CH 44: Gods, But Less Than Ants

Alistair :"You know, I think necromancers should be buff as hell instead of lanky skeletons."

Natasha :"Why?"

Alistair, Leonardo DiCaprio smug face :"Because they do a lot of... deadlifting."

Natasha didn't look impressed.

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"Damn it, you're all a bunch of cowards!" In an unfamiliar space, a large piece of rock was floating around randomly. A roundtable was in the middle of it, with quite a few seats around it. However, only three seats were taken at the moment by three men.

One of them glared murderously :"I know how he is, but he has gone too far! I can't just sit around and watch my apostle suffer such humiliation!"

??? 2 looked at 1 seriously, almost glaring :"Calm down, nothing good will come out of overreacting like this. Especially when it comes to "him."

??? 1 :"Overreact?! OVERREACT?! Those three bastards have always done whatever they wanted, and "he" has directly set his eyes on my apostle! How can I not be livid?!"

??? 3 :"Oh, yeah? Then what do you propose we do? Give us a plan and we'll see if it's possible to perform."

??? 1 :"Plan?! The only plan I have is taking revenge on that bastard!"

??? 2 sighed solemnly :"You know we've made a deal with them. We can't touch those three."

??? 3 :"He's right. Especially not now that we're so close to our goal. If they catch wind of what we're trying to do, all our efforts are straight out of the window."

"Ugh..." 1 groaned, gritting his teeth in rage and reluctance. A portal suddenly opened, catching their attention as a man with a large build walked in.

"Hahahaha, damn, you look sore!" Wearing a large, mocking grin, he laughed at 1 :"I guess it was a good idea to come here, huh? Well, I can't blame ya. I would be furious if my apostle was cucked too! Hahahaha, so much for being the God of Corruption! You can't even protect your own apostle's pride as a man!"

Veins popping on Corruption's face, he glared intensely at the visitor :"Shut your mouth, God of Greed! This has nothing to do with you!"

Greed simply scoffed :"Oh, I'm pretty sure it does. After all, you're embarrassing the other Gods with your incompetence. You couldn't even help your apostle, how are you supposed to help our cause?"

Stomping his way to stand in front of him, Corruption glared with bloodshot eyes :"God of Greed, you better watch your mouth before I actually kill you."

But he simply made him snicker :"Oooh, somebody's mad as shit, huh? What, you don't like the taste of your own medicine?

If I remember correctly, you took pride in cucking other people when you were a mortal. Are you mad that somebody technically cucked you this time?

Hell, I'm no good guy, but even I have lines that I won't cross. And believe me, it feels good~ to see trash like you get what you deserve."

Power that would have instantly killed mortals radiated from Corruption, Greed answering back with letting out his own Divinity to clash with his. But before they start a fight that would result in planets being left in shambles, the other two Gods in the place stopped them.

"That's enough!" The two quickly stepped between them, holding them back. 3 glared at Greed :"What do you want here, God of Greed?! Even you wouldn't have just come here out of boredom if there wasn't something for you to gain!"

Greed chuckled :"You'd be surprised at what I'd do when I'm bored. But yeah, I'm not here to mess with this loser. I've come here to make a deal."

??? 2 :"A deal? What are you talking about?"

A devilish grin spread on the bulky man's face :"Let's kill "The Big Three."

The other Gods were startled. 2 groaned in confusion :"Are you nuts, Greed? Do you have any idea what you're talking about?"

Greed :"Hahahaha, of course I do! Don't you think this is the best chance to do this?! When will we ever become so lucky?! Those three bastards are weak right now!

It's the perfect opportunity to take advantage of their weak states and kill them for good! Isn't that our goal to begin with?! Why shouldn't we make use of this chance?!"

??? 3 glared :"You seriously don't have a brain, do you? Do you actually think it's that easy? Kill the Big Three? Do you even have a method of doing that?

You already know that we can't directly enter habitable planets because of the rules set by the Big Three, since they didn't want us to take advantage of mortals. Killing them by destroying the planet they're on is out of the question too, since it's being protected.

The only way to go there is by completely deactivating our powers, which leaves even us vulnerable to Death herself. And you already know, she won't waste any chance of killing Gods with how much she hates us. Forget about killing them, we would be killed instead."

"Yeah, yeah, I already know." Greed rolled his eyes, before smirking :"But even with that, we still have a chance. Ignoring the other two, "he" was born just recently. Killing him now would be as easy as squashing a bug!

Yeah, Lady Death will definitely come after us, I know. But if we mask our presence long enough, just for a few minutes, we'll be done with the job and come back in one piece! Don't tell me you're too scared to let this chance slip away!"

??? 2 growled in annoyance :"I don't think you understand what you're trying to do, Greed. So let me remind you, we're talking about "them" here. The ones that even the strongest God-Kings like God-King of Creation and God-King of Destruction don't take lightly.

Yet you're talking as if killing them can be achieved with just going down there and killing them? Sorry, but I'd rather not get myself killed.

Because believe me, the only reason why you can talk shit is because you've never seen them yourself. Yeah,no, I'm out of this genius plan of yours."

"Tsk, just say you're scared shitless." Greed groaned, glancing at the other two :"What about you two? Corruption, weren't you just bitching about getting revenge?"

??? 3 scoffed :"Call me whatever you want, but I'd rather not die because of your stupidity. Count me out too."

As Greed clicked his tongue, Corruption scoffed too :"Yeah, no way in hell am I going to team up with you, asshole. A backstabbing son of a bitch like you will instantly betray me if something goes wrong. Even if my apostle was humiliated, so what? Not like I can't choose somebody else if something happens to him.

"Tsk, all of you are pussies." Greed growled in annoyance :"You deserved to get humiliated like that. Fine, I'll do it myself! Who needs the help of pussies like you anyway?"

Walking back, a portal appeared for him to step in before it disappeared. The other Gods frowned, with Corruption looking at the others :"He won't actually succeed, right?"

"Oh, please, use some logic." 3 rolled his eyes, picking up his chair and sitting down :"We're talking about the Big Three here. Why do you think the God-Kings haven't done that if it was possible?"

??? 2 nodded with a sigh :"He's right. Believe me, even when weakened, those three aren't in danger at all. God of Greed is simply going to get himself killed."

??? 3 :"Then shouldn't we have stopped him? Or at least told the higher ups to deal with him?"

??? 2 :"Forget it. If he's so eager to kill himself because of his greed, then he can be my guest. Never liked that backstabbing bastard anyway."

- (Planet of Arcross)

Inside of a forest in the country of Edostin located in Humanheim, the continent of humans, a dark portal appeared in the middle of the night, with the God of Greed stepping out of it.

He groaned as he shivered :'Shit, I know I need to do this to be able to enter this planet, but I fucking hate weakening myself to this degree. I feel like a gust of wind would break me or something.'

But his frown turned into a smirk :'But it's worth it! After I kill "him" and take his essence, I'll become the strongest God there is! The others coming would have ensured this being a success, but it doesn't matter.

They were weaklings anyway. Anyway, now I won't even need to worry about taking his powers in front of them either, so I guess this is better-'

But just as he was thinking, a hand suddenly grabbed his face. Before he could even register it, he was thrown away, crashing into ancient trees and giant boulders.

Breaking numerous trees in his path, he landed harshly on the ground. Getting dragged and creating a path with how harshly he was thrown. Groaning and holding his head on the ground, he looked to see who dared to attack him, but immediately froze when he saw the attacker.

"What the fuck are you doing here, Greed?" The attacker, a young man with short crimson hair, growled at him. His face hidden by the darkness of the night, but his red eyes glowing menacingly at the God who grew fearful immediately :"I think we made ourselves —very— clear on what would happen if you messed with our fun time."

Greed gulped harshly, sweating at the mere sharp presence of the boy who didn't seem to be older than 20. His body trembled uncontrollably, an instinctual fear sinking into his shaking bones.

He gasped at the overwhelming aura when just being close to him, gritting his teeth at his own body's reaction :'Damn it, w-what's going on?! I-I'm the God of Greed! H-how can I-I be trembling like this?!'

Under the young man's gaze, he forced his body to move :'Move, damn it! MOVE!' Getting up on shaky legs, he put on a facade with a bloodthirsty smirk :"Yo. What a pleasure to meet h-"

"Shut up." He said, causing Greed to quiet down immediately. He wasn't doing it willingly, it was his body obeying the youngster, because it knew that it was one wrong move away from dying.

"I'm not here for chitchat. I asked, why the fuck is a God here? You don't happen to have... bad intentions towards us... right?"

He wasn't asking. It was obvious from his tone that he was just exposing him. The look on his face, his bored but annoyed eyes said it all. Greed couldn't look up. His eyes on the ground, with his body unwilling to let him raise his head.

He heard the sound of footsteps, making the fear intensify as the youngster sighed :"This is why I always thought it was better to just get rid of you annoying trashes.

You bugs that don't know your own place. Tsk, bugs at least have some benefits to the environment. You lot are just moles on my ass that I should just laser off.

But no. No, that's not what my adorable little brother thinks. He says it's not fun like that. That it gets so boring and we shouldn't kill off our entertainment like that."

As he reached Greed, the way he looked at the terrified God was akin to that of looking at trash. Despite their body size, Greed, who had an impressive physique of over 2 meters tall, looked like an ant standing in front of a titan.

His eyes were set on the ground, not even daring to look at the youngster's shoes. The youngster seemed satisfied with his current manners.

Greed had come with such confidence and arrogance, but now couldn't do anything but look down with cold sweat drenching his entire body, as if he was a weak rabbit in front of a tiger.

His annoyed face turned into a smirk, a dangerous one as his teeth flashed at Greed :"You know, that adorable little shit gets a bit pouty when I mess with his toys. But I'm sure he wouldn't mind me toying with one myself, right?"

It was at that moment Greed knew with the entirety of his being, he fucked up.