Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough

Chapter 698: Forcibly Claiming Connection, Judgment and Slaughter

Jiang Yuan: !

Hearing his Master suddenly call out to him, he was stunned for a moment, then quickly responded with some trepidation.

"I'm here, but... what glass ball?"

After realizing what Sloth was talking about, he seemed a bit slow to react.

"What glass ball?" The one who responded to Jiang Yuan was Lu Ce, who looked equally bewildered. Clearly, the forgetfulness brought by the Sloth mask was starting to take effect again.

He had already forgotten what he himself had just said.

The two of them stared at each other for a while before Jiang Yuan suddenly remembered.

No matter what the "Master" was talking about, it seemed that so far, the Master had only given him one thing, right?

Hesitating inwardly, he took out that extremely treasured item from his game backpack—the World Relic!

It was the remnant form of Jiang Yuan's already destroyed world, even just a model, seemingly devoid of any energy fluctuations, only deathly stillness.From its appearance, it was a crystal-clear orb.

"Master, is this what you meant?"

After slowly raising the orb in his hand, Sloth gave it a quick glance and nodded.

"Ah, what did I say? Whatever, but this should be it. Might be useful."

Jiang Yuan: ...

You call this... a glass ball.

That's really quite hurtful, but since the Master said it, forget it, pretend I didn't hear it.

"What... are we going to do with this..."

Jiang Yuan opened his mouth to ask what this thing was for, but soon, his instinctive sense of danger alerted him that something was wrong.

He noticed many people were looking in his direction. Turning his head, he saw the eight "Heroes" beside him, each holding an Exit Coin in their hands, looking at Jiang Yuan's direction with a dawning realization.

Looking at the direction of the World Relic in his hand!

"You all...?"

"Are you feeling some kind of special connection forming? Let me guess, come on, tell me!"

Although Sloth looked very drowsy at the moment, he forced himself to stay alert and spoke excitedly.

Xie Antong felt his current state was very strange, his personality changing extremely rapidly, as if many people were constantly scrambling around inside him.

Of course, these people were none other than himself—sometimes seeming like Lust, sometimes like Greed, and other times like himself...

Xie Antong wasn't sure if it was her imagination, but she felt there was even a shadow of Pleasure in his current state!

Wasn't this level of "self-forgetfulness" a bit too high? Had he stuffed everything he'd ever seen into his own brain...

"What's going on?" Feng Wang, holding the Exit Coin, looked at the World Relic in Jiang Yuan's hand and couldn't help but ask.

"I feel like I've formed some kind of connection with that thing. Is this coin and that glass ball some kind of matched magical artifact?"

"First of all, this is not a glass ball." Jiang Yuan was immediately displeased and retorted.

"Ah, see, isn't this proof that you helped me?" After getting a satisfactory answer, Lu Ce turned to look at the Arbitrator.

"The so-called Exit Coin is just a world-jumping device. This time, the game is called a special mode, but it's essentially just shutting down the mode that allows other worlds to jump to our world."

"Hmm, there are some other things later, but those don't matter."

"But after learning about this possibility, you went through great trouble to give me another world at the end of the last game. And you still say you weren't helping me?"

Arbitrator: ...

[How could there be such a coincidence...]

The Arbitrator's voice sounded somewhat incredulous, but he was immediately interrupted by Lu Ce.

"Stop pretending, bro. I know you must have been helping me."

"So, about this mask overload issue of mine, I'll still have to trouble you."

At this moment, Lu Ce was completely seizing the opportunity, as if trying to force the Arbitrator to admit he was on his side by sheer pressure.

This somewhat shameless method of forcibly claiming a connection left everyone around speechless, and they couldn't figure out what he was actually trying to do.

[Stop spouting this nonsense... Do you actually think you can drive a wedge between me and the other Gods?]

Even the Arbitrator himself found it baffling, but by now, Sloth had already started ignoring him.

"Alright, everyone, the game is over as of now!"

Sloth said loudly, then leaped up, actually standing on the round table.

For such a lazy person to make such a move couldn't help but draw sidelong glances.

"Before I start dealing with my mask issue with that Arbitrator, let me deal with you all first."

"Everyone, ignore any game rules from now on. Starting now, I'm giving you a second path: follow my rules."

"Use that coin in your hands, and you'll most likely end up on some desolate, uninhabited dead planet, just like your own world was. Heh, just kidding."

"After that, you can ignore all the nonsense They spout. But... it's up to you whether you're willing to believe me."

Sitting cross-legged in the very center of the round table, the dark green mask bared snow-white teeth as he shook his head and spoke.

Everyone was somewhat tempted. The person before them seemed to have already gone mad, and his words might not be credible, but... believing in the Gods seemed even more unreasonable, didn't it?

"Wait a moment." Suddenly, someone spoke up. It was Tu Shan, who had been relatively low-key all along.

"No offense intended, Strongest Player, but you seem to have been talking to yourself all this time. Yet this is a game for the eight of us."

"I'd like to ask the Arbitrator." Tu Shan looked up and turned. "Is doing this compliant with the rules?"

[Of course not. That would cause the game to become unplayable.]

[Tsk... there's still a loophole. Who could have anticipated this.]

Tu Shan nodded, then addressed everyone:

"I think we shouldn't listen to the delusions of a madman, should we?"

"This is the fourth day, daytime. As the Arbitrator, shouldn't you announce the game rules now?"

Then, he glanced at his teammate.

"I have no intention of fighting you. If we complete the entire game and you lose, there shouldn't be any loss for you either, no need to..."

Before he could finish speaking, a fist blazing with fire was already in front of his face. Tu Shan could only block hastily.

Boom!

Amid the explosion of flames, Tu Shan was blasted back several meters. The sound of Sun's cursing reached his ears.

"Your fucking ideas are the most boring! Either kill or find another way to kill, and you're really here to play a game!?"

Tu Shan looked up in shock and anger. He hadn't expected the other to attack directly, and to actually be able to hit him!

"Didn't you say players can't attack each other?!"

[Generally, that's the case...]

[However, between Judgment and Slaughter... they might not fully count as players anymore...]