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The upside-down figure didn't answer, but instead looked at the thick white fog around it: "This fog is..."

“Recently, the guards have been on high alert. There haven’t been any incidents for hundreds of years, which has made us complacent.”

After offering a casual explanation, King Nathan walked towards the sacred tree before him and said, "Go break off a golden branch, then cut off my head. Everything you are curious about regarding the king, you will understand after you become king."

"I heard that the golden branch has already been broken. If you're tired of living, why bother coming to me? Wouldn't it be better to wait for the assassin?"

He looked up at the sacred tree, then asked in a calm tone.

"Of course I don't want to die. I want to win the Golden Bough ceremony and continue to live as king, but all of this depends on... no outside invasion."

The woman smiled and said, "Compared to that, whether I continue to live as 'King' is no longer important."

She sighed and said, "It is said that Nathan once had a king with great power, but I am not. Apart from the authority bestowed by the 'Tree,' I can say that I have no power at all."

“But you are different. You are very strong, I can feel it. At this moment, you may be more suitable to be king than I am.”

The woman spoke her innermost thoughts.

If sacrificing herself could help resist the invasion from the outside, then she was willing to die for the sake of others.

Hanging upside down, unmoved by the woman's words, asked instead, "If I kill you, will those guards willingly submit to me?"

“They are not loyal to me, they are only loyal to the ‘King’,” the woman said with a smile.

Upside Down squinted, then grinned: "Very well, after I kill you, I'll offer the whole of Nathan, along with this tree, to Behemoth. That way, my past sins will probably be forgiven, and everything you've done will be meaningless."

"King Nathan, I never imagined you were so foolish."

The woman showed no anger, but smiled and said, "You can try."

This attitude caused the smile on the upside-down face to fade.

What exactly is a 'king'?

"The 'King' not only receives the authority bestowed by the tree, but also inherits the will that the divine tree and the former kings who founded the divine kingdom have maintained for thousands of years. This will will drive the 'King' to pass on the divine kingdom and the divine tree at all costs."

The woman explained and smiled, "I believe you have your pride, and you may have the confidence that 'I' can defeat the will of the divine tree, so give it a try. If you win, the divine kingdom will indeed be at your disposal."

The upside-down tree squinted and said seriously, "I understand the chosen ones. Nathan Guard is also influenced and controlled by this will, which is why he is unconditionally loyal to the king, right? So it seems that you are all puppets of this tree!"

"A puppet? I don't think so."

The woman smiled and said, "We were just chosen to live this way; we don't feel controlled at all."

"Tsk, being controlled without even realizing it, this is the first time I've ever seen such a slave."

Hanging upside down with a pout.

The woman shook her head: "You have a deep misunderstanding about this matter. It's no wonder, most of you don't feel this way."

"Hmm?" The upside-down figure looked at King Nathan with a puzzled expression as he placed his hand on the tree trunk.

She said, "In fact, since the founding of the Kingdom of God, any Nathan Guard or King who has even the slightest doubt about their mission can choose to give it up and have someone else take over without any punishment."

“If I wanted to, I could end the divine kingdom without having to undergo the life-or-death test of the succession ceremony. But for thousands of years, no one has backed down in the face of this great will. This has indeed influenced us, but we are not without a choice!”

“We can give up whenever we want, but we feel no unhappiness or resentment. You don’t understand this feeling.”

The woman looked up, a bright smile on her face: "How happy one is when one's life has an incredibly clear path, when one knows what one wants most, when one knows why one lives."

"In the language of the Dragon Kingdom, I have known since birth why I came into this world, what my path is, and I am walking on it. This is the happiest and most reassuring thing."

"For this reason, it doesn't matter if I die on the way, because I am doing the right thing."

Snapped!

He grabbed the woman by the slender neck, pulled her close, and said, "Little girl, you've been brainwashed! You've been severely brainwashed since birth!"

He gripped her so tightly that the woman could hardly breathe.

But the woman maintained her smile and said with some difficulty, "Upside down, do you have the right to choose not to speak English as your native language?"

The upside-down figure fell silent.

Who can choose their birth or their mother tongue?

No.

He released the woman, who coughed a few times, looked up and said, "I have no power to force you, and I don't know what you want most. I just want you to fight for Nathan."

"If you feel it's still worth staying here."

A thoughtful look flashed in his upside-down eyes as he looked at the woman in front of him, then at the tree beside him.

After a moment, he said, "Take me back?"

"Hmm?" The woman raised her head, and the upside-down figure calmly said, "I will only fight for myself."

Upon hearing this, the woman smiled faintly: "That's enough."

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Chapter 542 What kind of crazy movement speed is this?!

Swish!

The woman and her upside-down figure appeared from the distorted space onto a container in the 'paradise'.

Hanging upside down, watching the scene around him change in an instant.

I was just in the Royal City Sacred Forest, and now I'm back.

Intrigued, he asked, "Is this method of movement one of your powers as king?"

The woman gave a soft "hmm," looked down at the tin-roofed houses made from shipping containers that resembled slums, and nodded gently, saying, "As long as it's on the island, Wei and I are fine with it."

"What about the king's exclusive privileges?"

The upside-down figure asked with a somewhat lazy expression.

The woman replied, "I can passively sense anyone entering or leaving the island. Of course, I can also actively sense the presence of everyone on the island, but that would be very tiring."

Her gaze drifted to the distant rocky valley, as if she were recalling something.

“In the past, there have been several times when I clearly noticed someone entering the island, but the moment they entered, I could no longer sense them.”

"Even when I sent Nathan to look for him, I couldn't find him."

"In other words, there might be monsters on this island that neither you nor I know about."

When he said that.

The woman's tone was calm, but it carried a hint of complexity.

Because Nathan Island is clearly her home, yet she can only allow these outsiders to intrude. If they are willing to give up all their identities outside, she can only obediently accept them and let them live on the island.

Nathan didn't care whether these islanders lived or died.

But this is, after all, their home.

Anyone would feel uncomfortable seeing strangers freely entering their home without even asking questions.

Even though this situation has persisted for thousands of years.

The upside-down figure chuckled, "This is what makes this place so fun."

The woman shook her head slightly. She had only sensed the people on the island briefly, but she found that the number of foreign life forms in Nathan had increased by almost one-fifth compared to before.

“Since the island opened, there have been a lot more outsiders coming to the island,” she said softly.

“I’m afraid they’re all after you.” Upside Down glanced at King Nathan.

"That's not necessarily true."

The woman retorted with her eyes closed: "Most of the islanders who came from elsewhere have had turbulent pasts. Who knows what their past will bring about by opening the island to the public?"

"As long as they're not after the palace, it doesn't matter."

"You're quite patient."

A slight smile played on his lips, and a flicker of reminiscence crossed his eyes.

I wonder if this will attract you here.

Sean.

We still have a score to settle between us.

"Then I'll be going now," the woman said softly.

Although she had noticed from her simple perception that there were many more outsiders on the island, she did not know the specifics, because trying to perceive things carefully would be extremely exhausting for her.

So I just got a basic sense of the quantity.

"Take care," he said without turning his head.

With a thought, King Nathan was instantly swallowed by the vortex and left 'Paradise'.

And the upside-down expression turned somewhat somber as King Nathan left.

Behemoth's arrival did indeed make him feel pressured and uneasy.

Because he still remembers it to this day.

The feeling of being imprisoned and experimented on by Behemoth was worse than death.

That period was nothing short of hell.

Moreover, they were injected with the first-generation SP drug. Although the first generation had the best effect in developing potential, the mortality rate was as high as 99.9%.

Everyone who received SP1 died.

Only he and Sean survived.

However, as a criminal, the upside-down experiments were conducted in secret, and Sean, a former soldier, was unaware of them.

"Hmph, come on then, I'm tired of playing outside anyway."

He's someone who escaped from Behemoth's lab and managed to get to where he is now.

The upside-down state quickly returned to calm.

He decided to have some fun with Behemoth.