Lu Yao summoned Sarina and Isabelle this time.
Isabelle only needed to cast a spell to enchant the [Sword of the Forest], with Tyrant as the main attacker and summoning Forrest, dealing with the Spell Worms wasn’t too much of a problem I thought.
Before he could send the two apostles into the second level to help in the battle, that Lord of the Star Ocean disappeared without a trace.
He used some unknown technique to get out of the battle, leaving a mess behind.
After losing its target enemy, the Parasite didn’t pursue, it just gulped down the many grubby limbs spread across the third level and entered its meal state.
Lu Yao used the [Spell of True Sight] to target the Curse Worm and got a detailed panel.
……
[Spell Worm LV95] Parasite Worm [Earth Elemental Precipitation] [Retardation
Life Value: 28895/61091
Mana: 7562/12142
Damage: 212
Defence: 177
Speed: 18
[Unity of Mind]
Completely fuses with the host at the level of consciousness, becoming one of the host’s organs.
[Egg Sheath Manufacturing]
Creates egg sheaths to hatch hatchlings, further expanding the territory.
[Hosting Spellmark]
Tattooing special spell seals through which to gain access to the stored Flame of Faith.
Homing Mystery LV19
Inhabits the host’s body and continues to eat away at the host’s strength.
Mystery of Life LV52
[Spell Bugs]
……
[Godhead]: None.
[Divinity]: Humble as an ant (72033).
[Divine Body]: the Order of the Gods.
……
As its name suggests, the speciality of the Host Bug was to find a host for long-term bloodsucking.
Lu Yao surmised that its previous host was most likely the Star Ocean God.
It was possible that the Star Sea God used some method to get rid of or fake death, allowing the Host Bug to return to the third floor after detaching itself.
It had an appetite for the grub limbs here, and it didn’t even go all the way after the Star Sea God.
Lu Yao glanced at the second level of the abyss.
The Star Sea God burrowed underwater. Under the [Spell of True Vision], Lu Yao could still see that His body lay flat and motionless underwater, not knowing if He was pretending to be dead or recuperating from his injuries.
Forget it, it’s better to do it yourself.
Lu Yao opened a door and dropped the two Apostles to the third level, then tapped the [Apostle Soul Seal] and consumed 6,000 faith to summon Forrest.
The LV99 Divine Giant acted as a meat shield and attacker, while Sarina attacked with all her might, and Isabelle added status to the Tyrant – unfortunately, [Sword of the Forest] couldn’t take effect on a summoned item like Forrest.
With less than 30,000 life points left, and not being a combat-oriented Spell Worm, the Parasite Worm was quickly killed under the siege of the two powerful combat members. The bug corpse turned into ashes, and numerous black shadows drilled out from within and seeped into the ground.
The ground left behind a field of Flame of Faith and a prop that looked like a green seed.
Lu Yao had once again scored 70,000 Flame of Faith.
The seed prop however was not a miracle, nor was it an ability card.
……
[Slemod’s Vegetable Capsule] (128,000/128,000)
……
Slemod? Vegetative Capsule?
Lu Yao didn’t quite understand.
An exclamation mark flashed above Sarina’s head.
“My lord, it’s the Billionth Body-Slemod.”
“I always thought He had fallen, but I didn’t realise that He was also in the Abyss.”
Lu Yao asked Sarina to speak about the origins of this deity.
The Tyrant paused for a moment, seemingly combing his thoughts.
“My lord, Slemod is known for his wisdom, and the reason He is remembered by many gods is because of the Feng Yuan Divine Battle.”
“That divine war was a battle between several title gods for a masterless world. The war was extremely fierce, with no one refusing to give in, and the Titled Gods even temporarily recruited other Gods to participate in the war, promising to give a large amount of Flame of Faith or to take them as their subordinate Gods by choice after winning the battle.”
“That masterless world has a rich grassland, and the grassland is a wondrous thing that can breed some non-living props into living things.”
“Even in the higher leap zones, such treasures are very rare. That’s why this divine battle is known as the Battle of the Plenty Plains.”
The dialogue box above Sarina’s head kept popping up with text.
“…… paid a huge price to obtain the title deity of the Masterless World [Golden Poverty Star] only to discover that the so-called Plentiful Grassland was nothing more than a spectacle created by some fire props.”
“As long as one is a Lord God from time to time, it is difficult to directly enter the Masterless World. Those who are able to go in and out to investigate are either ordinary believers or apostles weakened by the power of the rules. So the ones who were truly concealed were actually the apostles of the title gods.”
“Even so, this concealment scam played everyone for a fool, causing the Title Deities to go out of their minds in anger.”
“In the end, the Title Deity [Golden Poverty Star] found out who was behind it, and the person who started it was none other than the Billionth Body-Slemod.”
“Slymod has billions of incarnations, all of which are shown to people in their incarnations, making it difficult to find where his true body is.”
“But after that shocking deception, the Golden Poverty Star held Slemod in very high regard, and it was said that He had invited several times in the hope that Slemod would become His Subordinate God, but all of them were rejected.”
Lu Yao was a bit surprised.
This Slemod sounded like something. He had teased a group of Title Gods and was still able to walk away in one piece.
What he was more concerned about was why Slemod did it and what benefits he could get. This kind of act of bouncing off a ghost king’s grave just didn’t seem like something a normal god of the gods could do.
Sarina said that no one knew about this.
“After the Battle of the Plenty Plains, Slemod appeared a few more times, and each time His appearance was accompanied by deception and trickery.”
“His style is to never use divine battles to solve problems, but to use all sorts of fraud and compulsion, causing many gods to suffer great losses……. Slemod was also wanted by several title gods.”
“Later, Slemod suddenly disappeared.”
“Rumour has it that He fell, having offended so many powerful Gods, and He refused to become a Genus God, He was so infamous that it was hard to have room to survive. I didn’t realise it was captured by the God of Darkness.”
Lu Yao’s mind captured elements.
A master swindler, an individual, and many vestiges.
Such a God of the Gods, should the positioning be Evil Neutral?
Lu Yao looked at the newly acquired props.
Could it be that Slymod was this seed, and that He could be reborn by activating it with the power of faith?
Sarina was unable to answer.
She had merely heard about the Billionth Body and had no interaction with its original body.
Lu Yao was prepared to invest in trying.
His own men were mostly fierce and straight fighting members, and he needed a flexible brain to neutralise them.
Whether to be trapped here and lose your freedom and be accompanied by curse worms, or to go out and give full play to your speciality and assist your bright master, a smart person like Slimer should know how to choose.
Lu Yao clicked the mouse, and the fire of faith was injected into the Vegetative Capsule.
The upper right corner shows Faith-128,000.
The simulator shows.
[Slimerd’s Vegetative Capsule is coming to life.]
The seed-like Vegetative Capsule suddenly cracked and two shoots grew from it.
Then the surrounding vesicular lattice limbs suddenly moved at a rapid pace, and they kept leaning towards the vegetative capsule before being sucked into it all at once……. The entire third layer of lattice limbs leaned this way, and eventually coalesced to form a strange, small creature.
It is covered with green, somewhat like the classic small monster Slime, has a pair of round eyes, curved mouth like a curved moon, and two shoots grow on the top of the head, which looks harmless.
……
[Slime Body LV90] Billionth Body-Slemod
Life Value: 128,000/128,000
Mana: 50040/50040
Damage: 229
Defence: 233
Speed: 19
[Wisdom LV32
Life Mystery LV99
[Mystery of Analysis LV25]
By observing for a long period of time, there is a certain chance of being able to view the essence of many phenomena.
Lattice Limb Organisation
The body itself consists of numerous lattice limbs, capable of splitting, arranging and transforming into various forms.
[Incarnation of Billions]
[Slemoid Exclusive Ability] Slemoid can split itself continuously, arranging and combining into various forms with grasping limbs, existing as an avatar; the more complex the structure of the avatar, the greater the consumption, and the shorter the duration.
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[Godhead]: None.
[Divinity]: shaky (0).
【Divine Body】: House God Rank.
……
In terms of the data panel, Slemoid could be described as a Survival Ability puller, with a LV99 ability that Lu Yao had only seen in Song Shiyi before.
In addition it was a body of consciousness formed by the combination of countless grasping limbs. In other words, the entire third level was Slemod’s body, only that these grasping limbs had reverted to separate individual forms and lacked organic union due to the lack of guidance from the Vegetative Capsule.
Although Slymod’s ability was not a direct combat type, in a hard fight, its body was still very resistant to being beaten up. It was just that it had a very disorientating appearance, with a dull appearance that gave the illusion of being a small monster exclusive to the Novice Village.
Next was the most important part of recruitment.
Before Isabelle could say anything, a dialogue box popped up on the tender leaves above Slime Slimer’s head.
“O strange god-sama, is it you who rescued me from the chaos?”
Lu Yao knew that it could be aware of his existence, and immediately communicated with it directly.
–Be my Apostle and I’ll take you out.
“Please.”
Slemod was very dry.
Lu Yao set the Apostle Seal towards it, and a moment later, the top of Slemod’s head showed up as [Apostle].
This made Lu Yao let go of his heart.
Regardless of what it had done before, with the powerful constraint of the Seal, the Apostle would not be able to defy the god it was loyal to. Both sides would be the core community of interest from now on.
Only then did Lu Yao ask about its experience.
“Lord God, I was captured here by the God of Darkness. At that time, I was participating in a meeting between the Title Gods along with the Title God [Golden Pit Star]. As a result, midway through the meeting, the God of Darkness appeared and went on a killing spree, capturing many of the gods, and the Title Deities fled in all directions……. My humble self was then thrown out of the Divine Kingdom by [Golden Possessed Star] and used to attract the attention of the God of Darkness.”
“Later on, my humble self was captured into this abyss and was dismembered by the God of Darkness, and has been in a state of confusion until now, until I was saved by you.”
Lu Yao frowned, realising that things were not simple.
It had the appearance of a close relationship with the Golden Poverty Star.
“My lord, it’s like this.”
The Green Slime said, “My humble self has no skills, only a little bit of inadequate gimmicks. It has been recognised by quite a few Title Gods, so even though I am humble only for the Gods, I also have slight interactions with the powerful Title Gods.”
“Often times, the Title Gods also need someone to carry some troubles and curses, and I am here to do just that.”
“For example, when the Title Deities fail to initiate a Divine War, when their Subordinate Deities die in battle, or when they encounter an uncontrollable disaster …… In short, when things don’t go well, the Subordinate Deities will inevitably have grievances, and my humble self will need to be responsible for such things.”
Lu Yao got it.
So you’re Benzema! Professional backstabber.
This mouthful of Slimer’s wasn’t good either.
“Did you say the Battle of Feng Yuan? That incident was like this.”
The green Slime stated, “At that time, there were a few Title Gods who had suffered a huge depletion of their faith due to consecutive conquests and the development of the Masterless World. So He asked me to come up with a solution.”
“My humble self then made a small plan, claiming that a precious masterless world had appeared with rare and powerful exotics, and that the bountiful plains were able to breed rare transcendent species with fire props that were comparable to the power of the main gods.
“The title gods cooperate in making theatre, and together they create a situation where a fierce divine war is being waged over this. Then make a big fuss about it externally, so that all the gods know about it.”
“Of course, it takes a lot of details to back up this simple matter to make it real enough, so the Title Gods are also fighting for real, and He was able to take advantage of the opportunity to eliminate some of the lesser-needed inferior populations. The Gods won’t believe it if more people don’t die.”
“Beyond the initial time one must always keep an eye on the attitudes and reactions of the Gods …… The humble ability to take on billions of incarnations enables one to take on all sorts of forms, be it leaves, bugs, dirt or puddles of water to continually observe the reactions of all parties in order to make fine adjustments.”
“Then it escalated and stalemated with a divine war, and the title gods formally recruited the gods from the outside world, either by sending out apostles or by directly supporting them with the fire of faith, and afterwards, as long as they took down the masterless world, they could receive at least ten times the faith back or even obtain the status of a genus god ……”
“Of course, at the end of this tragic divine war, the final victor will only get a false Lordless World, and it’s naturally impossible for the gods to get back their faith investment.”
“And I, my humble self, took on the role of the culprit as a divine fraud.”
“The Flame of Faith collected from the gods, the title gods divided it amongst themselves, and my humble self took some of the hard-earned money.”
Sarina’s shocked face popped up on her head as she listened, “So this is also a scam!”
“That’s it.”
A soybean smile emoji appeared on Slemod’s head, “Where’s all the beating around the bush? The favourite thing for the Title Gods to do is to harvest the Gods together.”
Lu Yao’s heart straightaway called out that he had found the right person.
It turned out that Slymod was really the Master Teacher.
The current team under his own command was too short of such a character!
