At that moment, Constance's gaze trembled.
Now...?!
Did this evil god want His Highness to give me to her right now...?!
Constance's eyes began to waver.
Rhine, meanwhile, asked calmly, "Right here?"
Olivia's smile grew even brighter. "Even better!"
Constance's eyes began to waver violently.
She panicked.
13. The Evil God's Blessing
The main entrance to Dreamland.
Rhine bid farewell to Constance and the Succubi.
Rhine said, "I'll be leaving first. I'll come back once I've figured out how to use you."
The Succubi bowed to Rhine and respectfully spoke in unison:
"Take care, Master!"
Rhine waved at the Succubi with a hearty smile before leaving.
His deal with Olivia had gone smoothly.
Rhine had become Olivia's designated partner, and he had obtained his first blessing from her.
However...
As for Olivia's final request—that she hoped to savor Constance's moment of corruption...
Rhine's official response was:
"Keep dreaming."
Anyone who knew the origin of Constance's bloodline could understand the special status this demigod girl held in the mortal world, or even in this entire world.
She was rarer and more noble than the ordinary Demigod Imperial Guards.
If the corruption of the Imperial Guards was a feast laid before Olivia,
then Constance would certainly be the final main course.
And to enjoy that main course, Olivia would naturally have to pay an equivalent price.
She wanted to freeload right from the start?
Dream on! Why didn't she just go and sleep with Order itself?
Rhine knew very well that, at this stage, those were the only cards in his hand that could interest Olivia.
The key was how many resources he could squeeze out of Olivia with those cards.
And Constance's first night was the greatest bargaining chip in Rhine's hand.
He couldn't use it carelessly.
Besides,
it would be unfair to Constance. Rhine could never humiliate the beloved who had accompanied him through a thousand cycles of reincarnation just to please an evil god.
Besides, deals with the Nether Realm had always been this absurd.
What demons craved was not wealth or treasure, but emotions.
Extremely intense emotions.
Perhaps a demon would give a poor man a pile of gold simply to savor the near-mad ecstasy he felt upon obtaining the wealth.
Or perhaps they wouldn't mind using a pile of word games to turn a seemingly perfect deal into a nightmare of despair, just to enjoy the sweet taste of regret.
The emotions demons craved varied depending on the faction that had created them.
And Olivia's faction
naturally devoted itself to studying how to get people into bed.
In the eyes of demons, when those noblest creatures in the mortal world—the demigods—submitted to desire, broke the iron laws their mother Order had established, and became hopelessly lost in carnal pleasure...
There was no doubt that it would be the sweetest, most delicious corruption in the world.
So even an evil god would drool over it.
Yet Olivia did not become angry after being rejected.
Rather than anger, what filled her heart at that moment was more the anticipation of something she could not obtain.
She merely moved on from the matter at once, then bestowed Rhine with his first blessing so that he could complete the deal to tempt the Imperial Guards into corruption.
Next,
she even gifted Rhine control over Dreamland.
"The bureaucratic system in Hain is far too strange. These children can't accomplish anything in Hain anyway, so I might as well give them all to you as slaves."
And so,
with a single sentence from the Dragon of Lust, every Succubus in Dreamland became one of Rhine's tools.
This was an unexpected delight.
As for how to use this group of Succubi, Rhine would have to think about it some more.
For now,
there was another matter that Rhine cared deeply about.
Rhine said, "Constance."
Constance said, "Your Highness."
After leaving the Nether Realm Gate, Constance followed beside Rhine with her usual expressionless face.
Constance did not say anything more to Rhine.
Rhine likewise maintained his silence.
The two of them tacitly treated what had happened beneath Dreamland as a secret they would never mention.
But aside from that...
Rhine leaned his face toward Constance and stared straight into her eyes.
"By the way, do you think I've changed in any way compared to before?"
"!"
Constance hurriedly looked away. A blush appeared on her cheeks for the first time ever. "No, not at all..."
"Really?"
Rhine was a little puzzled. He walked to the fountain in front of Dreamland's plaza and looked at his reflection in the water.
Rhine was still the same handsome, spoiled prince.
However, in Rhine's eyes, above the traditional pale irises of the Bloodline of Order, a strange purple light suddenly flickered.
Rhine murmured,
"Bewitching Demonic Eyes that can even make divine beings fall... They're the real deal, right?"
14. The Second Imperial Guard
He had visited Dreamland, met the Dragon Princess Olivia, and successfully completed a PY deal with her.
At this point, Rhine's actions seemed to have achieved an initial victory.
However, the troublesome matters
had only just begun.
Very soon,
some interested parties learned that Rhine had taken the Imperial Guards to spend money in Dreamland.
To them,
this was good news.
The Empress had been gravely ill for a long time, and her health was now deteriorating further. The Crystal Throne of the empire might soon welcome its new master.
Naturally, not everyone in the Hain court supported that dissolute, spoiled young prince.
Rhine Hyun.
In the eyes of many, he simply lacked the ability to rule an empire.
Therefore, before Rhine had even left Dreamland, the Telepathic Scroll had already carried the news into the court.
In a garden in the court,
two Civil Officials were chatting.
"Is this information reliable?"
"Relax, rookie. It's completely reliable! His Highness the Prince bought off the beggars of the Imperial Capital long ago. Every day, with just a few bags of copper coins, we can have those beggars watch the entire Imperial Capital for us—even the Imperial Guards won't notice them."
"I never thought... Rhine Hyun would actually dare to go to Dreamland."
"A Divine Offspring carrying the blood of the Crystal God actually went and fornicated with those filthy, lowly demons. He's simply blaspheming the gods!"
"So he's finally fallen this far. After this incident, his reputation in the court will probably become even more infamous."
"Most people in the court are just blindly loyal bookworms. No matter how terrible Rhine's reputation becomes, it won't stop them from serving Emperor Hain. Do you know what matters most right now?"
"What?"
"Make sure the Empress learns about this!"
"Indeed..."
"We should make Her Majesty the Empress recognize the truth as soon as possible. Rhine is an immoral, spoiled, foolish waste. The Crystal Throne should still be inherited by His Highness the Prince, the wise one!"
"But the Empress... has always doted on the prince. That will probably be difficult."
"Then tell the Empress that the prince colluded with the evil dragon cultists of Dreamland! He has secretly converted to an evil god!"
"What?! That's a complete fabrication. We don't have any evidence at all!"
"But does Rhine have any evidence proving that he didn't do it?"
"Damn, that makes sense..."
Dreamland was a demonic gathering place controlled by evil dragon cultists. This was already a semi-public secret within the empire.
It was just that Dreamland contributed a great deal of tax revenue to the empire, and several Imperial Guards protected it, so no one could do anything to those Succubi.
The beggars hired by the Prince had merely seen Prince Rhine enter Dreamland.
As for Prince Rhine having an affair with the evil dragon or even converting to an evil religion, those were merely accusations fabricated by the two Civil Officials to slander the prince.
However, the truth was unimportant.
True or false, they could first make a complaint to the Empress. At the very least, they could make that prince stink from head to toe!
It was extremely difficult to prove one's innocence regarding matters of ideology.
Even if Prince Rhine had a way to prove his innocence, he would still have acquired a stain on his reputation.
The next time the Empress saw her son, she probably wouldn't find him as pleasing as she once had.
Of course,
the two Civil Officials would only secretly report the prince.
As for the Imperial Guards who had entered Dreamland together with the prince,
they naturally would not dare mention them at all.
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