Outer Gods invade, stuff them all into your equipment inventory.

As Sean walked toward the library, he was aboard a luxurious airship that was taking off from Settlement Thirteen.

Ye Wanqing leaned gracefully against the porthole, her gaze indifferent as she looked down at the city and crowds below that were gradually shrinking.

As the airship ascended higher and higher, the bustling streets and busy figures on the ground eventually turned into a blurry, moving dot, as tiny as an ant colony.

"These lowly creatures, aren't they just a bunch of ants?"

A slight smile curved her lips.

She gently swirled the crystal glass in her slender, snow-white hand, then drank the blood-red liquid in one gulp.

Just yesterday, she received a call from her father.

She was sent to the third gathering place, where her father had already found her a "son-in-law" to marry into the family.

A boy who is said to be exceptionally talented.

Once she arrives at Settlement Number Three, she will hold an engagement ceremony with that genius boy, and from then on, she will return to live in Settlement Number Three.

"Finally, I'm leaving this awful place!"

"I can finally go back!"

She murmured to herself, gazing at the scenery rushing past the window.

The gentle smile that usually graced his face had vanished without a trace, replaced by an expression of disgust.

Anyone familiar with Ye Wanqing would be baffled by her current demeanor, wondering why the gentle and kind-hearted Miss Ye Wanqing would act this way.

Since arriving at Gathering Place 13 three years ago, she has always worn that "mask" of kindness.

Only now has she finally been able to discard that mask.

"I stayed at Settlement Thirteen for three years, a full three years."

"For three years, I've had to smile at a bunch of ants. It's disgusting!"

These three years of experience made her feel quite uncomfortable.

She is the granddaughter of a B-rank hero, the daughter of an A-rank hero, and the direct heir of a long-established hero family.

Ye Wanqing always had an innate awareness of her noble lineage.

Even though she didn't awaken to become a hero and was just an ordinary person, this sense of superiority never disappeared.

At the Brave Association, the thirteenth gathering place, Ye Wanqing always greeted people with a warm smile, sitting behind the counter every day.

She patiently handled the business for all sorts of brave people, and her attitude was impeccable.

However, that was just a mask she deliberately created.

She has always looked down on the commoner heroes she serves.

"They're just a bunch of guys who got awakened because of good luck, a bunch of peasants with no family background whatsoever."

"True nobility stems from bloodline and heritage. The nobility of our lineage of heroes is something those lowly fellows will never understand."

There's a saying that goes, "Useless yet arrogant," and Ye Wanqing fits that description perfectly.

She has been searching for talented and brave individuals worth investing in at Gathering Place No. 13.

He wanted to use the other party's strength to solidify his precarious position as a direct descendant within the family.

But now her father has given her a better option—to marry a genius son-in-law.

She rushed back to Gathering Point 3 this time to complete her engagement with him.

Once the engagement is finalized, all the crises within her family will be resolved.

"I heard that my future husband is only eighteen years old, but he already has the strength of a C-rank hero."

Ye Wanqing was overjoyed and quite satisfied with this.

At eighteen years old, with the strength of a C-rank hero, he could be considered outstanding and had a promising future even in large cities.

"Moreover... I heard that he also possesses a special hero bloodline power that can reduce the experience points required to level up a hero."

Thinking about this made her even happier.

The power of the warrior's bloodline is the fundamental reason why those scions of warrior families look down on ordinary warriors.

The ancestors of the hero family obtained a special bloodline through some fortuitous encounters or personal efforts.

Whether or not a family has a lineage of heroes is the sole criterion for judging whether a family is a family of heroes.

Heroes from noble families possess one or more additional abilities from the moment they awaken compared to other heroes.

This is an innate "privilege" that allows them to have a significant head start over ordinary heroes.

The existence of the bloodline power of heroes also gave them the confidence to look down on those common heroes and regard them as inferior.

Reduces the experience points required to level up a hero—this special hero bloodline power seems to have nothing to do with increasing combat power.

However, Ye Wanqing knew very well just how terrifying this ability was.

While others can only level up once with the same amount of experience points, you can level up one and a half times.

In the short term, this is just a tiny difference.

However, with the accumulation and amplification day after day and year after year, this difference will form a despairing class divide.

"Hero Rank is the foundation of a hero's existence..."

While your peers are still struggling to break through their limitations, you have already gained immense power by reaching a higher level.

"With the resources of our Ye family as a backing, my future husband can become a B-rank hero in three years at most, and will definitely become an A-rank hero within 10 years. If he is lucky, it is not impossible for him to become an S-rank hero."

The more Ye Wanqing thought about it, the more she felt she had struck gold.

An S-rank hero!

The Ye family has a history spanning thousands of years, but only their ancestor has ever reached the level of an S-class hero.

Ye Wanqing knew that, in name only, her future husband was a son-in-law of the family.

In reality, however, the Ye family considered him far more important than Ye Wanqing herself.

To put it bluntly, she was more of a tool for the family to keep this genius in check and, incidentally, to pass on the power of the hero's bloodline, which could reduce the experience points needed for a hero's level to increase, to the Ye family.

"It's not what I originally planned, but that's okay..."

Being a tool is enough for her; as long as she can benefit from the situation and rise in rank along with others, that's enough.

Ye Wanqing has always been arrogant and domineering, but she is not stupid. On the contrary, she is exceptionally clear-headed in some aspects.

She knew very well that even her own father and grandfather would not allow her to have her way in this matter.

This is a major event that concerns the future fate and development of the entire family.

She is indeed the only heir of the Ye family in this generation, but she is not the only option for the Ye family.

If she fails to win over her future fiancé's heart, there will be plenty of people in her family who want to take her place.

"So I must keep that fiancé firmly in my grasp."

Ye Wanqing had already begun to plan how to win the favor of the other party after arriving at the third gathering place.

She had a lot of experience with this, and at this moment Ye Wanqing smiled particularly charmingly.

According to information from her family, her fiancé is 180 cm tall and weighs 153 kg, and is a handsome man.

"She's my type..."

He is tall, strong, and not too fat.

A vague image of a dark-skinned physical education student appeared in her mind.