Chapter 176: God Descent
Where should I kneel? What should I shout?
Mo Tan was instantly bewildered. He waved at Yu Cheng, who looked even more confused nearby, “You wait a moment, my mind is a bit muddled right now…”
The young girl nodded obediently, then quietly huddled in a corner of the black light curtain, saying nothing.
“Can you hurry up?! Although nothing bad will happen to this girl if we drag this on, my other Saintess is about to kick the bucket!”
The Dawn Goddess’s voice rang out in his mind again, ethereal but with a hint of urgency and frustration.
Mo Tan no longer hesitated after hearing this. After all, the Goddess herself had said that if he didn’t kneel, Xia Lian might be in trouble. So, he stopped considering the possibility that she was just teasing him. Without another word, he knelt down with a thud.
“Good boy, raise your hands high, and shout at the top of your lungs: ‘Oh, intelligent, clever, lovely, kind, charming, dignified, virtuous, thrifty, graceful, innocent, straightforward, pure, and elegant Goddess, please grant me strength!’”
“I’m really starting to wonder if you’re just teasing me now.” Mo Tan took several deep breaths on the spot. He almost choked after hearing that string of adjectives. He looked up and forced a smile, “Can we stop messing around?”
“Oh, then just say what we discussed before, but make it loud.”
“Sigh, I always feel that saying any of my true thoughts right now might be directly judged as blasphemy.” Mo Tan sighed deeply, then temporarily tucked his sense of shame into his pocket. Under Yu Cheng’s bewildered gaze, he raised both hands and shouted loudly, “Goddess, grant me strength!”
It was like he was about to transform!
One second passed…
Two seconds passed…
Three seconds passed…
“Um, Mo Tan Tong Xue?” Yu Cheng looked timidly at the person in front of her, who was gradually turning pale, and hesitantly asked, “Are you alright?”
Mo Tan’s face slowly began to flush. Although he wasn’t a particularly image-conscious person, for some reason, he still really wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
However, before he could put his thoughts into action, he was engulfed by a dazzling light.
In Yu Cheng’s eyes, six metallic-looking wings suddenly unfurled behind Mo Tan. They weren’t directly connected to his back but floated a few dozen centimeters to his sides. Complex patterns flowed across them, filled with dazzling light, and faint snippets of hymns could be heard on a loop.
At the same time, a golden halo appeared above his head with a ‘pop’.
…
“What’s going on?”
Mo Tan subconsciously mumbled. In his eyes, he was currently in a golden world, similar to when he was summoned by the gods in the Dieyan City church before. The difference was that last time his consciousness was very clear, but this time his head felt a little dizzy.
He blinked hard and gently tapped his forehead, trying to clear his head, but the effect wasn’t very noticeable.
“#￥@&…”
A voice, as if from the end of the world, flowed into his ears.
Mo Tan seemed to clear up a bit. He tried to listen to the ethereal whispers but could never make out the content.
“#￥What@&…”
The voice sounded again. This time, Mo Tan seemed to grasp something, but still couldn’t understand the soft, low words.
“#￥What@&without…”
“Is this the voice Yu Cheng mentioned earlier? But there doesn’t seem to be any ‘interference,’ it’s just a bit hard to hear.”
Mo Tan pondered, his mind gradually clearing in the process.
Then he finally heard it clearly!
“Are you awake or not?!”
A hazy female phantom abruptly appeared before him. She wore a snow-white gown, with six floating cannon-like metallic wings behind her, a golden halo above her head that was at least 9000 lumens, and held a cross-shaped staff seemingly made entirely of light. She was noble and sacred… if one ignored her previous line of dialogue.
“Goddess?” Mo Tan looked at the faceless woman before him, feeling certain that she must be the Dawn Goddess named Pa Ke Xi. Putting everything else aside, her speaking style alone made it impossible for her to be anyone else.
The woman shook the floating… I mean, wings behind her, then gently nodded, “Not confused anymore?”
“Still a little.” Mo Tan smiled wryly and bowed to her, curiously asking, “Where is this place? When did you come out?”
The Dawn Goddess, whose identity was confirmed, snorted, “I’ve been here since just now, you just only now became able to see me.”
“Uh…” Mo Tan reacted for a moment, then said in surprise, “Could it be that you were talking to Yu Cheng just now?”
“Yu Cheng?” The Dawn Goddess paused, reacted for half a second, then smiled, “You mean Wang Yu, right? Is she called Yu Cheng in your world?”
Mo Tan only then realized he had blurted it out, and nodded helplessly, “That’s right.”
“That’s a nice name.” The Dawn Goddess said casually, then answered Mo Tan’s previous question in a serious tone, “You guessed wrong, it wasn’t me babbling in that little girl’s head.”
Mo Tan spread his hands, “But what she said just now was similar to what I experienced, and she’s also your Saintess.”
“Although what you just said won’t trigger divine punishment…”
Those eyes, as if hidden behind a mist, stared fiercely at Mo Tan, “But if you dare to say ‘old lady’ again, I’ll hit you.”
Then Mo Tan shut up.
“Your situation is different from hers.” The Dawn Goddess seemed to squeeze out the words through gritted teeth. She explained fiercely, “You couldn’t hear my voice just now because you had just undergone a God Descent. Neither your mind nor your body had adapted to my presence yet. As for her…”
Mo Tan’s eyes widened, “God Descent?!”
He seemed to see a protagonist template descending from the sky, whistling towards him.
However, the Dawn Goddess ignored him, continuing to speak to herself, “And Chen Wangyu was forcibly subjected to a God Descent by that scoundrel Diliya. She couldn’t hear that bitch’s words simply because I was interfering next to her, in the form of yelling insults.”
“Uh, alright.” Mo Tan sighed, then decided to ignore the awkward points in the previous conversation and went straight to the main topic, asking, “Diliya? Diliya Xilu? The Darkness Goddess?”
The Dawn Goddess tilted her head, “How do you know?”
“You said it before.” Mo Tan shrugged and spread his hands, “I have a ton of questions right now, but shouldn’t we deal with the situation ‘outside’ first? I guess this should be my deep consciousness or something, right? Or inside my soul?”
“Generally correct, but the flow of time isn’t synchronized. Anyway, I’ll make a long story short.” The Dawn Goddess nodded slightly, then spoke rapidly, “That little girl Wang Yu’s physique—well, to be precise, her physique in this world is very special, so I found an opportunity to make her my God-blessed one. As a result, due to some unfortunate coincidence, that bitch Diliya discovered her, and then…”
Mo Tan recalled the talent called 【Inconstant Divinity】 that Yu Cheng had told him about earlier, and said with a wry smile, “Two thieves reached into the same pocket?”
Several golden bolts of lightning, accompanied by a roar, struck directly at Mo Tan, but were casually waved away by the Dawn Goddess, “One divine punishment, put it on tab for now.”
Mo Tan: “…”
“But what you said wasn’t entirely wrong.” The Goddess smiled broadly, then wagged her finger seriously, “But I’m a good person… um, a good god, so it’s right for me to protect that girl.”
Mo Tan still remembered the icy holy light from before and nodded in agreement, “Perhaps that’s true, but…”
“But even though she became my God-blessed one, Diliya still found a loophole.” The Dawn Goddess clicked her tongue, saying with great displeasure, “Because it was in the Light Capital at the time, and Wang Yu is a good girl, Diliya’s power couldn’t gain the upper hand. But that doesn’t mean she accomplished nothing. Anyway, the specific process is quite complicated, so I won’t go into it for now. In short…”
She waved her hand, and a translucent golden light screen appeared beside the two of them, showing Yu Cheng huddled within the black curtain, with a faint, slender black shadow behind the girl.
“That bitch successfully performed a God Descent.” The Dawn Goddess sighed, then pointed at Mo Tan, “So I came to you. Otherwise, in a little while, Xia Lian would be killed by dark divine power. That girl is a bit stubborn, but thanks to her persistence, Diliya still hasn’t succeeded.”
Mo Tan nodded understandingly, “Got it. Just tell me what I should do now.”
“Straightforward!” The Dawn Goddess clapped her hands approvingly, then said in a deep voice, “It’s very simple. I’ve already completed the God Descent. After we go out, we just need to drive that scoundrel’s consciousness out of Wang Yu!”
“Is it that simple?”
“It’s that simple.”
“What exactly should I do?”
“First, don’t resist me. Second, watch the show.”
“Oh.”
…
In Yu Cheng’s eyes, Mo Tan, who had been half-crouching with his eyes closed like a Terminator, quickly stood up. The three pairs of metallic wings and the halo above his head simultaneously shone brightly, and a golden figure with an indistinct face appeared behind him.
However, before the girl could even ask what was happening, she felt a slight chill behind her, and a somewhat sexy, hoarse voice coldly rang out, “Pa Ke Xi, you’re still as slow as ever!”
“Eh?” Yu Cheng looked back in surprise, finding an unfamiliar woman standing behind her with a half-smile. She had long dark blue hair, wore a mist-like black gown, with long black gloves on her fair arms. Three pairs of black crescent shapes, resembling floating cannons, floated behind her, and she wore a silver diadem. Her face was blurry, and her body somewhat transparent.
“Be careful!” Mo Tan, seeing Yu Cheng looking back and making eye contact with the woman suspected to be the Darkness Goddess, called out worriedly, “She is very likely to be…”
“I’m slow?” But the hazy figure behind him loudly interrupted him, craning her neck and yelling at the semi-transparent black woman, “Diliya, you shameless hussy!”
“Heh heh~ Are you just embarrassed and angry?” The Darkness Goddess smiled faintly, exuding elegance.
“Get lost, I just deliberately want to make you completely give up on this little girl right now!” The Dawn Goddess shouted loudly, not showing any weakness.
“How can you say that? I discovered little Wang Yu first.”
“She was at the entrance of my church from the start, can you have some shame or not?”
“You too, can you show a little class.”
“You, a scumbag black from head to toe, are talking about class with me!?”
“Black is slimming, gold is swelling.”
“Go away!”
The two goddesses started bickering right there.
Mo Tan: “…”
Yu Cheng: “…”
The two innocent players were completely bewildered by this.
“Um, Mo Tan Tong Xue…” Yu Cheng looked back and forth, then leaned slightly and whispered to the very imposing Mo Tan in front of her, “I’m a bit confused.”
Mo Tan gave a dry laugh, “This can’t be explained in a short time. By the way, can you still move?”
“Yes, can you?” Yu Cheng nodded.
“I can too.” Mo Tan sighed and spread his hands, “This is a bit different from the God Descent I imagined.”
“What do we do now?”
“I don’t know, let’s just wait and see. The Goddess said she has a way.”
Then the two players exchanged a helpless glance and fell silent, while the Dawn/Darkness Goddesses behind them continued to quarrel.
One minute later
“So, our sizes are much more similar, aren’t they~” The Darkness Goddess smiled playfully at her nemesis, then raised her hands to cup her rather ample chest, murmuring, “I can’t see my feet!”
“Ugh… More words are useless!” The Dawn Goddess held her head down for a long time, finally blushing and crying out, “I’ll send you to heaven right now!”
The Darkness Goddess merely hooked her finger, “Oh yeah? Come on!”
“Hey, you there, I’m talking to you!” The Dawn Goddess commanded Mo Tan fiercely, “Charge forward!”
Mo Tan, who had been watching the show, “Huh?”
The blurry Dawn Goddess pointed at the Darkness Goddess behind Yu Cheng, “Charge over there! I’m going to tear her apart!”
“Sigh…” Mo Tan didn’t ask further, but simply ran towards Yu Cheng’s side, shaking his head and sighing.
At the same time, the six metallic wings radiating holy light behind him also shot out, effortlessly piercing through the cold, dark barrier.
The few meters distance vanished in an instant.
“Idiot.” The Dawn Goddess, floating behind Mo Tan, slapped at the Darkness Goddess, sneering, “What do you think I’ve been wasting so much time talking to you for?”
Vast dawn light swirled around her increasingly clear arm, aimed directly at the other party’s cheek. There was no wind pressure, no sonic boom, but it carried an indescribable sacred aura.
Anyway, if that slap landed, it would definitely hurt quite a bit.
But…
“I know.” The Darkness Goddess behind Yu Cheng, however, smiled charmingly, “Isn’t it just to buy time to increase your compatibility with this little boy, so you can exert more power?”
Icy dark divine power suddenly surged behind Yu Cheng.
“Small-chested and brainless!”
Chapter 173: End
