Hero? I'm just here to borrow power!

Sitting opposite him was a little boy dressed in an exquisite black evening suit with a plain white bow tie around his neck.

He also had a pair of pale golden eyes, but that soft gold was nothing like Fenrir and Jormungandr, which were full of sinister and terrifying majesty.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. 'Knight'."

The boy smiled, placed his right hand on his chest, and gave Bai Ye an elegant aristocratic bow.

Black Moon Tide: Chapter 72 Fantasy Killer

"You're the boss, you don't need to be so polite with me."

Bai Ye glanced at the other person; the expensive bar chair was clearly too high for the little boy in front of him.

Bai Ye could see under the table his feet, clad in white square-toed leather shoes, swinging back and forth like a carefree child.

But Bai Ye knew his true identity, so naturally she wouldn't treat him like a real child.

"Is this what they call 'vision'? It's quite interesting."

As Bai Ye said this, she made a gesture as if to take off the glove on her right hand.

Speaking of which, Bai Ye's outfit today is a bit strange.

He wore a loose-fitting blue sportswear outfit over a black bodysuit.

Compared to the brightly dressed young people in the bar, he looked more like he'd just come from the gym or the basketball court. The black glove he wore only on his right hand added to his overall disheveled, dangerous asymmetry.

Upon seeing Bai Ye's actions, the little boy opposite him immediately reached out to stop him.

"Hey! Stop—stop!"

He watched as Bai Ye seemed to be trying to undo his gloves, and the elegant and composed smile on his face froze instantly. Almost instinctively, he stood up from his chair, reached out, and eagerly tried to stop Bai Ye.

"what happened?"

Although Bai Ye said this, the knowing look in his eyes suggested that he already knew why the other party was stopping him.

“You are different from other humans. It’s inherently difficult to bring you into my ‘world.’ Do you know how much effort I’ve put into preparing for this meeting in person? I even prepared several backup plans in case of failure. You should at least consider how hard I’ve worked, right?”

The boy pressed down on Bai Ye's hand, which was trying to untie her gloves. Then, frowning, he moved to a more suitable chair from the empty table next to him before sitting back down.

“If you untie this hand, then I’m afraid my ‘world’ won’t be able to continue.”

He straightened his bow tie, reverting to his grown-up demeanor. "After all, I'm your boss. We rarely meet, so why are you in such a hurry to kill this 'world' before we've even exchanged a word?"

Upon hearing the other person's words, Bai Ye withdrew his hand.

"Just curious."

He looked at his right hand.

The hand covered by the black glove housed the B-grade assimilation ability he received as a reward after clearing the game in the previous world.

That is an ability called "Imagine Breaker," which can erase all abnormal forces, including miracles created by the gods.

Three years ago, on that stormy night, Bai Ye used it to ignore Odin's Gungnir's infallible nature and firmly grasped it in his hand.

Now it seems that the illusory mental space constructed by his "boss" can also be eliminated by his "Imagine Killer". However, the "Imagine Killer" is only effective on the area from his right wrist to his fingertips.

When Bai Ye doesn't want to use it, she can simply use gloves to temporarily isolate it.

Seeing that Bai Ye didn't intend to continue taking off his gloves, the little boy opposite him breathed a sigh of relief.

However, after exhaling, he seemed to smell something suspicious and sniffed hard.

A few cute wrinkles immediately appeared on his small nose, and then he frowned.

"You have a very unpleasant smell about you, which reminds me of a few disobedient traitors."

Upon hearing the boy's words, Bai Ye remembered that he had just left the Nibelungen Maze deep inside the subway station.

Before leaving, he ignored Jormungandr's resentful, almost murderous gaze and played a feeding game with Fenrir for a while.

"Then you must be mistaken. I only went to see my younger brother." Bai Ye picked up the glass of ice water he had just ordered from the table and took a casual sip through the straw.

“Little brother?” A very subtle expression appeared on the face of the little boy opposite Bai Ye. “I think their parents might not even acknowledge having such a terrible child as you.”

“That’s their parents’ business.” Bai Ye’s face showed a hint of impatience as he made a move to unfasten the glove on his right hand.

"If you just want to chat with me about these boring family matters, then I'm not going to play along."

"Hey, stop!" Upon seeing this, the little boy immediately put on a pitiful look again, pleading with Bai Ye with his clear, gem-like eyes.

"Considering that I've provided you with a considerable amount of funding—after all, when you first arrived in this country you were penniless—it was I, your kind 'boss,' who hired you and provided you with such a reliable job, wasn't that right?"

"Then you should remember our employment relationship even more clearly."

Bai Ye didn't actually take off his gloves. Instead, he leaned back in his chair and replied calmly, "I have the right to refuse any unreasonable work you propose. This is clearly stated in Article 7 of our contract."

"Alright, 'boss,' since you've come all this way in person, I suppose you have some important work you'd like to entrust to me. Why don't you be direct so I can consider whether or not to do it?"

Bai Ye clearly didn't want to listen to the little boy's cryptic riddles anymore. After saying this, he pulled out the straw from the glass of ice water in front of him and drank it all in one gulp.

"Hehe," the little boy said, dropping his pitiful expression as he saw this.

A glass of freshly squeezed orange juice had appeared in front of him at some point. He took a slow sip and then said...

"This job assignment is divided into two parts... As usual, you have the right to decide whether or not to accept it. You can take on the first part but not the second part, but you cannot take on the second part without completing the first part."

“The first part,” he held up a finger, a cunning glint in his pale golden eyes, “is about finding a set of weapons, a real set of weapons born to slay dragons. With that set of weapons, even if the user doesn’t have the strength of you, you can still cut down a soaring king from the sky.”

“And the second part…” He lowered the finger, a meaningful smile appearing on his face.

Black Moon Tide: Chapter 73 The Path to Godhood

"And what about the reward?"

After listening to the two tasks given by the little boy, Bai Ye asked indifferently, his voice devoid of any emotion.

"As for the reward," the boy said with a sly smile, like a cat that had just pulled off a prank. He looked Bai Ye up and down, his gaze lingering for a moment on the casual clothes that looked like they came from a cheap street stall.

"How about a custom-made Italian suit? The same kind as those mixed-race Italian nobles, after all, your fashion sense is really terrible."

Bai Ye remained silent after hearing his words, only continuing to remove his gloves.

"Hey hey hey! Just kidding! Just kidding! You really have no sense of humor at all."

Upon seeing this, the boy immediately jumped up from the chair like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and hurriedly stopped him.

"The real reward..."

The boy sat up straight, deliberately dragging out his words, keeping everyone in suspense, his pale golden eyes sparkling like stars.

"It's about helping you realize how to use your own power, how about that?"

Upon hearing what the other person said, Bai Ye seemed uninterested.

"I don't think I need anyone's help with this kind of thing."

"Really?"

Bai Ye's reaction seemed to be exactly what the boy had expected.

"In the Nibelungenlied, there was a hero named Siegfried who killed Fafnir, the dragon guarding the treasure, and bathed in its blood, thus gaining a near-immortal body and the power to understand the language of birds."

The boy sipped his orange juice slowly as he recounted an ancient legend, his voice clear yet carrying a hint of age beyond his years.

"In my opinion, you are now like Siegfried after killing Fafnir, but you did not bathe in dragon blood, but let that precious dragon blood flow to the ground in vain... What a wasteful fellow."

Upon hearing the other person's words, Bai Ye remained silent and listened quietly. He knew that this was just the beginning of the main topic.

"In the world of hybrids, there are many who know that the king's remains possess great power, but very few who understand the true source of this power and know how to use it."

"And the one you defeated, Odin, the 'King of the Sky and Wind,' possessed power that was among the greatest of all the monarchs."

But he wasn't complete at the time, and unfortunately, he encountered you, so he couldn't regenerate from the 'cocoon.' The power within his remains has thus remained within you, only you don't yet know how to use it.

A hint of amusement flashed in the boy's pale golden eyes, like a top-notch poker player finally revealing his long-hidden trump card.

"So, the reward for this deal is that I will teach you how to use the power residing within you. This will allow you, with a mortal body, to usurp the king's power and become the true dragon slayer, bathed in dragon's blood—Siegfried!"

As the boy finished speaking, a clear prompt popped up in Bai Ye's transformation system.

[Side quest triggered]

Side Quest: The Path to Godhood

[Mission Objective: Seize the power of a Dragon King and complete the path to godhood without controlling him.]

[Mission Reward: Permanent Character Card [Siegfried]]

"The Path to Godhood?"

Upon seeing the system's prompt, Bai Ye softly uttered the unfamiliar term.

"Oh? You actually know this."

The boy seemed somewhat surprised to hear Bai Ye's murmur.

“That’s right, it’s the ‘Path to Godhood’. The biggest beneficiary of this plan should be Odin himself… but now he’s going to become a sacrifice for this ‘Path to Godhood’. How ironic.”

The boy had finished the glass of orange juice on the table, and the "spiritual vision" space he had created seemed to be nearing its limit.

"Since you know about the 'Path to Godhood,' it seems I don't need to say anything more. Once you complete these two commissions, I will tell you how to properly execute the 'Path to Godhood.' At that time, you will be able to truly master your power and become the new King of the Sky and the Wind."

The boy's voice seemed to still linger in the air, but his figure had already vanished.

At this moment, Bai Ye's eyes reflected again the beautiful face of Shude Mai and the empty glass of ice water in front of him.

The noisy bar music once again flooded Bai Ye's ears like a tide, and at this moment, he subconsciously looked at the clock on the bar wall.

Only one minute had passed. But in the world of "spiritual vision," Bai Ye felt that at least ten minutes had elapsed.

Although it's called "spiritual vision," is it actually some kind of ability involving time distortion...?

As Bai Ye was thinking this, the female ninja in front of him spoke up.

"It seems you've finished communicating with the 'boss.'" The other person gently swirled the "Bloody Mary" in their hand; the bright red liquid rippled in the glass, like a small cup of flowing blood.

"While you are on your mission, I will stay in this country temporarily to provide you with all the necessary assistance."

Although Mr. Knight probably won't need your help at all.

Mai Shude recalled what her boss had told her before, but in order to maintain her image as a professional, she did not tell Baiye what her boss had said to her.

"I understand. I'll contact you if I need anything."

Bai Ye is used to working alone and has never had the habit of calling for logistical support while working.

Even if his "support" is a tall, leggy female ninja with an impressive figure.

Bai Ye then stood up and left the Westin Hotel.

Even at night, the capital city remains bustling with traffic and brilliantly lit, like a giant dragon flowing with countless points of light.

However, Bai Ye's mind was completely focused on the side quest called "The Path to Godhood" that had been suddenly triggered.

"The Road to Becoming a God..."

Despite being a transmigrator, Bai Ye believed he had control over most of the plot of this world, but this term still exceeded his expectations.

Since the mission has been triggered... that means Lu Mingze wasn't lying to me.

In his heart, Bai Ye referred to his 'boss' in this way.

No, perhaps he didn't lie to me about the big picture, but if he hid some minor details, I wouldn't be able to tell.

What exactly is the path to godhood?

Perhaps Jormungandr knows?

Forget it, she's just as untrustworthy.

It seems we need to actively dig for clues.

Moreover, we must never forget that there is a 15% deviation in this world, and we cannot rely entirely on our memory of the plot to act.

Bai Ye's figure quickly disappeared into the vast darkness of the night, as if he had never appeared at all.

Black Moon Tide: Chapter 74 Xia Mi

The king of the earth and the king of the mountains are twins.

Or rather, at the origin of the world, on those four supreme monarchical thrones, each throne belongs to a pair of twins.

In ancient Norse mythology, Fenrir, Jormungandr, and Hela are three siblings born to Loki, the god of mischief, and the giantess Anlborda.

In the long-forgotten history of the dragon race, Jormungandr, the king of the earth and mountains, and Fenrir were also a brother and sister.