It's unlikely that the Military Government will select personnel from within for the art festival. The halftime performance during the Continent Martial Arts Competition has been outsourced by the Aran Royal Court to a third party. Although the Military Master doesn't understand art, he respects it and wants even those uninterested in martial arts to be attracted by other elements and join this grand event, enhancing its influence and thus better extracting benefits.

The civil officials within the Royal Court are only responsible for the venue and content review, ensuring no adverse political elements are present. All other affairs of the performance are fully contracted to the entertainment company under the Evgeny Consortium.

Though they are collectively known as the Four Heavenly Kings of the Western Continent's lucrative underworld along with the Gate of Truth, Narrow Sea Convention Organization, and Thief Guild, there are generally known to be five or even more Kings, but these four remain the most imbued with Netherworld Energy.

The main business of the Evgeny Consortium is completely unrelated to the underworld. All the qualifications and paperwork are very complete. The reason it's considered underworld is due to its astronomical assets self-propagating uncontrollably, resulting in a radial spread across various industries, involving too broad a range of businesses. The rooster has to lay eggs, even if it's not its thing.

Although the middle and lower tiers of the consortium are involved with the underworld, the main upper-level businesses are all fit for high society.

Of course, this underworld involvement can't compare with the Thief Guild. Compared to Diaz's muddy tactics of scamming, kidnapping, car robbers, and highway bandits, the consortium's loan interest rates are like BRO selling some porn on QQ and thinking he's in the grey market.

Evgeny loans still require some collateral, and the collection methods at most involve a third party contacting address books and practicing calligraphy on the doorstep. Borrowing from Diaz, nothing is an issue—play until you're tired and then sleep directly; when you run out of money, just borrow, you don't need collateral assets; you can collateralize your relatives. No third party collection is necessary; official employees with licenses will handle it. Loan out, loan out, gently place it behind the child, and tell everyone not to tell him. Quickly catch him; if you don't repay, I'll kill his mom. No more seats.

Evgeny is arguably the lowest in KDA score among the Four Heavenly Kings, but economically the highest.

On the other hand, the Thief Guild has a very high KDA score, undeniably so, but its economy is much lower than Evgeny's. Engaging in production, robbery, and theft requires labor effort, which is never as good as doing business, easily recognized as Xiao Ming Sword Demon.

Diaz: Listen, to the extinct, dead silence. ×

Diaz: Let's find some fun together. √

In short, SM Entertainment Company is a hundred years behind the entertainment company under the Evgeny Consortium. The sticks from the Great Cold Nether Country are still too backward.

The most they can do is put their female artists under such systemic exploitation and extreme commodification until they commit suicide.

However, the Evgeny Consortium is truly the national prostitute's supreme scoundrel.

Given that plastic surgery and medical beauty are extremely backward in the Western Continent, there is no power system.

Under normal circumstances, when Fu Shou'er logs into the game, since other professions are difficult to upgrade, a monthly income of 3000 Star Sound (Experience Points) is the norm. Usually, they choose the streetwalker as this beginner-recommended profession. Defeating a vagrant can earn 200 Star Sound. If they strive, they can reach 2000 Star Sound or more a day, truly a beginner-recommended profession, with the only drawback being the risk of getting a Trojan horse virus stealing their account and all the money going to the hospital.

When a certain amount is accumulated, they can go to the plastic surgery hospital for a career transformation. If not transformed, they will be scattered individuals, but scattered individuals have been updated and eliminated; they cannot keep up with the version and cannot inflict damage.

Now, it's version 85, Antuun turtle dungeon. No matter what profession, you have to clear this dungeon.

Profession [Full-time Housewife]: Plastic surgery failed! Sewer profession, very low damage, simply can't enter the dungeon to team up. Future upgrades are difficult, can only fight ordinary turtle monsters in the wild, with vastly different experience gains depending on the turtle's asset richness. Often the turtle's assets are not abundant, cobbling together even 10,000 Star Sound, but there is a very small chance to find a Six God Items turtle, wanting 1 million Star Sound is possible, gym coach COSER lineup matches at will, experience feeling fulfilled. DER, DER, DER (Poison Milk Powder Profession Experience Skills Showcase Background Music)

Profession [Star Technician]: Small success in plastic surgery, considerable damage, can enter Antuun dungeons, but can only sit in the gold groups, the club owner has to take a cut. After deducting the cut, one dungeon can drop 400 to 800 turtle Star Sound, and you can run seven or eight dungeons a day or even more. Considering various factors, monthly brick-moving can reach 50,000 Star Sound, with a chance to meet a god-level turtle that can give you a clock, commonly known as the dragon turtle, a very good experience. DER, DER, DER (Poison Milk Powder Skills Showcase Background Music)

Profession [Internet Celebrity Streamer]: Successful plastic surgery, very high damage, self-buffing skill with beauty and face-slimming, but it's a version trap, requiring extremely high operations, turtles simply do not donate gifts, dragon turtles are needed, but without traffic support, you can't meet dragon turtles at all. To get traffic support, you have to offer yourself for free to the MCN turtles, experience feeling very low, this profession is not recommended. But with extremely high operation, manually performing skills, you can reach the top without MCN, with countless dragon turtles breaking gold coins, you can inflict version-surpassing damage, instantly clearing Antuun, instant clearing Bird Backbone, Rock Sea, Bakar, Artificial God, even the sky, the earth, and the air. DER, DER, DER (Poison Milk Powder Skills Showcase Background Music)

Profession [Business K Princess]: Successful plastic surgery, extremely high damage, T0 profession, truly able to clear Antuun dungeon without overturning, already qualified to ask if gluttony or source support is better. Not limited to booking a room, to thoroughly clear you need to add the room fee, tip, and overnight fee, earning 10,000 Star Sound in one day or even higher, monthly income of 200,000 Star Sound or even more, extremely frightening. If the streamer profession is a percentage profession, equivalent to Sword Soul, with large disparities in damage within the same profession, the princess is a stable damage profession, equivalent to Red Dog, the indisputable version answer. DER, DER, DER (Poison Milk Powder Background Music)

Profession [Girl Group]: Great success in plastic surgery! Escape the realm of ordinary people, forming a group on the night, Sisters Who Make Waves, completely removing the Fu Shou'er title, able to unleash awakened skills, becoming Feifei, already surpassing the entire system mechanism focused on the Antuun dungeon as the main game experience. DER, DER, DER.

Profession [Dancer]: External profession, can have plastic surgery or not, mixed fish and dragons, any skills can be released, equivalent to a Dark Warrior, not in the discussion range.

If Liszt's hometown has a complete game mechanism and a cultivation system, the Western Continent can be said to be in a primordial era, with no plastic surgery technology, where brute strength naturally grows, without plastic surgery, strength is strength.

There is no truly naturally born woman. Women are made by society. Ideology is something given by things external to floating objects, made weak by this change, also made strong by this change.

Regardless of gender, their spirits never reflect "male" or "female", only reflecting this era.

Like everyone's composition, half are accomplices, half are victims.

The reason appearance is so important to women is that it can induce illusions while reshaping their external world and internal self.

Some women live as bouquets, birds in cages.

Others become museums, and some...

The script had become an indecipherable symbol.

Swallowing tape worm eggs to let them parasitize the body just for dieting, and anti-aging elixirs can utilize extracts from aborted fetuses.

The weight of being the most beautiful in the world is too heavy. She has dedicated her life to competing for this excessively glamorous title,

If for women, the world is a massive Antuun dungeon, then she is unquestionably the AABB, with a full set of equipment enhanced to level 31, she kills anyone who blocks her, objects to no one.

Continent Martial Arts Competition, Imperial Arena, backstage lounge.

Qili had already completed rehearsals in other parts of Aran Imperial City and needed to familiarize herself with the venue today.

The leading star of the Evgeny Consortium, Qili.

She stood before the mirror.

It was a type of materialized, prolonged melancholy, even her shadow was not a mere appendage to her body but an independent phantom, the sum total of despair from all the admirers who died for her.

Only her tall silhouette could be seen, adorned in a black, luxurious backless gown, interlaced with the gaze of onlookers, the texture and lines on her back resembled a statue kissed through and through by moonlight, emitting a mild cold glow,

"Just like last year, I have gracefully declined all the letter invitations."

Her male assistant, over the past half month, was exhausted to the point of almost dislocating his hand. Thanks to these pursuers being either wealthy merchants or nobles and powerholders from various countries, they couldn't handle it coldly considering public opinion. Hence, the assistants had to pen polite refusals.

Qili did not reply, standing before the full-length mirror, she was the only one who could see her front reflection, fiddling with the black hair beside her ear.

"However... there is one invitation that cannot be refused. I consulted with the company's higher-ups, and they also have no way out, you have to go."

The male assistant was somewhat apprehensive about Qili's reaction. This was the first time she couldn't refuse an invitation; with her unpredictable temper, no one knew what her reaction might be.

The laughter was not a product of joy but merely a disdainful and indifferent sound slicing through the air.

"No one can make me."

Qili continued to look into the mirror. For the sake of profit, the consortium had used such language many times, but in all cases, the inviter had never reached the level where the consortium could sacrifice its pawns for the carriage. Truly top-tier characters wouldn't focus on such matters, and the consortium executives knew that if she were dissatisfied, it would cause them greater harm.

"It's the adjutant from the 18th Formation of the Time Sword returning from the Mulong Duchy."

The male assistant explained.

Qili remained indifferent.

"It's... a direct decree from the current Pope, seemingly as a reward for that adjutant's successful mission."

The male assistant's throat bobbed; for the Pope, a ruler atop the world, to speak so, that adjutant must have accomplished an extraordinarily significant feat.

Qili was utterly stunned, a chill spreading from her spine, as he said, impossible to refuse.

At this moment, the Eternal Sect train returning from Mulong was delving into the heartland of Aran and would soon reach the Imperial City.

While in the Imperial Arena, the battle between Gedre and Clarke had reached a fever pitch.

"What the hell are you dealing with?"

In just over ten bouts.

Clarke already felt outmatched, this guy was at the bloody Sword King level.

Backstage lounge.

Saleret looked at the matchup list; the opponent he would face next was an Executioner from the Narrow Sea Forgotten Port, part of the Cross Alliance.

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