Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough

Chapter 773: Let me burn, to pierce the fear of the gods

Attack or defend?

As soon as these words were spoken, regardless of Lu Ce's reaction, the most direct impact was that even Pleasure was momentarily stunned.

Wait, you still want to attack? You're about to die.

And after all those previous attempts, haven't you realized yet? Your attacks are completely ineffective against a god!

Your so-called attacks on the god are actually all attacks on yourself; you'll definitely die before the god does.

Isn't that ridiculous? This kind of foolish, hot-blooded passion is not pleasurable at all.

But Lu Ce did not laugh.

On that blue face, which had carried the confidence to toy with this world from the beginning to the end of the game, the upturned corners of his mouth drooped slightly for the first time.

He could sense that Xie Antong's intention to attack was no joke. Her resolve was unprecedented; she must have thought of something.

And perhaps due to some degree of mental connection, looking at Xie Antong's expression now, he actually guessed what she probably wanted to say![Hey, aren't you going to hurry up? She's asking you a question.] Pleasure teased.

Xie Antong stood amidst the flames, her eyes meeting Lu Ce's gaze. For a long moment, there was only silence.

Suddenly, amidst her resolute expression, she broke into a smile.

In the firelight, her currently withered face seemed to smile more beautifully, more captivatingly than ever before.

Because she understood the reason for Lu Ce's hesitation.

Given his personality, given his fighting style that never cared about life or death, if he had any means of attack, why would he possibly choose defense?

So, who else could he be hesitating for?

No words were needed. After staring at that face the world found terrifying and monstrous for a moment, she decisively averted her gaze and turned around.

In that instant, her flower-like smiling face vanished. The flames burning in her eyes seemed even more ferocious than the firelight of the burning world around her.

Attack!

Her aura began to surge rapidly. She recklessly mobilized the Divine Power belonging to Pleasure, disregarding the consequences, and simultaneously took out four vials of potion, injecting them all into herself at once!

[Your life is already running short. Unfortunately, your little scheme has failed.] Knowledge completely ignored the interaction between the two and didn't pay much attention to Xie Antong's plan either.

He was looking at Sin, speaking.

[Did you think that, just because I want this game to be more interesting, I would keep giving you chances, letting you exhaust all your tricks before you win?]

[So you wanted to exploit this assumption of mine, to use this game to do a favor for that teammate of yours over there?]

[Heh, I did initially want to give you more opportunities, but I've changed my mind now. It's fine to let you die with your blindness and foolishness.]

[You think you predicted me well, that you understood my psychology? Heh, whether it's you or that Perfect Life over there, your outcomes are the same!]

He suddenly became very talkative, as if afraid that Lu Ce and the others would die soon, leaving no one to hear his words.

"Shut up."

Suddenly, his words were interrupted. Looking down, it was actually that person he had ignored.

Right now, the area around her eyes was covered with bulging veins.

[What? Can't think of a way to negate the damage?]

[Starting with 'kong', should be easy, right?]

Under that light that eroded life, the first word she thought of was something like "emptiness" or "void," to make everything disappear.

But that would merely be a desperate struggle to survive, a waste of an opportunity. Moreover, she wasn't sure if saying that word could truly make all the attacks in this world vanish.

So, she suddenly remembered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a way to attack the god in an "abstract" form without harming herself.

It ended with "kong"!

"You really don't think your underestimation is your greatest weakness, do you?"

She raised her finger, closed her eyes, and used all her mental power to recall the information Agony had once conveyed.

—The gods are anxious. They have always been afraid of something!

"Object of Fear!"

As her words fell, an unprecedented violent tremor shook the entire game space. The waters of the Despair Secret Sea swayed left and right, even appearing to stand upright!

The black seawater churned, making the enormous skeleton within it flicker in and out of sight.

Xie Antong's brow was tightly furrowed. She couldn't concretely imagine what the gods feared. She could only firmly hold onto that sentence from Agony, letting the game make the corresponding choice.

Within the black seawater, ten thousand ghosts wailed in unison. The sound was enough to shatter hearts and gallbladders. Across the long expanse of time, the countless wronged souls swallowed and tormented by this sea were screaming madly.

The entire world was shaking, distorting. It had clearly exceeded the expectations of the gods. A flicker of confusion passed over Knowledge's expression for an instant.

Nothing appeared.

And nothing disappeared!

What object of fear? What had she just thought of in her mind?

Pleasure's expression was very grim. For some reason, an inexplicable unease arose in his heart.

It seemed he had underestimated that little girl...

And now, the most direct and violent vibration was coming from the Despair Secret Sea. Despair suddenly looked up and spoke to the Arbitrator:

[What are you doing? What's happening now?!]

[Why does their damned game always affect...]

Boom!

Before the words finished, a tremendous explosion sounded.

Despair exploded!

Or rather, his body underwent an explosion. Ash-gray and black energy currents erupted around his body, swirled, and then instantly vanished!

Boom! Boom!

Two more loud explosions came from Knowledge and Pleasure.

Violent energy turbulence erupted from their bodies, then instantly dissipated, entering the Void, never to return.

!!!

The three gods' expressions changed drastically at the same time. For the first time, panic appeared on their faces.

Their auras were weakening! Their energy was dissipating!

What was going on!?

Without any further words, for the first time, they were so serious. Their energy instantly turned inward, wrapping around themselves, beginning to stabilize their bodies.

After an indeterminable period of intense shaking, as if trying to thoroughly mix the Despair Secret Sea, the world finally slowly came to a stop.

Opening their eyes again, the auras on their bodies had clearly become much weaker. Unprecedented killing intent and fury erupted in their eyes.

"Heh."

A somewhat hoarse laugh echoed in the quiet world, like a mockery of their supreme, peerless power.

Xie Antong's long hair flew wildly in the fierce flames and intense light, as if she, who had always been cautious and careful, had broken the shackles in her heart.

"What a pity..."