Chapter 699 - 697: Rose: I Can Create a Body for You Free of Charge, You’re Welcome

It seems that Haroldias wants to reclaim his own body from the underground array.

In reality, it’s just a deception.

A mutilated body that’s been ravaged for five hundred years, even if reclaimed, to Haroldias, it’s like a piece of clothing soaked in a cesspool for five hundred years, no matter how you look at it, it’s hardly desirable.

So, he projected onto Hilia, making it look like he noticed a person suspected of being the Divine King, wanting to challenge the Divine King, when in fact he was trying to confuse the Divine King.

It’s just that the Divine King didn’t come out, instead, Rose did.

This was somewhat unexpected for Haroldias, but he decided to proceed as planned.

The plan was quite simple, focusing on the two ’lucky ones’ he selected, with Phil, who represents death, being one of them.

"The authority of life and death is already integrated into my soul; the Divine Format can be temporarily divided into two parts, and naturally, the soul can too. Whether it’s Zeus or Rose, they would absolutely not expect me to use reclaiming the body as a smokescreen, but actually achieving resurrection through two mortals."

Haroldias relaxed.

As for the mutilated body, he was still slowly reclaiming it as a distraction, while his soul had already been divided into two attributes, each having reached the chosen two individuals, using the Divine Relics they obtained as anchor points, allowing Haroldias to easily descend into their Spiritual Space.

Then, he saw Rose in Phil’s Spiritual Space.

"Hmm? Am I seeing things?"

Unsure, he took another look.

The next moment, Haroldias’s face turned as ugly as if he’d eaten something disgusting.

"You..."

"Surprised? Unexpected? The person you selected has long been mine."

As Rose spoke, her Spiritual Power had already completely enveloped Phil’s Spiritual Space, temporarily turning it into her own domain.

If Haroldias had not chosen Phil, or any of the girls he focused on, perhaps his plan would have succeeded.

Rose’s initial setup was entirely targeting Haroldias’s actions of reclaiming his body, whether by helping him cover the eyes and ears so Zeus wouldn’t notice, or by ensuring his awakening process went smoothly, his attention was always on Haroldias’s mutilated body.

Until Phil suddenly received guidance from Haroldias, leading her to seek a relic, and the Beast Tide or other events arranged in the process were all too predetermined.

This gave Rose some awareness.

Subsequently, quietly following Phil into the place where the relic was located, Rose was even more certain.

Haroldias had Phil and another lucky one read about his life and plight not without purpose, but to deepen the connection for a better descent.

A series of events confirmed Haroldias’s true intentions to Rose, who then decided to go along with the plan, pretending to catch him, but secretly exaggerating the opportunity for a self-explosion, pretending to be confused herself, and attempting to take action on his body in the array.

Then, of course, she hurried Hilia over to keep a watch in advance.

Phil’s strange expression during Meditation wasn’t due to Haroldias’s arrival but because she was attempting to respond to Haroldias, as the strengthened connection gave her a faint feeling of being able to receive a blessing from the Gods, and she attempted to pray.

Unlike Rose, Haroldias wasn’t obstructed by the Endless Abyss and seal, making a response relatively easy, especially for someone like Phil with a high divine contract.

A soul fully entering the Spiritual Space finds it not so easy to escape.

Rose’s Spiritual Power transformed into an invisible hand, covering Haroldias.

After fierce resistance, Haroldias’s soul, representing the death element, was successfully bound.

He gave up resisting, looking at Rose: "Why?"

Rose knew what he wanted to ask and chuckled, saying, "Even though she is my chosen person, I didn’t establish contact with her, just for this moment, can’t you see?"

"No."

Haroldias looked doubtful.

Rose smiled, without revealing his own temporary inability to communicate freely with others.

Seeing his silence, Haroldias snorted and said, "Just capturing half of me is useless; sooner or later, I’ll channel that half of my soul energy back."

"How could I possibly capture just half? I have seen your other choice; how could I let it go?"

Haroldias’s face changed, just as he was about to say something, he was already grabbed by Rose’s invisible hand, pulled out from Phil’s Spiritual Space, and into Hilia’s Spiritual Space.

Even though Hilia had accepted her position, when thrown into Hilia’s Spiritual Space, Rose still shattered Haroldias’s form, turning him into a ball of light, and completely enveloping him in her own Spiritual Power, preventing him from contacting Hilia.

For others it’s fine, but with Hilia, Rose would never let other Gods make contact; other Gods were untouchable for Hilia, and under no circumstance would she allow other Gods to contact Hilia.

The girl curiously looked at the ball of light in the Spiritual Space and asked, "What is this?"

"Some soul energy."

"Oh."

"But it’s not complete; the other half needs to be brought here."

Hilia was silent for a moment, then said, "Is it the God of Life and Death?"

Rose raised an eyebrow, nodding, "Quite right."

"Is he... dead?"

"Not really, causing such a commotion during his resurrection, it’s not so easy to die. He just split his soul in two, one half to possess Phil, and the other half to possess an elf of the Elf Race."

"A ’possession’ of the Elf Race?"

Hilia tilted her head, a bit confused.

"The Elf Race doesn’t believe in the Pantheon, only in the God of their own elves. Can they descend as well?"

Regarding knowledge of God’s descent, the Holy Court has detailed records, although they differ greatly from the truth. Fortunately, Rose understands this and has explained it to Hilia.

Generally speaking, a God cannot just pick anyone to accomplish the descent ritual and occupy that person’s body.

Because once a God chooses to descend and reincarnate, whether they can return to godhood depends entirely on the potential and various factors of the vessel.

Thus, the vessel must meet many requirements, with the basic being the Five Great Standards for Holy Daughter Selection: kindness, purity, amiability, talent, divine contract, each crucially important.

Finally, the counterpart must have a certain connection with themselves to work.

The requirements are harsh, unless they don’t want to return to godhood, otherwise the Gods won’t reincarnate casually, just like Ethel, who would rather live as a Soul Body than reincarnate easily.

"Generally, that’s how it is, but Haroldias doesn’t intend to rely on descending to revive. In fact, he wants these two selected individuals to nourish his soul, while he slowly rebuilds his body."

"However, now there’s a quicker way."

Rose smiled brightly.

"And that is, let me help him rebuild his body."