Elsa followed Ray to walked into the room where the reward was stationed.

  The two opened the gate behind the boss room, and when they saw what's inside, they were mesmerized.

  ??

  It was a glorious room with diamonds and golds embedded along the wall, and in the middle of the room, there was a shining golden tree.

  Since it was their first time seeing such beautiful scenery, the two stopped for a while and didn't know what to do.

  It was only after a few minutes that they got sobered, and Ray placed his hand on the golden tree.

  " Congratulations on completing the challenge, my child. From the girl behind you, I could feel the bloodline of my descendant. Could you get her to touch the tree as well?"

  Ray pondered a bit before eventually asked Elsa to place her hand on the tree. At first, he was a bit afraid that it might be a trap, but if he looks at it from the game point of view, this must be a special event whose only purpose was to benefit the protagonist.

  " Thank you for trusting me."

  The golden tree shone more brightly, and two of its leaf fell into Ray and Elsa's heads.

  ZINGGGG!!!!

  The golden leaf then vanished like it was absorbed by the two, and a golden leaf pattern appeared on their forehead……

  [ DING!!! Congratulations on getting the blessing of lovers.]

  [ Description: With the blessing of lovers, two minds and bodies will be connected in love]

  [ Special effect: affection(Elsa) +25, Special skill: unison raid, Gloden thread of destiny* (You could detect each other presence), Special skill: Mind sharing].

  The heck!!!! Ray git flabbergasted from the description of the blessing. Wasn't this blessing supposed to be given to the protagonist and the capture target of her choice. Wait… Did he just take the place of the main capture target?

  Ray felt like he gets a headache from the progression of this event. Now he was tied with the protagonist, and furthermore, the effect of the blessing was pure BS.

  Affection +25, wouldn't this made him head over heels to Elsa? So this was the reason why the capture target fell so hard for her.

  Fortunately for Ray, just when he got despaired at the effect of his blessing, Aina come to the rescue……

  [ Hmm, what is this? Such a meager existence wants to fight with Aina for her place. Ptui Ptui, begone!!!]

  [ DING!!! The blessing of lovers effect has been modified.]

  [ Blessing of lovers (1-sided)]

  [ Description: Elsa's affection +25, Special skill: unison raid, Gloden thread of destiny* (You could detect each other presence)].

  Looking at the modified effect, Ray sighed some relief. At least now, it won't be disadvantageous to him.

  However, when he noticed how Elsa glanced at him, he knew that trouble would soon come and find him. It seems the world Blessing of lovers had made this girl imagining things, and she might be thinking that they were destined to be lovers in the future.

  " Ray… we."

  " Nope, stop thinking that far girl. It was just a blessing."

  If Elsa was just a normal girl and not the protagonist, Ray would gladly accept her in his harem. But looking at Elsa, he knew that this girl was one of the devoted believers of monogamous marriage. And the reverse-harem route was only a way for the developers to get money from the girls.

  Ray stopped caring for Elsa who was still in her daydream and chose to converse with the golden tree.

  ' Oi, don't tell me the reward was only this.'

  ' E-ehhh. Aren't you satisfied? To make a lover contract with such a beautiful girl, you should be grateful to me.'

  ' Grateful my ass, you have tricked me into doing this. Now quick spit out some good rewards before I cut you up."

  ' Ehhhh… Um… I don't have anything else Tehee.'

  This shameless tree… Why did he feel that everything in this game was shameless? They negotiated for a while, and eventually, they reached an agreement where Ray would take the body of the golden tree with him.

  ' *Hiks*, After preserving my purity for more than thousands of years, I will be taken in the hand of an evil man.'

  ' Just shut up…'.

  [ DING!!! You get the item: Golden tree. You could place this item on your spirit ranch to increase the growth rate of another plant.]

  Ray looked pleased with the reward he got from the ruin.

  He took Elsa's hand, who was still in her daydream, and brought her out from the boss room-

  Outside the boss room-

  Ray and Elsa got out of the Boos room, and they were surprised at how desolate the place was.

  ' Strange, did they reach some consensus and leave us behind? But it doesn't make sense for those simps to just go on their own and leave Elsa.'

  Ray noticed that there might be something behind this; thus he decided to observe the place. They might find some clues on those simps and Sieg's whereabouts in their surrounding.

  He let go of Elsa's hand and started to wander around the room, but he couldn't find anything.

  " Schwarz, please find a place with the most amount of bad luck around here."

  Ray summoned up Schwarz and asked her to help on their search. It was not the most effective way, but if there were really an accident, Schwarz's ability might help them.

  However, even with Schwarz's help, it still gave him no result. Ray was about to give up and chose to return to Maple-leaf city, but then…


  " Ray, come over here, look at what I found."

  It was Elsa's voice, and when Ray reached Elsa's location, he found Elsa holding a strange stone in her hand.

  " Look, Stormy said we might found what we are searching for here."

  Elsa brought the strange stone to ray and slam it to the ground.

  " Elsa, we should not use brute force and think with a calm head…


  *Zinggg!!!*

  The broken stone suddenly emits a bright light

  Nani…'