Defying the Fate of Beheading

The Black Swan's words finally made Louis understand the source of his earlier sense of dissonance.

"Are you the Queen of the Shadow Country?"

Louis frowned.

The counterfeit that had stolen faith, placed alongside the special location of Shadow Country, made Louis immediately think of that queen who had been elevated to divine status by the Shadow Country.

The original members of the Shadow Country were fanatical believers in the Dark Night Goddess.

However, the Dark Night Goddess has been gone for many years now.

There is plenty of evidence to prove that the Heavenly Throne of the Divine Power of the Dark Night has long been empty.

In other words, the Dark Night Goddess is dead and gone.

But the power she left behind may not have disappeared.

To be precise, the goddess who was born at the time of creation possessed power that was too mighty.

So powerful to a certain extent that the Shadow Plane itself is her incarnation.

Nowadays, any deity associated with the Shadow Plane has somewhat grown by devouring the goddess's legacy.

The reason Shadow Country had been sealed for so long was that the high-ranking members of the Dark Night Goddess Church had borrowed the remaining power of the goddess to pull the entire Shadow Country into the Shadow Plane and seal it away in this era.

"I'm not the Queen of Shadow Country, I told you, I'm Olivia, just Olivia with a bit of impurity."

"What do you mean?"

"My clone once went to the Dark Night Goddess Temple and was targeted by a divine spawn that formed after the Dark Night Goddess's death."

"Strictly speaking, it is no longer a god, but a divine spawn is a creature of incredibly chaotic consciousness, and whether it's a god is not for us to decide."

"It is very dangerous. I tangled with it for a long time, and even when leveraging the seal of the Shadow Country, I couldn't defeat it."

"Eventually, I discovered a spark of divine power burning in the temple worshiped by the Shadow Country for generations. It was a spark taken from the Dark Night Goddess through years of faith in the queen."

"I successfully banished it."

"But using that power naturally came with the cost of being tainted by it."

"The mighty power of the divine ultimately affected me."

"The royal memories lingering in the divinity polluted me. This would have some impact on me, more or less..."

The Black Swan's voice was very calm.

But Louis could detect the faint helplessness in her words.

"But why can't you defeat that divine spawn after being reborn?"

As soon as these words left his mouth, Louis smacked his forehead.

He had been thoughtless.

Divinity, that kind of thing, didn't enhance the Black Swan's combat performance but gave her resistance against the Dark Spawn's power.

With this, the Black Swan could stand against the divine spawn.

Of course, this wasn't the main point.

The main point was that the Black Swan had been reborn.

Her reborn self had a significant gap in power compared to her 14469 self.

"Do you still possess divinity now?"

Louis said in a low voice.

"No, but if I stay in the Shadow Country area for long, the divinity will find me on its own."

"Won't it come knocking if I absorb your power?"

"Do you think I'd accompany you to death?"

The Black Swan sneered.

Louis touched his own body.

He noticed that the Black Swan's voice was getting weaker and said nothing more in the end.

"Do you want the three countries to help you out?"

"Yes, that entity will eventually crawl out of the Shadow Country. It's better to take advantage of the current moment when the nations are united to find a way to encircle it."

Louis nodded.

Ense, Lokeshi, and Monet...uh, maybe it would be more accurate to say four countries.

After all, now East and West Monet Kingdoms are fighting, practically mindlessly, for the legitimacy of the former Monet.

But in any case, these countries are all of the top-tier nations.

Now gathered here, it's opportune to deal with that divine spawn.

Understanding this point, Louis had no major objections to the Black Swan's intentions.

After all...the cocoon of the Dark Night Goddess was inside the Little Swan; it's impossible for the Little Swan to hide from it.

It is better to resolve the troublemaker while the three nations are pooling their strength.

The Black Swan's voice grew increasingly weak:

"I'll leave the next actions to you. Protect her, she is still very weak."

"Do not let her die here."

"If anyone harms her, help me kill that person!"

Louis asked:

"And if it's the divine spawn?"

"If you can, try to kill it too!"

The Black Swan declared with a murderous tone.

"I'm tired, let me sleep for a while, do your best..."

Then her voice could be heard no more.

Louis took a deep breath.

"Olivia."

The Black Swan did not respond.

Louis ultimately said nothing.

A look of pain flashed across his face.

The patterns of the Sin Dragon Armor flickered continuously, reflecting his fluctuating emotions.

"Sleep well."

Louis gritted his teeth as he spoke.

He felt like he was losing control.

It wasn't an issue of being unable to use the Black Swan's power.

Rather, he felt his entire body burning up.

He felt something in the depths of his body continuously spreading outwards.

It was the sinful power called Great Sin: Greed.

After the Black Swan chose to temporarily let Louis "consume" her power, the Great Sin: Greed entered an unprecedented period of activity.

Unknowingly, his eyes had been enveloped by a crimson glow.

He could still hold on, but that feeling made him very uncomfortable.

This was the first time he had felt the activity of the Great Sin: Greed so clearly.

"Louis, suppress the greed in your heart. Don't forget why you came here."