Chapter 453 CH 416: WHAT IS SHE DOING?

After a hard-to-describe moment he shared with a strangely behaving Aurora, she immediately booted him out of the office, saying that she was busy with work.

Sol had never been one to ignore the weird actions of women around him. He prided himself in thinking that, while he wasn’t the smartest man, he was able to understand the feelings that were directed at him by the opposite gender.

Was Aurora in love with him?

Sol rejected this notion altogether. He knew about love. Knew about sexual attraction, desire, and all that entailed as well. There were no signs of love for him in Aurora’s eyes when she was looking at him.

Only a certain form of weird longing. This was a feeling not directed at himself but at something or someone that he reminded her of.

‘Should I use....’

Sol stopped this train of thought before it could root in his mind. He felt disgusted in himself that the first thought he had after attaining this knowledge was how to make use of the situation to his advantage.

For now, Aurora, while extremely suspicious, has proven herself to be a good companion.

It was just that a part of him refused to let his guard down around her. Something was telling him that his relationship with Aurora was extremely unstable at the moment and any mistake he made could end up with her becoming an enemy.

‘Sigh... Forget it. Today and for the next week, I am just going to have fun and not think about anything troublesome. Nothing more, nothing less.’

He would finally be able to realize one of his dreams that he had ever since his time in the original world he came from. Becoming an adventurer might be a really childish dream at this time, but it was still a dream of his and he wished to realize it with his lovers.

‘Well. I should talk to the witches first;’

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[Tower of Babel — Medical Ward]

After the fight between Sol and Lilith, Medea’s world had been reduced to nearly nothing. Recreating that place would take too much time and energy, so the witches had started to stay inside the tower or in Sol’s dimension. Freya being the main offender in the case of Sol’s dimension.

Persephone, meanwhile, had become more active as a sort of doctor in the tower. She seemed to be taking care of the women of the tower. He had yet to read what she did exactly, but he wasn’t too keen to ask her about her work either.

Weirdly, Freya seemed to sometimes appear there as well. Though she would simply take notes while talking to the maids. It was there that he was reminded that Freya was actually an author of erotic stories. One of which fuelled Camelia’s soft BDSM fantasies.

When he came this time to the ward though, the one he wanted to meet was neither Persephone nor Freya. But rather someone who had been as helpful as Aurora while taking even more risk for him during his mad task of saving Lilith’s life.

“Hathor. How have you been?”

The Water Phoenix, Hathor. Considered to be the greatest healer in the Astral Realm.

What was supposed to only be insurance turned out to be one of the centerpieces of his plan to save Lilith...

Hathor was reading a chart when he came inside the ward. It was weird to see the usually drunk and slovenly woman wearing a lab coat while looking so serious.

“Hmm?”

Unlike Aurora, it was practically impossible for Hathor to feel his presence before he actually appeared before her.

But still, she showed no surprise at his sudden manifestation inside the medical ward. With her experience and what she had witnessed lately, she believed that there were very few things that could actually surprise her nowadays.

“What brought you here? No Kingly duties today?”

Hathor smiled and licked her lips when she sniffed a particular fragrance she liked emanating from Sol. She looked down at the bottle Sol was holding and her smile changed into a grin,

“At least you have some manners. What is this?”

Sol shrugged, “I am not exactly an expert in wine or alcohol but some of my ancestors were. I just went through the wine cellar and took whatever seemed the oldest.”

“Ohhh...”

Finally,

“There will be a meeting between all the Divine Beasts soon.”

The word ‘soon’ had a different meaning when it came to a bunch of immortal beings who lived for thousands of years. But it was really approaching. When this happened, it was necessary for all the generals under the divine beasts to be present.

This was a show of force to establish a clear hierarchy and no matter how silly it looked, Hathor didn’t wish to embarrass her mother at such an important moment.

“A summit, huh? Heh...”

Sol focused on the swirling crimson liquid before chugging it down in one go.

The Wings of Freedom had created quite a problem here as well. Not only did they obtain the Divine Weapon of Lustburg, but it seemed like they also obtained the Divine Weapon of Greed Dike, the Kingdom of Dwarves.

There were also signs of them perhaps infiltrating and causing chaos in the Elf kingdom back then while under the guise of Vampires.

The vampire girl who was part of the WoF had still not woken up and it was clear now that something was amiss with her.

Pandora had spent her time analyzing and swimming in the dream of that vampire to get more information about it.

Sol was not really worried about the Wings of Freedom themselves. Currently, they only had three or four Kings, and one demigod in their ranks.

It was impressive, but it was no army. The problem came from the Titans and the Chaos Spawns.

Not all divine beasts had the power of Tiamat and her dragons. Surtr alone was enough to make two or three Divine Beasts suffer greatly without much effort.

"Haha. I guess when compared to what happens high up, the incoming war really seems like child’s play, huh..."

Hathor shook her head, "War is war. No matter what the scale is. There is no such thing as mere child’s play."

Sol gave a bitter smile. Indeed. If it was a child's play, he could have simply challenged Lupus to a fight and sent Lilith to decimate his existence.

But it wasn't. War wasn't child's play. But it was still no less than a game where the Kings acted as players and Soldiers as chess pieces.

"Well. I won't let them sour my mood."

He downed the wine and smiled, "Wait one week. Lilith is currently acting mischievously. Once we bring her back, we will hold a great farewell party for you and send you off with all the glory that the Mortal Realm can harbor."

"I am kinda not exactly interested..."

"I will also open the wine cellar and grant you unlimited access for the day."

"What a measly week. Farewell parties are indeed a must."

The two laughed out loud and continued to drink the wine for a long time as they chatted about this and that.

———

After drinking all afternoon with Hathor and talking with her about her experience and the worlds she explored, Sol found himself walking back to his office room.

It seemed like he had become quite the workaholic. He just wanted to take a look at some papers and then go talk to the witches about his plans for the week.

As always, Sol simply used his dimension to walk. He was doing so in order to increase his synchronization and understanding of this mysterious power.

This was why he was surprised to hear a muffled moan when he actually approached his office.

"Your highness~"

He recognized the voice and as such, had no hesitation when he passed through the door and finally saw the show Milia was putting on for him without her knowledge.

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(AN: Man. The last Milia smut was like a year ago in real life time. I think I pretty much made the turn with those who helped. The last ones on the list are Luxuria and perhaps Asmodeus. But those won’t appear before the end of the volume. So the plan is smut, fun, relationship development, smut, fun. Then something serious. Taking my flight tomorrow. Flight at 8 am. I regret choosing that time. Pretty stupid.)