Godslayer: The Progenitor of Symbiotes

After preparing the instant noodles, Hongying opened a corner of the lid, took a deep breath of the aroma, and looked completely delighted.

"Wow, it smells so good..."

As Hongying spoke, her beautiful eyes flashed with ill intent as she looked at Si Xiaonan.

"It smells so good! I could eat two buckets by myself!"

The aroma of instant noodles wafted into Si Xiaonan's nostrils, making her swallow hard.

It's already past midnight, the middle of the night, and dinner has long been digested.

"Sister Hongying, I..."

As soon as the soft, sweet voice was uttered, Si Xiaonan suddenly looked cautiously outside the tent.

"Who?!"

Si Xiaonan gave a low shout and reached for the black box next to the folding bed with his right hand. A straight knife sprang out of the black box and landed steadily in Si Xiaonan's hand.

Hongying was startled by Si Xiaonan's sudden low shout, and almost spat out the instant noodles in her mouth.

Biting off the instant noodles in her mouth, Hongying immediately returned to the bedside, opened the black box, and took out the long spear.

The figure outside the door seemed to have no ill intentions, and naturally lifted the tent flap.

Hongying and Si Xiaonan were slightly taken aback when they saw the gray-robed man.

"Secret Thief?"

Hongying and Si Xiaonan spoke at the same time.

Clearly, this gray-robed man was the same one they had seen in the war of the gods a year ago.

"What are you doing here?"

Hongying's grip on the spear loosened slightly.

Upon hearing this, An Qingyu removed her hood, revealing her fair and gentle face to the two of them.

"I want to know, where did Lin Qiye and... Chen Shu go?"

"They're in the fasting quarters right now, why are you looking for them?"

Hongying looked at An Qingyu strangely.

"The fasting quarters? Those two...did something bad?"

An Qingyu's eyes revealed a hint of inquiry, as if she really wanted to know what kind of mischief Lin Qiye and Chen Shu could get up together.

"No, they have some important business to attend to. Judging by the time, they should be back soon."

Hongying was both amused and exasperated, but she couldn't blame An Qingyu for it, since they had gone to a fasting center.

“If you’re looking for them, you can wait for them to come back here. Judging by the time, they should be back soon,” Hongying added.

An Qingyu accurately grasped the key point in Hong Ying's words and spoke with some uncertainty.

"Aren't you... going to arrest me?"

Hongying put down her spear, returned to the dining table, and began to eat as she spoke.

"You helped us, so I'll pretend I never saw you today."

An Qingyu once again focused on the key point, and Hong Ying only stated that "she herself" would pretend she had never seen her...

Turning her head to look at Si Xiaonan, An Qingyu's eyes conveyed the question, "Have you seen me?"

"Sister Hongying, I want to eat too."

Si Xiaonan chose to ignore An Qingyu, put down her knife, skipped over to the dining table, opened the other bucket of instant noodles with a grin, and began to eat heartily.

An Qingyu understood what the two meant. Since Lin Qiye and the other person would be back in a while, there was no need for him to "rescue" them.

However, there was actually another reason he came here...

An Qingyu's gaze fell on the silver warhammer on the ground.

A layer of gray light crept into his pupils...

An Qingyu frowned slightly...

He was unable to decipher the structure of this divine artifact.

"...Could I try to lift this hammer?"

An Qingyu turned to ask the two people who were really enjoying the food.

"Whatever, you can't possibly lift it anyway," Hongying said without even looking up.

“Yes, yes, you can’t lift it.” Si Xiaonan nodded in agreement.

An Qingyu's lips twitched...

You're so sure of it before you've even received it?

Is this artifact really that powerful?

Thinking of this, An Qingyu's eyes shone even brighter.

It even... borders on being perverted.

Walking to Thor's hammer, An Qingyu reached out and grasped the handle.

Apply gentle pressure...

"Ok?"

You really can't pick it up?!

...Maybe I didn't use enough force?

As An Qingyu thought of this, the veins on her arms, which were hidden under her gray robe, bulged!

"Um?!"

Still not working?!

The two consecutive "hmm" sounds made Hongying laugh.

"Haha, don't even try. We can't even lift it, how could you possibly lift it?"

An Qingyu looked at Thor's Hammer with a strange expression.

He had never come into contact with the divine artifact, but surely not all divine artifacts are like that?

In his eyes, divine artifacts and forbidden items are essentially the same.

However, the lower limit for forbidden items is very low, while the lower limit for divine artifacts is very high.

Even so... there shouldn't be a situation where it's impossible to pick it up, right?

Could it be... caused by some kind of external force?

Forbidden Ruins, Divine Ruins...

Or something else?

Unable to figure out the specifics, An Qingyu simply dismissed the idea.

It wasn't his own to begin with, so even if he figured it out now and could even pick it up, the Night's Watch wouldn't let him take this divine artifact.

"I'm leaving now. I'll come back when Lin Qiye and the others return."

An Qingyu left a message, put her hood back on, walked out of the tent, and her figure gradually disappeared into the night.

"Sigh, it's been so long, I wonder if anything has happened to Qiye and Xiaoshu."

Hongying lay slumped on the table, looking listless and weak.

Si Xiaonan put down the instant noodle cup in her hand, smiled, and spoke reassuringly.

"Sister Hongying, don't overthink it. Since the Night Watch's higher-ups haven't given any bad news, it means everything is normal."

“…Yeah, that’s right.”

……

"The 'Power of Laws' ability value has skyrocketed!"

"...It's still rising, and it's expected to exceed the building's tolerance in 39 seconds!"

“37……35……33……31……”

Buzz—buzz—buzz—buzz…

A series of alarms sounded from the monitoring room.

One by one, the staff members evacuated in an orderly manner...

Inside the silver-white room.

Lin Qiye's face flushed red, and the golden bead in his palm continued to unleash extraordinary "law power".

Maintaining the output of his mental energy, Lin Qiye appeared to be in an extremely strained state, as if he would collapse at any moment.

The alarms and countdown from the outside world were blocked by the thick, silvery-white walls.

He didn't know what the situation was; all he knew was that he had to unleash his full mental power.

It wasn't just for himself, but also for the staff of the entire mental hospital and everyone else in the prison.

Most importantly, this is the key to Chen Shu's future godhood.

“10……8……6……4……”

Just as the countdown outside was about to end, Master Chen appeared out of thin air in the monitoring room.

Just as he was about to do everything in his power to drag Lin Qiye out of the room, the aura of the "power of law" receded like the tide.

As the "law collision" that occurred when Chen Shu absorbed the law disappeared, Lin Qiye's tired face finally relaxed.