If Vishnu’s axe connected, Lin Xun would die no matter what.

Yet Lin Xun did not feel even the slightest urge to give up. He still had one last trump card.

[You possess the Shell Ascended Purgatory Angel.]

[You appoint this Shell as the bee queen.]

[All your Shells in the Shell slots become bee drones.]

[A male figure wreathed in blood-colored light appears behind you, his body exuding a rich fragrance of flesh and blood.]

[In the Flesh Angel Holy Descent state, the Child of Evil grips the crimson greatsword, beats its bone wings once and appears in front of you, blocking Vishnu’s killing blow on your behalf…]

[The giant axe bites into the Child of Evil’s body, chopping in from the left shoulder, severing collarbone, ribs and spine until it slices the upper torso of the Child of Evil diagonally in half.]

[Your bee drone Shell Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil has died.]

[You have suffered very severe injuries.]

“Cain, die!”

From the other end of the line came Vishnu’s near-mad howl.

[The Child of Evil has died. The self-detonation effect of the Shell skill Flesh Boil is triggered.]

At the moment of death, the Child of Evil’s Shell grade was mythic+.

Could Vishnu, in his sliver-of-HP state, withstand the self-destruction of a top demi-god?

“You can tank a mythic-grade Corpse Explosion, but I refuse to believe you can tank a mythic+ grade Corpse Explosion.”

This was Lin Xun’s final killing move.

[The corpse that had been split in two does not dissolve into points of light and fade away. Instead, it gathers up endless blood-colored radiance…]

[In that sea of surging blood light, what is reflected is Vishnu’s face twisted with utter despair.]

[With the Child of Evil’s remains as the center, endless blood light condenses into a huge flower bud…]

[In the blink of an eye, a flower of flesh and blood blooms in full. Its beauty is breathtaking, yet its lethality is absolute.]

[Under the raging, cascading power of flesh and blood, Vishnu lasts only a heartbeat before he is swallowed by the endless crimson radiance. His body is reduced to scraps of meat and blood foam, merging into the cruel spectacle of the blooming flower…]

[…]

[You have defeated Third Disciple Vishnu.]

“Cain… you win.”

From the other end of the line came Vishnu’s hoarse voice, panting for breath. “I, Vishnu, never imagined that after everything… I would die in your hands.”

“You are strong. You are worthy to follow the Master into the New World. I did not lose unjustly…”

“I did not lose unjustly!”

Vishnu could no longer endure the agony tearing at his soul. He could no longer suppress the shrill screams that clawed at his throat.

He refused to show a pitiful, weak appearance before death. Using the last of his strength, he hung up the call.

As Lin Xun heard the busy tone on the line, a giant book page shimmering with faint light unfolded before him.

He exhaled slowly, his gaze unshakable.

[You step forward and touch the Resting Page. Your powerful soul resonates with the page.]

No option like interpretation rating appeared, only the choices to teleport back to the library or to take a short rest and refresh.

Lin Xun selected short rest and refresh, spent soul strength to reshape the Child of Evil and possess it once more, and set it again as the bee queen.

He held down his earpiece and turned on the microphone. “Little Amos, you can go back to the library now.”

“O, o-okay, Lord!”

Amos stared blankly at the Soul-Annihilation option. From the moment Lord Cain had left, he had been watching the battle.

It was not hard to read the flow of the fight from what the option showed. After returning to the mid-tier region, Lord Cain had immediately slain the remaining two mid-tier Apostles.

Judging by the time gap between the deaths of the two mid-tier Disciples, Lord Cain had killed them in an extremely short span, almost simultaneously.

After becoming the victor of the mid-tier region and still unsatisfied, Lord Cain had then landed in the upper-tier region, where he had likely teamed up with Vishnu and together slain First Disciple Solomon.

That was First Disciple Solomon, the very pinnacle of demi-god might.

Even if Cain and Vishnu had fought together, for a bottom-ranked Disciple to kill the First Disciple was enough to make jaws drop all around if anyone heard of it.

Yet Lord Cain still was not satisfied. After killing Solomon, he had slaughtered his own direct superior Vishnu as well.

He had taken the throne of First Disciple without the slightest suspense.

“Lord Cain really is a true god of slaughter.”

Amos knew that even in the previous Disciple selection, Cain had killed everyone it was possible to kill. But he had never imagined that Lord Cain could do the same in the Disciple War.

No, there was one exception.

Thinking of this, Amos frantically tapped the Resting Page and returned to the library as fast as he possibly could.

He was terrified that this god of slaughter would suddenly have a whim and decide to get rid of him too.

Right now, he felt incredibly fortunate that he had surrendered early to Cain’s terrifying might. Otherwise, his name would have turned gray like all the other Disciples and read ‘dead’.

—

[You sense something and suddenly turn your head…]

[You see that at some point, a tall woman has appeared standing behind you. Her clothing is similar to what you previously saw on the Goddess of Anxiety and the Goddess of Envy, and her figure is much the same. Only her features are slightly different…]

[You have discovered Three Goddesses of Vengeance – Goddess of Retribution.]

When he first entered the chapter, the game had prompted that ‘you cannot obtain rewards normally in this chapter’.

Now, having gone from the lower-tier region, to the mid-tier, all the way to the upper-tier and become the final victor, that probably no longer counted as being within the ‘normal’ range.

Lin Xun rubbed his chin and pondered.

[The Goddess of Retribution’s face is beautiful, but her expression is slightly excited, or perhaps crazed. She flicks her bloodstained serpent whip and drags you up in front of her…]

[Oh, mortal, my sisters truly were not wrong about you. Your dazzling performance just now has made me relive the ultimate ecstasy of vengeance.]

[Now speak, amusing little thing. What reward do you wish to receive from a god?]

[As an Apostle with hands drenched in blood, what should you say as you face the favor of the Goddess of Retribution?]

[1. You want endless wealth.]

[2. You want supreme authority.]

[3. You want unmatched power.]

“So here comes the reward.”

Lin Xun narrowed his eyes.

He did not choose any of the options. Instead, he opened his inventory and clicked on the item Touch of Pleasure.

[You use Touch of Pleasure (immortal-grade item).]

[This item has two modes of use. The first is pleasure. The second is extreme pleasure. Which mode do you choose?]

[The serpent whip coils tightly around you so that you cannot move. A slick, oily blood-flesh tentacle quietly slips out from your sleeve…]

[The pinkish tentacle instantly snakes its way onto the body of the Goddess of Retribution.]

[Her expression changes. She had not expected you, a mortal ant so lowly as to be beneath notice, to dare profane a god.]

[Just as the Goddess of Retribution is about to act, Touch of Pleasure suddenly burrows into her clothes and merges with her body…]

[The goddess’s beautiful cheeks flush red. A strange light shines in her eyes, a kind of excitement beyond words. Breathing heavily, she says, Such, such an amusing little thing. I must see just how amusing you really are.]

[As soon as the words leave her lips, her sharp nails rip your clothes to shreds and the Goddess of Retribution pushes you straight down onto the ground…]

[…]

Lin Xun: “???”

So the massive favorability gains described in the Touch of Pleasure’s item description were obtained like this??

The corner of Lin Xun’s mouth twitched as he stared at the rapidly scrolling text, lines forming all over his forehead. He felt that this item’s method of gaining favorability was a bit too bizarre.

An unsettling thought crept into his mind. What if standing before him were not a Goddess of Vengeance but a God of Vengeance instead?

A shiver ran over Lin Xun’s scalp. He quickly shook his head to fling the thought away.

“Since this is how we gain favorability, then the Child of Evil should be perfect for this, no?”

He had Flesh Authority and limitless stamina.

As he thought, he casually activated the Flesh Boil skill.

With the Child of Evil’s capabilities, he was certain he could skyrocket favorability and push the quality of the reward as high as possible.

He might even be able to extract the background of this chapter from the Goddess of Vengeance and unveil the truth hidden behind the veil.

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