After I died, my personal maid rebelled.

In the chaotic battle between two strong opponents, Paul took the lead in winning local battles.

He pulled two magic stones from the pieces of the corpse, picked up Sophia's staff, took a deep breath, and looked at the battlefield in the distance.

His Excellency the Duke... continues to fight against the incarnation of the curse.

What ordinary soldiers couldn't see clearly was crystal clear to Paul, though he struggled to grasp the details of the battle.

The Duke once objectively commented that, although both were incarnations of the curse, Maria's strength was far greater than Lilith's, and perhaps there was a cause-and-effect relationship between them.

After all, the life or death of one person is insignificant compared to a plague that sweeps across the entire country.

But the Duke also mentioned Maria's autonomy.

Maria is someone who can quickly take control of her own situation and continuously learn and grow. In other words, she thinks about the future and makes the most advantageous choices for herself at every step.

Therefore, her seemingly persistent yet not persistent attitude towards Thorne makes it hard not to suspect that she might have other motives.

As for Lilith, Paul makes no comment. She was lucky to get what she truly wanted at the end of her life.

Then there's Princess Diana and Nicole on the battlefield. Paul doesn't know much about Nicole...

Back when she was in the royal city, wasn't she with a werewolf, and then Luna and Lisa suddenly beat her up?

Nico herself doesn't seem to have anything special about her, but once she becomes a curse, she can actually fight the Duke without being at a disadvantage?

What Paul didn't know was that what truly affected Oswald was Nicole's ever-present, frenzied life force.

This guy possesses a conceptual power; it seems that the more life forms around him, the greater the power Nicole can gain, continuously absorbing the life energy from the soldiers like a pump.

Realizing he couldn't be of much help, Paul rushed to Luna's location, where Luna was fighting Diana with Lisa and Cage.

The tide of battle is turning in favor of the Northern Army. After regrouping, the First Regiment of the First Division and the Knights directly defeated the enemy forces on the flank, and the Second Royal Knights were nearly wiped out.

The routed soldiers of the Imperial Guard and the Southern Army began to converge on the main battlefront. However, they now had to contend not only with the Second Division and most of the First Division at the front, but also with the Northern Army launching a pincer attack from both flanks of the Imperial Guard's main battlefront.

To be honest, burning tens of thousands of corpses is quite a sight.

But whether it was his imagination or not, Paul felt that something was moving within the towering flames.

Another massive magic circle rapidly unfolded around the battlefield, and as Nicole activated her power, cries of agony filled the air. This time, even more soldiers were devoured, clutching their jagged wounds in agony, causing varying degrees of chaos to erupt in both armies.

Nicole, whose life magic was at its peak, flapped her wings and released a torrent of energy composed purely of life magic towards Oswald.

Oswald landed with a somersault, slashing with his sword, and his two hearts exploded, unleashing a terrifying storm no less powerful than a Category 10 typhoon.

The two energies collided violently, causing spatial fluctuations that tore the battlefield apart like tides. In an instant, the world changed color, and countless lightning bolts triggered by the torrents resembled the arrival of the apocalypse.

As the system took over, the power began to flow. The natural winds from millions of years ago filled Oswald's body, and the flying sand and stones whipped up by the gale snapped up trees. If Oswald hadn't been able to control it, the entire battlefield would probably have turned into a bloody fog.

The black smoke was swept away by the storm, and the enormous fire, aided by the wind, quickly spread towards the direction where the Imperial Guards were located.

Paul's pupils trembled violently. This time he saw clearly that in the sea of ​​fire, there was indeed a thin, eerie green figure swaying.

The life force, like a torrent of energy, continuously spewed towards the ground, once again shattering the magical balance within Paul's body.

He fell off his horse, bracing himself with his hands as he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Having gained a certain degree of initiative, Oswald swung his sword through the wind, and the airburst unleashed by the rising black shadow directly burst into an enormous vacuum cloud in the sky.

The wind path filled every inch of space. Seeing that the battle between the Duke and the incarnation of the curse had reached a fever pitch, Paul, who wanted to speak up to remind him, slowly stood up, his gaze fixed on the figure walking out of the sea of ​​fire.

The girl's figure was so slender, and her thick, dark green hair danced in the wind.

She wore only a pristine white dress, her bare feet treading on blood and corpses. Her cold eyes were raised, ignoring the carnage around her, as if only the figure in mid-air was worthy of her attention.

"Silence, living beings."

Like a narration or a spell chant, the girl's voice pierced the battlefield, and the soldiers closest to her, after showing expressions of terror, suddenly turned into pools of blood.

Silence! Silence deeper than death itself!

After killing thousands with a single sentence, the girl seemed to create a silent domain out of thin air, making every step she took on the sea of ​​blood terrifying.

Oswald and Nicole stopped simultaneously and quickly distanced themselves from each other.

A warning bell rang deep within their souls, and both the system and Chu Guang exclaimed in surprise. Oswald, who recognized what it was at a glance, glanced at Nicole.

"Great Sage, is this the result you desired?"

"Gods are bound to be born eventually," the Great Sage, who possessed Nicole's body, said calmly. "If your army hadn't made extensive use of her power-created artifacts, I wouldn't have been able to find such a suitable opportunity."

Oswald nodded. Corrosive fuel? It's just a tool; might as well use it.

"Ha, you old men, each one more cunning than a devil. Now, you can begin praying to your goddess."

Hearing this, Nicole turned her head and looked at Oswald seriously, "What makes you think that the goddess would personally deal with an avatar of a god?"

With a snap, Nicole snapped her fingers with her bone hand, and the space instantly shifted. Along with Oswald, Nicole, and the avatar of the god, the three figures fell into the psionic space burning with thick smoke and flames.

Oswald: ...

(Chuguang, please take me out of here. I've had enough of these lunatics.)

Chu Guang was also shocked by the goddess's shamelessness. What did she mean? Did she want the transmigrators to help them fight the war of gods?

"Understood, I'll get ready right away."

Realizing something was wrong, Nicole quickly spoke up, "Wait, Oswald, you don't want the soldiers of the Northern Territory to be killed by the God of Corruption, do you?"

The familiar sentence structure made the veins on Oswald's forehead bulge.

"Butter God, butter talk, butter stuff... If you dare talk to me like that again, I'll really turn you into a girl."

After saying this, Oswald turned and left, with surging waves rising beneath his feet.

Seeing this, Nicole was dumbfounded. "Your system should have explained to you that this is an obligation you must fulfill as a transmigrator."

With his back to Nicole, Oswald chuckled and raised his middle finger.

He and the system were the closest comrades-in-arms, and he had never heard of any obligations he had to fulfill.

Besides, this life is in free mode.

[That's right, they still want to use this system as a front to deceive people. They created this trouble themselves, so they'll have to clean up their own mess!]

The system gave a haughty snort, but the next second, a completely emotionless electrical sound rang out from the system.

[Critical Mission Detected: Projection of the God of Corruption]

[Mission Introduction: The God of Corruption is one of the most dangerous gods in the universe. He uses his power to corrupt every planet with life and casts a shadow known as the Divine Avatar.]

[To save the world, the transmigrator must immediately destroy the avatar of the God of Corruption.]

[Note: This is a mandatory task; task reward: None...]

After another burst of static, the faint crackling of electricity returned. [Mission Reward: Restores some bodily functions and reproductive ability]

The system fell silent, and Chu Guang also fell silent. Oswald was speechless at first, then he carefully examined the reward panel and couldn't help but swear.

You're going to use this to test time travelers? Which time traveler couldn't withstand such a test?!