Chapter 98: Mouth-to-Mouth Won’t Get You Pregnant

Christine was in a dream.

The dream was a vast expanse of white snow.

She felt like she was about to get lost, yet she couldn’t feel a trace of cold.

Strange.

With her fragile body, she definitely couldn’t withstand this temperature.

Was it because she was in a dream?

She couldn’t answer herself, nor could she change anything.

She could only let the dream continue to develop.

In the snowstorm, she could vaguely see a blurry couple, a man and a woman.

She and the man were so familiar, as if she had known them from memory.

Their bodies were embracing, even kissing.

So familiar.

Both the man and the woman gave Christine a sense of familiarity.

Her mood suddenly became a bit subtle.

Some valve had been opened.

The moment she looked up, that sacred blade inlaid with pure white feathers had appeared in her hand at some point.

Christine didn’t know what she wanted to do, or rather, in the dream, her body was not under her control.

She only knew that she was holding that holy sword and approaching the man and woman.

But soon the dream fell apart, the scene changed, and the feathers that fell from the white starry sky, like in past dreams, left her again.

In an instant, she woke up from the dream.

She could only see Himan’s face, who was taking care of her.

“Saintess Candidate Christine, are you feeling better?”

“Ah, I’m fine. Where’s Hall?”

She looked into the distance, only feeling her heart beating violently.

And Himan replied.

“Hall went to confirm the location of the Demon God’s Spring and has not yet returned. But Her Majesty of Cateline has also gone to find him. Marquis Tarasha just went too.”

Sophia felt like she could barely breathe.

She had basically no experience in this area, and in her worldview, a kiss was just a simple mouth-to-mouth thing between a man and a woman.

She had never thought it would be like this.

But unlike Ye Wangxue’s soft touch, she felt like she was running a fever, her whole body was so hot.

Especially after that warm current from Hall poured into her body, something was accumulating, intending to erupt.

Originally, if Sophia could concentrate on controlling that power, it wouldn’t be like this.

But now her mind was thinking, although the actual experience was not unpleasant, and even a little comfortable.

But this was not acceptable.

From a psychological point of view, how could Sophia feel comfortable?

What if her sister had done the same thing with Hall before?

Maybe her sister had also kissed Hall when he was the Holy Son.

After all, he seemed so proficient.

Why was he so proficient?

Aaaah…

Sophia wanted to hold her head and scream to release the thousands of emotions in her heart.

But in the end, she didn’t make a sound, silently accepting it all and gradually beginning to control the power in her body.

Her combat instinct as the Winter Saintess already knew that danger was approaching.

A moment later, her lips and tongue separated from Hall’s.

Then, without saying a word to him, she turned around and leaped high.

The Eternal Winter Domain unfolded in an instant.

A violent snowstorm that could almost instantly blind a person’s vision coated the entire palace exterior with a layer of frost.

In Sophia’s vision were countless monsters controlled by the necromantic threads released from the hourglass.

Rhys had long since detected Sophia and Hall’s presence in this area.

He was just afraid of being ambushed, so to be on the safe side, he had made layers of preparations, planning to surround the two with a horde of monsters and wipe them out in one go.

“Your Majesty of Cateline, you finally have the leisure to come out? From the look on your face, it seems you were just… with that Hall…”

Rhys sensed the change in Sophia.

His personality was rather cautious.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have sent those Lost ones to block Hall and his group’s path when they had just arrived on the seventieth floor, while he peacefully absorbed the power of the Demon God’s Spring and tried to take control of the lord’s corpse.

So he continued, “I didn’t expect that after so many years, Your Highness still has the leisure to flirt with him.”

“Shut up!”

Sophia was very angry.

Her mood and the overflowing power in her body urgently needed to be vented.

Then she threw the Glory of the Snow Kingdom high into the air, and an even more violent snowstorm carried this ceremonial sword into the sky.

As if sensing what she was about to do, Rhys didn’t dare to hesitate.

He ordered the lord’s undead servant to attack Sophia.

A fist almost half the size of Sophia’s body was immediately thrown.

That fist was wrapped in the Demon God’s power, which could suppress all magic of the same intensity.

It was truly indestructible.

But Sophia just made a sword-drawing motion, and all the snow and wind that had risen around her from the Eternal Winter Domain gathered in her right palm.

In Hall’s vision, the scene of the Eternal Winter Sacred Sword summoning ritual, just like the close-up in the game, was replicated.

That ice-blue sacred sword appeared in Sophia’s right hand amidst countless strange chanting tones.

The hilt was as pure white as the first snow.

And the color of the entire blade gradually deepened from the left and right sides towards the center.

The very edge looked like the color of ordinary ice crystals.

The deep blue line that ran through the very center of the blade, however, was like the deep abyss of the polar sea.

As a creation of myth, just gazing at the blade of the Eternal Winter Sacred Sword, Fimbulvetr, made Hall feel a little chilled.

But that chill was quickly dispelled by the warm current gushing from his body.

A moment later, he felt no discomfort at all.

As for the attributes of that sword, they were extremely exaggerated in the game.

Its base attributes were equivalent to the combination of the Glory of the Snow Kingdom and Moon Chase.

Not only could it apply a debuff to enemies in range, but it could also slow them.

Units hit by Fimbulvetr a certain number of times in a row would enter a frozen and fragile state.

And if an enemy was in a frozen and fragile state, all of Sophia’s and her allies’ damage against the enemy would be a critical hit.

It could be said to be a collection of damage, control, and debuffing the enemy all in one.

It even came with three special sword skills: Wind of Winter, Sword of Winter, and Wolf of Winter.

Like the Demon God’s sword techniques, the three sword skills had three different effects for dealing with different enemies.

In addition, Sophia started with SSS-rank swordsmanship talent, and her constitution was also A+, slightly inferior to Hall’s but with great growth potential.

She was praised as the only sword heroine in the game, a well-deserved title.

But some players also believed that the game creators would not let the upper limits of the various heroines differ too much.

Ye Wangxue must have a way to match Sophia.

She needed to obtain some ancient sect treasures on the mainland, but this theory was dangerous because she had run away from her marriage at the start.

As long as she returned to the mainland, she would face pursuit from the Xia Emperor.

Hall was in no mood to consider these things now.

He just wanted Sophia to get rid of Rhys quickly.

To be honest, he didn’t lose out at all by kissing Sophia just now.

First, it ensured the safety of several heroines, which in turn ensured his own safety.

Second, Rhys would come out to disgust Sophia in any route, and he had a Demon Lord as a backer.

Killing Rhys now would solve a part of the danger in the early and mid-stages of Sophia’s route.

Furthermore, only he and Sophia were here just now, Himan and the others were not.

And with Sophia’s personality, she would definitely not want him to tell anyone.

And, when Sophia was kissing, he could feel that she was still a little uneasy and had some other feelings.

As the empress of Cateline, she had her own shyness.

If it weren’t for having no other choice, she would definitely not kiss a man she had just met a few days ago, right?

In other words, this kiss not only solved the immediate trouble but also solved other troubles in the short term, and even created a subtle barrier between him and Sophia.

It was like killing three birds with one stone.

But before that, he still had to cooperate with Sophia to kill Rhys.

After summoning Fimbulvetr, the effect of the Eternal Winter Domain would be greatly enhanced.

The limbs of the resurrected ordinary monsters that were in contact with the ground were already beginning to be covered with frost, and their speed was greatly reduced.

According to the theory of relativity, the enemy’s slowdown equals our side’s speedup.

Hall easily cut through them like vegetables, helping Sophia clear the monsters and protecting her back.

And Sophia didn’t rush to cut down Rhys, who had a teleport ability.

She aimed at the resurrected black goat demon lord.

With such a large size and no armor.

Every time the opponent’s fist or body collided with Fimbulvetr, the freezing effect would be stronger by one point.

When it was completely frozen, she would activate a flash skill to create an ice explosion, instantly destroying it.

What’s more, after the magic replenishment, Sophia’s temporary base stats were already eighty-five and above.

Both her speed and strength had risen a notch.

“Hah!”

After dozens of rounds of fighting, the black goat demon lord’s limbs looked far less agile than before, quite stiff.

Rhys stood on a high place in the palace as if he had disconnected.

It wasn’t that he wasn’t moving, but that he could now only transmit the Demon God’s power into the black goat lord’s body through the hourglass, to resist the extreme cold power transmitted into the black goat lord’s body by Fimbulvetr.

If the black goat demon lord was defeated by Sophia, then he, as a necromancer, could not defeat Hall and Sophia in this state.

He didn’t want to die!

But this situation seemed difficult to turn around.

Although the resurrected monsters were numerous, they were affected by the Eternal Winter Domain, and their speed was reduced.

They could be cleared by Hall.

The black goat demon lord’s direct confrontation with Sophia also couldn’t gain any advantage.

At this moment, Rhys had played all his cards.

He felt a little like running.

Just run away, go up, and leave Hall and the others behind.

But just as he moved his feet and had a bad premonition, another figure suddenly appeared from the darkness.

Even though he activated the teleport effect of the [Shadow of the Death Crow] in an instant, a few strands of his hair were still cut off by the sword wind.

“Tarasha, why are you here?!”

Tarasha was born an assassin.

She had hidden her aura very well before appearing.

She had actually been here for a while.

Out of professional instinct, after sensing that Sophia was not in fatal danger, she had been waiting for the opportunity to ambush Rhys.

Although she had failed to land a hit just now, she had successfully forced Rhys back.

Hall knew that Rhys’s teleport had a cooldown.

Seeing Tarasha appear and Sophia gain the absolute upper hand, he no longer cleared the resurrected ordinary monsters.

He went straight for Rhys.

Seeing Hall advance, Tarasha chose to pincer him.

She was about to take down this necromancer directly.

“Don’t force me!”

Rhys was not stupid either.

Now that he had used all his trump cards, the situation was getting worse and worse.

To be honest, if Hall hadn’t suddenly appeared and interrupted his plan to absorb the power of the Demon God’s Spring, he would now be leading an army of resurrected undead monsters to Hall and the others.

It was because this guy was not afraid of death and came over on his own that he was in such a mess now.

However, he still had one last trick.

“If you come any closer, none of us will live!”

This former one of the thirteen cadres of the Salvation Church, Samigina’s confidant in the human race, threw his staff into the air.

And with a convergence of magic.

The Abyss Lord’s key, which symbolized the power of the seventieth floor of the Demon God’s Labyrinth, appeared in Hall and Tarasha’s sight.

But Hall knew Rhys’s nature.

He would never behave himself.

Even if they let him live, the other party would find a way to kill them.

And Tarasha was even less of a hesitant person.

She remembered the secret code of the Cateline Kingdom’s intelligence department that Hall had mentioned.

She immediately sent a secret signal to Hall, telling him to attract Rhys’s attention first, and she would then directly cut off Rhys’s hand that was holding the lord’s key.

So Hall began to charge up in place, accumulating sword skills, forcing Rhys to pay attention to him.

Tarasha, on the other hand, took out a dagger from her abdomen.

The dagger’s light flashed, and a special effect was activated.

She turned into a misty, wind-like phantom.

Blood splattered, and it was over in an instant.

But Rhys, in the extreme pain of having his arm severed, let out a wild laugh.

“The lord’s key has been modified by my magic! You just wait for the Demon God’s Spring to completely lose control, and the entire seventieth floor will be polluted by the Demon God’s power! We’ll all die together!”

“Is that so?”

Hall looked at the black goat demon lord, which had been completely frozen by Sophia, and said calmly.

He still remembered what the other party had said before being completely controlled by Rhys.

“Stop trying to fool me! Even if you want to get information out of me, I won’t tell you anything! You’ll only regret that you merely leaked my information to the Church and let them deal with me, instead of killing me directly!”

Facing Hall’s calmness, Rhys was a little exasperated.

He remembered that this guy was like this when he was a teenager, always opposing him in the Salvation Church, hindering his research and promotion of necromancy.

He was clearly a Sage of the Salvation Church, the biggest heretic.

“Is that so? Then go and die early.”

The black-haired youth felt it was a bit noisy.

He really didn’t need to say much more to this guy.

He pierced Rhys through with the Rainbow Sky Sword.

But at this moment, Rhys showed a hint of terror.

Facing death, he was still afraid of dying.

He wasn’t really not afraid of death, so he wanted to say, “Spare my life, I have a way to make the Demon God’s Spring calm down again.”

Actually, this was also a lie.

The moment Tarasha succeeded, after he activated the magic to destroy the lord’s key, there was nothing he could do.

And his throat was already filled with the taste of blood, his voice was extremely hoarse and unclear.

But he still held a glimmer of hope because the power of the Angel existed in Hall’s body, which meant the Angel was also nearby.

If it really was the Angel, even a person with their last breath could be saved.

But in Rhys’s vision, Hall just pulled out his sword.

He suddenly felt the soul in his body gradually peeling away.

Endless fear arose.

He was terrified, having lost all of his previous arrogance.

In the end, his eyes went black, and he muttered like a madman, “Jie jie jie… you all have to die,” and his body fell from the high place of the palace, with no more trace of life.

Hall had no time to care about Rhys because the entire Demon God’s Spring had erupted uncontrollably the moment Tarasha cut off Rhys’s right hand and Rhys destroyed the lord’s key.

And the black goat demon lord’s body also exploded.

The violent Demon God’s power surged out and merged with another surge of Demon God’s power that erupted from the palace, turning into a tidal wave-like tornado that was about to swallow Sophia.

At that critical moment.

He jumped over and held the white-haired girl tightly.

Tarasha was just an ordinary person in the face of such a turbulent and dense Demon God’s power.

She was on a high place and couldn’t move.

She was even affected by the Demon God’s power to the point that she could barely maintain her consciousness.

She could only try her best not to lose her footing and fall and be assimilated by this domineering power.

So when she saw Hall go up to hug Sophia regardless of his own safety, she was so shocked that she couldn’t speak.

Just like a few dozen minutes ago, when she saw Hall corner Sophia on the steps and kiss her.

“Today… is all of this fake?”

“Hall you… what are you doing, this lonely one…”

Sophia had been concentrating on fighting the black goat demon lord.

The explosion of the black goat demon lord caught her off guard, but thankfully, she felt she could dodge it.

But a large wave of even purer Demon God’s power suddenly surged from the palace, making her instantly lose control of her body.

Although she had the bloodline of the Winter Saintess and had a high resistance to the Demon God’s power, in this situation, it was still very dangerous.

She once thought she was about to die, and if not die, at least be seriously injured.

But just as her vision was about to be enveloped by the closing black tornado, Sophia felt herself being held.

‘It’s Hall, how could he…’

“You bastard, you don’t want to live, do you?”

As her vision gradually cleared and the black tide subsided, she was still being held tightly by him.

Sophia recovered from her shock, but she didn’t dare to look up at Hall.

If it were an ordinary person, no, even a powerhouse close to level ninety, without any protective measures, being hit head-on by those two turbulent waves, they would probably be demonized by the Demon God’s power, right?

Because in the thousand-year war between the Kingdom of Cateline and the Demon Lords, there had been generals of Cateline who went mad because of this strange power.

She suddenly felt a little scared again.

Scared that the young man holding her now was exuding an ominous aura that did not belong to him, his pupils that kind of temple, abyss-like black.

If that were the case, Hall, for her sake.

Became like that.

Sophia could never forgive herself.

She was the monarch of Cateline, the Winter Saintess of the human race.

She should be the one charging to the front, paving the way for the kingdom’s future with her life.

“I… what am I afraid of…”

Sophia’s mood was still complicated.

She suddenly realized that she had been scared twice today.

No, she couldn’t be afraid.

She had to face it.

So she looked up at Hall.

And found that he was also looking at her.

“Are you alright?”

“Are you alright?”

The two of them spoke almost at the same time.

Sophia immediately felt a little embarrassed.

And hurriedly added, “Are you alright? Just now, were you not afraid of dying? After seeing those Lost ones, you should know how terrifying the Demon God’s power is. This lonely one is the Winter Saintess, I have resistance. You don’t. If you…”

‘Am I worried about him?’

Sophia’s hurried words suddenly stopped.

She realized this problem.

Just a few days ago, she was very angry, questioning him about what happened to her sister back then.

Oh right…

He and her sister before, and she and he just now.

Remembering the fact that she had kissed Hall, Sophia’s CPU was about to burn out.

“Your Majesty, I… am not alright. I have to put you down first.”

The first wave of the Demon God’s Spring’s out-of-control impact had passed.

If it was not controlled, there would be a second wave.

Hall planned to enter the palace and do as the black goat demon lord had said.

“Oh, then quickly put this lonely one down. In the future, don’t risk your life to save this lonely one again…”

“I’m fine, Your Majesty.”

Although it was strange, Hall felt that he was indeed fine.

At least the impact had caused some physical pain, but it was quickly healed by the warm current gushing from his heart.

And according to the game text, contact with the Demon God’s power would lower one’s sanity.

The impact on him just now was there, but not much.

His mind was just a little dazed for a moment.

In short, as long as Sophia was fine.

If Sophia, as the heroine, died, he would definitely die.

Then Hall ran towards the inside of the palace.

At this moment, the entire palace seemed to be on the verge of collapse due to the first impact.

Tarasha stood on a high place, having just stabilized her mind.

Hall met her gaze.

And found that the way she looked at him seemed to be very different from before.

“Baron Hall, according to my calculations, if the next impact occurs, this palace will collapse. You have to hurry.”

“Alright. Remember to find Rhys’s staff and keep it safe. I’ll have a use for it later.”

“No problem.”

Returning to the inside of the palace again, the Demon God’s Spring was like a heavy rain, spewing out countless black elements containing the Demon God’s power.

He approached it, and then made a cut on his wrist with the sharp edge of the Rainbow Sky Sword.

“Use my blood to calm the Demon God’s Spring. This is ridiculous…”

“Ugh, the fact that I can replenish magic for the heroines means my constitution is ridiculous enough.”

Hall acted as a living doctor.

Besides, he also knew that he now seemed to have a unique healing effect.

As long as he didn’t let out too much blood at once, he should be fine.

And as his blood dripped into the eye of the Demon God’s Spring, the black elements scattered from the entire Demon God’s Spring actually began to pour back into the cut on his wrist.

This situation really surprised Hall.

He only felt his bloodline expanding rapidly, and his consciousness was also being impacted.

But in his vision, the black elements spewing from the Demon God’s Spring were indeed decreasing extremely, and it was indeed becoming quiet.

So he didn’t run.

He waited in place until the Demon God’s Spring was completely quiet before suddenly jumping back a few steps.

“The Demon God’s power carried by those black elements seems to be being digested in my body… It should be both beneficial and harmful. Anyway, I’ve already learned Black Blade, as long as the Church doesn’t find out.”

Hall didn’t know the pros and cons for now, but he had a more important problem to solve.

That was after a large amount of Demon God’s power entered his body, the warm current that used to gush out and heal him no longer appeared.

So he simply tore a corner of his clothes and bandaged himself.

After all, in the game, the more one learned the Demon God Sword Technique, the lower one’s divinity would be.

After finishing everything, the black-haired youth suddenly found something in his hand.

It was the lord’s key that had been destroyed by Rhys just now.

But compared to the previous lord’s key, this one’s color was much deeper, as if it had been salvaged from the bottom of the abyss.

Soon.

Hall went out.

After going out, Tarasha handed Rhys’s [Shadow of the Death Crow] to Hall with both hands.

Just his act of saving Sophia at the cost of his own life just now was worthy of her respect.

“Thank you, Marquis Tarasha.”

This two-handed delivery, with a rather ceremonial gesture, made him a little surprised.

“What did you do inside?”

“Nothing, just calmed the Demon God’s Spring down. Let’s go, what needs to be solved has been solved. By the way, this is the lord’s key you wanted for this trip, Your Majesty. Taking it out means you didn’t come in vain.”

The moment Hall took out the key, Sophia’s small face showed surprise, thinking, ‘Wasn’t it destroyed?’

But she quickly said again, “No need. You risked your life to save this lonely one earlier. This lonely one has nothing to reward you with, so this is what you deserve, Hall. How you handle it is your freedom. And after the battle just now, you’ve allowed this lonely one to summon Fimbulvetr in the depths of the Demon God’s Labyrinth…”

She continued, “This lonely one will clear the way. It’s not a problem to bring it out by force.”

Hall thought to himself that he couldn’t accept this.

In the plot, Sophia’s first gift also represented Sophia’s affection soaring.

He decided to say something a little cheesy.

“Your Majesty, didn’t you already give me the most precious and unique reward in the world?”

“Ah, Hall, what are you saying?”

Sophia didn’t react at first, and then she realized what he was implying.

Her crystal-like cheeks heated up rapidly, and at the same time, she was very angry.

‘This guy, Tarasha is still here.’

‘What if Tarasha finds out?!’

So she plunged Fimbulvetr into the ground with both hands, anxious and shy, and with a half-commanding tone, said, “This lonely one doesn’t know anything about the most precious, unique reward in the world! This lord’s key, you just take it! Otherwise… this lonely one will cut you down!”

“That’s right, Baron Hall. Her Majesty’s kind intentions, if you don’t accept, are you not giving our Kingdom of Cateline face?”

Tarasha’s tone became a bit ambiguous.

She naturally knew what Hall was implying just now.

She had been watching from the dark the whole time.

But after Hall risked his life to save Sophia and entered the palace alone to calm the Demon God’s Spring, showing both courage and魄力.

She felt that Hall was indeed a good choice.

Because the Empress of Cateline, after a certain age, would always need a lover to inherit the next monarch of the Cateline Kingdom.

As for the girls around Hall being too many?

That wasn’t a problem.

Her Majesty was beautiful, brave, cute, and upright, also intelligent and powerful, and inherited the bloodline of the Winter Saintess.

She was an existence whose divine status would not lose to the orthodox Saintess of the Church, whether in ancient or modern times.

Anyway, in Tarasha’s eyes, Her Majesty the Empress had countless advantages.

If Her Majesty was also interested in the future, could she not win this man over?!

An hour later.

After checking that there were no other abnormalities with the monsters on the seventieth floor, Hall and Sophia returned to the camp.

Tarasha, on the other hand, did not follow, but went to the camp to see if the magic doors of the sixty-ninth and seventieth floors were normal.

And at this moment, Christine had just finished drinking the milk Ye Wangxue had prepared and had eaten some soft bread.

As for Lorraine and Leticia, they had also eaten their fill and rested for a while.

After that, they couldn’t sleep and were all waiting for Hall and Sophia to return safely.

“Hall, are you back? How are you and Her Majesty of Cateline?”

Himan was the first to greet him.

“Alright, no major problems.”

Just as the black-haired youth finished speaking and was about to sit down.

He suddenly found Lorraine sniffing around him like a little dog, and then said a sentence that made him unable to sit down peacefully.

“Brother, the scent of Her Majesty of Cateline on you is very strong. Did you hug?”

Hall wanted to explain, but before he could.

He saw the light in Lorraine’s face gradually fade, and she said in a somewhat inscrutable tone.

“There’s also some on brother’s lips… Did you kiss?”

Now he was doomed.

Hall felt the way the girls looked at him had completely changed.

But just as he was about to think of an excuse, Sophia, with a slightly awkward and proud tone, completely interrupted his thoughts.

“Please rest assured, this lonely one knows that just mouth-to-mouth won’t get you pregnant!”