Chapter 147: The Goddess's Protection Is Not Free

  As Mo Yan's narrative unfolded, time returned to the battle in the dream. A giant two-headed centipede suddenly appeared and swallowed Mo Yan whole, sending him sliding down its long esophagus, surrounded by thick, slippery walls that made it impossible for him to grab onto anything to stop his slide.

  This situation made Mo Yan somewhat nostalgic for that ugly body, if this was the Minotaur's powerful physique, then Mo Yan could have torn out its internal organs like last time in the sea monster's body and burrowed into the centipede's head like a parasite to find what he wanted.

  However, in this dream, Mo Yan didn't have that kind of power, but he gained the ability to materialize weapons. These weapons were all things he had seen before and considered strong in his subconscious mind, such as guns, missiles, and explosives. As long as Mo Yan wasn't tired, he could infinitely materialize them to kill those monsters. Although at first Mo Yan could only use two handguns, now he can even wield the secret technique of Dongfeng washing the earth.

  This is the result of his three-year battle in the dream, during which he has been fighting against witchcraft all the time, and then swallowed those monsters killed by him. In fact, these battles do not have anything like guns or explosives, but only the confrontation between spiritual power and witchcraft power, and those battles are just a manifestation of dreams.

  As he was about to reach the stomach of the centipede, a sharp dagger appeared in Mo Yan's hand. He inserted it into the meat wall with force, cutting out a not-so-small opening that exposed the muscles outside. These giant monsters just couldn't remember that when eating live creatures, they had to bite them to death first. Some country was notorious for having dozens of people choke to death every year from eating live octopuses.

  After Mo Yan stopped, another appeared, with several daggers inserted into the esophageal wall to fix himself and free his hands. The power of sorcery obviously knew what was happening inside him, and the muscles in his throat were constantly squeezing and swallowing, like a human being stuck by a fish bone trying to swallow it down. But Mo Yan, who had already become ***, was not so easy to be squeezed down.

  Mo Yan endured the rolling muscles of his esophagus, trying to push him down, and a weapon appeared in his hands. "RPG!" With Mo Yan's roar, this mighty killing machine, with its orange-red tail flame shooting out from the back, roasted the esophagus into a fragrant aroma, like the smell of roasted chicken, even Mo Yan, who had eaten three years of monster meat, wouldn't feel disgusted when smelling it.

  A massive explosion erupted within a small radius, causing the heavily damaged outer wall of the centipede to explode with a large hole, and rolling black abhorrence emerged from it. The two-headed centipede let out a mournful cry, violently shaking its body before falling powerlessly to the ground.

  The originally heavily damaged twin-headed centipede finally collapsed after suffering such internal damage. Mo Yan crawled out of the centipede's corpse, panting, that RPG was not so simple, although it looked like just a rocket launcher, but it used up all his remaining strength.

  "If you are a god, why not just help me deal with all this?" Mo Yan sat on the sandy ground, looking at the centipede's corpse in front of him and asked: "I think such trivial magic shouldn't be a big deal for you, right? But instead, I have to waste so much energy."

  "This is your trial." The goddess, who had been silent in the battle, smiled and said to Mo Yan: "I have already used my power to help you divide the witchcraft into small pieces, and created a city in your dream to provide you with a hiding place at first. Now you not only don't thank me but also blame me for not doing more for you? You are indeed a greedy mortal."

  "A greedy mortal?" Mo Yan sneered, looking at the distant dream that was slowly collapsing. "If I were a fool, perhaps I would have been intimidated by you. Although you did help me a lot, in the ruins when I fought against the Half-Body, it was your power that finally allowed me to kill it."

  "That powerful force won't disappear so quickly, and she lost her memories and cognition also because of that force in my body. Now you're helping me resist the witchcraft attack, if I'm being honest... even the power of that body is something you've granted me."

  "I have given you so much." The goddess did not get angry at Mo Yan's disrespect, but instead asked with a curious tone: "You should be grateful to me. After all, I've never asked for anything from you, and the things I give you are free, as you say. Why wouldn't you think I'm deceiving you?"

  "Free is the most expensive, it's almost a consensus among our people." Mo Yan stood up after resting enough and walked towards the centipede's head, saying: "The more you give me, the more you will ask for in return. Even if you don't show any intention now, it doesn't mean you won't have any demands in the future."

  "I never believed in a free lunch." Mo Yan, who had walked to the front, materialized an axe and struck it forcefully onto the hard skull of the centipede, continuing to chop with all his might as he spoke: "If what Aili said is true, that you were defeated by a group of powerful creatures from another world and lost control of this world.

  "Now I can be said to be a pawn in your hands, and I don't know how much influence those gods can have on the mortal world. If they find out about Elan's situation, I will become a clear target of attack, after all, the situation at Thunder Cliff is too abnormal. However... what makes me curious is that the gods can't see here, why didn't they send a divine warrior to investigate? Just like the Goddess of Pain."

  "You're really clever." The goddess nodded in agreement with Mo Yan's words, saying: "That's right, if they saw the situation here, your fate wouldn't be too good, and not even a shred of your soul would remain. However, some things aren't as you think, my relationship with you is more intimate than you imagine, but... I can't tell you the truth about what happened. When you think you've figured out the truth, everything is actually wrong."

  Let's not talk about that. You don't need to worry about the gods for now. I have been in control of this world for so long, and it's not something that those newly promoted half-gods can compare to. After I imprisoned the strongest demigod, I had already foreseen my defeat, so I made all the arrangements tens of thousands of years ago.

  I established new rules before the war was lost, all newly empowered deities were isolated in a newly created world, they were destined to be imprisoned by me when they absorbed those divine powers into their own. Although they came up with ways of proxy to help them govern the continent, those so-called chosen warriors of god could not break through the maze I set."

  "What about the Goddess of Suffering's chosen warriors?" Mo Yan said in the brain on the left side of Wugui, discovering something as big as a lychee but black and covered with thorns all over its body: "If those chosen warriors can pass through underground, then won't they be able to come from Underground City to Eran?"

  "The underworld is the domain of the Goddess of Pain." The goddess explained, "She has a grudge against all the gods, and once those divine warriors go underground, their chances of returning to the surface are slim. Now you have the core of witchcraft in your hands, you can eat it now, and soon the dream will collapse completely. Don't worry, those thorns won't hurt you."

  Mo Yan heard the goddess's words, and with a sense of trepidation, he closed his eyes and swallowed the sea urchin whole. Contrary to his expectations, there was no sharp pain, just as the goddess had said, the spines did not harm Mo Yan. The object, which was supposedly the core of the magical power law, melted away after being swallowed by Mo Yan, dispersing throughout his entire soul.

  "For now, that's all you need to know," the goddess said. "You're a clever person, so I'm sure you understand that knowing too much can actually hinder your actions. Now, I'll provide you with shelter, and you just do as you think best. When you feel your powers have stabilized, I'll give you further instructions. As for whether or not to follow my words, it's entirely up to you - I won't force you."

  "Alright... you're the boss." Mo Yan said with a somewhat helpless shrug. Having seen many dark things in the world, Mo Yan never thought that the goddess was good for him, after all, he and the goddess were not related by blood or fate, and the goddess knew his secrets completely. If Mo Yan had even a hint of refusal, the goddess might withdraw her protection from him.

  Without the goddess's support, even if the Minotaur is extremely powerful, he will still be turned into a pile of minced meat by those groups of divine warriors who come to Thunder Cliff to cause trouble. The most correct choice now is to hold onto the goddess's thigh tightly, at least this goddess seems gentle for now.

  "So I guess I really did fall under Lirien's spell." Mo Yan said, omitting the goddess and human figures from his dream, as well as fabricating the weapons he used, as he recounted the battle in his dream.

  "So you fought in the dream for three years." Emily's eyebrows furrowed, Mo Yan's story made her heart a little uncomfortable. She couldn't imagine that someone had been fighting in the dream for three years, and every day could only eat those monster corpses. If this happened to her, she would definitely go crazy.

  "Since you weren't controlled by the succubus, why did you pretend to be under their control?" Riesz stroked his beard and said: "You could have subdued them the moment you woke up without letting this farce happen. Your power is not something they can match."

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