Calia said nothing. She packed the bottle and some medicine into her backpack, then led the little girl out of the clinic without a backward glance, ignoring the pleas of the patients behind her.

Soon, those pleas turned into curses.

A few patients who could still move left the clinic and began loudly proclaiming what had just happened on the street.

In less than half an hour, the news that a doctor at the Nameless Clinic had cured a patient with Crystal Disease spread through the city as if it had grown wings.

Gang members who got word of the news swarmed into the Nameless Clinic, turned the place upside down, and looted everything of value, including all the medicine.

A gang member whose arm was sprouting crystals walked over to a critically ill patient’s bedside and kicked the leg of the metal bed frame. "Hey, I hear there’s a doctor here who can cure Crystal Disease. Is that true or not?"

"It’s true! I saw her cure a child’s Crystal Disease with my own eyes!" the patient answered decisively. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

"I saw it too! I don’t know what she did, but the crystals on the kid’s hand just disappeared, and then he coughed up some black phlegm!" a nearby patient said, his voice filled with emotion. "As long as we find that doctor, we’ll be saved!"

"Boss, from the looks of it, the intel should be reliable," the gang member said, turning his head.

"Mm."

A man wearing a medieval plague doctor’s mask nodded, turned to leave, and waved his hand indifferently. "Then give them a quick death."

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Gunshots rang out. The heads of several critically ill patients burst open. Their bodies twitched a few times and then went still.

The man in the plague doctor’s mask stood at the clinic’s entrance, gazing quietly at the sky, which had grown dim from the mass burning of corpses. He spoke calmly:

"Let’s go. The weather’s about to turn."

His words proved prophetic.

Fifteen minutes later, a torrential downpour began.

After the gang members left, the vagrants finally found a chance to sneak in, wanting to see if the rumors were true.

Suddenly, the roar of engines echoed from the distance. Armored vehicles sped toward them, and fully-armed combat squads leaped out, aiming their guns at the vagrants gathered at the entrance of the illicit clinic.

"It’s the Government Army!"

"These running dogs sure are fast."

"Run!"

The vagrants scattered in a flash, disappearing in an instant.

A combat squad immediately rushed into the Nameless Clinic.

After a brief search, the squad leader reported to his superior: "Reporting. The place has been completely looted by gang members, and all witnesses have been killed."

"Then find the gang that looted this place. No matter what, you find that doctor for me!" The voice on the comm was colder than ever before.

"Yes, sir!"

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「Three days later.」

Jinzhu City, in Zhou Chen’s villa.

"I’ve already planned out tonight. First, we’ll go see *Titanic: 230th Anniversary Edition*, then we’ll eat at the Whale Song Restaurant. After we get back, we’ll play two hours of *Monster Torture*, and then I’ll teach you how to fight..."

On the sofa, Li Xiye scrolled through her phone while sipping a Happy Water, laying out the evening’s itinerary for Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen, who had just gotten off work, hesitated. He wanted to say he didn’t feel like going anywhere and just wanted to stay home, lie on the couch, and play video games.

For the past three days, although he had gotten off work on time, his workload had been overflowing. Things hadn’t been peaceful in Jinzhu lately. Maritime smugglers had resurfaced and were stirring up trouble, and not long ago there was even a mental pollution incident. Lin Ya had participated in the entire operation as an external expert. The incident was handled quickly at the time, but the follow-up investigation was still ongoing. He had written so many follow-up reports that he was about to puke.

And after work, his personal time was ruthlessly commandeered by Li Xiye. She would drag him around to eat, drink, and have fun. When she was in a good mood, she would even teach him a move or two of her ultimate Martial Arts, and the strict training was exhausting him.

Zhou Chen couldn’t very well reveal that he had already wished to master the techniques Li Xiye was teaching him, so he could only endure it with a mixture of pain and pleasure.

As for Erin, she had returned to the Laine Kingdom, but in two days, she would be moving in with all her bags.

The mere thought of what might happen then made Zhou Chen shudder.

’Can’t I just have one peaceful month...?’

"Hmm... I haven’t gone street racing in a long time. How about we go for a spin tonight?" Li Xiye suggested on a whim.

"Sure."

Zhou Chen never refused any of Li Xiye’s suggestions. For one, he felt he owed her and wanted to make it up to her, so he indulged her every whim, spoiling her rotten. For another, after the passage of several decades, Li Xiye was no longer the same person she once was. They had actually grown a bit distant and needed time to get to know each other again.

Speaking of street racing, Zhou Chen thought of the dog. He was a professor at Ivy now. To think that something as absurd as a "dog teaching humans" had actually happened.

They had video-called a few days ago to catch up. A dog-language translator had been developed as early as the year 200 of the New Calendar, capable of translating dog-speak into over a hundred languages, even including dialects.

According to the dog, he was very popular at the school and had even met a beautiful young lady who made his heart flutter. He had already begun his pursuit.

Curious, Zhou Chen asked what the young lady looked like, and the dog sent him a photo of a silver wolf.

Zhou Chen froze. It took him a long while to recover from his shock, a herd of a thousand alpacas stampeding through his mind.

’Holy shit, that’s Ivy’s Tier Five Crowned King—Magic Wolf Fenrir!’

In the famous mythological event "Ragnarok," Fenrir killed Odin, the King of Gods, a testament to its immense power.

Of course, Ivy’s "Fenrir" wasn’t the giant wolf of mythology. Originally, she was just an Extraordinary pet raised by a professor at some academy. She accidentally awakened her Extraordinary Abilities and gained sentience. From there, she started down the path of ascension, never looking back. Over a decade ago, she advanced to become a Crowned King and earned the title "Magic Wolf Fenrir."

’The dog is actually hitting on a Crowned King? And from the sound of it, he seems to think he’s got a real shot?’

’A husky pursuing a Demon Wolf... isn’t that a bit...’

Something even more absurd than a dog teaching humans had just happened to him.

After snapping out of it, Zhou Chen’s train of thought led him to finally ask the question he had been suppressing for many days:

"—After you cleared the Heroic Trials, which Divine Mark did you obtain?"

Li Xiye had never told him about this, and he had never asked, but today his curiosity finally got the better of him.

"Well..."

Li Xiye took a swig of Happy Water and decided to be mysterious. "Why don’t you guess first?"

"Athena?"

"Hah. During the Golden Apple trial, I beat her up along with Hera and Aphrodite," Li Xiye said with a scornful laugh.

’As expected of you...’

Zhou Chen had long known that Li Xiye was exceptionally powerful, that she could even use her own will to forcibly "command" reality and change the Rules. But beating up mythological figures was still a bit too... unbelievable.

"The War God? Or the Mighty God? No, that’s not right. You beat up Athena and Hera..."

Zhou Chen suddenly sucked in a sharp breath. "It couldn’t be Zeus, could it?"

Li Xiye looked at him with a half-smile.

"It’s really Zeus?" Zhou Chen was stunned.

—The King of Olympus, the supreme Celestial God who ruled over all things in the world, master of lightning, the sky, power, and all of creation; the true King of Gods.

"No."

But Li Xiye shook her head and explained unhurriedly, "Zeus is certainly powerful, but his Divine Mark wasn’t the most suitable one for me. Because that Divine Mark belongs to ’Zeus,’ not the ’Tyrant.’"

She said with a light chuckle:

"I shattered the Divine Marks of Zeus, Athena, the War God, and the Mighty God. I took their essence and discarded the dregs, then used the divine authorities within that suited me to forge a new Divine Mark called ’Tyrant’."

Zhou Chen’s jaw dropped. He was completely dumbfounded.

’That’s possible?’

"So? Your big sister is pretty amazing, right?"

Li Xiye slung an arm around Zhou Chen’s shoulders, smiled, and murmured in his ear with the seductive voice of a dominant older woman, like a Demon:

"How about your big sister keeps you as her boy toy?"