Global Lord: Start with Divine Favor-Chapter 838 - 148: Lin Rui Succeeds (Part 2)

Even if she needed to gather the Elemental Keystones, which are only found on the World Tree, there was no need to hand the Eye of Light over to an outsider, causing all the Elemental Keystones to be exposed to the world.

She could have operated in secret; there was no need to be so ostentatious, increasing everyone's tension.

This move, one could say, increased global tension by 200%, with a world war now possible at any moment.

If Lin Rui hadn't sacrificed the Elemental Keystones, revealing their positions, the Shadow of Evil wouldn't have been able to seize a single one.

Now, all forces are highly tense, focusing all their energy on their own Elemental Keystones.

Meanwhile, the Elf Empress can take advantage of the distraction to secretly extract the Plane Crystal Core, achieving her ultimate goal: to condense a Divine Core, establish a Divine Kingdom, and directly embed it into the Plane Crystal Core.

Then her Divine Kingdom would be considered very powerful in the Divine Realm, and with the large army taken from the elves to form the Celestial Kingdom Armament, she is completely different from someone like Setra who can't stand firm in the Upper Realm. Even there, she remains the favored daughter of the heavens. In her Divine Kingdom, she is supreme above all.

Isn't this much better than being an uneasy Empress among the elves, forced to have children for someone?

This achieves a dual leap in personal strength and her own forces.

Hearing Lin Rui say this, Rose finally felt a bit better. Although the Empress betrayed the forest, she still hadn't abandoned all the elves.

The cruel power struggles and conflicts of belief leave her unsure of how to view them.

However, she was filled with doubt, saying, "How could this marriage be a tragedy? The Empress and the Hero King are very much in love, and even after the Hero King became a Divine Spirit…"

Seeing her stop at a critical moment, Lin Rui's curiosity was immediately piqued: "Go on, don't stop halfway. What else? Did they… have intimate exchanges?"

Rose hesitated, clearly not wanting to divulge the Empress's private matters.

Lin Rui immediately put an arm around her shoulder, whispering in her ear, "Hey, you're going to be my person from now on. Are you going to keep secrets about other people from me? That would be too disloyal. Come on, secretly tell me, I promise not to tell anyone else. Plus, other women clearly don't care about this kind of thing."

Unable to resist him shaking her shoulder, Rose had to compromise and retreat once more, whispering, "I am the Commander of the Imperial Guard and have heard the Empress's submissive sounds before."

"Submissive!" Lin Rui's eyes lit up. Was the Elf King this wild? How did he train the Empress? He thought that even if the Empress had such things, she would suppress her voice. Yet it was so submissive and loud?

Feeling his bloodline excitement, Lin Rui gently bit Rose's earlobe and asked, "Is it the kind of communication I'm thinking of? Divine…"

Rose blushed, quickly pushing him away, saying, "You men are all the same, so lecherous! Just love to torment women."

Tsk~ Lin Rui secretly admired, the Hero King really is quite something, making him feel inferior.

But after Rose finished, she furrowed her brows and said, "But if it's as you say, then their marriage was a tragedy from the start. Why would the Empress agree to such excessive demands from the Elf King? Why would she use her body and actions to please him so submissively? Does the Empress intend to hand over the Plane Crystal Core to the Hero King too?"

Lin Rui chuckled lightly and said, "Do you think someone like the Empress would be lovestruck? Hand over the Plane Crystal Core to the Hero King? I'm afraid your Hero King was used by the Empress from start to finish. Otherwise, how does your Empress know so much about the secrets of Plane Wars? She even uses all of this to provoke me again and again."

Rose glared at him, saying, "You really speak unpleasantly, how is it provocation?"

Obviously, she instinctively still defends this revered Empress who has ruled for thousands of years.

Lin Rui shrugged: "Alright, temptation, incentivize. She even uses you as a tool to tempt and bribe me into keeping quiet."

Rose struggled internally, distressed, uncertain of how to face this or which side to take.

Now she was like a confused and helpless weak woman, relying on Lin Rui, hoping he could be her pillar, telling her what to do.

So she gazed intently at Lin Rui, her brows furrowing tightly, and asked, "What should we do then? Stop the Empress?"

"Stop the Empress?" Lin Rui raised an eyebrow: "With what? Do you know what fate means! It means that even if you were told everything, you couldn't change a thing. In fact, the more you get involved, the worse the elves' outcome will be. If I'm not mistaken, the World Tree's control authority is definitely with the Empress, right?"

Rose nodded, saying, "The Empress holds half, and the Elder Council holds the other half, but in wartime, that half is authorized to the Grand Marshal Xinglu."

Lin Rui waved his hand and said, "Then why are you struggling? Grand Marshal Xinglu has obviously been bought by the Empress. With the World Tree Root, the Empress will definitely get the Plane Crystal Core."

"With your insignificant status, even if you tell the elves the truth, you couldn't shake the Empress and the Marshal's authority. Not to mention, most people live in ignorance, not even knowing what the Plane Crystal Core is. Even if you spoke out, do you think the elves would trust you over their Empress?"

"At that time, your Empress only needs to say that you, this Commander of the Imperial Guard, intended a military coup, and you would be unable to defend yourself. I'd have to flee with you, hunted by elves and Shadow of Evil alike, empathizing with each other, and dying sooner."

Rose, torn internally, said, "We… we can also seek the help of the Great Mage, the human Emperor, and other powers to stop the Empress's ambition."

Lin Rui clicked his tongue, rolling his eyes at her and saying, "Have you panicked so much you've lost your mind? How does this benefit you? Your loved ones suffer, and your enemies rejoice?"

Rose immediately realized, under pressure, she had made a foolish suggestion. Wouldn't that be helping others deal with her own kin?

Not only would it fail to stop the Empress, but even if it did, her own race, her forest home, and countless friends and loved ones would be reduced to ashes in the flames of war.

But silently watching all this is like watching the Empress destroy her home, taking some of her people to oppress others. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

She looked at Lin Rui in confusion and asked, "In this situation, what should I do? Both sides mean the world to me, and it's so hard to decide."

Would Lin Rui waste such an opportune moment?

He immediately pulled Rose onto his lap, wrapping his arms around her slender waist, looking together at the sunset about to fall in the distance.

The sunset is infinite, but it's near dusk!

This is like the world's fate, inevitably heading toward its end.

His hand, restless, slipped under her clothes from her slender waist, moving upward, while he waxed eloquent to draw her attention, saying, "It's simple, you're already mine now, so just think about how to build our home together after coming home with me. As for your world's fate… you don't need to choose. Because the world has never given you a choice."

There's never been a choice!

This sentence plunged Rose into a daze instantly.

She never imagined a short Plane War would have so many dramatic twists in such a short time.

History is like a winding river. Most of the time, it is calm and steady. It flows slowly through grasslands, plains, and forests, without waves. At such times, it gives the illusion that this river is unchanging, forever slow and calm, beating leisurely.

But then, when everyone least expects it, the flow suddenly accelerates, vigorous and passionate, unstoppable. Making those living in this era unable to imagine such radical changes.

And when she snapped back from her daze, she found that Lin Rui, this guy, his hands were firmly imprinting every inch of her most abundant and delicate parts with his fingerprints!

Shame and rage filled her, and she bit Lin Rui's shoulder directly: "You lustful cad, can't wait a moment! I'll bite you to death!"