Reject me, you damn woman.

Historia trembled all over, and just as she was about to break free, she suddenly heard Lin En slowly say:

"But Historia-san is not completely useless. Among the people you just eliminated, there are indeed a few suspects that I plan to deal with."

"Woo~"

Historia let out an unidentified whimpering sound from her throat and slowly lowered her head.

Since Historia mastered the arcane art of fire, things like being patted on the head have basically never happened again.

Because after that, anyone who dared to look down on her would basically have a fireball shoved into her nostrils.

But this time, Historia was unable to attack Lynn with fireballs no matter what.

After all, I was the one who was in the wrong first, and Lin En was comforting me by letting bygones be bygones.

But why does this method seem familiar?

Give a slap and a sweet date, then comfort and caress the pet, isn't this the way to tame a pet?

Who does this guy think he is!

I always feel that the longer I stay with this guy, the weirder I become!

But Historia couldn't say this anyway.

Lin En gave me so many excuses, but I wanted to make up a topic out of nothing. This is the most typical example of ingratitude.

Forget it, since I can't resist anymore, I'll just accept it.

Anyway, it’s not that I don’t want to resist, but that I can’t resist.

And because Linn's technique was so skilled, Historia even felt quite comfortable...

And watching Historia slowly lower her noble head and allow herself to be caressed, out of her sight, the corners of Lin En's lips slowly curled up in joy.

It's that easy to control Her Royal Highness the Princess.

But Lin En noticed that Historia trembled when he touched her head, and her face turned red when she lowered her head in humiliation.

This is clearly the humiliation of having to bow your head under someone's roof.

She probably has reached the end of her patience with herself.

Historia's self-assertion did shock Lynn at first, but Lynn soon realized that this was both a risk and an opportunity for him.

An opportunity to severely offend both heroines at the same time!

There is no doubt that Historia is so tolerant of her now because she believes that their goal is the same, which is to help Elena pass the exam.

He even gained the achievement of killing the heroine Feng Aotian by patting her head.

This feeling is really not touching.

You have to know that for Historia, who takes the route of an invincible and happy story in the original work, when it rained on her head, she would wish to use magic to evaporate the dark clouds above her head.

But once the truth is revealed and Historia knows that everything she did was to prevent Elena from passing the exam, how will she react?

Lynn is already looking forward to it!

"So, what should we do?"

Historia asked.

This is not to say that the girl has tacitly accepted Lin En as the leader, but the girl gradually discovered that when she was with Lin En, once her clever brain started working, it would sometimes lead to some... not-so-nice results.

"Our next mission is very important. It's getting dark and a little cold in the mountains. Go make a fire first, and then I'll continue."

Although Historia was unhappy, she thought that since it was the cunning Lin's plan, there must be a reason for it, so she could only pick up some firewood and then use the fire arcane to make a fire.

"and then?"

The princess, whose face was covered in dust and smoke, asked.

"What you are going to do next is much more important. I will only say this once, so remember it."

Lin En said as he was toasting some bread that he got from somewhere.

Historia nodded and listened carefully.

This time she has made up her mind that she will never do anything unnecessary.

“Wait and hope.”

Lynn Road.

Historia was waiting for what was to come, but she found that Lynn had already started eating the bread.

"and then?"

The girl frowned.

"There is no more."

Lynn spread his hands.

"You fool me!"

Historia gritted her teeth, stood up, and stared at Lynn fiercely.

"Please sit down, Your Highness. What else do you want us to do? Go around and cause trouble for other candidates like you did, or just grab a token and give it to Elena so she can go and claim the prize?"

Historia was speechless and sat back obediently, because no matter which way it was, Elena would be very angry when she knew it.

"Your Highness Historia, I may not be the one to say this, but in my opinion, your insistence on helping Elena is actually hurting her."

Lynn said calmly.

"Nonsense, why would I hurt Xiao Ai!"

Historia glared with her bright eyes. She valued this only friend very much.

"really?"

Lin En deliberately showed a shocked expression.

"But isn't your presumptuous and overprotective behavior a sign of distrust of her abilities and a harm to her?"

"I.....what about you?"

Historia retorted.

The most important thing I have to do now is to stay here and do nothing, but now there is another thing, which is to keep you here and not let you make trouble.

Lynn secretly complained.

"I'm different from you. I will only correct everything when necessary, instead of doubting my companion's ability and thinking about how to help her cheat."

Historia suddenly fell silent.

Because she found out that what Lynn said was right.

I distrusted Elena too much.

In fact, whether it was when they joined forces to fight against Kane, or when they went to Lynn's room to steal information, Elena had already demonstrated her extraordinary ability to create and use strange objects. If nothing unexpected happened, it should not be a problem for Elena to pass a small junior strange object master exam.

What's more, even if there is any accident, don't I and the annoying guy still have me here?

"Okay, I get it. I'll stay here and not go anywhere."

Seeing Historia sitting across from the campfire with her hands on her cheeks, Lin En slowly smiled and said softly, "Good boy~"

Historia's answer was still a cold snort.

I won't be happy about the praise from this guy!

........

On the stands, the arcanists of the Magic Clock Tower, who had been keeping their eyes on Lynn and Historia for a long time, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Historia's sudden intrusion really made everyone sweat. They had to keep their water mirrors pointed at the reckless princess and had no time to pay attention to the other contestants.

After all, the real mission this time is to take away the final participant of the strange object examination and determine whether there will be the next candidate for the twelve rings. The Magic Bell Tower is even prepared to completely offend the Purple Gold Flower Empire for this.

And every time an unlucky guy is eliminated for no reason by His Highness, the probability of completing the mission becomes lower.

After seeing that Lin En had stabilized Historia, the arcanists of the Magic Clock Tower began to thank His Highness crazily in their hearts.

Although some people still disliked Lin En, it was clear that as most of the trial time had passed, it was time to implement the final plan and complete the deal with His Highness.

Especially Tann, whose confidant Salion was directly killed by Linn, sneered at this.

But as the exam time was getting closer and closer to the end, Old Tarn still glanced at Latina's back and said in a somewhat unhappy voice: "Master Latina, I will go into the mountain to activate the formation and prevent the candidate named Elena from passing the test according to the agreement with Prince Lin En."

Latina nodded. Her attention was focused on Gust from beginning to end. However, the seventh-ring great arcanist seemed to know that she, who knew basically nothing about strange objects, was only here to make up the numbers, and she just stared at the picture in the water mirror without saying a word.

However, at the moment when Tarn left, an extremely inconspicuous stream of arcane light also left from his palm, flying to an unknown direction.

........

"Gray Peony, finally found it!"

Seeing the marked token within reach, Elena, who had been through a whole day of exams, breathed a sigh of relief.

Her luck in this exam seemed to be particularly bad. Every time when she was about to find the marking object, someone would come out to disturb her. And when she got rid of the entanglement of other candidates, she would find that the marking object had been taken away.

As for the option of snatching markers from other candidates, it was not even considered by Elena from the beginning.

It's not that I'm not strong enough, I just don't want to.

Just as the marker was about to be obtained, suddenly, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky and struck Gray Peony accurately.

"No!"

A desperate sound came out of Elena's throat, and she watched the Gray Peony turn into ashes.

Then, with tears of grief in her eyes, Elena just stared at the figure in the sky casting the arcane magic of thunder and gritted her teeth:

"why?"

Tarn's figure slowly descended from the sky.

There was a happy smile on the corner of his lips.

The deal with Lynn was just to prevent Elena from passing the exam. Latina's order was to tell Elena that Lynn was the mastermind behind all this, but neither of them said how they would tell Elena.

I just had to choose the method that would arouse the most hatred and make people the most angry, so that this little girl named Elena would hate that guy very much!

You too should experience the pain of losing a companion, Lynn Norton!

"The last gray peony has been destroyed. The exam is over, Elena-san."

Tarn spoke loudly, his words full of joy:

"As for why you want to know, I can also tell you, because Your Highness Lin En allowed me to say hello to you."

Classmate Lin En?

Elena froze in place, her face full of disbelief.

How could it be him?

........

Not far away by the bonfire, Historia was also completely furious:

"Liar, big liar, why didn't you let me stop the lightning? I could have done it!"

Hearing Historia's angry question, Lynn covered his face and suddenly laughed.

"That's because, of course, I did this on purpose, Historia-sama."

"On purpose, why, what good will this do for you?!"

Historia asked angrily.

Lin En was smug, rubbing his hands together like the ultimate villain:

"That's because...."

At this moment, a bright flare flew into the sky, and countless figures dressed as shadow knights suddenly jumped out from the shadows and rushed into the mountains.

"Don't let any of them escape!"

"Your Highness Lin En has fought hard for us. Now it's our turn!"

......

Hearing the shouts of the passing Shadow Knight, Historia looked at Lynn in confusion: