Volume 1 Chapter 459

Chapter 459: Lolth Is Peeking

At the moment Lolth shouted.

The bodies of the beautiful girls suddenly froze, as if the pause button had been pressed.

It felt like time in the whole room had come to a halt.

Each beautiful girl, completely naked, remained still in her original pose.

This scene always reminded Lolth of a classic theme from her past life.

She still had the pocket watch from Duke Heidegger in her arms, which was clearly a special item but whose purpose was unknown to her.

Lolth always felt that everything was just too perfect.

She sat up in bed, adjusting her slightly messy clothes while trying to hold back a laugh and looking a bit strange.

In the end, she pushed down her desire to complain and shook her head calmly.

After all, if she didn’t do this, she wouldn’t be able to stop thinking about what she had just shouted.

That was truly too embarrassing.

Especially since Isabella and Tina seemed to have misunderstood something again.

"Well, it looks like… this ends my first round of the ‘Courage Trial,’ doesn’t it?"

She looked towards the window and asked out loud.

The heavy curtains covering the window slowly opened at Lolth’s question.

Outside the crystal-turned-window, a faint blue light formed a figure.

It had no face, and its shape was not very clear either.

"Yes, Your Excellency, the magistrate."

"You have passed the first round of the Courage Trial."

"The second round of the Courage Trial will begin after the others finish their first round."

At that moment, the sound of magical synthesis was already very clear.

It sounded like a woman’s voice with a voice changer and a bit of echo effect.

Lolth nodded slightly and sat on the edge of the bed.

"Then I will just wait here for a moment…"

"But, I shouldn’t have to wait too long, right?"

She said this and curiously asked.

"As a magistrate, you have the authority to observe the trials of others."

The magic synthesis voice said.

When Lolth heard this, she was slightly taken aback and then showed a very interested expression.

"There’s such a good thing!"

"Then… show me!"

As Lolth said this, the shadow figure behind the crystal slightly bowed.

Then, after a ripple like water, four scenes appeared.

The first one Lolth noticed was Yi also, sitting on the altar with her eyes closed, resting.

Scattered around Yi also were many deformed monsters.

She was stunned for a moment, then realized that she was not the first to complete the trial.

While she was still hiding, Yi also had already cut through her own "fear."

But that makes sense.

Lolth found it hard to imagine that this girl would have any feelings of fear.

Even if she did, she did not seem like someone who would be controlled by fear.

She looked at the other three and continued to watch their actions.

In the picture, Lolth could not find Julie for a moment.

She figured it out by eliminating other possibilities; the room filled with writhing snakes, almost hidden by scales and patterns, should be where Julie was.

"Is this little girl afraid of snakes?"

"It looks like she has already been buried by snakes… Can she really complete the trial?"

"But if she is afraid of snakes, how can she face that monster in the main plane so calmly and even think about how to fight back… What can I say, is this what a mercenary is?"

Lolth muttered to herself, just as her words fell.

In the picture, a thick "shadow" suddenly seeped through the gaps between the entwined and piled-up snakes and monsters.

The shadow, born from darkness, was like a presence colder and more ominous than a venomous snake, quickly swallowing their seemingly dangerous bodies.

Lolth was taken aback, then showed an expression of astonishment.

"Using ‘Shadow Devour’ at the beginner level is epic… No wonder she developed such a rare occupational illness."

She began to understand how Julie had pushed herself to that point before.

At the same time, Lolth couldn’t help but sigh a little…

In South Sotua, to stand out among the mercenaries, you need a bit of madness!

The Sneaker skill that Julie is using now can be considered quite a life-risking skill.

It involves throwing all the Shadow Magic inside her out at the enemy, then using the little bit of "devouring" nature that Shadow Magic has to completely consume the enemy’s magic, soul, and life force.

When this move is used, it’s either death or survival.

Either the enemy dies, or she ends up useless!

Moreover, it is very easy to be harmed by Shadow Magic in return.

Lolth was also unsure whether it was the little girl who was frightened by the snakes or if this was her own conscious doing.

But moment later, she got her answer.

The shadow gradually expanded until it covered everything, and the once lively poisonous snakes also slowly lost their strength, dying silently without any wounds.

Their bodies fell to the side, and more and more snakes died.

In the small mountain of serpent bodies, the center slowly rose.

Finally…

"Huff—"

The Sneaker girl emerged from it.

She looked around and let out a long breath.

Her expression was calm, with a hint of relief.

"There’s nothing to be afraid of…"

She suddenly laughed when she remembered the giant snake from the main plane.

She almost died under the legendary giant serpent monster but ended up surviving.

When facing that giant snake, she had the resolve to wield a dagger.

These ordinary snakes and much weaker serpent monsters…

What do they matter?

There is no doubt that she passed this round of the Courage Trial.

Lolth couldn’t help but clap for Julie.

"Hooray!"

At the same time, she noticed the situation of the other two scenes, Lalea and Qiong, which was quite strange.

First, on Lalea’s side…

In front of her stood a monster that Lolth had never seen or heard of before.

It looked a bit like the commander of the Fourth Legion, but much uglier.

A huge and twisted mass of shadow stood there.

But this was not enough to make Lolth feel strange.

What was strange was…

The things Lalea was doing to it.

The girl neither attacked it nor ran away from it.

Instead, she was looking at it while murmuring something and gently stroking the edge of the shadowy figure.

"Does this mean she has passed?"

Lolth couldn’t help but feel some doubts.

But soon, she realized…

If this doesn’t count as passing, then nothing ever could.

This was not just facing her fear and overcoming it…

She even looked like she was turning her fear into curiosity!

Even stranger than Lalea was the scene over by Qiong.

At first, it was hard to tell who the person in the little girl’s drawing was.

In fact, Lolth guessed that she was Qiong mainly because of the person’s tiny figure in the drawing.