“Oh, stupid old woman in the heavens, please make this God Attracting Incense work, or I will surely die today.”

After a rare plea to the despicable boss of the boss he despised, Four hesitantly placed the incense on the altar. With a gentle wave, the three sticks ignited without a visible flame.

As the God Attracting Incense began to burn, green smoke billowed out, and Four’s expression immediately grew excited. He stared at the incense sticks as if they were alluring beauties stripped naked before him. His feet moved toward it almost involuntarily, his gaze filled with intense desire.

Suddenly, Four drew a knife and plunged it violently into his thigh.

The sharp pain snapped him back to reality as he cursed, “Damn, this incense is terrifying.”

Fortunately, now that his strength wasn’t at the Divine Realm, he could still barely resist the allure of the incense.

While muttering curses, Four placed his hand on the altar, smearing the sacrificial blood across it to activate the device.

The altar emitted a soft, shimmering light before disappearing along with Four.

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“What do you mean by that? Four? You’re not alone?”

“Hehe, what do you think?”

Lilith was deeply unsettled. Having relied on Cornelia to hold her ground all this time, she finally felt an urge to run, for the very first time.

Before Lilith could find an opportunity to flee, the space around her suddenly rippled like water.

A small child, appearing no older than two or three, emerged from it.

“Huh? Cornelia?”

Strange, I didn’t summon her…

Normally, Cornelia wouldn’t appear on her own accord unless Lilith summoned her. Lilith frowned in confusion. “What are you doing?”

For some reason, Cornelia ignored her. Instead, she turned her attention to a distant place. Her little nose twitched, and her face suddenly contorted with greed that seemed out of place for someone her age.

“Wait, what are you trying to do? Go back now!”

Concerned by Cornelia’s strange behavior, Lilith urgently tried to send her back, but Cornelia, now consumed by an unsettling greed, ignored her commands.

In an instant, she vanished.

Lilith reached out in vain, but grasped nothing.

“What the hell have you done?” Lilith’s golden eyes blazed with fury as her hair floated upward as if defying gravity, making her look like a golden hedgehog.

She was truly pissed now.

While she could tolerate personal harm, she couldn’t stand seeing those close to her being targeted. That was also why she had abandoned Lesiah and the others to join this tournament alone.

“Oh my, I’m scared! It seems like dragons aren’t as perfect as the ancient texts make them out to be. Emotionally, they’re as fragile as humans,” Three mocked.

Despite her words, Three’s face showed no trace of fear. Instead, she watched Lilith as if she was observing a rare creature in a zoo.

“Don’t worry, it’s just the God Attracting Incense,” Number Three said with a smile.

“In the Great World outside, the God Attracting Incense is used to draw away those divine-level monsters wandering in the void, ensuring the safety of the Void Ferries. It has a strong allure for beings of the Divine Realm, especially those with lower intelligence. It seems that your trump card isn’t very intelligent after all… She was drawn away so quickly. I thought she would linger a bit longer.”

Three’s smile widened. “Since it took effect so swiftly, we have a whole hour to have some fun before the incense finishes burning.”

“Oh, I’ll show you fun!” Lilith shouted, waving her fist in rage. She had been accumulating her strength all this while and unleashed her most powerful punch.

The space around her seemed to collapse under the force of her blow, and cracks like shattered glass appeared where her fist had struck, revealing an abyss of darkness.

The power of this punch had far surpassed the strength of an ordinary saint-level attack, but Three merely smiled and raised her left arm to block it.

Unsurprisingly, Three’s left sleeve was shredded by the fist wind. Her skin was torn open, blood splattered everywhere, and her bone was fractured with a sickening crunch.

However, Three merely glanced at her damaged arm nonchalantly and sighed softly. “As expected, the only drawback of this body is its fragility.”

Had it not been for the temporary reinforcement of her physical form, Lilith’s punch would have reduced her to scattered pieces of flesh rather than merely losing an arm.

“But that’s something I can deal with.” Three lifted her remaining arm and reached for one of the two globes of flesh on her chest.

Lilith, who had fought with Myre before, understood that this wasn’t an attempt by Three to tempt her. She twisted around and swung her fist powerfully, attempting to interrupt Three’s action.

Yet, Three simply tapped lightly at it with her finger.

Her vermilion lips parted slightly as she uttered, “Heartbeats of Resolve.”

Ba-bump.

A clear heartbeat resonated, and Lilith immediately froze, her body locked in place as if she were a wooden puppet. Her fist hovered just inches from Three’s chest.

It wasn’t that Lilith couldn’t move forward, but in that moment, all her strength evaporated, as though she had returned to the mortal days of her past life.

Even if she struck Three, it would be ineffective and only place her in greater peril.

Lilith staggered back, her face pale and drenched in cold sweat. Her hand instinctively clutched her chest in disbelief.

My heart… It’s no longer beating.

There was no pain, no injury… It was literally not beating, as if it had turned into a lifeless, stubborn stone lodged in the middle of her chest—an utterly useless piece of organ.

“Hehe, you still see me as that naive girl?” Three chuckled softly.

“My innate ability and hers are two different things. Controlling the enemy’s heart is a terrifying power, and yet she used it in a way that requires a double suicide. It’s honestly quite laughable.”

Heart control…

Lilith slowly lowered her gaze to her chest.

In other words, her heart is in a state of complete stasis, and as a result, mine has stopped beating too. But… too fast… It happened too quickly.

Lilith recalled that last time, it took dozens of heartbeats before their rhythms resonated with each other. Only then did the innate ability take effect.

At that moment, if she hadn’t been curious about Myre’s ability, she wouldn’t have had a chance to release it at all.

Now, however, the same ability, wielded by a different person, made a world of difference. With just the first beat, Three had taken full control of her heart.

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