait for you to come back at the station.”

Lov had no intention of swaying Hall’s thoughts and also knew that forcibly following in this dangerous situation would just be a burden.

“Mm, I’ll be back soon.”

Hall touched Lov’s hand and was about to see her off.

He really had to deal with today’s situation.

This was probably an attack aimed at a Saintess Candidate.

The high-level Church officials who had previously gone to the Bal Empire, you could guess with your butt that they were Saintess Candidates.

He had to deal with this kind of side quest.

What if Christine was attacked one day and died?

And Parousia hadn’t left at this moment, she was just standing on the side.

It seemed she was also very interested in tonight’s attack.

When Hall had sent Lov off, she came over.

“You’re not going to take shelter?”

“Why should I? I’m not afraid. You don’t look afraid either. Are you going to give chase?”

“It’s not easy to chase.”

Hall pretended to be troubled.

But in reality, when he played various routes in the game, a similar plot had happened dozens of times.

He could roughly guess where the terrorists who had attacked this Holy Train had gone.

Their identity was not yet certain.

It could be a foreign force, the Salvation Church, a factional struggle within the Church, or even a Demon Lord deliberately sending his retainers to cause trouble.

“Forget it, you go and sign up over there first. It seems that if you want to chase those people, you still have to go through the approval of your human military and the Church. It’s so strange. It doesn’t look like anything major has happened. Why is there a need for approval?”

Parousia didn’t dare to get close.

There was a person over there whose aura made her very uncomfortable.

Hall ignored her and went over first.

It seemed there was a deputy knight captain of a cardinal here.

“William Russell?”

“That’s right.”

“From your identity, you’re from the Black Knights, and you have a certain position.”

“Mm, I’m currently on a secret mission for the Black Knights, so it’s not convenient to reveal more. But since we’re on the same train, and an ally is in trouble, I should also lend a hand. When I get back to Saint Louis, I’ll have another achievement to my name.”

Hall did not plan to reveal his real name.

Otherwise, if he said he was the young master of the Faxtius family, then he wouldn’t be able to take Parousia to chase people.

This group of people would have to surround him and protect him.

“Oh, are the people from the Black Knights so kind-hearted? I heard that most of you secret specialists who wander outside are stained with a lot of blood.”

The military officer who was approving Hall’s documents said.

Then he gave him a few emergency magic scrolls for this temporary operation.

Because it was a sudden incident, these magic scrolls were all medium-range, single-use scrolls.

“Hehe, it’s just the world’s prejudice.”

Hall said faintly and took the magic scrolls.

Then he looked at the deputy knight captain for a moment.

This guy, he was also quite familiar.

One of the four deputy knight captains of Cardinal Saint Gregory.

His level was close to ninety, and his dual talent in swordsmanship and constitution, as well as divinity and other various attributes, were all [A].

As an enemy, he would be a bit tricky.

But why was the other party not attacking, but waiting in place?

At this moment, he opened the mission document and understood.

“Ilora is injured… The attack was almost accurately aimed at her position in the carriage, but the broadcast just now didn’t mention this news. It’s probably because they suspect there’s a mole or want to avoid causing a panic, so they didn’t announce Ilora’s injury.”

Hall analyzed for a while.

Parousia, on the other hand, was impatient.

“So, where did the people who attacked the carriage go?”

“It doesn’t say, but I guess they ran towards the mountains on the border of the Bal Empire and Saint Olan. But why are you so interested?”

Hall said slowly.

“Aren’t you a mole planted in the Church by Mandosha? Aren’t you interested in the organization that attacked the Holy Train? As they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

“Oh.”

He was speechless.

This big-breasted girl probably felt that she had gained nothing from this trip and wanted to make another friend for the vampire race.

To take this back and report.

“Alright, then you follow me.”

Hall also wanted to see which organization was causing trouble.

But this stubborn Parousia would not contact the national forces of the human race.

That is to say, she could be used as a free fighter if necessary.

To use her for free.

The two of them then went further west along the railway tracks.

While the terrorist attack was happening in Saint Olan.

Saint Louis was still very quiet.

Himan paid a visit to the Child estate.

Moyel was a little happy to see her.

Because Moyel felt that Himan and Ye Wangxue were a bit too close on a normal day.

If her lady were to have a one-on-one in the future, it would clearly be disadvantageous.

Winning over Himan was also one of the keys to her lady’s success.

“Excuse me, is Hall at the Child estate?”

“Sigh… Young Master Hall is not here.”

“Is Miss Leticia at home?”

“Of course, my lady is at home…”

Moyel observed Himan’s subtle expression, wanting to decipher the true meaning from it.

So she asked in return, “Miss Himan, is Young Master Hall not at the Faxtius estate tonight?”

“He’s been out all day since he left this morning.”

“Oh… where did Young Master Hall go? Do you have any clue?”

Seeing Himan shake her head cluelessly, Moyel was now a little anxious.

Ye Wangxue had just left yesterday, and Hall had disappeared today.

He had probably gone to find some woman.

But thinking back to the women Hall had a good relationship with, besides the Himan in front of her, there was only Leticia, Christine, and the Empress of the Northern Kingdom.

But her lady was at home, Hall couldn’t possibly stay at Christine’s place until night, and the Empress had already gone back.

Sigh…

There was one more person, one more person.

Moyel suddenly remembered the first-floor square of the Demon God’s Labyrinth the day before yesterday.

Julia, that pink-haired country girl.

Oh right, that pink-haired country girl was obviously not a noble lady.

So the place she lived should be the underground street of Saint Louis.

If Hall went to find Julia, of course no one would know where he had gone.

“Maybe he went to find Miss Julia?”

A word that woke her from her dream.

Himan nodded repeatedly.

Right, right, there was also Julia.

But Himan felt that the possibility of Hall going to find Julia to fool around was also not high.

If, Hall was not at Julia’s place either.

But at a girl’s place that none of them knew or had ever heard of?

Or perhaps…

Himan lowered her head and breathed out in the winter night.

She suddenly thought of a sentence Hall had once said.

—I’m leaving Saint Louis.

It was very clear and with determination.

It didn’t seem like a joke, but because of Hall’s amazing performance in Saint Louis in the following two months.

Himan had gradually not taken this sentence to heart, and only thought that Hall was just being angry with her at that time.

But, Hall.

He didn’t seem like someone who would get angry.

From the time she knew him until today.

Hall seemed to have never been angry with her.

Could it be, could it be that he really was leaving Saint Louis?

The white-stockinged female knight’s face suddenly showed a panicked expression that she herself had not noticed.

Moyel, on the other hand, frowned.

“Miss Himan, what’s wrong with you? Let’s go and find Miss Julia together. It just so happens that my lady also wants to confirm Young Master Hall’s current position. She plans to invite Young Master Hall in a few days…”

To go on a trip together.

Moyel kept these six words in her heart.

She didn’t plan to tell Himan, but she planned to test Himan to see how much time Hall had during the winter break.

If Hall was very free, why not just let her lady take Hall away?

On an impromptu trip, it would be strange if a lone man and woman couldn’t spark some love.

“Alright. But it might not be possible in a few days. I still have a mission that requires Hall’s assistance. He has to complete the mission with me to increase his seniority before he has free time.”

“Alright.”

Moyel did not refute.

After all, she felt that Hall was quite playful and might not listen to Himan.

Soon, the two of them set off to find Julia.

“Parousia, how is the situation?”

“It’s alright, but there is indeed a strange residual magic aura in the air.”

“You can feel it?”

“I am a vampire after all, and… can you not touch this viscountess’s wings?”

“If I don’t touch your wings, can you track these magic auras? It’s a good thing I deliberately made a cut.”

Hall and Julia had now chased to the mountains twenty miles outside of Saint Olan’s west city.

However, to confirm the direction of the attacker’s escape, he had made a small cut on his finger with a dagger.

He had originally planned to feed it to this magic idiot Parousia, but Parousia was disgusted with him.

And he was also afraid that this idiot would suddenly understand and discover the secret hidden in his blood.

So he had used his finger to apply the blood to the most sensitive little wing on the back of the vampire for her to absorb.

This made Parousia quite embarrassed, but that hot and strange feeling, every time he touched her little wing, her body would tremble.

It was quite comfortable.

But Parousia didn’t want to admit it.

She was very stubborn.

“Hmph, you don’t have to do this. This viscountess can also track their tracks by smell.”

“I forgot, you’re a dog.”

“Are you looking for death? What’s your name?”

“William Russell. Didn’t you hear me just now?”

Hall looked at the angry Parousia with a straight face.

“Oh, William Russell. You’re from the Russell family?”

“Yes.”

Indeed, Cardinal Russell was his maternal grandmother.

So how could he not be?

“Oh, Mandosha is quite something. She can even turn a scion of the Russell family into one of her own.”

Parousia was about to continue speaking.

But she heard someone shout from above.

“Who’s over there?”

“And who are you?!”

Parousia didn’t hold back, her tone was also fierce.

“We are the people of the second emergency response team, ordered to search the mountain for the Holy Train terrorists.”

“Then we are on the same side. We are specialists from the Black Knights, also ordered to investigate.”

Hall gestured for Parousia not to say any more.

Parousia, on the other hand, glared at Hall.

She thought to herself, what was Hall up to?

He believed whatever people said?

The two of them had almost run in a straight line to get here by following the aura.

And seeing that the other party had appeared from behind a rock, it didn’t look like they were searching.

It was very likely that someone was faking it, trying to trick them into going up and getting rid of them.

The conspiracies of the human race were so despicable to the vampires.

What’s more, in Parousia’s opinion, Hall was so smart when he was dealing with her.

Why was he so dizzy now?

But Hall had already let his guard down.

But Hall had walked forward without any guard.

Seeing them like this, another person appeared from a tree on a high place.

“I’ll go and inform the colonel. You two please wait here. The area ahead is not safe, there may be cultist activity.”

“Cultists? Could it be that the people who attacked the train this time are from the Salvation Church?”

Hall looked very surprised.

Parousia was speechless.

What are you surprised about?

Isn’t it normal for the Salvation Church to attack the Holy Train and try to kill a Saintess Candidate?

What’s more, the more she looked at the two people who had suddenly appeared, the more she felt that something was wrong.

It didn’t look like they were searching the mountain at all, but like they were on guard here.

“That’s right. It’s very likely people from the Salvation Church. The two of you should know that the Sage active in our Papal State is Mandosha Flower. And near our Saint Olan, her subordinate, the [Black Rose] of the thirteen cadres, is often active. This attack was probably the work of the Black Rose.”

The man on the treetop left, and the man in military uniform who had first discovered them walked towards them.

Hall briefly looked at the other party’s uniform and confirmed from his identity that he was a lieutenant.

And the person they were going to inform was a colonel.

A colonel could basically be the commander-in-chief of the second emergency response team.

According to the game’s setting, his level should be between eighty and eighty-five, or maybe even higher.

“Black Rose? If it’s one of the thirteen cadres of the Salvation Church, we may not be her opponent.”

In the eyes of the two, the worry on Hall’s face and in his tone grew heavier.

But he was actually just thinking about the game’s plot.

In the game, the [Black Rose]’s stance was not as much as Mandosha Flower’s.

She would usually not be an enemy of the player.

Only in a single route where the player did not want to recruit the heroine could they receive a mission to go to the mountains near Saint Olan to eliminate the [Black Rose].

But in the end, she was Mandosha Flower’s subordinate, so he wasn’t too worried.

But how could the Black Rose so accurately attack Ilora in the train under the protection of that deputy knight captain?

He was considering, but the deputy knight captain’s confident words interrupted Hall’s thoughts.

“No need to worry. It’s just one of the thirteen cadres. We have dispatched many elites this time. The two of you can come with me to see the colonel. With your help, we will surely be able to wipe out the Black Rose.”

After the deputy knight captain finished speaking, Parousia found that the other party’s eyes were lingering on Hall’s scabbard.

As if he was appraising something.

“Colonel Evan, two people from the Black Knights have come up the mountain.”

“Oh, people from the Black Knights? They’re here so fast. What about the two deputy knight captains who were escorting the train?”

“I don’t know. I haven’t seen any trace of them for now.”

“Old man, forget it. No hurry. To be able to chase so fast, they must be the elites of the Black Knights. If we give them to the Black Rose, we can get a handsome reward and win her trust. In the future, I’ll give her Andre’s information and use her hand to get rid of that guy…”

“Cooperating with cultists, won’t there be danger? What if we’re exposed… Colonel.”

The non-commissioned officer who had come to report was a little hesitant.

“Hehe, I wasn’t the one who gave her Ilora’s information. There are moles in the Church too. We’re just getting a piece of the pie.”

“Then what if Brigadier General Andre dies?”

“With such a big thing happening, the central Judgment Bureau of Saint Louis won’t just sit by. At that time, I’ll just sell the [Black Rose]’s information.”

“But Colonel, you’ve also made a big mistake.”

“No, this is my pledge of allegiance. The Church has my major transgression, but I will also have merits in eliminating the Black Rose. Besides, there has to be someone by Duke Faxtius’s side who completely obeys the Church, right? I want to be this person, and directly be a dog for the cardinals.”

Seeing the incomprehensible expression on his subordinate’s face, Colonel Evan said coldly, “Others want to be, but they don’t have the way. At that time, I’ll find Andre’s position, and you will all be promoted with me.”

Colonel Evan, who had been stuck in this position for ten years, felt that this plan of repeatedly jumping sides was perfect.

And now, he had to take the first step!

“Let’s go, let’s go and see those two distinguished guests from the Black Knights.”

Hall and Parousia were being led up the mountain path by the deputy knight captain.

The Alps ran north-south, with the Bal Empire and the Papal State bounded by them.

And at the southern end of this mountain range was the border of the ancient Kingdom of Elan, and at the northern end was the border of the Kingdom of Cateline.

In the game, it was a relatively important area, and also a lawless land.

If a player liked to be a lawless person who didn’t follow the main storyline when playing the game, the Alps were a very good place to go.

Because the caravans from the Bal Empire to the Papal State had to pass through here, you could do whatever you wanted, killing people and robbing them.

Of course, the ending for this was basically always death.

Only when the Demon God’s daughter was the main heroine, and she and Hall ran until Hall died, and the player, when surrounded, chose to avoid battle and flee directly, was there a chance to trigger the wandering ending.

This ending was probably that a few years later, the East-West continent war broke out.

As the Demon God’s daughter, the last person in the world with the Demon God’s bloodline, she did not choose to join any side.

As for the outcome of the war, it had nothing to do with her.

But when the game’s credit scene ended.

It would be found that the silver-haired, red-eyed girl was standing alone on the beach.

The sun was slowly setting from the end of the coastline.

The waves and tide washed over her beautiful, bare feet, one wave after another.

Her white dress was dyed orange by the light, fluttering in the endless sea breeze.

The player would find that when they escaped, most of the heroines they had recruited were still there.

But in this ending, besides this silver-haired, red-eyed girl, there was no one else.

It was very quiet, only the sound of the tide.

So most of the people on the forums also classified this route as a bad end.

“Are you the two specialists from the Black Knights? I am Colonel Evan. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”

The moment Colonel Evan saw Hall and Parousia, he could tell from their temperament that the two were not simple.

He had caught a big fish.

“Hello, Colonel Evan. I am Specialist William, and she is Specialist Lucy.”

Hall gave a simple self-introduction.

Then his eyes narrowed, “Colonel Evan, then when will we launch a general attack on the cultists?”

This guy was a traitor in the game.

He understood.