Heinrich naturally opposed Elsie's proposal vehemently. He knew well the fate awaiting Tonali once she joined his team. In fact, Heinrich believed that even as a member of the Dark Layer System, Tonali would constantly face potential threats from Eve and her allies. Thus, Heinrich directly pointed out Elsie's hidden agenda behind her proposal and angrily declared that no one would harm his daughter. If anyone dared, they would suffer dire consequences!
Though Eve and her allies had significantly enhanced their strength by devouring their offspring, they were well aware that even with this boost, Heinrich, who originally surpassed them in power, would still be unmatched if they were to engage in conflict. Moreover, the strict oversight of the Divine Spirit Realm over conflicts among priests meant any major confrontation would attract intervention and severe punishment. Consequently, their defection plan would be exposed. To prevent Heinrich from tearing them apart and causing more trouble, Eve and her allies proposed an alternative solution: allowing Tonali to escape the Divine Spirit Realm with them. This way, they could ensure Heinrich kept their defection plan confidential and allow him to live with his daughter forever.
Heinrich reluctantly accepted this new proposal. However, what followed infuriated him. The proposal included Tonali not only participating in their escape plan but also serving as a matrix for birthing offspring. For Eve and her allies, failing to devour one of their offspring would severely slow down their defection plan's execution efficiency. Hence, Tonali had to compensate for their loss by birthing offspring.
Moreover, Eve and her allies saw another reason for Tonali to become a matrix. She was Heinrich's female offspring born with a chance of one in a billion. Since birth, she had received careful nurturing from Heinrich, giving her advanced developmental attributes not found in other offspring. Therefore, if Tonali became a matrix, she would undoubtedly birth superior offspring, allowing everyone to gain substantial power after devouring them and accelerating their defection plan.
Facing such a deranged and morally bankrupt proposal, Heinrich naturally opposed it vehemently. Eve and her allies insisted the proposal was the best way to make up for their inability to devour Tonali. Adam even argued that, considering various ethical issues, Heinrich could opt out of directly participating in the birthing process with Tonali. Heinrich glared at Adam's leering face, shaking with anger, wishing to strike down the beast who was verbally insulting his daughter. However, he had to maintain restraint for now. After all, no one standing here was clean. If tensions escalated, not only would everyone suffer, but if Tonali got implicated, it would truly be a loss.
Thus, Heinrich had to silently unclench his fists. Nevertheless, he insisted he would not compromise on Tonali's issue while agreeing to continue serving as a bestower if Eve and her allies abandoned the idea of devouring Tonali. Heinrich's purpose in doing so was not only to expedite Eve and her allies' defection plan and to divert their attention from Tonali.
Moreover, given the serious conflict that had arisen, Heinrich would inevitably split from Eve and her allies immediately after successfully fleeing the Divine Spirit Realm. Therefore, Heinrich also needed to find an exit strategy for himself. Of course, Heinrich had also considered the idea of staying in the Divine Spirit Realm after assisting Eve and her allies in escaping. However, having learned about Eve and her allies' true nature and the serious disagreement with them, Heinrich was well aware these people were absolutely not trustworthy. If Heinrich chose not to escape with them, they would undoubtedly expose his crimes while fleeing, making him a scapegoat for the entire defection plan and suffering severe punishment from the Divine Spirit Realm.
Thinking of this, Heinrich couldn't help but sigh inwardly, acknowledging that now his only choice was to follow Eve and her allies to the end while finding an additional way out for himself! Of course, while continuing to cooperate with Eve and her allies, Heinrich also hoped these people would encounter unforeseen accidents during their purification missions. This way, all knots could be easily untied! Unfortunately, everything Heinrich could think of, Eve and her allies naturally also thought of.
Therefore, after falling out with Heinrich, Eve and her allies became even more cautious. Apart from returning to the Divine Spirit Realm to carry out purification tasks, they assigned all remaining work to other team members within the team. They stuck together in their base located in the Dark Chain Plane and never ventured out easily. Meanwhile, they maintained sufficient vigilance against Heinrich, who had superior strength. This was to prevent Heinrich from acting out of desperation and seizing the opportunity to strike them down.
Thus, in the days that followed, Heinrich and Eve's two groups maintained a covertly hostile cooperation. Although Heinrich had agreed to continue serving as a bestower for Eve and her allies, for safety reasons, Eve and her allies abandoned the idea of Heinrich continuing to participate in their plan. Seeing this, Heinrich ignored Eve and her allies and stated that as long as they continued to complete their work on time, did not cause major chaos during the defection plan, he would continue to give a green light to Eve and her allies' defection plan and turn a blind eye to their actions during the execution of the defection plan.
This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author's consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.
Heinrich was convinced that Eve and the others would never easily give up the opportunity to devour Tonali. Therefore, after Tonali smoothly ascended to the rank of Saint Spirit, Heinrich did everything possible to use his connections and ensure that Tonali would not become a recruit of the Shadow System. As long as his daughter Tonali did not join the Shadow System, there would naturally be no chance for her to be promoted to Purification Envoy out of sequence, nor would Eve and the others have the opportunity to harm her while she carried out missions in the Dark Link plane.
Indeed, Heinrich's approach proved to be wise. Shortly after Heinrich used his mid-level position in the Shadow System to help Tonali completely remove her name from the recruitment list, Elsie took advantage of an opportunity to return to the Divine Realm to perform purification tasks and went to the employee recruitment department of the Shadow System. She attempted to persuade the recruitment department to specially recruit Tonali based on her identity as Tonali's birth mother. Elsie's plan ultimately failed, and she was furious upon learning the truth. As Tonali's biological mother, she was completely unaware of Heinrich's secret maneuvers behind the scenes. However, due to Heinrich's far stronger network of contacts within the Shadow System, Elsie could only reluctantly abandon the idea of recruiting Tonali.
With tensions somewhat eased between both sides due to subsequent intense purification missions, life for Purification Squad P1557 at least superficially returned to harmony. Heinrich finally breathed a sigh of relief and could continue his purification tasks, all the while pondering how to escape from Eve and the others after successfully defecting. He also sought ways to sever all ties with his daughter Tonali, beyond just their father-daughter relationship, to prevent his defection from implicating her. However, what Heinrich didn't expect was that even the superficial return to peace wouldn't last long, shattered completely by Elina's sudden appearance.
Heinrich paused briefly, his emotions suddenly becoming so intense that his breathing grew rapid. He repeatedly rubbed his temples with his gaunt hands, occasionally twitching his prominent Adam's apple, swallowing nonexistent saliva with a gulping sound. Although Heinrich became restless and anxious when mentioning Elina, Haoyun and the others could clearly sense that Heinrich's emotions were not just anger, but also faintly tinged with lasciviousness and excitement.
"Hmph! This guy never changes, incorrigible!" Dream Jia saw Heinrich's mouth curl into a lascivious smile and couldn't help but curse.
Heinrich didn't show anger at Dream Jia's sarcasm. He simply chuckled complicatedly twice and then continued to recall the situation at that time. Heinrich remembered that they were preparing to hold a work meeting for the purification mission that day, only to be interrupted by a sudden thunderous sound. According to Heinrich's memory, the thunder was unusually loud, shaking the entire base violently. Everyone's first reaction was that the base must have encountered a dark energy storm occasionally appearing in the Sea of Gestation, and the dark energy lightning mixed in the dark energy storm had struck the base!
Everyone was well aware that once the dark energy lightning penetrated the outer shielding barrier of the base, the dense fog of the Sea of Gestation would invade the interior of the base, disintegrating everyone inside the base into energy consumed by the Sea of Gestation in a very short time. Therefore, after the accident, everyone's faces showed fearful expressions, and they immediately inspected the damage to the base. The result that relieved everyone was that there were no traces of damage caused by the dark energy lightning to the base.
However, another alarming thing occurred. Shortly after the dark energy lightning struck nearby, Heinrich discovered a purplish-red lightning in the teleportation hall below the base. This lightning came quickly and disappeared quickly. Moreover, after this strange lightning disappeared, the teleportation hall had an unusual figure wrapped in purple-black energy all over the body except for the head. Naturally, this strange figure was Elina.
"Heinrich, are you okay?" Seeing Heinrich's abnormal emotions again after mentioning Elina's name, Haoyun frowned and asked.
"Huff! Huff—! I-I'm fine!" Heinrich replied. Although he was trying hard to restrain his emotions, Haoyun and the others could still see a hint of greedy desire from the corners of Heinrich's mouth twitching.
Indeed, from the moment Heinrich first saw Elina, he was completely infatuated with Elina's appearance as if he had been enchanted. Moreover, he erupted with a desire much stronger than when he first saw Elsie and her sister. It was then that Heinrich felt once again the cracks appearing on the seal that had just healed inside him. Heinrich knew very well that the reappearance of this feeling meant that his plan to reseal the original sin was about to fail.
Although driven by the incessant incitement of lustful desire, Heinrich released a strong animal desire for the enchantress wrapped in purple-black energy before him. However, Heinrich quickly controlled his impulsive emotions with the remaining trace of reason in his heart. Therefore, Heinrich quickly changed his expression and commanded Haoyun and the others to investigate the origin of this person. Then, he hurriedly left the scene on the grounds of preparing for the next purification action.
It should be noted that the strange woman is an illegal intruder of the base of the Divine Realm! Moreover, judging from the behavior of the woman who easily broke through the barrier used to resist the sea of gestation, she must be a very powerful enemy. However, when facing such a serious incident, Heinrich not only did not immediately declare an emergency and personally led the team to capture the intruder, but also just left a command in a perfunctory manner and left? His complete disregard for the safety of the base of the Divine Realm was simply a serious act of dereliction of duty! If Heinrich's behavior at this time were reported to the Divine Realm, he would definitely be severely punished by the Divine Realm.