【Location: Office of the Lord Chancellor】

Beatrice carefully helped Louis adjust his cuffs, and a hint of surprise flashed across her eyes as she saw him wearing the knight uniform of the Warrior Department of St. Louis College.

She said nonchalantly, "Louie, when you go to St. Louis College later, don't talk to some bad women casually. You have a fiancée now."

Louis was speechless.

Does he look like the kind of guy who is prone to getting into trouble? If he really couldn't resist the urge to cheat, he would have eaten all the beautiful maids in the prince's mansion long ago.

Of course, he would not be so foolish as to say this directly, but just said with a smile: "They will not come near. In front of the shining pearl of the empire, they will only feel ashamed. So rest assured, Beatrice."

"Or..."

Louis leaned forward, with some ill intentions in his narrow eyes:

"Beatrice..."

"Um?"

"Don't move."

Louis reached out his hand and gently rubbed his thumb across her soft lips, then retracted his hand and gently wiped the corner of his mouth and said, "I remember the taste of this lipstick. I will not forget this taste until I come back."

With the sound of the doorknob turning, Qian walked in: "Your Highness, the arrangements at the academy have been made..."

Louis: ...

Beatrice: ...

Qian paused for a moment, blinked, and said, "Be safe."

Then he retreated at a speed so fast that Louis could not even see and closed the door.

Faintly, the two seemed to hear a contented laugh.

Beatrice couldn't stand it anymore and said angrily:

"It's all your fault. Qian will laugh at me again when you leave."

Louis said shamelessly: "How could that be? You are the eldest princess. At most, she would laugh secretly in private."

I feel like ever since what happened at the engagement ball, my prince has been going too far.

What’s worse is that she doesn’t seem to want to refuse.

Beatrice said, "You're going to die! Go to the academy immediately!"

Louis said, "Okay, okay, I'll go now."

Beatrice: “Wait…”

Beatrice pinched her brows.

After being teased by Louis, she almost forgot about the main thing:

"When you are at the academy, help me investigate something if you have the chance."

Louis nodded: "You say."

Beatrice suppressed her restless emotions, picked up a letter with the seal of the academy from the desk and handed it over:

"Recently, we have been cleaning up the spies left behind by various forces. There is an incident that happened at St. Louis College, and we may need your help to deal with it."

"A mage at the academy sensed the movement of the plane being torn apart."

"According to the judgment of the secret guards and the dark crows, there should be a crack in the underworld of the fallen shadows inside the academy."

"Although the White Tower quickly strengthened the effect of the space stabilization array, the unstable cracks may still release some shadow creatures."

"Powerful shadow creatures will not seek trouble, but it's hard to say about some lower-level shadow creatures."

"After all, the Shadowfallen Underworld is a relatively troublesome existence in all areas of the Shadow Plane."

"Your Sin Dragon Armor is just the perfect counter to the pollution of the Shadowless Underworld."

Louis suddenly realized.

No wonder Beatrice wanted him to investigate directly.

First of all, we need to understand one issue.

The shadow monsters living there have an ecology that is very different from that of the main material plane.

Among these areas, some are naturally extremely dangerous.

This is the case with the area where the Shadowless Underworld is located.

Since it has the word "Underworld" in it, one can imagine how dark the Shadow Underworld is.

Among the many strange stories Louis had read, there was once a record of the horror of the Shadow Underworld.

[A God Fell Here]

Just this one sentence can summarize everything.

In the Shadowless Underworld where there is no sun and no starlight, there is no color other than black, white and gray.

The entire plane is a dark simulation of various things in real life.

Shadows, wraiths, ghosts, spirits, and a multitude of undead creatures sleep and wander the area.

Among them even lives the ancestor of vampires from the Star Continent.

He lives in the terrifying demiplane of the Shadowless Underworld and is the first vampire archduke in the world.

Logically speaking, the Shadowless Underworld should be an extremely dangerous place.

Why does it become so easy when it comes from the mouth of the first wife?

As if she had noticed Louis's doubts, Beatrice chuckled and said:

"The Shadowfallen Underworld was indeed an extremely dangerous place in the past, but now the Shadowfallen Underworld is no longer a threat."

Louis was curious: "Huh? Why?"

"Because there are many distorted reflections of the main material plane in the Shadowfall, and the last area reflected in the Shadowfall was the city of Tino."

"It projected the reflection of the Father Emperor into the area where it was located. Most of the creatures there suffered an equal death bestowed upon them by the black sun that the Father Emperor had transformed into."

“…”

What else can Louis say? Emperor Lao Deng, awesome!

He was helpless: "Then what are the possible dangers in the Shadowfall Underworld now?"

Beatrice said, "It's the Shadowfall Curse, a curse that slowly corrodes the human body, turning it into a chaotic evil shadow creature."

“A while ago, a teacher in St. Louis unfortunately fell into this.”

"Under the influence of the Fallen Shadow Curse, he lost his memories of the Fallen Shadow Underworld and continued to be active in the academy as a half-human, half-shadow. It was not until a while ago that he realized something was wrong with his body."

Louis fell into deep thought.

At this time, it's a bit too coincidental.

After all, according to the records in the future diary, why does the time when the Shadow Underworld appeared seem so close to the time when the secret room of St. Louis College appeared?

Could it be that the secret room of St. Louis is actually a half-plane embedded in the Shadowless Underworld? Just as he was thinking this, Beatrice sighed and said:

"In fact, please investigate the situation. Mainly keep an eye on Olivia. For some reason, Olivia is more likely to be pulled into the Shadowfall than normal people."

"Although there is not much danger inside, staying there for a long time will put a heavy strain on her body."

"Your Sin Dragon Armor carries some kind of incomprehensible and horrible curse against the enemy."

"You, who possess a stronger curse, will not be affected by the Shadowfallen Underworld in the slightest."

"If we're not careful... Olivia really runs to the Shadowless Underworld, we might need your help to bring her out."

Louis nodded, and the matter was settled.

However, not only were the doubts in his mind not answered, but they increased instead.

Why was Olivia more easily drawn in? Wait, could it be...

If that's the case, then Grace should be called in.

(End of this chapter)