Although Philip was a prince, he naturally did not wear any heavy and ornate dresses when he was in his own home.

He just put on a loose gray pajamas, and sat cross-legged on the bed without any image to speak of.

Behind him, a young girl was sleeping with her back to Philip.

As a believer in rotten husbands, he will never have descendants.

And if there are no direct descendants at his age, he will naturally be suspicious.

You must know that on the surface, he is not acting as a "rotten believer...... Rather, he is acting as a "follower of the cup bearer".

As a believer in the cup bearer, his private life was a bit erosive...... Naturally, it's normal, right?

After all, he is not ugly, not old, and not fat. His baby face is not only pleasing to the eye, but even cute. And his own personality is also very pleasant, he can chat and like to laugh, and he has many young and beautiful mistresses, which is naturally expected.

So it's not that he has no offspring, it's just that he doesn't have a formal wife and has many illegitimate children.

But no one would have thought of it...... These mistresses of his are all amorous people who were specially selected by Philip with divine magic and ritual abilities, and are "bound to cheat".

In other words, none of Philip's children were actually born to him.

Philip, of course, knew about it.

— but he doesn't care.

This was even deliberately created by him in order to increase his advantage as a direct descendant of the royal family and running for the throne.

The eldest princess lost her original advantage because she considered that if she got married, her status might be affected by her husband's position and position.

And on the side of the fourth prince, it is a well-known Buddhist line.

Only one of his children survived, and only one wife. And in fact...... This wife of his was a rotten man, and because of this, the rest of their children had been killed by her own hands.

This was to give Philip an advantage.

Of those children, Kaphne's ostracism was also the result of Philip's decision-making.

The royal relatives and Philip's illegitimate sons would form a circle. Under Philip's suggestion, it was easy for them to repel, hate, and target Kaphne.

The reason why Caphne was left was only for Philip's sake of ritual, just in case.

He seems to have many offspring...... But none of that were Noah's blood.

Therefore, he had to leave a descendant of Noah's blood to be sacrificed for the rest of the ceremony.

While it is not necessary to have a Kaphne as an offering, this is just in case.

If the last sacrifice is missing, then he will want to cry without tears.

Because in his next plan, the eldest princess and the fourth prince are to be killed first and at the same time - only if all the heirs are eradicated, his plan will not be hindered.

All enemies that can fight back must be disabled.

Because of this, his current plan is to deceive the enemy in the dark.

Many of the flaws he has revealed now seem to be aimed at him, but in fact they are just a trap. Because even if he were to be attacked in these places, it would not have any effect on his plans.

For example......

…… Ferdinand Geraint.

It is already taboo to secretly build a good relationship with one of the heirs of the Raven family. If he were to follow the normal line of succession, it would be enough for him to lose his inheritance or fall to the end of the line.

But he didn't think about the possibility of a normal inheritance at all - from beginning to end.

Because what he asks for is not the throne at all.

Philip, of course, knew that the rotten man was not a god to be trusted. His strength is quite fragile, his popularity is very poor, and his character is not good.

But so what?

After He gave the gift of the "Eternal", it was not so easy to take it back—he was the basis of the Rotten Husband's ritual.

Not only did the rotten man not dare to abolish his power, but he even had to protect Philip.

And those gods who are hostile to the rotten man don't need to target him by destroying his rituals...... Because the rotten man is too weak and unnecessary.

It made him very stable.

He just wanted to complete the godhood ceremony of the rotten man and sacrifice all his blood relatives in exchange for eternal life.

- This is utter eternal life.

With a sense of touch and taste, he can enjoy himself like an ordinary person, and he can also experience the pleasure of sleeping, and his path to becoming a transcendent person is not blocked, and he is not even like an old man.

Based on the ritual of the cup-bearer, he was even able to attain immortality in his best physical condition.

At that point, it doesn't matter what the throne is.

In other words, the throne is just a tool for his pleasure.

To put it mildly...... Isn't it true that the kings are made for pleasure?

Is it true that there will be any royal heir who will compete for the throne with his life and all his energy "in order to make the country more prosperous"?

But don't.

At least Philip never believed in this possibility.

- It's all just for the sake of the scent of power.

And where does power come from and what does it do?

Nature is for pleasure.

In order to achieve perfect pleasure, immortality is the most perfect blessing.

How many emperors pursued perfect immortality? It is right in front of him, and he can reach out and get it, who can resist such a temptation?

- It just so happens that the royal blood of the previous generation of Noah has been completely severed.

His father, now Henry VIII, was just a "child in a cup".

Henry VIII had no siblings at all.

In other words—Philip only had to sacrifice a few of his siblings.

Within three generations of him, apart from his father, who was dying of old age, only his siblings remained.

And his own child has never been born.

Every time he made love to his lover, he would use the magic of the rotten husband to prevent pregnancy, and he was confident that he would never leave any heirs.

So far, everything has gone very well.

As Eugene gradually inherited the work of the Raven family, his secret friendship with "Ferdinand Geraint" was also exposed by him.

In this way, all the people who might be hostile to him have basically jumped out.

He only needs to be patient and wait until his father dies of old age, and quickly kill the eldest princess and the fourth prince. Then he is the first in line to the throne.

He can quickly kill, imprison, or exile his opponents, and push his own people.

Because on the bright side, he has many heirs...... Even from this point of view, the young Kaphne, who was not popular because of the oppression of his "illegitimate children", would not be accepted by other neutral ministers.

In this way, he will soon be able to take control of the Kingdom.

All he needed to do was sever the royal blood and self-castrate after he ascended the throne for him to complete the rite of immortality.

His castration was just an inability to have children, and it was not incapable of doing male and female things.

This is the most perfect prospect -

And recently, he has also received strong subordinates.

"—Mission accomplished, Your Highness."

The delicious wind goose knocked on the door and entered the house, half-kneeling on the ground.

He didn't look at the bareback woman behind Philip, but just bowed his head quietly and saluted respectfully to the third prince Philip.

As he spoke, he handed over the box containing the head.

"As you said, I brought the man's head."

"Very good!"

Philip's eyes lit up and he took the wooden box.

When he opened it, he saw that it contained a skull with black lines on its face and a faint bony curved corner on its forehead.

- It was the head of the Fallen known as the Bloodfiend.