Swear Fealty To Me, My Subjects!

Chapter 175.2: The Humiliating Sacrifice of the Lover and the Painful Growth of the Moonlight Queen (2)

The next day.

The sky gradually brightened.

Rayne took a shower and put on his clothes.

Hela laid on her side on the bed and supported her cheek with her hand. She asked with a smile, "Why are you in such a hurry? You're getting up at the crack of dawn?"

Rayne said, "We can't just stay at home and do nothing all day, right?"

"It's not doing nothing."

Hela smiled and said, "You're conducting the most sacred ritual of the Haines Empire with the Imperial Guards, creating harmony with the gods. Isn't that the duty of your royal family?"

"You're right."

Rayne repaired the tattered devilish silk dress with magic and threw it to Hela. "Get up. I don't have much time. There's something I have to do quickly while I'm still in the capital."

Hela asked, "What is it?"

Rayne said, "Fix Histia."

…

Ever since the battle on the crystal ark, Histia Hela was still in a crippled state.

After all, Histia had used the body of a puppet to forcefully exert some of Goddess Order's strength.

It was already fortunate that the pressure of the strongest goddess did not crush her instantly.

When the heavily injured Histia Hela was brought back, although Hela was also trying her best to repair this scrapped puppet, that was merely enough to help Histia Hela barely regain some consciousness.

However, she was far from being able to move freely or even fight.

According to the observations of Hela and the Imperial Guards…

Histia Hela was completely useless and there was no possibility of repair.

However, Rayne did not think the same.

Rayne said, "Indeed, Histia has already been completely destroyed from the foundation. If we want to repair her, we have to reconstruct a new body for her under the premise of retaining her soul. To be honest, the cost-effectiveness ratio is very low. It's better to make a new puppet directly."

However, even so…

After many years of interaction, Hela had already developed a deep relationship with her puppets.

Rayne liked these puppets as well.

He could not bring himself to scrap Histia for the sake of cost-effectiveness.

Hela asked curiously, "Is it really difficult to repair her?"

Rayne smiled. "Logically speaking, it's as difficult as ascending to the heavens."

It was already extremely difficult to refine a new demigod puppet.

If he wanted to retain the consciousness of the puppet and reconstruct her at the same time, no one in the Haines Empire would be able to master the technology required for this project.

… Typically speaking, it was extremely difficult or hopeless to repair Histia.

Hela smiled. "However, it should be easy for you, right?"

Rayne nodded and said humbly, "It still takes some effort."

Hela put on her clothes and threw two asleep puppets into the dimensional rift.

Hela: "Alright, tell me, where are we going?"

Rayne reported a coordinate.

First, Hela retrieved the coordinates with a smile. Thereafter, she was dumbfounded. "This is… the underground city of Starfall Land?"

Rayne: "Yes, why?"

Hela had a strange expression. "What do you want to do there?"

Rayne said, "To make a deal with the locals to buy materials."

"Err…"

Hela had a troubled expression. "To be honest, I just decimated their city yesterday… I'm afraid it's not appropriate for me to go there now."

Rayne was enlightened. "Oh, Tyrell's merchants forgot to pay you protection fees again, right?"

Hela explained, "It's not 'again'. They've never paid me to begin with!"

Rayne smiled. "Don't worry, Hela. In the dark underground world, the only enemies of these lizardmen are each other… Believe me, their feelings for their compatriots are far from what you think."

He slapped Hela on the back. "Alright, let's go."

Hela: "Got it…"

Thereafter, a dimensional rift opened.

…

In the blink of an eye, Rayne and Hela had already arrived at the underground city of the Plunder Lizards.

The underground city of the Plunder Lizards was as dirty and narrow as the rumors above the ground described.

However, this place was not as dark as the world imagined.

On the contrary.

This underground city that was built using ancient ruins that were buried underground had sufficient light sources.

There was a warm white light everywhere that shone all day long. In the middle of the underground city was a dilapidated tower that emitted a light that could illuminate the entire city!

The light source of the underground city of the Plunder Lizards did not rely on fuel or magic.

It came from an ore that Hela was extremely familiar with.

It was a necessity for the lives of the Plunder Lizards as well as their universal settlement currency.

Silver-white crystals.

Here's a triva:

There were two things in common between the Plunder Lizards and the Haines people.

Firstly, they would always appear in unexpected places.

Secondly, they had the same beliefs.

They were all followers of Order.

Hela looked at the complicated underground city before her and suddenly had a thought.

"Sometimes, I'd wonder what would happen if I could communicate with these vile creatures. If there comes a day where I require lackeys for a mission, I wonder if I can get their help to dig a hole on account of the goddess?"

"That's a good idea, but unfortunately, there's no chance of that."

Rayne smiled and said, "The Order that the Plunder Lizards believes in is fundamentally different from the Order we're talking about. Or perhaps… it's more primitive."

Hela asked, "So they won't want to maintain order in the mortal world?"

Rayne said, "It's more like they only want to rebuild order."

While chatting, Rayne and Hela's existence had already attracted the attention of a large number of underground city residents.

A bustling group of Plunder Lizards stopped around Rayne and Hela.

They glared at the two humans.

They were tempted...

There were all kinds of intelligent races in the mortal world listed in the recipes of the Plunder Lizards, humans included.

The moment they saw some fresh humans arrive before them, the Plunder Lizards drooled with shining eyes.

The reason why they did not pounce forward to catch the prey immediately was because the dimensional rift that was torn apart made them wary.

However...

They were merely wary.

Perhaps because they lived underground, it was extremely difficult for them to witness the terror of a demigod.

Therefore, the Plunder Lizards did not kneel down and beg for mercy instantly at the sight of demigods. Instead, they struggled immensely internally between their appetites and the unknown risks.

The Plunder Lizards looked at one another and were either whispering or arguing intensely.

"Tch, tch tch tch!"

"Tch tch tch..."

"Tch!"

Hela listened to the whispers of the Plunder Lizards without any change in her expression.

How laughable.

She could not understand at all.

In the entire mortal world, only these vile creatures in the gutter had not been forcibly unified by Order.

Right then, a sharp scream of the Plunder Lizards sounded beside her.

Rayne: "Tch!"

Great, after he did that, the noisy group of Plunder Lizards instantly fell silent and all of them looked at him in unison.

The eyes of the Plunder Lizards were filled with shock.

F*ck.

The food just spoke!