Swearing Allegiance to the Dear One, Chapter 9

At this moment, Constance's gaze trembled.

Right now...?!

This evil god wants to have the Prince let me...?!

Constance's eyes began to waver.

Upon hearing this, Rhine asked calmly, "Right here?"

Olivia's smile grew even brighter, "That would be even better!"

Constance's eyes began to waver violently.

She panicked.

13. The Blessing of the Evil God

At the main entrance of Dreamland.

Rhine took Constance and bid farewell to the succubi.

Rhine: "I'm leaving now. I'll come find you again when I've figured out how to use you."

The succubi bowed to Rhine and said in respectful unison:

"Safe travels, Master!!"

Rhine chuckled and waved at the succubi before walking away.

The deal with Olivia was successfully completed.

Rhine became Olivia's designated collaborator and received his first blessing from her.

However...

As for the request Olivia mentioned at the end of the deal—hoping to enjoy the moment of Constance's fall—

Rhine's official response was,

"In your dreams."

Anyone who knew the origin of Constance's bloodline understood the special status this Demigod girl held for the mortal realm, or perhaps even for this world.

She was rarer and more noble than the ordinary Demigod Imperial Guard.

If the fall of the Imperial Guard could be compared to a feast before Olivia,

Then Constance was undoubtedly the final, grand main course.

And for this main course, Olivia would certainly need to pay an equivalent price to enjoy it.

Still trying to get a freebie right out of the gate?

With such wishful thinking, why don't you just go and screw Order directly!

Rhine knew very well that, at this stage, these were the only cards in his hand that could pique Olivia's interest.

The key was to see how much he could squeeze out of Olivia using these cards.

And Constance's first time was, indeed, the biggest chip in Rhine's hand.

It could not be used recklessly.

Besides,

It would be very unfair to Constance; Rhine could not humiliate the beloved who had accompanied him through a thousand reincarnations just to please an evil god.

And deals with the Nether Realm were always this absurd.

Demons did not crave wealth or treasures; they craved emotions.

Extremely intense emotions.

Perhaps a demon would gift a poor man a pile of gold, just to savor the near-manic ecstasy he felt the moment he obtained the wealth.

Or, they wouldn't mind using a bunch of wordplay to turn a seemingly perfect deal into a desperate nightmare, just to enjoy the sweet taste of regret.

The emotions demons craved varied according to the faction that created them.

And Olivia's faction,

Naturally, was obsessed with researching how to engage in lewdness.

In the eyes of the demons, when those most noble beings of the mortal realm—the Demigods—succumbed to desire, broke the iron laws set by their mother, Order, and sank into carnal lust, unable to extricate themselves...

Undoubtedly, that would be the sweetest and most delicious corruption in the world.

So even an evil god would salivate over it.

Olivia, having been rejected, was not angry.

Rather than anger, her heart was filled with the anticipation of something she could not yet obtain.

She simply turned the page on the matter immediately and bestowed upon Rhine his first blessing, so that he could complete the deal of seducing the Imperial Guard into falling.

Then,

She gifted the leadership of Dreamland to Rhine as well.

"The bureaucratic system of you Hains is too bizarre. These children can't achieve any results in Hain anyway, so just take them all as your slaves."

Just like that,

With a single sentence from the Dragon of Lust, all the succubi of Dreamland became the tools under Rhine's command.

This was an unexpected bonus.

As for how to use this group of succubi, Rhine still needed to think about it.

But for now,

Rhine had another matter he was very concerned about.

Rhine: "Constance."

Constance: "Your Highness."

After leaving the Nether Realm Gate, Constance followed by Rhine's side, expressionless as always.

Constance did not say much to Rhine.

And Rhine also maintained his silence.

The two of them tacitly treated what had happened beneath Dreamland as a secret that would never be mentioned.

However, apart from that...

Rhine leaned his face toward Constance, staring straight into her eyes:

"By the way, do you think I've changed compared to before?"

"!"

Constance quickly looked away, an unprecedented blush appearing on her cheeks: "No, not at all..."

"Is that so?"

Rhine was a bit puzzled. He walked to the fountain in front of the Dreamland plaza and looked at his reflection in the water.

Rhine was still that handsome, dissolute Prince.

However, in Rhine's eyes, within the traditional pale irises of the Bloodline of Order, a flash of eerie purple light suddenly flickered.

Rhine muttered to himself:

"The Bewitching Demonic Eyes that can make even divine beings fall... it's the real deal, right?"

14. The Second Imperial Guard

Visiting Dreamland, meeting the Dragon Princess Olivia, and successfully reaching a deal with her.

Everything up to this point, Rhine's actions seemed to have achieved a preliminary victory.

However, the trouble,

Had only just begun.

Soon,

The news that Rhine had been spending time in Dreamland with the Imperial Guard reached the ears of those with ulterior motives.

For them,

This was good news.

The Empress had been ill for a long time, and her health was deteriorating by the day; the Crystal Throne of the Empire might soon welcome its new master.

And naturally, it was impossible for everyone in the entire Hain court to support that dissolute, playboy young Prince.

Rhine Hyun.

In the eyes of many, he had no ability to govern an empire at all.

Therefore, before Rhine even emerged from Dreamland, a Telepathic Scroll had already carried this news into the palace.

In a garden within the palace,

Two Civil Officials were chatting.

"Is this information reliable?"

"Don't worry, Newcomer, it's very reliable! His Highness the Prince bought off the beggars in the Imperial Capital a long time ago. As long as we spend a few bags of copper coins every day, we can have these beggars monitor the entire capital for us—even the Imperial Guard wouldn't notice them."

"I really didn't expect... that Rhine Hyun would actually dare to go to Dreamland."

"A Divine Offspring flowing with the blood of the Crystal God, yet he goes to consort with those filthy, base demons. He is simply blaspheming!"

"So he has finally fallen to this point. After this incident, I fear his reputation in the court will become even more notorious."

"Most people in the court are just blindly loyal bookworms. No matter how bad Rhine's reputation is, it won't stop them from being loyal to Emperor Hain—do you know what is most important right now?"

"What?"

"Let the Empress know about this!"

"Indeed..."

"We should let Her Majesty the Empress recognize the facts as soon as possible. Rhine is just a waste with a depraved mind and a foolish, dissolute nature. The Crystal Throne should be inherited by the wise His Highness the Prince!"

"But the Empress... has always doted on the Prince; I fear this will be very difficult."

"Then tell the Empress that the Prince is colluding with the evil dragon cultists of Dreamland! That he has secretly converted to an evil god!"

"Huh?! That's just a rumor; we have no evidence to prove this at all!"

"But does he, Rhine, have any evidence to prove he didn't do it?"

"Damn, that makes sense..."

Dreamland was a gathering place for demons controlled by evil dragon cultists; this was already an open secret in the Empire.

It was only because Dreamland did indeed contribute a massive amount of fiscal revenue to the Empire, plus the fact that several members of the Imperial Guard protected it, that no one could touch those succubi.

The beggars hired by the Prince had merely seen Prince Rhine enter Dreamland.

As for Prince Rhine being involved with the evil dragon or even converting to an evil cult, it was all just rhetoric fabricated by the two Civil Officials to slander the Prince.

However, the truth did not matter.

Regardless of whether it was true or false, going to the Empress to lodge a complaint would always manage to drag the Prince through the mud!

When it came to matters of ideology, it was extremely difficult to prove one's innocence.

Even if Prince Rhine had a way to prove his innocence, he would still have a stain on his record.

In the future, when the Empress saw her son again, she would likely not find him as pleasing to the eye as she once did, right?

Of course,

The two Civil Officials would only secretly report the Prince.

As for the Imperial Guard who walked into Dreamland with the Prince,

They certainly wouldn't dare to mention a single word about her.