Chapter 1539: The Sunshade Wheel and the Faceless One's Scheme

Trembling?

After hearing the situation of the Slaughter King Assembly relayed by the Incarnated Doe, the figures within the water vapor couldn't help but look at each other, each seeing dense shock in the other's eyes.

Generally speaking, the longer a creature's lifespan, the more intense its dread of death; and True Gods, who theoretically possess endless lifespans, naturally are unwilling to die easily — it is actually quite normal for them to generate apprehension toward dangerous situations...

But that should be apprehension, not terror.

There are not few humans powerful enough to kill True Gods and make them feel apprehension; the Cleanup Bureau Directors at full strength can basically all achieve this. Yet while True Gods apprehend the Cleanup Bureau Directors, they shouldn't be afraid to the point of generating terror.

"Doe!"

A figure with no facial features on its face, indiscernible gender on its body, and a very neutral voice stepped out, asking in a tone full of puzzlement:

"What exactly happened? What ultimately occurred in the Witch Nation?"

"I'm actually not too clear either..."

The Incarnated Doe shook its head, saying with some difficulty:

"Everyone who escaped back was scared stiff; the only one not too afraid, the White Snake, was also unwilling to elaborate when mentioning the situation at the time. I only know that after they were pulled over by the Nonexistent Narrative, they were instead ambushed by the Food God, found out one by one...

In the end, due to the dual suppression of the 【Vigil Palace】 and 【Bedtime Story】, they had no capacity to resist at all; all True Gods' physical bodies were directly killed, and the unlucky ones didn't even have their souls escape."

"So the key to their failure was actually still the Nonexistent Narrative's 【Bedtime Story】, right?"

After pondering for a moment, the featureless 【Faceless One】 frowned... roughly the facial skin at the eyebrow position twisted together once, then spoke to analyze:

"From what you mean, joining 【Bedtime Story】 would strip everything away and make one an ordinary person, and the Food God then relied on his identity within the story to pull out all the descended True Gods and execute them one by one, easily killing a large number of True Gods.

Later, when the Nonexistent Narrative undid 【Bedtime Story】, those True Gods of the Slaughter King Assembly recovered their power, but also suffered powerful suppression from the 【Vigil Palace】; that is why they were beaten without any ability to fight back."

After analyzing the Slaughter King Assembly's encounter in the Witch Nation, the Faceless One concluded with considerable certainty:

"If it's just like that, then the Food God merely picked up a bargain; relying on brains to find a loophole in 【Bedtime Story】 doesn't mean he truly possesses the strength to crush forty True Gods.

As for the terror toward the Food God... I recall that besides Angxi, the Food God also devoured the Nightmare King of the Dream Realm, right?"

The Incarnated Doe recalled for a moment upon hearing this, then nodded:

"Seems there was this matter; I remember when Water Bottle shared intelligence about him in the assembly, it was mentioned once."

"Then that's it."

The Faceless One nodded in satisfaction, then spoke with considerable confidence to judge:

"If I guessed correctly, the Food God should have obtained the Fear Authority from the Nightmare King. Those True Gods of the Slaughter King Assembly, bound on the execution platform and executed one by one, first having their bodies destroyed then slaughtered en masse, naturally couldn't help but generate terror toward the Food God in their hearts.

And once they generated terror toward the Food God, it was equivalent to stepping into his Authority range; their wills suffered erosion from the Fear Authority — such a performance isn't strange. So I believe the Food God merely had good enough luck; in reality, he is fundamentally not worth fearing!"

"..." Is... that so?

Although the Faceless One's analysis was well-founded and logically completely self-consistent, once she recalled the expressions of those True Gods in the Slaughter King Assembly when mentioning Li Ang, the Incarnated Doe felt her heart had no bottom, and couldn't help but speak:

"Even if the Nonexistent Narrative's problem is comparatively large, its ability was instead utilized by the Food God, causing the Slaughter King Assembly to directly suffer near half casualties — doesn't this sound a bit too absurd?"

"Otherwise?"

The Faceless One countered upon hearing this:

"Do you think it's absurd that the Food God used brains to find a loophole and defeat the Slaughter King Assembly, or that a Cleaner who joined the Cleanup Bureau less than half a year ago is strong enough to solo two Pillar Gods and forty True Gods, beating the entire Slaughter King Assembly into a total rout — which is more absurd?"

"..."

If you put it that way, the latter does seem more absurd...

"Everyone, I feel that although this can't count as good news, it is also our Dead Realm's opportunity!"

After successfully persuading the Incarnated Doe, the Faceless One turned to look at the pairs of eyes in the water vapor, expression calm, and spoke:

"Although the Slaughter King Assembly has been beaten out of morale and cannot temporarily provide us support, this also means that once the Vigil Palace is breached, they will also temporarily lose the ability to contend with us for the Mortal World!

And right now the Cleanup Bureau Chief and three Directors are trapped in the Old Soil; the Directors remaining in the Mortal World each have their own issues. The Snake Husband and Twin Branch Bureaus have not been rebuilt to this day. The other Zodiac Branch Chiefs are old where old, injured where injured... This is their weakest moment in a thousand years!

As long as we can seize this opportunity, then when the Vigil Palace is completely breached, we will have the chance to become the biggest beneficiaries, even forcibly tear off a portion from the Mortal World and intertwine it with the entire Dead Realm, directly transforming death into life!"

Transform death into life!!!

One by one they looked/

Hearing the Faceless One's words, the eyes hidden in the water vapor instantly lit up one after another, clearly moved, yet no one stepped forward to echo.

After a short while, a vague figure stitched entirely from white cloth and paper strips walked out of the water vapor, opening two white wax eyes burning with candle flames, and asked in a hoarse voice:

"But without the Slaughter King Assembly's support, we are not necessarily a match for the Cleanup Bureau. In the Mortal World, the Cleanup Bureau has the Star Palace's empowerment; every Zodiac Branch Chief can exert strength approaching a Pillar God within their own jurisdiction.

And among us, only you, the Mountain Patroller, the Carver, and the First Dead One my lord are Pillar God level. Moreover, the First Dead One my lord cannot leave the Dead Realm. Even if we all mobilize into reality, I fear we may not have a chance of winning, right?"

"In the Mortal World we naturally have no chance of winning, but what if it's in the Dead Realm?"

"In the Dead Realm?"

"Precisely speaking, it's inside the 【Sage Cemetery】 controlled by the Cleanup Bureau."

Under the gaze of pairs of eyes full of doubt, the Faceless One's facial skin at where the mouth should be twitched slightly upward, then spoke... then stretched the facial skin to smile:

"Without the 【Sunshade Wheel】 being activated, the Cleanup Bureau's Zodiac Branch Chiefs can only exert Pillar God-level strength within their own jurisdictions. So as long as there is no 【Sunshade Wheel】 empowerment, we can completely defeat those Zodiac Branch Chiefs one by one!

And the Crow-Eyed Granny just happened to receive news from the Cleanup Bureau recently. The Cleanup Bureau wants to retrieve the captured Undead-type Cleaners, preparing to negotiate with us inside the Sage Cemetery, and three or more Directors will be present.

Judging by past situations, the Cleanup Bureau needs a minimum of three Directors to activate the 【Sunshade Wheel】. So if we can set an ambush outside the Sage Cemetery and keep all the Directors coming to negotiate in the Dead Realm, then everything will be no problem!"

(Chapter End)