Golden Palace Spy

Salomon looked into the incubation chamber through its observation window.

Countless tiny cables contracted and expanded like living creatures in the dark green liquid. This high-tech body, created through a fusion of living tissue and alchemy, was currently wrapped in countless black, snake-like cable tendrils, with only an android face exposed. Incalculable streams of information flowed through the cables and passed through the body for processing before appearing on the computers of the City of Immortals Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Arcanist stood in the dark room for a while before turning and walking toward the other side of the dungeon.

Daughter of the Rhine was imprisoned there. As an Enchantress capable of bewitching male creatures with her voice alone, she was currently enduring unimaginably humiliating punishments in a room deep within the dungeon reserved exclusively for her. The prolonged torment of humiliation and destruction of her personality had not made Lorelei resentful. Perhaps she once had been, but after the Arcanist's psychological conditioning, Daughter of the Rhine had developed Stockholm Syndrome. She would become Salomon's most important spy. The long torture, interrogation, and devastation had all been for one exceedingly important mission—one that would have far-reaching consequences for future generations.

For this goal, Salomon did not hesitate to dirty his hands, training Lorelei with methods no kindhearted person could bear to witness. And the goal for which he would pay any price was Asgard's Bifrost. If his intentions were exposed, even Odin, now half-retired, would mount Sleipnir, take up Gungnir, and charge into the City of Immortals to kill him.

Not even The Venerable One could stop an Odin who had truly cast aside his life.

Before Ragnarok, it was not the time to turn against Asgard. To obtain information about the Bifrost before Asgard's destruction, Salomon had to