Once upon a time there was a greedy snake

Habisa, who came from a war-torn background, always had this decisive and efficient demeanor. He didn't even say much before continuing to peruse the parchment scrolls.

Seeing all this, Mei Zhiying clearly sensed something different.

It had already succeeded in drawing all the soldiers' attention to itself, but as soon as the steel humanoid appeared, all the soldiers were drawn to it.

That iron-blooded and ruthless demeanor, that powerful soul capable of controlling a body of steel, and most importantly, that will as hard as steel, all of its efforts were annihilated the moment it appeared.

"How can there be such people on this planet?"

Mei Zhiying's face immediately darkened.

Although such souls are not uncommon across the entire star sea, that would only be if all the powerful souls were added together—not to mention that the soul named Habisa looks so young.

Being young means having a promising future, or even unlimited possibilities.

"I'm afraid... we need to take him down first."

At this moment, Mei Zhiying had already seen the obstacle in front of her.

Fortunately, this is not a big problem. It is just a powerful soul. Even if it is as hard as steel, it doesn't matter to it.

After all, even steel can rust.

Mei Zhiying is confident in herself.

So, under the guise of a visit, the Shadow of Enchantress slipped into Habisa's barracks. As before, no one stopped it—which made it even more convinced that the soul named Habisa would obey it.

However, what greeted Mei Zhiying was a cold rebuke.

"This is a private place, not a place for you. Get out."

"...?"

Mei Zhiying looked up in surprise.

Surprisingly, who wouldn't be affected by it?

You see, it has now transformed into the form that people love most. It even senses the desires of the soul before it and has made subtle adjustments to its appearance—it is certain that it is the image that the other person desires, and that it can exert a fatal attraction on this steel soul.

But now...

"go out."

Habisa simply waved his hand.

If this were when he was still alive, or when he was still young, it would indeed have caused him to waver. But now, after experiencing so much, he no longer cares about such simple love. Even if the beautiful girl in front of him looks a lot like Senette, the girl he used to be with, it doesn't matter.

He had his own things to do, and his will was as strong as his body.

"Now it seems that the warriors of the Blood Warband are not much different from those warriors back then. They only know how to fight, but they don't know why they are fighting... So if someone incites them, they will be influenced, because they don't have a clear direction, and they don't have a will that they can truly carry out."

After chasing away the girl who had inexplicably entered, Habisa flipped through the parchment scrolls and made a conclusion.

What Habisa didn't see was that the girl he had driven out was still standing at the door, not having gone far.

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Chapter 291 Losing is acceptable

Transforming the entire Blood Chapter was not complicated for Habisa, or rather, he was the most suitable person to do so.

If it were someone else, they might have locked up the Blood Warband for a while to train them, or simply thought that a few more lectures would change everything—but Habisa didn't do that; he used a different method.

That is, work.

In Habisa's view, the terracotta bodies of the Blood Warband were simply too good to be true. They were heat-resistant, corrosion-resistant, and could even work without rest—as long as their souls were not tired, they could keep working without even needing to eat or drink.

So, go to work.

Habisa said this to the terracotta figures and wooden statues.

"You will find all the answers in your work."

The warriors of the Blood Warband, the terracotta warriors and wooden statues, originally had some complaints. After all, in their eyes, they were all warriors, and it was glorious to fight on the battlefield. Now they were being asked to work as laborers or even farmers... What was this?

But Habisa silenced them with his actions, simply because he was the first to go down to the construction site. It was originally a spaceship construction site, but now, with the carpenter sage Beska having changed his mind, it had been transformed into a rune armor manufacturing workshop.

Because Beskey changes his mind almost daily and is always ready to alter the construction plan, that construction site is widely recognized as the coolest and most tiring place.

But Habisa joined without hesitation, even volunteering to do the most dangerous high-temperature and high-altitude work.

"Anyway, I'm made of iron, I won't die from falling."

Habisa simply smiled in response to people's questions.

This spirit also inspired everyone in the Blood Warband.

Even the legion commander was working so hard, so the soldiers naturally had no reason to refuse. No matter how much they complained, they could only go into the various workshops and farms and start their work.

And then, nothing happened.

Once they get busy, they don't have the mind to think about so much. And in their work, they truly understand why those alien things are so popular. In the end, whether it's key technological breakthroughs or cheap alien medicines, they can indeed change people's lives. And these things, if you don't have them, you don't have them. You can't just shout a few words and expect to prevent workplace injuries or make further technological breakthroughs.

"If you want to change everything... you still have to catch up with the technology yourself and do everything well."

After a period of hard work, the soldiers understood the good intentions of their corps commander.

However, Habisa didn't care about that. He continued his busy work, partly to help the project progress and partly to adapt to his new body. In Habisa's view, since the Serpent God had given him a second chance at life, he couldn't let it go to waste. He had to fight for the Serpent God Empire and for the well-being of everyone for the rest of his life.

After all, that's what he did when he was alive.

So he devoted himself to his work, striving to do his best in everything he did.

Even though a beautiful young girl was constantly in front of him, Habisa never even glanced at her.

This made Mei Zhiying even more annoyed.

It has tempted countless people, and even destroyed three planets with its own hands. Even the ancient serpent outside the city was once lured by it. But now, a mere mortal has completely ignored it. Yes, this mortal's soul is indeed very powerful, it admits. But even the most powerful soul has been conquered by it.

"Are you going to be the exception?"

With this in mind, Shadow of the Enchantress spent almost every day trying to break through Habisa's psychological defenses, trying to make the new commander of the Blood Chapter, like the other warriors, unable to resist her presence. She could sense that if she succeeded, she could completely control the Blood Chapter and even enter the city's decision-making level, controlling half of this native empire.

However, the soul called Habisa never saw it, not even once.

"What do you really want? What do you really want to do?"

Unconvinced, the Shadow of Enchantress simply changed its strategy and did the same thing as Hapisa—clearly, this was also a way to attract attention. As the top general under the god of pleasure, it knew very well how to sense people's desires and how to satisfy those desires.

This directly resulted in the fact that even without a steel body, the Shadow of the Phantom was still better than Hapisa, simply because it could always understand the true needs of the craftsmen in the first instance, even before they spoke.

"amazing."

Rarely, even Habiza praised it.

This also made Mei Zhiying momentarily dazed.

Simply because, at this moment, it even felt joy.

A long-lost joy lingered in its heart, but its source was not in any way it knew. This sense of disorientation even made it somewhat absent-minded—it only knew that it should perhaps pursue more, want more, after all, it was the messenger of the god of joy, and it had no reason to reject joy itself.

It wasn't until a year later, and even after it married Habisa, that it was unable to shake off this absent-minded state.

"Actually, I'm the spy being hunted down..."

On their wedding night, the Shadow of Enchantress even revealed her identity to Habisa, even though it was completely unnecessary and might even cause trouble. She just felt that she shouldn't hide anything.

But to its surprise, Habisa shook its head.

"I knew it a long time ago."

Habisana's steely face remained expressionless.

“But you’re doing very well now, even better than many locals… so the past doesn’t matter.”

Habisa didn't say much, nor did he tell anyone about it. As a result, the spy case that had caused such a stir quietly disappeared without a trace. At present, no one in Tatunbto knows the true identity of the Shadow of Enchantress.

But outside the city...

Casalon and David Day were both dumbfounded when they heard that the Shadow of Phantoms had accomplished such a huge plan without making a sound.

They originally thought they had succeeded in kicking the messenger of the God of Desire out of the game, and were quite happy about it for a while. Who would have thought that the other party would do such a big thing without making a sound?

"But... is this a good thing or a bad thing?"

After discussing it for a while, David Day and Casaloran suddenly felt that something was not quite right.

The two of them sided with the local natives in order to seize control, but the Shadow of Enchantress sided with the local natives... that was a real siding. Heaven knows how long it's been since the Shadow of Enchantress used that transformation ability; she has clearly become a local.

"So, what exactly are we doing here?"

It was at this point that David Day and Casaloan realized the problem.

They're still fighting each other, with wins and losses on both sides. After fighting for so long, it seems like neither of them has gained an advantage.

On the contrary, these local natives are visibly growing stronger and stronger, and they are now only one step away from marching into the Star Sea.

"Is this really what the gods want to see?"

Chapter 292 The Four Gods React

"Stop! I said, stop!"

In the distant star field, a two-headed eagle, leaning on a long staff, raised its sharp claws and waved repeatedly at the distance.

Far beyond the two-headed eagle, beyond the endless army of demons, stood three equally enormous behemoths.

The most conspicuous one had a body like a collapsing volcano, with muscles bulging like tangled chains. Every muscle was covered with dark red lava veins, and its shoulders alone were enough to cover half the battlefield. The head above its shoulders was a burning obsidian sculpture, and its entire face was cut into broken geometric shapes by crisscrossing scars.

On His back, He carried a heavy axe, its blade forged from congealed blood and engraved with runes. With each swing, it was accompanied by the wails of countless wronged souls.

In the distance from this terrifying figure, there was another figure with a completely opposite appearance. The figure was quite slender, but dazzling, like flowing liquid crystal. It had butterfly-like wings on its back. Wherever it passed, light shone, and even the air shimmered.

In the hands of this radiant humanoid figure lies an equally dazzling soft whip, a long whip made of 108 sections of the spine of a strange beast. Far from making this radiant figure appear sinister, it adds a touch of antiquity and holiness to it.

However, just as this beauty and illusion were about to fill everything, another enormous figure destroyed everything. The bloated body was like a rotting mountain, filled with twisted organs, vines, fungi, and rotting flesh. Within this vast mountain of rotting flesh was a huge cavity from which countless twisted life forms crawled out, then climbed onto the enormous body, gnawing on the rotting flesh and blood, before dying and rotting themselves, forming a complete ecological cycle.

On the back of this rotting mountain, three withered giant trees were growing, their trunks flowing with green sap and their branches hanging with swollen fruits—the fruits looked exactly like the so-called "seeds of creation."

Clearly, this is the deity behind David Day, the god of life, also known as the god of destruction.

The other two deities are the god of courage and the god of joy.

The gathering of the three gods was not without reason. The reason, of course, was that the two-headed eagle in the distance, the mysterious god who was good at intrigue and trickery, was simply too hateful. After all, everyone was taking everything from that barbaric planet in an orderly manner. Even if there were conflicts between them, at least they were still at the stage of not hurting each other's feelings.

But this mysterious god alone wants to take it all without making a sound, and even personally intervenes... Does he think they're all dead?

Since the mysterious god has taken action himself, then it's no wonder they've followed suit and come knocking on our door; it's inevitable that they'll do the same.

At first, only the god of pleasure came to attack, and at that time it could still be considered a tug-of-war. Then the god of courage was also drawn to the battlefield, and then the god of life came to beat the dog when it was down. No matter how powerful the god of mystery was, it eventually showed signs of weakness.

"So...so you can't even let me say something?!"

While directing his demon army to resist the attack, the two-headed eagle also created a moment for himself to speak.

"What do you mean I picked the peaches? What did I get? Tell me! What did I get!"

"Of course you... um?"

It was at this moment that the three gods who were besieging the enemy suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Yes, if the God of Mysteries' plan could be completed, then he could indeed sit back and reap all the rewards—but right now, the God of Mysteries' plan has not been completed, which means that the God of Mysteries has actually gained nothing.

As for those few...

While reflecting on their actions over the past period, the three deities suddenly realized that they, too, hadn't obtained anything.

From the perspective of thwarting the plans of other gods, they did succeed. Although they suffered some losses, they at least managed to prevent other gods from reaping everything. But here's the problem: besides the losses, what did they gain?

It seems they gained nothing, and they kept losing, kept losing, kept losing... Especially the god of pleasure, whose face was the ugliest, because he could sense that his top generals had chosen to betray him.

And when they looked up, they sensed the same thing in each other's consciousness.

Yes, it's not just ourselves; other gods are also suffering losses.

"So, don't you guys even think about it?"

The two-headed eagle's face was full of resentment.

"I didn't win anything, and neither did you. It's like four ordinary people playing cards, and nobody won any money... What happened? Did the table eat all the money?"

It really was eaten by the table.

It was at this moment that the three deities suddenly realized what was happening.