The villain daughter did all kinds of things

Amelie nodded.

She herself is the kind of person who would never give up everything for love, so her choice of Yak is completely understandable.

Without power, you can't protect anything.

With power, even if you've lost everything, you can take it all back.

"it is good."

Therefore, Emerald also decisively expressed her support for Ark:

"Once we get to Shangying Kingdom, I'll try to find out about Lian for you. As long as she was indeed born and raised in the Eastern Kingdom, we should be able to find out her detailed information."

"Then I'll leave it to you, little sister Emerald..."

Ark looked grateful and clinked his wine bottle against Emerald's yogurt cup:

"I won't waste any more words... Sister Amelie, you saved my life last time, and you've done me a great favor this time as well. If I successfully inherit the family business one day, I will definitely be your most reliable ally!"

"Hehe... Brother Yak, you're so funny~~"

A satisfied expression appeared on Emery's face, but she chuckled softly:

“Melson and Lohid are an unbreakable alliance, aren’t they? Come, let’s drink to our friendship.”

"cheers!"

Yak laughed and finished the remaining half-bottle of wine, while Amelie finished all the yogurt in her cup in one go.

After a short silence, Amelie asked again, somewhat curiously:

"Speaking of which, how does Lian's strength compare to mine?"

"Well..."

Yak frowned deeply, and hesitated for a long while before answering:

"I haven't reached your level yet, so I can't make the right judgment... But from my personal subjective feeling, Lian should be stronger. At least she is stronger than the strength you showed when you killed the Shadow Dragon, Sister Emerald."

"Oh? Could you elaborate on the differences in feeling?"

Amelie didn't explain that she had still held back a lot of strength when she killed Shadow Dragon; she just raised an eyebrow and continued to ask curiously.

"The main difference is in the feeling of oppression."

Ark's expression turned to one of reminiscence:

"The oppression you exerted on me back then was probably caused by that powerful magic. When facing you, my reason tells me that you are invincible, but I will not truly lose the courage to face you... For example, if you were to harm Kerry or my other family members, even if I knew I would die, I would still muster the courage to fight you."

"But pity is different."

"I said I was defeated, but I didn't even cast a single spell."

"She just sat there without moving, gave me a fierce look, and I felt like I had become an ant at her feet, and I could be crushed by her at any moment."

"It was a kind of... well, like the fear of encountering a natural enemy. No matter how much I wanted to muster the courage to face her, my body had already succumbed to her."

"Even now, whenever I see Rei again, I can't help but look down at her feet and imagine how I was crushed to death as an ant... That's why I say she has become my nightmare."

Chapter 236 A Groundbreaking Idea

Amelie pondered for a moment.

Although she had concealed a great deal of her strength when she killed the Shadow Dragon on the snowfield, she hadn't actually realized that Lai Lian was a powerhouse of the same level as her. Even the powerful but weak-senseed archmage of the Lohid family hadn't noticed it.

Adding to Ark's personal experience, there are only two possibilities.

First, Lian possesses some special magic or supernatural power that allows her to manipulate others' perception of her.

Secondly, Rei's strength is indeed very strong, much stronger than Emery's.

However, Emery still thinks the first possibility is more likely.

Because Lian is very young, not only is she full of youthful vitality, but her behavior is also completely unlike that of an old hag. Even if she is older than Emery, she is not much older.

Emerald was already incredibly determined, literally working herself to the bone to become stronger, and she found it hard to believe that anyone her age could be significantly stronger than her.

Regardless of the situation, Rei has now aroused even more curiosity in Amelie. Even without Ark's request for help, she would have taken the opportunity to inquire about Rei's background during her trip to Sakura Kingdom.

"Alright, I understand what you mean, Brother Ark. Since you want to break through the Nightmare, I won't interfere too much in this matter. I'll just help you find out some information about Rei."

After a moment of contemplation, Amelie first made a statement on the matter, then smiled slightly:

"And I have another suggestion. Although I don't know if it can help you break free from the nightmare that Lian gave you, Brother Ark, it might be able to bring Sister Kerry back to your side."

What suggestion?

Yak asked hurriedly.

In his heart, although his own spiritual practice was the most important thing, Kerry was also his beloved wife. Even though Kerry had made mistakes, he still loved her.

"Let's wait until after the New Year."

Emery thought for a moment and said:

“Take Sister Kerry to Locke City and let my private doctor try. She might be able to solve Sister Kerry’s problem.”

"...Amelie, your personal physician?"

Ark was somewhat confused:

"Who is she? Even our family elders were completely helpless, so why do you still have so much confidence in her?"

“My family’s doctor is not very famous, you probably don’t know her, Brother Yake.”

Amelie simply chuckled:

"But when I was working with Langdon, she served as my representative and worked as his research assistant for several years. I only called her back after Langdon's accident."

"She was actually Dr. Langdon's former lab assistant?"

Clearly, Ark also highly recognized Langdon's talent; the confusion and doubt in his eyes immediately disappeared, replaced by considerable anticipation.

“Then she must be a genius too… I understand. I’ll take Kerry to Locke City to find you as soon as the New Year holiday is over.”

"Okay, it's settled then."

As she spoke, Amelie raised a new cup of yogurt and lightly clinked it against a bottle of wine that Ark had just opened, marking the end of their conversation.

Aside from hearing a story from Ark about a pure-hearted war god being brutally killed by a minotaur, there was nothing particularly interesting about this trip to the Lohid family's alternate town.

These are all social activities involving etiquette. People drink fine wine, chat and laugh, and then watch a magnificent and dazzling magic show together.

During this time, Emerald also visited Flora's house alone and met Flora's parents.

Flora's parents were very polite to Emery, a powerful and high-status young lady, but they would inadvertently reveal a hint of resentment during their conversations, as if they were watching their daughter jump into a fire pit and were powerless to stop her.

Unfortunately, Emerald's reputation in certain areas is getting worse and worse, and it's quite obvious that Flora was arranged by the Lohid family to marry into Emerald's family.

Flora's parents didn't object to their daughter marrying another woman; the Allen Federation had always been very open-minded about this. They just couldn't bear to see their daughter become a mistress, since Emily already had a girlfriend on the surface.

Fortunately, despite being a terrible person, Emily was still quite good to Flora. She never forced Flora to do anything and often guided her in her cultivation, with noticeable results.

This led Flora to accept her fate, and her parents, after realizing this, didn't say much.

That evening, another large-scale social ball was held, but this time not as many people were eyeing Emerald. She spent most of the time chatting and watching the fun with Julia in a corner.

After all, this is Lohid's territory, and the handsome men and beautiful women attending the ball tonight are basically all eyeing the young people of the Lohid family.

Unlike Melson's side, many of the young people in the Lohid family are magicians who have been practicing for a long time. They are more or less reserved in social situations, or even socially anxious. Now, faced with the fervent offensive of a group of handsome men and beautiful women of the same age, they are somewhat unable to resist.

For example, Emerald saw a young female magician who seemed to have a significant amount of Melson blood, as her hair was pink.

Compared to the charming and sophisticated heiresses of the Melson family, this pink-haired magician from the Lohid family was a socially awkward person. She was surrounded and attacked by three hot girls who came to visit, and soon her eyes turned into mosquito coils. Her words were incoherent, and in the end, she was escorted to her room by the three girls... Tonight is going to be quite eventful.

"Humph."

Julia, who had also witnessed everything, suddenly pinched Emery's waist discreetly:

"If I hadn't been there to watch over you last night, would you have spent the whole night having fun with those women who came to flatter you?"

"will not."

Emery said matter-of-factly:

"I'll pretend to go on dates with them, then secretly study books and practice magic to crush them! Otherwise, how do you think I became a Fusion Stage mage at such a young age?"

"……real?"

Yulia felt that something was wrong, but what Emery said seemed to make sense, so she just scratched her head and gave up thinking about it.

Seeing this, Emerald secretly kissed Julia while changing her dance moves, and then wrapped her arms around Julia's waist as they continued to spin to the music.

She wasn't exactly lying, because she did indeed stay up all night reading during the New Year's celebrations, but whether a group of girls eager to please Melson surrounded her and served her while she was reading was another matter entirely.

After the ball, Amelie took Julia and Marcy to the guest room that the Lohid family had arranged for her.

Marcy is the woman who has been with Amelie the longest among all the women around her, and she is also the one who is most familiar with Julia.

So when asked about bringing Marcy along for tonight's water magic duel, Julia just hummed twice and agreed, even thinking of teaming up with Marcy for a two-on-one fight.

But Marcy was Emerald's most loyal maid. She first agreed to Julia's suggestion to join forces against Emerald, but then decisively betrayed Julia at a crucial moment, causing Julia to suffer another night of crushing defeat.

. . . . .

By the fourth day of the new year, the celebrations were basically over, and the members of the Melson family who had gathered returned to their daily lives, some to work and some to school.

People in other places were the same; they gradually calmed down from the three-day festivities and returned to their daily lives.

Just as Emerald had predicted, her move of having Lulu replace Bobo could temporarily stop the young ladies' offensive, but it couldn't stop them indefinitely.

The position of the head of the Merson family is still too tempting, and the young ladies are competing fiercely, even resorting to tactics like turning a finger into a wave.

Although Lulu was like a warrior that night, she was not her sister after all, and her experience as a scumbag was still too immature.

Although she easily defeated all the young ladies with water magic, she failed to notice that several of them had secretly recorded their water magic duel.

Afterwards, these young ladies edited and modified the magic video, cutting out those scenes that revealed Lulu's gender and the scenes of their own defeat, keeping only the intimate scenes of the two at the beginning of the water magic duel.

Then the young ladies brought these modified magic videos to Melson Manor, shyly expressing their hope that Bobo would take responsibility, claiming that they had already pledged their lives to Bobo that night.

Bobo and Lulu were both dumbfounded. Lulu was so angry that she wanted to teach those young ladies a lesson on the spot, but she was grabbed by the ear and taken away by Lady Catherine for a lesson.

Pias, who had already vaguely guessed the truth, was speechless. Of course, he knew very well who was behind all of this, but what could he do? Amelie was also his daughter, his most outstanding and promising daughter.

Fortunately, Pias was also very resourceful.

He called together the young ladies who were clamoring for Bobo to take responsibility, along with their parents, and said that it was normal for young people to impulsively pursue pleasure, and that sweet words spoken on dates should not be taken seriously.

There's only one spot for Popo's fiancée. Since everyone's eyeing that position, let's have a fair competition. Give the young people some time to date freely and see who Popo ultimately likes the most.

The young ladies were all helpless, but they could only agree. At the same time, they all mustered their courage and resolved to win over the real Bobo next time, making sure to verify her identity before getting intimate.

This is the result that Emerald hoped to see—she didn't ask the family to change their minds and cancel the plan to find a fiancée for Bobo, as long as it could be delayed for a while.

She will use this time to resolve this matter in a way that no one can find fault with.

Whether the longtime fans want to balance Emerald's future influence on Polnareff, or simply dislike Judy's image, the bottom line is that while Judy nominally still has a chance, she is actually out of the running. Asking her to compete fairly with a group of scheming young ladies is futile.

Judy's only chance of winning is that she has already established a somewhat ambiguous relationship with Pop, and Pop currently likes her.

So if Bobo can decide for himself who his fiancée is, Judy can turn the tables and become the ultimate winner.

Although in most cases, the marriages of the children of wealthy families can only be arranged by their elders, even Emerald was forced to have a fiancé.

Fortunately, the Merson family highly values ​​individual talent. If a young person demonstrates outstanding talent, the family is extremely tolerant of his private life. He can marry whomever he wants, even a poor girl or a poor boy.

The same applies to Popeye. As long as he can achieve something to prove his talent, he can gain complete autonomy in marriage. No matter how much the old pink-haired family members look down on Judy, Popeye can marry her if he wants to… This is also a tradition and rule of the Melson family, a rule that has been in place for over a thousand years, and the old pink-haired family members dare not disobey it.

Does Bobo have that kind of talent?

Bobo's talent is actually quite outstanding. He is a genius researcher who was able to independently design advanced magical devices at the age of 15. Many of his drawings were praised by the old craftsmen of the Melson Magic Workshop, and his grades were far ahead of the main campus of the Magic Engineering Academy.

Such talent, if found in any other place or by any other person, would be enough to amaze others as a super genius, except for Merson.

Because the Merson family started and established itself on magical artifact technology, the idea that the Merson family is good at developing magical artifacts has become a stereotype.

As the eldest son of the Merson family, it's normal for Popo to have this level of talent; in fact, it would be strange if he weren't so outstanding.

Simply put, among all of humanity, Polnareff's talent as a magical artifact researcher is absolutely top-tier, but within the Melson family, he's not quite that genius. At least for now, he's still far from being one of the monsters who can make it onto the family's list of heroes.

The Merson family has a long list of distinguished figures; every so often over a thousand years, several exceptionally talented individuals have emerged.

Among them are cultivators whose strength is growing rapidly, business geniuses who can earn trillions of rons for their families with a flick of their wrist, and legendary commanders who led the Federation troops to a great victory over the elven magician legion in the Elf War. But most of them are genius researchers who have made leaps and bounds in magical artifact technology.

Compared to other family heroes, researchers have the largest number of members, but they are also the most difficult and challenging to get on the list.