Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough

Chapter 747: What despair could be more delicious than the despair of God?

Yes, Lu Ce was right, or rather, he guessed correctly.

At this stage of the game's progression, people who could create surprises for him were indeed starting to appear.

What had just happened was only the beginning!

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At this moment, even Pleasure was beginning to feel the thrill of playing, even to the point of almost forgetting Xie Antong's existence.

His current state was a bit like that feeling when a single thought arises from the heart, and suddenly the world feels vast.

In reality, Xie Antong's thinking was still conservative. She had originally thought that Pleasure would just go and weaken those gods He dared to provoke; the term 'Twilight of the Gods' was still too grandiose.

But for Pleasure, with such an opportunity placed before Him, He dared to provoke anyone!

What was there to fear? Even the gods of Life and Death, so what?

Back in the day, before that "Sin," they hadn't even managed to gain any advantage!Thus, Pleasure, taking Xie Antong with Him, began to continuously shuttle through the games of various other gods, causing trouble for Them!

He had never imagined that weakening these guys could be so simple!

Under normal circumstances, fighting was pure nonsense; trying to beat down the power of a True God through combat was simply impossible.

If it were at all possible, the War God would have been the first to take action! How much power could He have gained?

For example, before, when Pleasure and Nightmare fought, they actually couldn't really do much to each other.

But with The Game, and with this wager with Xie Antong, everything was different.

He wasn't actually dealing with the gods; He merely needed to help the players within that game from a god's-eye perspective!

This kind of simple help wasn't strenuous, especially within the games where those gods couldn't use their full power against the players anyway.

Suddenly having a bug like Him appear made it exceptionally simple to break things.

Because even if He went all out, it didn't matter, since He wasn't attacking the players; His actions were actually targeting the gods.

And He could openly come here to act because of the wager game with Xie Antong.

And what if the opposing god used their full power against Him? It didn't matter; the wager was still on the players, not Himself, and the difficulty the players faced hadn't increased!

After the fight, He didn't need to worry about anything; naturally, the Arbitrator would collect the "wager" from those gods.

After executing this smooth combo, Pleasure discovered this was practically a free win for Him!

His laughter almost never stopped, as if someone had hit his funny bone.

Often, just after entering a game, His laughter would spread across the entire world. While the players were still confused, the corresponding god would change expression drastically.

He had even forgotten when He last experienced this level of pleasure!

Thus, while the gods were experiencing this sudden shock in their games, His power was continuously rising!

After ruining several gods, the growth of His power made Him forget the displeasure of being tricked by Xie Antong.

What trickery? That's my sister, close as family! How could I not have thought of this before!

And so, in game world after game world, while the other gods roared in despair and indignation, He was laughing gleefully.

Agony, was this also part of your plan?

Using these people to provoke me into action? Hahahaha!

Some gods within the games already had unstable power, teetering on the edge of losing control. Being messed with by Him like this caused their energy to become even more chaotic, forcing them into slumber, even risking disintegration.

And the most direct target of their collective anger was pointed at... that very Arbitrator who came to truly collect their power!

At this moment, high above the empty Giant's Palace, the Arbitrator was dumbfounded.

If He had an actual physical body, He would probably be sweating bullets right now.

How could this be... how could this be...

Before this game started, He believed He had already planned so much, yet He still couldn't have imagined that, for no good reason, the gods could start fighting amongst themselves!

Since the establishment of The Game, such a thing had never happened again. And having been born after The Game, He had never even thought about how to handle such a situation.

A long time ago, the gods discovered something: given their immense individual power, obtaining power from each other was actually the most efficient method.

For example, when creating the "Arbitrator," Life gained tremendous benefits.

And if one could kill a god, Death's power would surge dramatically!

But such events were difficult to occur. The gods were wary of each other, their powers were all formidable, and conflict between them would ultimately only lead to mutual damage with no benefit for anyone.

Thus, "CHOSEN'S PARADISE!" was created.

Allowing the gods to freely choose within it, design gameplay beneficial to themselves, and avoid conflict with each other as much as possible.

Now, Pleasure had found this loophole and was taking a bite of the fat meat that all the gods actually wanted to eat!

But doing so had already opened Pandora's box!

Who could have thought that the fragile balance maintained over so many epochs could be broken so easily?

The name Xie Antong chose was truly apt, Twilight of the Gods...

What should be done? What should be done afterward?

The Arbitrator began to question Himself incessantly.

......

Now, all the gods knew that several gods had already "lost to the players" and paid a certain price.

Back then, they all thought they couldn't lose. Now, not just one, but several had lost!

Among them, Despair naturally felt it very clearly.

[Oh?]

[Is it Pleasure...]

He was also quite surprised, not expecting such a thing to happen. But now... His power was even growing!

This matter, by pure accident, had also given Him a heaven-sent benefit.

Involuntarily, He suddenly began to recall, thinking back to countless ages ago, the words Agony once said to Him.

Back then, He had gone to seek cooperation, wanting to bring calamity upon the mortal beings and jointly harvest pain and despair.

But He refused, saying:

—"What despair could be more delicious than the despair of a god?"

Standing within the eye socket of a giant skeleton, looking down at the boundless black sea water below, and at that figure with golden hair adrift within the sea, He muttered to Himself:

[You've been dead for so long, and as soon as you return... is the game this interesting?]

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