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  (Bing Xue’s POV)

  With the revetion of the King’s father being an actual god, a few things made sense inside of my mind. The stao quer other worlds was one of them. and I imagine he’s not the only one who has been going around quering worlds either.

  Not only was he quering, but he was also ensving every inhabitant of the worlds he quered, while even f their queens and goddesses to marry him. He seemed like quite the devious character, someone who clearly didn’t think the same as his son, who was right in front of me.

  “Do you agree with the ways of your father?” I asked King Caesar. “Do you think he’s justified for his as, young King?”

  “That’s…” King Caesar remained in silence for a few seds before answering my words. “Of course not; I’ve always thought of my father as nothing but a monster. From the moment I was born, he never showed me a shred of love or anything at all! He abandoned his humanity in exge for the power of being a god, and the only thing he’s obsessed with is expanding his domain endlessly.”

  “He robably always this way, but perhaps there’s also another reason why he is the way he is,” Seth ented. “The Divinity that Gods obtain often affects their minds. If a God obtains a War Divinity, they will always desire war. This also even affects Gods who once were mortals, not just the Gods that were already born as Diviies.”

  “I suppose that makes sense; I don’t kly what Divihat man has, but most likely somethied to War and quest,” said Caesar. “But even then, I believe he was still wicked from the beginning.”

  “Indeed, however, Divinities sometimes ge a person even more,” said Seth. “I know that... from experience.”

  Experience? What did he mean by that?

  Did he have a friend who became a God, or was he a God in his previous life?

  I’ll have to ask him some questions ter on, for sure.

  “I see how it is.” I nodded. “Does that mean that... Caesar, Elphiette, Cecil, are you willing to betray the Emperor?”

  “Betray him?!” Elphiette wondered. “I-I mean… We’ve thought about something like that, but not now; we are weak, too weak.”

  “I have, but it is nothing but a distant dream, something I had thought I could aplish after being inensurably strong,” the king sighed. “Not something I do now.”

  “Hmm, well, what if I told you that with my training, we could accelerate that process to just a couple of months? Would you go out of your way to help me kill him?"

  At that moment, they fell into silence.

  I khis was too blunt, but I wao ask them this right away.

  This way, with my perception, I easily tell if they’re telling the truth or not.

  And based on that, I also gauge if they’re trustworthy enough to tell them about the future, where North America is almost pletely destroyed.

  And where their entire family dies, a future Seth told me about, which I ter saw through his own, blurry memories.

  A future event that must be stopped at all costs.

  “I would,” the king said first.

  “Dear?! B-But…” Elphiette panicked. “But you don’t know if that’s true; what if...”

  “Elphiette, Bing Xue could have killed me; she could have killed everyone if she wanted,” sighed the king. “Yet she chose not to. She offered us food; she weled us to her home. She offered us strength; do you think I would take this opportunity? I want to trust her; she’s different. She’s not like everyone else. She’s not like my father or my siblings. She feels much higher, like someone who has truly bee a master. Someone, I think we should... try to gairust.”

  Elphiette remained in silence for a moment before nodding. “I suppose you’re not pletely wrong. I will follow your decision.”

  Cecil didn’t say anything; she was mostly in sile seemed to agree with whatever her father said, so there was no question about her loyalty either.

  I could sehin the half-elf girl an incredible, blooming potential—not only the bination of her father and her mother’s powerful bloodlines and ied abilities but also an ialent.

  Something very strong, even... otherworldly, I didn’t want to dis more because it might seem suspicious if the King noticed my Aura was trying to see through her daughter.

  But I was sure that there was some hidden power inside her soul.

  As someone who has raised hundreds of disciples and takes great joy in seeing budding talents blossom and bee excellent warriors, I feel that it is my duty to teach her how to harness her internal powers.

  And in the end, she’s also the king’s daughter, so anuardian for Earth wouldn’t be so bad! The more, the better!

  I will make this p, which is looked down upon by every single world, ohat they will fear with all their hearts.

  “Very well, you’re not lying, your words are sincere, and you have the heart of a true warrior, the chivalry of a knight (to aent), and the discipline of a king.” I nodded. “You’re all worthy of being my disciples. Let’s bygones be bygones, a’s grow closer with each other from now on. I will require your trust in this matter because Seth here is someone very important and special.”

  “Seth?” wohe King. “So that’s your name, oner?”

  “Yes, your majesty,” Seth said, slightly annoyed.

  I could tell he didn’t like addressing him as his king; he was quite rebellious, but I uand him. I mostly address Caesar as “Your Majesty” ironically, but he takes it seriously.

  “Before we talk about this, we will create a Soul Oath using my abilities,” I said. “I will need all of you to agree to it. Including the King, the Queen, and your daughter.”

  “What is this Oath about?” he wondered.

  “To ensure you don’t speak about what we’ll talk about without my permission,” I said.

  “Hm, so you don’t trust me enough yet… Fair,” he sighed. “Let’s get doh it then.”

  “Are you sure?” wohe Queen. “Aren’t you trustioo fast? Even after what you said…”

  “I agree that he’s trusting my daughter too quickly, but I suppose between warriors, trust is earhrough battle and respect,” said my mother. “Your majesty, rest assured, my daughter is a good person.”

  “Ah… V-Very well…” The Queen seemed hesitant but couldn’t really ge the mind of her husband.

  “Wait, isn’t this going too far, though?!” Cecil pined. “If you’re doing this, then I won’t partake!”

  “Cecil?!” The queen gasped.

  “Hey, Cecil! What are those manners?!” the King said. “Do you want to be grounded?”

  “Just ground me if you want, Father, but I will not do any weird soul oath with that woman; she killed you!” Cecil cried. “I won’t!”

  She ran away from the room before her parents could do anything else.

  “Cecil, wait!” Elphiette said, running towards the door.

  “Wait, Elphiette, let her be,” said the King, sighing. “If she will not partake, then... that’s fine. She will simply not learn this information. She’s still young; she’s learning.”

  “A-Are you sure?” Elphiette sighed. “Okay, if… if you insist. But once we’re doh this, that girl will have an earful from me!”

  “I might also join that,” the King said. “Now, Bing Xue, let’s get doh this.”

  “Alright.”

  I quickly activated the teique, summoning a golden tablet from my Inner Realm, it was a small formation I had created for these things.

  It was imbued with several hundred ingredients, synthesized, aifully, perfectly merged together into an Immortal Formation.

  It ecifically made to create several different effects and Teiques.

  And the Teique I was using it for was Soul Oath.

  The process was quick; I first wrote the Oath and its rules oable with one finger and Photon Essence.

  Then, o was dohe teique was activated, and I chose who to pce the Oath into.

  It included myself, the King, the Queeh, Yanisse, and my mother.

  We all agreed on not talking about this to outsiders unless I had permitted them.

  It would work very simply: the Oath activates, shutting down any means of unication whehey’re about to do it.

  It works every time, and it will only activate ohey give up. unig this ily will alser the Oath.

  I might sound a bit paranoid for wanting this much security, but you never know.

  “It’s done.”

  The threads of light eg each other slowly dissipated, being invisible.

  Ohis was done, I quickly expio them what Seth was.

  “He es from the future?!” The King’s rea was more shog than I expected.

  “Unbelievable,” the Queen said, c her mouth.

  “Yes, look, we don’t have much time to talk,” said Seth. “So I’ll go directly to the point: in about a year from now, a camity will befall your kingdom. Gates from Floor 80 will open, and Divis will destroy everything. All of you will die too, uo fight back against such powerful beings.”

  “F-Floor 80?!” muttered the king. “That’s…! Such a high floor ing down to this pitiful p?! But why?”

  “Like hell, I know, I wasn’t even able to do a sihing other than run back then,” said Seth. “But I bet it has to do with your family and your father... He ended pissing off the real threat iower; this is just my theory, but I believe the Pantheon of Floor 80 wanted him and all his children dead.”

  This revetion shook the King and the Queen more than we expected.

  Especially because they seemed to know who these gods were.

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  Pach