"If they are willing to ally up and attack, it means that the Iron Fortress is a strategic and valuable location, so what if I can occupy a Land in which my enemies don\'t care about!" I would never be swayed by an NPC!

"You should just accept my request!"

The beautiful Goddess suddenly revealed a smile, although the smile was extremely beautiful, it made my heart tremble, I knew that something was up!

"I like you!" The Goddess suddenly spoke up, and in that situation, those words were truly terrifying.

"Ah? What?" I stumbled and fell on my butt on the floor.

Domergor was fixed in his position, his eyes were fully dilated and his mouth was opened, but no words came out, and after a long time, I heard him mutter to himself. "Am I dreaming?"

"Hahahaha!" The Goddess suddenly covered her mouth and laughed, her posture was too…..she made my nose bleed! Seriously! My HP started to drop, the blood loss from my nose was too powerful!

"You\'re really interesting! You are the first person after a long time that I find likable, you are too adorable!"

"This…..this…..this! Divine Goddess! I…...I….."

"Don\'t be too excited, I didn\'t say I wanted to do anything to you!" She suddenly stood up which resulted in the loose black overalls on her to fall as they were not worn properly. Her large and soft outer clothing actually fell to the ground.

Of course, a Goddess\' body could not be blasphemed, she was after all the Dark Goddess and was someone that ought to be worshipped and respected, I believed that if I were to see her body, I would never leave the Dark Lord Shrine ever again! I was so afraid that I quickly shut my eyes and turned my body, while Domergor had instantly sprawled on the floor and had his face look down onto the floor with his eyes tightly shut while shouting: "I DIDN\'T SEE ANYTHING! I DIDN\'T SEE ANYTHING!"

"Hahahaha!" A loud and clear laughter sounded out. "What\'re the two of you doing? That\'s just extra clothes that I covered myself with while resting."

"Ah? Really?" I opened one of my eyes cautiously.

"WHAT!" Two streams of blood spurt out from my nostrils as a burst of vertigo struck me. I fell down once again, incidentally hitting the big doors that were closed behind me! I vaguely heard the system as it notified that I had suffered from a nil attribute attack, and my HP had dropped to below 50%.

"Hahahaha! You\'re really adorable, you\'re so easily deceived! Domergor, where did you find such a fun person? I\'ll promote you to the regional viceroy of the Demon Army, you can leave this man to me!"

I was completely certain that she was definitely the representative of Darkness, she was the grandmaster of evil and tricks! She truly had a terrifying personality and was rotten to the bones! As expected from the Dark Goddess!

"Your Majesty! He is my younger brother, I plead for Your Majesty to let him go!" Interestingly, Domergor was rather loyal, he actually dared to contradict the Dark Goddess\' intent and plead for me.

"You better not talk nonsense and get back to your post." The Dark Goddess\' voice suddenly turned extremely cold, causing Domergor\'s entire body to tremble.

"Yes, your Majesty!" In the end, Domergor had no choice but to leave me behind and escaped out of the room.

I stared at Domergor\'s back in shock, he actually threw me behind!

"Little cutey, it\'s us two left!"

"What do you want?!" I started to retreat backward, away from her.

"What else can I do?" The Goddess walked in an extremely slow fashion as though she was deliberately revealing her beauty and perfect figure to me, while I could only use my hands to pull myself on the ground further backward. Although I had to admit she was beautiful, at that moment, it felt as though I was being watched by a predator, causing my body to freeze because of fear.

I truly regretted leaving my Dark Dragon Lord Set with Clark, if I had it, I could at least hide my eyes with the visor, but without any armor, there was no need to talk about the visor, I did not even have my Helmet!

"You don\'t have to be afraid of me, I need a friend here, I\'m very lonely! Don\'t treat me like a Goddess, treat me like an a….an ordinary person!" The Goddess bent down and extended her hand towards me.

"NO!" Rose\'s smile suddenly flashed past my mind. An unknown strength came out from nowhere as I actually pushed the Goddess away.

My shove actually made her fall to the ground, but the Goddess did not stand back up. Instead, she laid prone on the ground with her long black hair spreading across her entire body and onto the ground. I took three deep breaths before I dared to stand up, for some reason, I felt as though I had anemia, I was constantly giddy!

Suddenly, I realized that the Goddess\' shoulders were actually trembling, as though she was sobbing.

I circled around the crying Goddess and walked to the throne (Sofa) that she was originally was lying on. I took the clothes that had dropped on the ground, it was actually just a large cloak with buttons that could be worn as an outerwear. I walked back to her side and used the cape to cover over her, then gently patted her back.

"I don\'t hate you, it is just that a relationship is not like math. Only when there is a good vibe between the both of us can we accept each other! Since you feel lonely, I can be your friend!"

"Really?" She looked up with her beautiful face. Her expression made me feel that if I were to reject her, I would be the world\'s greatest sinner!

"Of course! I mean what I say! WHA…..!"

BANG!

For one moment, I was hugging the Goddess, in the next moment, I was suddenly sent flying by a huge and powerful force. I was flung through the wall behind me, and another, and another, and another before I felt nothing behind me. I had actually flown out of the Dark Lord Shrine.

With a crash, I struck one of the doorposts. The immense power was actually enough for me to break into the doorpost.

The Phantom Knights that were waiting outside for me felt confused when they saw Domergor rushing out of the Dark Lord Shrine, but since they never had a good relationship with him, they did not ask about me. In the end, it did not take long for the Phantom Knights that were talking to the Apollyon Knights to see me flying out of the Dark Lord Shrine and into a doorpost!

Although I was stuck inside the doorpost, it was still considerably tough. I was barely stuck inside with a groove that prevented me from falling. I dropped out of the groove and fell head down to the ground, causing a human-shaped pit to form in the strong stone slab of the Dark Lord Shrine!

The sudden changed caused the Apollyon Knights and my Phantom Knights to be unable to react, the 12 Knights all looked at me in shock, then raised their heads and looked at the large hole on the roof of the Shrine. The Goddess suddenly appeared at the hole and looked down in shock, and when she saw me, she immediately ran back in.

Before the 12 Knights could even grasp the situation, the Goddess ran down, finally dressed in a gown. Sadly, my face was planted in the ground. The Goddess sprinted over to my side.

"What are all of you staring at? Quickly dig him out!"

The Knights who were stunned finally knew what to do, and the 12 of them clumsily dug me out.

"OUCH!" That was all the sound I could make, my entire body felt as though it had been trampled over by an elephant, it was even more painful than when I toyed with Red Moon in the sky before! What was left of me were the indestructible underwear that the system had in place to prevent nudity in the game, all the of lousy equipment I had on were destroyed and were pieces all over the place!"

"Quick, carry him to my room!" The Goddess ordered the Knights to work. I was lifted onto a makeshift stretcher made of the Knights\' spears and the door and carried to the room. The Knights carefully lifted me onto a 3-meter long bed, then ran out with the Phantom Knights.

On the bed, I felt as though I had been teleported from Hell to Heaven. The extra soft bed made me feel as though I was floating in water, the faint fragrant perfume told me that it was the Goddess\' bed, and it was used extremely frequently!

"Are you alright?" The Goddess sat by the bed and asked me.

With difficulty, I replied her: "Why not you give it a try! Ouch!"

"It wasn\'t intentional, I got angry because you rejected me, so I pushed you slightly. But I forgot that you are too low level, thus I did not control my strength! I\'m really sorry!" The Goddess looked at me with puppy eyes, making me feel embarrassed for blaming her!

"Forget it, forget it! I\'m just unlucky! Ouch! Do you have medicine? My injury is too severe, I almost died back there!" In truth, I had my own medicine in my bracelet, but my hands were too numb to move!

"I don\'t have any! But I can heal you, the power of Dark Priest all comes from me, I can use heal on you!" With that, she stood up and extended a hand towards me. A dark gold light enveloped me, and my HP quickly regenerated.

"Aren\'t you a Dark Goddess? How can you utilize Healing Spells?"

"Who told you that the Dark Goddess can\'t use Life Spells? My Dark Priests can use Dark Heals as well, but because the difficulty of using Dark-type Heals are higher, thus they will only have it in the later stages of their class, now it seems that there isn\'t any Dark Priest that has reached the level to use Dark Heal, so all of you think that the Dark Faction can\'t use heal!"

I recovered quickly, although there were still lingering pain, I was out of danger.

"I\'ve been here for so long but I haven\'t caught your name?"

"Ling!"

"Ling? Is that even a name?"

"I don\'t have a say in it, I\'m just called Ling!"

"Fine then, Ling! Can you just approve my application to build the City? For this application, I\'ve suffered greatly today!"

"Actually, I didn\'t say I disapprove!" Ling who was initially seated by the bedside inched closer into my bosom and started drawing mini circles on my chest with her hand.

"But I\'m doing this for your sake! The Iron Fortress is a sensitive region for the Dark and Light Factions, if you want to build a City there, you will definitely suffer from extreme objections from the Light Shrines. The Three Great Cities all belong to the Light Faction, the last time, they trampled on the Fortress, they will do the same for you!"

"But I really want to build the city there, I\'ve seen it, the geographic conditions of the Iron Fortress is extremely formidable. Those powerful city walls formed by the mountain, and that port at its back, it\'s truly an opportunity of a lifetime!"

"You think I don\'t know about that? But I can\'t do anything! In terms of strength and levels, the Dark Shrine\'s forces have never won the Light Faction, if not for our equipment, I\'m afraid that even this Dark Lord Shrine of mine would have been destroyed!"

I patted Ling and replied: "Isn\'t it just defending the City for three days? I think that I am strong enough to do so, and by relying on that ultimate wall, defending for three days isn\'t a problem!"

"You wish!" Ling suddenly sat upright. "After completing your City, monsters will siege your City first, which will be followed up by the siege of the Three Great Cities. Even if you can resist the monster stampede, before you can even rest and form up again, you have to continue resisting the siege of the Three Great Cities, do you think you still can hold up for three days?"

When I heard what Ling said, I was stunned for a long time. China only had two Player Cities at the moment, why is that? It was because of the monster stampede being too powerful, that was why the majority of the Players were unable to resist them! We had to first resist the wave of monsters, after that fight against an NPC army, only if the ladies from the Cherry Blossom Organisation joining under us had strength comparable to mine will we have the chance of winning, otherwise, we were bound to lose!

"Actually, if you really want to build your City there, it is not impossible. I have an idea, but….!"

This girl was honestly killing me with her suspense at such a crucial moment!

"What is it, tell me?!" I became so agitated that I sat upright and held her shoulders.

"My Goddess, tell me!"

"I can tell you my idea, but I have a condition!"

"Condition?" I quickly hugged myself. "I\'m not selling my body for it!"

"Hahahaha! See how scared you are!" Ling laughed so hard that she laid on the bed with her hand over her tummy and the other smacking the bed. "My condition is simple, you have to bring me out to play. I\'m sick of staying inside this Shrine, it\'s like a prison! I want to face danger with you!"

"Forget it! With your power, you\'re not facing any danger but bringing danger to others! Your casual push was enough to leave me dying, I think others will die even before you can do anything!"

"No no! I\'ll be careful, I will never hurt others!" Ling was as naive as a child, and actually raised a hand and swore. She was a God herself, I wonder who she was actually swearing too!

"I still can\'t believe you based on this!" I did not want a trouble like her at all!

"As a person, I have my own rules and principles, it is a matter of principles here…..! WAIT! What are you biting me for?"

Ling did not reply me, but the system prompt answered for her. "Congratulations, Player for obtaining the Companion . As the is a Demon God that surpasses Level 1000 and possesses a unique trait, the system will demote the Goddess to a Level 1000 Dark Power Wielder. The position of Dark Goddess will be passed down and be inherited by the Dark Goddess Annie."

"You…..?"

"Hehe! Now, you can\'t throw me off! I will stay with you forever!"

"It\'s actually so good being a Goddess, but you rather become a Companion! Don\'t you know that being a Companion equals to being a slave?"

"Who wants to be your slave! Master, in the future, if you have any special needs, you have to tell me! Don\'t be embarrassed about it!" While saying that, Ling deliberately revealed her attractive figure, subtly indicating me to find her for THAT! This vixen!

I decided never to summon her when Rose was around. No, it would be best if I did not need to summon her forever, consider it as a Companion slot wasted!

"Jie*! You\'re really leaving?" The door suddenly opened and a girl that looked like Ling rushed in.

Ling\'s expression suddenly turned gentle yet strict, her seductive and flirtatious behavior disappeared without a trace, as though she was always so holy and dignified.

"Annie, Jie is going out to face dangers, the Dark Lord Shrine will have to depend on you now!"

I heard their conversation clearly, the one who had rushed in was the future Dark Goddess and also Ling\'s younger sister!

"Jie, you must come back to visit me often!"

Ling suddenly ran over to my side and hugged onto my arm. "From now on, I can\'t move on my own will, if you want me to come back and visit you, you have to see what my Master wants!"

I almost fainted, she had somehow pushed all the dirt on me and dragged me into trouble! Annie stared at me with a scary gaze, causing me to defend myself: "What\'re you talking about! You can come back anytime you want! Furthermore, I am still a member of the Dark Faction, I am still under the brilliant leadership of the Dark Lord Shrine! As long as Goddess Annie says it, I will cross the mountains and seas to hurry back here!"

"That better be!" Annie stared at me. "I\'ll consider you smart for knowing your place!"

"Annie! You can\'t treat Master so rudely!" Ling was actually berating Annie for me!

"No no, it\'s fine, it\'s fine! Goddess Annie cares for us!" Seriously, how did I ever get caught in this weird relationship! "Oh….! Goddess Annie, if there\'s nothing else, can we go first?"

"What? Are you in a rush? You have something to say against me and my sister talking to each other?"

Maybe it was because I had stolen her sister, that was why Goddess Annie never gave me any face!

"No! No!" Although she made me feel oppressed, I did not dare to provoke her. She was a big BOSS over Level 1000, even if I were to be at the maximum level, I might not be able to defeat her, much less my current low Level!

"Sis, I really want to go out, if you have nothing else, I\'ll be leaving first!" In any case, Ling was able to handle her sister!

"Fine!" Annie walked towards me. I thought she wanted to hit me and started to retreat away from her.

"Don\'t run away, I want to give you something!" Annie passed a badge over to me.

I accepted it carefully. It was a regular and small hexagon. The badge\'s surface was a skull with a sword pierced through from above with its blade emitting some sort of flame.

"What\'s this?"

"That is the Apollyon Badge! Jie will be following you from now on, so you better protect her."

Why does it seem as though I\'m marrying some girl!?

"I saw the 10 Phantom Knights outside, they should be under you right?"

I nodded.

"Take the badge and head over to the blood pool at the Archaic Hall, the badge grants you access in there, you can have your Phantom Knights take a bath in the blood pool."

"F*ck! Such a nice badge was made just for a bath!"

"What did you say?" Annie became enraged: "The Blood Pool is the sacred ground for the Dark Faction, Phantom Knights that enters the blood pool will evolve to the Level 900 Bloodied Knights!"

"What? Really?" I looked at the badge in excitement and shock, who would have known that a simple method existed to upgrade the Phantom Knights! Honestly, after spending so much time with them, I had emotions for the Phantom Knights and would truly hate to part with them. With the badge, I could evolve them, how great was that!

Annie then handed a ring over to me. Whatever a Goddess have would never be trash, so I accepted it quickly. The golden ring did not have any decorations and was a simple and plain ring except for the tiny and packed inscriptions on the inner circle and outer circle.

"What\'s this?"

"This is a Ring of Gratitude, in the past, we helped the God of Beasts to leave the jurisdiction of the Light Shrine, and he gave this to us as a reward. Bring this ring to him, he will increase your Companions Slot. Treat this as a substitute for Jie, you better not treat her like a Slave!"

"Since when have I ever treated my Companions as slaves? I treat Lucky, Phiona and all the rest as my brothers and sisters!"

"You can do whatever you want, but I do not wish for you to bully Jie. Alright, that\'s all! You can leave now!" Annie turned and spoke to Ling: "Jie, you have to take care!"

"Sis, you have to take care of yourself too!"

In that situation, people who did not know of the situation would think that I had kidnapped one of them and was about to separate them for life! No one will ever know that I was forced to do it! Especially for Ling, she was unpredictable, what would I do if I were to suffer under her scheme one day! My life was in danger!

"Let\'s go!" Ling pulled me and ran out of the Dark Lord Shrine. When the Phantom Knights at the door saw me being pulled by the Dark Goddess, all of them could only follow me in confusion. When I passed through Domergor\'s camp, I wanted to speak to Domergor, but I was helpless against Ling\'s excitement, she was extremely excited towards the outside world and was pulling me to leave the place!

I had no choice and was forced out of the area under the Dark Lord Shrine. It was Ling\'s first time leaving and seated in front of me, Ling looked around in excitement as though she was curious about every single thing around. Under us, Night Shade was extremely unhappy, another rider had appeared all of a sudden for no reason, and his emotions were extremely apparent!

While Ling was enjoying the scenery, I took the chance to open her Stats and took a look at her capabilities, she was a living treasure, I had to see what was the best way to utilize her worth!

Dark Power Wielder, Level 1000 Companion of the Ultimate grade, her ATK, DEF, and SPD were all ordinary, her HP rather high, it seemed as though all High-Level BOSSES had roughly the same stats! But her magic was scary, she was the ultimate Mage that had M.ATK 50% more than Crystal, which was a Faerie Dragon!

Unique Trait: Wields all Darkness-type Spells

Unique Trait: Completely invulnerable to all Darkness-type Spells

Unique Trait: Able to control 10 lower level Darkness-type Monsters at any point of time (When Player goes offline or if Dark Power Wielder is unsummoned, control over the 10 Monsters will disappear, controlled monsters cannot be leveled, fighting capabilities as per normal).

Unique Trait: When using Darkness Type Spells, M.ATK doubles, No time delay restriction between Spells.

No time delay restriction between Spells? Doesn\'t that mean Ling can cast spells forever? As long as her MP doesn\'t reach zero, she can use her spells without any cast time!

From how I saw it, she was the perfect counter against Warriors. A Mage\'s ATK is usually higher than Warriors, the only reason they never allowed Warriors to get close was that Mages required long cast times. But according to Ling\'s trait, she did not have the restraints that majority of Mages have, and she could still fight in close combat!

I had truly found a precious treasure, a LIVING treasure!

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(*) Big Sister