Chapter 810: Chapter 418: Instead of Resisting, Just Enjoy It

Take a bath?

Together, for fuck’s sake?

Before she figured out what exactly Herbert was planning to do, Miss Devil launched a rather fierce protest.

She let out probably the loudest shout of her entire life.

"I!"

"Don’t!!"

"WANT!!!"

What kind of Hell joke is this!!?

...

A moment later.

Even after fighting tooth and nail, Miss Devil was still inside the Holy Sanctuary.

Kreti was curled up pitifully in the corner of the Holy Sanctuary, hugging her knees, eyes vacant as she silently broke down, looking exactly like someone who’d just been ruthlessly bullied.

Which, in fact, was indeed the case.

After Kreti loudly expressed her opinion, Herbert himself didn’t say much, but his loyal Servant did the talking for him.

Flora gave the disobedient, immature, and noisy Kreti a proper lesson.

The Demon used her usual method—silent punches.

The Devil responded with her usual attitude—lowering her head after getting beaten.

We can talk this out, don’t start throwing hands!

At worst I’ll keep my voice down, okay!

"...Tsk!"

Miss Devil kept baring her teeth at the Paladin, feeling like the tail behind her was about to curl up from sheer embarrassment.

The reason she felt so awful wasn’t just because Herbert was very clearly planning to get into the Holy Water and bathe together with her.

Honestly, while that wasn’t exactly easy to accept, it wasn’t completely unbearable either.

Setting aside the vast difference between a Devil’s morals and a human’s, even from a human perspective, Herbert... as a bathing partner, wasn’t exactly a bad deal.

If anything, she was the one taking advantage here.

In the distance, Herbert was leisurely undoing the Saint’s robe draped over his shoulders with Flora’s help.

The white robe embroidered with golden patterns was gently gathered into the Demon’s arms, and Herbert revealed the seemingly slender, yet actually power-laden body underneath.

This was a body that had been tested multiple times and proven strong enough to grapple in close combat with an adult Legendary Giant Dragon. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Now, after receiving the Sun God’s blessing and enhancement, who knew how much further he’d progressed.

Herbert kept undressing, taking off his upper garments and revealing a solid, perfectly-shaped torso.

His muscles weren’t exaggeratedly bulky; instead, the detail work was abundant, even those small muscle groups that are usually hardest to train had been fully developed.

The shape of muscles is largely determined by innate genetics, and on top of that, effort is indispensable; you can’t have one without the other.

But in Herbert’s case, he honestly hadn’t put in all that much effort.

His training had never been the traditional grind-the-body routine, but instead relied on clever shortcuts to improve himself.

Especially after receiving the blessing [Divine Body] from that ahem-weird Goddess, his physique had been fine‑tuned once again, practically reaching the utmost limit a mortal form could attain.

Flawless, perfectly symmetrical.

This kind of body was already deserving of the title "perfect physique."

No sweat, no effort, it was all goddamn talent.

No matter the gender, or even the species, anyone who saw this near‑perfect body would unconsciously stop and stare.

If they could, they’d even walk up and play with it in detail.

Right now, there was a living example proving that point.

Valentina, who’d finally calmed down a bit, was now drooling as she walked up behind Herbert, and like a Hungry Dragon pouncing on prey, she wrapped her arms around him from behind.

Hug, inhale—haa!

Even a deep breath wasn’t enough; she stuck out her tongue for a lick, itching to just take a bite.

Then Herbert lightly tapped her on the forehead.

"Don’t make trouble yet, I’ll play with you later."

Herbert gently soothed Miss Hungry Dragon and slipped out of her arms, continuing to walk forward at an unhurried pace.

He didn’t completely take off his lower garments, keeping a pair of tight shorts on—this scene left Valentina, who was itching to move behind him, thoroughly disappointed. She pouted at his back and muttered that he was a cheapskate.

Flora, watching from the side, wasn’t as brazen as Valentina, but she had almost lost control just now and committed a grave overstep herself.

At this moment, she was hugging Herbert’s robe tightly and couldn’t help but sniff at it.

Sniff sniff, haa...

Smells amazing!

Very soon, she also felt that this wasn’t enough and slightly deepened her breathing, greedily drawing the lingering scent into her lungs.

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With the other two acting this indecent, Kreti was holding up better than them, but honestly, not by much.

She felt a powerful pull as well, and only barely resisted it, already having swallowed several mouthfuls of drool.

...Gulp!

Meanwhile, as the eye of the storm where the gazes of the three Monster Girls converged, Herbert himself seemed rather calm.

He gradually stripped off his clothing and walked step by step toward the Holy Water pool in the center of the Holy Sanctuary.

His pace was slow but not dragging, instead conveying the solemnity and seriousness Herbert was showing at this moment.

He no longer needed to bathe in incense or offer any prayers.

Herbert, who had sworn the Purity Oath, was already one of the rare pure beings in this world, and he was not a follower of the Sun God in the first place.

At last, Herbert, face composed, stepped slowly into the Holy Water pool.

Splash—

The moment his toes touched the water, the Sun Holy Mark on his body, which had been hidden before, suddenly flared to life.

Vmmm!!!

Those Holy Marks seemed to come alive, beginning to rearrange and sequence themselves in a way Herbert could not comprehend.

Though he couldn’t fully grasp their meaning, he could clearly feel that the power of the Holy Marks had received a considerable boost... in every possible aspect.