Be my Championess!

Before Larissa fell asleep, the showerhead on her corridor's bathroom started.

"Oh, this is heaven." The overly loud moan of Hyera came to her ears. Remembering her of what she avoided even thinking about since they came back from the jungle.

A sinister man with a harmless smile appeared on her mind. She shut her eyes tightly. 'Ekadu of Diligence...' She couldn' imagine what kind of existence he was os she chose to ignore it. It was not in her league to think about it.

Yet,

Larissa frowned and closed her eyes. Pressing the middle of her forehead in a pinching motion. Her problems were Leandro and simply life and death, but she was with Lazaro now... whoever is coming to him will be coming for her too.

To wash off the image of Ekadu from her mind Larissa focused on the showerhead and the continuous dripping water... 10 minutes passed... 20... Larissa frowned. A whole 40 minutes passed and Larissa fell to sleep thinking it water shouldn't be wasted like that.

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Larissa's eyes snapped open! Sunlight came from the window. Lazaro stood above her and smiled. He leaned in, and the warmth she felt at the stadium swept through the insides of her mouth. He gently held the back of her head and explored pleasantly with his wet tongue, until she was out of air.

He suddenly distanced himself, and Larissa opened her intoxicated eyes. the dark bedroom was in front of her, and a slightly tall woman was smilingly enchantingly at her with a trail of saliva on her lips.

Larissa froze.

"Oh, dear, now I understand why Lazaro's is fixated on you," Hyera said while licking her lips, her very clear green eyes shone golden for a second, and her very light golden hair moved with the window's breeze.

Swhump!

"Haha!"

A vine viciously whipped down on Hyera who hopped to the side with a laugh, another slashed horizontally But Hyera was having funs dodging.

Larissa sighed with annoyance and the vines recoiled to the plant in the window. It was weird enough she was dreaming about Lazaro but now she had to worry about being molested while sleep!?

She gazed coldly a the giggling Hyera.

The goddess's smile was enchanting and had a lively charm to it. But it wasn't enough to appease Larissa.

"Oh, don't look at me like that~~" Hyera walked forward and leaned in closer suddenly making Larissa jolt backward with a frown.

"What do you want?"

Hyera sat down on the ground beside the bed, putting her light green eyes at the same level as Larissa.

"Become my championess!"

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Ekadu suddenly reappeared on his mind, but was suddenly covered by the smiling Hyera, 'If it's you, then you can kill him'.

Lazaro frowned

"So she says..." He mumbled.

But the thought was gone right after the memories of the past flashed by his eyes, rage and grief-filled his chest. He wanted to believe Hyera. He really did. But he was never one to attach himself to faith.

'He's coming to you directly this time. You'll fight right?' Her voice blurred his reason again.

It was a fact, and that wasn' the only problem, from what he heard this world has recently found itself among many others and they were all more powerful and strong. By some law of preservation of life, humanity had ten years to become a tier 8 world. If they didn't, then Earth would be dismantled for resources and put up for sale on a universal auction together with the people.

But what made Lazaro laugh was the fact, that the common people really believed their leaders were up and arms about raising themselves and preserving their world.

Lazaro snorted with disdain.

The leaders are just as common as their followers, fear of dying would make them sell their own in the blink of an eye, and greed would make them sell the whole world. It might be a slow process but soon the enemy will come with gentle threats coated in gold and appealing offers for life. That's how most of the rebelling factions that grew a little dissolved on his younger days. Results rarely differed, only when someone is an exception or mad would they achieve success.

"Ugh, why do we need a country? Can't we just build a villa far away from the war and stay there?

"That's running away Lina and you know it." Lazaro playfully answered the rant.

"Haa, fine, but I want my own palace." She said after sighing. A smirk was clearly etched on her lips.

She'd often do that, raise problems, then ask for something as a reward, as if she was compromising to his will.

He breathed evenly. His body suddenly felt lighter and he smiled.

BAM! His door was blasted open.

"I want my armor back!" Hyera exclaimed with an arrogant expression.

Lazaro squinted. 'What did she do?'

"...Becca, that was the symbolic token of our siblinghood."

"Is that so? Then it's justified!" Hyera smirked "Guess who just became a Championess of Hyera of Chaos the goddess of war? She pointed her thumb fingers on her chest smugly.

But Lazaro stared at the door instead of her.

"I thought you were the kind to think twice before falling for an obvious scam." He said.

A woman with clear brown eyes and a beautiful auburn hair entered the room.

She frowned at Hyera the turned to Lazaro. "How I seek strength is not for you to care. I'm just your housemaid."

"Oh my!" Hyera covered her mouth but did not hide the amusement on her eyes as she stared a Lazaro. 'You stole my armor I steal your woman!' Her eyes seemed to say.

He understood that, but why is her tone so thorny? Lazaro thought.

Annoyed by it, he eagerly exposed the scam she fell into.

"Hyera is not a goddess anymore. She merely possessed the girl you wanted to kill, for that she relinquished her divinity. Becoming a pure mortal. She cannot raise our strength or bestow blessings, she can't even bless you with enlightenment. Hyera is completely mortal, the only thing different from other mortals, is that her essence is divine in nature. it's an advantage but it's not worth selling yourself over it. And you did just that. Rather than a championess, she's having you as her crutch to lean on."

Lazaro didn' t need to smirk as he only spoke with his smug glance; 'How does it feel brat?' Hyera snorted dismissively but bit her tongue inside.

Larissa's wide-open eyes bore down on Hyera who avoided her gaze and coughed awkwardly.

"I cannot directly strengthen you, but I have all of the most useful methods of cultivation of the highest quality from my world and the most complete knowledge on how to naturally create your own Cultivation method, the latter is the one I plan to offer you first, if you succeed on the firsts steps, you'll be on a natural path and have unlimited potential."

She said with confidence.

Lazaro frowned.

"No. The natural path is too demanding and risky. Although she's talented, she just got in contact with essence, she has no basic knowledge of it. It's better if she learns a cultivation method and continues from there. I have the means to continue after the method's limit."

Hyera weirdly went silent for a moment, she looked at Lazaro examining his expression, seeing he truly meant it without ulterior motives surprised her and she laughed as if it was hilarious.

"My my." She looked at Larissa's eyes. "He doesn't believe you can pull it off."

Larissa immediately locked her eyebrows.