Chapter 95: He Really Is a Scumbag

Moyel’s declaration stunned everyone.

Hall himself didn’t get it.

When he met Moyel two months ago, the girl had drawn her sword and told him to stay away from Leticia.

Now, she was actively acting as a lobbyist, asking him to carry Leticia.

Her attitude had done a complete one-hundred-and-eighty.

Everyone else basically thought the same thing.

They had thought that with Moyel here today, Leticia wouldn’t be able to stir up any trouble.

But they never expected this servant to be so proactive in assisting her own lady.

The look she gave Hall even seemed to carry a cold glint that said, “I’ll kill you if you don’t agree.”

“That’s not very appropriate, Miss Moyel. Can’t you carry your own lady? Why must you specify my fiancé?”

Ye Wangxue was the person on the worst terms with Leticia.

She couldn’t let Hall carry Leticia all the way to the seventieth floor.

That would be at least a two-day journey on his back.

If word got out, where would she, the grand princess, put her face?

“It’s not that my lady doesn’t want me to carry her, but that she wants Baron Hall to. This is my lady’s wish. As a servant, the most important thing is to obey the master’s thoughts. The Seventh Princess, as a princess, should understand.”

“I don’t understand. In our Xia Kingdom, an excellent master and servant should be almost like friends, giving the master appropriate advice at the right time. I think letting my fiancé carry your unmarried lady is a dereliction of your duty, Miss Moyel.”

“But you are not yet Baron Hall’s wife, and Baron Hall is not a married man, is he? You haven’t even properly gone through the engagement process. To say you have the title of husband and wife is one thing, but to have the substance of that relationship, that wouldn’t be very appropriate, would it?”

Moyel was very aggressive.

Her current mindset was to help Leticia succeed.

After all, Leticia’s affection for Hall could no longer be changed.

And she saw with her own eyes every day how hard Leticia worked to win Hall’s affection in the future.

‘My lady has worked so hard, how can she lose?’

‘No.’

Moyel couldn’t let Leticia’s efforts these past few days go to waste.

“Hall, can you say something?”

Ye Wangxue was getting a little anxious.

Because her engagement process with Hall was indeed not complete; neither the bride nor the groom had signed the marriage contract.

Her original intention on the night her identity was exposed was to secure Hall first, then return to the Xia Kingdom.

Once Hall missed her, she would return to Saint Louis, take out the marriage contract, and have him sign it.

That way, there would surely be no complications.

But now…

Ye Wangxue didn’t know what to say.

Was she supposed to admit what Moyel said was true?

“What should I say?”

Hall had originally wanted to play dumb, but in front of eight intelligent young women, that was clearly not possible.

So he chose the method of lowering their affection for him, a method that would hurt him a thousand to injure the enemy eight hundred.

He said with a serious face, “It’s not impossible for me to carry Miss Leticia, but you have to pay me.”

Being greedy for money was not a good label.

He had been using the scumbag label, but unfortunately, the effect wasn’t great.

So Hall decided to add another label to himself—greedy.

And among those present, they were either the type who saw money as dirt, like Himan and Christine.

Or the type whose concept of money was “no matter if you have money or not, you’re not as rich as me” and “money is just a number to me,” like Leticia and Sophia.

If he had an interest in money, it would seem quite demeaning.

Besides, Hall did indeed need money.

If he were to run away in the future, wouldn’t he need money?

“Hall, how much do you want?”

Hearing this, Leticia quickly took out her checkbook, tore a page from it, and carefully handed it to Hall.

“This is a standard check from the Child family’s World Center Bank. Just fill in a number.”

This simple and crude method left the young man Hall speechless.

He then glanced at the check.

The maximum amount that could be filled in was eight digits, with the unit being copper coins.

Compared to the currency value of his previous life, he could basically fill in any amount below one hundred million RMB.

Seeing him standing there stunned, the rose-colored girl showed a worried expression.

After a few dozen seconds, she asked weakly.

“Is it not enough?”

She could take out a few more checks for Hall to fill, but before she left, the old butler had told her that if she had expenses in the Demon God’s Labyrinth, she shouldn’t use too many checks.

The weapons and treasures that adventurers brought out from the Demon God’s Labyrinth were not worth that price.

He was afraid Leticia would be cheated.

Now, this made Ye Wangxue so angry.

‘Is this Leticia a green tea b*tch? You pull out a check and let Hall write whatever he wants, and it’s still not enough?’

As a fellow princess.

She and Leticia were indeed not on the same path.

Ye Wangxue, compared to many young ladies of noble families, was even a little poor.

Once, while browsing a night market, she saw a bracelet she really liked but had to rely on her small private savings to afford it.

It was only on her birthday that her father, the Emperor, would order people to send her the expensive treasures she needed.

But Leticia was the type whose family generally didn’t send her gifts.

If she saw something she liked, she didn’t need to ask the price; she could just buy it.

This checkbook was her personal treasury.

In Leticia’s eyes, there was nothing that couldn’t be solved with one check.

If there was, then two.

“It seems Miss Leticia has no concept of money. The head of the largest merchant guild in the West actually has no concept of money. That’s a peculiar thing about the West.”

Ye Wangxue said sarcastically from the side.

She was indeed angry.

After all, the heads of the merchant guilds in the Xia Kingdom were regularly assessed by the Ministry of Commerce’s Inspectorate, which was specially established by her father.

For many daily necessities for the residents, such as salt, rice, and firewood, the prices were uniformly regulated and could not be raised without authorization.

The prices of military minerals such as iron and copper were also uniformly regulated.

But in the West, it seemed everything was quite free.

For example, the price of rice in Saint Louis was several times higher than in other places.

And in places like the Kingdom of Cateline and the ancient Kingdom of Elan, where the land was not as fertile, the prices of many daily necessities were even more bizarre.

The rich places were ridiculously rich, while the poor places basically relied on being adventurers to survive.

“My apologies, Princess Ye. As the princess of the Child family, she indeed does not need to have a concept of money.”

Moyel put on a stern expression.

In her eyes, the great Leticia was the greatest.

Even though Leticia was beautiful and kind-hearted, and generally only used funds that didn’t affect the Child family’s cash flow, if the Child family didn’t have Leticia, then there was no need for the Child family to continue existing.

The late master had said so, so she felt that even if her lady wanted to squander the family fortune, it was not a problem.

Then she delivered another blow.

“As the grand princess of Xia, do you really need to haggle over a small matter like a check?”

Ye Wangxue was choked with frustration.

If the person speaking was Leticia, she could still go all out.

Unfortunately, she was arguing with Moyel.

To be too serious with a servant would be beneath her status.

So she looked at Hall.

Why wasn’t this guy saying anything?

But Hall didn’t look at Ye Wangxue.

He just took the check from Leticia and said.

“This is enough, Miss Leticia. From now on, I will carry you. But I hope you understand that this is just a monetary transaction.”

Hall didn’t dare not emphasize that this was just a monetary transaction.

If he didn’t, Lorraine and Ye Wangxue would probably explode immediately.

Christine also said sarcastically.

“It’s a pity I’m a Saintess Candidate, not as fortunate as sister Leticia. I’m penniless, with only this body to my name.”

Lorraine said nothing, just watched Leticia from Himan’s back.

Seeing Hall accept Leticia’s check, Ye Wangxue knew it was difficult to change the situation now.

“You’d better be in it for the money, my dear. Otherwise, when we get back, at night, in your room, I’ll have a good talk with you.”

She deliberately emphasized the word “night.”

But Leticia ignored her because Hall had already half-knelt in front of her.

She carefully jumped on, wrapping her arms around him.

She buried her small face in the crook of his neck, feeling his warmth and inhaling his scent with her nose.

She was extremely satisfied.

Leticia felt this was the most tangible purchase she had ever made in her life.

Seeing her lady’s happy expression, Moyel had wanted to warn Hall not to secretly rest his hands on her lady’s bottom, but after thinking about it, she didn’t say it.

If Leticia didn’t mind, why should she?

Thus, the group officially set off for the seventieth floor of the Demon God’s Labyrinth.

From the first to the fortieth floor, the journey was naturally smooth, and they even encountered many responsible personnel who had been waiting there since the association announced that Her Majesty of Cateline would be exploring the Demon God’s Labyrinth as an adventurer.

However, because the lineup was too luxurious, it also surprised these responsible personnel, who told them to be extremely careful and to use the Church’s holy emergency communication magic scroll to contact them immediately if anything happened.

In the depths of the Demon God’s Labyrinth, because the residual power of the Demon God gradually became stronger, ordinary magic scrolls were useless.

Only special scrolls could be used.

This was also why the Church had cooperated with the Adventurers’ Guild for a thousand years, slowly clearing out the monsters, and then having specialized clergy purify the Demon God’s power to ensure that ordinary people would not be affected after entering and could communicate normally with the surface.

And the most crucial thing in the inner layers of the Demon God’s Labyrinth was the Demon God’s Spring.

The Demon God’s Spring was a general term; it didn’t necessarily look like a spring.

But it was a device that continuously provided magic to its floor, even gradually catalyzing the creation of monsters, and was usually guarded by the lord of that floor.

The location of the Demon God’s Spring on each floor was not fixed, so the Church needed adventurers who entered the Demon God’s Labyrinth to provide a map of their route upon their return, in order to determine the location of the Demon God’s Spring in the labyrinth in the future.

Therefore, the lord of each floor did not guard the passage to the next floor.

This made it possible for adventurers to go deeper into the Demon God’s Labyrinth.

However, according to Hall’s game experience, after gaining control of the Demon God’s Spring, one would receive a large number of rewards, where the treasures of each floor’s lord were stored.

And there was a very interesting phenomenon in the game: if the level of the player’s team attacking the lord was higher than the lord’s challenge level.

The lord would express its willingness to offer all its treasures, and then the player could choose whether to kill the lord or not.

However, Hall was heading to the seventieth floor this time.

The seventieth-floor lord was no pushover.

His current lineup was not far above the challenge level.

Except for Sophia and Tarasha who met the level requirement for the challenge.

The other few didn’t seem to be up to par.

Hall felt that Christine truly had no strength; he didn’t think she was faking.

But it was a bit of a pity for her SSS-rank talent not to learn swordsmanship.

But then he thought again, the stronger Christine was, the more dangerous he would be.

If Christine became stronger than him in the future and they encountered a powerful enemy that required magic replenishment.

Then with Christine’s personality, she would forcibly replenish magic with him, regardless of whether he was willing or not.

“We’re about to enter the forty-first floor. Get ready.”

Sophia was the leader, but she didn’t even draw her sword.

Just by relying on the natural domain given to her by her Eternal Winter bloodline, she repelled the few monsters they encountered on the way to the fortieth floor.

Himan and Tarasha, carrying Lorraine and Christine respectively, were temporarily unable to fight freely.

As for Hall, he was in the middle of the group.

The nine-person formation was basically Sophia in the front, Hall, Leticia, and Tarasha clustered in the middle, along with Ye Wangxue, and Moyel at the very back to prevent monsters from ambushing them from behind.

After entering the forty-first floor, they had arrived in a monster’s paradise.

According to statistical reports, the total monster clearance rate here over the past hundred years was 51%.

But considering that the Demon God’s Spring nourished the monsters, it couldn’t be said that more than half of the monsters had been eliminated.

The best-planned route from the forty-first to the forty-second floor had been submitted by a certain master adventurer.

Other adventurers could exchange their contributions to the Adventurers’ Guild for it, or they could buy it directly with money.

By passing through this route ten times, the average number of monsters encountered was only about three.

However, for Sophia, it was a free gift.

When they were on the first floor, the vice-president of the Demon God’s Abyss branch of the Adventurers’ Guild had specially come over to give them a large pile of guides, saying that from the fortieth to the sixtieth floor, following their route was a sure bet.

As for the route from the sixtieth to the seventieth floor.

Because not many adventurers had visited here, and some of the information was old, the environment inside the Demon God’s Labyrinth was not static.

So they could only give a rough route plan.

The location of the Demon God’s Spring, however, could be roughly determined.

Because the adventurer teams that could visit below the sixtieth floor were basically fully equipped.

For a mage with slightly outstanding magic sensitivity, the Demon God’s Spring was a magic point that was very easy to mark.

So Hall was relatively at ease.

Even if there was no normal route after the sixtieth floor, they could at least find their way by following the lord.

As long as they didn’t encounter the lord, they should be safe.

Half a day later.

With Christine as the core healer, and Lorraine and Leticia as support, the blessing domain had been running for most of the day.

Calculating the time, it was probably late at night.

The fifty-fourth floor where they were located was a rather dark floor, with no light, and even many caves hiding monsters.

It was not very safe.

But Christine, Leticia, and Lorraine’s biological clocks had arrived.

They were very sleepy and needed to sleep.

So Sophia ordered them to rest here.

After all, according to the intelligence, the environment of the next floor, the fifty-fifth, was similar to this one.

So Hall and the others started to set up tents.

Eight women and one man, in a dark night labyrinth deep underground.

To be honest, if this were some strange adult drama, the party could have already started.

But after Hall helped set up the special tents that could block their scent, he sat alone on a large rock outside the camp.

He wanted to slip away.

Not to abandon Leticia and the others, but he wanted to take advantage of their rest to find the special reward on the fifty-fourth floor.

With his current level and the Rainbow Sky Sword, even if he encountered the fifty-fourth-floor lord, he could at most just use the special effect of the Rainbow Sky Sword to run away.

The other party probably wouldn’t be able to catch him.

“This lonely one heard you like beautiful women. Everyone is over there now, why are you sitting here all alone?”

Sophia found Hall in a corner.

She planned to test this man whom her sister had likely once liked.

“It’s the Sage’s time. You girls wouldn’t understand.”

Hall just wanted to send Sophia away quickly.

After all, Sophia’s affection for him seemed quite low at the moment, so it was easy to maintain a good distance.

“Sage’s time?”

Sophia was stunned for a moment, thinking he was alluding to his Sage identity.

So she said, “You remember what happened in the Salvation Church?”

This time it was Hall’s turn to be stunned, but he felt this was also an opportunity.

So he suddenly said.

“I remember a little. What’s wrong? I have a good relationship with Mandosha Flower. Your Majesty should have also had conversations with Mandosha Flower, right?”

“Naturally. Since the fall of [Angel] and [Holy Son], the only one in the Salvation Church who has a close relationship with our Kingdom of Cateline is Mandosha Flower.”

As she spoke, she looked at Hall’s expression and found him in thought.

This showed he was reacting.

“Then when did Your Majesty start cooperating with the Salvation Church?”

“Six or seven years ago, maybe even earlier…”

That was when the Holy Son was officially mentioned by her sister in documents.

“Why does Your Majesty want to cooperate with the Salvation Church? Are you dissatisfied with the Papal State?”

Hall continued the topic.

Sophia wanted to stab him with her sword after hearing this.

‘Isn’t it because of you, this man? I don’t know what kind of love potion you fed my sister. Originally, the Kingdom of Cateline and the Papal State just minded their own business, and could even cooperate to deal with the Demon Lords.’

“This is a state secret. This lonely one cannot say.”

“Then I have misspoken, Your Majesty.”

Hall felt there was a risk.

He knew that this “Elizabeth” was Sophia, but this was a secret of Cateline.

He was afraid that if he hinted that he knew, Sophia would have the intention to kill him.

So he changed the topic, “They say a friend of a friend is a friend. Since Your Majesty and Mandosha Flower are friends, then I and Your Majesty can also be considered friends, right?”

“In your dreams! This lonely one and she are not friends, and you too…”

Sophia would never become friends with Hall.

This scumbag, was he trying to take the opportunity to flirt with her?

Her sister and he must have also started as friends.

Right, he could talk to her so easily and even said he wanted to be friends with her, the empress.

It always felt like…

“Oh, but at the party the night before last, didn’t Your Majesty ask me if I still remembered Your Majesty?”

Hall asked repeatedly.

Being asked like this, Sophia was extremely annoyed.

She had originally planned to pretend to be her sister, but with Hall’s blatant amnesia, she didn’t want to pretend anymore.

Now that Hall was asking like this, she had to make up a reason.

But in the past three years, Sophia had also really wanted to confirm the Holy Son’s feelings for her sister.

Now, it seemed like a rare opportunity.

So she asked, “What do you feel about this lonely one?”

“What does Your Majesty mean by that?”

Hall really didn’t understand.

The topic was moving too fast.

Besides, Sophia was not Elizabeth.

According to Mandosha Flower, they had never met.

“This lonely one means, if you were to… let me think…”

Sophia considered for a moment, then continued, “If you had to choose between me and Saintess Candidate Christine, who do you think is more suitable to be your girlfriend?”

“?”

‘What does that mean? Could Sophia also have fallen for him at first sight?’

Hall didn’t believe it.

But this question was too confusing.

If the other party was just trying to test whether he and Elizabeth were a couple, then why specifically use Christine as a comparison?

Why not use Leticia, or his fiancée, Ye Wangxue?

He couldn’t figure out Sophia’s logic.

So he said, “I think, neither is very suitable, Your Majesty.”

“What, you think this lonely one or Miss Christine is not good enough for you?”

“That’s not it. It’s just that Your Majesty and Miss Christine are both objects of the people’s faith. I’m a rather casual person, and being in a relationship with you would be stressful.”

‘Heh, there would be pressure, but if you’re not serious, there won’t be pressure, right?’

‘He really is a scumbag.’

‘No wonder Christine asked Hall to carry her today, and Hall was unwilling.’

‘He probably got tired of playing and lost interest.’

Sophia understood in an instant, so she said, “Wouldn’t being in a relationship with Miss Leticia be stressful?”

“There is, but not that much.”

“Baron Hall, do you know what you are saying?”

She was a little angry now.

Did this guy know what he was saying?

He didn’t take relationships seriously at all.

And, “but not that much”…

“Every word I’ve said is the truth.”

Hall thought to himself that this was definitely the truth.

Being in a relationship with Christine and Sophia would be incredibly stressful.

“Hall, what are you and Her Majesty of Cateline doing here?”

Ye Wangxue, who had been wronged by Hall today, was very sensitive.

After setting up her bed and tent, she started wondering, “Where did Hall go?”

“We were just chatting about some unimportant things. Your Majesty, if there’s nothing else, I’ll take my leave. I plan to check the surroundings to prevent any monster attacks while we’re resting.”

“This lonely one will go with you.”

“That won’t be necessary. Someone needs to stay in the camp. Among the nine of us, besides Your Majesty, I am the strongest. And if we are really attacked, we’ll need three people to protect Leticia, Sophia, and the others, and the other two to be responsible for clearing the way would be best.”

He stood up.

In Sophia’s eyes, that figure had a certain sense of responsibility.

…It’s gone again. Did my past self really dig up even the fifty-fourth floor’s treasure?

Two hours later, Hall lamented in a pitch-black cave on the fifty-fourth floor.

After half a day of puzzle-solving, there was nothing.

It was very annoying.

By this logic, he suspected that the puzzle rewards for at least the first sixty floors, for which safe routes could be bought from the Adventurers’ Guild, had been emptied.

To have obtained so many resources and still end up screwed.

But he wasn’t too surprised anymore because his past self had gotten involved with Elizabeth and the Salvation Church.

He touched whatever was dangerous, walking through minefields every day.

Even if he could buy resurrections, it probably wouldn’t be enough.

“If I hadn’t gotten involved with the Salvation Church and the Kingdom of Cateline, and had just stayed low, I probably wouldn’t have lost my memory just from the puzzle rewards of the first to sixtieth floors.”

Hall felt a little like traveling back in time to give himself a slap.

Just how arrogant was he to think he could defy fate?

From the information he had gathered so far, he also had some understanding of his pre-amnesia self’s thoughts.

Just like when playing a game, if a route leads to a bad end, it just means your stats aren’t high enough.

As long as your stats are high, your equipment is good, and you have enough supplies and characters, how could you get a bad end?

That’s why he got involved with Elizabeth and Mandosha Flower.

As for killing Julia’s father and brother early, it was probably to speed up Julia’s route.

He had started Julia’s route three years early, and now Julia was over level sixty.

With Julia’s characteristic of leveling up faster and faster, it was no surprise that Julia would enter Saint Louis, recruit all the heroines, and start an invincible pace.

In the game, that would basically be equivalent to clearing it.

Solving the problem of one or even multiple heroines, and solving it quite well.

If Elizabeth was saved by him, and Elizabeth lived, Sophia would live a normal person’s life with her surname.

It seemed Sophia would not be in danger either, which would also solve the problem of one heroine.

From this perspective, his pre-amnesia self was not idle, but Hall now felt that maybe he had overdone it.

And his past self had used up so many available resources, which he couldn’t use now.

“I should just go back and lay low for now, and decide how to proceed based on the situation.”

Hall returned to the camp from the puzzle location.

He found that besides Leticia, Lorraine, and Christine, no one else was asleep.

…

Ten hours later, after resting, the group set off again.

Following the route marked by the Adventurers’ Guild, they arrived at the sixtieth floor smoothly.

But from the sixtieth floor onwards, the monster clearance rate of the subsequent floors was less than 10%.

That is, basically no clearing had been done.

The adventurer teams that came here were all aiming for treasure hunting or elite monsters whose corpses had special uses and could be sold for a good price.

They would basically avoid ordinary monsters.

They wouldn’t engage in unnecessary consumption.

But according to an “Entry Report Diary for Floors 60-70” sponsored by the Adventurers’ Guild, the probability of battle was not small.

They would have to kill nearly a hundred monsters to reach the seventieth floor.

And the ordinary monsters here were around level sixty.

The task was still quite arduous.

But contrary to Hall’s worries, Sophia, who was in the lead, didn’t conserve her strength at all.

She wielded her snowflake-patterned blade and hacked her way through.

He knew that thing wasn’t the [Eternal Winter Sacred Sword], but Sophia’s secondary weapon, [Glory of the Snow Kingdom].

It was a ceremonial sword of the Kingdom of Cateline, but the people of Cateline, from top to bottom, were fierce.

This ceremonial sword, made to make Sophia look better on various occasions, was also of Legendary quality.

Its attributes were similar to Ye Wangxue’s [Moon Chase], but it applied a freezing effect to the enemy.

The slowing effect was not obvious, but it would greatly reduce the healing effect the enemy received.

From what he saw, the wounds of the monsters injured by Sophia could not heal.

The next day, Sophia was like a war god, killing nearly a hundred monsters.

Ye Wangxue’s kill count was around a dozen, while Moyel was responsible for finishing them off.

Hall and the others prioritized protecting Christine and the others and did not directly participate in the battle against the monsters, unless a monster broke through Sophia and Ye Wangxue’s line.

Just like that, they arrived at the sixty-ninth floor.

But when everyone arrived at the passage from the sixty-ninth to the seventieth floor.

Hall suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the aura coming from it.

Sophia was not afraid.

She stepped directly through the passage door and arrived at the starting point of the seventieth floor.

Soon, Sophia, who had never been afraid in her life, also felt a sudden chill.

Because everyone who came here after her saw it.

Countless monster corpses lay dead on the ground, their black blood converging into a small river that flowed past her feet.

That scene was no less than hell.