The one Lince primarily granted an audience to, and even conversed with, was undoubtedly the Storm Goddess.

The Storm Goddess was not a woman of many words.

She was even quite swift and decisive.

When she met with Lince, she first expressed her respect for the Dragon Race.

Then, she conveyed her will as a Main God of the Oakland Continent.

Namely, that she would follow the arrangements of the Dragon Race—that is, of Lince, the Dragon God—without reservation.

However, she also hoped that Lince, the Dragon God, would treat them—the Deities and mortals—with the utmost mercy, just as the Ancient Dragons had.

Lince naturally had no objection to this.

Besides, after all, Lince had always adhered to the traditions of the Dragon Race Code on the Oakland Continent.

In fact, in a sense, the Oakland Continent was like an autonomous planet within the Star Empire.

Deities and mortals alike all possessed the ultimate right to self-determination.

This could be considered the greatest gesture of goodwill from Lince—who had risen from the Oakland Continent as a Player—to the continent itself.

Clearly, the Storm Goddess was aware of this, which was why she expressed the same stance as the other Deities upon first meeting Lince.

However, this Main God had also clearly seen that the strength Lince, the current Dragon God, possessed far surpassed that of the previous generation of the Dragon Race.

At the same time, she also perceived this successor’s powerful ambition for conquest.

Therefore, during their conversation, it was not difficult to see the Main God’s reverence for and slight apprehension toward Lince.

But, in the end, it was all just needless worry on her part.

Lince had no particular fascination with power, nor did he have much desire to control the lives and deaths of others.

He now had only one pursuit!

And that was to grow—to continue growing relentlessly, and then to simply maintain absolute power!

And along the way, to witness the sights of different civilizations throughout the Cosmos.

Nothing more.

Therefore, Lince paid no mind to the Storm Goddess’s slight apprehension.

He did not even acknowledge it.

’She’s just a Main God,’ Lince believed. ’Before long, quite a few Main Gods will emerge in the Star Empire.’

The successor to the Blood God went without saying.

If, five hundred years from now, Lince was willing to have the True Game invest heavily in training one, it would be no issue at all for a Blood God Player to achieve Ascension to Divinity within a century and possess the strength of a Main God.

Thus, after granting an audience to the Deities, Lince vanished once more.

「In a Divine Kingdom unknown to all.」

At that moment, Lince, now in human form, appeared before the members of the Chosen Group.

During this rare moment of rest, Lince certainly didn’t mind raising a glass and drinking heartily with these people he knew so well.

However, it was quite clear that even the Players of the Chosen Group now felt a certain sense of distance from Lince.

One might even call it a sense of reverence.

Lince did not mind this in the slightest. After all, such is human nature.

Different stations in life inevitably lead to different realities.

In any case, before he left, Lince gave Brother Cheng Takes Off and his companions large quantities of Star Energy and Divine Power Crystals. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Lince simply hoped that this group of Players, whom he had known since his humble beginnings, could go further on their path to divinity.

He also hoped that these Deities, who had obtained secondary administrative privileges for the True Game, would be diligent in the coming exploration of the New World.

As for Lince himself, he now needed to continue his slumber.

Until he was one hundred percent certain he could resolve the threat of the Black Flame, Lince would not carelessly step into that minefield.

All that mattered was possessing absolute strength.

With that, everything else would naturally fall into place.

And so, after Lince spent some time wandering the Star Empire and various places on Blue Star in his human form, he finally returned to his slumber upon the Sun.