Rise Of The Anti God

Damien's voice didn't even waver in the slightest when he put out the second condition.

Olivia Rong squinted her eyes and said in a toneless voice, "And why would you request an audience with my daughter?"

'Daughter? Oh please…' Damien sneered inwardly.

"It's nothing much. I have heard of the rumors of how her beauty and elegance even puts the moon to shame. I simply want to witness her otherworldly visage." Damien spoke in an tone filled with admiration.

'In the end, he is just like any tail wagging dogs who lusts after her so-called beauty.' Olivia Rong snickered inwardly.

"Oh? I thought Alchemist Azrael was only interested in pursuing the way of alchemy. I didn't know that you don't mind sparing time for witnessing my daughter's humble beauty. But it can surely be done as I am sure my daughter would be also pleased to meet a genius such as yourself." 

Olivia Rong's tone sounded in such a way that she was subtly mocking Damien but at the same time complimenting him, making one unable to know whether to feel indignant or happy. She didn't mind using Lily to gain some favors obviously but still didn't want to make it seem like she would let any nobody to see her.

'She surely is a woman who can't accept defeat…Just wait for it woman...when I bring you down from your pedestal.' Damien smirked inwardly.

Olivia Rong felt that Damien was taking advantage of her, so she couldn't help but let out a sliver of her true self, after all she considered herself a proud empress of an empire.

She after all couldn't afford to offend the only alchemist who could concoct Supreme Tier Pills, even the Xeton Empire wouldn't offend him without reason.

She wanted Damien to concoct some breakthrough pills, one of the reasons being her eldest son was having a bottleneck at the tenth level of the Nascent Ethereal Realm.

She was grooming him up to be the next emperor after all. His cultivation can't be weak or no one would pay him any importance. But she knew that he wasn't that talented and was too lazy to cultivate. The reason Evan Rong even had his current cultivation was because she paid a fortune to procure top tier pills for increasing his cultivation.

His cultivation base wasn't even stable since most of the time he did nothing except take pills to increase his cultivation. Olivia Rong already had made him take many breakthrough pills but they were of no use since their potency could only help so much and Evan Rong's unstable cultivation base didn't make it any easier for him to breakthrough. No matter how many top tier Spirit Breakthrough Pills he takes, he would never breakthrough.

Which is why Olivia Rong was worried since she knew she did a blunder by making him rely only on resources to increase his cultivation base fast. The more unstable one's cultivation base, the harder it would be to stabilize and breakthrough. 

But when she heard about the existence of an alchemist who could supposedly concoct the mythical Supreme Tier Pills, her excitement knew no bounds. A pill containing 100% of the medical essence would surely completely assimilate in one's body, thus guaranteeing the effects to be reflected in the body.

Even she had a hard time believing such an alchemist to pop up in her empire and wondered to whom the Imperial Ethereal Court had given an anonymous recommendation letter.

She was angry that Oswin Rong didn't inform her about such a genius and wondered why he would let go of such a genius instead of enticing him to join their Imperial Ethereal Court, otherwise probably she could have monopolized Damien for herself.

"But no need to bother the Celestial Princess about my request at least for two weeks. I have some work to take care of." Damien casually said.

Olivia Rong nodded, "Hmm...then when can I expect the pill to be delivered?"

"I currently don't have a place to stay. So, if I were to get the required ingredients and a place to concoct my pills comfortably, I could even deliver it by tomorrow." Damien said

Olivia Rong's eyes twitched seeing how shameless Damien was being. He not only put out two conditions but now was indirectly asking her for even a house and some Rank 3 Pills. She felt like stringing up Damien and making him cough out pills.

But she knew it was too late to do that since even the Xeton Empire must have got the news of Damien's prowess in alchemy and he was now officially a part of the Alchemist Society.

She was wondering from where Damien suddenly popped up, as someone as powerful as Damien should be well known in the Rong Empire. She didn't think that he was coming from the other three empires since why would someone from a prosperous empire settle down in a poor empire?

But she currently had no excuse to probe Damien and didn't want to risk it considering even Rowan couldn't see through Damien. 

She forced a smile as she said, "I can give you the keys to the villa located on Marvin Street. I am sure you would find your stay comfortable and you are allowed to stay for as long as you like."

Olivia Rong had to make sure at least she gets some profit out of this shameless person. If she could monopolize the first few Supreme Tier Pills, she was sure it would go up in price later and would even cause the current market to be unstable for a while.

"Well, why not." Damien decided not to push for anymore since he knew Olivia Rong is someone who remembers every slight offense and would try to make things harder for him in some other way if he pushed his luck anymore. Anyway he got more than he had initially imagined.

"Then since everything is settled, you may leave. I will send someone to hand over the keys on your way out." 

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Damien went to a local merchant guild and sold all the ethereal beast cores he had collected in bulk. It wasn't a surprise that he only got a few hundred Green Spirit Stones for all his trouble since they were only low level ethereal beast cores.

He then toured around the streets and even visited some shops selling clothes for girls. After all, he had promised Valentina he would bring suitable clothes for her to wear next time he visits her.

It was night when Damien had toured most of the streets and finally he came in front of a pub named 'Royal Lion'. It seemed quite luxurious from the outside and was not a place commoners could enter.

Damien ordered a drink and was sitting before a small table on his own and had his ears open listening to the chatter of the people around him.

But what caught his attention was the discussion among two men behind him, 

"Hey, have you heard that Skinny Face was missing since yesterday?"

"Skinny Face? Why do I feel like I have heard that name somewhere? Who is he anyway?"

"You don't know him?? His mother's father-in-law is the famed Typhoon Lord from the Gale Empire!"

"You mean his grandpa? Couldn't you just say it like that?"

"That's not the point! Who knows what's going to stir up in our empire the coming days. Hope Skinny Face is just playing his usual pranks. Also, there were rumors of finding three bizarre corpses in the Dark Forest. Two of them were outer disciples of the Imperial Ethereal Court who had huge charred holes in their chest while the third one was the eerie looking body of an old man who had a bloody hole in his chest. But the strange thing was, the body of the old man had the clothes of an inner disciple of the Imperial Ethereal Court."

"What, that doesn't make any sense. Which old man in our empire is crazy enough to strut around the Dark Forest trying to impersonate a disciple of the prestigious Imperial Ethereal Court?"

"You are still not getting the point. Who killed these three people in this creepy fashion? Some are even getting scared of going near the Dark Forest. It was already dangerous enough but now there's an unknown entity who dares to even kill the disciples of the Imperial Ethereal Court. I wonder if they would take any action or just ignore it since they didn't suffer any losses from losing some outer disciples."

...

Damien didn't seem to care about what the Imperial Ethereal Court was going to do but he narrowed his eyes as he thought of one thing, 'Typhoon Lord? Seems like I have to prepare myself for an imminent storm.'