Grand Lust Sovereign

After tough battles and near death experiences, all but one fragment was found.

Where the last fragment was unknown. The only hope to find this needle in a haystack was to rely on the otherworldly luck of Emil's.

When Emil would return, Julien would hand him the earring artifact which housed the God of Honor and Glory's soul.

The being that shouldn't be awakened was close to awakening due to Julien's regular usage of his Crimson Requiem.

The constellations were in an uproar. They couldn't point out how and what was making this being stronger by the day.

If the location of this evil power was known to them, they would've done everything to go and re-shackle it.

Julien was purposely doing it. As he was getting stronger and more confident, he felt that it would be alright to unshackle this being.

Though there was still a long way to go to do so. From El, he understood that even if he used the power of his card ten times a day, everyday, for ten years straight, it still wouldn't be enough to unshackle the being.

He thus used the card as much as he could when he was on adventures. It had a cooldown period of half a day now and a major side effect, so he had to be careful when using it too much.

Time went by again.

Without knowing, three years have passed.

Flood 201 was cleared and now, it was the real deal.

Up until Floor 200, Julien was against high level mortals. Starting from Floor 201, it would now be immortals who couldn't be killed by normal means.

The floor clearance was difficult too as one had to start from scratch in each floor they went to clear the quests.

Teams were very important but sadly, whenever they went on a quest, they would be scattered and had to find their way towards each other.

The people of the world came up with a strategy for this. They made secret codes to find each other and it turned out to be helpful.

Floors from 201-210 were difficult, but after that, it was smooth sailing as everyone got a hang of it.

With Emil's help, the majority of Players had gotten stronger and were capable of clearing the floors without Julien's team.

Julien and his party could not focus on other important matters.

Julien considered his family and everyone who got cheats from El as his party members.

During all discussions, they were there.

Emil was there too now.

He was kept away from Julien so his luck could act up.

When he came back after making the people strong, he was forced by Julien to spend quality time with his wife.

Emil thought that he really didn't deserve Julien. This man cared for him so much, unaware of the fact that his upcoming schedule was going to be severely hellish.

Julien wanted the boy to bask in the lovely warmth of his wife's embrace so he would always want to come back to it and finish his quests faster.

Julien considered Emil his close friend, and if he didn't let the boy suffer some then who would?

It was his duty as his best friend to turn the twink into a testosterone tyrant, a hunk that all women would want to love to have.

For that, Emil would need to suffer.

It was alright. The boy was already too pampered so a little bit of suffering wouldn't do him any harm.

Emil aside, Julien and his party discussed some major affairs.

This time it was less about the world and more about the constellations.

Falin was chairing this meeting.

After Julien opened up the live streaming channels outside the Tower, Falin went through a major boost. She couldn't be grateful enough to Julien and told him that she didn't know how to thank him.

Needless to say, when an innocent sheep came to a wolf's den, it was the wolf's duty to lovingly gobble her.

He seduced Falin and added her to his harem, acquiring a Valkyrie.

Falin would never betray Julien and their relationship was to the point where she was willing to let go of her relationship with the Valkyrie Council if they dared to scheme against Julien. She considered him her husband and was madly in love.

Being one of the most trending and popular live streamers of the Tower, Falin knew of a lot of things even constellations like Amaterasu weren't aware about.

The first and foremost was the rising tensions between the angels and demons.

The holy war was about to start. It was just a single push away.

The reason?

A human.

Between God, Demon, and Human… It has always been the Human that suffered.

The suffering occurred due to the mistake of God, more correctly, the King of angels, Micheal.

The concept of good and bad only had a thin line separating them.

Being an absolutely divine being was bound to make the constellation make a slight mistake in judgment.

What exactly was the mistake?

Under Micheal's rule, the angels worked to prevent the lower worlds from encountering an apocalypse and getting wiped out.

They were to protect the world from the demons and not let them get corrupted and die out.

While this was a good thing, it led to a severe lapse in judgment.

One of the lower worlds underwent a demon invasion. The angels and demons couldn't enter them personally so they used the humans to fight.

The demons made use of humans to find the angels controlled by demons.

This led to the humans getting sandwiched and suffering.

It didn't seem like a big problem as long as the world was saved, as per the angels under Micheal's rule.

Yes, humans did suffer, but it was for their own good. If anyone had to be blamed, it was the demons. Why did they invade the poor fellows in the first place?

The humans were definitely not capable of countering them. From the estimation of the angels, worlds that had not gotten their divine power would face an apocalypse and die out. This was a high probability after eons of them watching it.

They would thus never let the humans suffer as they were divines who couldn't bear to watch such suffering.

They also had the motive to amass followers as the more devotees they had, the stronger they would be.

Getting devotees in return of saving their world and easing their suffering wasn't a bad choice.

The angels thus always helped the humans while the demons feasted on the carnal desires of humans and wanted their worship just like the angels. Their means were just more cruel.

In any case, this led to a problem of the humans being sandwiched.

One man. One man was responsible for almost making the two powers start a holy war.

He was tired of watching the humans suffer endlessly in this and wanted the two powers to fight themselves and leave the humans alone.

The human's motive was simple. If the two fought, there would not be any invasion.

The human was shackled after the war in his homeland. However, his spirit wasn't contained.

His spirit roamed the lands and haunted the angels and demons.

This man was no one else but d'Arc.

When Julien heard about d'Arc, his body shuddered.

He remembered meeting the ghost of d'Arc one eventful day in the past.

So this was what the ghost meant when it gave cryptic messages to him.

And no wonder…

No wonder that the events lately felt strange to Julien.

Whenever he cleared a trial or completed an adventure, he felt as if he had just started a chain reaction, as if he had just toppled a domino.

Falin began stating the various events that took place that led to the sides getting on the verge of starting a war.

All these events made Julien's head throb.

The events were so connected to everything he had done in the past, and in case he hadn't done the things he did, this wouldn't have happened.

Julien was in sheer confusion.

El approached him this time.

She stated that it wasn't his fault. He came into contact with the ghost of d'Arc. This led to him possessing a mark that put him on a path of triggering a major war like that.

The last time the angels and demons fought was more than a hundred thousand years ago. There hadn't been a war such as this as they maintained a status quo.

Now, just one move was enough to make them start it. What it would be was unknown.

The party discussed the things they could do to prevent it.

A holy war was such a grand scale event that its impact would be felt even in the lowest of worlds.

Being on Floor 250+, there was no way that Julien's world and the people within wouldn't be involved.

The party had only just begun discussing their matters when a system announcement suddenly rang out that made them jump out of their seats.

[The Holy War begins.]