111: The sudden invitation from the empress

Chapter 111: The Empress's Sudden Invitation

"Oh, Elizabeth," Dick immediately turned around, bowed simply, and then said warmly, "The magic array for the Exorcism training has been set up, let's start with the human-machine difficulty..."

Dick briefly introduced the magic array, then began to arrange the Exorcism training, while also quietly observing Elizabeth.

Her demeanor and expression hadn't changed, and their interaction was as usual. Just by looking at the surface, Dick couldn't feel the changes brought by the 70% capture progress.

As expected of an Empress of a nation, her inner changes are never shown externally.

Although the capture progress had surged, it hadn't reached 100%, so Dick still planned to implement the capture plan he had prepared in advance.

This plan required them to be alone; Cecilia following along would be very troublesome and needed to be sent away.

Before long, Elizabeth had started training. Dick had arranged human-machine difficulty for her, which was completely safe.

Unlike his brutality towards Mina and Alice, Dick was very gentle with Elizabeth, as she was a capture target.

As soon as the Empresss Honored Guest and the Underground City Championship were over, Dick would bid farewell to this super flat Empress and the Aimiya Empire.

In contrast, Mina and Alice were both future Witches. The Demon King profession and related Blessings required both girls.

The square was very large. According to different combat difficulties, Dick used barriers to separate many different training areas, which did not interfere with each other.

At this time, unlike Elizabeth's relaxed and pleasant human-machine difficulty, Mina and Alice were struggling in nightmare difficulty.

Dick didn't separate them but had them fight side by side to cultivate their combat chemistry.

Mina was a Holy Knight with extremely high melee tankiness, while Alice was a Mage with extremely high ranged magic damage.

One was a front-line main tank, and the other was a back-line magic core, making them very suitable to be paired together. In the previous combat training with Kun, Dick had also arranged for them to act together.

And under Dick's guidance, Mina and Alice could now easily clear Kun's difficult mode.

Recently, their relationship had rapidly improved, and they had become close friends who talked about everything, even often sleeping in the same bed.

Of course, that bed was Dick's.

Although Alice didn't say anything about Mina being able to live in the same dorm as Dick, she had always been very envious.

Helplessly, Dick had always forbidden her from moving in, to avoid public opinion at the Academy exploding.

However, in the past few days, Dick had been busy with teaching and staying in the Royal Palace, so Alice had quietly moved in, wearing a mask every time she entered and exited.

After briefly watching a few rounds of the two girls' training, Dick left, leaving the follow-up to Donald to check for deficiencies and fill gaps.

This Snow Elf, over four hundred years old, was highly experienced, and had even been a professional mercenary, absolutely qualified to be the two girls' teacher.

Dick had also long ago taught the two girls some important combined combat tactics; now they just needed to hone them.

Watching everyone's Exorcism training, Cecilia showed eagerness, occasionally touching the short sword at her waist, clearly itching for action.

"Heh heh, why don't you give it a try too?" Dick suggested softly.

Hearing this, Cecilia slightly opened her mouth, but quickly refused righteously, "I, I need to watch over Your Majesty, lest she encounter danger..."

"Don't worry, I will be responsible for looking after Elizabeth. The human-machine difficulty she chose has no danger at all."

"But..."

"As you should have seen, between the training areas of different difficulties, Donald has set up barriers that block sight. Elizabeth can't see your battle at all."

Dick understood that besides fulfilling her duty as a close attendant, Cecilia was also worried that if she performed too well, it would damage Elizabeth's confidence.

At this point, Cecilia's resolute heart began to waver; she had no experience fighting evil spirits.

Seeing this, Dick added fuel to the fire, saying, "Just try it first. When Elizabeth switches difficulty later, I'll call you."

Cecilia subconsciously looked at Elizabeth, who was training, watching the incredibly clumsy movements of the ghosts in human-machine difficulty. She finally nodded and said, "Alright then, I... I'll just try it."

Dick nodded, then helped Cecilia start the hell difficulty.

With her strength, only evil spirits of hell difficulty could satisfy her.

And this way, he could be alone with Elizabeth, and the capture plan for later could be smoothly implemented.

Watching Cecilia begin her hell difficulty training, Dick's mouth curved into a smile, and he turned and walked towards Elizabeth's training barrier.

The capture plan wasn't complicated. Due to Donald's "oversight," some evil spirits would lose control later and attack Elizabeth under the enhancement of the amplification magic array.

What followed was a popular trope: Dick stepped forward, played the hero rescuing the beauty, was seriously injured, and the crisis was resolved.

The script was an old one, but it was tried and true. As long as his acting was on point, capturing a 19-year-old girl would be easy.

Dick had asked Enzeer. Elizabeth had a smooth life from childhood to becoming Empress, never encountering any danger.

Therefore, the life-or-death crisis later would cause a huge impact on Elizabeth, and finally, under the suspension bridge effect, it would transform into a strong favorable impression of Dick.

Just as Dick was preparing to manipulate things behind the scenes, Elizabeth suddenly paused her training, wiping away sweat while quickly walking towards Dick.

"Dick, you've really worked hard these past few days. I'm very satisfied with your teaching. Such dedicated performance must be properly rewarded..."

Hearing Elizabeth's praise, Dick was a little surprised. After all, it was the first time Elizabeth had offered to reward him. After their relationship improved, she rarely said such polite words.

And then, a sentence from Elizabeth shocked Dick even more.

"There's nothing going on tonight, why don't you come to my bedchamber for dinner? We can discuss your reward then..."

Dick put on a look of being flattered, his heart filled with confusion.

The Empress's bedchamber wasn't a place just anyone could go to. Having dinner there was a Blessing in itself; even the council ministers didn't have such treatment.

This was the Empress's private space. Generally... only the Empress's husband would have dinner there; even male consorts weren't qualified.

Thinking of this, Dick probed, "Cecilia serves as a close attendant and is also dedicated. She should also be rewarded. How about we all go tonight..."

"No need, no need. It's just you and me tonight. I have other arrangements for Cecilia."

However, Elizabeth waved her hand and casually rejected Dick's suggestion.

This made Dick even more confused. Going to the bedchamber for dinner was one thing, but there were only two of them...

All sorts of speculations immediately popped up in Dick's mind, the most likely one being, "Oh no, the Empress is interested in me!"

Although Elizabeth's behavior today was very normal, both the sudden surge in task progress and the sudden invitation were very strange.

After thinking it over, Dick decided to cancel the original capture plan and first see what Elizabeth wanted to do tonight.