Chapter 460

"Can't hold it in" isn't a description, it's an action, and what made Broly unable to hold it in was precisely Dragon God Orsted's poison.

Broly had only just learned the North God Style's Tricky Swordsmanship from the Second North God on his front foot, but before he could apply it in practice, Dragon God Orsted used the North God Style's Strange Sword School to teach him a lesson.

Abdominal cramping pain, the food he ate reacting violently in his belly, the feeling of his body urgently wanting to expel the bad things inside his body to the outside.

Right when Broly was squatting over the pit in abdominal agony, Orsted appeared at this critical juncture.

And this Dragon God was also somewhat unable to hold it in, because the poison he had collected was a terrifying thing that could easily poison even a giant dragon to death.

But when it reached Broly, after the other party ate the poison, it merely gave him diarrhea; his poison resistance was simply absurd.

But seeing Broly's ugly complexion, the poison should have had a weakening effect, and this point still made Orsted feel joy.

This man drew the Crazy Dragon Blade, preparing to end the other party's life in one fell swoop while Broly was at his most vulnerable, and charged forward……

Then, there was no then; Broly, who could barely endure the abdominal pain, upon learning that the culprit behind all this was this guy Orsted, directly gave the other party a big one.

It wasn't swordsmanship, but after learning swordsmanship, an Energy Bullet with faster condensation speed and more solid condensation, without caring about Qi consumption, turned this world into broad daylight.

With just one strike, Orsted and most of the Six-Faced World were submerged; the Human God of this cycle also felt the crisis of death in the World of Nothingness at the moment he acted, predicting he would be killed by the terrifying energy that destroyed the world and broke into the World of Nothingness.

Fortunately, this future that was about to happen hadn't even begun before it ended because Orsted died instantly, the tenth cycle ending hastily, time reversing to conclude.

Broly, whose belly suddenly didn't hurt anymore and who had returned to the Steppe once again, gradually recovered from his unable-to-hold-it-in state.

"The North God Style's Strange Sword School, as expected I still can't bring myself to like it."

Broly said with lingering fear.

However, he could also understand the Dragon God's Strange Sword School behavior.

To the other party, he himself was a true powerhouse.

Broly still had this kind of objective cognition.

So, after calming down, he wasn't overly angry.

Because Dragon God Orsted was a weakling, it was a very normal thing for the other party to engage in this kind of weakling behavior.

"Sigh, if I had known earlier, I should have learned the ability to distinguish poisons from Shandur."

Broly sighed.

The Second North God was generous, wanting to pass on all his North God Style knowledge to him, but since Broly treated the Strange Sword School as a useless thing, he refused the other party's good intentions.

Who would have thought that Orsted, who had always fought him fair and square, would suddenly pull a dirty trick like poisoning food.

If he had learned the North God Style Strange Sword School's ability to distinguish poisons, he probably would have discovered something was off before eating the poisoned food.

This made him decide that in this reincarnation cycle, he would also learn the Strange Sword School's knowledge.

Similarly reversing time, the instantly-killed Dragon God's mindset exploded, but he quickly collected his mood and organized the situation of his battles with Broly over the first ten cycles.

Then, this person obtained an inference: whenever Broly was enraged, that guy would erupt with power far surpassing his own to kill him.

His only way to win was solely when that guy was willing to spar swordsmanship and combat techniques with him.

After obtaining this inference, Orsted attempted it; in the following several cycles, he no longer used schemes and tricks to deal with Broly, but fought Broly with fair and square combat techniques.

Facts proved his inference was correct; as long as he didn't play tricks, didn't use poison (though poison was already useless anyway), as long as it was a contest of technique, Broly would not use power exceeding his by too much to fight him to the death.

As long as his combat consciousness was a bit stronger, as long as his combat technique was a bit higher, as long as he worked a bit harder……

He could make every Broly he fought raise their combat consciousness and technique another level.

【Fuck your mother!】

If three words were used to describe the Seventeenth Cycle Orsted's mood, those three words would undoubtedly be the most fitting description after careful selection.

A racial base stat higher than yours, a growth potential more exaggerated than yours; even if you spent over seventy years bitterly cultivating technique to surpass the other party's combat technique, within the brief time of clashing with them, you would just be adapted to, and then the other party would absorb your technique, becoming even stronger.

Against such an opponent, such an enemy, just how exactly could one win?

The Dragon God who had experienced six more failures concluded the answer was: cannot win.

Sixteenth Cycle, Broly wielded the Phoenix Elegant Dragon Sword in his left hand using Sword God Style swordsmanship, the Water God Blade in his right hand using Water God Style swordsmanship, and in the sky flew the King Dragon Sword Kagato ready to use North God Style Tricky Swordsmanship at any moment; Orsted knew that monster absolutely was not someone he could defeat.

If the Dragon God were a martial artist pursuing the absolute peak of technique, he would probably be very happy to forever have an opponent who could surpass him to chase.

In the process of clashing with Broly time and again, mutually raising each other's combat techniques, but unfortunately Dragon God Orsted was not such a martial artist; he was an avenger.

And as this avenger, facing a blocking giant stone like Broly, oh no, it should be called a meteorite; what he could see was a Wall of Despair, a Wall of Sighs, that he could never, ever surpass.

"Ah, why, why, why……"

The Seventeenth Cycle Orsted, after hammering his fists until they were a bloody mess of flesh, completely lost his combat will.

The hundreds of defeats against the Human God in the past did not bring him a sense of frustration as great as the defeat brought by Broly in these brief sixteen cycles.

He became like a person who had suffered severe trauma, starting to stay in the ruins after time reversal, not stepping out the door.

In the seventeenth cycle, Broly had already toured the Six-Faced World once, yet still hadn't found a single capture target.

Just as he was anticipating what kind of surprise Dragon God Orsted would bring him this time, Dragon God Orsted failed to appear for a long time.

Seventeenth Cycle, Dragon Calendar Year 411, 8th Month, when Broly's stay duration had only single digits left, he took the initiative to seek out the Dragon God for the first time.

Following the breath to Dragon Roar Mountain, entering the Ancient Ruins left by the Dragon Race, the first thing he smelled was a strong stench of alcohol.

A slovenly figure lay on a stone slab bed, messy hair, pitch-black robes, making the other party look just like a down-and-out vagrant.

"Are you Orsted?"

Broly's voice carried some disbelief.

Hearing the movement, the Dragon God opened his eyes and saw that familiar figure at the entrance, the one that had plunged him into despair time and again.

Hollow eyes without much reaction, just stretching out a hand to move numbly from the bedside, taking down a bottle of unfinished wine, and stuffing it into his mouth to drink it down in big gulps.

"Hey, I'm talking to you?"

Broly pulled the wine bottle from the mouth of the man who looked like a vagrant, and said with some dissatisfaction.

"Want to kill, then kill, don't hinder me from drinking."

Orsted's voice was hoarse beyond imagination; after all, over seventy years of alcoholism, plus over seventy years without opening his mouth to speak.

And those were the days he spent in decadence afterward — drinking his days away, with zero motivation to strive, because no matter how hard he tried, his efforts only became fodder for the terrifying monster Broly's progress in combat skill.

Rather than that, might as well give up; right now he was no different from those NEETs who shut themselves in after suffering a major blow.

The only difference was, no one could support him as a parasite; he could only parasite off himself, taking treasures from the Dragon Race Treasury to sell, then using the money to threaten humans in nearby human towns into buying him alcohol and food.

As for what would happen later, who cared; right now hard liquor was his best partner, spending every day in drunken dreams, living without a care in the world……

"How did you end up like this?"

Broly could not understand how Orsted, who had fought evenly with his previous-loop self — the one who used the Three God Style swordsmanship — had turned into a washed-up drunkard this loop.

He thought for a moment, then said while staying on guard: "I get it — is this your scheme? You're definitely trying to paralyze me, waiting for me to let my guard down so you can launch a sneak attack, right?"

"Heh~"

At this, Orsted let out a disdainful cold laugh; it was this person before him who was to blame for his current state, and the joke was that the other party thought he was scheming — if he could truly scheme, if he could truly see hope, would he have ended up like this?

"Looking at your guard, I find it hilarious — you clearly possess such overwhelming power, yet you're cautious against an ant like me; is doing that really that amusing?"

Orsted climbed to his feet, body swaying unsteadily; under Broly's vigilant gaze, he walked to the other side, pulled open a cabinet, took out an unopened bottle of wine, opened it himself, sat on the ground, and started drinking — he had zero fighting spirit, and his body, from lack of training and long-term alcoholism, didn't even reach King rank.

The Dragon God of this loop was a slacker NEET who didn't care about life or death, only about alcohol, because only alcohol could paralyze his despairing yet sensitive heart.

Broly couldn't quite grasp the other's mental state, merely feeling that the current Dragon God was very unfamiliar, and also seemed somewhat pitiable.

【Perhaps because he's often defeated by me……】

Thinking this, Broly sat down beside this drunkard.

"Hey, friend, if you feel that constant defeat is a heavy blow, I can actually let you win once."

Broly attempted to comfort the other.

"Put away your fake act, Human God's lapdog; anyway you just want to show me hope then plunge me into even deeper despair, don't you?"

"I don't."

"You've always done this — controlling your power to let me see hope of beating you, but in the end it's only ever one-sided mockery of me.

And that's also your master the Human God's trick — wanting to see more of my ugly side; forget it, what you'll see is only me as I am now.

Time will keep rewinding; I can't escape this cage, but don't think you can escape either — live alongside me in this endless cycle of time."

The Dragon God gave up, yet not completely; the Dragon Race secret technique on him still functioned, able to keep this Six-Faced World's time forever locked between Dragon Calendar years 330 and 530.

Without memories of the rewound time, only he would suffer; but now there were two sufferers — himself and the Human God Apostle beside him.

Though he couldn't retaliate against the Human God, being able to retaliate against the one blocking his path to revenge on the Human God was also a good thing.

Of course, this was merely psychological comfort, because it was the only counterattack he could manage; as for other counterattacks, aside from making the other party even more excited, what function could they serve?

"I can't quite understand your hatred for the Human God, but if you can guarantee to me that you'll stop persecuting Him, I won't make a move against you anymore."

The Dragon God's decadent, zero-fighting-spirit appearance made Broly lose any desire to keep fighting this person.

And having searched for a capture target for so many loops in this world without finding one, Broly no longer held hope for it.

The time cut off from the Outside World had already been too long; if the Dragon God agreed to his requirement, he would also wait for the stranded time to end and return to his own world.

"I persecute Him — you're saying I persecute the Human God?!"

If Broly were speaking a victor's mocking words, the Dragon God would pretend not to hear and keep drinking, but Broly speaking as if the Human God were the victim made Orsted utterly unable to tolerate it.

"Isn't it so? Your Dragon Race's First Dragon God in the Primeval Era tried to destroy the other worlds of the Six-Faced World, while the Human God of the Human Realm sacrificed himself alongside your Dragon Race's righteous Five Dragon Generals to stop that mad First Dragon God — yet suffered pursuit and persecution by you First Dragon God loyalists to this day……"

Broly laid out the grudge between the Dragon God and Human God as he understood it, and tried to persuade Orsted to let go of past hatred.

"As long as you stop targeting my friends, I won't keep targeting you either."

"I see — so this is the situation you learned from the Human God?"

Dragon God Orsted fell silent for a while, then burst into loud laughter.

"What's so funny?"

"I'm laughing that a powerhouse like you would also be fooled by the Human God, believing the lies that guy fabricated."

"Could my understanding of the grudge between you be wrong?"

"Right, it's exactly right — except for the fact that behind the First Dragon God's attempt to destroy the other worlds was that Human God bastard guiding him, everything else is correct."

"Hm?"

Broly showed a puzzled expression; seeing this, Orsted proceeded to tell him the hidden truth behind the Primeval Great War.

At first, transfer disasters occurred in various worlds — powerful Magic Beasts would be transferred into villages lacking strong Guardians, causing destruction, or a leader of some place would suddenly be transferred away, triggering chaos.

Afterward, the Dragon Race investigating the transfer incidents had the First Dragon God's wife killed; the First Dragon God's wife was also the Human God's daughter, and the traces left at the Crime Scene all proved it was done by people dispatched from other worlds for technical exchange.

"The First Dragon God went to question and demand the Suspect Criminal, but the other worlds believed their important personnel sent to the Dragon Realm had been killed by the Dragon Race, and learning the Dragon Race was researching transfer magic, concluded the transfer disasters were the Dragon Race's doing.

Misunderstanding bred conflict, and the Magic God's wife also died; evidence left by the Culprit pointed at the Dragon Race, and war became inevitable.

Until the war's end, the First Dragon God discovered a clue, preparing to move against the Human God of the Human Realm — or rather, some bastard who had replaced the Human God — but that bastard bewitched the First Dragon God's subordinates, the Five Dragon Generals, into rebelling against the First Dragon God.

When both sides were mutually wounded, that bastard who replaced the Human God finally jumped out, revealing to the First Dragon God and the Five Dragon Generals — who therefore fought the god they served — how he had schemed to destroy the Six-Faced World.

Mocking all gods' stupidity, the Five Dragon Generals' idiocy, mocking the Dragon God as a fool so easily used by him, and that he had destroyed the Dragon Realm……

However, that bastard underestimated the First Dragon God's strength; even though He fought other worlds' gods and his own Five Dragon Generals, was sneak-attacked, severely injured, and near death, He still had strength left to go fight the Human Realm's Him.

In the end, the First Dragon God sealed that Human-God-replacing bastard in the World of Nothingness, and entrusted the hope of defeating the Human God to His only son.

Using the already-developed transfer magic circle, He had the only non-participating Five Dragon General, Magic Dragon King Laplace, transfer and teleport His still-swaddling son to a future spacetime.

And His son would, in the future, represent Him and the Dragon Race, and take revenge on the mastermind behind all schemes — that Human God sealed in the World of Nothingness."

"So you're the First Dragon God's son?"

"Correct. That Human God bastard killed my mother, murdered my father, saddled the entire Dragon Race with the infamy of world-destroyers — and you think a few words from you can make me abandon this hatred?"

Orsted's gaze locked dead on Broly; even though this person before him had driven him to despair and decadence, his hatred for the Human God was the one thing he would never forget, even in death.

(Chapter End)