Duncan returned to his residence at dawn.

After switching back to the dimensional perspective, he discovered a special blessed state on his mortal form – Divine Grace of Lady Joy.

——"Divine Grace of Lady Joy [Divine Power Blessing]: You have received Divine Grace from the goddess of joy, Lierla. You are immune to effects such as fear, despair, and charm caused by common spells. Your morale will not be affected by any negative emotions, and all your immunity judgments receive an additional +2 effect from the ’Joy’ domain.

Whenever you are in a dangerous situation, a ’High Morale’ judgment from the joy domain will be triggered, after which you will enter a special state of ’High-Spiritedness.’"

[Lady Joy is watching over you.]

[Before this Divine Spirit withdraws her Grace, your heart is shrouded in a faint joy and will not be eroded by other negative emotions.]

Divine Grace.

In this world, the Divine Spirits often grant a kind of blessing to the mortals they favor. Above that is Divine Favor, which requires the consumption of Divine Power, then Divine Election, which allows the mobilization of a portion of the Divine Spirit’s power.

The Mother of Great Bliss is quite generous.

This woman, though she has many flaws and is somewhat arrogant and proud, has power and status, beauty and figure, and even manages the treasury of the sect of joy, with the goddess of joy as her lover, so her arrogance and pride are somewhat understandable.

This night’s Divine Grace was her plea, and five people in total received the blessing, with Duncan being the only outsider. The other blessed ones were all members of the Scarlet Performer Sect.

Even as Duncan left, he could see the envious and jealous gaze of the Master of Revels.

However, Divine Grace can be withdrawn.

If Duncan no longer serves the sect of joy, then the Divine Grace of the goddess of joy will naturally depart as well.

"This woman likely knows my identity."

"Yet, she still wants to win me over."

"Indeed, confident!"

Duncan is at least seventy percent sure that the Mother of Great Bliss knows the identity of the mortal form, backed by the Five Fierce Women and supported by the Wealth Church, but she is convinced that the goddess of wealth, Waukeen, will not return soon, so she confidently intends to absorb a portion of the Wealth Church’s forces.

"The physical qualities of the mortal form need to be improved somehow."

Currently, Duncan doesn’t have many trump cards at his disposal, as this world has God of Gods-level beings, and he doesn’t dare to infuse too much power recklessly. Therefore, the immediate priority is to enhance the combat power of the mortal form.

"After the outbreak of the Saint’s Calamity."

"Death and slaughter are currently being covertly contested by many great powers."

"But the Divine Position that truly suits me the most."

"Is instead the god of tyranny, known among mortals as the tyrant, Bane."

Duncan’s gaze fixed on the distant harbor. Too many people are eyeing death and slaughter, whereas tyranny and discord, if Duncan can seize them, can instantly transform the Divine Position into his own Royal Authority Law.

He is the King of Kings.

Born to command royal authority, whereas pure slaughter is not so fitting for him in this world, since Duncan does not kill for the sake of killing.

"The god of tyranny, Bane."

"If I can seize and transform him, perhaps I can cultivate a mortal form with mighty Divine Power."

"But before intervening in the laws of the death triad, I first need a stepping stone."

"Furthermore, I need a group of powerful allies."

"Preferably Divine-Level allies."

Duncan’s heart has already begun to plot, with many ideas gradually surfacing: "The god of justice, Tyr, is my natural ally."

"Not to mention my relations with the Norse Pantheon in the Root World."

"Merely turning tyranny can reduce much evil in this world, and the three gods of justice might support me at a critical moment."

"But I cannot solely rely on them."

"Because I am not purely benevolent either."

Duncan can turn tyranny, but he cannot achieve absolute benevolence; he can only try to make the world’s order more stable and better.

"There’s another potential cooperation target."

"Tiamat."

Duncan seemed to think of something, muttering to himself: "If I use the status of the Root World as a reliance, the Five-Colored Dragon Queen Tiamat might also be my cooperative partner."

"But this requires careful consideration."

"However, the premise of all these plans is that I can first accumulate strength and foundational assets." 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

"If I cannot grasp the situation in Sargt and simultaneously infiltrate my influence into the goddess of wealth, Waukeen, and the goddess of joy, Lierla, the chips I hold will barely convince others to support me."

"At least attaining the status of Demigod is necessary."

"Currently, what I lack are, first, High Tier Legendary or higher power, second, Divine Position Law, and third, Divinity Domain."

In the world under the heavens, it’s challenging to hack one’s way to a Divine Position by merely cutting people down.

Duncan needs a powerful stepping stone, but before obtaining this stepping stone, the mortal form’s prowess must also advance, at least to not be outmatched by some strong chosen ones.

In this world, Divine Spirits operate in groups, and mortals fighting solo only have it harder.

Very quickly.

Duncan formulated a plan, then washed up and went straight to bed.

Damn it.

Having mingled with the sect of joy for so long, his routine had become disrupted. Ever since guarding the Mother of Great Bliss, the mortal form had adopted a nocturnal lifestyle, busying himself at night and sleeping at home during the day.

With the mortal form’s physical qualities, not sleeping for a short period was fine, but entering a fatigued state is the bane of professionals.