"On one side, they spread the inheritance of Druids and Shepherds, and on the other, they recruit powerful people devoted to world peace."
Louis burst out laughing.
In his experience, no matter how beautiful the ideal is, once it falls into a small clique, it will start doing all kinds of ridiculous things just to distinguish "who’s what kind of elent."
If the path goes crooked, it’s very easy to turn into sothing foul and reeking.
Reality has way too many examples like this.
"Looks like you’ve already guessed what happened," Olivia said, speechless.
Louis thought for a mont and said, "At the beginning they coordinated all parties, maintained stability, and realized common progress among the various worlds.
Later they dug into natural mysteries from foreign worlds, treated the world they mainly researched as their second holand, and in the end simply completely evolved into contract-plane creatures?"
Even though they knew Louis’ thinking liked to run wild and could always guess so bizarre developnt route, hitting the nail this precisely still made Olivia and Grace click their tongues in amazent.
Grace even rarely spoke up: "Fifty years. They went from one extre to the other in just fifty years."
"They went rotten, standard procedure. Fifty years is already considered long."
Especially that talk about "second holand" really made it hard for him to keep a straight face.
The familiar sll was here.
He didn’t expect that after coming to this world for so many years, he could still sll the stench of sheepdogs.
Wait, what exactly are Shepherds shepherding?
Louis even started doubting whether this thing was created by soone from his howorld.
Louis asked curiously, "So what happened to the Alliance of Myriad Phenona later?"
Olivia spread her hands. "Once the rot reached a certain point, they pissed off a big shot and got chopped up like green garlic."
"As expected."
"No, this is definitely beyond your expectations. Guess who chopped them up?"
"I’m not guessing."
"Hmph, it was a Shepherd powerhouse from another plane, who ca to the Star Continent and chopped them up."
"Hold up, another plane?"
"Yeah, another plane. A Shepherd powerhouse who contracted the will of the stars, ca over to present his loyalty."
Even though Louis was still in pain all over right now, he still couldn’t help laughing after hearing that.
What the hell is this supposed to be?
Was it being chopped up by an out-of-town sheepdog, or by the will of the stars itself?
It really was a bit of a riot.
Olivia gradually reined in her smile and said:
"As ridiculous as it was, a Shepherd’s power level is still very much online. The key is this ever-changing power—once adjusted a bit, it really might work on you."
Grace also nodded and said:
"The first Shepherd to reach the Divine Realm chose to anchor the Shepherd-chief’s plane to his own demi-plane..."
As soon as Grace said that, Louis understood.
"You people have that guy’s inheritance?"
"Mm. Back then he tried to secretly steal so rare species from the Divine Kingdom of Glory, and was wiped out by the Kingdom’s Guardian."
Louis: ...
He muttered softly, "Isn’t that Divine Realm a bit weak?"
"The one who took the shot was the Vice Monarch of Glory."
"Pretend I said nothing."
The Vice Monarch of Glory was one of the five Affiliated Gods in the Master of Glory’s pantheon, and also the strongest of them.
When the Glory faction went all-out against the Abyss, that Vice Monarch was even able to fight alongside the Master of Glory, basically a walking BUG among BUGs.
His combat power wasn’t that much weaker than the Master of Glory’s.
A Shepherd at the Divine Realm worth that kind of existence personally making a move on him definitely had an absurd amount of weight to him.
"So what’s the price?"
Louis said quietly.
He didn’t believe he’d get sothing this valuable without paying any price.
At his words—
Grace slowly raised her head and said seriously:
"Then let’s reverse the Seven Deadly Sins."
"Reverse? Even the Seven Deadly Sins has such a thing as reversals?"
"Haven’t you already seen the results?"
Louis froze.
A mont later, a terrifying thought flashed through his mind.
"You’re not talking about the Twin of Love and Desire, are you?"
"Yes." Grace said calmly, "Mr. Caesar, the inherent flaw of the Seven Deadly Sins isn’t sothing you can just press down because you say you will. It will only continue to skyrocket as ti passes. The current calm is rely the prelude to turmoil."
Louis looked at Olivia.
On this front, Louis really hadn’t thought that much.
This sort of thing, Olivia had a much clearer grasp of.
And then he saw Olivia’s expression was calm, without the slightest intention of refuting.
He said thoughtfully:
"Looks like there really is a bit of a problem."
Olivia shook her head and said, "There is a problem, but it’s not sothing we need to worry about right now. We still have a long ti..."
Grace rarely cut in to interrupt her:
"No, you don’t have as much leeway as you imagine. In history, for those who ascended to godhood on a single Sin, not one of them lived longer than a hundred years after apotheosis.
Most of them did not die by homicide, but by their Sin authority getting out of control.
Those who ascended with multiple Sins did slightly better, but the longest-lived among them still didn’t last over two hundred years.
That one asked to remind you: twist the Sins into virtues as soon as possible. Even if you can’t twist them completely, even if it’s only half-twisted, like the Twin of Love and Desire, that alone is enough to resolve your crisis...and Her Highness Olivia’s as well."
Louis narrowed his eyes.
"To turn the Seven Deadly Sins into the Seven Virtues? I’ve never even heard of such a thing."
"Mm. Precisely because it doesn’t exist yet, the Love God prepared a ’template’ for you in advance... Besides, haven’t you already gotten part of that template?"
Grace pointed at Louis’ chest and said:
"Part of the information on the Twin of Love and Desire has already been placed in your hands, Mr. Caesar. With your greedy thirst for knowledge, you should be able to explore from it the possibility of twisting part of a Sin...so, let’s start with the Sin of Lust, which shares the sa source as the Twin of Love and Desire."
She blinked and said:
"If you need to take part in it, I...I’ll do my best, too."
After saying that, she lowered her head, cheeks flushed red.
Off to the side, Olivia clicked her tongue.
This girl. It’s rare to hear her say so much; chances are it was all to pave the way for that last line.
Though it wasn’t surprising.
Grace’s thoughts were very simple—whatever she was thinking, it was all written on her face.
Hundreds of years ago, the people around her had already seen through her.
She was the only one who thought she’d hidden it well.
What did this count as?
A saintess offering herself to feed a demon?
Utterly classic.
The last ti Olivia saw that kind of novel was in the forbidden section of the Ense Bookstore.
What?
You ask how she could see it if it was forbidden for sale?
Let’s just say that Ense folk have never lacked people who need to "support a family."
As long as you pay, they’ll sell anything.
Louis, however, said without the slightest hesitation:
"I’ll study the Twin of Love and Desire’s information later. I get what you’re saying. As for that inheritance, how do I get my hands on it—do I need to put myself into hibernation first?"
"No need. It’s already been brought over."
She opened her hand, and a withered branch appeared in her palm.
That branch looked terribly shriveled, yet it exuded an intense vitality. When it fell into Louis’ hand, you could vaguely see green light shaking off its surface.
This was a special item used for job advancent, and a very precious one at that—made from a material at the Divine Realm level.
With a single glance, Louis could tell this thing was the withered core of so world.
Just digesting this alone would vastly boost a Demigod’s demi-plane growth rate.
His Soldier Realm core was a web of martial techniques spreading out like a spiderweb.
The essence of this thing was almost the sa as that martial web.
It was a bit...
"It’s a bit too precious."
Olivia muttered, "Looks like what you lot are trying to do is even ssier than I imagined, to the point you had to co down in person to deliver the ssage."
Grace shook her head and said:
"Not ’we,’ ’they.’ I just think this thing is indeed good for Mr. Caesar, so I’m acting as a middleman, that’s all."
Grace’s matter-of-fact tone left the two of them in silence.
To this day, they still hadn’t figured out what exactly was going on with Grace now.
Originally, Olivia thought there was sothing off about Louis’ identity, but every bit of intel said the Master of Glory was still on His divine throne.
Originally, Louis thought Grace would now be leaning toward the Church, but Grace had very clearly stated that the only reason she agreed was because this was good for him.
Grace’s strength had gone up—she’d even jumped straight to Demigod level.
But in front of Louis, a Divine Realm being, it was very hard for her to lie without him seeing through it.
It was really fucked up.
Perhaps feeling she was a bit of a third wheel here, Grace sighed and said:
"Looks like you don’t exactly welco for what cos next. Do you need to set up a soundproof barrier for you?"
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