Chapter 96: He was Forcibly Kissed by His Fiancée

“What is going on here?”

After seeing this scene, the nine-person team fell into a deathly silence.

No one had expected such a situation.

But the straightforward Himan was the first to ask.

She knew very well how abnormal it was for the monsters on the seventieth floor of the Demon God’s Labyrinth to be so heavily damaged.

The level required to kill so many monsters would be at least eighty.

Moreover, the monster corpses were mostly mutilated.

It seemed the killing was not for the sake of advancing, but for the sake of killing itself.

This couldn’t help but make Himan think of the biggest abnormal threat to adventurers in the Demon God’s Labyrinth.

That was being assimilated by the Demon God’s power.

According to the reports of many adventurers who had gone deeper than the sixtieth floor, staying in the depths of the Demon God’s Labyrinth for too long would gradually disturb one’s sanity.

Without a priest accompanying them, they were very likely to get lost.

Most of the adventurers who went missing in the depths of the Demon God’s Labyrinth were lost for this reason; the number of deaths was relatively small.

As for these missing adventurers, they would become the Lost.

Mildly Lost ones had no desire to attack, but they also couldn’t be awakened by ordinary people’s shouts.

They could only be forcibly restrained and brought back to the Church for holy water and ritual purification.

Deeply Lost ones were almost indistinguishable from berserk monsters, attacking any living thing that was not tainted with the Demon God’s power on sight.

But what was with these monster corpses?

Himan had checked the list of teams in the Demon God’s Labyrinth before coming.

Recently, there hadn’t been any high-level teams active on the seventieth floor.

“Who is it?”

She felt that in front of these corpses, there was some kind of powerful existence.

But the other eight people didn’t say anything.

Tarasha, who was an assassin, slowly put Christine down, letting her stand at the entrance of the passage connecting the sixty-ninth and seventieth floors.

It was very safe there because in a thousand years of records, no monster had ever left its own floor.

Hall also put Leticia down from his back.

Moyel didn’t move forward; she held onto Leticia.

In this strange situation, her priority was to ensure Leticia’s safety.

And she had a trump card.

The female knightly order formed by the Child family’s expert team to protect Leticia had a special communication magic scroll, which in theory could withstand any harsh environment and maintain communication.

But the moment she took it out, she found that the scroll was not glowing; it was disabled.

‘Something’s wrong…’

She had checked the communication scroll when they were on the sixty-ninth floor.

It shouldn’t be like this.

“Why don’t we go back to the sixty-ninth floor first? Although it’s a bit risky, my Child family’s special magic scroll has no effect here. It’s very strange.”

Moyel suggested.

“It’s most likely we can’t go back… The patterns on the passage are changing. Does anyone know how to deconstruct a magic circle?”

Tarasha had the same idea as Moyel.

She also wanted to prioritize Sophia’s safety.

There was no need to fight to the death in this situation.

So after putting Christine at the entrance of the passage between the sixty-ninth and seventieth floors, she had intended to go straight through, but the passage was rejecting her, and the magic patterns on it were also changing.

Now Christine showed a thoughtful expression.

“According to the ancient books of the Church, the Demon God’s Labyrinth is not a completely hollowed-out space downwards. If the one hundred floors of the Demon God’s Labyrinth were all vertically downwards, then the depth would be at least ten thousand meters.”

“Creating such a huge space ten thousand meters underground would be very difficult even with the Demon God’s great power. So there is a theory that from a certain floor onwards, the doors of these magic passages are actually teleportation arrays, which will transport people to a parallel, or even slightly higher, labyrinth on another level…”

Simply put, going down one floor in the Demon God’s Labyrinth was not truly going down.

“But Saintess Christine, teleportation arrays are a legendary technology, right? They shouldn’t exist anymore?” Himan asked hurriedly.

The Papal State’s best technology that was ahead of other countries was the Holy Train, which could mobilize troops and supplies within the country at a transport speed far exceeding that of the other four continents’ countries.

And if teleportation arrays really existed, their efficiency would be far superior to the Holy Train.

“Mm, the currently remaining original sites of teleportation arrays have all stopped operating due to the loss of magic supply, and the Church has never found a way to reactivate them…”

Christine stopped speaking here.

According to her understanding, it seemed that activating a teleportation array required some kind of authority.

Therefore, the Church had never stopped searching for this mysterious “authority” for a thousand years, but so far had found nothing and had not been able to reactivate any of the discovered original sites of teleportation arrays.

Hall didn’t participate in this topic because he understood the concept of teleportation arrays more deeply.

According to the game’s description, teleportation arrays were special magic circles set up by the Demon God all over the continent.

This technology was only mastered by the Demon God, or rather, it might be one of the Demon God’s powers.

And to unlock the Demon God’s magic circles, one had to find the Demon God’s blood relative, the most important heroine in the entire game for understanding the demon world’s worldview—the Demon God’s daughter, the princess of the demon race.

That heroine was born with the power to activate teleportation arrays, which was very useful.

It allowed players to teleport conveniently in the mid-game, level up, avoid powerful enemies, and recruit various characters, all of which were very useful.

But it would be a bit difficult in the early stages because this heroine’s birthplace was in the western demon world, and her guardian was the vampire queen.

If she wanted to leave the demon world, she would have to face various trials from the queen.

Although she started with a high level, those trials were also very difficult.

So Hall felt that trying to activate a teleportation array, or changing the current situation of being unable to leave the seventieth floor in a short time, was basically hopeless.

“This floor may have been occupied by a mentally deranged Lost one. We need to find a way to kill him and then make a plan…”

As Hall spoke, a cold wind blew past.

A sword light flashed in an instant, and a man with black blood vessels all over his face slashed at Sophia.

[Glory of the Snow Kingdom] clashed with the other party’s black-aura-entwined blade.

In terms of strength, Sophia was clearly at a disadvantage.

In the game, units completely eroded by the Demon God’s power and losing their sanity would gain a large number of base stats.

So some players would have Hall learn the Demon God Sword Technique and then let him demonize to help fight powerful bosses.

Then, because he was uncontrollable after demonization, he would most likely die after being used as a tool.

At this moment, he didn’t hesitate and quickly went up to help.

However, he didn’t use the Rainbow Sky Sword, only a backup weapon, an unremarkable rare-grade one-handed sword he had found in the Faxtius estate’s armory.

Its only advantage was that, like the Knight’s Rite sword, it had good stats and was durable.

Ye Wangxue also drew [Moon Chase].

But before she could go up to help Sophia, another figure rushed out from the darkness, blocking Ye Wangxue with an incredibly powerful sword strike.

There was not just one Lost one.

Nor were there only two.

As a third figure rushed out from the darkness, a fourth figure also rushed out.

The situation became Himan and Tarasha, and Ye Wangxue each dealing with one, while Moyel protected Leticia, and Christine and Lorraine, the three delicate girls who had already started casting divine arts for blessings.

As for the strongest Lost one, he was not at a disadvantage even when facing Hall and Sophia together.

“This Lost one was probably affected by the Demon God’s power while heading to a deeper level than the seventieth floor. But before being completely lost, his instincts made him return, and he finally went mad on the seventieth floor… And there are four people, which proves they were at least a small team before.”

Hall cursed inwardly.

The destination of this small team was below the seventieth floor, so their average level before getting lost was probably over seventy-five.

Furthermore, their minds were so severely affected that they were completely demonized, which meant they must have frequently entered and exited the areas below the sixtieth floor of the Demon God’s Labyrinth.

Frequent entry and high survival rate meant the leader of this group was probably at least level eighty.

And a level eighty could be called a master among adventurers, most likely holding a considerable reputation, and would be recruited by the state or enter the management of the Adventurers’ Guild.

How could they get lost here…

And no one had reported it.

No…

It’s not that no one had reported it, but that everyone who had come to the seventieth floor recently had died…

“Bang!”

The demonized middle-aged man’s powerful blow made Hall’s arm ache.

His swordsmanship talent and constitution were both close to level seventy.

Coupled with Christine’s domain and Lorraine’s focused blessing, under various buffs, it shouldn’t be a problem to withstand a level eighty opponent with S-rank talent in both areas.

But facing this guy, even with Sophia sharing the burden, it was still a bit difficult.

“Tsk!”

Sophia narrowed her eyes as she parried the black-aura-entwined blade.

She could see that Hall was trying his best.

At this man’s level, he was indeed very outstanding among the noble children, but it wasn’t enough to be a Holy Son.

Like Christine, not only had he lost his memory, but his strength had also regressed a lot.

Today, it seemed she still had to take charge.

“You go help your fiancée and the others. Although these demonized adventurers have lost their human consciousness, they are not without intelligence. There are at least two others in the dark who haven’t made a move yet. You have to go and guard against them. Leave him to this lonely one.”

“Alright.”

Hall knew that Sophia had an innate [Battle Precognition], which could analyze the battlefield situation and had a high probability of detecting the movements of enemy assassins.

So he didn’t dally.

If the line collapsed or Christine and the others were ambushed.

They would most likely be wiped out.

But he wasn’t too panicked.

If worse came to worst, he still had a big move—temporary enchantment.

It could instantly restore a heroine to full status and greatly increase her stats.

And encountering a dangerous situation now was actually very beneficial.

First, the individual experience of the Lost ones in the game was very high.

After the fight, Himan and the others would have improved.

Second, the more dangerous the situation, the higher the affection bonus after victory.

This was a good opportunity for the heroines to bury the hatchet and get closer.

And as Hall retreated to help Ye Wangxue deal with a Lost one.

Sophia took a deep breath.

She raised the Glory of the Snow Kingdom high, and a snowstorm formed out of thin air with her as the center.

The sound of freezing entered everyone’s ears.

Talent skill—[Eternal Winter Domain].

The strongest Lost one’s feet began to be covered in frost.

Although it didn’t freeze his steps, his movements were much slower than before, and the heat that evaporated the frost rose.

Sophia’s sword had already begun to slash, taking advantage of the speed difference.

However, Hall soon discovered a problem.

Previously, it was two-on-one, and the Lost one had to divide his attention to deal with him.

But now, even with the slow from the Eternal Winter Domain, he only had to deal with Sophia alone.

His strength was still superior to Sophia’s, and his demonized-enhanced speed was not much slower even after being slowed.

It was still a bit dangerous.

“Don’t get distracted. Take one down, then go help Her Majesty of Cateline.”

Ye Wangxue hurriedly reminded him.

But as the Lost one they were fighting together was being pushed back, a lurking Lost one in the dark also made a move.

The situation should have returned to two-on-two.

Hall aimed for this opportunity.

The moment the lurking Lost one made a move, he drew the Rainbow Sky Sword.

At this distance, the opponent would not be on guard against him, and his target was the lurker who suddenly appeared after his vision and five senses were blinded.

When a person maintains a full-force attack, they will have the biggest opening.

Using the effect of drawing the Rainbow Sky Sword, Hall once again activated the [Sword-Shattering Form] that had defeated Ye Wangxue.

This powerful blow, combined with the legendary quality and special effect of the Rainbow Sky Sword, instantly destroyed the lurker’s weapon.

And because of the visual shield, Leticia and the others wouldn’t discover that he had used a Demon God’s sword technique in an instant.

By the time Ye Wangxue, who was facing the other Lost one, saw Hall again, she saw him pulling his sword out of the lurker’s chest.

“As expected of my fiancé, you have some skill.”

“There’s still one more Lost one…”

Hall didn’t answer Ye Wangxue’s words, just looked for the last person Sophia had mentioned.

But he saw another person suddenly appear in Himan and Tarasha’s direction.

Three-on-two, for Himan and Tarasha, was a bit difficult.

He had intended to go over, but was suddenly stopped by Ye Wangxue.

“Hey, Hall.”

“What?”

“Kiss me.”

She activated the active effect of Moon Condensation.

The Lost one who was her opponent immediately retreated as if shot, to minimize the effect of [Moon Condensation].

And Ye Wangxue took the opportunity to turn around and grab the collar of the still-surprised him.

She pulled him close, and then, without waiting for Hall’s answer.

The two of them were together in public.

But unlike last time when facing the Red Queen, this time it was Ye Wangxue who initiated.

She was mentally prepared.

And she didn’t explain the reason.

That feeling that almost made her want to melt into his arms, the feeling that Ye Wangxue occasionally recalled at night these past few days, finally appeared.

She was so satisfied that her heart was cheering.

‘So comfortable…’

That feeling of an electric current-like numbness that traveled throughout their bodies when they touched.

“Mm… ha… Hall… I…”

Ye Wangxue looked as if she was on some kind of drug.

Her brain was frantically secreting dopamine, but she was not completely lost in this indescribable feeling.

Instead, she had a deeper level of control over her surroundings.

That guy had drawn his sword.

She had to let go of Hall.

And fight back.

Ye Wangxue’s speed was incredibly fast.

She was not even level seventy, but her sword speed was almost comparable to Sophia’s.

The Lost one couldn’t react at all and was stabbed in the stomach.

Although it didn’t cause much damage, as long as the Condensation effect was applied, it would be a slow death by a thousand cuts.

But the blessing effect stopped at this moment.

Because Leticia and Lorraine were both stunned.

They weren’t present last time when Hall and Ye Wangxue kissed in front of the Red Queen.

The impact of Ye Wangxue forcibly kissing Hall now was as shocking as an asteroid hitting the Earth.

Their feelings were so complicated that they had no time to continue the blessing.

But their blessings were actually single-target.

Leticia was giving it to Himan, who was under more pressure, and Lorraine was giving it to Hall the whole time.

Christine’s domain was not dispelled, so it didn’t have much of an impact.

But because the danger was not yet over, Leticia and Lorraine had no intention of arguing, their brains were just almost short-circuited.

Hall didn’t say anything either and turned to go to Himan.

Because of this forced kiss, the situation on both sides gradually began to reverse.

Sophia, who had deployed the Winter Domain, was on par with the strongest Lost one.

Three minutes later, Ye Wangxue finished off her opponent and then joined the fight to help Sophia.

Hall, Himan, and Tarasha fought against the other three.

Lorraine and Leticia, who had gradually recovered from their shock, also began to bless again and helped the others complete the counterattack.

Ten minutes later.

As Sophia and Ye Wangxue sent the Glory of the Snow Kingdom and Moon Chase into the chest of the strongest Lost one respectively.

The frostbite effect of the Glory of the Snow Kingdom rendered his already healed wounds useless.

They exerted their strength at the same time.

The Lost one died with a roar of “I can’t lose the Demon God’s power!”

The battle on Hall’s side didn’t last much longer, and the weaker Lost ones were also cleared out.

At this moment, before Hall could go with Himan and the others to clean up the battlefield, he turned around and saw Christine, who had recalled her [Star Angel’s Holy Domain], collapse.

“Let’s rest here for a while and wait for Saintess Christine to recover and wake up. Hall, how is she?”

Ten minutes later, everyone found a small hill with no monster corpses and spread out a blanket to sit down.

They hadn’t set up tents yet.

But they were planning to start resting.

Lorraine and Leticia were both very tired and were eating the desserts they had brought to replenish their energy under Moyel’s care.

Actually, they were also very tired, but the scene of Ye Wangxue kissing Hall made them unable to sleep.

They had to find out what was going on.

But before that, they had to deal with Christine.

As the main supporter, the person who ensured that everyone didn’t lose too much during the battle, she was truly the most tired.

The person who went up to help her up was Hall, because last time Christine had said that she recovered faster with him, saying he had a healing ability.

Seeing Christine’s face lose all color from giving him a blessing.

He temporarily didn’t care if she was lying to him at that time.

When he held Christine’s hand, the warm current that surged from his heart was being exchanged between them through their hands.

As time passed, her complexion was also recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.

She probably wasn’t lying to him.

But why did he have the ability to heal Christine?

Hall thought about this.

In the game, the items that had a healing ability for Christine, besides non-sexual potions and rare herbs that could be used, there was only that mythic-grade weapon [Starfall Feather].

And he himself was definitely not a healer.

Unless he had replaced the function of the [Starfall Feather] in this world.

In the game, there were also cases where after recruiting Christine into the team, the [Starfall Feather] was transferred to other heroines for use in battle.

But not only were there time limits on its use and a requirement for the heroine’s swordsmanship or theological talent to be at least [S-], Christine also had to be in the same team.

And when other heroines were using the Starfall Feather, Christine could not attack.

So there was also a heretical playstyle where Sophia learned [Dual Wielding] and quickly leveled it up to LV10 through magic replenishment.

She could perfectly equip two mythic-grade weapons, benefiting from the attributes and passive effects of both, and let Christine be a pure support.

Hall had also played this way.

It was abnormally strong in the mid-game, and in the late game, if it was one-on-one, she could also dominate.

The game was called “Sophia Warriors.”

“She’s alright. She’s probably just tired. A few hours of rest and a good sleep should be enough.”

Hall looked at Christine, who was lying on his lap with her eyes closed.

To help her recover, he was still holding her right hand.

“Then let me take care of Saintess Candidate Christine. Hall, you go sit over there,” Himan said.

Anyway, seeing Christine lying on Hall’s lap made her a little unhappy.

And, she could feel that Hall was very gentle just now.

When she got hurt in a fight as a child, this guy seemed to have the same expression.

It’s just that, the memory of the gentle Hall was too long ago, and her impression was a bit blurry.

“Alright.”

Hall handed Christine over to Himan.

He found a spot far away from the girls to sit.

But the girls’ gazes never left him, they just moved with him.

Especially the fluttering little glances from Leticia and Lorraine.

It made him understand that Christine’s matter had to be put aside for now.

He definitely couldn’t escape the matter of being forcibly kissed by Ye Wangxue.

“I think everyone has a question. Why did the Seventh Princess forcibly kiss me just now?”

Hall said with a serious face.

He didn’t dare let Ye Wangxue speak.

If Ye Wangxue said it, everyone would know he could replenish magic, and maybe someone would want to try it with him.

Besides, Leticia was currently in Saint Louis, and she was the heroine who would stab him just for seeing him temporarily replenish magic.

And Lorraine’s natural yandere attribute might also be triggered…

The fewer people who knew this crucial information, the safer he would be.

“Brother, you tell us.”

“Hall, you tell us.”

The two girls who were most concerned about the matter sat together.

As former bitter deskmates, they were surprisingly in sync at this moment.

“What’s there to say? This is a secret between me and my dear. It’s better for my little sister-in-law and Princess Leticia not to know. Besides, even if you do, it’s not of much use.”

Ye Wangxue knew she had the upper hand.

Moyel had attacked her before the trip, and this time she was going to attack Leticia.

Seeing Hall fall silent again, Ye Wangxue added, “My dear, you’re not going to let everyone know this secret, are you?”

When Hall heard this, he knew he was screwed if he didn’t speak.

But he really couldn’t let Ye Wangxue tell the truth.

“Actually, it’s not a big secret. Sister, and Leticia, and Her Majesty of Cateline, and Himan, you all saw that after the Seventh Princess forcibly kissed me, her strength greatly increased, right?”

“It seems so. Everyone can testify to that.”

Sophia had learned a lot about the Xia Kingdom during her three years of empress crash course.

Especially the art of dual cultivation, which was one of the ten great heretical arts listed by the Church.

Why did Hall mention this?

Could it be that as the Holy Son of the Salvation Church, he had practiced this heretical art before?

She felt it was not impossible!

“Your Majesty is indeed knowledgeable. What I am talking about is the secret art of dual cultivation of the Xia Kingdom’s Hehuan sect.”

When he saw that Sophia was an expert, he thought to himself, ‘Great, saves me the trouble of explaining.’

But Ye Wangxue felt something was wrong.

“Hall…”

“Just now, the Seventh Princess forcibly kissed me because she has learned this secret art, which greatly increased her strength. Last time at Saintess Christine’s tea party, she also told me that she had learned this secret art and needed me to replenish her so she could repel the Red Queen.”

Hall said with a straight face.

The originally very nervous Himan showed an expression of sudden realization.

After all, Ye Wangxue and Hall had kissed twice.

Last time it was Hall who kissed Ye Wangxue, this time it was Ye Wangxue who kissed Hall.

Anyone would think they were truly in love.

Now, she understood.

Thank goodness, her cousin hadn’t fallen for this princess of Xia.

Otherwise…

It would be a huge mess!

In short, this marriage could not be allowed to happen.

Her mother was right.

Himan had also heard of the art of dual cultivation.

She didn’t know the details, but she knew that the female side absorbed the male side’s essence or something, which in short, had an effect on the male side.

She immediately jumped out to corroborate.

“Hall, it seems you’re telling the truth. Last time after you kissed the Princess, the Red Queen left not long after. So that’s how it was.”

Himan felt she really understood now.

And when Hall saw that even Himan understood, that was great.

Himan’s personality was usually to be preconceived.

Even if Ye Wangxue said it was he who could replenish magic, not that she had learned the art of dual cultivation, Himan would probably still side with him.

Ye Wangxue was so choked up she couldn’t speak.

What art of dual cultivation?

How could she, a dignified princess of Xia, learn such a low-class heretical art?

This Hall, it was clearly his Salvation Church secret art that made her like that.

But Ye Wangxue didn’t refute him because forcibly kissing Hall felt so good.

If it weren’t for that Lost one trying to stab her from behind, she would definitely have made Hall kiss her for a few more minutes.

‘Sob sob…’

She didn’t know why she was like this.

Now, recalling that feeling, it was like ants crawling on her heart.

‘I want more…’

‘I want to do it with him again…’

Her consciousness subconsciously locked onto the corner of Hall’s lips, and Ye Wangxue quickly shook her head.

‘No, how could I…’

‘It must be her, she designed it to turn me into this…’

Her heart in turmoil, Ye Wangxue stood up, wanting to find a place to get some air and cool down.

Her cheeks were really hot.

Hall also planned to find an excuse to avoid the limelight and let Himan and Sophia explain to Leticia and Lorraine that both his kiss with Ye Wangxue and her kiss with him were due to an irresistible force.

So he said he would go see how many monsters the Lost ones had killed, and at the same time, determine the location of the lord and the Demon God’s Spring.

But when he went to the general location according to the Adventurers’ Guild map.

He suddenly felt an unusually turbulent torrent of magic, rushing towards him.

An old and hoarse voice echoed in this space.

“Your Highness, the thousand-year contract, has it finally been established?”

But Hall had no time to think about this voice.

Because he had determined the source of that torrent of magic.

The Demon God’s Spring on this floor seemed to…

Have gone berserk!