Starting with Growing Mushrooms-Chapter 339 - 262: Self-Righteous Fate?
"Transform!"
Moira changed the world.
The entire environment of the world began to transform.
The walls were stone slabs, the floor tiles were stone slabs, the clouds were stone slabs...
The garden where God resided seemed to have turned into a world composed of densely packed stone slabs inscribed with words.
Clearly, the Divine Power she possessed could temporarily alter the fate of inanimate objects, twisting them into another form.
"Not good!"
Fortuna was startled at heart.
She started using her Divine Power, frantically twisting God’s destiny again and again, then altering his behavioral logic, making him escape from this world.
A war between the two sides exploded in an instant!
The densely packed stone slabs began to cover the whole world.
Countless powerful beings, gods, were awakened in an instant, layer upon layer of barriers were broken, countless people awakened.
"Where is this?"
"Where is this place!"
Fortuna had already seen this scene, letting out a deep sigh,
"So it has come to this, after all?" 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
"Then I’ll have to use that move!"
She didn’t care about the awakening of the gods.
For she had already devised a way to deal with it.
In the next moment, as the world returned to its original state, everyone saw what the real world looked like.
God also slowly opened his eyes, countless light points formed by mysterious fairies fluttering around him,
"After a century of sleep, it’s time to wake up."
...
"What happened?"
The Flame God and the God of the Sea found that the Divine Objects within them had long disappeared.
The two of them looked innocent, hardly believing what they saw before their eyes.
"Our fundamental Divine Objects, have long been secretly taken after being altered in identity!"
"What? Our powers are gone too?"
The Shadow God and the Light God opened their eyes to find their Divine Power completely gone.
Almost all the gods felt their powers disappear.
"It’s over, has he gone mad?"
"What an ambitious madman!"
"Damn Goddess of Destiny!"
"She stole all our Divine Objects!"
Most ridiculously, through a prolonged fate layout.
Cain, after acquiring new Divine Objects of Evolution, completing the collection of the four Evolution Series, was also attacked.
The final Divine Object he had just obtained was also taken away.
Only the neutral Goddess of Fertility, with her Transmission Divine Object still intact, was left unharmed.
At this moment, the gods who had lost their Divine Objects became ordinary powerful beings.
The Light God Arthur said, "Everyone, don’t be angry. I believe that after the Goddess of Destiny wins, she will return the Divine Objects to us."
The Demon King Behemoth, however, was enraged, cursing, "Of course you’re not angry. You, Arthur, the newly appointed Light God, were supported by the Goddess of Destiny."
"Moreover, in the new world constructed by fate, it’s not you who keeps getting beaten up, it’s Cain and me."
The Light God Arthur was indifferent.
Are the Demon King and Cain good people?
Endangering world domination, endangering all living beings, are we not allowed to deal with you?
The Light God had an innocent look:
"Everyone, the world ruled by the Goddess of Destiny is precisely the perfect world we imagined, isn’t it? Now, with the Divine Trial descending, a new Goddess of Destiny appeared to overthrow this beautiful world!"
"Fortuna’s decision to collect the gods’ Divine Power to resist is understandable, you all don’t want to lose the world ruled by the Goddess of Destiny, right?"
At these words, everyone fell silent.
What the other party said was indeed reasonable.
The era ruled by Fortuna was indeed comfortable.
She governed diligently, pushing everyone to a very high tier of the Divine Era at once.
Continuously fishing several civilizations, allowing their world to expand over a thousand times, they had gained plenty.
Her merits were acknowledged by all.
Now if another unknown Goddess of Destiny won, who knows if she would be as friendly as Fortuna?
Fortuna taking away their Divine Objects for battle is understandable.
But what they feared most was that Fortuna would not return them!
Taking their Divine Objects and not returning them, giving them instead to other more potential, younger talents, supporting a new generation of gods.
Wouldn’t the older generation suffer?
Though they knew this generation of pioneers, having paved the way, became the Sixth Tier race below in potential, with potential exhausted...
From a just perspective, replacing them with newcomers would be beneficial for the era.
But at such a time, who wants to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others?
Everyone has selfish desires, even hogging the latrine, they wouldn’t want to let others in.
Cain saw through everyone’s doubts and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, with Fortuna’s character, to build a perfect world, she definitely won’t return the Divine Objects to us!"
Behemoth’s expression immediately turned furious, "Damn guy, what fate of mortals? She’s just doing it for her face, for her rule!"
The Earth Element Divine Spirit Giant beside them remained neutral, "Everyone, don’t be angry. The situation is already a foregone conclusion, and I think retirement isn’t too bad."
This newly appointed Earth Element Divine Spirit was gentle-tempered, "Fortuna will also let us enjoy a blissful life, enjoying whatever life we want."
"For her, it’s just a matter of words."
Indeed, Fortuna wouldn’t be stingy with such blessings, after all, altering a life with a flick of a pen costs nothing.
While the gods were feeling their powers taken away, disputing endlessly,
God, who awoke, walked forward step by step.
"Everyone, having lost the Divine Position, you can eternally enter my Pantheon of Gods."
"Become Subordinate Gods of my divine lineage."
"Though you no longer possess fundamental Divine Objects, you will still have some Divine Power as lesser gods!"
One card after another was opened.
The gods were slightly startled, looking at God.
Inside the cards, were fairies with these Divine Power attributes.
Since it was impossible to become the true gods of this world, then after retirement, becoming the God of Fairies of this attribute would be acceptable...
And furthermore.
What they feared most was losing their divine position and becoming ordinary strong beings, easily slain by enemies.
But if they followed God, they would bask in God’s glory in the days to come.
Arthur spoke first, "If it is your will, I will surely obey!"
With that, King Arthur flew into the card of the Light God, becoming the Light God holding a Divine Staff of Light, crowned with a light crown, and wearing papal vestments.
Agni, the Flame God, and Valuna, the Sea Goddess, exchanged glances.
They were originally among those gods who were without desire and lived a happy married life, decisively choosing to accept this matter.
The Sea Goddess entered the card, becoming a dignified and gentle Sea Goddess.
The Flame God also entered, becoming a Flame God wielding a great hammer within a volcano crater.
God saw the return of all the gods to their positions and instantly understood:
"An old Age of Gods is coming to an end, after all."
"A new cohort of gods?"
"No, there are no new gods anymore."
Liu Jun looked up.
He saw Bal with a happy smile, floating in the mid-air.
Fire, water, earth, wind, light, dark... transformation, reality, and illusion.
The Divine Objects of the Attribute Series gathered on this super monster on the eightieth layer.
The gods have converged into a single unique god, floating slowly in the air.
Bal, seeing this scene, was still a little dissatisfied and said:
"No, my compatibility varies, the lowest is only 87, the highest only 97, none reaching 100!"
The Goddess of Destiny, Fortuna, standing next to this giant, seemed like a little dwarf, "To have all attributes at 100? There’s no such person in this world, you’re already one of the best-qualified I’ve seen."
"Of course!"
Bal excitedly waved his fist, foolishly exclaiming, "I am the lone survivor of the Eighth Divine Era, the strongest hero!"
"Rest assured, you truly prepared such a good divine position for me, the gods have basically become me, so I will definitely help you win!"
"I am the hero of the Eighth Divine Era!"
"You didn’t spread my divine era’s level across the world, just for today! Crushing advantages of the Eighth Divine Era, to guard your way!"
Fortuna smiled faintly.
Bal was not twisted by destiny, and chose to pledge allegiance to her, which was her strongest trump card.
The other side wasn’t a false loyalty twisted by fate.
It was true loyalty, fervently devoted to her, captivated by the new world she set forth.
Moreover, Bal was one who knew how to repay a kindness.
Having slept in the ruins for too long, seeing too many hopeless worlds, he utterly fell in love with this perfect world without locks, and where roads were unguarded, shaped by the Goddess of Destiny.
Even willing to sacrifice his life to protect this happy home of destiny.
God looked up at the sky, "In the current era, the gods have vanished, all attributes have converged."
"Only the God of Magic Bal, the Mysterious God, the Goddess of Destiny, the Goddess of Fertility, and the Demon God of Evolution remain."
Right now, the four kinds of Divine Power of the God of Evolution were also ambushed, and Cain was also tricked.
Now, the God of Evolution...
Has been turned into a Flower Ghost General?
Fortuna placed the four Divine Objects on the opponent, maintaining absolute loyalty.
The Demon God of Evolution lacked any direct combat power, able to buff Bal.
The God of Magic was truly the battle expert.
The opponent’s trio composition was very reasonable, with the supportive Demon God of Evolution, the Goddess of Destiny, and the front-line battle God of Magic Bal.
Liu Jun observed thoughtfully.
Both sides’ Goddess of Destiny had chosen their destiny protagonist.
Our side had God and the retired gods.
The opposing side had three persons.
Yet the chosen Moira as the Goddess of Destiny couldn’t see what was happening in the world of the living because she was in the world of the dead.
She had no idea that Ananke was in fact her dear friend, Fortuna.
"A self-destructive destiny?"
God sighed softly in his heart: "Destiny, how truly wondrous."
"Why would the Divine Objects choose these two people?"
"Under normal circumstances, if I hadn’t read the introduction of the Divine Objects, didn’t know this Goddess of Destiny Moira’s identity, naturally I wouldn’t deliberately highlight the enemy’s identity in conversation."
"After all, the battle is very urgent now; who would deliberately say these things without knowing?"
"As it stands, maybe only after the two have finished killing each other will the two Goddesses of Destiny discover the true identity of the other."
"Melodrama would ensue accordingly."
"The classic mistake... I changed my name, you thought I was someone else, and we started to kill each other!"
However, now that God had seen the Divine Object’s introduction, he knew the real truth.
There were now two paths laid out before him.
First was for Liu Jun to turn a blind eye, allowing the melodrama of mutual slaughter to unfold.
To kill Fortuna, the new Goddess of Destiny would follow God.
The new Goddess of Destiny was ugly, weak since childhood, a believer in destiny, without emotional intelligence...
She would live her whole life steeped in the sorrow of fate, believing it was destiny’s arrangement, that her entire life was destiny’s tragedy...
In life, parting in life and death.
In death, parting in life and death.
She started to believe that this was destiny, making two people doomed to tragedy... cowardice, weakness, isolation, easy to control.
In this way, it was quite a good ending for God.
The second was to tell them the truth.
The two would recognize each other.
The two great destinies might join forces, possibly targeting God together!
God would instead have created a new enemy for himself, pushing his allies to the enemy side.
"If God did this, would it mean willingly abandoning the support and rewards of destiny?"
"Indeed, that’s a foolish move!"
God’s demeanor was somber,
"But God, insists on saying no to such melodrama."
"Such self-righteous destiny might as well be forsaken."
"If the Goddesses of Destiny really join forces, perhaps the battle would be more exhilarating."
God decided to do something interesting.
