Round Two Ends; Round Three, an Even Fiercer and More Spectacular Clash Among the Gods, Begins at Once! (Continued)

A black-haired beauty with breathtaking looks also walked out of the same bedroom and came to Rhine's side.

"Your Highness..."

Hela gazed at Rhine with tender eyes. After a night of emotional intimacy, her attitude toward Rhine had become even more docile and obedient.

However.

Beneath Hela's gentleness, there was also a guilt she could barely conceal.

Hela said softly, "I'm sorry, Your Highness... I did something wrong. I couldn't control my feelings for you. When I saw that mongrel demigod seducing you, I..."

"You don't need to apologize to me anymore, Hela."

Rhine gently sealed Hela's lips with his finger. "You've said those words all night, haven't you?"

There was a reason for Hela's guilt.

The Imperial Guards' ironclad rule was chastity, yet Hela had taken the initiative to break it.

She had also dragged Rhine, a Prince, into the matter, making him her accomplice.

If Rhine and Hela had been in love with each other, Hela's guilt might have been somewhat lighter.

But...

The truth was that last night's mistake had been entirely caused by Hela, while the innocent Princess had merely been unable to resist Hela, a demigod.

The more Hela loved Rhine, the more deeply that guilt tormented her.

However...

Rhine's expression was remarkably calm about the matter.

He seemed to have accepted Hela's one-sided, forceful feelings.

Tolerant and compassionate...

"Hela, did you know? The reason the goddess requires the Imperial Guards to remain chaste is actually something else."

Rhine took a sip of coffee, then handed it to Hela.

"Reproduction and breeding don't require stripping the Imperial Guards of the right to love. What the Order truly fears is the power of love."

Rhine smiled at Hela.

"Because love will make the Imperial Guards understand that besides believing in the Order, they can have other choices in life."

"Your Highness..."

Hela's eyes flickered, as though she had been touched in her heart.

Rhine's gaze was full of affection, carrying a charm Hela could not refuse.

"Hela, you and I are already sinners who have blasphemed the gods. I only hope that when the day of judgment arrives, we can face it together—oh, there's one more thing."

Rhine gently caressed Hela's slender, pale neck.

"[Self-censorship]... [Self-censorship]"

A smile appeared on Hela's face. The confusion in her eyes had vanished, leaving only lovestruck affection.

"Your command is my everything... my love."

My love?

Rhine's eyes flickered noticeably when he heard those words.

Ha...

My love.

When was the last time he had heard those words?

Oh, when some little bitch had stabbed him in the back.

Rhine kissed Hela tenderly on the forehead.

Hela, I'll try falling in love with you too...

Probably.

.

Hela left.

She said she wanted to try preparing breakfast for Rhine.

However, after successfully using an unknown spell to annihilate the entire kitchen into a void-like hole, she fled the villa and went to a nearby town to buy breakfast.

After Hela left the villa.

Golden ripples appeared in Rhine's eyes once again.

Through Enzhu's Dragon Eyes, an extremely narrow Nether Realm Gate opened.

Olivia appeared in Rhine's eyes.

Rhine: "Did you enjoy yourself?"

Olivia's body trembled nonstop from excitement. "That was an absolute masterpiece!!"

A demigod had been bewitched and willingly fallen. Her emotions had been toyed with from beginning to end, yet she thought she had gained true love!

It was truly a wonderful show that moved and delighted Olivia from the bottom of her heart!

Olivia had enjoyed herself.

To be perfectly honest.

She had almost been sent into a daze by it!

The deal she had struck with Rhine Hyun was the best decision she had ever made—second only to devouring [Color■] and ascending to godhood!

However,

Now that she had enjoyed herself.

It was time to discuss Rhine's reward.

According to Olivia and Rhine's contract, every time Rhine made a demigod Imperial Guard abandon her oath and willingly fall, Olivia would grant Rhine the highest-grade blessing.

"Tell me, Rhine Hyun. What kind of blessing do you want?"

Olivia was in an exceptionally good mood, and she believed she would generously satisfy any request Rhine made.

"Power? Wisdom? Wealth? Lifespan? Just name it. I'll do everything I can to satisfy you."

However, not one of Olivia's offers could move Rhine.

"None of those things have any meaning to me, Princess Your Highness."

Rhine did not need power. His identity was that of the Ruler, he had six Imperial Guards under his command, and he even had a newly born Primal Sequence.

Power was a blessing with an extremely poor cost-to-benefit ratio.

Not to mention that, because of certain reasons determined from birth, it was in fact difficult for Rhine to make himself stronger.

For Rhine, who had practically achieved omniscience, wisdom was meaningless as well. Besides, Olivia was not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. How much smarter could he expect her to make him?

Wealth was meaningless.

He did not need a longer lifespan either. Even immortality was not something he urgently required.

There was, however, one thing Rhine truly needed right now.

"Olivia, I don't need you to give me a blessing. How about you pay the price of this deal by doing one thing for me?"

"Do something?"

Olivia smiled. "Sure. What do you want me to do for you?"

Rhine nodded.

"I want your demons to corrupt Leta."

Olivia: "That's all?"

Rhine: "Is that not allowed?"

"No, that's not what I meant at all!"

Olivia's excited eyes trembled, and she looked eager to try.

"Turn every one of those pointy-eared people into shameless little ■■? I'll do this even if I have to pay out of pocket!"

And so,

Rhine and Olivia concluded their first deal.

Afterward, once he had eaten breakfast with Hela, Rhine would return to the Golden Land.

It had been forty-eight hours since the Golden Land lost its leader and fell completely into chaos.

Based on Rhine's calculations and his observations of the Golden Land,

it seemed...

that the thing hidden beneath the Golden Land should finally be about to make a move.

.

The chaos within the Golden Land continued.

The Nether Realm's corruption had already escalated into a physical invasion. Mats of flesh and blood and shadows prowled by evil spirits spread from the Nether Realm, breeding everywhere.

The Golden Land was gradually being severed from the mortal world.

The goblins, whose appearances had become completely unrecognizable through mutation, seemed utterly unaware of the changes to their bodies and continued fighting feverishly.

Having lost their vision, they used fleshly tentacles covered in sharp teeth to tear apart every living thing around them, friend or foe alike.

Unable to speak, they used deformed mouths to fire bullet-like teeth, forcing their enemies to scream and beg for mercy.

Even at the end of their lives, they dragged their dead bodies along and desperately destroyed the enemies in their eyes.

The Golden Land no longer existed.

Someone's little maneuver had become the final straw that broke the Golden Land.

This chaos had finally allowed the Nether Realm's invasion plan against this ancient god's ruins, a plan that had lasted tens of millions of years, to succeed!

Compared to the originally scheduled Great Day, it had probably arrived ten years early!

The monsters of the Nether Realm had already prepared themselves to descend.

Tens of millions of years...

It was simply far too long.

The descendants of the Golden Dwarves, the current Masters of the Golden Land, had long since forgotten.

They had forgotten the original purpose for which this Golden Land had been built.

If...

the Golden Land had existed for [Rhine],

then what had the vast reserves of gold been prepared for? The Golden Dwarves had refined that gold at any cost, even if it meant extinguishing the vitality of the earth, all for the sake of an ancient god's relic that could "convert gold infinitely into attack power."

All of this,

what exactly had it been prepared for?

That terrifying truth

would once again be revealed to all mortal beings today.

In the morgue,

the headless corpse of Golsmith, the president of the Golden Land, had been tossed into a corner like garbage and left to rot.

Yet at that moment,

Golsmith's finger suddenly twitched.

Like a marionette, Golsmith stiffly raised both hands toward his empty head.

Then, a surprised voice came from within Golsmith's body.