Chapter 14: Encountering a dangerous heroine again

Himan watched Hall leave, silent for a long time.

Her mind was consumed with the thought of him leaving Saint Louis.

Before Hall left, he had actually said goodbye to her, saying that if she was done, he was going to slip away.

Overwhelmed with shock, Himan hadn’t replied, so he had really slipped away.

She couldn’t comprehend the words “I’m leaving Saint Louis.”

For the people of the Papal State, and even the entire Western Continent, Saint Louis was an absolute holy land.

Knowledge, wealth, faith, ideals, everything imaginable.

It was all here.
This was the forefront of the entire Western Continent.
Countless scholars, adventurers, and people with dreams came to Saint Louis.

In the thousand years of the Holy Light Era since the human race defeated the Demon God, the city’s area had expanded dozens of times, developing into its current form with twelve major districts and countless crisscrossing roads.

Saint Louis was the largest and greatest city in the Western Continent.

A thousand years ago, the Hero and the Saintess joined forces to slay the Demon God here.
A thousand years later, countless of the most outstanding people still shone here.

Those native to the city studied the doctrine, consolidating the faith from the time they defeated the Demon God.
Those who came from outside worked hard and built, hoping to obtain a Saint Louis household registration.

But Hall, was he going to leave Saint Louis, this unique city in the whole world?

Why?

Was he really bewitched by a female spy from the Xia Kingdom?

Was he going to the capital of the Great Xia?

Indeed, only that ancient city, which was said to gather all the treasures and ancient skills of the Eastern Continent, to possess the wealth of the nine states and four seas, and to have been born thousands of years ago, could possibly compare to Saint Louis.

The Easterners called it the Land of the Dragon’s Rise.
It was said that one could encounter the opportunity to transform into a dragon there.
Its significance to the Easterners was similar to the significance of Saint Louis to the Westerners.

However, Himan actually didn’t like the Great Xia very much.
The power structure of the Great Xia was completely different from the countries of the West.

The emperor there was like the Demon God who once controlled the Western Continent, controlling everything, sitting on a high and mighty throne, and playing with the power of life and death at will.

“No, I can’t let Hall go to the Great Xia, and I can’t let him leave Saint Louis. As the only man in the Faxtius family, once he is far away from Saint Louis, the Faxtius family will gradually be marginalized as my uncle approaches retirement…”

“As the only man of this generation of the Faxtius family, he cannot escape his responsibility.”

After a long internal struggle, Himan decided.

She still had to manage this cousin of hers.

This would be the last time she would manage him.

Absolutely!

The departing Hall did not consider Himan’s bizarre train of thought.

Go to the imperial city of the Xia Kingdom?

He would absolutely not go to a place with a danger level comparable to Saint Louis.

He also knew about the East.

He had played the Xia Princess’s route a few times.

But the beginning of the Xia Princess’s route was much later than the beginning of Christine’s route.
She was considered a heroine who started relatively late.

At that time, the Xia Princess had just broken off her engagement.
The background story was probably that the ruler of the Xia Kingdom wanted to marry her to someone in Saint Louis as a bargaining chip.

After the Xia Princess met her fiancé, she seemed to be not very happy, and then ran away alone to escape the marriage.

Of course, because the beginner’s tutorial at the beginning was on the road of escaping the marriage, the game text never introduced who the Xia Princess’s fiancé was.

Then the players analyzed that it was very likely because of this forced marriage that the Xia Princess became a lesbian and was very disgusted with those men who tried to marry her to the Papal State as a bargaining chip.

From then on, she no longer believed in men.

And the process of replenishing mana with the Xia Princess was also extremely dangerous.
First of all, after the Xia Princess and Hall met, there was almost zero interaction.

Secondly, every time after replenishing mana with Hall, the game text would prompt that the heroine was breaking down.

It was even rare to see a special buff that increased her attributes when fighting alone and decreased them when fighting in a group after leveling up.

Even more fatal, in the Xia Princess’s route, you couldn’t choose to replenish mana with Hall early on, or rather, once you chose to replenish mana with Hall, you had to immediately use this method to raise the level of the entire team.

In this route, according to a large number of player experiments, Hall’s death probability was not linked to the number of times he replenished mana, but to the number of days he spent with the Xia Princess.

Therefore, Hall would never have anything to do with the people of the Xia Kingdom.
Himan’s suspicion that he was involved with a female spy was sheer nonsense.

Even if the Xia Princess herself came naked to be this female spy, he could still resist her, okay?

Lust was a blade on one’s head.

He was now just trying to find a way to get out of Saint Louis.
He was currently on his way to the Black Knights Order and had not chosen to go home.

The Black Knights Order was a new knight order established by the Papal State in the past twenty years.
Like the White Knights Order, it was directly under the Cardinal Conference.

But the purpose of establishing this knight order, in the setting, was to counter the threat of the great eastern power, and to mainly cooperate with the Judgment Bureau in counter-espionage and assassination missions.

Thinking of this, Hall could understand why Yafman had run over yesterday to suspect him of being a traitor to the West.

“Then if I leave Saint Louis and get away from the center of the conflict by taking on missions… it might be a bit troublesome.”

The headquarters of the Black Knights Order was next to the Judgment Bureau.

In the central district outside the twelve regular districts.

However, for ordinary people, there was no such organization as the Black Knights Order here.

Searching his memory, his memory of the first time he came to this place was a bit fuzzy.

The headquarters of the Judgment Bureau was located underground, and the headquarters of the Black Knights Order was also underground.

It was said that during the reign of the Demon God, many underground labyrinths were created, where the Demon God’s subordinates lived separately.

A thousand years ago, after the Demon God was killed, the Hero helped the human kingdoms continue to expand their territory and continued to drive out the eight demon kings who ruled the eight directions in place of the Demon God.
These labyrinths were then controlled by the Church and served as the centers of important institutions of the Papal State.

In short, it was a bit dark.
In Christine’s route, these labyrinths were almost equivalent to individual dungeons.

But the most important labyrinth was not here.

It was under the Demon God’s palace in the northeast of Saint Louis.
The labyrinth there had a hundred floors and was the only labyrinth open to all heroine routes.

It was a special place for leveling up and testing the strength of the team.
The first to ninth floors of the labyrinth were puzzle levels with no monsters.
A level-ten lord appeared on the tenth floor, and then the level of the lord on each floor increased by one.
According to the labyrinth’s introduction, there were a hundred floors.

But as far as Hall knew, the number of people who had reached the hundredth floor was zero.

Because it took too much time, and the time in this game was limited.
If you didn’t push the main story, you would very likely get a Bad End.

Hall had actually reached the ninetieth floor, which had taken him a lot of effort at the time.

Some people also chose to specialize in the “if you’re a woman, go down a hundred floors” labyrinth, but that was even worse.
If you didn’t get some special equipment or characters from the main or side quests, you couldn’t even clear the labyrinth below the seventy-fifth floor.

In short, Hall thought about it on the way.
Should he go to the labyrinth to get some special location puzzle props before leaving Saint Louis?

But before he could decide.

At the entrance to the Black Knights Order, a noble young lady in a rose-colored, complicated dress greeted him.

“Hall, long time no see.”

And the young man who was accosted by such a beautiful girl showed a surprised expression after a moment.

How did he run into another dangerous main heroine?