More than a day has passed since the disappearance of Absolute Prominence, but the Unquenchable Fire Brothel has skillfully concealed this information. It's amusing to see how they've gained experience in something that should not be repeated, yet it happens over and over again.
He leaves work and nothing prevents him from freely walking the streets of Agares City. He cannot contain his laughter while remaining unpunished for the crimes committed.
The strong make the law and the weak respect it, thus has the history of humanity been characterized.
"What is this?"
His surprise is greater when he returns to the Inferior Plane and finds not his women, but the same woman who tried to take his life just a day ago.
“Hmph… I…”
Absolute Prominence clenches her teeth, her feline fangs gleaming from her lips. Both her tiger ears and tail show her owner's emotions.
"I- I have committed a serious offense against the husband!"
Lawrence hides his smile with a hand as he watches that arrogant woman, who once looked at him with disdain and tried to turn him into a shadow, bowing on the ground in search of his forgiveness.
“Hahaha”
His happiness exceeds the allowed range and Lawrence begins to laugh openly.
‘Kuh…’ Absolute Prominence trembles on the ground in humiliation, but unlike him, she does not allow herself to show her true thoughts.
She forces herself to say: "This concubine did not recognize her place and caused trouble for the husband, please, I beg for your forgiveness."
“Hahaha!”
Throughout the time he remained in the Divine Plane to avoid raising suspicions, he always imagined how to take revenge on this woman, how to make her know that she might be the mistress of the dead, but he is her owner, the very man whom she once considered as a mere servant, now is the master of her life!
No matter how long Lawrence laughed at her, looking down on her without signs of forgiveness, Absolute Prominence maintained her posture enduring the humiliation. With her head on the ground, animal ears and tiger tail down, showing an attitude of absolute submission to the man in front of her.
“Lift your head.”
“Yes.”
Any man would feel indignant at seeing how Lawrence treats this woman, a beauty with sky-blue eyes and golden hair, without knowing how vile the path of this woman has been, enslaving her enemies for life by turning them into shadows.
"What are you willing to do for me?"
She responds sincerely. "Everything. My life is in your hands."
Lawrence, satisfied with her answer, extends his hand and strokes the head of Absolute Prominence. She shows feelings of reluctance, but Lawrence is familiar with such a contradiction. Coldness Divine is the biggest proof of that.
Remembering that woman, he looks into the distance and sighs.
‘If it were her, her answer would be something like…’
Lawrence brings his lips close to Absolute Prominence, and she frowns before turning her gaze away, avoiding his kiss.
"Hmph, even though I agreed to be your concubine, I have no intention of fulfilling
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Lawrence smiles. "That's fine, it wouldn't be fun otherwise. It's enough for me that you're willing to give your life for me, the rest is secondary. I'm sure that with time, you'll willingly accept fulfilling
"You're too cocky."
Absolute Prominence moves away from Lawrence, huffing, while he watches her back, observing how her feline tail sways from side to side.
He shakes his head and heads towards the mansion.
It doesn't take long for him to find Serene Will.
"How much did you alter her memories? It's the first time I've seen a woman so happy to be a concubine but showing such distaste for fulfilling the nighttime duties. Not bad. It'll be fun to train her, to make her fall for me."
Lawrence would believe that Absolute Prominence is in love with him if it weren't for her refusal to kiss him. She is in an intermediate stage, where her loyalty to Lawrence is so high that she agreed to be a concubine to strengthen her relationship with him, but going further is overstepping.
Serene Will smiles. "I'm glad it made you happy."
She then warns him about the consequences of having altered her memories, having used the Memory and Emotion Rewriting magic on Absolute Prominence.
"For five years, we cannot use this magic on anyone else. At least not of the same importance as her. Because the memories modified from Initial Spark were few, having them interact will imply no risk, but if she interacts with another person in her same condition..."
"She will question whether her memories are real."
Serene Will nods, “Only after five years will the magic consolidate, making it impossible to rid herself of these memories even when she discovers inconsistencies, because her own mind will have filled the gaps.”
Because they decided to use this magic on Absolute Prominence in advance, they cannot apply the same tactic with Prescribed Dream. To this day, Lawrence wonders if the choice between the two was the right one.
He regrets that such a decision could only rely on luck.
Lawrence crosses his legs arrogantly. “With today's success, all that remains is to wait. Whether Coldness Divine acquires the army or that little princess makes her decision, the outcome has already been decided. Nothing will change it.”
The Sky Blue Mountain Kingdom and the Dajhir Kingdom will be his, the only difference being the means by which he will acquire them.
"Have Absolute Prominence get rid of the shadows she has accumulated in the Divine Plane, we can't leave loose variables. And also, have her compress her level. Absolute Prominence must never surpass level 300."
His interference in the war is drawing closer every day.
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While the Divine Plane appears to have territorial limits, the same does not seem to be true for the Inferior Plane, whose territory even a ranker from the Divine Plane would take months to explore just by flying in a straight line.
In the Divine Plane, there are seven kingdoms, each governed by three sects, but these do not encompass the whole world, only a third of the total. The rest is in the hands of demonic beasts and the evil sects. The demonic beasts can acquire human form after centuries of existence and are known as Greater Demons. Many of the evil sects are led by them, demons that only desire chaos. As soon as an opportunity arises, the righteous sects unite to completely annihilate them.
The Demonic Beast Territory is shaped like a waning moon, with the Immortal Radiance Kingdom being the closest to it. The Heavenly Path Kingdom could easily monopolize this frontier, but it does not, not when even the Immortal Radiance Kingdom has not developed this territory.
Archaic Ruins may exist in such places, they desire and at the same time fear that they do, because if they expand enough, they can annihilate the demonic beasts and evil sects without them lifting a finger, but they fear that when this happens, not even they themselves uniting forces will be able to overcome them.
The remaining four kingdoms have their own problems, there is no war, they maintain cordiality externally. The truth is, at the slightest sign of weakness, the kingdoms are capable of uniting to destroy it and divide the gains. They watched with hidden intentions the war between the Heavenly Path Kingdom and Immortal Radiance Kingdom, supporting them behind the scenes so that they would destroy each other, but after the end of the war, they showed their claws. Because of this, both kingdoms in their peace treaty agreed to mutual political and military support, as they were cornered beasts. They were willing to help the enemy just to avoid being the next to fall. After decades of the agreement, the words not only stayed on paper, their union proved to be one of the sources of their current glory.
This is the history that Coldness Divine recalls as she flies over the seemingly harmless Inferior Plane. Even though she has surpassed level 600, almost two months have passed since she left Lawrence’s mansion heading for the Fafnir Kingdom.
In the Inferior Plane, the kingdoms are numerous. On this journey, she hoped to enumerate them in order to provide Lawrence with the necessary information for the future. It was an unpleasant surprise to discover that the list kept growing. Their territories are not only vast, but their populations are much larger than she originally thought.
"For a native of the Inferior Plane, it is impossible to discover this, much less accept it. A mere level 200 would not be able to fly at my current speed and witness it for themselves, various threats would prevent them from discovering the truth."
If before ascending to the Divine Plane someone had told her that the Fafnir Kingdom was nothing in the Inferior Plane, she would not have believed it. Indeed, if she had not met the conditions for ascending to the Divine Plane, she...
"Would have started a war."
The next day, Coldness Divine arrives at her destination.
The Fafnir Kingdom.