Chapter 336: It

Hearing this, Azazel's heart gave a fierce jolt.

He was truly tempted by this.

The Mechanical Evil God from the opposite side—just hearing about it made it sound like it had great research value; perhaps he could gain inspiration to take his own research on Artifacts a step further?

At the very least, he could understand what kind of situation the opposite world was in and see if he could crack a solution.

For example, whether he could research some kind of virus or something; that would be better than being completely in the dark about the Exe World, aside from the Holy Son before him.

The only pity was that the Holy Son didn't think much of their group of Fallen Angels, though he didn't think much of them either.

He only served as the Fallen Angel Governor out of a sense of responsibility, being the first Fallen Angel and needing to be accountable to the others.

If he could, he would have wanted to abdicate.

This matter, he really couldn't easily refuse.

"This matter..."

"Plus the Magical Technology from the world I come from."

Su Nian interrupted Azazel's words and offered the price again.

Azazel looked up, staring at Su Nian with slight astonishment.

"Although the Magical Technology of the world I am in cannot compare to the Mechanical Evil God of the Exe World, it is capable of mass-producing powerful God-made weapons."

Su Nian looked at Azazel faintly and said with a smile.

He decided to add another persona to his identity.

After all, didn't this world have a God of the Bible? And in the neighboring Exe World, there was a Mother of God.

So, was there any problem with him, a Holy Son from another world, being added?

There was no problem at all!

The Bible God, the Mother of God, and the Holy Son could just happen to form a Trinity, and incidentally, it would allow him to avoid the Spirit Status of an Only God, so it wouldn't be awkward if he accidentally became an Only God.

"How is this price? It should be more than enough to exchange for you to come to my side and work a part-time job, right?"

Su Nian looked at Azazel with a smile, waiting for his reply.

"This..."

Azazel's expression was unusually unnatural.

The Magical Technology of another world, the Mechanical Evil God of the Exe World—he was somewhat tempted by both.

But the price Su Nian offered... was a bit high...

He worried that Su Nian was also an invader, just like the Exe World.

Azazel narrowed his eyes and looked at Su Nian with a serious tone.

"I want to know your true purpose for coming to this world."

The subtext was that Su Nian coming to this world for no reason and offering such a high price made him very worried.

Especially since Su Nian was no weaker than the Infinite Dragon God.

When Su Nian spoke of uniting the power of this world to resist the Exe Evil God, he had already been suspicious.

Su Nian was not from this world; why would he go to such great lengths for it?

Su Nian narrowed his eyes and said, full of pity.

"I am just here to save the world! I don't want my world to suffer an invasion or be targeted by them."

"I understand."

Azazel sighed.

It wasn't the best result, nor was it the worst.

In his view, Su Nian probably wanted to use this world as a battlefield to accumulate experience in resisting the Exe World; of course, if he could repel the Mechanical Evil God of the Exe World in this world, that would be even better.

"I agree to take on a part-time job with you, but at the same time, I hope that I can take away the technology I develop."

Having said this, Azazel stood up, looked at Su Nian's face, and spoke with a serious expression.

"That is natural; as long as you are willing to cooperate, everything is negotiable."

Su Nian gazed at Azazel, revealed a brilliant smile, picked up his wine glass, and clinked it with Azazel's.

This represented that the deal was reached; happy to cooperate.

——

Below the steps of the shrine.

Having reached a friendly mutual-aid agreement with Su Nian, and carrying a document containing countless Magical Technology designs, as well as several Mechanical Evil Gods ranging from weak to strong—the strongest being comparable to a Transcendent—Azazel felt a bit dazed.

"What was I here for in the first place? Was it to greet the Holy Son and ask him to take good care of Baiqiu?"

"How did I end up becoming his subordinate in the end? And I've added quite a burden to myself... Good grief, I have to finish the analysis of the Mechanical Evil God within the next few months..."

"How could I have made such a boast..."

Azazel thought about it and felt that this person Su Nian was a bit sinister; could a normal person get him into a trap in just a few words? And he was even willing.

Azazel scratched his head with a strange expression and turned to look at Yasaka Shrine on the mountain.

"Forget it, never mind; let's go learn some Magical Technology first."

"Mass-producing Transcendent-level Mechanical Gods—Heavenly Lord Holy Son really dares to dream."

Azazel paused, thinking of Beelzebub, one of the Four Great Satan among the Devils, whose research ability was above his own.

He could only say he had some small success in Artifacts, but Beelzebub had researched the Evil Piece, a thing that could reincarnate ordinary humans into Devils.

He had always wanted to decipher it but had not succeeded.

He reckoned that the Holy Son would likely not let this Demon King Beelzebub, Ajuka Beelzebub, go.

"If God were still here, how good that would be..."

Black feathers fell, and Azazel's figure disappeared at the end of the sky.

——

Inside the shrine, Kuroka Toujou, who had been crouching beside Su Nian, stared in astonishment at the open door and at Su Nian, who was sitting there eating the leftover food.

"Did God really die? Did the God who was legendary for being omniscient and omnipotent, the God who created Devils and Angels, really die?"

If Azazel hadn't admitted it himself, Kuroka Toujou would have thought this was a joke.

The death of the Biblical God caused her more shock than even the invasion from the Exe World.

"What else did you think? If the Biblical God were still alive, would I need to go through all this trouble?"

Su Nian finished off the remaining side dishes, put down his chopsticks, and picked up a tissue from the table to wipe the corners of his mouth.

"But who said the Biblical God is truly dead? And even if dead, can't one be resurrected? That one isn't so easy to kill."

As Su Nian said this, he glanced out of the corner of his eye at the Twilight Healing he had set aside.

The will of the Biblical God was hidden within the Twilight Healing.

The more powerful one is, the harder it is to die, or rather, the more means one has to survive when facing danger.

Su Nian did not believe that someone who could create a system, Angels, and Devils with their bare hands, and who had exhausted their strength after sealing the Apocalypse beast, would just die like that.

But in such a situation, could someone who was still able to take away two Heavenly Dragons and the Four Great Satan, and incidentally turn the Red Dragon Emperor and White Dragon Emperor into Artifacts, die so easily?

Could it be that she hadn't prepared any contingency plans?

Rather than death, Su Nian believed more that she was faking her death, preparing to pull off something big.

"Uh..."

Kuroka Toujou opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but ultimately remained silent.

In her heart, she agreed with Su Nian's words; if someone died, couldn't they just be resurrected?

But is resurrection really that simple?

She looked at Su Nian, watching his confident demeanor, and it seemed that for him, it really wasn't difficult.

Thinking of this, Kuroka felt somewhat conflicted.

However, just at this moment.

A sharp "meow" cry came from Kuroka's mouth.

Su Nian grabbed Kuroka by the scruff of her neck and lifted her up.

In an instant, Kuroka Toujou's body went limp.

A cat's weakness is often at the scruff of the neck, because that is where a mother cat bites when moving her young kittens.

When grabbed by the scruff, for a cat, it is the same as being held by its mother; it instinctively feels safe and automatically becomes docile.

Facing this instinct, Kuroka was naturally no exception.

Her whole body became soft and limp, unable to resist the large hand of Su Nian.

"What do you want to do?"

Kuroka Toujou asked in a panic.

"Petting a cat!"

Su Nian replied righteously, holding Kuroka in his arms, and then walked slowly out of the side hall.

"What are you doing? Where are you taking me?"

Kuroka Toujou was full of panic; this guy wouldn't be trying to do something to her, would he?

She didn't want to... wait a minute, if something really happened with him, wouldn't she give birth to quite strong offspring...

Kuroka Toujou's mind suddenly drifted toward the direction of having children.

After all, before her mother died, she had entrusted her with the task of carrying on the Nekomata clan.

And in this world, to continue the race, one definitely needs a strong child, so naturally, her husband would also have to be especially strong.

"Wait, what am I thinking? Why did I think about the issue of having children just from being held!!"

Kuroka Toujou panicked and covered her cat face, not even noticing that Su Nian had brought her to the backyard.

"Yasaka, what are you doing here?"

Su Nian, holding Kuroka in one hand and petting the big fox with the other, revealed a smile and asked curiously.

To be fair, the Dxd World view has certain similarities to the Apocalypse world view in some sense.

That is, the figures of the women in these two worlds are all exceptionally exaggerated, and the tactile sensation is also quite good.

Yasaka sighed and said with a hint of apology.

"Someone asked me, hoping to have a talk with you."

Yasaka was also very embarrassed, but who told her to owe that person a favor?

However, the favor owed could only allow her to mention it like this; anything more than that, she would rather forget it.

"I owe her a favor that is neither big nor small, and the other party's current status is a bit..."

Yasaka lowered her head and said somewhat awkwardly.

Hearing this, Su Nian smiled, reached out, and tugged at her ears.

"Alright, it's just a meeting, and since I have nothing to do, let's go take a look."

"Thank you, Heavenly Lord."

Yasaka lowered her posture, bowed slightly to Su Nian to express her apology.

The other party's identity was the next Head of Household of the Himejima Clan, one of the Five Exorcist Families, Himejima Suzaku.

Previously, Yasaka had asked her to contact Rias Gremory to seek protection for Kuzunoha.

Although later, after confirming Su Nian's strength and status, it was no longer needed, but this favor was still owed.

Now the other party entrusted her to get a chance to talk with Su Nian, even if it was just to try.

(End of this chapter)