At this moment, shatter the dimensional barrier

Mark took a deep breath and said solemnly, "But, Colonel, isn't the reason the gods bestowed upon us the power to change our own destiny so that we would bear a responsibility for this world?"

"Isn't it written on the walls of the base that with great power comes great responsibility? Please don't exclude me just because I've just joined."

"Please don't give me any special treatment; it's unfair to me and my comrades."

Erica stood on tiptoe and patted Mark's shoulder playfully, "Lieutenant Mark is right, we don't remember the military ever giving special treatment." She was now a lieutenant, while Mark was still a second lieutenant; she was Captain Mark's senior.

Everyone who obtains the Immortal Mark can directly obtain the rank of lieutenant. As long as they accumulate military merits, they can be promoted to major without any obstacles. She is almost promoted to captain now.

Captain Mark is currently a second lieutenant because he just acquired the fairy mark and the document for promotion to rank has not yet been issued.

“Mark and Erica are speaking our minds. We have divine power that allows us to play a greater role. Instead, we’re just sitting on the front lines eating for nothing. I’m ashamed to be with my comrades,” Mo Cheng said with a serious expression.

Tao Jing nodded with satisfaction: "Alright, I originally wanted to leave you in Xia Country to continue the targeted elimination of monsters, but since you insist, I will approve your permission to come with me to the front lines in Japan."

"Yay!" Erica jumped up and clapped hands with Ran Bing.

Tao Jing took a sealed document out of the drawer and pushed it over: "By the way, Mark, this is the document and appointment approved from above for your promotion. Have Erica and the others take you to collect your new combat uniform and military supplies."

Erica's face fell instantly upon seeing him: "Huh? You're down so soon? I wanted to be Captain Mark's superior for a couple more days."

"Pfft! Hahahaha..." Jeff, Mo Cheng, Fei Xue, and Ran Bing couldn't help but laugh.

Mark shook his head and said with a smile, "You really want to boss me around, don't you? If you want me to take your orders, just tell me directly. You don't need to be my superior." Holding the documents in his hands, an unprecedented sense of honor filled his heart.

"Senior Colonel, thank you for your consideration."

During this period, Colonel Tao took great care of them, for which he was very grateful.

"Alright, you can go now," Tao Jing said.

Mo Cheng put his arm around Mark's neck: "Come on, Captain Mark, I'll take you to get your new combat suit and equipment specifically designed for elemental power. Let me tell you, that equipment is awesome! It's at least 40% more powerful than using elemental power with your bare hands."

"A 40% boost? Is it that good? I've been wanting to try it for a while now, seeing you guys using it, but unfortunately I didn't have enough elemental power before."

"Of course! Captain Mark, with your physique, are you planning to use an axe, boxing gloves, or a hammer?"

"Let's see which ones suit me first."

“Mark…” Morgan opened his mouth as Mark walked past him without greeting him.

He's going to a nursing home soon, and his health probably won't allow him to live more than two years. He also won't be able to take care of Charles. Seeing that Mark has been promoted to officer, he wants to ask him to help look after Charles.

He knew that Charles, by nature, would never submit to anyone, but he would never receive the favor of the gods in this world. Although Charles would not starve to death in this world, it might be more painful for him than death.

“Mr. Morgan, I’m in a hurry.” Mark didn’t stop walking. The smile on his face vanished instantly, replaced by calm: “If you need help, I will ask for your permission. But I have no authority over anyone else but you.”

He knew perfectly well what Lord Morgan was trying to say; he had become more worldly-wise after coming to this world and mingling with his comrades.

But Morgan took good care of him when he was a child, so he will do his best to make sure Morgan has a good time in the nursing home.

“Mark…” Morgan raised her hand, wanting to pull him, but looking at Mark’s back without stopping for a moment, she sighed and slowly lowered her hand.

"Mr. Morgan, you can go back now. We will take care of your son's affairs, so please don't worry," Tao Jing said calmly to the former ruler of the beacon of hope.

Most of the people in the Lighthouse disliked him and would snort at the sight of him.

But she would look at the old man objectively. After all, it was a post-apocalyptic world. Regardless of whether what he did was right or wrong, or whether he had any ambitions, he did indeed allow more humans to survive.

"Alright, then I'll trouble you, Commander Tao." Morgan bowed and slowly walked out of the office.

Tao Jing looked at the documents about Charles on the table.

[The leader of the Light and Shadow Society, whose activities involve severe cult-like brainwashing, refuses ideological reformation, has a vile personality, and exhibits extreme religious beliefs.]

Tao Jing marked the next step of the transformation, assigning her to a pig farm in the Gobi Desert for breeding work, and specifically noted the task of cleaning the pigpens.

……

Garden of Eden.

Everyone except Ishtar returned to Eden, and Los Santos called Ereshkigal and Quetzalcoatl aside.

"W-what's wrong, Los Saint?" Ereshkigal nervously twisted her fingers together. She didn't know why, but she wasn't nervous when chatting with Buyer and Fukaros. However, she couldn't help but feel nervous when facing Los Saint.

She didn't even dare to look at his expression and eyes. Thinking of this, she involuntarily covered her cheeks with her hands, but couldn't help but peek through her fingers.

“Arei…you…” Los Saint found it amusing to look at Arei Shikigal, who looked like a shy little girl, but he felt very comfortable inside. Oh my, a shy little goddess, could it be that she is infatuated with my male beauty?

Even if he doesn't deliberately reveal his temperament, that little bit of primal divinity alone is enough to stir the aesthetic sense of any intelligent being.

Of course, not every goddess would act this way. At most, there would be a basic liking, but it's unlikely to be love at first sight. After all, ordinary people would take a second look at any beautiful woman.

The two goddesses, Ishtar and Ereshkigal, inherited the "tsundere" and "tsundere" traits from Rin Tohsaka, respectively. Ishtar inherited more of the "tsundere" trait, while Ereshkigal inherited more of the "tsundere" trait.

"Eh! What?" When Ai Lei heard Luo Sheng call her name, she was as flustered as if she were seeing her own kitten in the mirror for the first time, and her cheeks flushed red.

"Ara la la~" Seeing this, Quetzal instantly knew that Ereshkigal liked Los Saint, and covered his lips with his hands to make a sound.

"I called you and Quetzal here so I can study your divine cores. Is this a problem for you?" Los Saint asked. Studying divine cores requires penetrating the body with one's mind. Although it's not about sex, it's practically the same as having a complete understanding of the other person's body, so I still need to ask for their opinions.

"Researching the divine core!" Ereshkigal's cheeks flushed instantly as she stared at Los Saint in shock, involuntarily cupping her hands to her chest.

"Do you want to study my divine core, Big Sister? Your Majesty, you're really impatient, making such an excessive request." Quetzal wasn't angry at all; instead, she warmly stepped forward and patted Los Saint on the shoulder: "Although I'm a little shy, it's no problem if it's Your Majesty, God King."

Researching the divine core is nothing more than that. This must be very important to Luo Sheng. She can tell from the clues that Luo Sheng wants to perfect a great undertaking that allows humans to cultivate into gods, and she doesn't mind contributing to it.

She also wanted to see if humans could become gods through cultivation.

"Huh?" Ereshkigal was dumbfounded by Quetzalcoatl's quick agreement. Coming to her senses, she covered her face with her hands, cautiously looking into Los Santos's eyes, which began to swell into tiny, mosquito-coil-like pupils. Almost unconsciously, she whispered, "Then, then I, I, I also, have no problem..."

Only after she finished speaking did Ereshkigal realize what was going on.

Ahhhhh... What am I saying?!

However, since I've already said it... it's not easy to refuse!

"You're so cute, Ereshkigal, hehe." Luo Sheng looked at Ereshkigal, whose face was practically bleeding from embarrassment and whose head was practically steaming, and reached out to pat her head. Who wouldn't like a little goddess who gets shy so easily?

He remembered that Ereshkigal was a hopeless romantic, and once she got into it, she would agree to any request. No wonder she was one of the easiest women to win over in Chaldea. All he had to do was say a few words of praise to her, stay by her side and tell her some stories, and he could win her over without even having to do anything.

"Cute!" Ereshkigal's eyes widened the moment Los Saint praised her, and her voice became muffled: "Really? Me, I'm cute?"

Los Saint didn't hold back his praise: "Of course, you're prettier than Ishtar, prettier than Ishtar, more obedient than Ishtar, gentler than Ishtar. In short, Ishtar can't even compare to a single hair on your head."

Quetzal stared in disbelief at Los Santos, who had uttered such a direct compliment. Was he really praising her? He couldn't help but feel sorry for Ishtar. In the eyes of the God-King, the pitiful Ishtar was not even worth a single hair of her sister's.

“People, well, they’re not that good either.” Ereshkigal lowered her head shyly, tapping her index fingers together.

Luo Sheng said, "Then, let's begin to study your divine core together."

"Okay, okay...please, please be gentle." Ereshkigal's ears were bright red.

"..." Luo Sheng shrugged as he looked at Ereshkigal, whose head was already spinning from being teased. This atmosphere made me feel like I was about to do something bad.

He gently embraced Ai Lei, who instinctively leaned against his chest. Luo Sheng slowly infused his mind into Ai Lei's body. For a moment, Ai Lei instinctively resisted, but then slowly calmed down. However, her turbulent emotions indicated that she was very nervous.

A three-dimensional image of Ai Lei's body appeared in Los Saint's mind.

Ereshkigal also descended through possession, so this body is still made of flesh and blood. However, what he sees is not the inside of the body, but the 'spirit' in the realm of mysticism.

The spirit that Ereshkigal descended into this body was also at the top level among Heroic Spirits, but the limitations of the flesh and blood body she possessed prevented her from exerting her power.

They quickly found the core of the Heroic Spirit, namely the Spirit Origin. The Spirit Origin contains the Heroic Spirit's consciousness, soul, abilities, Noble Phantasm, divinity, and fantastical concepts, among other things.

Ignoring Ai Lei's sudden surge in emotions, Luo Sheng directly focused his mind on her spirit base, and a series of memory images appeared in his mind.

These images are fragments of memories belonging to Ereshkigal and Rin Tohsaka.

Finally, they found the divine core within the spirit origin. It was a conceptual crystal containing a 'rule crystal'.

"So that's how it is, so that's the structure." Luo Sheng's eyes lit up as he quickly analyzed the structure of the divine core.

"What, what structure? Is my body, is it, is it really bad?" Aileen's voice, filled with tension and fear, intertwined with Los Santos's thoughts.

"No, it's absolutely amazing, it's the epitome of beauty." Luo Sheng said without hesitation as he looked at Ai Lei's divine core.

The divine core is a geometric concept beyond human comprehension, perfectly constraining the crystallization of rules.

By fusing one's own will with the divine core, and then indirectly using 'power' through the divine core, one perfectly avoids the risk of self-destruction caused by being impacted by the rules when directly using power.

If we had to use an analogy, then the divine core is like a transformer, which can freely adjust the voltage and output of electricity.

However, Ereshkigal's divine core is much more fragile than her power, which means she can't use 100% of the power's strength; she can only use about 60%.

He remembered that if Ereshkigal's core were quantified, it would be grade B.

Quetzalcoatl's divine core is EX, which is the highest level, even immeasurably high. Therefore, Quetzalcoatl can use his powers at 100% and can even break through the limits.

“Beauty…the embodiment of beauty…mmm~” Ereshkigal buried her face in Los Santos’s chest, tears welling in her eyes with shyness. No one, not even a god, had ever praised her like this before, and no one had ever acknowledged her.

She gently sniffed the scent emanating from Luo Sheng. The rich divine aura made her feel slightly intoxicated. It smelled so good. Ai Lei subconsciously hugged Luo Sheng's waist, her face full of happiness.

Quetzal watched quietly, his face full of smiles, radiating happiness.

"Alright." Los Saint pressed down on Ireshkigal's shoulders, looked at her who was almost falling asleep in his arms, and pushed her away without any mercy.

"Huh?" Ereshkigal blinked blankly, feeling a little uncomfortable being suddenly separated from the warm embrace.

"Quezar, come here." Los Saint looked at Quezar, who was watching the show from the sidelines.

"Okay, do you want me to hug you?" Quetzal opened his arms and said enthusiastically, "Big sister, I also want to be hugged."

"Whatever, just let me see the divine core." Luo Sheng said indifferently. Hadn't he hugged the goddesses enough times? Although it was mostly just a hug with the tiny Buyer, he wasn't losing out.

"Alright~ My dear God-King, I'll hug you then." Quetzal pounced on Los Saint and wrapped his arms around his waist.

"Pfft! You're wrestling." Los Saint felt the squeezing sensation and his face twitched violently. His mind rushed directly into Quetzal's body.

Quetzal's emotions were very stable, a stable and fiery passion. He only felt the joy of a party and found the 'Divine Core' without any resistance.

"Huh!" Los Saint was stunned as he looked at Quetzal's divine core.

Quetzalcoatl's divine core was constantly changing because her several powers were in flux. The powers and the divine core seemed to have become one, and no matter how much power the powers released, the divine core could automatically change to the corresponding output mode.

"This is an EX-level divine core? Isn't this no different from a god descending directly?" Luo Sheng said, patting Quetzal on the shoulder after withdrawing his thoughts.

"Alright, Quetzalcoatl, let me go."

“Wait another half minute. Ereshkigal has been held for several minutes already, so I want to hold her a little longer too,” Quetzal said casually.

"..." Luo Sheng looked at Ai Lei, who was biting her lip, as if Quetzalcoatl had taken away her beloved toy. But the moment she met his gaze, Ai Lei blushed and covered her cheeks with her hands before turning away.

With a thought, Los Saint vanished from Quetzalcoatl's sight in an instant.

"Eh eh eh!" Quetzal's hands were empty, then he put his hands on his hips and sighed, "What a biased God-King."

"Does this have anything to do with favoritism?" Luo Sheng complained.