Chapter 312

【Wearing Effect: For targets of male gender or possessing corresponding organs, when directly inflicting physical damage, it will bring an unbearable sharp pain, equivalent in intensity and location to a “fatal groin strike.”】

【Advancement Path: None】

【Hidden Trait (No need to wear): Due to the fear of your attack methods, female True Gods opposing you will most likely choose you as their primary target】

…

What the hell?!?!

Looking down at the bottom of Jade Valley where the Goddess of Wealth clutched her legs and screamed in agony before collapsing, the lethargic young man who had just managed to crawl to the edge of the valley couldn’t help but shiver.

Though he already knew Leon wasn’t “ordinary,” that vicious and brutal kick still startled him greatly. When Leon directly mounted the Goddess of Wealth and started punching her, he began sucking in cold air repeatedly.

Not… He just drank a little alcohol, right? How did he suddenly start riding a True God and beating her up? Ow! That punch! Her nose got completely smashed! Hiss… Can’t understand this, really can’t!

And those who couldn’t make sense of the situation weren’t only the lethargic youth on the mountaintop. The giant crocodile summoned by the covenant of [Satisfying Celestial Scale] wandering around the bottom of Jade Valley was also stunned.

The Deathscape hasn’t been very peaceful recently. It seemed some troublesome big shots would be sent in, so several Sovereigns restrained their subordinates from moving recklessly. He hadn’t had a proper meal for quite some time.

So upon hearing the call of the Contractee, he sneaked out, wanting to take the opportunity to hunt some wild game and taste the flavor of a sinner’s heart to make up for the lack of food during this period.

But there were indeed sinful hearts, yet the owner of the heart turned out to be the Goddess of Wealth. This woman’s level was just one or two steps below the Sovereigns of the Deathscape. He was truly no match for her. He got scolded as soon as he approached, and if he didn’t retreat, he might even get beaten up.

Just as he had no choice but to give up his extra meal, even the Contractee who called him over was almost beaten to death by the enraged Goddess of Wealth. A human who smelled incredibly weak actually staggered over, directly knocking down the Goddess of Wealth, mounting her and starting to wildly beat her! This… This doesn’t seem right, does it? Watching the “weak” Cleaner ride on the Goddess of Wealth and beat her until her face was covered in blood, the brainless True God with mediocre power, Crocodile God Ampu, whose capacity for thought was limited, had reached the point of complete system failure and instinctively wanted to flee.

However, because the [Satisfying Celestial Scale] was still embedded in Emma’s chest and the covenant signing wasn’t completed, he couldn’t leave according to the agreement. He could only shrink his body as much as possible, reducing it to slightly more than half a person’s height, then hid in the shadow of the corner near the Execution Platform, looking blankly as Leon continued to fiercely assault the Goddess of Wealth.

After delivering thirty or forty punches while riding on the Goddess of Wealth, Leon, whose head was dizzy from drinking, finally realized how incredibly tough her body was.

Even though he was immune to her attacks thanks to the invincible time granted by [Immortal Drinker], he couldn’t weaken her physical defenses. His full-powered punches barely broke her nose and caused no substantial damage. In fact, his fists hurt from hitting her snake-like scales.

This definitely wouldn’t work; he needed to find something useful fast…

Since he intended to look for a weapon, Leon naturally thought of Emma Senior’s thrusting sword.

But after glancing at Emma Senior holding the sword at her chest, clearly shocked, he worried about causing any secondary harm. With his face flushed red from drinking, Leon abandoned the idea and instead looked toward the Execution Platform… and the crocodile daydreaming below.

“…”

“???”

After making direct contact with the utterly baffled Crocodile God, Leon’s eyes lit up with understanding. He then stood up, dragging the Goddess of Wealth by her ankle toward the shadows beneath the Execution Platform…

…

Me…

I was hit?

I was beaten by a mere mortal?

After Leon’s beating came to an end, the thoroughly stunned Goddess of Wealth finally understood what had just happened—she was overturned and ridden by a mortal and brutally beaten! No! No!! This is impossible!!! Even though her repeatedly battered head was still dizzy, even though her nose, which had been knocked askew, was still bleeding, even though she felt lingering pain between her legs, she simply couldn’t accept such a crazy reality.

“No!”

Regaining control of her body, the Goddess of Wealth suddenly struggled, kicking off Leon’s hand gripping her ankle. She propped herself up and raised her hand, clutching a handful of shell coins as she roared:

“This is impossible! I absolutely…”

“Bang!”

A massive crocodile covered in dark green scales slammed into the Goddess of Wealth’s face with a clang, cutting off her roar and replacing it with a muffled grunt of surprise.

Taking advantage of the Goddess of Wealth falling back down, Leon found a suitable weapon. He hoisted the flailing Crocodile God, belly soft side up and hard scale-covered underside down, and unreasonably slammed it down with all his might! “BOOM!!!”

Compared to the previous slam, this one was much heavier. After being struck by the impossibly hard shell of the Crocodile God, the solid ground of Jade Valley cracked under the impact, and most of the Goddess of Wealth’s head sank into the earth!

“…”

If I had known this would happen, I should have stayed quietly in the Deathscape!

As the Goddess of Wealth was silenced by the blow, the Crocodile God whose neck and waist were pinched by Leon began regretting why he had come out in the first place.

When the audacious Cleaner approached, he did try to resist.

But whether it was biting or tail sweeping, none of his attacks could do anything more than produce a series of bizarre colorful bubbles on the other party. Meanwhile, the other side could easily swing their arm and use a palm coated with the Goddess of Wealth’s blood to slap him hard across the face!

It’s ridiculous…

What’s even more ridiculous than being slapped by a human is that, even though his face was slapped, he didn’t feel much pain there. Instead, he felt intense pain between his legs, extremely painful, like someone had kicked him there hard.

Instinctively clenching his short legs together, the stubborn Crocodile God tried again by twisting his neck to bite Leon’s head fiercely, but once again, all he got was a mouthful of colorful foam and a high-raised palm from Leon.

“Don’t hit! Don’t hit!”

Faced with the strange phantom pain, the unfortunate Crocodile God promptly chose to comply, hastily closing his eyes and curling his body, obediently cooperating with Leon’s actions, becoming a goddess-scalping tool in Leon’s hands, smashing violently down onto the Goddess of Wealth.

“Bang! Bang! Bang!”

After being smashed harder and harder, the upper half of her body was forced deep underground, and the Goddess of Wealth, who couldn’t accept the failure of her abilities, finally snapped back to her senses.

…

This damn insect is indeed different from other insects.

Seeing Leon raising the curled-up Crocodile God and forcefully smashing it down onto her forehead again, despite her still immense resistance, the Goddess of Wealth ultimately had to unwillingly accept the facts.

No matter how the other party achieved it, he had effectively exempted… or even negated her abilities and inflicted disgraceful injuries on her.

Fortunately, this bizarre immunity ability didn’t appear in those two troublesome Level 1 Cleaners but manifested in this extremely weak insect.

This insect’s body was truly too frail. Even though he possessed an incomprehensibly mysterious ability, he still couldn’t cause any real damage to her. On the other hand, those two Level 1 Cleaners who could potentially harm her were now severely injured and unable to move.

One lost seven-tenths of their bones and lay like mud on top of the mountain, while the other was impaled through the heart by her sword and nailed firmly onto the Execution Platform, unable to even dream of moving.

So things became exceedingly simple.

Again enduring a heavy smash on her forehead and feeling the feeble force akin to a child’s, the Goddess of Wealth lying in the pit couldn’t help but slightly curl the corners of her lips, revealing a faint smile of satisfaction.

“Is that all?”

…

“I must admit, you surprised me.”

After breaking free from the madness of discovering the ineffectiveness of her powers, the Goddess of Wealth regained her composure, stood up again, brushed off the dirt on her clothes, and then smiled as she said to Leon:

“Your ability is indeed miraculous, but merely nullifying damage isn’t enough to kill a true deity!”

“…”

“Come here, come closer.”

With an increasingly radiant smile but without a trace of warmth in her gaze, the Goddess of Wealth beckoned Leon, who instinctively stepped back twice, calling out softly yet chillingly:

“Stand in front of me. I want to see what exactly you are!”

As soon as the Goddess of Wealth finished speaking, Leon felt the world flicker slightly. The Goddess of Wealth, who was originally three steps away, miraculously appeared in front of him… or rather, he appeared in front of her.

“Indeed, it’s just as I suspected.”

Glancing at the ground beneath Leon’s feet, the Goddess of Wealth’s smile grew even brighter.

“My abilities may not affect you, but they can still function normally on everything else around you besides ‘you’… Am I correct?”

“…”

“And, I hope you won’t make any unnecessary moves anymore.”

Slightly sidestepping to dodge Leon’s swinging fist, the Goddess of Wealth crushed another handful of shell coins and explained calmly with her narrow snake-like eyes half-closed:

“I just crushed a bit of shell coins and temporarily bought myself some ‘speed’.

For your two companions, this trick would be useless, but it seems to work quite well against you. Your ability can exempt you from the damage I cause, but it can’t keep up with my speed… Am I right?”

“…”

“It seems I’m correct again… Hmm? Do you also want to increase your speed?”

Seeing Leon stop, not launch another attack, but instead take out two shell coins and crush them, the Goddess of Wealth shook her head and said:

“Do as you please, but your wealth is far less than mine. And if you want to catch up with me, crushing just these few shell coins is far from enough.”

After giving this unsympathetic reminder, the Goddess of Wealth smiled and said: “Then let’s move on to the next conjecture… You kept drinking non-stop while rushing down the mountain, so can I assume that your ability needs large amounts of alcohol to activate?”

Huh?!

“It seems I’m correct again!”

Seeing Leon’s sudden expression of shock, a small patch of skin on the Goddess of Wealth’s face not covered by snake scales turned a flush of excitement. She then snapped her fingers, and the entire Jade Valley suddenly brightened.

“Three times the sunlight, just enough to make you feel hot but not enough to burn you, speeding up your sobering process.”

Pointing at the two additional suns that suddenly appeared above, the Goddess of Wealth, who felt she was getting closer to the “truth,” pressed her rapidly beating heart and asked expectantly:

“I wonder what happens to your ability activated by drinking after you sober up? Will you lose it directly, or… hmm?”

Feeling the world in front of her become slightly blurred, the Goddess of Wealth instinctively rubbed her eyes and looked at the increasingly blurry world with bewilderment:

“Am… am I…”

“Your flesh is heading towards death.”

Quietly crushing all the shell coins in his hand and confirming that he couldn’t buy anything more, Leon, who had remained silent for a whole chapter without even psychological activity, spoke expressionlessly:

“Next, your skin will gradually turn pale, but your eyes will become redder and drier, even developing bloodshot veins. Your forehead and nails will turn bluish-purple, your heart will beat faster and faster, and your blood will flow wildly throughout your body, but your strength will grow weaker and you’ll feel increasingly fatigued…”

“You… you’re lying!”

The Goddess of Wealth tensed her expression and gritted her teeth:

“I’m a True God! How could you possibly…”

“And your soul.”

Leon slowly said:

“The changes will affect your consciousness from your body, making your soul flame flicker uncontrollably, leading to anxiety, panic, irritability, inability to concentrate, until you lose consciousness, resulting in a brief separation of soul and body…”

“You’re making things up! I don’t…”

“Look, it’s already beginning.”

Interrupting the Goddess of Wealth’s words, Leon pointed at her slightly cyanotic nails and slowed down his speech:

“You have the ability to discern truth from falsehood, and you know whether I’m lying or not, but you just refuse to acknowledge it.”

“Also, the thing causing this transformation involves the fundamental essence of this world. I once exchanged its existence secret with the Aquarius Director for the Aquarius Secret Art.

And all humans who’ve encountered it in the past are either dead or will die someday in the future. None have survived, and I believe you won’t be an exception either.”

“You… you…”

As the world in front of her became increasingly blurred and the conditions Leon described began to manifest one by one, the Goddess of Wealth clenched her teeth and said:

“You must have tampered with me while attacking… Did you use a numbered anomalous item? Was it the [Foul Meat Fragrance] that emptied the Blood Hell? Or… or the [God-Melting Flower] that dissolved all things celestial?”

“…”

Heh heh.

Leon, who had no clue what she was talking about, didn’t respond but gave her a mysterious smile and secretly nudged the mirror cufflink hidden in his mouth with his tongue.

Hurry up! Open the Mirror World passage wider; I’m also running out of oxygen!

(End of Chapter)