Chapter 1168: My Name Is Envoy Yu Xi, the Sole Winner of This Era

My name is Envoy Yu Xi, and I am the sole winner of this era.

This man has lost his mind.

That was Mo Shu's first impression.

No matter how arrogant a player might be, no one had ever dared to speak in such a tone before a deity—at least, Mo Shu had never seen it.

He had thought that, blessed by his patron and accompanied by an Emissary, he was a one-in-a-million favorite. But now it seemed that, compared to the Weaver of Fates who had lopped off Lord Helobos's hand, he still fell a little short.

A little short in presence.

The look he gave Cheng Shi at that moment was complicated—part the inferior student's envy of the top student, part a passerby gawking at the protagonist.

He knew that from the moment Lord Helobos obediently descended into reality, he was no longer the lead of this play. Of the two leads now standing in the spotlight, one was his direct superior, and the other was the ultimate arch-villain for the entire 【Annihilation】 camp.

What was even more absurd was that this arch-villain claimed he would save their patron, 【Annihilation】......

The more Mo Shu thought about it, the more absurd it seemed. Standing behind Helobos, he could not help but speak up:

"My lord, do not trust him......"

Helobos said nothing.

He certainly knew how embarrassing it was to manifest under a mortal's threat, but the question was—was the other party really just a mortal?

Cheng Shi was no fool. He could not truly believe he was some kind of world protagonist, that every villain had to bow their heads to him and watch him finish his act before slapping themselves.

When facing a player, everyone is a mortal, so naturally he felt no fear. But facing an Emissary—one who could erase his existence at any moment—he dared not be careless.

Therefore, his confidence never came from his own bluffing mouth, but from the Vessel bestowed by the God of Entertainment!

From the very beginning, Cheng Shi had tucked the Vessel behind his back. With Helobos's keen senses, He would absolutely have noticed the Vessel's aura behind him, and would certainly have seen that the Vessel belonged to 【Fraud】.

Killing a mortal blessed by 【Fraud】 and killing a 【Fraud】 Vessel-bearer are two entirely different things. Moreover, 【Fraud】 had never had an Emissary openly walking the world, and most subordinate gods had never seen 【Fraud】's Vessel. So when Helobos sensed that the Vessel behind Cheng Shi overflowed with the purest essence of 【Fraud】, He had no choice but to take seriously the "surprise" this mortal had brought Him.

He stared fixedly into Cheng Shi's eyes, and the more He looked, the more those dagger-smiling pupils resembled the starry eyes above the void.

"Who exactly are you?" Helobos asked, word by word.

Cheng Shi spread his hands:

"As you can see, a player, a mortal.

If you're asking my name...... Cheng Shi—Cheng as in Cheng Jia, Shi as in honesty."

Helobos thought of many things, even wondering whether the other party was bluffing with some unknown tool. After all, 【Fraud】 loved such tricks and loved watching the show. So was the scene before him a case of Cheng Shi borrowing the tiger's might, or had the Lord of 【Void】 set up this spectacle just to disgust Him?

【Annihilation】 and 【Void】 were currently on very bad terms. If this were an insult to His divine rank and dignity, Helobos would not let it go. But before that, He truly wanted to hear Cheng Shi's version of "saving 【Annihilation】."

Setting aside His identity as a subordinate god, Helobos was first and foremost a devout believer of 【Annihilation】.

Much history showed that only those closest to a deity's will were chosen as Emissaries, and Helobos not only carried 【Annihilation】's will—he was 【Annihilation】's fanatic.

He had devoted his entire life to 【Annihilation】, and only thus earned 【Annihilation】's affirmation.

Hearing now that his patron was "in trouble," whether true or false, He had to judge for himself.

He gestured for Cheng Shi to continue, but Cheng Shi shook his head, pointed at Mo Shu, and said:

"Our conversation involves too much; bystanders cannot hear it.

Dispose of this onlooker, and I can tell you some things you don't know."

At these words, Mo Shu's face changed drastically, and Helobos's gaze darkened.

Mo Shu, black-faced, tried to act directly. Helobos stopped him and said in a low voice to Cheng Shi:

"Until you present effective information, don't think you can use 【Fraud】's tiger-skin to punish my lord's faithful.

The Sweeper's devotion is plain for all to see—you cannot touch him."

Mo Shu's expression grew emotional at these words, as if all his efforts had finally meant something at this moment.

Cheng Shi, meanwhile, curled his lip and said dismissively:

"Quite the talent for winning hearts. But are you sure you want a 'devout' mortal to hear your patron's plight?"

"......"

There was no refuting that.

Whether out of concern for his patron's dignity or out of genuine respect, Helobos truly could not let Mo Shu hear these rumors about his patron, even if they might not be true.

So He ignored Mo Shu's protests, directly annihilated his form, and then said in an even colder voice:

"My patience is limited. No matter who you are, if I don't hear what I want to know, today will surely end in annihilation."

"Such big talk."

Cheng Shi knew that if he yielded even a step now, he would have no voice left in this confrontation. So his expression grew even more playful, and his gaze gradually sharpened.

His bearing changed. From the moment Mo Shu vanished, the Chaos Persona Art took immediate effect, and a suit-clad figure with elongated limbs and a masked face gradually appeared before Helobos.

Helobos's pupils contracted, and he heard the other party say:

"I am indeed not a pure player.

My name is Envoy Yu Xi, the Emissary my lord chose in this game, and the sole winner of this era.

Yes, you heard right—the ultimate purpose of this game was to find an absolutely devout servant for my lord, namely me.

Of course, that's not the point. I say all this only to tell you I speak no falsehood, and not every threat bearing 【Fraud】's name is a lie.

The predicament your patron faces right now is worse than you imagine.

But before I lay out His embarrassment clearly, I think I must educate you, this ignorant 'local deity,' on what the True Universe and the Sliced Universe are......"

Immediately after, Cheng Shi launched into a sweeping account of everything beyond this starry sky. There was not a single lie in it, not a single falsehood. The certainty in his tone, combined with the various traces the True Universe had left mapped beneath this starry sky, made Helobos's face grow uglier and uglier.

He found it hard to imagine that, apart from the parallel worlds projected by 【Time】, there were countless identical worlds beyond the cosmos, and countless identical versions of Himself.

Of course, what He found hardest to accept was that there were also countless identical patrons.

Which patron was the true patron?

Or were They none of them, and the Creator sitting beyond the cosmos, controlling the experiment...... was?