Emperor Lawrence

This shocks everyone present, even her own father experiences mixed emotions about it. How is it possible that a new life is born after death? This clearly challenges the law of life and death, because when she died, her life should have been returned to the world to give birth to thousands of living beings.

"Are you Eminent Greed?"

Upon hearing Lawrence's words, she tilts her head to the side.

"Is that my name? Yes... I like that name."

Incredible as it may seem, without recalling her own name, she has survived seven life-or-death battles. Did all her enemies allow her to live after losing her memory? Or are they the first to survive a battle with her?

All thoughts cease when Lawrence sees a strange aura over Eminent Greed’s body, 'What is that? Why do I tremble upon seeing her?'

He and the others soon understand everything.

After being revived, she is protected by the heavens. Even if it's only temporary protection, that aura is enough to kill them all, body and soul.

'It’s not that we are the first to survive, but that all died after attacking her!'

Lawrence immediately looks towards Serene Will and Coldness Divine, conveying through his eyes the intention not to make Eminent Greed an enemy. Because if she continues to live, it means that schemes are not enough to kill her.

He refuses to believe that all this woman's enemies were foolish, surely some of them must have noticed that aura, but in the end, she emerged victorious.

As he hesitates on how to proceed, Gate of Torment does not.

"Eminent Greed, what is your last memory?"

Soon she frowns and closes her eyes, because she feels she is forgetting something.

Her expression soon darkens, her body shakes uncontrollably. She opens her eyes and hugs herself, as if seeking someone's warmth.

"I saw..." Her voice trembles, fear evident in her eyes. "Thousands of eyes in the sky watching me."

Everyone holds their breath.

Because, she may have lost her memory, but she still remembers the Will of Heaven.

Lawrence points to himself, "Was I present?"

"No, I was alone. This place does not resemble my memories."

Her memory of the Will of Heaven is far more ancient than anyone could imagine.

As soon as she utters those words, she immediately realizes her memory loss and that… there was a battle here.

Her innocent look sharpens in an instant. She can trust no one.

"He is your father."

Gate of Torment frowns at Lawrence’s words, but the latter continues speaking. "Behind you is your home, you can investigate for yourself all the atrocious acts you have committed."

She rises from the ground and slowly walks towards the mansion, without turning her back on Lawrence, her father, or anyone. Everyone is an enemy until proven otherwise.

As she does so, Lawrence says: "That memory of yours, you experienced it again because of me."

"What?"

"You tried to kill me to silence me, perhaps how many others you managed to silence. If your conscience weighs on you, then come back to me. You ruined my life, but I cannot kill you. You are special, Eminent Greed, no one else could invoke the Will of Heaven by their own hand."

She retreats, this time at a greater speed.

"Do not become her."

Those are the last words she hears from that man before she closes the door.

"Why did you do that? I wanted to cut my ties with her."

Gate of Torment looks at Lawrence with hatred, everything he did was in vain because of him.

"Do you think that was too much? I think it was too little."

After fighting with this old man, Lawrence has discovered his true personality. "If you think this is over, you're wrong. You facilitated the birth of that monster, you share the blame for her actions."

"She was my daughter, I could not--"

"Your daughter was her sixth reincarnation, not the seventh."

"..."

"If you still consider her your daughter, give me that summoning technique."

He is not a man who likes to fight, nor someone who seeks fame, but to help his daughter, he was willing to get his hands dirty. Gate of Torment looks tiredly at the ground and then pulls out a book from his storage ring.

"What will you do with it?"

"I will rectify your daughter, I will use her until she has paid for all she did to me, but… rest assured, I will never touch a strand of her hair."

Because it is not necessary to do so to cause pain.

He will make her suffer in life, but without harming her.

Lawrence looks towards the mansion and smiles subtly, then his gaze returns to normal and he rushes to Sky Petal. If the others are still able to maintain their guard against that old man, they can't be as bad off as that plant girl.

+++

Days later.

Eminent Greed, without memories, is a very cautious woman. She soon finds defensive magic formations inside the mansion and activates them without a second thought. Lawrence and his companions may have left, but she does not dare leave this place, not until she feels safe.

In her quest to understand herself, she finds various documents narrating the magical theory of all her experiments, but not only that.

"Will of Heaven…"

The term that man mentioned is written on all these pages. Her previous self was obsessed with knowing her destiny.

[Do not become her.]

"Tsk."

Eminent Greed throws all the useless documents away and continues her search.

"This…"

Until she finds it.

In a secluded place of her mansion, she sits down to read what is closest to the diary of her seventh life. It is through this that she understands the general scenario and that her previous self was already prepared for the eventual case of memory loss.

Perhaps because it deals with herself, with her same flaws, she quickly finds some clues that lead her to more hidden life diaries in the mansion. Unexpectedly, she has a vision flaw that allowed her to find these clues without even trying.

She comes back to her senses after some people knock on the door.

Her servants. Servants she expelled before the battle with that man, but not only them.

Her experts, the people who study the cause and effect of millions of reactions. Those who helped her previous self understand and develop the magical theory.

"Come in."

"Good morning, miss."

She has read enough to understand the thoughts of her previous life and… her gaze.

The two main factors to hide to avoid being discovered are her level and her eighth tail. Situations for which her seventh life was already prepared, no, even before her. The diary mentions that she already possessed these magic artifacts before losing her memory.

When her subordinates enter the mansion, she unconsciously directs her gaze to the place where it all began.

Finding a book in the corner of her vision.

Eminent Greed carefully approaches the place, having had enough courage to let her men enter, she cannot stay in this mansion forever.

After picking up the book, she notices a paper protruding from its interior.

[This is the technique your seventh life excelled in. Imitate your previous self, her gestures, her voice, her pride, her arrogance… but never be her. Gain your father’s trust, even if you have to cling to his feet, because that old man is your biggest support.

If you want to see him again, come to the auction. I look forward to seeing your acting skills.

-Lawrence.]

For a moment she intends to crumple the paper, but restrains herself.

"Is this also fate?"

None of her previous lives has been able to evade destiny, and she, unknowingly, is obsessing over it once again.

+++

The battle may have ended, but not the consequences.

"Sky Petal, don't overdo it. Instead of refining those pills, create a medicinal pill that extends my lifespan. While you do that--"

She interrupts Lawrence, "Everything has a limit Lawrence, stop spending your lifespan. You did it in the fight against Disdainful Tempest and you did it against Eminent Greed. Until you reach level 700, I won’t help you."

A level 612 like Lawrence has a lifespan of a thousand years and so far, he has spent more than 50% of it just on healing wounds from hunters who surpass him in level. His healings are free of impurities and eliminate any possible side effects, but in return, each time he has less time to achieve level 700.

Someone like him, who does not have a Way, is only hastening his death.

"Ha! No one is free of sacrifices."

Lawrence crosses his arms and clicks his tongue, until he recovers his mana and rests properly, he cannot continue with the healing of Coldness Divine and Serene Will.

Both have severe injuries. Failing to ascend to level 700 and fighting a ranker of level 800 was simply too much. Sky Petal is the only one who is stable, the others look fine externally, but even lifting an arm hurts them.

After seeing that Sky Petal does not need help, he leaves the refinement room.

Two months later the situation stabilizes.

Serene Will and Coldness Divine are still suffering the aftermath of that battle, they are well enough to train and perform complex movements, but a battle is still far from their capabilities.

What attracts his attention today is Absolute Prominence's bulging belly.

That tiger girl is pregnant.

Lawrence smiles cheerfully at this turn of events. He never thought that his woman with the lowest level would be the most determined, despite the little time it took him to win her heart.

But even so, there is something that troubles him.

"Mental manipulation in Absolute Prominence might be silently ruining her future. If I don't do something, her extraordinary innate ability will be useless to her."

The more Lawrence and his group level up, the more they feel that mental manipulation is not the answer. It is because of this that they only manipulated the sense of belonging and loyalty of the teachers and elders of the Path to Heaven Sect.

No one who does not walk the path with their own feet has the right to reach the summit. The more they manipulate someone's mind, the greater the chances of that person failing in the future. Lawrence does not want this to be the outcome for Absolute Prominence, he does not wish to get rid of her so easily.

If there was something that could decrease the chances, it would be…

"The Boundless Fruit... the corpses from the previous war have advanced its maturation."

The fruit that allows developing the potential of the innate ability of whoever consumes it, as long as that tiger girl's understanding improves, it might not be the end for her.