Although ripping apart a Tier 8 god with one's bare hands seemed a bit absurd in Daoist Lingyang's eyes, Gu Nan had done it many times before.
Azure blood splashed out from the back of Emma's neck. Thanks to Gu Nan's monstrous strength, cracks began to appear all over Emma's divine body.
"Who… are you?" Emma couldn't catch her opponent's figure at all and only felt pain coming from her entire body, which was enduring a frenzy of blows.
Of course her question went unanswered.
Emma tried to escape, attempting to get away from Gu Nan's crazed attacks, but she, who had never been good at combat, simply couldn't do it.
However, no matter how slow-witted she was, at this time, she also realized that this incident was never a simple matter of a merchant's underhanded profit-making scheme, but rather… an outright conspiracy!
A conspiracy completely aimed at her in an attempt to kill her in a main plane!
Emma hadn't been in such a sorry state ever since the first Great War.
Her laws were easily shattered by her opponent, and her supreme divine power was completely useless, like a pebble sinking into the sea when she hit her opponent with it, unable to elicit even the tiniest reaction.
"Who in the world is this person?" Although she was in such a desperate situation, Emma was still in the mood to ponder this question.
Of course it wasn't because this Love God didn't fear death, but because she didn't believe she was going to die here, even if her enemy was exceedingly powerful.
"You cannot kill me, Your Excellency." Emotion gradually faded from Emma's voice, "I think we should put aside our prejudice and talk."
Even faced with an assassin who launched a sneak attack, the god was still able to make rational judgments. The Love God was just hot-tempered, not a nutjob like Karina.
However, Gu Nan didn't react to her gesture of kindness at all and even intensified his attacks.
The scars on Emma's divine body were increasing, and blue blood flowed all over her body, resembling a porcelain filled with blue pigment.
"It's useless." Emma finally gave up resisting altogether and let her divine body be destroyed. "Why do you want to kill me? Why don't we sit down and talk? I can help you."
She looked like a knowing older sister at this point. "For love? Your lover left you? Or fell in love with someone else?"
"As long as no other gods are involved, I can make any young girl fall in love with you unconditionally."
Wham!
Gu Nan's fist finally struck Emma's head, smashing her skull apart. He seemed to have completely ignored her earlier words.
"I told you, it's useless," Emma's voice remained calm, even if it was beginning to distort due to the damage to her vocal cords.
She seemed to have faced such a scene many times before, so she was able to appear unperturbed.
The next second, a pink mist rose up and began to envelop Emma's entire body, gradually restoring her body to its original state.
The process wasn't fast and was nowhere near as quick as some actual resurrection abilities. It could even be forcibly interrupted.
Gu Nan, however, knew how frightening this ability was. It could only be interrupted, but would never lose effectiveness.
In other words, the God of Love was immortal. It was because of this ability that she was able to survive the Great War, which had the heaviest death toll.
Love was immortal, and as long as love still existed in the world, the God of Love would not perish.
"Love exists forever in the world." Emma's head had fully regenerated. "Please stop your meaningless attacks, Your Excellency."
The God of Love could not be destroyed, even by a super powerful greater god like the Ruler of Light and Justice or by a player who finished Round Two.
Gu Nan didn't know what the significance of this setting was, or perhaps it was just bad taste on the part of the game designers, but he knew how to crack it.
To be precise, it wasn't by cracking the "love is eternal" point, but bypassing this point to kill the God of Love.
Elise appeared in Gu Nan's hands, or rather, in front of Emma.
Emma stared blankly, not understanding what this meant. "Your Excellency…"
"Go on, take back your birthright." Gu Nan, however, simply gave Elise a gentle push, and the little girl suddenly rushed towards the Love God with a face full of bewilderment.
Emma, who was in the middle of recovering, was powerless to resist and could only watch as the little girl crashed into her.
"I don't know if love is eternal, but you certainly aren't."
A shadow longsword coalesced in Gu Nan's hand, which he stabbed into the center of Emma's forehead without hesitation, and a flash of golden light began to flicker.
That was where the Godhead was located.
Normally, the Godhead would only be exposed when a god died and could not be attacked at any other time.
Not even Emma herself knew why her Godhead would appear at this time.
"It's because of love." Gu Nan pointed at Elise, who was being pulled forth by the light emanating from the Godhead and slowly walking forward.
Her body gradually overlapped with Emma's. Only then did Emma realize that the young girl was extremely similar to her in height, silhouette, and physique.
"There has only ever been one generation of the God of Love, and that was the case since you first emerged, but that is not the complete truth," Gu Nan continued to speak, his words piercing straight through Emma's heart like the sharpest blade.
As if Emma had realized something, a low scream of terror came out of her mouth, "No…"
Elise gradually merged with the golden light, and a strange radiance began to emerge on her face. Gu Nan was very familiar with this—it was divinity.
For mortals, becoming a god was a very difficult thing. But for some people, they only needed to take one step to become a god.
Love might be eternal, but when the God of Love's divine authority was stripped away, Emma would no longer be eternal.
Bang!
Gu Nan landed another punch, and this time, Emma's head exploded like a watermelon, disappearing completely from the world.
In the air, the golden glow from Elise's body grew brighter and brighter.
On the ground, old Fox finally arrived, and he shouted into the air like a madman, "Elise! Elise!"
Elise slowly opened her eyes and looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar figure below, pausing for a while before she vacantly responded, "Father."
Old Fox sighed heavily in relief. No matter what happened, it was fine as long as Elise was fine.
But Elise wasn't really fine. She was no longer the mortal maiden of the past; she was now the new God of Love.
There weren't many instances of a mortal ascending to godhood in one fell swoop, and Elise happened to be one of them. The reason for that was due to her mother.
Even old Fox himself didn't know that the girl he met by chance in his early years was actually the incarnation of another God of Love.
She died at Emma's hands in the first Great War, and from then on, the divine authority of the God of Love was held solely by Emma.
But again, due to the characteristics of the God of Love's eternal existence, that fallen goddess's divine power did not die out, but remained in the main planes and was even absorbed by some mortal women to create incarnations.
"Elise, are you alright?!" The old man pulled his daughter in front of him and carefully examined her to make sure she wasn't hurt.
"She's never been better." Gu Nan's voice came from the side while looking at Elise, "You can marry now, but I must warn you."
"The person who becomes the husband of the God of Love may run into some strange events, so you'll have to help him."
Having a romantic relationship with the God of Love was actually equivalent to interfering with her divine duties, so the violator would be admonished and punished by the laws of the world, unless the God of Love herself was willing to influence the world in turn.
"Plus… no one dares to marry me anymore, right?" Elise asked calmly.
After Gu Nan's publicity stunt, her infamous reputation had become even more entrenched in people's hearts.
"Theoretically, that's true." Gu Nan nodded and looked at Daoist Lingyang again. "Oh right, didn't you say yesterday that some Daoist Heir or whatever wants to join the Heaven-God Alliance?"
"Daoist Heir Qin Ning."
"He's not married yet, is he?"