Lin Rui guessed it should be related to cold nights, a grim killing aura, strict hierarchy, and an Undead Realm filled with the scent of death.

After all, the Undead had always been an Evil Lawful Faction, and Audrey's Traits put extra emphasis on coldness, order and… most importantly, taxation.

This was also what Lin Rui valued most: once her Divine Kingdom was built, it would become one of Lin Rui's most important sources of wealth.

One of her positions in the domain was support; in actual combat she had never taken the main damage-dealing role anyway.

Couldn't be helped, the domain had too many powerhouses, on top of Lin Rui himself—someone who could be said to be Creating Miracles, covering a battlefield spanning dozens of miles.

Now that they'd added the offensive troop Aries Gold Saint, the combat power was ridiculously world-ending.

Audrey's troops were like infantry that entered the battlefield after the artillery, to haul away corpses; more plainly put, they were line-filling babies.

Their existence was definitely indispensable!

But as for taking the main DPS position, that was obviously impossible.

So Lin Rui planned to turn her into a wealth engine.

After all, the Golden Pansy Domain's Trait was that the more wealth it had, the stronger its combat power.

Placing the Realm of Transformation inside the Golden Pansy Domain right now actually brought relatively limited overall buffs.

Whereas starting a separate "stove" somewhere else, although the early returns would be smaller, the growth curve later would be huge.

However, this still needed to be discussed with Audrey.

Ever since entering the Divine Throne Banquet, she'd been in a quiet state, which was extremely abnormal!

With her personality, seeing new things, shouldn't she be happily running up to study them and join in the fun?

Yet she was just sitting there quietly, which felt very off—who knew what she was thinking?

The Lord of the Golden Pansy Domain, Lin Rui, was relatively reserved, but for some reason, all his subordinates seemed like hardcore social phobics—short for "socially terrifying people"!

These people clearly had "social bull syndrome."

Her being this quiet instead made Lin Rui a bit uncomfortable, so he asked, "What are you thinking about? What do you think about having you be the one to construct this Mythical Level Blueprint?"

If this item were given to the Golden Pansy Domain itself, Lin Rui wasn't planning to take it for now. It would drag down the domain's development speed too much.

But if it went to Audrey, Lin Rui could actually consider it. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Besides investing wealth into her, another reason was that Lin Rui really felt distressed for Audrey and was willing to spend money on her.

Somewhere along the line, feeling heartache for your own woman had become something shameful.

In this sense, Lin Rui was absolutely a slave to the mundane world.

Mutual, two-way feelings were the most beautiful kind of relationship.

Another facet of Sadomasochism was love and other beautiful things.

While being corroded by Seductive Torture Corrosion, Lin Rui still believed in love.

The mundane world was filthy, but there were always a few things or a few people that made you believe beautiful and pure feelings still existed.

Whether it was the sincere affection of parents, or love between men and women that lasted till the end of time.

For someone as simple as Audrey, her thoughts were actually easy to guess.

As long as she could happily stay with Lin Rui every day, she didn't care about anything else.

Even "zero-distance communication" like that, she was easy to satisfy; a single harmonious and intimate session could keep her content for days.

During those days she could happily do all sorts of things around Lin Rui, even play the evil little black-hearted girl as a prank.

So when she heard Lin Rui say he wanted her to build her own Divine Kingdom, she immediately shook her head like a rattle-drum.

"No! No! Absolutely not! If I go off to another territory by myself, how am I supposed to stay by Father-Emperor's side every day? By then Hanna, Violet, or even my girlfriends will totally take advantage of the opening and replace my position as the one directly under you!"

She let out a confident little humph. "There is no gain greater than me staying by Father-Emperor's side! Otherwise how could I possibly own one Divine Artifact, two Sacred Treasures, and over a dozen Strategic Treasures right now?"

Lin Rui had guessed she'd answer like this, so he said, "Then how are you going to build a larger army? After you build your domain, you personally can still stay in the Golden Pansy Domain. Let the Mad Witch Demon Ravenclaw and White Bone Marquis–Lei Manson help you manage the territory. You can do whatever you like, it won't get in the way."

One civil and one military, the two were just right for managing a domain.

White Bone Marquis–Lei Manson was a Death Knight, suitable for acting as the Lord, while Ravenclaw was a Witch Demon who could serve as the domain's Shaman.

Audrey immediately said, "Then why not just let the two of them build the territory directly? Why drag me into it? Anyway, I'm not going."

Lin Rui glared at her, too lazy to even scold. What kind of nonsense was that?

Do you even hear what you're saying?

No matter how generous Lin Rui was, it was impossible to hand a Mythical Level Blueprint to another Witch Demon.

The total number of sentences Ravenclaw had said to Lin Rui probably didn't exceed twenty.

If he gave it that blueprint, wouldn't that be like throwing meat buns to the dogs—gone for good?

Lin Rui said, "I trust you one hundred percent, that's why I'm letting you separate from the domain and giving you massive investment, turning you into an even more important support for me. Aren't couples supposed to help each other?"

"No! I just won't!" Audrey shook her head firmly. "No matter what you say, Father-Emperor, I won't agree."

"I was just looking at this Divine Throne Banquet and thinking, our future setup could be like this: you're the Divine King, and I, Violet, Hepanse and the others become your twelve Main Gods under your Divine Throne."

"Our gains are complementary anyway. When we conquer a world, you get wealth, Spiritual Gems and other energies; I get corpses and souls and other death-related assets. Our split is perfect. Violet gets courage, faith, and victory from winning battles. You're the Main God, I'm the Death God, Violet is the War God—how perfect is that? After one war, the three of us harvest all kinds of wealth at the same time, with no conflict between us."

"So why split up?"

Hiss~

Lin Rui took a deep breath and looked at Audrey in astonishment.

He really hadn't expected this!

This girl, when he wasn't paying attention, had been quietly thinking this far all on her own.

Given her "brain capacity," for her to think things through to this level showed she'd really pondered it for a long time.

Lin Rui himself hadn't even thought through Violet's angle to this extent.

[Knight King's Glory: Legendary Commander Trait: In the name of "Lake's Protection," bless life and protect the target's fate power from all kinds of filth, granting the Power of Protection so that the Sword of the King is never stained with blood. All Soldiers under the Commander receive the Power of Lake Water's protection, Physical Defense +200%, Spiritual Resistance +150%. While they have a shield, Physical Defense and Spiritual Resistance +300 per second. Within thirty seconds after the shield disappears, the extra boosted Attributes gradually decay to zero. Killing an Elite-level or higher opponent grants one stack of [Distant Ideal Homeland] Trait and one layer of Sub-Invincible Shield, which can completely block 3 attacks from the enemy. When [Distant Ideal Homeland] stacks reach 10 and last for 10 seconds, the Ideal Homeland is reflected into reality; all [Distant Ideal Homeland] stacks are cleared, Attack Power permanently +3, Life Value permanently +3, Physical Defense permanently +3, and damage taken from Divine Damage permanently -1]

Exactly—based on Violet's ability, if she advanced to a Divine Office in the future, the War God would undoubtedly be a perfect Divine Position for her.

Of course, she could also be a Military God or Martial God, anything that carried forward her Commander Traits. As long as the wars kept being won, her followers would keep gaining benefits, and she would keep getting stronger.

Put simply, the so-called Power of Faith was just believers becoming Soldiers under the command of this Divine Spirit Commander; it was just that the sheer scale of believers was too enormous, so the Command Ability got diluted.

Whereas people like Lin Rui, as a Divine Champion, were directly included under the Divine Spirit's personal command, receiving direct buffs from the Divine Spirit's Commander Traits. That's what set them apart from ordinary believers.

Lin Rui suspected this was also why every Divine Spirit would always pick a Divine Champion and Divine Chosen Warrior down in the mortal world.