I am the heroine's godfather!

"Hmm, but it's okay."

Victoria continued, "I will teach them to respect me."

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The nobles of Enshia did not know what Count Morganfleur and the Seventh Princess had discussed, but when the two came out and chatted happily, it was clear to everyone that Count Morganfleur had made his choice.

Victoria didn't look at the nobles, but waved to the two children chatting happily: "Anna, let's go."

"Yes, sister."

I don't know what happened between the two children, but their relationship seems to have become very good.

Goodbye, Charlotte. I'll come visit you again next time.

Goodbye, Your Highness Anna.

The princesses took their leave, while several nobles looked at Loran.

"Count Morganflore, you..."

Count Neil was at a loss for words. Although everyone wanted you to be the leader, you couldn't just choose someone like this to support you. Aren't you leading everyone into a trap?

"Everyone."

Loran's lips curled into a smile: "Embroidering flowers on a gorgeous dress will never earn as much gratitude as giving charcoal to someone who is about to freeze to death."

The nobles remained silent.

After a long silence, Count Neil gritted his teeth and said, "In that case, we'll risk our lives to keep you company!"

Politics is a gamble, and these people are gamblers who want to make the biggest profit.

Chapter 38 Miss Charlotte is going to explore the labyrinth

After the banquet ended, Loran became quite busy. Every morning he taught Charlotte magic, and in the afternoon he discussed plans with Victoria.

Both of them had a clear view on the strategy: stall.

Currently, Victoria's power is too weak; if she were to openly run for election, she would likely be crushed by the others. Although Lorraine can find her external support, to truly contend for supremacy, external support is ultimately just external force. To truly become powerful, she still needs her own strength.

Fortunately, although the emperor was old, he could still live for a few more years.

This is enough.

Putting aside Loran's own situation, their biggest trump card right now is the Antoya Merchant Guild. Fortunately, this card is powerful enough and has many uses.

Money may not be everything, but it can certainly do a lot of things.

Lorraine set a plan for the first year: first, to use money to build his own political base, which might not be very solid, but it would be enough.

Secondly, Victoria needs to leverage the influence of the Antoya Chamber of Commerce to build sufficient prestige for herself among the general public.

This is something that no other crown prince has ever done.

It's very simple. In this era where the strong can destroy cities, ordinary people are never something that those in power can see.

Regardless of whether one is at the Silver or Gold rank, or has reached the Saint level, everyone still needs food, clothing, shelter, and transportation.

Furthermore, given that even sages would not intervene in politics, the power of the people is considerable.

Victoria found Lorraine's views quite novel, but she still chose to accept them, which made Lorraine think more highly of her.

These things were all quite simple and didn't require Lorraine's personal attention. Victoria could handle them herself after giving advice, so overall, Lorraine wasn't particularly busy.

Charlotte was still a first-order mage, but she also began to learn swordsmanship from Loran, since a mage who couldn't use swordsmanship wasn't a good warrior.

Although she is still a first-tier mage and a first-tier warrior, Charlotte's current strength is much greater than when she was blocking monsters at Peter's house. She has learned some low-level light attack magic, and with the extraordinary strength of the Watcher, she can deal a great deal of damage to undead creatures after enchanting her weapon.

In that sense, Charlotte seems to have already begun to develop the qualities of a qualified second-generation character.

Holy Maiden of a Sect

I'm suddenly looking forward to Charlotte enrolling in St. Casta Magic Academy next year and then suppressing all enemies.

Forgive my bluntness, but according to the difficulty progression curve in that rather useless original book, there are very few things that could pose a threat to Charlotte in the first year.

That day, after teaching Charlotte, Lorraine stroked his chin, feeling that such dry teaching was rather boring.

Hmm, Charlotte still needs to experience what it's like to be an adventurer exploring a dungeon.

Loran slammed his fist into his palm, and a plan came to mind.

Over the next few days, Charlotte saw Lorraine leaving early and returning late every day. After asking Serena, she received the reply that Lorraine probably had some other things to do.

A few days later at the dinner table, Loran suddenly brought up some things about the territory.

"Speaking of which, sister, who did our family's territory belong to a thousand years ago?"

"Well."

Serena thought for a moment and replied, "Back then, this was still part of the Kingdom of Kadia, right? Why?"

“A few days ago I saw a maze-like ruin in the east.”

Loran casually remarked, "It seems to be a relic from the Kingdom of Kadia."

"That's it."

Serena seemed to have seen through something, but she didn't point it out. Instead, she played along, saying, "I remember that the powerful mazes nearby have all been cleared out. It's probably just a small maze now."

"Hmm, that should be the case."

Loran nodded, then suddenly asked, "Charlotte?"

"what happened?"

Charlotte, who was listening to Loran and Serena's conversation, didn't expect to be involved and curiously looked up. A mischievous smile appeared on Loran's lips: "Speaking of which, I've been teaching you magic for a while now. How about I give you some homework?"

"Operation?"

"Yes, I explored the entire maze alone."

"...Me?"

Charlotte was silent for a moment, then looked at Serena: "Miss Serena, Loran bullied me!"

"Oops~"

Serena found it somewhat amusing and gave Loran a disapproving look: "I told you not to finish your sentence."

什么意思每^日.发！书，群【6`5,0/5^0”2*3>3.8】？难道瑟琳娜小姐也觉得我可以独自探索完整个迷宫？

Forgive my bluntness, but even within the Adventurers' Guild, bronze-rank mages need to form teams to explore dungeons. So, it seems Miss Serena isn't so reliable after all?

Seeing that Charlotte's expression had turned strange, Lorraine handed over a bracelet: "Alright, I certainly wouldn't leave you with nothing. Here, this is for you."

"what is this?"

Charlotte took it and looked at it. The bracelet looked very ordinary and unremarkable, not like something that could blow up the entire maze.

"This is a new gadget I made. It can prevent you from taking any damage, but it will create a virtual health bar—you will still feel pain, though less. When the health bar is empty, it will teleport you to the entrance of the maze."

"Wow, what an amazing gadget!"

"Yes, but you should be careful, this tool also has a side effect."

Loran gave a malicious smile: "Every time you teleport to the entrance, everything in the maze will revert to how it was before you explored it."

"Hey?"

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Standing at the entrance to the maze, Charlotte swallowed hard and looked at Loran: "Are you sure everything's okay?"

"rest assured."

Lorraine encouraged Charlotte: "You are a genius, Charlotte!"

"...Don't try to fool me with those kinds of words you use to coax children."

Charlotte rolled her eyes, but still obediently walked into the maze.

Entering the maze, Charlotte felt a sense of confusion. Before her lay a dark cave, at the very back of which lay a treasure chest. Charlotte cautiously turned on the lantern at her waist, looking around, but saw no monsters and no other paths.

Charlotte frowned, stepped forward, and opened the treasure chest. Inside lay a scroll. Upon opening it, she saw it was a spell called "Concealing Footsteps." It wasn't difficult, but it didn't seem very useful; its effect was simply to mute one's footsteps. Charlotte stuffed it into the pouch at her waist—according to Loran, it was a storage item that could hold a whole carriage full of things.

"Strange, is there no road left?"

Charlotte leaned against the wall behind the treasure chest, somewhat confused, when she suddenly felt a sense of weightlessness as the scenery rushed past her.

She fell to her death.

Miss Charlotte's death count: 1, cause: fall from a height.

Chapter 39 Miss Charlotte Suffers (Part 1)

Standing at the entrance of the cave, Charlotte's face was somewhat blank.

She blinked, seemingly not quite understanding what had just happened. After a while, Charlotte, somewhat uncertain, asked, "Did I...die once?"

Although I never thought exploring the maze would go so smoothly, it's hilarious that I died without even seeing a monster, and from a fall from a great height at that!

Well, thank goodness Loran wasn't here, otherwise he would definitely have laughed at me!

"I bet she was thinking, 'Thank goodness I wasn't here, or I would have laughed at her.'"

Loran, who was reading Charlotte's suffering record in the room, had a teasing look on his face. Serena rolled her eyes at him: "If you keep bullying little Charlotte like this, be careful she won't talk to you when she comes back."

"How could that be? As long as my sister doesn't tell anyone, how would little Charlotte know?"

"I see. But I don't think it's a good idea to keep it from Charlotte."

Seeing the mischievous smile on her older sister's lips, Luo Lan knew exactly what she was thinking, and immediately put on a pleading look: "Sister~"

Although it's disgusting for a man in his thirties to do such a thing, Serena just couldn't resist it.

With satisfied expressions, Serena and Loran continued watching Charlotte's live stream.

Having learned from her first experience, Charlotte stood in front of the stone wall behind the treasure chest, took a deep breath, and knocked.

The stone wall vanished instantly, and what appeared before Charlotte was a false starry sky.

Charlotte then realized that she was standing on the edge of a cliff, with a huge manor below.

The style of the manor is not much different from the current style, which puzzled Charlotte a bit. Is the architectural style of the Cadia period so similar to that of today?

But considering that this place used to be the territory of the ancient kingdom of Cadia, Charlotte stopped thinking about it.

Peeking out, Charlotte felt confused. There were no stairs or anything to go down, and she couldn't fly.

Hmm, no, Charlotte, investigate this thoroughly. Lorraine definitely won't let you explore a maze beyond your capabilities.

Charlotte thought to herself and looked around, then noticed something emitting a white light.

Curious, Charlotte stepped forward, squatted down, and was about to examine it closely when a mysterious voice suddenly rang in her ear.

The words etched in my mind come to mind: Light will illuminate the path ahead.

What strange and unusual words?

Charlotte frowned: Light will illuminate the way? This seems like the doctrine of the followers of the Goddess of Light, but its presence here must have its purpose.

Light will illuminate the way forward...

Light, the way forward...

Charlotte tentatively conjured a ball of light, then noticed that the blue portion of her data bar had decreased.

Well, it seems my magic power isn't limitless after all. However, Loran prepared seven bottles of red potion and five bottles of blue potion for me; he said the red ones restore life, and the blue ones restore magic power.

Why do I keep sensing a faint sense of malice?

Charlotte shook her head, stretched out her hand, and the dim light illuminated the deep darkness. In the dim light, something seemed to be appearing and disappearing.

Charlotte found a stone and tentatively threw it over, only to find that the stone floated in the air.

It seems that...

Charlotte tentatively stretched out one foot towards the vaguely visible area, and unsurprisingly, there were transparent steps hidden there.

This is such a malicious setup. If it were anyone else, they probably would have accidentally fallen to their death at the very beginning. It's only because she had the bracelet given to her by Loran that she couldn't die.

Charlotte complained as she carefully descended the transparent steps. However, just as she was about to let her guard down, her foot suddenly slipped and she quickly pulled it back. She felt a wave of fear, thinking that if she hadn't been careful, she probably would have fallen again.

Although she wouldn't die, Charlotte really didn't want to experience that feeling of falling again.

After calming herself down, Charlotte obediently took out the stones from her bag, tossed them around, and finally found the way—it turned out that the transparent staircase suddenly made a ninety-degree turn at this point!