I... Want to Live... Master

William entered the temple with a familiarity and speed that made it seem as though he had walked this path a hundred times, and in less than half a minute, he slipped into the main hall.

If an uninformed person were to see him, they would think this fellow had just returned home.

And quite unluckily, someone actually did spot him, and felt quite curious about this at-home sense of familiarity.

Because a deity truly did reside within this temple.

One of the four major deities beneath the Underworld God.

The Goddess of Death.

The Sunset Empire possessed a reincarnated God of Death, and both belonged to the death-attribute deities, yet a vast, heaven-shrouding abyss of difference lay between their divine cores.

Furthermore, because the Goddess of Death possessed death-attribute talent, she was the natural enemy of the God of Death, which was one of the reasons she chose to defect to the Underworld God.

At that moment, William was sneaking around, glancing about. He swept his gaze across the divine statue in the hall, gradually raised his head past its legs and waist, and upon seeing the two peaks on its chest, he could not help but draw in a sharp breath. This statue... is too big, isn't it?

Fortunately, the prince hurriedly shook his head, reasoning that he had no business lusting after a divine deity's statue. Since the temple seemed empty, if he could find the Goddess of Death's legacy crystal, divine artifacts, or some offerings, his trip would not have been in vain.

Just as he was rummaging everywhere, finding nothing good in the hall, and about to push open the doors of the side chamber—

A tall woman in a black slip dress suddenly appeared behind William and blew a breath against the back of