Travels to the Holy Light Continent

Chapter 307: The Murakami Family's Betrayal

After seeing off the Cardinal, Shangguan Wan'er looked at the woman lying on the ground.

"As expected, I am pitiful! But I am not bad either! Why won't he accept me?!"

After Shangguan Wan'er woke the woman up, she resisted violently.

"Honey! It's me! Remember when we met?"

Honey calmed down after hearing that. She looked around and asked, "Where is this place? Why did you bring me here?"

Today's Honey is no longer the ignorant girl she used to be. She was not panicked when she found out that she could not use magic power.

"I didn't capture you, but someone captured you and sent you to me!" Shangguan Wan'er quickly distanced herself from the matter.

"Then you'll let me go?"

"Uh! I'm afraid that's impossible! Because you're an important chess piece."

"For Brother Xuanyuan! How are you going to deal with him?" Hani asked.

"Why do you think we captured you to threaten him instead of your father?"

"Tsk! He doesn't care about anything except the throne. If you expect to capture me and threaten him, then you don't deserve to be called a wise woman!"

"Haha! You're smart too! Do you think he will fight six people for you?"

"Yes! And then he will defeat them all to vent my anger!"

"You seem to have a lot of confidence in him! I really wish he could do the same to me! It's a pity that we will become rivals in the end!"

Time soon came to the next day. Shangguan Wan'er rode a horse to the front of the battle to challenge me. I used my Qinggong to come to her side and asked, "Miss Shangguan, what do you want today?"

"I want you to fight six people I choose!"

"What? Did I hear you right? Why do you think I would agree to this unreasonable request?"

Shangguan Wan'er took out a ring and said, "My Lord, do you recognize this Water God Ring?"

When I saw the Water God Ring, my heart tightened. The pressure around me instantly increased, and Shangguan Wan'er was instantly suffocated.

"She's in your hands?"

"Yes... yes! But... she wasn't... hurt at all!"

I couldn't bear to see Shangguan Wan'er in pain, so I withdrew my pressure.

"Okay! I promise you! Any other conditions?"

"You must also hand over the Dragon Crossbow!"

"Okay! But you have to give Honey back to me first!"

"My Lord, you are so calculating. What if you disagree with us returning the person to you?"

"I could have sworn it!"

Shangguan Wan'er smoothed her hair and looked behind her when she heard this. A man in black nodded. She then turned around and said, "Okay! The Lord's credibility is still reliable! Then I wonder when the Lord can give it to me?"

"Tomorrow! I don't have it with me."

Shangguan Wan'er's words puzzled me. Why didn't she ask me directly for it but asked me when I could give it to her? Wasn't she afraid that I would do something to her? Or did she hope that I would do something to her?

"Well then! Tomorrow we will hand over the crossbow in one hand and the person in the other!"

Shangguan Wan'er seemed to be afraid that the man in black would go back on his word, so she turned around and left.

When I returned to the city my father asked me why I had agreed to the duel.

"No way! Honey is in their hands!"

"Isn't the Ice Princess in the Imperial City? Why was she brought here? Did His Majesty change his mind?" asked Grandpa.

"Probably not! If His Majesty goes back on his word, he will have other ways to deal with me. It is unreasonable to threaten me with the Ice Princess. Although he loves the throne more than anything else, he is not a heartless person. Otherwise, I would not have promised to retire after defeating the Holy See."

"But how was the Ice Princess captured with all these guards?"

I thought for a moment and said, "It seems that the Murakami family has betrayed us. Apart from Your Majesty, they are the only ones who can send the Ice Princess here in such a short time, and one of their family members is an archbishop in the Vatican."