Inside a room in Dragonblood Castle...
High Priest Catherine lowered her head, seeming conflicted and hesitant. In the end, she made up her mind and spoke.
"Garen, thank you for helping me kill the Mid-level God who invaded the Yulan Empire."
"This... you don't need to repay me with your hand in marriage... Uh... I mean, don't thank me. I was only acting in self-defense."
"Pfft."
Seeing Garen stumble over his words, High Priest Catherine couldn't help laughing.
She hadn't expected Garen to be so powerful. When he was facing her, he acted like a shy young boy.
But thinking of what he'd just said about repaying her with her hand in marriage, she couldn't help blushing. Thankfully, her mask hid it.
"What a lecher!"
Although High Priest Catherine had lived for ten thousand years, she had been exceptionally talented since childhood. In her youth, she had devoted herself to cultivation and had no time for romance.
She had witnessed the "World-Ending War" and possessed the heart of a strong warrior.
After the World-Ending War, most God Realm experts had been killed.
Some had fled to the Higher Plane.
Some of the God Realm experts had been imprisoned by Beirut in the Gebados Plane Prison.
She had then become a god on her own and become the only human God Realm expert on the Yulan Continent, uniting the entire continent.
There had never been a man on the continent who could compare to her. Even the up-and-coming War God had only become a god by refining a divine spark.
Despite her age, she had always stood at the pinnacle of the Yulan Continent, high above everyone else. When it came to romance, she was actually very naive.
Seeing Catherine's beautiful eyes fixed on him, Garen felt awkward and asked,
"May