Combat Maid Harem

Lawrend's tangling with Grape lasted throughout the night. Her professional acts were more than enough to convince Lawrend that it wasn't a mistake to marry her.

Truly, she made his sexual life more exciting than ever. Others would probably tell him that a sex worker would never love him, but it was clearly evident from Grape's reactions.

Ever since Lawrend became a God, he had been more sensitive to the emotions of the others around him. It didn't just improve his intellect, but it also made his emotional intelligence reach the extreme.

For the next wedding, there was no wedding.

Lawrend spent the whole morning sitting under the giant tree in his world. He was alone with it, and he stared into the distance.

The tree's diameter could fit a whole nation inside, so it was like sitting beneath a wall.

There was basically no wind under the tree. The large trunk and the numerous leaves absorbed any winds before they could reach Lawrend.

It was peaceful under the tree, and Lawrend could feel Valentina. He was all smiles as he spoke to her. She wasn't a person any more or even a soul, but she was a tree.

"Is it time to revive you?" Lawrend asked.

The tree rustled gently as if answering him.

"All right. Valentina, I shall revive you. It's a pain to lose this giant tree, but it's a worth sacrifice to have the chance to marry you."

Lawrend had no idea how to start. He wasn't that knowledgeable about souls. He didn't know if the 'Valentina' he would revive would be the same 'Valentina' he knew.

It was all a gamble, but it was a risk worth taking. He believed in himself, and he believed in his love for Valentina. She sacrificed herself for him.

"This time, I will sacrifice this tree for you."

Lawrend stood up and looked up at the behemoth of a tree before him. It reached the edges of the world and fanned out in all directions. If the atmosphere didn't end there, it might have grown taller.

The pseudo-universe within Lawrend had stopped expanding long ago. He stopped it because he didn't produce Maid Energy fast enough to keep up with the growth of the volume within.

Lawrend focused inside. There were no interesting structures besides the cobweb-like formation of the Maid Energy as it spread out throughout the pseudo-universe.

"Wrong. I can't use my pseudo-universe."

Lawrend closed his eyes. He recalled a few words Valentina had given him.

Her soul shard had been split into multiple pieces. Once they were all put back together, she returned to her former self.

Lawrend's divine mind calculated at breakneck speed. He looked through all of his memories, including the ones from the avatar of the Spirit World, the fake memories with Reavire, and the million years in the other universe. Explore more stories at My Virtual Library Empire

After half a day, the sun was starting to set in the human world, but in Lawrend's world, it was still high up in the air.

"Are you Valentina?"

The tree rustled gently in response.

"Stay silent if my guess is wrong."

"Are you Valentina?" Lawrend asked again.

Silence. Lawrend frowned.

"Are you a part of Valentina?"

The tree rustled strongly.

"Do you have all of your memories?"

The deafening silence made Lawrend pause and close his eyes. This was a bigger problem than he thought. He could guess now that her soul had dissipated when she sacrificed herself.

"Reavire!" Lawrend called out loudly.

"M-Master!"

Reavire appeared in a flash. She looked at him with surprise and disbelief, asking, "How did you know I was here?"

"This is my world, remember?"

"But!"

Reavire wanted to say that she was hiding herself using her whole ability as a Goddess, but Lawrend interrupted her speech.

"Can you recover a dissipated soul in your world?"

Lawrend looked at her with a bit of anticipation and hope.

"No…"

Reavire averted her eyes. She was watching him and knew what he was planning.

"I thought so as well…"

Lawrend turned away from the tree and looked up at the sky. The tree was there, but he seemed to be looking beyond at the stars above.

"Creator, can you recover her dissipated soul?"

There was no response.

Lawrend understood the way the Creator did things. He wasn't willing to interfere until things started to become drastic.

For him to cooperate, Lawrend needed to threaten him.

"Come down here, and help me or I will open my universe in yours!" Lawrend shouted.

His voice pierced through the planetary system of his world and reached beyond. The force of his threat would've cowed any other god, but it was the Creator. A Flawless God could swat a Shattered God like Lawrend.

A voice drifted from the void. Lawrend recognized it as the Creator.

"I can kill you before you succeed even if your little Goddess there tries to help."

This one was filled with malice and threat compared to his previous interactions with the Creator. Lawrend recognized the truth in his words and shut up.

"Not this way too…"

Lawrend scratched his head in frustration. He couldn't use his abilities, and he couldn't force the Creator to cooperate. He was out of options.

"Master…"

Reavire didn't know what to say. She wondered if he would blame her. She technically had the ability to collect Valentina's dissipating soul back then if she put some effort into it.

However, she didn't do that because she didn't care back then.

"No. This is not your fault, Reavire."

Lawrend turned to her. He could see what she was thinking from the face she made and the fluctuations of her unique energy.

"Are you… gonna give up?" Reavire asked, feeling like she asked the wrong thing. However, she needed to ask it. The dead were gone, and it was time to let go.

Perhaps that was why Valentina left the leaf: to have Lawrend have an object to remember her by. She didn't intend it to grow into a tree.