Two bodies found themselves knelt one in front of the other in the middle of the cave. Richter was already prepared to begin, Selodus' corpse was to the side, cast away like rubble.

Richter's crimson eyes were fixed on Grayfia's silver ones as she discarded her new maid robes away, remaining naked in front of him.

The two knelt down at the same level and he could perceive Grayfia's rough breathing.

"Richter-sama I'm re-"

"Why did you cast your clothes away?"

"I'm more comfortable this way"

He sighed, Grayfia seemed to have lost her shame. She knelt in front of him, placing her arms on either side of her body with her eight wings completely extended.

Being comfortable? it was the least of Grayfia's worries, in her mind was something else that she desperately needed acknowledgement for.

'Am I not sexy enough?'

He looked her up and down several times, enough to ogle at even the faintest details of her body, but she still failed to find lust in sight, there was admiration, but not lust.

'Why? why do I want him to feel lust?' She couldn't understand that primal need, since it was her first time in love, Grayfia decided to blame her devil senses, though her mother never explained anything like this.

"You're a devil and I am a dragon, while I find you alluring and desirable... my mating instincts won't be triggered by your body just yet, Grayfia" Richter answered, scratching his head, trying to say it in a way that she wouldn't feel bad.

"Did you read my mind?!" Rather than analyse his words, Grayfia was shocked by the sudden realisation.

"I didn't… but a lot of women have looked at me with those eyes, fairies mostly.... after showing me their bodies it seems they expect me to push them down right away" His voice contained annoyance.

Dragons venerated beauty, but overall dragons venerated strength... he just couldn't get on with a woman he considered 'weak'.

"..." Grayfia's gaze fixed on him with a frown.

"Then… w-what would it take?"

"Hmn?"

"What do I have to show you… for you to desire to push me down?" She asked him shamelessly, a little frustrated that he is so different from the dragons of her world. They're said to be unable to control their lust and they claim whoever they desire right on the spot.

Not feeling desired made her feel frustrated because she couldn't think of what she could do to become more 'beautiful' without realising that beauty wasn't the issue.

Richter understood her predicament but right now was not the moment to discuss those things.

"Become a Demon Goddess first, then we will talk about that~" He smirked in challenge… and she readily accepted with a nod.

Much to her surprise he pushed her down on the now polished golden floor that she had created, she felt it was cold.

Richter surprised her even more when he got on top of her, sitting on her lower abdomen.

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The blush was immediate, he was on top of her smirking, a position where she felt completely dominated.

"R-Richter-sama?"

"What?"

"Is this position...necessary?"

"It is not... but you wanted me to push you down, no?" He took one of her wings and licked it like last time, the only nice feature about those wings was that they were so slim, that this position shouldn't be uncomfortable for her, if he was in that position, it would be uncomfortable due to his wingspan.

A flustered Grayfia resisted the urge to moan while he ran his hand along her abdomen, drawing a circle around her breast.

"P-Please..."

"Please what, Grayfia?" He growled, a little loudly.

"Please carry on with the trial..." She evaded his gaze, realising that her words could be easily misinterpreted.

The Golden Dragon God felt he teased her enough; his hand hovered above the corpse of the Demon God, right on the chest... there was a slight shaking in the room before the heart shot out of the demon's heart on its own, entering Richter's hand!

*BAANGG!!*

The heart looked hideous and demonic, palpitating at a fast pace; its mere appearance frightened Grayfia.

"Isn't he completely turned into gold?" She thought the heart would be turned into gold considering how long the corpse had been in that lake due to the gold corrosion.

"The rest of the corpse is... but the heart is originally from a primal entity, the Primordial Demon. My gold is unable to completely petrify it, I can at most seal it or destroy it. Moreover, if this heart is destroyed it will merely reappear once again in another random demon of the Multiverse. That is why I kept it inside Seledus' corpse... this is one of my most valuable treasures, and I'm giving it to you" He explained.

Unless every single demon in the multiverse was extinguished, this heart would never stop palpitating.

Upon seeing the heart in his hand and his focus on her body, Grayfia's heart began palpitating furiously as an omen, she knew what was to come and became apprehensive. Having sustained heavy injuries in battle; pain was something she was used to, but... her heart had never been gouged out.

'This is going to help me get stronger…' She kept convincing herself.

"I'm ready… do it!" She yelled and closed her eyes, it was now or never.

Richter chuckled but he didn't do it right away, instead, he looked at her for a good minute as if making a decision, he gripped a golden scale on his shoulder and began pulling it.

*CRACK!!*

"Richter-sama!" Grayfia yelled in apprehension seeing how he technically tore apart a scale from his body! the place where the scale used to be was bleeding but the dragon was smiling.

"Are you ready?"

"Y-Yes" She couldn't focus properly now, her whole intent was focused on his wound, it was the first time she saw him bleeding. As expected, his blood was gold in colour.

His hand hovered above her chess area and she felt the most stirring pain she had ever felt in her life. Unlike before, the room didn't shake... her skin opened gruesomely and her heart came out, the valves that connected it to her body were torn bloodily before the heart finally landed in his hand.

Her eyes gaped, feeling as if life was fleeing from her like a river flowing into the void.

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[Grayfia Lucifuge, if you don't do something... you will perish in the next two minutes].

She knew that much, as the world became darker the silhouette of Richter sitting on her lower abdomen was all she could see, in one of his hands he had her heart, looking at it before he smiled.

She spat blood and her eyes turned watery, in this situation her mind began considering the worst, he wasn't going to do it, she would die here.

"This heart of yours is going to be my treasure now, Grayfia. Don't worry, I will keep it for eternity~"

The heart began to turn into gold before he gave it a brief lick in front of her.

"Q-Quick…ly… p-please..." Her eyes began to close ever so slightly, her breath turning weaker and weaker.

Richter smiled, putting away her heart before he picked up the golden scale that he just dropped and placed it on top of the Heart Lineage, then he pushed both of them together into her chest before his eyes began to shine with a golden light!

'W-Why?!' Grayfia's last wisp of consciousness caught this, he had placed his golden scale inside her body.

The maid felt as if her body began to burn from the inside out at that very moment, the gold began to seal everything, recreating it the way it had been before, but with a new heart and a dragon scale inside.

The moment the heart entered her body and began to palpitate, pumping blood... it was as if whatever pain she was feeling increased a thousandfold!

It was too much to take, her consciousness gave away and everything became black.

Little did she know, Richter exhaled a deep breath with a goldish hue; feeling the connection with her consciousness and the Heart Lineage, then... his eyes also became pitch black and he fell on top of her.

The trial had begun.