The silver-haired demigod's voice was weak. "Focus on your work."
"Okay..."
The young mage looked at the wreckage in the distance. "Teacher, do you think that's the intruder who triggered the alarm?"
The silver-haired demigod said, "Along the border, I haven't found anything else besides them. Whether it was them or not, there's nothing more we can do."
Hmm...
The young mage understood what her teacher meant.
To guard against demigod incursions, the Leta Royal Court had established a comprehensive detection system.
One part of it could analyze the elemental readings within Leta to detect whether any foreign divine beings had invaded.
Though this detection system had been designed for demigods,
it occasionally proved useful against other targets.
For example... foreign demigods attempting to sneak into Leta.
The young mage sighed. "It's a shame... the Stafy Compass can only react the instant a divine being enters Leta. We can't identify the intruder now."
But even so...
The young mage frowned. "Still, a group of orcs shouldn't have divinity, should they?"
"I'll leave the investigation to you."
With that, the silver-haired demigod turned and walked beneath a dead tree, where she sat quietly to recover her strength.
"I understand, Teacher."
The young mage nodded. Her teacher was a woman of few words and hadn't explained her intention outright, but the young mage understood.
There was probably something hidden within this ugly orc machine.
Several hours later.
The Spring Breeze and First Love had been dismantled into pieces.
Dozens of large stone golems methodically took the machine apart.
As more and more scrap metal was stripped from the moving city,
the young mage discovered a cluster of mithril components in its core, welded and wrapped in layer upon layer of scrap.
Soon, they found more mithril structures.
The young mage was astonished to discover that the entire orcish moving city seemed to have been built by modifying some unknown elven machine!!
On those mithril components, the young mage spotted an ancient crest.
For a moment, she was so surprised she forgot to breathe.
"Teacher! Teacher!!"
The young mage ran excitedly to the silver-haired demigod and handed her the crest she had made a rubbing of.
The young mage said, "Teacher, look! I found this emblem in the core of the moving city! Isn't this the crest of the King of Porcelain Moon?!"
The young mage exclaimed excitedly, "These orcs used machinery left behind by the Porcelain Moon Dynasty to build this battleship!!"
"Yes..."
The silver-haired demigod took a deep breath, struggling to rise despite her weakness, and walked toward the wreckage.
The silver-haired demigod said, "Phil... tell me, do you know what the greatest invention of Leta's Porcelain Moon Dynasty was?"
The young mage was beside herself with excitement.
Of course she knew!!
Leta's Porcelain Moon Dynasty had been an era that revered knowledge and fostered an exceptionally strong academic spirit.
In that era, Leta had believed they could defeat the demigods through their own wisdom—and they had indeed created the greatest technological marvel in elven history.
The Law God Mechanism!3
If this heap of junk cobbled together by orcs truly contained a Law God Mechanism,
then that meant...
Bang!
A loud explosion rang out as liquid mithril forcibly pried open the Law God Mechanism's armor.
The silver-haired demigod said, "Found it..."
From among the intricate mechanical components, the silver-haired demigod took out a silver bone radiating immense divine might.
It was...
A section of a demigod's spine.
"Purified Demigod Bone, and so perfectly preserved... Teacher, Teacher!!"
The young mage was too excited to speak.
Her face flushed as she stammered for a long time before finally saying through tears, "With this holy relic, Leta can finally have a new Queen!"2
The young mage carefully stored the demigod's spinal bone. "Let's return to the Royal Court at once, Teacher!"
The silver-haired demigod's expression was cold. "What would you go back to the Royal Court for?"
"Huh?"
The young mage froze. "Of course... to report the good news to the Royal Court and have them begin selecting a new King of the Moon..."
"Even now, you still believe the Royal Court can choose a new Queen for Leta?"
Fury flickered in the silver-haired demigod's cold eyes. "After wasting three whole sets of remains, haven't we learned our lesson painfully enough? Those vermin in the Royal Court have rotted to the core. Their blood is already tainted."20
"But..."
The young mage was at a loss. "Where else can we find a Queen to succeed her, if not through the Royal Court?"
"I've already contacted Kael and the others."6
The silver-haired demigod said, "We won't let the Royal Court interfere this time. We'll search all of Leta for noble bloodlines that have fallen into obscurity. The Royal Court's vermin have been squabbling among themselves for years, and countless nobles have ended up among the common folk for one reason or another. There has to be someone suitable."
Not long afterward.
The demigods stationed along Leta's various borders answered the silver-haired demigod's summons one by one.
Space ripped open again and again as the demigods gathered at the northern border.
The silver-haired demigod raised the section of demigod spine and showed it to them.
The silver-haired demigod said, "Sisters, I found this bone at the northern border today. With it, we have a chance to crown a new Queen of the Moon."
The silver-haired demigod said, "But this time, we won't hand that chance to those corrupt, lazy bureaucrats. We must shoulder the responsibility of saving Leta ourselves."
The demigods nodded silently in approval.4
"Then let's set out, everyone."
The silver-haired demigod called to her sisters:
"Find our Queen."3
41. Olivia's Blessing
With Alice gazing sadly after him, reluctant to say goodbye, Rhine left Miss Alice. The previous two chapters were taken down. Join the QQ group and open the group files to view them—group number: 32011447
After a thousand reincarnations, Rhine had spent plenty of time dealing with the ruler of Leta as Hain's Prince and future emperor.
The Elf Empress, King of Jade Moon, Alice.
She and her country had once been Rhine's greatest rivals in the mortal world.
With four battle-hardened Elf Demigods, an abundance of terrifying relics left behind by past dynasties in their struggle against demigods, and the formidable strength of the King of Jade Moon herself,
Leta had become a powerful enemy that even the Hain Empire had to face with everything it had, without the slightest room for carelessness.
However,
the King of Jade Moon had one major weakness.
It had to do with her origins.
The King of Jade Moon had not been chosen from among the traditional nobility of the Leta Royal Court.
The demigods had bypassed the Royal Court and found her, an abandoned infant of noble blood, along the border of Leta.
Before the demigods found her, she had been an ordinary elven girl who had even worked in a disreputable place like a brothel.
So, naturally,
before Empress Alice became the King of Jade Moon and ruled over Leta,
she had been easily influenced and changed as a child.
She had also been extremely vulnerable.
For a long time, Rhine's strategy had been to ask Constance at the start of each run to take him to the northern border.
Then he would simply kill the not-yet-crowned King of Jade Moon.
After that, the demigods of Leta would still choose another King of the Moon.
But in Rhine's experience,
the other disappointing successors were all far worse than Alice.
They were barely even a challenge.
Rhine could have killed Alice this time, just as he had before.
But in his final life,
Rhine had decided to change his approach.
He had already started working with Olivia and was even building up Hela's affection for him.
So naturally, he could try a gentler approach with the King of Jade Moon, too.
All that fighting and killing was too cruel.
This time, he would melt the young Empress's heart with love.
And so, Rhine had slept with Alice.
After a night of unparalleled pleasure,
Rhine's progress in winning Alice over had been astonishing.
The seduction game really was outrageously effective, no matter where you went.
Across his thousand cycles, Rhine had gained not only a vast store of information, but also quite a few skills.
Swordsmanship and magic were just things he'd practiced for fun.
What Rhine truly loved and was willing to devote himself to studying and honing was... well, you know.
After bringing out his true talents, Rhine had Alice completely hooked and unable to resist him.
But Rhine's back... couldn't take it anymore.
It hurt, it hurt, it hurt...
After leaving Alice with a flourish, Rhine went somewhere deserted, leaned against a wall, and stood there silently for a long time.
Despite his extensive theoretical knowledge, Rhine's body simply couldn't keep up.
After all, Rhine was currently just a useless young man who had spent nineteen years eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling. His goddess's bloodline had done nothing to improve his strength.
He didn't even need to mention the Imperial Guards. Even his mother, Her Majesty the Empress, had to be careful not to squeeze Rhine too hard whenever she hugged him, lest she crush him.
Just then...
A strange light flickered through Rhine's eyes.
Dragon Princess's Blessing descended upon the mortal world.
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