Chapter 663 - 597: Rose as Bait, Angling for a Divine Spirit

"What do you want?"

Rose asked Li Wei.

She wanted to negotiate with Li Wei.

If this continued, she would die here sooner or later.

She had temporarily used the Spider Web Law to seal herself, preventing the Ten-Colored Divine Fire from burning her Divine Power.

Once her Divine Power was exhausted and she could no longer use the Power of Laws, it would be her end.

Naturally, Rose was unwilling to just sit and wait for death.

She hoped to negotiate with Li Wei in exchange for a chance to survive.

Li Wei ignored her.

Seeing this, Rose fell silent and didn’t speak again.

She was still trying to find a way to escape the Sun.

Relying on her own Power, it seemed there was little hope at the moment.

So, her only option was to find some outside help.

And so, using the Divine Power Avatar she had left behind in the Underworld, she shared some extremely tempting news with a few old friends there.

A Divine Fragment from a High-Rank Deity that possessed a complete Law Ability.

A Demigod with seemingly infinite Divine Power, and the source of that infinite Divine Power.

Almost no Divine Spirit could refuse the temptations Rose offered.

However, all the Divine Spirits were extremely cautious.

Even though they were eager to verify the truth of Rose’s claims, they did not act rashly.

The Divine Spirits of the Underworld mobilized their followers to investigate the authenticity of Rose’s news.

They were to find out if the Demigod who was said to possess infinite Divine Power truly existed.

The Underworld had been thrown into great turmoil by Rose’s disappearance.

But because of her words, this turmoil—which had threatened to shatter the established power structures of the Underworld—vanished as if it had never been.

The Divine Spirits cared more about their own interests.

The prospect of gaining direct Power was far more alluring than conquering more territory in the Underworld or gathering more followers.

Under the command of the Divine Spirits, the Dark Races of the Underworld began sending out all kinds of scouts to gather intelligence on the Human World from every angle.

They were searching for the Demigod Rose had spoken of.

Ever since Rose first proposed negotiating with Li Wei, she would bring it up again every so often.

But Li Wei never responded.

Rose tirelessly persisted, sending negotiation requests to Li Wei again and again.

It seemed as if she had no other way to struggle and that negotiation was her only means of survival.

This was precisely the illusion Rose wanted to create for Li Wei.

It was to prevent Li Wei from discovering her secret maneuvers.

In reality, Li Wei wasn’t paying any attention to her actions at all.

His consciousness was completely immersed in comprehending the Basic Level Natural Laws.

He simply had no time to deal with Rose.

「Three months passed in the blink of an eye.」

Maple City, having endured the battle with the Dark Races of the Underworld, had barely recovered a trace of its vitality.

The Beixuan Kingdom also seemed to have been reborn from the battle that nearly destroyed it.

It welcomed a Legendary Level power that truly belonged to the Beixuan Kingdom.

After a month in seclusion, Orn successfully broke through to the Legendary Level as he had wished, becoming a Legendary War Knight.

Otz enfeoffed Orn as the National Guardian Grand Marshal of the Beixuan Kingdom and the first holder of a Kingdom Level Prince Title.

He now possessed the highest military authority in the Beixuan Kingdom, second only to the King.

His status was beneath only one person and above all others.

At this point, the Beixuan Kingdom now possessed three Legendary Level combatants and one powerful Demigod combatant comparable to a Divine Spirit.

Although Otz could not completely control this power, to outsiders, at least, the Beixuan Kingdom had faintly become the hegemon of the Northern Territory.

The reason it was described as only "faintly" becoming the hegemon of the Northern Territory was because there was another power there that could not be ignored: the Beastman Race.

The "Northern Territory" spoken of by humans was the Northern Territory in a narrow sense, referring only to the territory under the rule of human Kingdoms.

It did not include the territory of the Beastman Race Empire.

In this region, at least, the Beixuan Kingdom had become the hegemon.

But in the broader sense of the Northern Territory, which included the Beastman Empire and even the more distant Extreme North Icefield, the Beixuan Kingdom was still far from being the hegemon.

It was only because it had a Demigod with combat power comparable to the Divine Level that it was considered to possess enough strength to contend with the Beastman Empire.

Only then was it considered the hidden hegemon of the Northern Territory.

Recently, Otz had been troubled by matters concerning the Beastman Empire.

Just after finally resolving the invasion crisis from the Underworld, the Beastman Kingdoms on the border had begun harassing the Beixuan Kingdom, seemingly with the intent to march south and conquer the entire Northern Territory.

A single Beastman Kingdom would not naturally possess such audacity.

Without a doubt, the Beastman Empire was behind it.

According to the intelligence Otz received from his spies within the Beastman Empire, the Beastman Empire had been plagued by a demonic calamity in recent years and was growing weary of it.

Recently, the demonic calamity had grown worse, and there were even rumors of a Demon God’s descent.

The Beastman Empire’s probing of the Beixuan Kingdom seemed to indicate that the massive Empire was feeling powerless against the demonic calamity.

Regardless, as long as the Beastman Empire stood as a buffer, the Beixuan Kingdom did not have to face the risks of the demonic calamity directly.

The Beastman Empire had to deal with the large-scale demonic calamity erupting within its borders while also wanting to retreat south into Beixuan Kingdom’s territory.

Facing two powerful enemies at once, its decision-making was very cautious.

Previously, the Beixuan Kingdom was not even worth mentioning in the face of the Beastman Empire.

But after the battle against the Underworld invasion three months ago, the Beixuan Kingdom had displayed formidable strength, forcing the Beastman Empire to temporarily slow its southern strategy.

It had to concentrate its forces on suppressing the demonic calamity that had erupted within its borders.

It sent several of the Beastman Kingdoms on the Beixuan Kingdom’s border to probe them instead.