It's time to become an evil god.

Humans are as insignificant as insects in its presence.

Having seemingly lived underground for countless years, the sudden, blinding light forced the Nuo God to retreat repeatedly, while the strangely small, girlish head on its head screamed in alarm. The scene was as absurd as if Rose's baby head had been forcibly attached to the muscular Chris.

Wait, a headless giant that's been locked up?

Bai Ge suddenly realized and shouted at the top of his lungs, "I get it, kill it! This guy must be Allen reincarnated in another world!"

What the hell?! Eren was reincarnated into another world?! Could this be any more absurd?!

Confused, Nishizawa Ryo stared at the pained girl's face and said, "But why does the Nuo God look so strange!"

"Actually, the White Kimono Lady did not kill the Nuo God back then."

While riding the free roller coaster, Bai Ge shouted at the top of her lungs, "But she chose to become the Nuo Goddess!"

"Kill it!"

[Warning: Power level is below 50%, large-scale complex modifications are not possible.]

At this moment, Xi Zeliang heard the power reminder of Mechanical Heart in his ear. He gritted his teeth and took out a transparent glass ball device with a ball of electric arc fire in his pocket.

【Name: Core Modification Support】

[Quality: Average]

[Special Effect: Can instantly restore 100% of the Mechanical Heart's power]

[P.S.: My phone only has 99% battery left, so I'll have to talk to you later.]

"bring it on."

Nishizawa Ryo unbuttoned his shirt, revealing a steel gear-like body beneath, and roared, "Struggle to survive!"

While still being tossed around in mid-air and feeling nauseous, Bai Ge had only one thought in his mind: "Didn't you stay at full health from the start of the mission until now?"

A blinding light shone beneath Nishizawa Ryo's feet, and he vanished into the light.

The entire palace began to shake, and a pair of enormous steel wings, shimmering and crackling with electricity, slowly rose from beneath the light. Their bodies were covered in pale electric current, and blinding light pierced through the cracks in the eaves, illuminating the vast underground cavern.

The three-headed dragon we saw before reappeared, illuminating the dark underground world!

The dragon spread its wings, and the glazed tiles on the eaves fell like hail, as if it were the end of the world. This violent aesthetic monster, forged from pure steel, let out a deafening roar.

This is not a phantom seen after entering a coffin to enter the underworld, but a real three-headed steel dragon!

"That terrifying sense of oppression and the metallic body... I understand now..."

An excited Bai Ge turned around and gestured fiercely at Nuo Shen, "Hehehe, you're finished! Come on, Mechagodzilla!"

Chapter Thirty-Six: A Lich King is Necessary

Lightning danced through the narrow hall, streaks of pale light slamming deep craters into the granite floor. The flapping of steel wings shattered half the hall, sending bricks and pillars crashing to the ground.

The sheer mechanical pressure of the steel dragon dimmed the faces of the pseudo-gods who had been trapped underground for centuries, finally realizing what it meant for times to change.

This is true deus ex machina!

"Nishizawa Ryo, are you really okay?"

Bai Ge shouted from below, "Why do I remember that in movies and TV shows, villains who merge with monsters usually don't have a good ending?"

The mechanical steel dragon let out a deafening roar that shook the mountains, as if to say, "You're the villain!"

The Nuo Goddess, with her calm, girlish face, still tried to resist, but the three-headed steel dragon opened its mouth, and three blinding beams of light emitted increasingly dazzling light, spewing out destructive flames. The three dazzling beams of light eventually converged into a shockwave powerful enough to cause mountains to collapse and the earth to split, all of which smashed onto the Nuo Goddess.

The enormous black shadow vanished in the dazzling flames, and half of the underworld temple was completely wiped out by the absolute power of the three-headed steel dragon.

The steel dragon disappeared in a beam of light that descended from the sky, leaving only Xi Zeliang staggering out, clutching his chest, his face pale.

"Did you win? Did you win?"

Bai Ge and Xi Zeliang looked over and saw that the strange giant had disappeared, leaving behind a bunch of coral-like monsters that seemed to have wriggling tentacles struggling, with white bones exposed from the dissolving, rotten flesh.

"Not dead?"

Xi Zeliang's expression changed drastically. He wanted to force himself to do it again, but his legs went weak and he knelt down. The astonishing consumption of the Mechanical Heart in a short period of time no longer allowed him to summon the Steel Dragon.

Ding dong.

At that moment, the three of them heard a notification sound indicating that the mission was complete.

[Slaying the evil god successful; mission complete]

[Preparing to teleport]

"Teleportation?"

Bai Ge was taken aback by this team mission mode, while Xi Zeliang, who was barely holding onto the shaky pillar, explained, "Team dungeon missions have a special mission end protection period, which protects players from any form of harm after the mission ends and during the teleportation. Moreover, as long as the system does not determine that you are dead, even if you suffer a serious fatal injury, you can recover to normal after the teleportation ends."

The new information made Bai Ge fall into deep thought, seemingly pondering something, when Nishizawa Ryo beside him suddenly exclaimed.

"Wait, the mission is clearly over, so why isn't the Nuo God dead yet?"

However, the monstrous mass of rotten flesh in front of them continued to expand, with new buds and tentacles constantly emerging from it. Its size rapidly increased, quickly returning to one-third of its previous size.

Bai Ge glanced at the girl's corpse outside the main hall, now only half a head remaining, and exclaimed with sudden realization, "I finally understand why Lady Bai Wugou chose to merge with the Nuo God back then—it's because the Nuo God cannot be killed! Someone must control it!"

"control?"

Xi Zeliang's expression changed instantly, and he quickly realized, "So we only killed the previous Nuo God? Will a new Nuo God appear?"

The teleportation had been initiated, and Xize Liang's body was gradually disappearing. However, he suddenly realized that Bai Ge had not activated the teleportation device. Instead, she got up from the ground, endured the pain, and patted Xize Liang's shoulder, saying, "That's right. We absolutely cannot let this go unchecked, or it will cause a disaster."

With only a brain remaining, Nishizawa Ryo's eyes widened. "Are you going to..."

He forced a smile, took a step forward, took a deep breath, turned his head and slowly said, "There must be a Lich King."

"Wait a moment."

With only half a head remaining, Xi Zeliang was completely unable to move and could only watch helplessly as Bai Ge walked towards the ever-expanding and twisting monster. Countless sticky, wriggling tentacles emerged from it, wrapped around him, and pulled him into the swollen body.

The last half of the face that was swallowed up gave him a cryptic smile.

……

Professor Zhong, hiding behind the granite, also heard the notification sound indicating the mission was over, and the gunfire stopped shortly afterward. He cautiously peeked out and discovered that the Underworld Palace was completely empty.

"The mission failed?"

He nervously touched his body and found that he had not been executed for failing the mission. With his last bit of hope, he climbed the steps and rushed into the direction of the Underworld Palace.

After the fierce battle, half of the Underworld Palace was on the verge of collapse, with rubble and pillars constantly falling and dust billowing everywhere. When Professor Zhong saw the writhing monster, he was overjoyed.

"The ancient god's umbilical cord is still intact!"

At this moment, Professor Zhong could no longer care about anything else and stumbled over. He had previously found records about ancient god relics in the high-level documents of the prophetic school and suspected that the so-called Nuo god was very likely a product of the umbilical cord.

"It's it, it must be it!"

Professor Zhong's eyes blazed with fanaticism as he rushed forward, disregarding everything else, preparing to use the sealing artifact to take the umbilical cord away.

However, in the next instant, a hand reached out from inside, forcibly tore through the pus covering it, and slowly emerged.

Bai Ge wiped the sticky mucus off his face and forced a smile. "Surprised? Unexpected?"

Professor Zhong was shocked to see this scene of a person suddenly come to life. "Wait, why can you..."

On second thought, Professor Zhong asked a more pressing question, "Did you get the ancient god's umbilical cord?"

"Don't you ever encounter bugs while playing games for so long?"

Bai Ge countered, "Players won't be injured or die during the time between the end of a team mission and teleportation, essentially making them invincible. This indirectly encourages players to loot. In that case, why shouldn't I try to get the Ancient God's Umbilical Cord?"

Based solely on a single sentence from the system, he dared to rush in and snatch the umbilical cord without hesitation?

Professor Zhong turned pale. He finally realized that what this guy was hiding behind his crazy behavior was extraordinary courage and insane thinking.

Mission failed.

Having failed to obtain the ancient god's umbilical cord, Professor Zhong was terrified by the system's mission failure notification and the opponent's complete superiority. He turned to run away, but a wriggling tentacle hooked his ankle, tripped him, and pulled him slowly in the opposite direction.

Professor Zhong scratched frantically, leaving only horrifying, desperate claw marks on the ground. He turned his head, his voice trembling with fear, and said, "What do you want to do? Do you intend to turn me into a living corpse?"

"To become immortal? Do you think someone with the umbilical cord of an ancient god would do something so low-class?"

Bai Ge took out a stun gun from his inventory and said coldly, "I'll fucking shock you right now!"

Chapter Thirty-Seven: I Want Them All

Over the next few days, Xi Zeliang repeatedly checked the system's friend list, but he never saw Bai Ze's name light up again; it remained a quiet, grayed-out name. Although he reported the mission to the Special Affairs Bureau immediately after it ended, and quickly sealed off the entire area, even sending player hunters deep into the dungeon, the place was a mess, completely empty.

He had fantasized that this guy, who always raised his blood pressure, would suddenly come online, but a week later there was still no movement, and Nishizawa Ryo's thoughts gradually darkened.

I went to work as usual that day, and before I even sat down, a colleague tossed me a letter.

"Liang, your package is here."

"My package?"

Ryo Nishizawa found it strange, as he had cut off all contact with his friends and family in real life since becoming a player. With a puzzled look, he opened the envelope, only to find an obituary falling out.

"Tragic news: Mr. Bai Ze, a nationally renowned handsome man, a national first-class actor specializing in narcolepsy, and a tenth-level retreat drum performance artist, ended his life on June 14 at the young age of 23."

Bai Ze... is only twenty-three years old?

Nishizawa Ryo's eyes dimmed as he recalled the scene of the other person smiling and saying goodbye. He clenched his fist. He turned the letter to the other side, wanting to see if there were any other messages.

"Hmm? Why is there a line of smaller text below this?"

Ryo Nishizawa frowned and said softly, "He ended his life at the young age of 23... and became 24."

"……Grass……"

It was still a procedure that would raise blood pressure, but a pleasant smile appeared on Nishizawa Ryo's lips.

A colleague who passed by him almost had a heart attack when he saw this scene. The last time this guy showed such a "happy" smile, he directly summoned a steel dragon and made the opposing player hunter suffer a cerebral hemorrhage.

A colleague nearby shouted again, "Liang, there are a few more boxes here that were sent to you."

"My suitcase?"

Nishizawa Ryo curiously approached the cardboard box, just about to open it to see what was inside, when suddenly the box began to shake, as if some living thing was trying to crawl out of it.

"What the hell is this thing?"