Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough

Chapter 872: The Strongest God? [Suffering] Can it really bring suffering to the gods?

Lu Ce had just finished a fight with Xie Antong, and his physical stamina was completely drained. He had originally assumed today’s affairs were over and wanted to rest, but then he heard Xie Antong’s words.

Like the gods, what he feared most right now was Agony.

Although his cooperation with Agony was exceptionally tight—sometimes even sharing information and memories, like the closest of allies—he still didn’t dare to simply fantasize that from the very beginning, Agony choosing him was some kind of pure, free gift from the heavens.

So he turned around somewhat doubtfully and asked Xie Antong:

“Hm?”

“You... know about Agony now too?”

Xie Antong looked into his eyes and didn’t answer directly. Instead, she said:

“You reminded me. You pulled me back from the brink of losing control.”

“But I also need to remind you—even if you can already defeat gods in the Game, you might not truly understand divine power.”

“Do you really think the divine power I have now surpasses yours?”“Try sensing it again.”

Lu Ce: ?

What was there to sense about that? He was very clear on his own level of divine power.

Xie Antong had received Pleasure’s completely reckless divine power inheritance. Not to mention surpassing his current divine power level—she had actually far surpassed him!

But hearing Xie Antong’s words, he still closed his eyes quietly and felt his own body.

However, he was suddenly startled, realizing something was wrong. Why did his own body feel somewhat unfamiliar?

It seemed like there was a powerful force buried deep inside him, one he simply couldn’t notice, nor seemed able to use.

How had he never noticed this before?

Was this... Agony!?

Had Agony, like Pleasure, similarly left him a great deal of power? But why!

There was no way He would do something like this without reason...

Seeing Lu Ce’s expression, Xie Antong let out a long sigh and said:

“During the time you hadn’t awakened, I did a lot of things and met a lot of people.”

“I can clearly feel that I’m different from them now. That difference doesn’t change with personal will. But you’re not like that.”

“I clearly feel that you’re still the same as me. It’s an indescribable feeling—like birds of a feather flocking together?”

Lu Ce exhaled deeply and slowly shook his head.

“I still don’t know when I had this power left inside me. In fact, Agony has never really had any communication with me.”

“But at least this tells us that, in His judgment, it must have already reached... the final moment!”

Xie Antong nodded in deep agreement. In this regard, she was the least delusional person in the world.

She was already forced to fight for the divine throne with Pleasure. If she still thought there might be a chance to stall for time, that would be too idiotic.

“Yeah, the gods still have formidable existences on their side. They didn’t let themselves become frogs in slowly boiling water.”

“If they had really given you a few more games to develop, they would have been in huge trouble.”

Lu Ce was silent, offering no opinion.

When it came to fighting enemies and securing victory, he couldn’t always count on the other side being stupid. That wasn’t realistic either.

Taking advantage of an overwhelming power gap to forcibly rewrite the rules, paying a price to do it no matter what—Death was definitely not simple.

“Lu Ce?” Seeing Lu Ce spacing out, lost in thought, Xie Antong called him back.

“Getting back to the point. Why did I bring up Agony? It’s simple. In Pleasure’s memories, there’s just so much about Agony!”

“His feelings for Agony... hmm, they’re a bit complicated. I can’t really say.”

Xie Antong cleared her throat. A flash of guilt crossed her eyes but left no trace.

After all, in Pleasure’s transmission to her, He had said that His past relationship with Agony was similar to hers and Sin...

How could that be the same! It definitely wasn’t!

She knew that either Pleasure had misunderstood something, or He was somewhat delusional himself. In reality, Agony had no feelings for Him at all...

“In Pleasure’s description, although He didn’t say it outright, I feel He actually has extremely high fear—even dread—toward Agony!”

“His evaluation of Agony is ridiculously high. He said Agony is the strangest among the gods, making Him sound practically omnipotent!”

“With a name that clearly sounds like it should be weak, and without particularly strong killing power, He’s still the most dangerous one.”

“He once evaluated...”

At this point, Xie Antong’s expression even hesitated, as if it were hard to say.

Even she herself felt that Pleasure might just be some brainless fan of Agony, praising Him with complete abandon.

Lu Ce wasn’t anxious either. He just looked at her with some confusion. Xie Antong continued:

“He once evaluated that if only one god could reach the highest pinnacle, He believed it would very likely be Agony!”

“Because with the titles of the gods, War has no way to defeat all the other gods, Despair can’t make the gods despair, and Death doesn’t have the ability to make the gods die.”

“But Agony absolutely has the ability to make the gods feel pain!”

Lu Ce frowned slightly. Pleasure’s evaluation being so high also surprised him a bit.

This was almost saying Agony was the strongest god! But it seemed the other gods didn’t think so at all.

How strange.

“Maybe Pleasure just personally respects Him,” Lu Ce said helplessly. He still wasn’t sure if Agony being strong was good or bad for him.

“I also thought it might be exaggerated before, but today when I came to see you, I felt something was off.”

“Pleasure once said that Agony’s calculations never fail, that His schemes likely span infinite time. The current state of the gods might all be within His calculations.”

“From Pleasure, besides all the praise for Agony, I also got a lot of hostility toward Him.”

“So I inexplicably came to find you. I thought it was Pleasure’s influence on me, wanting me to do you harm.”

“But meeting today, you helped me stabilize my true heart in the face of power, and I just happened to be able to remind you that there’s powerful divine power buried inside yourself...”

When Lu Ce heard this, he understood, and the corner of his mouth twitched. He felt like Xie Antong’s associative ability was breaking through the heavens right now.

There was no way even this kind of thing was within Agony’s calculations, right?

“That’s not very likely...”

...

“Nothing is impossible!”

In the basement of the Dragon Group, amidst the oppressive atmosphere, a heroic shout rang out. Xu Long stood up and said with forced lightness:

“Look on the bright side, maybe the gods just found it too troublesome, weren’t worth dealing with us anymore, and ran away directly.”