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Chapter 233 Sleep and Revival

"Do you have any gods you wish to contract with?" Su Yun asked Yang Jian, Er Qiao, and Song Shuhang. This War of the Gods system was created by them, so getting them to use connections was incredibly easy.

Others who make pacts with the gods are basically those chosen by the gods as suitable candidates, but in the case of Yang Jian and his two companions, it's that they chose the gods themselves.

After pondering for a moment, Yang Jian expressed his desire to form a contract with a god from the Cthulhu Mythos. The beings in the Cthulhu Mythos share some similarities with the vengeful spirits he wields; their divine forms and powers surpass human comprehension, and those who come into contact with them often descend into madness. This kind of mental pollution is similar to the supernatural corruption caused by vengeful spirits.

It can be said that a large number of gods in the Cthulhu Mythos are of the Calamity class. Of course, because Cthulhu is a relatively new mythology system that emerged from novels, it does not have the same long history as other mythologies, so its faith has not accumulated as much as other mythologies, and the Outer Gods that emerged from it are not considered particularly powerful among the gods.

However, since they were all born with an invincible advantage, Yang Jian naturally had to choose the type of god that best suited him, and decisively chose the gods from the Cthulhu Mythos.

Moreover, the gods of the Cthulhu Mythos are also a good fit for them, since these guys don't have their own territory and they covet the territories of various regions, which is a very good basis for cooperation.

After Kongming's actions, an eye-shaped contract mark appeared on Yang Jian's body. This was the Outer God Gherros, a Calamity-class Outer God known as the Forerunner of Destruction, whom Kongming had chosen based on the characteristics of Yang Jian's Ghost Eye.

After the contract was made, Gheros did not appear, but Yang Jian "saw" Gheros's appearance through the connection of the contract.

A huge, rust-red eyeball, its surface covered with oxidized iron and volcanic ash, giving it a mottled texture similar to corroded metal.

Its surface is constantly swirling with molten iron, and the central area is incandescent due to the high temperature, forming a core resembling a pupil. When the "eye" closes, the earth's crust will re-cover it with liquid iron, leaving only spiderweb-like red cracks as folds of the eyelid.

Looking directly at this eye reveals a distorted star map reflected on the molten iron surface, as if the entire space is dissolving and reforming within this molten metal. This visual pollution can trigger an overload of neural synapses, causing witnesses to experience the hallucination of "stars returning to their proper places," ultimately leading to madness.

The surface of Gherus is covered with crisscrossing red cracks, which are not static but expand and contract in rhythm with its "breathing".

According to the mythological system, Gherros is a rust-red planet with a diameter several times that of Earth. Its surface is not a smooth sphere, but is covered with giant protrusions. These structures that look like hills are actually folds formed by crustal movements, reaching heights of tens of kilometers, with sharp edges like knives.

This level of strength is definitely at least at the fifth rank or higher. However, given the divine spark formed by faith, it only just meets the standard for existence.

If it weren't for the recent popularity of Cthulhu-related novels, let alone a fifth-order deity, it might not even have been born. Compared to those ancient gods, Cthulhu gods are practically "greenhorns."

The large eye of Gherus symbolizes the gaze of judgment and destruction; its rusty red shell represents the ruins of industrial civilization; and its liquid iron eye represents precision gears. When humanity attempts to explain the universe with reason, it awakens an even more terrifying chaos. It signifies that mechanically precise movement can lead to the most utter destruction.

As for the strength of the "rookie" Geheros, Yang Jian didn't care. He was more concerned about whether his Ghost Eye would have a chance to devour and assimilate him.

Ouroboros Eisen, the "Root of the Deep," was born from a protoplasmic mass in a Cambrian seafloor crater. Its essence is an Outer God that embodies the "primal impulse of life" in the form of vines. In the fragments of the Book of the Apocalypse, it is described as a "giant bronze tree coiled in the deep sea," with roots penetrating the earth's crust and reaching the mantle. Each vine is a paradox of devouring and regeneration; organisms entwined by it are decomposed into elementary particles, yet at the end of the vine, they are reassembled into deformed "experimental life forms."

This thing's ability is consciousness parasitism. Victims pierced by the vines become "living nodes," their brains taken over by filamentous structures, transmitting the whispers of Ouroboros to other organisms through nerve signals. These whispers are not language, but rather "evolutionary instructions" transmitted through sight, smell, and even touch.

This is a deity who has formed a pact with Joseph, and is also an Outer God within the Cthulhu Mythos. Since the various contractors learned the rules of this war of the gods through their bloodline contracts, the deity must have known even earlier.

The Chinese deities had no involvement, and the gods of other countries naturally preferred to choose believers from their own countries and those with whom they had connections as their contractors, rather than people like Song Shuhang, Yang Jian, and the Two Qiaos.

Yang Jian's contract selection is biased, while the two Qiaos' contracts are random. They form contracts with gods in various countries, and the gods in the Cthulhu Mythos, which do not have a fixed country system, are the most suitable contract targets for the two Qiaos and Song Shuhang.

These Cthulhu gods have a weak foundation of faith and are not very powerful, but it doesn't matter to people like Song Shuhang. As long as they are suitable, that's fine. They are the kind of people who have connections and are cheated.

The deity that Song Shuhang had a contract with was Cthulhu, the most famous god in the Cthulhu Mythos. On a spiritual level, Song Shuhang saw that this god had a head that looked like an octopus, soft and covered with countless tentacles, which were constantly writhing as if they had their own life.

It has three eyes on each side of its head. The eyes are huge and protruding, emitting an eerie light, like a deep black hole, making people afraid to look directly at them.

Its body was enormous, like a mountain, its obese, bloated form covered in a thick layer of scales that shimmered with a green glow under the light, like a layer of cold armor. Song Shuhang's first reaction was: Hmm? Bo Gang?
Its limbs were thick and powerful, with enormous, sharp claws on both its forelimbs and hindlimbs, as sharp as steel, capable of easily tearing apart any object. Behind it grew a pair of tattered, incomplete wings, the membranous parts of which were riddled with cracks and holes, producing a chilling sound when flapping. In short, it didn't resemble a god at all, but rather more like the demon gods that transmigrated to Fusang and were destroyed.

As for why Cthulhu is the Outer God most compatible with Song Shuhang, it's probably related to the fact that Cthulhu symbolizes slumber and resurrection. These two states, translated, are death and resurrection. No one understands these two states better than Song Shuhang, of course, referring to the future Song Shuhang.

In the Cthulhu Mythos, there is no "god of death and resurrection" in the traditional sense. Humanity is insignificant in a cold, meaningless universe, and death and resurrection are not divine powers, but rather products of cosmic cycles or the limitations of human cognition.

Cthulhu, as the iconic being of the Great Old Ones, embodies the imagery of "sleep and resurrection," which is closest to "death and resurrection." This is a continuously cyclical state, quite fitting for Song Shuhang.

Of course, that's how Su Yun saw it. After all, he was the only one among the group members who knew about Song Shuhang's future experiences, which is why he had this thought. The others didn't immediately see any connection between Cthulhu and Song Shuhang.

The other two participants, Yang Jian and Joseph Joestar, are clearly linked by Outer Gods. Yang Jian is linked to Gherros, who has an eye-shaped Stand, Joseph Joestar, who possesses the Stand Hermit Purple, and Ouroboros Eisen, whose main body is also composed of vine tentacles.

The gods from various mythologies and their corresponding contractors were almost all in place, and Song Shuhang and his two companions would be fighting using the power of the Cthulhu Outer Gods. The leaders of various countries, noticing that the once arrogant gods had suddenly become docile and seemed to be preparing for something, also began investigating the cause and effect.

(End of this chapter)