[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-sss-rank-harem-sword-my-lustful-life-with-legend":3,"chapter-sss-rank-harem-sword-my-lustful-life-with-legend-sss-rank-harem-sword-my-lustful-life-with-legend-chapter-175":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","SSS-Rank Harem Sword: My Lustful Life With Legendary Maidens",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},403319,671,"Chapter 175: Adelaide (2)","sss-rank-harem-sword-my-lustful-life-with-legend-chapter-175",175,"\u003Cp>The world I woke into was a chorus of draconic roars and the scent of destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I opened my eyes, I expected the warmth of the Great Light to continue, but instead, I found a man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked like a god carved from obsidian and violet gems, his face a mask of grief that shattered the moment he saw me. He called me Mother, and though my mind was a vast, empty gallery of white marble, my chest ached with a rhythm I couldn’t explain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​Now, as I walk through this palace of stone and shadow, the pressure of his world pressed against me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, we entered a large hall, where several gorgeously beautiful waiting us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"Those women...They are your wives?\" I whispered, my voice sounding thin and fragile in the hallway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​Adonis nodded. He held my arm with a grip so gentle it was as if he feared I might dissolve into mist if he pressed too hard. He led me toward four figures who stood like monuments of power at the end of the hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​The first to step forward was a woman of silver and gold. Her golden armor hummed with a draconic power, and her golden hair was pulled back with chivalrous grace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"Madam Adelaide,\" she said, her voice a resonant chime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She dropped into a warrior’s salute, her knee hitting the stone with a heavy thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am Claudia, the Queen Of Knights. I lead the Emperor’s vanguards. It is an honor beyond words to see you returned.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I looked at her, seeing the scars on her hands and the unwavering fire in her eyes. She was a shield, a weapon made manifest, yet she looked at Adonis with a devotion that bordered on worship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​Then came a woman who seemed to be created from the very stars. Her gown shimmered with a thousand tiny stars, and her presence was so ethereal it made my head swim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"I am Mariana, the first Queen of Stars and Fate,\" she murmured, bowing with the grace of a willow branch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mother-in-law, Adonis spoke of your kindness very often. I hope to learn that same grace from you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I felt a pang of inadequacy. How could a woman like me, who remembered nothing but a quiet light, teach anything to a being who commanded the heavens?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​The third, Sapphira Long, stepped forward with the bearing of a true sovereign. Her violet eyes, so much like his, scanned me with a terrifying intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am Sapphira, mother-in-law. I usually handle the logistics and the duties of the crown so that our husband can focus on the horizon. Welcome home.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​She was the foundation, the one who kept the gears of this empire moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was the final girl who made my soul shiver. She emerged from the shadows like a ghost, her skin pale as moonlight and her eyes filled with an ancient darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"You know me, lady Adelaide. It’s me: Millia Arwen,\" she said, her voice a melodic haunting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She took my hand, and her fingers were as cold as the void I had just left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am now the Goddess of Darkness. I stood by him when the world was silent. I owe my life to your son, and in turn, my soul is at your service.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​My son.They all kept calling him that. A goddess, a queen, a celestial, and a knight... all of them bound to a man who looked at me as if I were the only thing in the universe that mattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"Who are you, Adonis?\" I whispered, looking up at him. \"What kind of man commands such power?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​He didn’t answer. Instead, he led me to a balcony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​The sun was high, but it felt cold. Below us, in a sprawling plaza, thousands of soldiers and creatures I had no names for were gathered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, two knights of bone dragged a man in tattered gold robes to the center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man, no, he was a king. The king fell to his knees, his face distorted by a terror so pure it made my stomach turn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The king shrieked in terror:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"Please! Emperor Adonis! I will give you everything! Just spare me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I looked at Adonis. The tenderness he had shown me in the warship was gone. His face had turned to stone, his violet eyes glowing with a cold, indifferent hunger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked down at the begging man not with anger, but with the boredom of a gardener looking at a weed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"Repentance is for the living,\" Adonis said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice wasn’t loud, yet it carried like thunder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You will serve me better as a memory.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​With a casual flick of his hand, a blade of violet energy tore through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I didn’t have time to blink. The man’s head rolled away, and his body slumped into a heap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd below erupted into a roar of approval that shook the very floor beneath my feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They cheered for the death. They cheered for the blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​Adonis turned back to me, the violet glow in his eyes faded into genuine warmth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached out to touch my shoulder, and I found myself flinching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My heart was thumping against my ribs from a frantic warning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"It is done, Mother. The man who threatened our peace is gone. You are safe here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​Safe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I looked at his blood-red boots and then at the four women standing behind him. Their faces wete impassive as if they had just witnessed nothing more than the setting of the sun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at the \"Goddess of Darkness\" who smiled at me with those hollow eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I do not know who I am. I do not remember the boy who supposedly loved me. But as I look at this Dragon Emperor, I am certain of one thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​He is a monster. A beautiful, terrifying monster who has built a paradise out of a slaughterhouse. He treats me like a saint, he calls me his mother, and he kills kings as if they were insects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I am back among the living, but as we walked back into the dark splendor of the palace, I realized I hadn’t been rescued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had been captured by the most dangerous creature in existence.\u003C\u002Fp>",1042,"2026-05-30T07:20:36.276Z","2026-06-01T04:30:37.594Z",1,"novelbin.me","fb8883ed00335ea2ca54590964e50fd0ad337ade66cd141ad5240f2f180c3f7c","sss-rank-harem-sword-my-lustful-life-with-legend-chapter-176","sss-rank-harem-sword-my-lustful-life-with-legend-chapter-174",200,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsss-rank-harem-sword-my-lustful-life-with-legend-cover.jpg"]