Chapter 450 - 340: Rankings, Part 2
If Cleia’s appearance at this time was an expected delight, then Sifrin’s unexpected entrance was a delightful surprise.
The Eighth Divine Consort, Sifrin Windsor!
When the once Saintess of Light appeared in all her regalia at this ranking, everyone—dragons, elves, dwarves—essentially all attendees, including members of the Windsor Clan, widened their eyes in disbelief.
Based on everyone’s understanding of Sifrin Windsor’s renowned reputation, her getting into Lynn’s harem might be solely thanks to her beauty, but even if she mixed into the True God’s harem, no one thought she could rank very high.
The general expectation for her was to be at the bottom; anything besides the bottom seemed out of place because she was the kind of mischievous person who, with her small mistakes and troublemaking deeds combined, could string together the Miracle World and Demon Realm into one skewered mess, with the skewer extending a very long way...
Even if Lynn loves mischievous playful puppies, he still has to consider his reputation.
Therefore, people couldn’t understand how Sifrin ranked eighth; it clearly was not a fair ranking, they must have gone through the back door!
Sifrin, who was trying hard to maintain her glamorous appearance today, had no idea what people were thinking. Otherwise, she would have angrily scolded them for knowing—no, for making things up!
She was only in the middle ranks among the divine consorts, not taking a lead position, what did that have to do with using connections? It was merely a normal operation!
Regardless of the specifics, since Sifrin managed to accumulate strength and achieve eighth place, joining Cleia for a Windsor double win, it was a delightful result for the Windsor Clan and the First Empire.
As a result, the attention fell for the rankings that followed, when the small Dragon Princess Eve appeared at ninth, adding to Natasha’s higher ranking, making the Giant Dragon Empire one of today’s winners.
Then another group of divine consorts appeared tied.
Eldest Princess of the Sunset Empire.
Eldest Princess of the Star Moon Empire.
Eldest Princess of the Eagle Empire.
Eldest Princess of the Endless Empire.
Eldest Princess of the Lolan Empire.
The eldest princesses of the Five Great Empires tied for the tenth divine consort position.
The emperors of the Five Great Empires remained silent about this result, fully aware that these princesses had been forced on Lord Lynn by the late emperors. They knew that being a coerced match, no matter how appealing or refreshing it might be once open, wasn’t likely to grant them high status in the harem.
The late emperors didn’t care about their sisters’ happiness; they merely wanted to please the once Miracle Saint Emperor, now True God, and perhaps put someone by his side for potential future use.
It was somewhat cruel, sacrificing their daughters’ lifelong happiness for a gain that might never materialize. Such is the ruthlessness of royalty...
But the emperors of the Five Nations did not think the late emperors were wrong, as they would have done the same.
If the relationship between the Eight Great Empires and Lynn were similar, there wouldn’t be much more to say.
But the Empress Helena went all in, allowing her Celestial Mandate Empire to surpass the other six major empires and stand side by side with the Light Empire; who could stay calm?
Either treat everyone equally or compete fairly, but if you choose to magnify your actions at every turn, then you can’t blame your peers for coming up with countermeasures!
It’s not only the Celestial Mandate Empire that produces stunning empresses; we too have the first beauties!
It’s just that the Giant Dragon Empire, with its robust and simple-minded individuals, always seemed full of muscles and yellow paint in their heads and don’t seem very smart, yet when it came to sending forth a princess, they did it better than other empires.
They managed to choose a young female dragon from their already scarce royal dragon beauties who had a good relationship with Lynn. It’s downright cheating to have species memory; among the Eight Great Empires, only the dragons reacted to hearing Lynn’s name or seeing his semblance.
The Princess Squad was a collective affair; Cleia coming from the First Empire, the Light Empire, already had an ambiguous past with Lynn, so her taking the lead was understandable. But for the Giant Dragon Empire to exploit its advantage to grab the front ranks is truly infuriating.
Though technically the front is not that far forward, it’s only ninth, but it still outshines the other five princesses who all shared the tenth rank, that’s a visible difference!
As the emperors of the Five Nations brooded over this and couldn’t help but turn their angry gazes towards the Dragon Emperor, the only emperor among the Eight Great Empires to remain unchanged in recent years, the segment of divine consorts’ entrance came to an end.
Finally, there was the smallest of them all, Angela, who was almost unnoticeable behind her elder sisters.
Since Sifrin wasn’t the last ranked, it had to be her who was.
In no aspect could she compare to her elder sisters, so being placed fifteenth on the list didn’t bother her a bit.
She felt lucky enough; an ordinary girl getting to marry the World-saving Hero, the True God of the human world, who was also the favored man of Lady Goddess of Nature and Life, perfectly matching her every criterion for an ideal partner!
Having such a husband, what more could a wife ask for?
Ranking fifteenth was just fine; how many love-struck girls like her dream to rank even fifteenth hundredth without success!
With Angela’s entrance, the ceremony for conferring divine consorts was complete, readying for the next phase.
The process mirrored that like the one on the Demon Realm side, still with Lynn personally conferring his wives as divine consorts.
He also prepared a heartfelt confession of love lasting three minutes for each wife.
Regardless of whether it was a princesses or Angela or Sifrin, none were exceptions.
Say what you will, Lynn wouldn’t claim to be extraordinary, but when it came to being broad-minded, he was impressive once he unlocked that part of himself.
He genuinely loved each of his wives; though he might not master complete balance immediately, he had plenty of time to improve.
He wasn’t aware of the thoughts of the Five, possibly Six, , along with the late emperors. They might feel justified in sacrificing the princesses’ happiness, but if Lynn knew, he would definitively refute them.
Marrying me, Lynn, guarantees happiness!
He would offer them one hundred percent, not a fraction less!
It’s truly difficult for them not to be happy in the Lin Family. He wasn’t boasting; possessing both the roles of World-saving Hero and True God, while being physically impressive, handsome, humorous, and able to manage both court and kitchen, capable in leisure and bedroom, the princesses couldn’t be unsatisfied with him.
The only possible downside to him as a god was his lack of exclusivity.
But they were princes of empires, not modern women, and in a world where polygamy was allowed, especially being from the royal houses accustomed to such norms, expecting them to pursue the ideal of one lifelong love seemed illogical instead.
Yet novels prioritize logic, aiming at coherence, but reality doesn’t adhere to logic, it’s often a chaotic mess...
The Miracle World and the Demon Realm both had fifteen consorts each, so Lynn’s conferral took forty-five minutes this time as well.
The final outcome matched that of the Demon Realm, the entire process proceeded flawlessly, the Demon Realm’s Demon Gods remained silent during the imperial consorts’ conferment ceremony, just as the Miracle World’s gods held their tongues during the divine consorts’ ceremony.
In the past, the Upper Realms on either side tried hard to bring him to ascension, but once he became a god and lingered in the human world, both Upper Realms seemed to have decided to relent.
Lynn didn’t understand but thought to delay deliberation, as the day was joyous, a time of beauty not to be wasted...
