Chapter 190: Chapter 153 Expansion (The Comining is Back Again)_1


    The tumult of the banquet thus concluded.


    But it didn’t end there.


    The King had ordered that everyone present at the time must not disclose this.


    As for the scandal of the broken engagement at the banquet, it was dered to the public that the Duke’s eldest son was infatuated with another woman and unrepentant, and Ang was painted as the kind of green tea bitch who would do anything to ascend to power (which was more or less true). Of course, it was announced to the public that both of them had been detained.


    Indeed, the Duke’s son was detained. If it wasn’t his own son, the Duke would have wanted to behead this idiot himself. It was heard that after this, the stubborn fool was still unrepentant, insisting that he and Ang were truly in love, and stating that everything Ang, a subus, had done could be forgiven… Honestly, if it were Duanmu Huai, he would have directly beheaded this idiot himself.


    Keeping him was just a disaster.


    Not only that, after this, the issue of how to deal with demons was also brought up to the agenda.


    Why hadn’t Ang been discovered before? The reason was that she had infiltrated the Magic Academy, where magic power was greatly inted and a little demonic qi could easily be concealed. Even if someone felt something was wrong, they would only think it was the aura revealed by the magic books in the library, and would not think of it as a demon beast.


    But now this problem must be addressed; as to how, it seemed His Majesty the King nned to consult with the Holy City before making a decision.


    Of course, Duanmu Huai didn’t care about political affairs; he was only responsible for dealing with aliens, heretics, and demons.


    So he quickly made a decision.


    That was to travel to the westernnd mentioned by the subus and find out exactly what happened.


    As for whether Fafner hadpletely resurrected, Duanmu Huai wasn’t concerned about this. With Fafner’s strength, if it truly resurrected, it would havee raging at them long ago; there would be no need to use this method to weaken the enemy. Moreover, ording to the records of the magic academy, Ang was a freshman who enrolled this year. Even if her n went smoothly, it would take at least two or three years to cause the Kingdom of Manaria to copse as she imed.


    So Duanmu Huai was sure that even if Fafner had resurrected now, it was probably just for show,pletelycking the strength to deal with the Kingdom of Manaria; otherwise, it wouldn’t have used this method to weaken Manaria’s power in advance.


    Therefore, Duanmu Huai intended to head west to see what was going on there.


    And those who would apany him were still Ogis, Ann, Greiya, and Lorena — and Saharir.


    Yes, this Lord Angel wanted to join the journey too. Clearly, as an angel, she couldn’t ignore the fact that the demon was rampantly domineering on the ground.


    But for Duanmu Huai, it was…


    “Finally, some growth in this world…”


    Yes, while this was a nuisance for the Kingdom of Manaria, for Duanmu Huai, this was proof that this world fragment was growing.


    Of course, ording to the game setting, when a world fragment breaks out of the cycle and starts to grow, it will attract other world fragments to gravitate towards it, like a ma. Just like when Duanmu Huai solved the demon summoning event in the Holy City, Heaven and Angels materialized in this world. Now Manaria was in the same situation. Since Manaria, Regnes, and the Holy City had all been joined together by Duanmu Huai, their “maism” was bing stronger and naturally attracted other world fragments toe here for “convergence”.


    In the game, it was like a DLC hade out, expanding into new events and maps.


    As long as this continued, this world fragment could sessfully expand into a, or even continue into a gxy, a universe…


    This mode was widely popr among lone wolf yers who preferred single-yer games. In fact, many people in the virtual world do not wish to interact with strangers. Moreover, the more yers there are, the lower the overall quality, and there are often disputes and quarrels in random instances. Therefore, some yers detested group dungeons and preferred to immerse themselves in world fragment questing instead.


    Duanmu Huai remembered that in the game, the strongest yer had a world fragment area equivalent to about one-fifth of the Milky Way. That yer almost never appeared in any yer gathering areas, and could be considered the epitome of a social anxiety yer…


    “I didn’t expect this to happen.”


    When he returned to his residence, Ann huffily found Duanmu Huai and began to grumble andin.


    “Those fools! That they could do such a thing is simply uneptable!”


    “Speaking of which, what will be of Miss Audrey?”


    Greiya also opened her mouth with confusion. Hearing Greiya’s question, Ann extended a distressed hand to hold her head.


    “I don’t know… But after this, I’m afraid it will be even more difficult for Miss Audrey to get married. Although she’s not to me, but…”


    As she said this, Ann sighed helplessly and sat down on the chair.


    “Even though I don’t want to say this, perhaps Miss Audrey also carries some me herself.”


    “What? Is it not said that it takes two to make a quarrel?”


    Duanmu Huai took a sip of tea, curiously looking at Ann, who helplessly shook her head.


    “Political marriages are like this. How should I put it, Audrey might make a good wife, but not a good partner… In fact, in the academy, even when Ang’s not around, I never saw Audrey and Yald being close…”


    That’s just how political marriages are.


    Ann helplessly spread her hands, and Duanmu Huai seemed to understand her meaning.n/?/vel/b//jn dot c//om


    In simple terms, while Audrey epts her fate of marrying the duke, for her, the marriage felt like a job. As such, she and Yald didn’t have much in the way of personal feelings for each other. ording to Ann, Audrey was indeed trying hard to y the part of future duchess, but that was it. At least from Ann’s perspective, there was no particr intimacy between the two.


    In such a situation, it’s not entirely unreasonable for Yald to be duped by Ang’s sweet words, and unconditionally follow her. After all, men can be emotional creatures too. Being expected to marry a woman who doesn’t love him and whom he doesn’t love, is likely something not everyone would be willing to do.


    In fact, ording to the information Annter gathered from the duke, Yald also had his own “life n”. He believed that his happiness should be in his own hands, and in Yald’s view, this kind of union between nobles that disregards emotions and only talks about interests is outdated. Hence, he wanted to change this system. That’s why he hid it from his father and publicly tore up the engagement at the banquet. In Yald’s view, he was dering war on the outdated customs of the old world… He had even thought of leading themoners to overthrow the current system and create a brand-new world where everyone was equal and free…


    Well, it must be said that this idea was beautifully noble.


    Unfortunately, reality didn’t seem to share his dream.


    Anyway, given what has happened, Audrey’s marriage ispletely ruined, and even if she’s not at fault, this still leaves a stain on her.


    That’s like the superstition about “Kiev”; few nobles would dare to propose to Miss Audrey again. Furthermore, Miss Audrey, as the daughter of an earl, must find someone of simr status. And rather unfortunately, those of simr status to hers, who are potential suitors, are mostly the same group of fools who previously used Audrey at the banquet.


    So… it doesn’t look very promising for this noble miss.


    “It’s bad luck that they expect you to worry about this.”


    Looking at Ann who was sprawled across the table, Duanmu Huai shook his head helplessly as thetter threw herself onto him.


    “What can I do, I’m a princess. If I don’t handle it, who will? Ah… wait a moment!”


    However, at that moment, Ann looked at Duanmu Huai as though she had just thought of something, lighting up her face. Seeing this, Duanmu Huai raised an eyebrow.


    “I’m warning you not put any ideas on me.”


    “Eh? Why not? The knight’s status is high enough, and even if he can’t be the main wife, he could be a concubine. I don’t mind!”


    “But I do mind!”


    Duanmu Huai reached out his hand and lightly flicked Ann’s forehead.


    “I agreed to your marriage proposal because I somewhat liked both of you. But sorry, I won’t randomly get together with a woman I don’t know. There’s a limit to using me as a tool. Solve your own problems and don’t always ask me to solve these troubles for you.”


    Duanmu Huai didn’t like to get involved in these women’s disputes. What he despised most were those idiotic 8:00 pm melodramas. Duanmu Huai had watched these with his mother before, and while she enjoyed them, they only made him feel irritated. Both men and women in those dramas were idiots, making irrational decisions like drug addicts, constantlyining about love… Duanmu Huai even suspected that half of all cases of high blood pressure in women were caused by watching those dramas.


    Duanmu Huai had never had a girlfriend—one reason being his fierce appearance which made people reluctant to approach him and another reason being those urban romantic dramas. The thought of potentially getting stuck in such a stupid love life scared him away from any interest in love or marriage.


    “Er…,”


    Ann held her forehead and stuck out her tongue at Duanmu Huai, but she didn’t say anything more.


    “Your Highness.”


    At that moment, a maid entered and respectfully bowed to everyone.


    “Count Hasha and his daughter Miss Audrey request an audience.”


    “…,”


    Hearing the maid’s report, Duanmu Huai and Ann looked at each other.


    It seems that speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives.