What a traitor.
Who would have thought that someone with such thick eyebrows and big eyes would be a traitor?
The words Trainee Death God Lance had once used to describe a certain traitor suddenly surfaced in Death God Solomon's mind.
Resigning from his position as a Trainee Death God and running off to take the Temple of Light's Knight of Light examination—wasn't that the very definition of traitorous behavior? "I've treated you so well, and you actually want to become a traitor? How can you live up to all the cultivation I gave you? How can you live up to my expectations? How can you live up to the salary Hell paid you? You slacked off on the clock for hundreds of years. Did I ever say anything? I've been hoping you'd die every day, hoping you'd hurry up and die so I could give you a Promotion and Salary Increase, take you out to eat and drink well, and show you the beautiful scenery of Hell.
You, on the other hand, hadn't shown your face for hundreds of years, and the moment we met, you wanted to become a traitor. Did you ever think about how that would make your partner feel? That's too much. Really, that's going too far.
Feel your conscience and ask it whether it hurts."
Death God Solomon was heartbroken. Wasn't being a death god in Hell more comfortable than being a Dragon Knight of Light in the Temple of Light?
Could being a Dragon Knight of Light in the Temple of Light grant you immortality?
No.
Once your time was up, you would still die.
And after death, wouldn't you still have to come to Hell?
All right, perhaps a powerful Dragon Knight of Light would go to the Hall of Valor.
Even if Lance went to the Hall of Valor after death and became a somewhat famous Dragon Knight spirit,
when the priests of the temples in the human world fought, couldn't they still summon him from the Hall of Valor to the human world and have him assist in battle?
What was the point of becoming such a spirit? Becoming a death god of Hell was different. You would be the leader of the necromancers and Trainee Death Gods in the human world.
If you wanted to get something done in the human world, you could simply have a necromancer or Trainee Death God do it for you.
If you wanted to eat some delicacy from the human world, a Trainee Death God could help you obtain it too.
As a temple knight, you worked for the temple while alive, and after death, you became a spirit who still had to work for the temple.
As a Trainee Death God, you worked for Hell while alive. After death, you became a death god and could be the boss, with the necromancers and Trainee Death Gods of the human world working for you.
No matter how you compared them, becoming a Trainee Death God had far more prospects than becoming a Dragon Knight of Light.
Most importantly, Lance was a necromancer. A necromancer running off to the temple to become a Dragon Knight—wasn't he afraid that one day the temple's priests would secretly kill him for being a traitor? "I'm just trying out another profession and developing my connections while I'm at it."
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"You're a necromancer. Didn't you consider whether the Temple of Light would even want you? You wouldn't get past the background check alone."
"Besides being a necromancer, I'm also a warrior. Did you forget?"
"That makes you a Dark Warrior."
"I'm also a druid."
"That makes you a Dark Druid."
Lance was amused into laughter by Solomon. If he kept going, all of Lance's professions might end up being classified as dark professions.
His idea of going to the temple to become a Knight of Light had only been offhand. There were too many powerful people in the temple. If his identity were exposed, who knew what the temple's priests would think of him, a black dragon?
They might even send powerful experts to hunt him down on the charge of blasphemy.
Besides, he had to raise the young dragon recently and had no time to play around at the temple. Perhaps in another one or two thousand years, when the young dragon was nearly an adult and had some ability to protect itself—perhaps it might even evolve into a Pure-Blooded Dragon.
At that time, he could transform into a human, participate in the temple's examination as a knight, and see whether he could develop some connections on the temple's side.
"If there's nothing else, end the projection call. I was only teasing you when I said I'd take the Knight of Light examination. But it's true that I don't have much time to take on missions lately. You saw it yourself—I have to raise the young dragon. For a long time to come, most of my attention will be focused on it."
"Really?"
Death God Solomon didn't quite believe what Lance said.
The longer one lived, the more cunning one became.
Lance had lived for more than a thousand years. If he wanted to lie, no one could tell.
"You're not lying to me?"
"Mm."
"As expected of the Trainee Death God I admire most. I'll cancel the contract I signed with you first. You won't die anytime soon anyway. I'd better hurry and cultivate a few outstanding Trainee Death Gods and see whether, besides you, I can meet another one I admire.
"Sigh. To be honest, as a death god, you're still the Trainee Death God I admire most. The old you brought me glory and made me the object of envy and jealousy for most of Hell's death gods.
"As you lived longer and longer, the glory disappeared, and so did the envious and jealous looks directed at me. Death gods who joined at the same time as me—or even those who joined later—have all received Promotion and Salary Increase, while I'm still standing where I was. Forget it. Since we knew each other, I still have to wish you an early death. That's my hope, and it's also the blessing of a death god from Hell.
"Lance, may you report to Hell soon. I'll be waiting for you."
After offering his blessing, Death God Solomon ended the projection call. He had to hurry and sign a Trainee Death God contract with the outstanding necromancer he had taken notice of some time ago.
He had heard the other death gods say that Hell seemed to be preparing to expand its business into the Demon Realm.
The death gods assigned there had a carefree time, looking for Succubi and Snake Women to play cards with every day.
Some unlucky death gods, however, were responsible for areas where powerful demons appeared.
The Demon Race liked to toy with souls and devour them.
While alive, they were the greatest enemies of Trainee Death Gods.
After death, they were the greatest enemies of Hell's death gods.
Risk and opportunity coexisted.
Some time ago, he had originally wanted to take charge of the area occupied by the Demon Race, because demons were there and the death rate among Trainee Death Gods was extremely high.
Lance was a powerful Trainee Death God. When carrying out missions, the chances of him dying in battle after encountering demons were fairly high.
That would be just in time for him to give Lance a Promotion and Salary Increase.
That had been what he thought at first, but after nearly a thousand years together, they had developed some feelings for each other.
He had no psychological burden about getting Lance killed.
He was only afraid that demons would imprison Lance's soul, preventing him from reporting to Hell.
Fortunately, he had contacted Lance on his own initiative today. Lance had resigned, and Solomon himself didn't need to go to the Demon Race's territory for the time being.
He only needed to wait in Hell until Lance died of old age.
At that time, he would definitely strongly recommend Lance to become a death god, and then become his leader.
By then, with his status as a Tier Two Death God, he could recruit three Level One Death Gods to work for him.
Lance was the Trainee Death God he favored most, without exception.
His goal was simple: get a Promotion and Salary Increase, and hope that Lance would die.
Ridiculous.
The identity of a dragon as a Trainee Death God seemed utterly ridiculous to Lucia.
A Trainee Death God.
Why could a dragon become a Trainee Death God too?
Becoming a Trainee Death God was one thing, but he had just resigned from the position.
The position of Trainee Death God was roughly similar in nature to that of a trainee angel.
Obtaining this position was no simple matter, yet the dragon had resigned from it just like that.
And judging from what that death god had said, the dragon seemed to be able to become a death god directly after dying.
What excellent treatment.
If it were a human, they would probably be eager to die as soon as possible and go to Hell to become a death god.
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