Chapter 254: How can a scholar's actions be called stealing?

Sardinia, inside the royal suite.

In that room where the curtains were drawn, appearing incomparably dark.

Under Su Nian's gaze, which looked at a lab animal, and under Athena's pitying yet enthusiastic dissecting gaze.

Pandora hugged her knees, watching Su Nian and Athena before her with chattering teeth, her whole body trembling.

She perfectly embodied what it meant to be pitiful, weak, and helpless.

Why didn't you tell me that working for you for a thousand years meant being a test subject for a thousand years?

Someone help! Is there anyone to save me!

There is an evil god here!!

Inside the room, Athena curiously sized up Pandora; more accurately, she was sizing up the Ring of Usurpation on Pandora's body that had almost fused with her.

"This is a bit troublesome; Pandora has fused the Ring of Usurpation with herself."

Feeling Athena's gaze, which was akin to looking at a dead person, Pandora felt that at any moment, Athena would kill the god to retrieve the Ring of Usurpation.

Pandora's body shivered subconsciously.

"Dame dame yo!"

Pandora used her hands to make an 'X' in front of her and said.

"In order to accurately find Godslayers on the earth and maintain their lives using the Dark Christmas Season, I integrated the Ring of Usurpation into my body."

"If you kill me, the Ring of Usurpation will not be able to unfold on the earth."

Pandora said, trembling.

The Ring of Usurpation was only able to succeed because it borrowed her status as the Earth Mother Gaia, which allowed it to cover the entire earth.

"Why do we need the Ring of Usurpation to unfold on the earth?"

Athena glanced at Pandora with some curiosity and said in a calm tone.

"All we want is to study the Ring of Usurpation."

"Study it, sure... but can you not kill the god to take the ring?"

Pandora said, wanting to cry but having no tears.

This was even worse than being a lab rat before!

"I promised to work for you! You must save me!!"

Pandora looked up at Su Nian; she hoped Su Nian would give her a chance to live, just like he did in the Netherworld before.

"Boss, save me! If I die, who will work for you!"

Su Nian and Athena both fell into silence; they truly had not expected Pandora to come up with such a reason.

However, since Su Nian really had said those words, it would be a bit bad to go back on them.

Hmm, at this moment, Su Nian glanced at Athena, who nodded after receiving the signal and looked at Pandora.

"That is true, but aren't you a Divine Spirit? You will be reborn from Mythology after dying; you can just work for us again then."

Hearing this, Pandora froze, seemingly unable to comprehend how Athena's 37-degree mouth could utter such cold words.

What do you mean by dying once and then returning to work for you?

And once she returned from Mythology, she wasn't even sure if she would still be herself, or if she would forget her former glory and hatred.

If she were willing to do that, would she even need to work to pay off her debt?

A devil! Truly a devil!!

Pandora looked at Athena in disbelief; as fellow Earth Mother Goddesses, why would Athena treat her like this?

But Pandora still did not want to die, so she tentatively asked.

"Since you cannot study the Ring of Usurpation, why not study me? After all, the Ring of Usurpation is inside my body, isn't it?"

"I... I will cooperate!"

Pandora said timidly; she was truly afraid that Athena would kill the god to take the ring the next moment.

"That does not seem impossible."

Su Nian looked Pandora up and down and said, pinching his chin.

"I have no objections either, as long as the technique of the Ring of Usurpation can be researched."

Athena said in a flat tone; her relationship with Pandora could be called neither good nor bad.

"Then take it off!"

"Ah?"

Pandora asked cautiously.

"Take what off?"

"Hmm?"

Su Nian and Athena both hummed in unison, their gazes resting on the white dress Pandora was wearing.

Pandora's expression twisted, and she smiled very distortedly.

"If I take it off, will that be enough? Do I have to take it all off?"

At this time, Su Nian calmly sized up Pandora's figure and said.

"Of course."

"Okay, no problem, boss."

Pandora revealed a polite yet broken smile.

"Woo—"

A low and suppressed sound came from Pandora's mouth, like a kitten crying uncontrollably outside the window in the middle of the night.

"Please restrain yourself, Pandora; your voice is seriously hindering my work."

"Besides, this was your own decision, letting us study you."

Su Nian, who was currently performing an anal examination on Pandora, said with a hint of warning.

Pandora opened her innocent, wide eyes and said shyly.

"Then can you not use this method of examination!"

"Athena, Pandora isn't cooperating; let's go kill a god instead..."

Before Su Nian had even finished speaking, Pandora said without the slightest hesitation.

"Never mind, let's forget it."

Feeling Athena's icy gaze, Pandora was certain that if Athena were to take action, she wouldn't show any mercy.

Afterward, Pandora revealed a shy and well-behaved smile.

Su Nian also continued to carefully examine every part of Pandora's body, studying the Ring of Usurpation after it had merged with her.

While he was at it, Su Nian was also drawing a brand-new ritual on Pandora's body.

It was more or less a modification of the Ring of Usurpation.

The examination was fine; aside from being a bit shameful, it wasn't unbearable, but why did he have to use a calligraphy brush to draw the new ritual?

Pandora's body was itching so much she could barely stand it, but she could only force herself to control it and not move.

Unable to bear the unbearable itch, Pandora couldn't help but turn her head to look at Athena, who was flipping through her phone on the side, and managed to force a smile as she said.

"Can I make a small request?"

"Can you change to a different pen?"

"And why is the core pattern of the ritual heart-shaped? And it's right on my womb!"

She always felt like they were just toying with her; Pandora had this intuition, but she dared not say anything, nor did she dare ask anything.

Athena's fingers paused, her deep black eyes glanced at Pandora, and then she said indifferently.

"You'll have to ask him that; I'm just a helper."

She couldn't even understand what kind of patterns Su Nian was drawing; could this really affect the Mythology of the entire planet?

Of course, Su Nian was just having a little dark fun, adding a few distracting patterns to the ritual.

"By the way, I heard that divine blood helps with painting rituals..."

Before Athena had finished speaking, Pandora shivered all over.

No way? Using my blood to paint a ritual on my body? Athena, you're a bit too much of a Devil, aren't you?

Pandora didn't dare to speak anymore; she was afraid that if she kept talking, heaven knows what Athena would end up putting her through.

For a moment, she suddenly felt that having the ritual painted on her body wasn't so bad after all.

Whether human or god, they have always liked compromise; as long as you don't tear the roof off, they will agree to open a window.

However, since she couldn't talk to Athena, couldn't she just talk to Su Nian?

Without something to distract her, the feeling of the calligraphy brush dragging across her body was truly impossible to endure.

At least compared to Athena, she felt that Su Nian was practically an Angel.

"Um, may I ask, what is the purpose of this ritual?"

Pandora asked in a small, weak voice, as if she would immediately retract her words if Su Nian's expression changed even slightly.

"Purpose? Recording Mythology, what else could it be?"

Su Nian replied casually.

"But... why do I feel like this doesn't seem like recording, but more like stealing?"

Pandora said in a small voice.

She could feel the ritual inside her body using the Ring of Usurpation to continuously usurp the power of Mythology by leveraging her status.

"This is, of course, recording."

Su Nian said with a smile while drawing the ritual patterns.

"It's just that the ink consumed to record Mythology must surely be provided by Mythology itself, right?"

"For a record that is nearly eternal like this, it's normal for the ink consumption to be a bit high, isn't it?"

"Of course, once the recording is complete, the Mythology of this world will never, ever be forgotten."

This is a 【Mythology】 recorded using the Authority of 【History】 and 【Writing】 after all; the consumption is bound to be a bit high.

Of course, as for where it's being recorded? That goes without saying, it's being recorded in the Unofficial History of Time, obviously.

Besides the Unofficial History of Time, where else in this world would there be a history book of this caliber?

I reckon that once all the Mythology of this world has been recorded in the 【Unofficial History of Time】, the 【Unofficial History of Time】 will have just about finished its ascension.

Being able to become a volume of his Artifact of Authority is the honor of this world's Mythology.

Pandora managed to maintain a smile, looking at Su Nian with a stiff expression.

"Your goal is to steal Mythology?"

"How could that be? How can the affairs of a scholar be called stealing? I already said, this is called recording!!"

Su Nian looked at Pandora with a shocked expression, even stopping the drawing of the ritual.

He had to properly correct Pandora's mistaken perception.

For a moment, Pandora looked at Su Nian with some terror.

She had originally thought Athena was vicious enough, but she hadn't expected that you, Su Nian, were the true mastermind behind the scenes.

Ruthless, truly too ruthless.

Then what about her? Would she end up dying too?

Wait... Pandora seemed to realize something, and with a very stiff, mechanical motion, she turned her neck to look at Su Nian.

"You... you aren't going to make us take the fall, are you?"

The act of stealing Mythology cannot be small, and it will inevitably invite a frantic counterattack from the gods.

I reckon by then it won't just be Heretic gods, but a whole group of Last King soloing me alone.

"How could that be?"

Su Nian smiled as he looked at Athena and said.

"Of course, you would be the only one taking the blame; how could I let such a cute goddess as Athena take the blame?"

Once these words were spoken, the corners of Athena's mouth immediately curled up.

Pandora, however, let out a "waa" and burst into tears.

(End of this chapter)