Swear Fealty To Me, My Subjects!

Chapter 110: An Eternal Regret for My Sister

While waiting for Edaline to return, Rayne counted the losses of the battle.

It was indeed a legendary feat taking down a mechagod with the ability to destroy the world. In fact, there was even hope of turning her into a personal firearm.

However, the price that Rayne paid was not cheap either.

The most fatal thing was that Histia Hela was completely destroyed.

At the highest level of its application, the divinity of Life could allow her to trace back to the true body of Order using just a thin trace of her father body's bloodline.

However, Histia was not a proper Order vessel like the actual eldest sister of the Imperial Guard or Edaline.

Given her physique, it was clear that she could not withstand the pressure of a god.

Right now, Histia had fallen into a coma after casting the Crystal Spear of Order. A thorough check revealed that she was severely injured from the inside out. However, the only good news was that the core of the puppet was not shattered and there was still a chance of repairing it.

Naturally, Rayne knew of a way to repair the puppet.

However...

It would take time.

For a period of time to come, Rayne would not be able to cheat with the divinity of Life and gain the combat strength of the strongest demigod in the mortal world for free again.

Histia was not the only one. Even the Great Teacher's lifeforce fell into silence after the immense toll and it was unknown how long it would take for her to recover.

Although Life was strong, she was only a lesser nature god at the end of the day. The burden she had to endure to regain the power of Order was not much less than Histia.

It was clear.

Stealing the authority of a god was not a plan that could be commonly used after all.

Thankfully, Rayne had no intention of challenging enemies of the level of Prosperity in the near future.

He paralyzed Histia Hela, owed the elven gods a favor and also survived a close brush with death personally...

However, it did not matter as long as he could reach his ideal goal with all his efforts.

That's right.

Rayne's expression turned serious.

Up till now, everything was not over.

Prosperity had already been defeated. However, he was still a final step away from helping Edaline escape the fate of being a vessel.

The step was Edaline herself.

According to Rayne's understanding, there was a huge risk to the divinity division operation.

Naturally, it was impossible for an ark built in the previous era to have a treatment plan customized for Edaline who would only appear tens of thousands of years later.

The so-called divinity division operation referred to a work plan to separate a doll body of the goddess from the true body of the goddess.

It could allow the goddess's doll body to possess an independent divinity and become a silicon-based pseudogod that was extremely similar to a true god.

However, if this operation was used on the flesh and blood of Edaline and her determination was not firm enough, there was a chance it could erase her soul.

It would cause Edaline to become a living thing with divinity that had nothing to do with Order, but had nothing to do with Edaline as well.

The next task had nothing to do with the demigods.

Rayne asked Constance and the Great Teacher to leave first while he stayed behind to wait for Edaline.

Logically speaking, the two demigods should not have left a mortal like Rayne alone in such a dangerous place.

However, out of trust in Rayne, the two demigods obeyed.

Constance brought the puppet body, Histia and Doherty with her and boarded the golden warship. At the same time, the Great Teacher opened a teleportation gate and returned to Leta.

On the quiet crystal ark, Rayne waited in silence.

Far away, the war was already over. The Black Catastrophes that were sent to take part in the battle gradually returned to the ark and descended underground through the crystal lifts. They continued their slumber as they awaited the next war.

Under the protection of Olivia, the Black Catastrophes did not discover Rayne.

Rayne continued waiting.

Until...

He heard bad news from Olivia.

"Rayne, something has awakened underground."

Rayne asked hurriedly, "Is it Edaline?"

After a moment of silence, Olivia finally revealed the indescribable nightmare.

"No."

Because she had already turned the world of the ark into her home ground to a certain extent, she could sense any abnormal activity beneath the surface.

After a long period of resistance in a cramped cabin, Edaline's consciousness gradually went silent, as though she had fallen into a chaotic dream.

The divinity division operation was complete.

However, the person who ruled over this body was no longer Edaline.

A brand new living being walked out of the work cabin and arrived on the surface.

The ground made of silver-white crystals exploded under her will. Accompanied by a rumbling sound, a beautiful figure rushed out of the ground and into the horizon, looking down at Rayne coldly from the sky.

The current Edaline was neither Order nor herself.

She was covered in crystal armor and wielded a crystal spear. Beneath her feet, the crystal ground rippled like water and resonated intensely with her divinity.

This was a brand new living being with divinity.

The will of Edaline had been erased and she followed the original mission of Order.

She was a pseudogod that obeyed the ark.

For pseudogods affiliated with the ark, they only had a single method of dealing with intruders like Rayne.

Annihilation!

A teleportation gate opened rapidly behind Rayne.

It was Olivia. She could tell that the demigod in the skies was extremely dangerous and warned anxiously, "Rayne, it's time to leave!"

However, Rayne had no intention of leaving. If he wanted to leave, he would have followed the Great Teacher and Constance a long time ago.

He raised his head and looked at the beautiful yet terrifying figure in the skies calmly.

Rayne had no fear in his heart as he said calmly.

"Your Highness, well, here's the thing. Although the operation failed, there's a way to recover the erased will within a period of time after the operation."

Olivia was stunned. "What way?"

Rayne said, "An intense simulation that could trigger her soul and help her pull herself together."

"I got it, bewitch her!"

Rayne shook his head calmly. "No, that's not enough."

Olivia asked, "Not enough?"

Edaline's feelings for Rayne were already very deep and the bewitchment effect would not be much.

Because the failure rate of the operation was not low, Rayne had long devised a countermeasure for the current situation.

At that moment, Rayne was strangely calm. He opened his arms towards the pseudogod that was once his sister in the skies.

"Right now, what Little Eda needs…"

Rayne closed his eyes and smiled.

"Is my life."

The next moment, the pseudogod swooped down and thrust her crystal spear towards Rayne!

This was the sure-kill property that she had inherited from Order.

Once the crystal spear attacked, a life would definitely end at this moment!

The execution ended instantly.

Right after the moment that caught even Olivia off guard...

Rayne's body was already pierced and the annihilation law declared the end of his life.

The silver-white crystal clusters that burst forth were like a silver-white tsunami, engulfing Rayne instantly.

Rayne turned into a crystallized corpse.

He was like an insect in amber.

As for the pseudogod that killed Rayne, she fell silent as well.

The pseudogod's body froze in the action of killing Rayne. After a few seconds of silence where it seemed like time had stopped…

As though she was jolted awake from a dream, her voice trembled.

"Eh…?"