Secret World: I Became a God Through Lies

Chapter 263 Enlightenment Calculation: The Initial Movement of the Fate Orbit
"When rules become sharp teeth, fate is no longer a guide, but a judge."

boom--! ! !
The dartboard exploded, and blood rained down like broken embers falling from the sky.

Darkness collapsed in all directions, like a giant snake tearing at the last curtain of the theater. In the afterglow, Tang Kejian's flawless butler appearance suddenly cracked!
The smooth skin broke apart, revealing a mysterious skeletal structure beneath, intricately interwoven with metal gears and fleshy tubes.

As if armor had cracked open in the center of his chest cavity, the blazing [Core of Rules] rose from the broken sternum, its crimson-gold light instantly illuminating the collapsed club, like the sun of judgment burning in hell.

Eight whip-like structures made of metallic nerves rose up from behind him, each swinging violently.

It produced a thunderous whooshing sound as the remaining air broke apart into ripples.

The system notification sound instantly resounded throughout the entire battlefield:
[Boss Battle - Phase 1 Begins]

[Objective: Survive for five minutes or destroy the core of the rules]

Si Ming knelt beside the ruins of the dartboard, blood still seeping from his chest wound, dripping down his side onto the broken wooden planks at his feet.

It transformed into rings of dark red flowers. His face was pale, but his eyes still shone brightly.

Although his "lie to the heart" had won him the bet, it had also severely damaged his body and mind.

He slowly raised his head, his eyes reflecting the "rule enforcer" who was no longer human or god.

Selene stood before him, disheveled and covered in blood, yet her eyes burned brightly like flames.

The wounds on her body are rapidly healing thanks to the regenerative abilities of the vampires.

The claws extended again, blood flames coiled around the fingertips, and the scarlet eyes shone like stars in the twilight.

She stood in front of Si Ming, like a shield forged for him.

"You stay behind and recover from your injuries." Her voice was low and carried an undeniable determination. "Leave him to me."

Si Ming nodded slightly, his right hand still clutching the lingering pain in his spleen wound, but his face wore his usual carefree smile:
"I entrust everything to you, my Blood Princess."

Tang Kejian raised his head; his voice was no longer gentle and refined.

Rather, it is the echo of mechanical synergy and integration, like the sound of a shattered bell:
"Recorder No. 9, execute the orbital ruling agreement."

“Initiate the ‘Enlightenment Calculus’.”

Enemy units: two.

"Strategy Activation Level: Basic Dual-Track".

"Game Theory: Fate Orbit Calculation"

Click—click!
The "bell wings" behind Tang Kejian suddenly unfolded, the clock hands turned, and projected three silver-white orbital reflections, which were reflected at the feet of Selian and Siming respectively.

[Track A: Aggressive Behavior]

[Track B: Survival-related behaviors]

Track C: Strategy/Support Behavior

All three tracks are generated simultaneously.

Selene narrowed her eyes, her fingernails snapping open with a soft crack.
"What is this...? Did he categorize us?"

“He doesn’t fight,” Si Ming gritted his teeth and stood up. “He plays chess.”

The system then immediately determined:

[Calculation results: Selian → Orbit A, Siming → Orbit C]

【Orbit Lock-On - Serian】→This round of attack actions were captured by the system→If the behavior is not changed, the attack will be guaranteed to hit + backlash damage.

【Orbital Restriction - Fate】→Current state does not conform to behavior model→Entry judgment delay→Skill cooldown increased by 1.5 times.

“Interesting.” Celian licked her lips, a war-loving thrill flashing in her eyes. “Is he trying to predict our next move?”

“It’s like a bet,” Si Ming murmured, “He… wants us—to be afraid to bet.”

The orbital ruling has taken effect.

Tang Kejian raised his hands high, and eight metal nerve whips drew complex rune circles in the air, releasing a blocking attack sequence!
The wind suddenly rises!

The locked area suddenly erupted!

Si Ming's figure flickered, and he was forced to roll over and hide behind the ruins. Even his card-throwing action was delayed by the system.

Serian, who was facing the attack head-on, was struck hard by the whip, her body was torn in half, revealing the muscles and bones that were being reconstructed, and blood splattered like rain.

She roared, and the blood flames on her body surged back, forcing back a wave of pursuers!
“He treats us as a system model.” Si Ming was sweating profusely, but his tone was as calm as ice. “His trajectory is not a killing move.”

"Yes—programming."

Before the electromagnetic ripples in the air had dissipated, the "bell wing" behind Tang Kejian suddenly stopped rotating.

Immediately afterwards, a dark golden three-dimensional eyeball model was projected from his fiery, pulsating core of rules.

"Eye of Destiny - Sensing Mode Activated".

At that moment, it was as if a crack had been torn open in the sky above the battlefield, and silver nerve veins descended from the heavens, with dozens of lines of fate winding down.

They meticulously monitored Si Ming and Selian's bodies, gaits, muscle contraction frequencies, and even thought patterns.

“He’s not just judging what we ‘did,’” Celian whispered through gritted teeth. “He’s now—leading us on what we ‘should do.’”

The Eye of Fate flashes a pale blue light every few seconds, as if recording and correcting data. With each flash, the track pattern on the ground subtly distorts—as if guiding, inducing, or setting an ambush.

“He’s setting up a false path,” Si Ming’s pupils contracted. “He’s making us mistakenly believe that we are making a choice.”

"But in reality—we are just following the script he set."

"—I can't take it anymore." Celian suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

She took a step forward, and blood flames instantly covered her entire body. Claw blades sprang from her fingertips, and six blood wings unfurled from her back, creating a shockwave that stunned the entire audience.

"You want to know—can the Wild Hunt's instincts really tear apart the tracks?"

She stomped her feet hard, and the entire ground exploded and collapsed, with cracks spreading like a spider web for hundreds of meters!
The track lines twisted violently in that instant, like a thread of fate being suddenly torn apart, snapping and exploding!
Si Ming held three playing cards in his right hand, his left hand still pressing tightly against his wound, his face pale but his eyes resolute.

He murmured in a low voice:
"The One with a Thousand Faces, that is it now."

"Start-up - Writing behavioral lies."

"In the next round, I will—dance with the lies of fate."

[The True Lie] - Initiate!
The three cards shimmered like shattered gold between his fingers. He slapped them into his palm, the pale gold inscriptions gleaming in his blood, like a vow to gamble with fate.

In the distance, the Eye of Destiny suddenly trembled!
It seemed to sense an unreadable data stream, and the entire 3D model distorted, with the unstable edges of the runes beginning to flash!
—It cannot understand.

Why would anyone dare to laugh and fabricate a future when faced with such a certain death?

Si Ming spoke in a low voice, his tone as steady as a frost blade:

"Celian."

In the heat of war, there is only a second.

His voice entered her ears, carrying the light, catchy tone of playing cards and the unreal power of logic.

She suddenly turned her head, her bloodshot eyes flashing slightly.

She heard the familiar whisper of the "Man of a Thousand Faces".

—That was a conspiracy from the nightmare.

"Now begin—unleash your Wild Hunt."

"You are... the princess of the Eternal Night Blood Alliance."

"You fight without being bound by thought; your hunting always precedes your thinking."

"You will tear apart the trajectory of fate for me."

The "True Lies" effect hit.

Target: Selene
Effect: Hypnotic Enhancement - Activates Wild Hunt state.

Click!

The Eye of Fate trembled violently!

Its detection model was originally labeled "Aggressive Semi-Superhuman - Vampire," with a behavioral map accuracy of 87%. Now—the model has collapsed!
Logistic exponent reaches zero!

[System error detected]

[Tracking Failure: Target Behavior Model Unable to be Generated]

Selene grinned and licked her canine teeth.

She is no longer a pawn whose moves can be predicted.

She is a wolf that devours the chessboard.

Wild Hunt is officially unbanned.

At this moment, Serian's body went completely berserk!
She no longer followed any tactical logic; her actions had completely deviated from the traditional definition of "combat."
It was more like a frenzied and stunning performance—a dance written with blood and murderous intent.

She was sprinting head-on, but suddenly slipped, sliding sideways across the ground in an almost impossible backward tilt.

It flew close to the ground like an arrow, skimming past the attack detection line set by Tang Kejian.

Her claws were supposed to pierce straight through, aiming for the opponent's neck, but at the moment of attack, they suddenly reversed, turning into a spiral slash, the trajectory so distorted that even the air seemed to be taken aback for a moment.

Her movements were more like a dance, stopping abruptly, turning, retreating, and leaping in mid-air to an unseen rhythm.

Each step, seemingly haphazard, actually disrupts the predictive rhythm of each Eye of Fate.

She grinned, revealing scarlet fangs, and her face shone with a kind of madness as she moved rapidly.

That laugh was like the approach of a predator, or the ecstatic joy of a gambler flipping over his cards.

“Tang Kejian,” she chuckled, her voice cracking, “can’t you read tracks?”

"Come on—read me where I'm going to chop next?"

boom--!
She suddenly spun around, her six wings flapping!

A sharp claw strike aimed straight at the core of the Eye of Destiny high in the sky!
A burst of blue and white light, like the pulse of stars, erupted out, and the floating Eye of Destiny, like a star map that holds the whole picture, burst out with dazzling lightning amidst violent tremors!
The Eye of Fate's structure has a 63% failure rate.

[Decreased tracking accuracy]

Tang Kejian suddenly roared, his voice no longer the gentle and composed deacon's, but a metallic roar filled with noise and rage.

His eight metal nerve whips instantly converged, forming a high-frequency pulsed cyclical chain around Selene, attempting to confine her within the spatial cut.

"Trying to lock me up?" Celian spat out a mouthful of blood mist, but her face was filled with a maniacal laugh. "Come on—I bet you can stop me!"

Her body spun rapidly, transforming into a vortex of blood and flames like a spinning top!
At this moment, Si Ming raised his hand, and a playing card, "Elegy of the Fated Gambler," flew out from between his fingers!

The playing cards spun in mid-air, revealing the shape of hearts.

【Burning Brand】

The next second, the card was struck by Selian's palm, changing its direction and flying towards Tang Kejian's Secret Remains Star Core!

Immediately afterwards, she stomped the ground, leaving a lightning-fast afterimage, piercing through the high-frequency chains behind her—

boom! ! !
Fire exploded!

It was a burst of flames that scorched reality itself, suddenly devouring the last stable structure of the Eye of Fate!
The floating eyeball suddenly made a "click" sound, then violently vibrated in the air and its structure collapsed!

Like liquid metal melting into program code, the massive visual device transformed into a ripple of crashing metal!

Eye of Fate: Destruction

Tang Kejian's entire right arm immediately emitted a clicking sound like misaligned gears, and the blood, flesh and metal mixture structure violently broke!

High-frequency mechanical nerves were exposed at the junction of the right shoulder, sparks flying everywhere!

[Track locking module chain broken]

"I succeeded!" Si Ming gasped for breath, sliding down the broken wall while grinning through gritted teeth. "I... won the gamble."

His face was pale, and the blood at the corner of his mouth was still wet. He looked like a broken gambler who had escaped from purgatory, but his eyes were still so bright that they were unsettling.

Selene landed, staggering, her breath ragged, and blood dripping from her fingertips.

She looked up at Si Ming, her eyes gleaming with a mixture of pride and malice, and licked the blood from the corner of her mouth.
"You dare to portray me as a madman."

I'll go crazy and show you.

The system notification sounded again:
[Rule Locking System - Damage Rate 85%]

[Trajectory prediction phase completed]

Tang Kejian slowly raised his head.

The Core of Rules within his chest was pounding violently, like some kind of enormous, burning heart.

The energy ring continued to expand, gradually covering his entire upper body and even penetrating his body, forming a light wall that scorched the space.

A deep, almost collapsing, mechanical voice burst forth from deep within his skull:
"You're forcing me... to move on to the next stage."

"Locking it in is useless now—"

“Then let the ‘law’—jud you personally.”

His figure slowly rose into the air, eight nerve whips like black flame tassels swirling around his back, gears spinning wildly within his body.
The thoracic structure is everted, revealing layers of toothed rings and rune locks engraved with regular inscriptions.

From his body surface, floating text composed of "rule entries" suddenly rose up:

Those who survive severe injuries are considered "system errors" and should be removed.

Individuals exhibiting behavioral alienation and a tendency to detach from control should be eliminated.

[Existing outside the orbit, arbitrarily altering fate—deserves judgment]

He is no longer Tang Kejian.

He is the enforcer of the "law".

It is a self-correcting mechanism after the rules of fate have been disrupted.

Darkness began to collapse, the surrounding battlefield crumbled like a theater, the mahogany walls shattered, and space was peeled away like paper.

Light and power are being rewritten.

Selene stood in front of Si Ming, her breath quickening and her chest heaving like waves.

But her gaze remained unchanged.

They only became more determined.

Si Ming stood up from behind the broken wall and gently wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

He smiled at Celian and whispered:
“If he really becomes the ‘law,’ then we will be the ones who are wrong.”

"Isn't it ridiculous? Gamblers and madmen have become the opposite of the rules."

Selene chuckled softly, revealing her fangs:

"so what?"

"You can win even if you're wrong."

They looked up.

Look up to the judge who steps out of the rules.

In this round, the stakes are no longer about winning or losing—

Rather, it is the right to exist freely.

That was a gamble with the Shadow of Law, a fight to the death.

The poker tables have reopened.

The end is near.

When predictions become unreliable, rules become the blade of judgment.

You think you've won the battle of choice, but you haven't won the battle of fate.

(End of this chapter)