The Hero Who Became a Monster Girl Will Never Fall to Evil

“Right inside...”

Elizabeth pointed at the jade-white palace behind Vieya.

Vieya turned around.

Looking into the interior of the palace, she found that unlike the darkness outside, the inside was bright, the windows spotless, the floor smooth as a mirror, reflecting the six-winged angel statue standing at the very center.

Yes.

This was exactly the Hall of Honesty the demon had mentioned. The twentieth floor—no matter what kind of dungeon it was, this was already an extremely deep and dangerous layer.

“You could come out because I opened the palace door?” Vieya didn’t act rashly; she chose to calm down and question Elizabeth beside her.

She believed—

The closer she got to the core of the dungeon, the more cautious she should be. After all, she had suffered losses here in the past even when she was powerful. Now that she was much weaker, it was better to stay careful.

“Because inside, you can only speak the truth. Those two can’t say a single honest sentence, so of course /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ they can’t get out.”

As Elizabeth spoke, a gleeful, schadenfreude smile appeared on her beautiful face. Her stomach suddenly stopped hurting. Leaning toward the slime lady’s ear, she said creepily,

“They refused to let the other hear the darkness in their own hearts, so right now they’re stuck wresting with that statue. Eheheh... two little liars, finally getting punished!”

Hearing this—

Vieya followed Elizabeth’s gaze back to the statue. The silver-white six-winged angel stood on a jade pedestal, and carved on the pedestal were several large characters—

Those who enter this hall must abandon all lies.

Awooo!

From the pitch-black darkness came the roar of magical beasts—terrifying and shrill, as if ten thousand wailing ghosts from the deepest abyss were urging them! 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Urging them to hurry and go inside!

Terrified, Jasmine and the other two ran to Vieya’s side. Even Maixi’s little face turned pale, too scared to speak.

A hall that prohibited lies—the Hall of Honesty.

For Vieya, who had been “well-read” in her previous life, this wasn’t particularly dangerous.

At least—

She considered herself someone whose heart was clear like a mirror, someone whose every action was for her own sake. Being unable to lie—

Was no big deal.

She had simply felt a little sentimental a moment ago. She had once experienced a similar place, one where lies could not be spoken. So she merely felt the heaviness brought by the passage of time and the disappearance of old acquaintances—not fear of today’s situation.

After sorting out her emotions, Vieya stepped into the hall.

“Speak. Why did you, a spider monster, become Vieya’s maid?”

“Of course, because of loyalty—” Jiele Xiyin had barely finished when a pale bolt of lightning split down onto her head, blasting her to the floor as white smoke poured out.

“Hahaha! And you dare say you’re loyal!” Anna rejoiced.

“And what about you?” Jiele Xiyin gritted her teeth. “Aren’t you sticking to her only to draw benefits from her?!”

“Bullshit! That’s normal upper-and-lower-rank relationship.” Anna said trembling. Seeing no lightning fall, she became even more pleased. “See? I’m nothing like you poisonous spider!”

Rumble!!!

At that very moment, Anna was struck down as well, white smoke puffing from her mouth.

On the other side—

Vieya had just stepped through the doorway when she saw this scene. She fell silent instantly. Was her charm really that terrible? The people around her—one after another—all turned out to be disloyal schemers.

“Hahahahaha...” Elizabeth burst into loud laughter, pointing mocking fingers at the two smoking human-shaped piles before the statue. “That’s them for you. Every sentence must contain at least one lie—deep schemers with bad intentions toward you.”

She boldly declared this, and lightning did not strike her.

This made the slime lady even more dejected. It meant Elizabeth’s words earlier were all true—Anna and Jiele Xiyin truly bore ill intentions toward her.

More than three years of sincere treatment, and this was the return she got—

At that moment, Jasmine stepped forward and took Vieya’s hand, speaking softly, “I like Mama the most. No exceptions.”

Vieya froze for a moment—but thankfully, nothing happened. This meant her daughter hadn’t lied...

The slime lady felt deeply comforted. She immediately hugged her daughter tightly, whispering emotionally, “I feel the same, Jasmine...?”

No good! Lightning incoming!

Just before the lightning fell, Vieya decisively pushed Jasmine aside and took the ferocious thunder strike herself!

Rumble!!!

She wiped the black soot from her face, expression extremely ugly. What was this supposed to mean?

Why did she get struck?!

“Mama... are you okay?” Jasmine didn’t care whether Vieya had lied; she scrambled up from the floor and hurriedly took out a handkerchief from her pocket to wipe her slime mother’s face.

While wiping, she comforted, “Mama, it’s okay. Even if I’m not your most favorite person, in my heart, no one can replace your place.”

No lightning.

“......” Vieya sat on the floor like a sulking duck, both aggrieved and moved. “I like you too, Jasmine...”

This time, she didn’t dare make any sweeping promises—only vague statements.

“Mm.” Jasmine nodded lightly, lifting a bright smile—though there was still a hint of sadness in it.

“Wow, that’s amazing.”

Maixi’s eyes shifted. She looked toward Rorina and asked, “Are you love-deprived?”

“How could I possibly lack that... kind of... thing?”

BOOM!

Rorina collapsed on the floor smoking, knocked unconscious.

“Wow, went too far.” Maixi swallowed.

Meanwhile, Anna and Jiele Xiyin also noticed the commotion at the entrance and rolled and crawled back over.

“Uuuwu, you finally came to save us... wait, you got struck too.” Anna froze halfway through her charge.

Inside the bright hall, everyone finally gathered together.

Vieya felt helpless. Even though she had raised a whole group of ungrateful wolves, right now she had no choice but to steel herself and organize everyone so she could bring them out together.

“Come on, relax a little, Master.” Elizabeth smiled. “As long as you don’t lie here, it’s safer than any other floor.”

No lightning.

This sentence was actually true.

Seeing Vieya’s suspicious look, Elizabeth spread her hands. “We’ve been stuck here for almost a full day. We couldn’t help it—if even one person keeps lying, we can’t move to the next floor. So I’ve tested a lot already.”

If even one person lies, they can’t progress to the next layer.

In that case, the only method was systematic elimination—force out everyone’s truths one by one. Whoever lied would stand on the lightning-struck side and bear the pressure.

Vieya scratched her cheek, her beautiful eyes scanning around to count her group.

“We... have a total of seven... intelligent beings.”

RUMBLE!!!

Under everyone’s shocked gazes, the poor slime was struck by lightning again.

Electric light burst wide, brightening the entire hall like daytime. The slime lady fell dazed to the ground.

No—where did she miscount?! Two Demon Kings, plus a mother-daughter team, two idiot beginner mages, plus one Anna... wasn’t that seven intelligent beings? She didn’t say seven people...

After a long silence—

Jasmine panicked and threw herself onto the peacefully lying, motionless Vieya. Big tears fell drop by drop as she sobbed softly,

“Mama... uuu... d-don’t scare me, Mama, uuu...”

Maixi and Rorina also gathered around. The two little ones, who had never seen such a scene, had no idea what to do.

“She’s fine. Her life force is stable.”

Anna touched the slime lady’s bulging chest area. Realizing there was no heartbeat, she sighed. “Let her lie for a bit. Her brain was probably short-circuited by the lightning—she’s temporarily unconscious.”

But...

Anna’s gaze swept slowly over the entire Hall of Lies. Her blue eyes darkened, cold like a chilling deep lake.

Only when everyone felt their hair stand on end did she finally speak slowly—

“Is there a traitor mixed among us?”