Chapter 149: Do You Really Have to Show Off?

“Are you sure, Himan?”

“I’m sure, Vice-Captain Lucy. I will be one of the ten participants in the series of battles against Hall Faxtius. Please write my name as the first.”

Himan’s statement made a deputy officer in the captain’s office look at her in astonishment.

The deputy officer had never expected Himan to participate.

How to put this?

Although most of the young nobles in the White Knights were not on good terms with Hall.

But that was the business of the young people.

People like them, who had been in politics for more than ten or twenty years, did not deliberately interfere in these matters.

The deputy officer felt that Hall’s ten-match series would be very difficult.

Although the opponents were not Hall’s match, it was impossible for Hall to continuously fight ten of his peers from the White Knights.

Because of stamina.

Stamina was the most crucial element in a one-versus-many battle.

Hall could have the stamina to defeat two, three, or even five level seventy opponents in a row.

But as time went on, he would become weaker and weaker.

The weaker he became, the longer a battle would take, which would make it impossible to have a quick victory, and he would consume more in battle.

So maybe after defeating five people, Hall would still be in a certain state.

When he defeated seven, it would surely be difficult for him to fight again.

When he reached the eighth, he might still have a little strength left.

By the ninth, he would surely be exhausted.

As for the tenth.

In the most ideal situation, there was no need for a tenth person at all.

It could even be said that there was no need for an eighth or ninth person.

Although this was a place for the children of old noble families to gain seniority, it was absolutely impossible for everyone to be incompetent.

It wasn’t that there were no members who were more outstanding than Himan, but they wanted to choose members who were not over twenty years old, just like Hall.

The White Knights had a thousand-year history and were founded by the knights who had cooperated with the Hero to attack the Demon Lord’s castle.

Those were heroes.

The noble scions looked down on the commoners and their peers, but they had great respect for those first-generation heroes.

And there were also people who would go to the publicly accessible historical museum and swordsmanship archives of the White Knights to study.

Gathering these people, there would of course be more than ten.

Then what could Hall Faxtius use to win?

On the contrary, if Himan forcibly joined, and Hall lost, it would lead to a conflict between Hall and Himan.

The children were willing to see this kind of fun, but the adults were not very willing, considering all aspects.

One was that they were afraid that people would say Hall had lost because he had gone easy on Himan.

The second was that they were afraid of some unexpected situations.

It was not necessary for Himan to appear.

The deputy officer thought to himself and glanced at Lucy.

“Himan, why do you want to go first? You know, Hall may find it very difficult when he faces you. He might go easy on you.”

Lucy did not make an immediate decision.

As an older female knight, she was not satisfied to win against a Hall who had gone easy on her.

But she respected Himan’s thoughts.

“I won’t let him go easy on me, Vice-Captain.”

Himan said in a firm tone, “I want to have a good match with him.”

“You’re being a bit too wishful, Himan. Hall won’t make a move on you right away.”

“That’s not certain, Vice-Captain Lucy. In any case, I want to sign up. This is a problem that must be solved between me and Hall… We should have a battle.”

She actually knew that she couldn’t beat the current Hall, but she just wanted to fight the current Hall.

If words couldn’t communicate, then let the swords do the talking.

That’s what Himan was thinking in her heart.

“Then what do you think of Hall Faxtius’s strength now, Himan?”

“He is very strong, probably stronger than any of us.”

“Then you go last, Himan.”

Lucy thought for a moment.

Letting Himan go last was the best.

First, it fulfilled Himan’s wish.

Second, if Himan went last, and Hall couldn’t hold on before that, it could also avoid a battle between Hall and Himan.

And if Hall really reached the tenth, that probability was very low, almost impossible.

But from the White Knights’ point of view, they certainly couldn’t let Hall succeed in the ten-match series.

At this time, if Himan could defeat Hall.

It was actually a win-win.

Hall had already challenged nine people, and all of Saint Louis would know he was formidable.

The White Knights wouldn’t lose too much face either.

So from an adult’s point of view.

She could only put Himan as the tenth.

And Himan looked like she wanted to refuse.

Himan felt that she couldn’t face a Hall who was at the end of his strength.

But Lucy had already made a decision before she could speak.

“So be it, Himan Von Braun. At that time, you will appear as the tenth person in the ten-match series and fight against Hall Faxtius. This is the organization’s decision, and you cannot object.”

“Lady Christine, Lord Roan has given a high evaluation of your performance this time. The cardinals haven’t said anything, but the newspapers of Saint Louis are all promoting you. Ilora and the other Saintess Candidate are no match for you at all.”

Maria had been very happy these past two days.

After she and Christine had finished mass this morning, she had chatted with Christine about these things again.

“Mm, is there any news about Hall these past two days?”

Compared to herself, she was more concerned about Hall.

“There is… but Baron Hall has been very arrogant lately. He actually proposed to fight ten people from the White Knights alone two days ago. His fame is unparalleled for a while. This morning, he even surpassed Miss Christine’s public opinion heat.”

Speaking of this, Maria was not very happy.

For Christine, the public opinion heat this year was very important.

The more people who knew her, the more people who understood Christine, the more it would let Christine have a chance to stabilize her position as Saintess.

Hall was really… couldn’t he have done this kind of thing that shocked the entire Saint Louis a few days later?

He had to do it just two days after Christine came back…

“Oh, he is quite confident. How did the White Knights respond?”

“I heard that Miss Himan is the last person on the list. This is too despicable. They clearly don’t want Baron Hall to complete the ten-match series.”

Although Maria didn’t like Hall stealing Christine’s thunder, for matters that didn’t involve Christine’s stance, she was still relatively on Hall’s side.

“Not necessarily. It’s probably a compromise that Himan had to make because she strongly requested it. When is their match, and where is it?”

Christine suddenly stopped in the Roan Cathedral.

“Baron Hall is the challenger, so he will go to the headquarters of the White Knights to challenge them. Sigh, what is Lady Christine asking this for? Are you also going to watch?”

“Can’t I?”

“You can, but do you have to apply to Archbishop Malik for the trip?”

“In Saint Louis, I still have some freedom, right?”

Christine thought for a moment and said.

Maria was a little worried.

She was afraid that Christine would be attacked.

Christine had been attacked too frequently these past few months.

It would be best if she could report it and have at least one deputy knight captain accompany her.

But thinking about it, they were at the headquarters of the White Knights.

Could she still be attacked?

When Hall saw the White Knights’ battle list in the newspaper, his scalp was a little numb.

But it didn’t matter.

It was the last one.

At that time, he would have a thousand reasons to lose beautifully to Himan or to win against her.

At present, he needed to study the first nine opponents.

But most of them were “weak” at a glance.

Only one, Rosa, looked a little skilled.

But it was only a little.

In the game, she had a famous name in the White Knights, but unfortunately, her swordsmanship talent was only C, and her constitution was B.

Her level cap was ninety.

As a B-, she was still very promising.

However, the one she was facing was him, the biggest cheater among the human males in the game.

And these nine were not old, had very little long-term combat experience, not to mention life-and-death moments.

Their level was almost not over seventy-five, and even generally not at the seventy threshold.

It was equivalent to the foundation-laying stage before the player farmed levels at high speed.

It was a complete slaughter…

Hall looked at the list, and besides Himan, which made him feel a little turbulent, he gradually calmed down.

Unless the White Knights found an old member of about twenty-five who had been on many missions, they would have a chance to fight him.

After all, he couldn’t possibly use the power of the Demon God, and there were great restrictions.

“Brother, what are you doing?”

“Nothing. Is this black tea you made for me, Lorraine?”

Hall was reading the newspaper in the Faxtius living room, and his delicate-looking little sister, Lorraine, was wearing that big bear pajama and seemed to be having some difficulty, learning from Lorraine and coming over with a silver plate.

On the plate were two steaming cups of hot tea.

“Yes, does brother want to drink it?”

“Of course, how can I not drink what my little sister has made?”

He was not cowardly.

Ever since he had known that the feather transformed from Christine’s Starfall was on him.

He was no longer cowardly about these childish things.

No matter what kind of drug Lorraine put in it.

He would take it all, unless Lorraine could get some really potent stuff that day.

But with Lorraine’s channels, those things were not obtainable.

“Oh, then alright. Brother, you drink it and see.”

Lorraine placed the black tea in front of Hall, and took the other cup herself, sipping it slowly.

Hall did not hesitate.

Anyway, he was a little thirsty.

But after drinking it, he was even thirstier, and his whole consciousness was a little blurry at that moment.

Fortunately, a large amount of warm current soon gushed from his heart, saving him from that line.

But when he looked at Lorraine’s eyes again, they were a little abnormal.

What on earth was in this?

His sanity could control it, but the degree of pressure was basically equivalent to suddenly having a stimulating picture sent to him in broad daylight.

If he really wanted to, he could, but it was not suitable to do so in broad daylight.

“Is there a problem, brother?”

Lorraine observed Hall.

This was the potion she had developed last time.

Although she knew the effect would not be too good, she could still determine what level of it would be needed to really drug him by observing Hall’s state.

Experiments were done step by step.

“No, no problem.”

His gaze would unconsciously capture the other party’s sensitive areas, such as the small feet under her white socks, her slender calves, and the small chest that could barely be seen under her pajamas, and…

Hall knew he shouldn’t look, but he still chose to be calm.

Then he began to recall the laws of theology.

But at that moment, a blurry, cold light-like image suddenly flashed in his mind.

The coldness in it made him shiver, and it seemed to extinguish all the secular desires in his body.

And when Lorraine saw Hall’s eyes instantly become normal, she asked as if she had a sixth sense.

“Brother, what did you just remember?”

This was the third morning after Hall had issued the challenge.

Himan had woken up quite early.

Today, she had tied her hair into a high ponytail, but she was not wearing her knight’s armor, but had chosen a white shirt and a navy blue plaid skirt, and then a black tie at her chest.

She had put on white over-the-knee socks and shiny black leather shoes.

This set of clothes was Himan and Hall’s middle school uniform.

During Hall’s most controversial period, she had worn this set of clothes for three years.

“Anyway, Hall will surely not be wearing his knight’s armor properly. It’s fine for me to wear this.”

Himan looked at herself in the full-length mirror, flicked her ponytail with her right hand, and then took the scabbard of the Oath of Purity from the wall.

She had to go.

To the White Knights.

And today was the day of Hall and the White Knights’ ten-match series.

Hall’s arrival at the White Knights was not early.

The headquarters of the White Knights was in the first district of Saint Louis.

From here, one could see the magnificent Michael’s Cathedral in the first district.

And unlike the Black Knights, the headquarters of the White Knights was built on the ground.

The area it occupied was not too large, but there was a medium-sized training ground.

Here, Hall would challenge the ten people on the White Knights’ list in order.

“There are quite a lot of people today.”

At the entrance of the training ground, a large number of official members and reserve members of the White Knights had gathered.

These people were also quite young, and he didn’t have to guess that they were all the children of nobles.

Most of them looked at him with hostility.

After all, in their eyes, the face of the White Knights was their face.

For Hall to slap the face of the White Knights was to slap their faces.

There were even some who whistled and provoked him.

Hall was too lazy to bother with them.

When he started to slaughter these guys later, they would be silent.

He would give them a little Faxtius shock.

What made him pay attention were the people at the end of the white line of the field.

Many familiar faces.

Himan, Leticia, Christine, and Istar, who was the witness of this ten-match series.

Sergei, as the vice-captain of the Black Knights, did not come.

The vice-captain of the White Knights, on the other hand, had come.

Hall knew Lucy, the second daughter of the Cavendish family.

Her swordsmanship, constitution, and sanctity were naturally not as strong as Sergei’s, but she was by no means weak.

And the Cavendish family was also a cardinal family, like the Russell family, a family with real power in the cardinals that had not fallen for a thousand years.

In the game, this family was betting on both sides.

Not only had they already arranged for their second daughter to be the vice-captain of the White Knights, but they had also had their fifth son join the Black Knights, which was the guy who had been studying in the East that Sergei had mentioned a few days ago.

But what surprised Hall the most was that person… a girl with pink hair, a floating-cup temperament, and a different style from the nobles present.

—Julia.

“Damn it, the one who joined the Black Knights was actually her?”

Hall was numb.

Julia looked to be wearing a custom-made, form-fitting black armor, which unequivocally indicated her current identity.

“Mr. Hall, oh no, I should call you Captain Hall now. Julia, a member of the third squad of the Saint Louis headquarters of the Black Knights, reports to you.”

After she had given him a beautiful salute, she asked as if no one else was around, “By the way, Captain Hall’s fiancée hasn’t come back from the Xia Kingdom yet? She and you are such a good match.”

This was hitting where it hurt.

Christine and Leticia had almost forgotten about this fiancée.

After all, Ye Wangxue was not in Saint Louis, and the media had long since stopped looking for her news.

But this little country girl actually…

“She hasn’t come back yet. Maybe when she comes back, our engagement will be annulled. Miss Julia, don’t worry too much about this. The problem now before our Black Knights is the ten-match series with the White Knights.”

Hall immediately changed the topic from dangerous to normal.

Christine and Leticia’s slightly furrowed brows also relaxed.

But Istar came up with a sentence.

“Little Hall, the Seventh Princess will surely not break off the engagement with you, unless she has no taste.”

“Istar, you’d better not get involved in the topic of young people.”

Hall hoped this old woman would shut up soon.

“Little Hall, your big sister doesn’t like to hear that. Didn’t you say yesterday that I was younger than your big sister? Is this the rhetoric you use to please the little girls present?”

Now Leticia didn’t know what to say.

She wanted to say something, but she couldn’t interrupt.

Christine, on the other hand, said coldly, “Baron Hall has always been very good at saying polite words. I hope Istar will not take it too seriously. It will hurt your feelings.”

The situation was very unfavorable to him.

Hall had never expected that holding a ten-match series would still get him into a subtle shura field atmosphere.

Wasn’t he here to show off today?

“Alright, let Hall focus on the ten-match series. We can talk about these things later.”

Himan suddenly spoke.

Vice-Captain Lucy coughed twice and said, “Since Baron Hall has arrived, when shall we start?”

“We can start at any time. I don’t care.”

“Then let’s begin, Baron Hall.”

At this time, a very young boy stood out from the crowd of the White Knights.

Hall looked at him and felt a little familiar.

After thinking about it carefully, he found that this guy was the son of the Howard family.

He had forgotten which son he was.

He didn’t remember his name either.

Who would pay too much attention to this kind of character in the game’s plot?

But now the other party was probably here to avenge his older brother.

Unfortunately, the one he was seeking revenge on was him, Hall.

The great villain of the heroines.

“The first match is over. Hall Faxtius wins.”

“The second match is over. Hall Faxtius wins.”

“The third match is over. Hall Faxtius wins.”

“The…”

Half an hour was not long, but also not short.

But Hall had defeated six opponents in a row.

This also included the preparation time for getting on and off the stage.

He had won too cleanly and decisively.

So much so that the young people from the White Knights, who had originally been chattering about how Hall would be defeated, had all shut their mouths.

Everyone was silenced.

Lucy’s gaze towards Hall was also quite complicated.

Because Hall Faxtius’s strength was beyond her imagination.

Although she had noticed Hall and Hela a few years ago when the Black Knights had just been formed.

And the saying back then was that Hall’s overall ability was more outstanding than Hela’s, and he was more suitable as the future captain.

But later, the leader of the surprise attack on the Frost Elf race was Hela, not Hall.

It was Hall.

Such a great opportunity to achieve merits.

It was given to Hela, not Hall, which meant that Hall did not have the ability to take on this responsibility.

Otherwise, with Hall’s level, if he had brought back the branch of the Frost Elf tree at the age of ten, then he would almost not have to do anything else.

He would just have to gain some seniority and he would surely inherit his father’s title and position.

Coupled with the era when Hall’s reputation had been ruined three years ago, which had made Hall “leave the Black Knights.”

Now, although Hall’s fame had risen again, it was also restored to its former glory.

To defeat ten people in a row so easily was a bit too ridiculous.

This level was far above Himan’s.

The remaining seventh, eighth, and ninth, and also Himan.

Probably…

At this moment, the seventh person came on stage.

It was that Young Master Daro.

Young Master Daro wanted to take advantage of this seventh position to take Hall’s head, but he didn’t expect Hall to not even be out of breath.

He was in almost the same state as when he had defeated the first person.

It was naturally impossible for Hall to have not consumed anything, but the recovery effect brought by the Starfall Feather feather had maxed out his endurance.

In half an hour, it was enough to make up for those not-so-much consumptions.

So Young Master Daro had not lasted many moves under Hall’s hands.

But to give face, Hall had deliberately held back.

In the end, he had played with the other party for more than a dozen rounds before letting him be defeated with some consumption.

Because he couldn’t face Himan in a full state in the eyes of others.

If he didn’t win then, it would be too fake.

If he crushed Himan.

What if he broke Himan’s heart?

Either a narrow victory or a close defeat.

This was the script in Hall’s heart.

He hadn’t decided which one to choose yet.

Then the eighth person was also defeated by Hall after playing for more than a dozen rounds.

The ninth person was also the same.

“That guy Hall has been consumed. He acted so casually when he defeated the six people before, he was probably just putting on a brave face.”

“That’s true. Hall is just a show-off putting on a brave face. Now that he has been consumed a lot, this tenth battle, as long as Himan doesn’t go easy on him, it’s a sure win.”

“Come on, your mouths are harder than the east gate of Saint Louis. Anyway, I’m convinced. Hall Faxtius really has skill.”

The ten-match series had come to the last one.

Himan Von Braun versus Hall Faxtius.

This pair of cousins was quite famous in Saint Louis at any time.

All eyes were also focused on them.

Himan was a little nervous.

She hadn’t fought with Hall for a long time.

In her memory, the last time they had practiced swords with each other was already four years ago.

When they had practiced swords for the last time, Hall had seemed a little absent-minded.

Himan, who was not yet sixteen, was dissatisfied that Hall had deliberately lost to her and had thrown his sword aside to rest under a tree, so she had told him to be more focused.

But the boy had only said, “It’s not a real battle. It’s useless. Let’s just say you won this time.”

That’s right, Himan had rarely won against Hall.

She had almost never won.

But this time, could she win?

Himan didn’t know.

Looking at Hall’s previous performance, she actually felt that she couldn’t win.

But maybe he would go easy on her again.

And let her win.

Thinking of this, Himan’s mood was a little complicated.

She was a little expectant, but also a little unwilling.

She looked at the scabbard in her hand and slowly walked in front of Hall and said.

“You’d better not go easy on me, Hall.”

“Alright.”

He answered.

But that Young Master Daro, who had lost before and now couldn’t wait for Hall to die, said.

“How can you prove that you won’t go easy on him?”

Now there was a consensus in Saint Louis.

Although Hall was a scumbag, he was still relatively easy on girls.

Now the young people of the White Knights also chimed in.

But they didn’t expect someone to suddenly interrupt.

“I will prove it for Captain Hall!”

It was Julia.

She came to his side with her sword and looked at Himan.

This time, Leticia’s eyes showed anxiety.

She thought to herself, ‘What is this again?’