novelraw Chapter 537 - 522: Eating God
Chapter 537 - 522: Eating God
Looking at the egg, Li Cunxu felt his heart flutter as if something terrible was inside.
"I’m already at the Monarch level, yet this egg still frightens me. The creature inside this egg is extraordinary!"
Suddenly, the eyes of the Divine Deer statue opened, and an immense will descended. Everything around seemed to pause in time and space, fixing Li Cunxu in place, only allowing his thoughts to move.
The gray stone skin of the statue quickly shed like peeling, revealing the pure crystal interior akin to amber.
Then, the Divine Deer statue did something that filled Li Cunxu with immense rage.
It forcibly made Li Cunxu sign a Beast Taming Contract with the egg that was filled with the power of desolation.
If it were an ordinary Beast Taming Contract, Li Cunxu would have agreed.
But this contract was an ancient master-slave contract.
The egg as the master, and Li Cunxu as the servant.
This kind of contract allowed the creature inside the egg to control Li Cunxu’s life as a master would control a slave’s life; with just a single thought, the creature could decide Li Cunxu’s life or death.
Li Cunxu’s will resisted, but it was like an ant trying to shake a tree in the face of the supreme power emanating from the Divine Deer statue.
The two were completely not in the same league.
Even if Li Cunxu ascended to the Divine Realm, he wouldn’t be able to resist because the power unleashed by the Divine Deer statue was greater than that of gods, below only the Divine King.
This kind of power can only be stopped by the power of the Divine King.
Thus, Li Cunxu was forcibly made to sign this master-slave contract.
Li Cunxu quickly analyzed the situation before him.
Beast companion? Unable to summon it in the paused time-space, and even if summoned, it would probably only get in the way.
The life-saving jade from the old president? Can’t even move, how to activate it?
Looking at the desolate egg, thoughts of assisting the creature inside grow and doing his best to help it flourish sprouted in Li Cunxu’s mind.
But soon, Li Cunxu quashed these thoughts.
"This contract is trying to make me assist the creature inside this egg to grow."
"This contract is sinister; over time it will slowly change my perception, integrating me into a loyal slave of the egg."
"Making me serve as a servant, haha~"
Li Cunxu steeled himself; he indeed couldn’t resist the contract, but he could decide his own fate.
I would rather die than submit!
Since the contract couldn’t be stopped, Li Cunxu chose to end himself.
Dream on, making me a slave for tens of thousands of years!
A wave came from the Divine Deer statue, stopping Li Cunxu’s suicide.
The Divine Deer statue came to life, gracefully and sacredly stepping down from the stone platform.
The Fertile Divine Deer spoke with a voice ethereal like the wind.
"Young human monarch, there’s no need for you to be so angry."
Li Cunxu stared wide-eyed at the Fertile Divine Deer, thinking, are you kidding me with this?
Forced to sign a slave contract, and you tell me not to be angry.
The Fertile Divine Deer slowly said, "Do you know of the darkness hovering over the Divine Beast World for tens of millions of years?"
"Have you ever pondered why the five standing at the peak, the Divine Kings, have fallen?"
At the same time, a voice from deep within Li Cunxu’s heart arose, the voice of the old president.
"Do not worry about the master-slave contract; I’ve got this."
Li Cunxu’s unease and anger subsided; the old president’s voice was always so reassuring.
The voice of the old president came again.
"Having contracted with that egg, you qualify to know the truth. Talk more with this Fertile Divine Deer."
Contracting with the egg qualifies one to know the truth; what makes this egg so special?
Li Cunxu found he could speak, and following the words of the Fertile Divine Deer, he said:
"The Bronze Divine King died from the backstabbing of the Golden Divine King and the Silver Divine King, while the other four Divine Kings died to the Evil Gods."
Before the four gods invaded the Divine Beast World, there were invasions by the Evil Gods, but they were taken away by successive Divine Kings.
The Evil Gods were not easy to deal with; while being taken away, they also took away the Divine Kings.
The Fertile Divine Deer sneered, "False, the causes of the Divine Kings’ deaths are all false."
"Then what is the truth about the Divine Kings’ deaths?"
"They were all killed by the world will; the fall of the gods was also a scheme by the world will."
Killed by the world will?
Li Cunxu looked puzzled; if what the Fertile Divine Deer said was true, why would the world will want to kill the Divine Kings and make the gods fall?
This doesn’t seem to benefit the world at all, does it?
Like now, the four gods have arrived, and there are no gods to stop them.
The world will can only intervene personally to block them.
"Why would the world will do this?"
The Fertile Divine Deer said coldly, "Because it wants to eat gods."
"Eat gods?"
"Only by eating gods can the authority of the gods return to the world, and the authority of the world becomes more complete.
Only by eating gods does the world will become stronger."
Upon hearing this, an image of a video game’s final antagonist appeared in Li Cunxu’s mind.
Now that I think about it, the world will is quite bad, quite selfish.
The authority of the gods comes from the world; having the gods hold authority is not a bad thing but a mutually beneficial one.
The authority in the gods would perfect more as the gods became stronger.
Furthermore, having the authority embodied in the gods doesn’t mean all authority belongs to the gods; it’s a fifty-fifty split, half to the world, half to the gods.
For example, gods are like company elites who hold shares; they strive hard to earn money for themselves and also make the company bigger and stronger.
And the world will is like a ruthless boss who, after the company grows larger and stronger, kills the company elites to seize their wealth and take back all their shares.
The Fertile Divine Deer said indifferently, "To eat gods smoothly, without surprises!
The world will has tampered with the divine path, so all gods and successive Divine Kings would be under the control of the world will.
As a result, the Titan Divine King chose to sever the divine path worldwide, preventing living beings from becoming gods or the world’s will’s food source."
Li Cunxu said, "Didn’t you say the world will controls the Divine Kings? Did the Titan Divine King truly sever the divine path of his own will?"
The Fertile Divine Deer confidently replied, "Do not doubt the Titan Divine King; among the five Divine Kings, both the Bronze Divine King and the Titan Divine King were too powerful, weakening the control of the world will over them."
Li Cunxu: "How can you be so sure?"
"The Bronze Divine King and the Titan Divine King both provided me assistance in resisting the world will."
Li Cunxu looked confusedly at the Fertile Divine Deer; if even the Divine Kings couldn’t resist the world will, why would the two Divine Kings assist the Fertile Divine Deer? After all, the God of Fertility seems not particularly powerful among the gods.
The Fertile Divine Deer stood proudly, its eyes shining like divine light, akin to a Divine King watching over the world.
"You wonder why the two Divine Kings helped me resist; it’s because according to the original plan of the world will, after the Age of Giants ends, the era to follow wasn’t the Human Race era, but the Fertile era, belonging to my era.
Because the predetermined next Divine King by the world will was—me."
You? The sixth Divine King? The Fertile era?
Fertile er... Fertile?
Li Cunxu suddenly understood why the world will chose the Fertile Divine Deer as the sixth Divine King.
The Fertile authority of the Fertile Divine Deer greatly benefits the world, making it more prosperous. If the Fertile Divine Deer were to ascend to become a Divine King, the Fertile authority would also ascend to a Divine King level of Fertile authority.