Dense Forest Borderland

Bai Liu walks towards Taville step by step, picking up Taville's hand and placing the black bone whip ring on it with a gentle smile, "Have you thought about it?"

Taville gazes calmly at Bai Liu in his vision, his silver-blue eyes silent, a pure black whip appearing in his hand.

"There may be a day in the future when I will die in exchange for your love, but not now."

The smile on Bai Liu's face widened, "Why not? Right now your existence will only cause me pain, won't it?"

Taville looked up straight at Bai Liu: "Because I don't want to."

The expression on Bai Liu's face was stagnant.

"Even if all I can do is make you suffer, I'll still be there for you." A hurricane of wind blew behind Taville, ruffling his long hair and sending the lapels of his suit tumbling in disarray.

"Your pain and faith can only be mine, desire and love can only be bound to me."

"Until you kill me completely, I will never release you to believe in another evil god."

"You're mine."

Taville lifted the whip as he looked levelly into Bai Liu's eyes, "Despicable as it is, I do get so greedy when I love someone."

"Like this? Then there's nothing we can do." Bai Liu, with a sigh of what looks like regret, raises his whip as well and looks to Taville with a smirk, "Then we'll just have to kill you."

The tavern in front of him crumbled like a burning old photograph, the illusion disintegrated, and Taville stood at the bottom of the muddy lake holding a black whip.

Everything around us turned into a mess of bouncing colored lines, like an uncolored draft superimposed on a PS, only the bottom of the lake under his feet was a real earthy gray, with rotting and writhing corpses struggling in the mud.

That's the real game world, and it's already falling apart.

Bai Liu, holding in his right hand a whip that had been completely blackened, stood at a distance from Spades, his shirt soaked through, patches of water dripping down his body.

"You don't want to give up accepting the power of the Evil One, do you?" Taville inquired, muzzily and calmly.

Bai Liu looked up slowly, "Sheta , we both chose our most hated ways to solve our problems."

"If I turn around now ......"

"There's no value left, is there?" Taville picked up on Bai Liu's words, "Is gaining value that important to you?"

"The essence of all desires in human existence is to acquire value." Bai Liu calmly looks directly at Taville, "Only some value can be obtained from oneself, and some value must be obtained from others."

Taville's long hair was swirled by the wind that came from nowhere, even his voice was blown to a false note:

"Bai Liu, what about you, what is the value you want to capture?"

Bai Liu, looking nice-eyed into the wind at Taville, whose silhouette was blurred by the blow, spoke slowly, "I want to be able to dominate the value of God's existence."

"Even if you are completely consumed by desire because of that value?" Taville asked softly.

Bai Liu let out a breath as he suddenly smiled, "Completely consumed by desire?"

"Did you know me on the first day, Sheta, when I existed apart from my desires?"

"I am originally a collection of desires, and if I am to be devoured, it is I who devour the desires, not the desires who devour me."

The wind is getting stronger and stronger, and the reverse cross pendant hanging around Bai Liu's neck flutters in the wind, flashing with a strange halo of light.

Taville rushes out from the wind, a clean black whip rushes straight at Bai Liu's face, Bai Liu dodges it with his shoulders slanted, Taville is already close to Bai Liu's face, he reaches out without looking to snatch the Reverse Cross pendant on Bai Liu's chest, his fingers are already touching the surface of the pendant.

Bai Liu doesn't pause for a second and raises his hand for a whip, which Taville whips back to block.

The moment the two whips struck, the entire space continuously shook and twisted.

[SYSTEM WARNING: The worldline of "The Borderlands of the Dense Forest" is collapsing due to its inability to hold too much Evil God-related data ...... has now collapsed by eighty percent ......]

Bai Liu was almost brought to his knees by Taville's whip and took several steps backward.

Seeing the blood spilling from the corner of Bai Liu's mouth, Taville took a step back, pursed her lips, and withdrew her whip slightly.

...... No matter how firmly he said it, he had no way to lay a hard hand on Bai Liu.

Bai Liu barely hesitated and swung his long whip again.

Instead of using the whip, Taville sidesteps the whip and pulls it back with one hand, the other reaching out to hook the reverse cross Bai Liu swings out of his shirt collar.

The moment Taville touched the cross, Bai Liu looked straight into Taville's eyes without hiding, he suddenly laughed, lowered his head and took the cross, pressing the pendant into the bottom of his mouth with his tongue, even Taville's finger was bitten by Bai Liu.

Taville pauses, releases the whip, bends her knees over Bai Liu, spreads her thumb and forefinger to jam it into Bai Liu's mouth, and reaches in with her other hand to try and rip out the reverse cross that Bai Liu has taken in.

In close quarters, Bai Liu has no advantage with the whip, and is unable to fight back as Taville clamps down.

In the next moment, countless hands of corpses reached out from the mire around Taville and grabbed him by the feet, pulling him downward.

Bai Liu takes advantage of the opportunity to get out of the way, he spits the reverse cross out of his mouth sideways, and reverses it with another whip at Taville.

[SYSTEM WARNING: The Worldline of "The Borderlands of the Dense Forest" is now ninety-five percent collapsed ......]

Taville dispersed the corporeal hand that was pulling him with a whip, gazed at the long whip with open bone spurs that was coming straight at him, and gripped the whip in his own hand.

"It is forbidden to fight this big in the game pool-!!!" A roar interrupted the world at the bottom of the lake, and the Adversary God slashed in from the messy lines around the bottom of the lake with his heavy sword raised, landing firmly on the bottom.

As soon as the Adversary God landed on the ground, he crumbled and called out, "You two little brats do something good! This place will collapse if you keep fighting! There's no need to bury the world with you two in a love fight!"

But Bai Liu and Taville don't listen to him. They're still fighting.

The bottom of the lake shook, and the edges, like dry clods of earth that had solidified long ago, began to crumble under the rapid tread of Bai Liu and Taville.

[SYSTEM WARNING: The Worldline of "The Borderlands of Dense Forest" is now 99 percent collapsed ......]

The double-ignored Reverse God took a deep breath as he slowly raised his heavy sword, his face so dark that it was on the verge of dripping, "--Use the Judge's authority -- Evil God Judgment."

[SYSTEM WARNING: Is player Judge of the Counter God using the highest level personal skill (Judgement of the Evil God) from the Monster Book Identity (Judge of the Counter God)?]

[Yes.]

As the two whips collided and crossed over again, the Reverse God appeared between Bai Liu and Taville with his heavy sword held high like a flash.

With a solemn expression, the Reverse God aimed a vicious chop at the place where the two black whips crossed.

A violent burst of white light exploded from where the heavy sword had cut down, and the massive impact shook both Bai Liu and Taville so much that they had to let go of their whips, and were knocked a long way down.

The two pure black whips and the heavy sword made an unbearable shattering sound almost simultaneously, the entire worldline bloomed with a twisted multicolored halo, the sky flickered like a mosaic, and there were constantly pieces of debris peeling off from everywhere and smashing down to the bottom of the lake, swallowed in by the mud.

The bodies at the bottom of the lake let out heartbreaking howls.

The black whips made a kara-kara crunching sound under the heavy sword, and clear cracks appeared on the polished surface of the heavy sword like cracked glass, and the world line that had been in turmoil by the two whips finally calmed down.

The Reverse God gritted his teeth and depressed the heavy sword in his hand, the veins on his forehead and neck bulged out, his eyes and face turned red, his mouth, nose and pores were madly seeping out blood, the bones of his hands that were gripping the heavy sword crumbled, and even his shoulders caved in.

[System warning: player Judge of the Counter God's life value in sharp decline ......]

The Reverse God choked and coughed, vomiting out a large mouthful of dirty blood clots, and said word for word, "-All said, children should not play with toys that are too aggressive when playing games, it is easy to hurt each other, and the ones who will be saddened in the end will still be yourselves- -"

"There's no point in continuing this game of ad hominem."

[System alert: Player Judge of the Reverse God used Evil God Judgment to terminate the Evil God Inheritance Ceremony, neutralizing the Evil God's power, and the end of the worldline disintegration.]

[SYSTEM WARNING: All players are forced to exit the game during the full restoration of the world line of "The Borderlands of the Dense Forest."]

[System alert: Player Bai Liu quit the game.]

Tang Er hit and Liu Jiayi, who had been guarding the game pool, noticed the unusual movement in the game pool and turned their heads sharply to look over.

Bai Liu, his hair loose and soaking wet, reached out a hand from the pool, and Tang Er immediately reached out and yanked him up.

Liu Jiayi's complexion changed when he saw Bai Liu's front, "How did you get so badly injured?"

Bai Liu has blood spilling from the corners of his mouth, his long hair is disheveled and plastered to his pale face, the whip he holds in his hand has only a broken handle and the broken pieces of the bone whip that are falling down, and his shirt is covered in blood stains.

"My injuries aren't that serious." Bai Liu lifted the back of his hand and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his demeanor was light, "The others were hurt worse than me."

"That tactician called Against the Gods may be dying in the game."

Tang Er fights in shock: "Did you kill him?!"

"No." Bai Liu said, "The Adversary, somehow, rushed up and severed the whips of Xie ...... Spades and I. Some sort of power in the whips related to the Evil God backfired on the Adversary."

"When I logged out I saw the Adversary God kneeling on the ground with his hands supporting his heavy sword spitting out blood and feeling like he was going to die."

Even Liu Jiayi was shocked, "It chopped up both your and Spades' whips? Yours is fine, it's an add-on, but Spades' is a skill weapon, how did you chop it up?"

"I don't know." Bai Liu looks forward with downcast eyes, "It seems to have something to do with his skills."

"Bai Liu." Tang Er hit took a deep breath and held Bai Liu's shoulders to keep him from moving forward, "...... Ask you something, that what's-his-name Evil God's Inheritance Ceremony, did you really finish it? "

Bai Liu sidled his eyes, "Since when is Captain Tang interested in this kind of middle-aged, game identity conversion ceremony?"

"I didn't actually figure out what kind of ritual this is, but I don't think it's as simple as you make it out to be." Tang Er hit's ghostly blue eyes locked onto Bai Liu, "Did you finish it?"

Bai Liu was quiet for a moment and said frankly, "If I must say, semi-finished state."

"I was given the identity of the evil god's heir and a strengthened body, but the whip was severed and the most important reverse cross in the ritual was snatched away by the Spades guy in a desperate attempt to steal it."

Tang Er hit an inexplicable sigh of relief, he let go of his grip on Bai Liu's shoulders and said a little awkwardly, "...... Just now I was in a bit of a hurry, are you hurt all right?"

"It's nothing." Bai Liu turned her head and smiled as she arched her eyebrows at Tang Er, "It is Captain Tang's duty to supervise me not to turn bad, and good citizens like me are fully cooperative with any inquiries Captain Tang makes in the fulfillment of his duties."

Tang Er was stunned when he saw Bai Liu's smile.

Bai Liu's previous smile had a polite hypocrisy to it, as if he were trying to write the words "I'm cheating on you" on his face, carelessly, not as if he were trying to deceive.

But now Bai Liu is pale, with blood at the corners of his mouth, but no sense of weakness comes through at all. Instead, he smiles with a puffy sense of superiority, making it seem as if he's the one you're turning to for help, and that he's listening very carefully to your woes, smiling and indulging you, willing to solve your problems.

...... This way of facing people with the posture of God seems like Bai Liu.

"I'm not badly hurt, so let's go back to the guild and check on the rest of the team first."

After saying that, Bai Liu walked forward without looking back, Tang Er played hesitantly glanced at the game pool, called out to stop Bai Liu: "Don't you ...... wait for Spades for a while?"

Bai Liu smiled at Tang Er and fought, "I didn't kill Spades, nor did I kill Against the Gods, I didn't kill any of the good guys in the game, you don't have to worry about that."

"Or maybe you don't feel comfortable with me and think I'm lying and we can stay here for a bit?" Bai Liu stated thoughtfully.

"No." Tang Er hits reaches between Bai Liu and the play pool and asks hesitantly, "You and Spades were in the game, you two ......" and married and kissed and carried each other... ...

"It seems like a good relationship." Tang Er hit a desperate search for an adjective and dryly said, "Aren't you going to confirm Spades' status?"

Tang Er played a very early exit from the game, and he didn't see the later strife between Bai Liu and Spades, stopping at the stage where Spades rescued them to get to Bai Liu.

Bai Liu blinks slowly and says in a daze, "Oh that one."

"That was just a game." Bai Liu smiles, "I didn't take it seriously."