They all call me an Outer God.

"Ow!"

It made a sound after plucking the feather, and then handed the feather to Ria.

Ria was somewhat surprised. Schwarz had always been averse to plucking feathers, but she hadn't expected it to be so compliant this time.

"Good boy."

Ria rubbed its head, and Little Swarth nestled against his palm, rubbing against him contentedly like a cat, its feathers becoming unusually fluffy and soft.

Although plucking hair hurts, it's worth it to get Lia's smile in return for just one hair!
It couldn't help but think this way, then tilted its head and stared at the Xia Gai insect in Liya's hand, inevitably feeling a bit hostile towards it.

Of course, this hostility did not stem from its jealousy of this thing. Little Swarth was indiscriminately hostile to all Xia Gai insects. It did not know why, but when it first saw this kind of creature, it felt an instinctive aversion to it, a feeling even worse than when it first saw Hephaestus.

In fact, the species of Xia Gai insects is inherently prone to hostility, and anyone who can get along with them is undoubtedly an anomaly.

Now that Hephaestus and the Xia Gai Demon Insect, the two worst of the bunch, have met, the impact on it is undoubtedly exponentially greater. If it weren't for Ria being there, it has no doubt that it would have been tempted to attack the man and the insect.

However, out of consideration for Ria, it can pretend it didn't see it.

It can't see anything, it can't see anything at all.

Schwarz closed his eyes, and now he truly became a completely black shuttlecock.

Lia could understand its emotions. After all, even when she was holding the Xia Gai worm, she couldn't help but feel a violent thought, especially as she watched Xia En's abdomen swell more and more, and more and more new worms were being born and climbing up her arm.

Once violent thoughts arise, they are endless, but Ria is always good at calming his emotions, and it is difficult for others to guess what he is thinking from his facial expressions.

In order to get used to this way of thinking and even cover it up, Lia had to keep hypnotizing herself that the Xia Gai insect in her hand was a pile of gold. Now, the hypnosis was very successful.

When he looked at the Xia Gai insect again, he found it to be quite attractive.

Seeing that Sherger was still looking at her hopefully, Ria thought for a moment and said, "I have good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first?"

Sherger immediately replied, "Bad news."

"The bad news is that the contamination from the angels was very successful. Shane has now completely become a female insect. At its rate of reproduction, if left unchecked, it can produce a swarm of insects within three days that is enough to devour the surrounding towns."

"You should know that there is a conservation law in the universe. Even my authority, which seems to have the upper hand in transactions, is actually being used as a bargaining chip by constantly depleting my own humanity."

Hearing what Ria said, Sherger probably already knew what he was going to say.

"I currently have no way to cleanse the pollution from the angels, but I can transfer it into other organisms. The good news after the bad news is that you can choose which organism to use."

Ria's meaning was clear: he was not interested in Hephaestus's so-called offering of everything; on the contrary, he was now interested in teasing Hephaestus.

"What do you want to see, Sherger? Thousands upon thousands of people who only reproduce, or a sea teeming with fish, or perhaps—"

Upon hearing this, Sherger's gaze turned cold, and he suddenly smiled: "I have a good idea. I want to transfer this pollution to the rest of my kind."

Ria paused for a moment upon hearing this, then finally couldn't help but laugh: "It seems we're thinking the same thing."

"Although the Hephaestus all over the world sounds disgusting, they themselves are the ones who hate their own kind the most."

"If we could truly achieve mass production of clones, we'd never have to worry about a shortage of people to summon a particular avatar again. That's a very interesting suggestion!"

Right now, there's a shortage of manpower, so Lia doesn't think there's anything wrong with her current thinking. Who wouldn't like good, cheap labor?
The world is already chaotic enough, so why can't it be even more chaotic?

He and Serge hit it off immediately. He slowly stretched out his hand towards the air, and a golden scale appeared in the void. Then, Ria used the black feathers of Swarth as weights and placed the Xia Gai insect on the other end.

Using the mythical creature Black Feather as a medium, the pollution of abundance is transferred, with the target being—a clone lurking in chaos.

[The deal was finalized under the guise of trade.]

Next came a whole bunch of implicit rules being read aloud automatically. Ria waved his hand to dispel them. These things were read aloud automatically by the extraordinary, which was equivalent to someone whispering divine verses in his ear.

Listening to all of this would be a waste of time, so Lia usually chose to skip it.

At that very moment, the transaction took effect, and the swarm of worms around Shane automatically turned into grayish-black powder and perished. Shane excitedly twirled its tentacles, looked at Ria and then at Sherger. Just as it was about to take another look at Ria, Schwarz swept it away with a tentacle.

Shane wasn't annoyed at all. It excitedly scrambled around, and after landing, it darted off to the side at lightning speed. But soon, a tentacle caught it again and placed it in Sherger's hand.

"Honestly, you should thank him; he cares about you more than anyone else."

“Do you care about me?” Shaen’s antennae gradually stopped turning, as if he had thought of something that displeased the insect. “Yes, they wiped out the entire race, leaving me to suffer a fate worse than death… None of these Chaos Avatars are good people.”

It's not a good thing either.

Shaen's emotions clearly became abnormal, but what it didn't know was that Sherger had never participated in Shagai's extermination of the tribe. He had done everything he could to save Shaen from a group of Hephaestus, but he couldn't save his mother.

Sherger didn't intend to tell Shane these things. The truth often meant misfortune, and reality was too cruel for them. Just like the Creator who would never favor believers, fate had never been kind to them either.

"Even if you think I'm a bad person, do you think you can just leave? Pets should have the self-awareness of pets. Who cares about a pet's feelings?"

As he spoke, Sherger, holding the shrike that was constantly waving its limbs and tentacles, greeted Ria, who tacitly allowed them to leave.

Once their figures had completely disappeared into the thick fog, Liya looked at the hand that had just touched the Xia Gai insect. Countless fleshy tendrils had sprouted from the skin beneath the leather glove, and those eyes were nestled in the gaps between the tendrils, staring unblinkingly at Liya.

"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

(End of this chapter)