Chapter 237: Heroine Selection

Hela was very angry.

From her perspective, she indeed had reason to be angry.

Her mother was crazy, coming specifically with expectations to see her father's reincarnation.

"Wow, the father's heroic soul actually activated?! Can we finally talk? I have so many wishes and thoughts I want to tell father."

"Father seems busy. Wait a while."

But she kept waiting, waiting in every corner of the city, watching her father busy saving the city and then entering a room with another woman?!

Well, the other party was the legitimate wife; if it was only for one day, naturally the other party took priority.

She endured it; after all, she was just an illegitimate daughter, irrelevant, even an illegitimate daughter who had privately used his surname.

"I'm really not angry at all, not at all; after all, we are strangers who have never met, sharing the same surname is just a coincidence; I'll go back and change my surname right now!"

It seemed the "daughter" was furious.

Li En sighed, subconsciously walked over, and gently hugged the girl.

This time, he let go of the unprovoked guilt and affection in his heart; Lex was a scumbag, but as his reincarnation, he was not.

The girl before him had no reason to suffer such misfortune and discriminatory treatment.

Warm and gentle; if all my burdens were this cute, I'd bear them.

"How about I call you father?"

But the girl smiled and said something that made even Li En feel hard to hold back.

He opened his mouth, but in the end said nothing; yet it seemed this silence was also a kind of consent.

"Just kidding. Parents are already negative words to me. Your scent is so young; your physical age feels younger than mine; I can't call you that."

Li En had just relaxed, but then suddenly felt himself hugged tighter.

The girl lowered her head and embraced him; this strength seemed a bit outrageous.

"Just a hug. Then let's start as friends."

After hugging, she let go; the girl was very free-spirited, a confidence and elegance completely different from Dai Niya.

For some reason, Li En felt that if their roles were swapped, or if the kingdom truly had a chance of revival.

【Aethel's Heavenly Fortune (Unknown Rank): When on this decaying land, receives the maximum amount of Heavenly Fortune blessing.】

If Lex were not so cowardly, and the Heroic Inheritance were activated now, Li En could use the Heroic Soul Catalog's ability to identify candidates and see the Heavenly Fortune on Hela.

Heavenly Fortune, or the favor of fate, is a rather subtle thing on the Prime Material Plane; plainly put, it is roughly everything going smoothly, possessing a certain degree of protagonist halo.

This is often a "privilege holder" unique to a region, quite rare, and often hard to perceive; but for the Thousand-Faced Dragon, this is the easiest thing to detect.

Why on her? Very likely because she is the strongest and most reliable among the remaining royal personnel; more likely, the world has already abandoned the Alisha bloodline.

The most obvious evidence is that this is merely the Heavenly Fortune of the Aethel region, not the Heavenly Fortune of the Aethel Kingdom.

Or perhaps the land itself no longer cares much about the kingdom's survival, even spitting on this evil royal house that should have perished long ago.

A nation losing the Mandate of Heaven generally appears when the ruler is without virtue, the so-called omen of destruction; but considering both princesses possess the bloodline of the Thousand-Faced Dragon that resists the Mandate of Heaven, this privilege seems unable to achieve absolute influence or omen.

But just as Li En's intuition from Lex, if Hela became the candidate king, reactivated her dragon vein, and turned the region's Heavenly Fortune into the kingdom's Heavenly Fortune, it would truly be possible to welcome a wave of revival.

But obviously, this can no longer happen; perhaps this Mandate of Heaven will ultimately cultivate a great Sword Saint worthy of history, perhaps even more valuable than the kingdom itself.

Hela left at some unknown time, without saying goodbye at all, but Li En felt she would sneak back tonight.

"Sure enough, they left." What Li En said referred to the royal spies outside.

Obviously, the royal house did not quite trust this "eldest princess" and kept sending people to watch her; but due to constraints on all sides, it was not good to tear the face between them, at least while there was still a possibility of cooperation.

And her staying with Li En actually made Dai Niya's side feel a bit more at ease.

"Forget it, let's just do my job."

The entire city entered the recovery period after the disaster; various works gradually returned to normal, which also meant Li En's side could proceed with various works more smoothly.

"Date, date!"

But the first to discover Li En was free was Miss Shaliman, who had been very expectant; for some reason, her sense of crisis was maxed out.

These past two days, she had inexplicably become quite clingy, even daring to flick her snake tongue at the princess to whom she was loyal.

But Li En still rejected her; although he didn't want to admit it, the state of being possessed by Lex's heroic soul was simply too good.

He could feel every moment that his swordsmanship, fighting experience, and combat instincts were rising.

With a slight practice of the sword, various realizations and sword arts' profound meanings were inexplicably mastered.

This was no longer a matter of how much time was saved, but rather many "treasures" his talent found hard to reach were inexplicably held in his hands.

"You, you wouldn't really have fallen for the Queen, would you? I know she is more mature and beautiful than me, but I am your girlfriend, right?"