Louis felt utterly confused, as if trapped in a nightmare he couldn't wake from.

Pain spread from every corner of his body, making him subconsciously curl up, showing a look of agony.

But the next moment, a warm force began to envelop his whole body.

He felt his stagnant body suddenly become lively.

Gradually, the pain on his body was suppressed, and his consciousness started to return.

In a daze, he heard someone talking beside him.

"Be careful when healing, don't be so violent!"

"Is this how you treat the god you believe in?"

"I treat my brother this way; what, you're not satisfied?"

"Damn it, why did I choose you as the divine selection at that time?"

Then came a slightly smug laughter through the air; from that sound, it was definitely Alice.

When Louis opened his eyes, as expected, he saw Alice beside him in tattered clothes.

At this moment, she no longer held the thousand charming postures of usual, looking quite desolate.

But upon seeing Louis wake up, she still smiled prettily, like flowers in bloom:

"Awake now, looks like you're in a pretty good state."

"Cough cough, I'm not like you, it's the second time being beaten like this." Louis struggled to get up, and seeing his poor state, Alice went up to help him.

The last time he risked his life was when saving the little swan.

This time was at least better than the last, just severely injured.

"Do you need me to cast some healing magic for you again?"

"No need, I'll do it myself."

"Alright."

Behind Louis came a whipping sound, the tightly closed end of the enchantress tail slowly opened, and bit onto his neck. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Alice beside opened her mouth, strangely saying: "Is this how humans heal nowadays?"

From that tone, evidently Vestis, the divine being, hadn't left Alice's body yet.

Then Alice continued with her self-question and answer:

"Are you gods idle? Already completed your aim but still not leaving."

"I'm not the God of Glory and Justice, either fighting evils or on the way to fight evils, I'm indeed quite idle."

"You're rather proud?"

"Being able to slack off and not lack belief, shouldn't I be proud?"

Alice's mouth kept producing sound with two tones intertwined.

Anyone unaware watching this scene might've thought they saw a lunatic.

To be precise, she really was splitting personalities now.

As they spoke, Vestis's voice turned away from bickering with Alice and addressed Louis:

"Young man, well done, your brave figure protecting me, very stylish!"

Louis chuckled, not angry at all: "The one I need to protect is someone else."

—He blurred his words a bit, could be protecting Alice, or perhaps those two more important women.

But certainly not Vestis.

The Goddess of Death and Magic, a somewhat petty deity, was often mentioned by other churches' bards regarding her minor affairs.

The problem is Vestis couldn't really rage and send the Red Jade Guard to suppress those bards.

After all, although She is nominally above the Red Jade Guard, the subordinates do need to live on Star Continent.

Everyone has their own affiliations, can't demand this or that.

Of course, the most crucial part is that the tales sung by the bards are true, She couldn't get angry unjustly.

Louis had heard Alice talk about it.

At that time, he was ranting that Vestis abided too much by order.

Look at some in the entertainment circle of past lives, how they frantically reacted after media exposed past deeds.

Speaking the truth doesn't hinder their rage.

Vestis was still too concerned about reputation.

"Anyway, I quite like you, you're strong and good-looking, interested in becoming my divine selection?"

Vestis said with a smile.

It's not like she doesn't have a church under her, but the Red Jade Guard undoubtedly is the strongest force she could control.

Once fully grown, chasing down groups of people is quite normal.

This powerful sinner's strength is ridiculously strong; She had a hunch that if she could recruit this young man, turning his profession into a Red Jade Guard…

With the identity of divine selection strengthened, She might directly increase her influence on the continent by more than one level.

"Let me refuse, for a deity, I'm not a good believer." Louis gently declined Vestis's proposal: "Besides, Alice is a good girl."

"Choosing you isn't conflicting with choosing her."

"But I wasn't willing." He hurriedly changed the subject, "Is the Cosmic Serpent dead?"

"Considered dead."

"Considered?"

"The body has lost vitality, but the soul remains, or rather at your current profession level, it's impossible to destroy Its soul."

Louis nodded.

Not being able to completely eliminate the Cosmic Serpent's soul was not a difficult situation to accept.

In fact, what demigods hoped to achieve in this fight was simply the possibility of destroying the Cosmic Serpent's body at the cost of half demigods and all legends.

Even if they couldn't kill this divine realm creature here, it didn't matter.

Holding It off, preventing It from immediately leaving this area was good enough.

Major countries of T0 and even T1 levels had aimed their apocalyptic equipment here.

Just, they couldn't directly unleash it until the Cosmic Serpent was restricted.

Such destructive weapons hadn't been released above the Eye of Fear but could be sensed by those at or above demigod level.