Chapter 256: Viceroy Aphrodite and an evaluation of Kai’s current strength!
18th floor,
The Primordial Tower
Inside the walls of a castle, the godswood's multitude of trees created a dense canopy over old, packed earth and humus and moss.
Among the many trees, the most common ones were ash, chestnut, elm, hawthorn, ironwood, oak, sentinel, and soldier pine. And at the center of this grove, standing tall over a pool of steaming, black water, was an ancient weirwood with a face carved into it.
A heart tree.
On the moss-covered bank of this pool, under the red shade of the redder leaves of the heart tree, was a woman.
Her hair was golden pink, with a touch of redness at the ends. Her eyes were like a peacock; brilliant teal pupils, so fascinating that they could snatch the breath away at one sight. Her face was round, soft, pink, and devoid of the tiniest blemishes.
She was wearing a thin, green silken gown, hoping to cover the voluptuous bosom marked by a cleavage that could very well be mistaken as a depthless valley.
A beauty mark, just over her left breast, threatened to make men and women alike lose the hold on their senses.
She was beauty; and beauty was her. One dared not speak of beauty and not of her lest one should do the folly, for she was Contestant Aphrodite, a Viceroy to the King-level Contestant.
Aphrodite was seated on a round, plain rock, with a sword in her lap for a lover.