That Is How You Swear Allegiance to Your Dear One

That Is How You Swear Allegiance to Your Dear One Author: Limited to 12 Characters Once Decided

Synopsis:

The Hain Empire, the continent's strongest military power, was known for one special product: Goddess-blooded women bred through generations of careful lineage selection.

Upon reaching adulthood, they were inducted into the Imperial Guard, serving as trusted retainers who swore allegiance solely to the emperor himself.

Able to wield Teleportation Magic and City-Destroying Curses at will, they were undoubtedly the most terrifying war machines on the face of the earth.

But in truth,

these Demigod Imperial Guards were nowhere near as exceptional as the legends claimed.

"They have no human morals at all! They're a bunch of utterly shameless scum, living only for fun and profit!"

Whenever he talked about his Imperial Guards, His Majesty Rhine would get so worked up that he'd kick the coffin lid.

"The system has reincarnated me a thousand times, and in at least eight hundred of them, I was killed by their betrayal!"

When it came to the Imperial Guards, killing them would leave the empire with no one to rely on, but keeping them around meant they'd betray him sooner or later.

On his thousandth reincarnation,

Rhine finally realized there was another path he'd never considered.

This time, he wouldn't compromise and bend to their demands. Instead, he'd win them over with his personal charm.

[Please choose your faith]

[Hedonism √]

1. I'm dead! It's all your fault!

As if waking from a nightmare,

Rhine's eyes snapped open.

He looked around. He was in his bedroom.

He went to the mirror. Reflected there was a handsome, dashing young nobleman.

Nineteen years old.

Rhine had come back to life again.

After dying once more, he'd been sent back to the beginning of the story.

He was Rhine Hyun.

In this country, he had plenty of titles.

First Heir of the Hyun Empire, Promising Pillar of the Empire, Exemplary Youth in Civil and Military Arts, <For some reason, he always liked flirting with married women>, Of course, he didn't spare the young girls either, A good prince, just a little rotten...

He was also a transmigrator from a certain Blue Star.

As a transmigrator, Rhine had once had another name, but after so many cycles of life and death, he'd forgotten such trivial things.

Now, Rhine stared blankly at the handsome man in the mirror.

"Failed again..."

After he'd transmigrated to this world, the system had given him a mission: save the world. To complete it, Rhine had already died a thousand times.

What made Rhine so furious he could burst a lung was that half of those thousand deaths—no, at least eight hundred of them—

had been caused by his own people stabbing him in the back!

It wasn't that Rhine was surrounded by a bunch of completely deranged traitors.

Every case of an emperor being betrayed came down to the same seven culprits.

They were the empire's seven Imperial Guards, Goddess-blooded women painstakingly raised by the state religion, and the ultimate powerhouses at the pinnacle of human achievement.

On average, every one of them had killed him, their future emperor, more than a hundred times.

Rhine felt as if all a thousand of his lives had been spent repeating the same historical joke.

The Roman Imperial Guard

Rhine's attempt to save the world had also become an attempt to find out just how low his Imperial Guard ladies' standards could go.

When he'd first arrived in this world,

Rhine had been an innocent, clueless chubby shut-in.

He'd spent his days eating, drinking, having fun, and flirting with girls without a care in the world. His life had been unbelievably happy.

On the day the previous emperor died and Rhine ascended the throne,

he'd looked at the wise civil officials and valiant generals beneath the throne and felt very satisfied.

And the seven beautiful Imperial Guards kneeling before him, swearing to serve and protect him,

had made Rhine tremble with happiness from head to toe.

Rhine could hardly believe the world he was supposed to save was an S-rank difficulty.

Just look at those beautiful Imperial Guard ladies.

These artificial demigods, created through a thousand years of selective breeding and refinement to bring them as close as possible to the Goddess of Order, possessed a goddess's power and temperament,

along with such peerless beauty that even the stars paled beside them.

For a moment, Rhine couldn't tell if he was inspecting nuclear weapons or choosing a harem.

Damn,

were these Imperial Guards really this much of a shut-in's dream?!

Inheriting the strongest empire on the continent right from the start, with seven descendants of goddesses waiting for him to take them to bed—Rhine thought he was the luckiest transmigrator in the world!

But then, laughably enough,

what came just as suddenly as happiness

was Rhine's funeral.

The day after he ascended the throne,

His Majesty Rhine died suddenly in the palace.1

The next day, Rhine's uncle, Prince Edgeworth—the Cardinal Minister and the Richest Person in the Empire—was crowned emperor with the support of several Imperial Guards.

That was Rhine's first death.

Cause of death: [A higher bid]

Afterward,

the system brought Rhine back to life, sending him back to the age of nineteen.

Having been given a new lease on life, Rhine learned from the lesson of his previous death. He worked hard and, after pulling off a series of bold schemes, brought down the prince.

But at that point, the naive and clueless Rhine still hadn't figured out what the system meant by "a higher bid."

Then, Rhine ascended the throne once again.

Not long afterward, in an effort to clean up corruption among government officials, Rhine launched his first investigation into their assets.

Including those of the Imperial Guards.

The next day,

His Majesty Rhine died suddenly on the toilet.

That was Rhine's second death.

Cause of death: [A higher bid]

This time, Rhine finally realized something was wrong.

There really were bad people among the masses,

but whenever those bad people wanted to harm the emperor, they did it through the same people!

There was a traitor in the emperor's Imperial Guard!

After coming back to life for the third time, Rhine began paying attention to the Imperial Guard ladies, who seemed so gentle and respectful toward him.

Who, exactly, was the traitor?

But in truth, Rhine was still far too naive at that point.

After dying again and again, getting tricked time after time,

Rhine discovered more and more traitors among the Imperial Guards!

One traitor, two traitors, three traitors...

In the end, Rhine realized

that all six of the Imperial Guards besides one were money-grubbing turncoats!

Who sat on the throne

didn't matter to them at all.

It was fine. No big deal.

Rhine remained calm about it.

Everyone was greedy, even demigods.3

Besides, there were only seven big shots like them in the whole country. Replacing them wasn't an option.

If that was the case, he'd just do his best to meet their demands.

And so,

His Majesty Rhine and his loyal Imperial Guards were finally able to live in peace.

With the help of the seven demigods,3

His Majesty Rhine overcame countless hardships and survived several deaths before finally unifying the land.

Then,

after gathering the strength of the entire land,

Rhine could finally lead the mortal races in challenging the lofty Gods of Order.

But...

When the gods of Order learned that an emperor named Rhine wanted to rebel,

they immediately sent down a divine oracle to the Imperial Guards.

And the next day,

Rhine died again.

Cause of death: [A higher bid]

This time, Rhine couldn't take it anymore.

Oh, to hell with you and your mother...

There was no saving them. These Imperial Guards were beyond help!

As emperor, Rhine could satisfy any mortal desire they had.

But when it came to bribes from the gods, there was nothing he could do.

When the tools in his hands turned into weapons that only bit their master,

then

it was time to make a clean break.

Quickly, kill them all!

So, after his Nth reincarnation, Rhine began using every method he could think of to purge the Imperial Guards.

After countless deaths,