Swear Fealty To Me, My Subjects!

It was as though he was jolted awake from a nightmare.

Rayne's eyes snapped open.

He looked around—this was his bedroom.

He came before the mirror and in it was a handsome young man from an aristocratic family.

19 years old.

Rayne had revived again.

After experiencing death once more, he was sent back to the beginning of the story.

He was Rayne Haines.

He had many titles in this country.

The Number One Successor of the Haines Empire; The Pillar of the Empire in the Future; The Exemplary Youth of Literature and Strength; Why Can't He Just Stop Hooking Up With the Wives of Others; Of Course, He Doesn’t Even Let Young Ladies Off; The Good Prince, Just That He’s a Little Rotten...

At the same time, he was also a transmigrator from a certain blue planet.

As a transmigrator, Rayne originally had a real name. However, after experiencing so many life and death reincarnations, he had already forgotten those insignificant things.

At that moment, Rayne looked at the handsome man in the mirror in a daze.

"Another failure…"

After transmigrating to this world, the mission given to him by the System was to save the world.

In order to accomplish that goal, Rayne had already died a thousand times.

However, what made Rayne furious was that half of the thousand deaths… no, at least 800…

It was all because of his inner circle's backstabbing!!

Rayne was not surrounded by deranged snitches.

That was because all the Emperor backstabbing cases were focused on seven criminals.

They were the seven Imperial Guards, the half-blooded goddesses painstakingly groomed by the Empire's orthodoxy and the ultimate experts who represented the ceiling of the human world.

On average, almost every Imperial Guard had killed this future Emperor more than a hundred times.

Rayne felt as though he had been repeating the same joke of history for the past thousand lifetimes... the Praetorian Guards1.

The process of Rayne saving the world was also the process of him exploring the bottom line of these Imperial Guard ladies.

When he first arrived in this world, Rayne was still an innocent and fat homebody.

He had a carefree life of eating, drinking, playing and hooking up with girls. His days were incomparably blissful.

The day the Emperor passed away and Rayne succeeded the throne…

He looked at the wise civil officials and heroic generals beneath the throne and he was extremely satisfied.

As for the seven beautiful Imperial Guards that knelt before him and pledged their loyalty to him, Rayne shuddered in happiness.

Rayne could not believe that this place he was in charge of saving was a Grade S world.

Just take a look at those beautiful Imperial Guards.

These artificial demigods were born after a thousand years of breeding and selection and were infinitely similar to the Goddess of Order. They possessed the strength and mental state of the Goddess.

Furthermore, their peerless beauty was enough to make even stars pale in comparison.

For a moment, Rayne could not tell if he was counting off weapons or selecting a consort.

F*ck!

Was the Imperial Army meant to be this... charming?!

He had inherited the strongest Empire in the mainland right from the get-go and had seven goddess descendants awaiting him—Rayne felt that he was the luckiest transmigrator in the world!

How laughable.

It came as suddenly as his happiness.

Rayne's funeral, that was.

The second day after he ascended the throne, His Majesty Rayne died in the palace.

Rayne's uncle, the Grand Chancellor and the richest man in the Empire, Prince Edgeworth, was crowned the next day under the protection of a few Imperial Guards.

That was Rayne's first death.

Cause of death: [A Higher Bid]

Later on, the System revived Rayne and returned him to his 19 years old self.

After being reborn, Rayne learned the lesson of his previous death and worked hard. After a series of tricks, he destroyed the prince.

However, at that moment, the naive Rayne did not understand what the System meant by A Higher Bid.

Thereafter, Rayne ascended the throne once more.

Not long after, Rayne began the first round of investigation on the officials' assets in order to clean up the corrupt culture of the officialdom.

That included the Imperial Guards.

The next day, His Majesty Rayne died on the toilet bowl.

That was Rayne's second death.

Cause of death: [A Higher Bid]

This time round, Rayne finally realized that something was amiss.

There were indeed bad guys in the crowd.

However, when those bad guys wanted to harm the Emperor, they made use of the same people!

There was a traitor in the Emperor's Imperial Army!

After his third rebirth, Rayne began to pay attention to these seemingly docile and respectful Imperial Guard ladies.

Who exactly was the traitor?

However, in reality, Rayne was still way too naive at this moment.

After dying time and again, he was tricked time and again.

Rayne discovered more and more traitors in the Imperial Army!

One traitor, two traitors, three traitors…

In the end, Rayne realized.

Apart from one person, the remaining six Imperial Guards were all traitors who only cared about profit!

It did not matter to them who the Emperor was.

No matter, this was not a big problem.

Towards this, Rayne was able to accept things rationally.

Everyone was greedy, even demigods.

In any case, there were only the seven of them in the entire country and there was no way he could replace them.

Since that was the case, he would try his best to satisfy their requests.

Therefore…

Emperor Rayne and his loyal Imperial Army could finally get along peacefully.

With the help of the seven demigods as well as experiencing many hardships and countless deaths, Emperor Rayne finally unified this continent.

Next, after gathering all the power of this continent, Rayne could finally lead the races of this continent to challenge the high and mighty Order Gods.

In the end, when the Order Gods learned that an Emperor named Rayne wanted to revolt…

They sent an edict to the Imperial Army.

The next day.

Rayne was dead again.

Cause of death: [A Higher Bid]

This time round, Rayne was stumped.

F*ck your mothers you sh*ts...

Hopeless. These Imperial Guards were utterly hopeless!

As the Emperor, Rayne could satisfy all their mortal desires.

However, Rayne was helpless against the bribes of the gods.

The tools in his hands had turned into weapons that would only retaliate against their master.

In that case, he was decided.

Bloody hell, he was going to kill all of them!

Therefore, after his umpteenth rebirth, Rayne began to use various methods to purge the Imperial Guards.

After experiencing countless deaths, he had finally grasped all the weaknesses of six Imperial Guards. Furthermore, he could skillfully kill these demigods within the first two years of his rebirth.

He only retained the single one whom he could trust.

However, reality proved that Rayne had still underestimated the potency of these Imperial Guards...

That's right.

He was backstabbed once again.

At that moment, the System spoke.

[Reminder!] [The number of deaths of the host has exceeded the maximum limit.] [The System has shut down automatically.]

After saying that, the System fell into complete silence.

Rayne went silent.

A moment later, he sighed helplessly.

"Is it finally time? I could feel that it's about time for my resurrection chances to be used up,"

There was a limit to the number of times the System could revive.

Now that the resurrection function was off, Rayne finally returned to the state where he would die if he was killed.

This life was his final chance.

Alright then.

So be it.

Rayne stretched.

What he wanted to do was the same as before.

He had to think differently and give it his all to clear this rotten world.

Prince Rayne snapped his fingers.

"Someone, send Thea Constance to see me."

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1. Personal guards in the Roman army who were responsible for the assassination of several Emperors

Hi guys, Lam here! Some of you might know me as the translator of The Strongest System, His Breathtaking and Shimmering Light and Eternal Sacred King!

I'll finally be starting on a new project and that's none other than SFTM. I think the premise is rather interesting with the MC put in a precarious relationship with these Imperial Guards of his :>

I'm glad to be here to be able to share SFTM with you guys, hope you enjoy it as much as I did translating it!

My discord channel has been inactive for a while now but I'll update the link here in a bit. Cheers!(: