Starting with Growing Mushrooms-Chapter 436 - 339: Ligonar, God of Theft

The center of the world.

In a towering structure of metallic grey and black.

In the town of Greyprohibition, some passing adventurers arrived here to explore.

"Why is there a city here?"

The adventurers asked.

The leader among them was a scarlet gold-grade adventurer, a figure standing at the pinnacle of the mortal world, one of the legends of today’s Adventurer Guild.

And the indigenous inhabitants here informed them thusly: "Here is imprisoned a unique entity in the world, Celestial Will."

"They are the will of heaven and earth, the embodiment of all things."

"And our race has been tasked by the gods to guard the Celestial Will; this is our destiny."

The residents here are born with a mission, to guard this place for generations.

This caused some adventurers to marvel.

This world is truly magical and spectacular; even a remote town like this can be a place akin to the mythical stories where a Demon King is sealed.

Of course.

Some adventurers thought: If I release this Celestial Will, wouldn’t that unleash a Demon King feared by the gods, leading to the world’s destruction?

However, the residents looked at those adventurers with wavering eyes: "Perhaps yet another with ill intentions."

Indeed.

In this era, all sorts of people exist, countless among them eager to overthrow the gods.

And right at the center of that mysterious grey and black tower, a figure silently arrived.

Liu Jun, listening to the adventurers’ conversation outside, sighed inwardly: "If the world line follows its normal course, our next era would be the Celestial Will Era."

"One day, the Celestial Will will overthrow the gods, maybe really released some world-ending Demon King by those adventurers."

"Unleashing a great narrative of battling the gods."

Alas, that was merely the original world line.

The current flow of time is in a leap mode, although, the future of the Celestial Will overthrowing the gods remains.

Yet it is not this world’s Celestial Will that will lay waste to this batch of gods.

"One can only say, Ligao Na, you have been eliminated by the times."

God walked slowly into the cage, looking at the curled-up figure inside, and spoke lightly:

"Have you heard the voices outside? The new Celestial Will may overthrow us, but it won’t be you, even if you have such potential yourself."

Ligao Na looked at God: "As the strongest King of Gods of the era, how do you have time to visit me here? Why not enjoy your last moments as the Age of Gods ends? After all, Ragnarök is near!"

God chuckled: "You can indeed know everything happening outside at any moment. As the Celestial you, it is peculiar to hear the voices of all things."

Ligao Na remained silent.

The world is his bodily shell.

Now equivalent to having his consciousness locked inside his body, turned into an immobile vegetable, lying on a hospital bed.

But as a vegetative person, he can still hear people speaking outside, his eyelids trembling slightly.

"You are merely parasitic bacteria within this vegetative body."

Ligao Na said indifferently. "After the elevation of the world, we were born; we are the protagonists of the new version of the era!"

Liu Jun didn’t argue any further but silently used the instrument beside him to sample, analyze, and check on Ligao Na.

Ligao Na was accustomed to it.

After all, this was a laboratory, generally visited periodically by every god to conduct experiments on him.

The one who came most often was God of Evolution, Cain.

This one wanted to study his body structure to see if one could evolve into the Celestial Will Race.

Even the newly arrived Death God, Mohrsik, came here for various death experiments on him recently.

This caused Ligao Na to endure endless cruel experiments over the years, stirring enough hatred.

Now he stared at God angrily, tinkering with various data.

After a while.

Liu Jun roughly understood some structure of Ligao Na, began unlocking the concealment shield, isolating the outside world.

Then opened the theft mode.

Without hesitation, he reached out quickly.

Whoosh!

In the blink of an eye, a mysterious pearl within Ligao Na was extracted.

And the Divine Object of Theft was placed into Ligao Na’s body!

Ligao Na shuddered, suddenly feeling as though he had lost his most important treasure, no longer holding power over the world, and there was something new inside...

A Divine Object?

How could there be a Divine Object inside me?

This is...thieving Divine Power?

Almost instantly, he felt himself transform into the God of Theft.

"How did you do it? God, I didn’t think you were hiding such a secret!"

In the cage, Ligao Na couldn’t help but shout: "Do the other gods know? If they knew, they’d surely be astonished!"

He muttered to himself, "The mighty God himself is a thief! You thief!"

"So, this power of the thieving Divine Object is transference!"

"This Divine Object is like passing the parcel? The one stolen from becomes the new God of Theft?"

"The thieving Divine Object circulates? Truly fascinating, every Divine Object is indeed so interesting!"

Ligao Na, being the Celestial, had a 100% compatibility with the thieving Divine Object.

He virtually became the most qualified God of Theft instantly, even starting to try using this Divine Object to find a way out of the cage.

Theft!

Then, can I steal inanimates?

If I steal a structural concept of solidity from this prison, will the enclosed condition of this cage dissipate?

"Steal, just steal; since I can steal concepts... then I must be able to steal inanimates too!"

The Ligao Na of this first world started madly exploiting his potential, "I must get out, I must get out!"

"I will avenge the gods, I will kill them!"

God ignored him.

Becoming the God of Theft, Ligao Na remained imprisoned.

"Is this your core?"

God held the pearl that had been stolen out in his hand, said interestedly: "I didn’t expect it to grow like this."

This wasn’t a physical pearl but some kind of conceptual void force, originally invisible and intangible.

Only a concept-driven divine power like theft could steal such a conceptual thing and exchange it.

As a lower-grade Divine Object, it’s certainly sufficient!

Although the side effects are substantial, after stealing, the person becomes the next God of Theft.

At this moment, Liu Jun continually analyzed this Celestial Will Pearl, his thoughts furiously churning:

"I see, no wonder God of Evolution Cain could never figure out how to evolve into your race."

"Because you are conceptual beings, the world is like a giant shell, nurturing a pearl!"

The essence of evolution is simply evolution.

If you theoretically have the potential to evolve into this race, then naturally you can succeed.

But evolution has its limits; evolution is just evolution, not transformation.

Among tens of thousands of evolutionary paths, if your probability of evolving into this race is 0%, then the God of Evolution cannot accomplish it.

Evolution is simply evolution; it cannot change the fundamental starting point of a race.

Therefore.

Whether it’s the God of Evolution Xiangtuo Mo next door, or the local God of Evolution Cain, they are both doing useless work.

Evolution simply cannot evolve into the Celestial Will Race.

Only by stealing conceptual power can their racial essence be taken!

"Interesting, it seems this series of theft is truly formidable, capable of accomplishing things that ordinary Divine Spirits cannot."

Thinking of this, Liu Jun decisively merged into this Celestial Will Pearl.

Rustle—

In the next moment, a whole new feeling was born.

A refreshing, unfettered feeling beyond nature erupted within him.

He seemed to transform into another super giant, a super celestial lifeform even larger than a planet.

What kind of wonderful feeling is this?

Planets are his cells, the space ocean is his blood, black holes are his cancer cells, but the larger cancer cell is that chaotic sun.

And he was supposed to be a regular world shell of a mortal, now had a Magic Net covered by the gods inside.

Turning him from a celestial mortal into a celestial Divine Spirit.

Because inside, there were gods covering his entire being internally.

Thunder is his neurons, destiny is his instincts, evolution is his adaptive mechanism, wisdom is his bridge...

Furthermore, he can mobilize the Magic Net throughout his body to wield various Divine Powers.

Satisfying.

Simply too satisfying.

"With such a good foundation, no wonder I can kill gods in the future."

At this moment, Liu Jun suddenly felt the characteristics and power of this race.

Beside him, Ligo in the cage showed a hint of sarcasm: "I see, so you’re interested in the characteristics of our race?"

"After all, even if we fall into the world as mortals, as beings of Celestial Will, we can still kill deities with mortal bodies!"

Other gods, such as God, will turn into mortals when they traverse to other worlds, their power greatly reduced.

But their Celestial Will doesn’t.

Because the Celestial Will Race has the characteristic of manipulating worlds.

Even if they cross into worlds not their own, there’s another Celestial Will locally.

Going there is just like having two consciousnesses in a world shell.

A body experiencing split personality, both consciousnesses can operate their world shell.

Therefore.

With superiority, they are the future rulers of the world.

"Even God is wary of us?" Ligo laughed coldly and said, "Well then, I have turned into a normal being, while you have become the Celestial Will God of this world."

"If you want to become this race, I’ll let you!"

Ligo suddenly tore off the shackles, laughing loudly, "Didn’t notice, did you? This is my escape route!"

That said, unbeknownst to anyone, he had learned another usage of the Divine Object: stealing the dead.

He stole the "sturdy" concept of this cage.

The cage suddenly turned into a soft rubber, which he easily tore apart and escaped.

And that’s not all.

This replaced cage became the new God of Theft.

And in the next second, Ligo swiftly killed the newly appointed God of Theft "Cage" and took the Divine Object back.

"Hahaha, this is the correct way to use theft!"

Then, he took a step forward, "What about stealing Divine Objects? Just kill the opponent and take it back!"

Then, he left the cage, only to encounter a second defense line.

The concealment mechanism barrier deployed by God, and immortality locked in!

"It’s useless!"

He looked at this God barrier, and began to steal.

In an instant, the Divine Object of Theft, swapped away the concealment of this barrier.

The barrier turned into a new God of Theft, and because he stole the concealment attribute, Ligo actually possessed the concealment Divine Power.

"Hahaha!"

"Even the concealment attribute was stolen by me!"

"This Divine Object is incredibly powerful, God you simply don’t know how to use it!"

That said, he killed the new God of Theft: Shield, seized back the Divine Object.

Then, possessing a concealment, Ligo quietly hid his figure and continued to flee outside.

But a third barrier appeared.

The entire gray tower was a larger cage, he couldn’t escape.

"Damn it, you really defend against me thoroughly, afraid I’ll get out."

But this wouldn’t stop Ligo.

He used the Divine Object of Theft, reached out and stole!

The resilient concept of the entire gray tower was also stolen, the tower became a flexible and bouncy candy, which he pulled open.

"Fresh and free air outside!"

Ligo looked at the scenery outside, took a deep breath.

He casually killed the new God of Theft, the gray tower, seized back the Divine Object.

"I’m free, stealing all the way out, no defense barrier can stop me!"

"I am free! Theft allows me to come and go freely from treasures, any defense mechanism is useless!"

"God, I’m leaving!"

"Everything I lost, I will take back!"

"After I get out, as the God of Theft, I will steal back my Celestial Will, and restore my strength."

His tone at this point, was like those protagonists whose supreme bone was taken and reduced to mortal state, chanting not to underestimate the youth, and then began to flee.