Chapter 3792

"Divinity! What does this count for? Is it a wager for winning the card game? But how did the piece end up so far away? Is this because you're unhappy about losing?"

Xia De looked at the golden light amidst the blizzard, feeling increasingly strange about the Evil God's behavior, but he still took off running in pursuit of where the divinity had fallen. After all, once he obtained the new divinity, the power brought by the "Divinity Overflow" state would immediately restore him to his original condition.

And so, on this blizzard-filled night, Xia De, lost in the snowy mountains, braved the wind and snow, climbing ever higher up the snowy slopes and mountain paths.

The golden light of divinity guided Xia De through the snowy night, and step by step, he arrived at a strange area of ruins; this was clearly already a very high location.

After climbing ninety-nine slippery steps, passing through a plaza standing with massive stone pillars, and passing beneath a towering, indistinct spire, he finally saw, at the end of the road, that golden chess piece floating in the snow. The appearance of the piece was clearly the same as the 【God of Misfortune】 when it had descended just moments ago.

Boom—!

Lei Sheng appeared in the night sky, a sound even louder than Yin Yi Yi Lu Na's Sun Spear. The wind and snow grew even fiercer, so Xia De, at the end of these strange ruins, shielded his face with his arm and stepped closer to the piece, his left hand reaching forward until...

"Do you really think I'm that easy to fool? This is clearly the 'Saint's Cliff'!"

He pulled back his arm in an instant, and all the illusions surrounding and confusing Xia De were dispelled.

This was indeed a ruin, and there were indeed steps, a plaza, stone pillars, and a high tower, but that golden chess piece was clearly floating outside the cliff's edge. At this moment, if Xia De were to take one more step forward, he would immediately fall off the cliff.

"If you won't go down yourself, can't I push... hmm?"

The arm reaching out from the wind and snow failed to touch Xia De, because at the same moment that hand appeared, he had already used spatial movement to shift to a position ten meters away from the cliff.

"Very unfortunately, a witch by my side was pushed off a cliff using this very trick not long ago; and even earlier, a sharp-eared elf was kicked off a high place by someone."

Xia De said, watching the Old God 【God of Misfortune】 walk out from the wind and snow. He had indeed won the chess game just now, but this Evil God had not retreated despite losing. Xia De could not burn divinity again in the short term, but he was not panicked; he was now increasingly curious about the other party's behavior.

He was quite puzzled:

"If you wanted to push me down, my spatial power wouldn't have been able to let me dodge at all."

The God stood in the snow and sand at the edge of the cliff and replied:

"What's important is not whether I could push you down, but that you already realized I would push you, so this second game counts as your win."

The golden chess piece, overflowing with the light of divinity, floated before the God:

"Then let's have one final game. If you win, this belongs to you."

Xia De shook his head:

"You are a God, and I am currently just a mortal; I cannot win against you."

"Just like the second game, I will not use the advantage of power to win against you."

As the God spoke, the three guns hidden at Xia De's waist and inside his coat flew out—the 【Gun of Kindness】, the 【One-Shot Kill Pistol】, and the 【One-Shot Hit Pistol】; then, one gold and one black bullet flew out—the Lucky Bullet and the Destruction Bullet.

The appearances of the three pistols all changed until they became single-shot pistols with identical exteriors; the color and model of the two bullets also converged, eventually both turning into a brass color.

Snow and grit constantly pelted them, and Xia De guessed what would happen next.

"The rules are simple: three guns, two bullets. You choose one gun and one bullet for each of us, then point the muzzle at yourself or the other person and fire."

The God of Misfortune kept the three guns and two bullets circulating between the two of them:

"The 【Gun of Kindness】 triggers its trait: regardless of the bullet, it is a guaranteed hit and a guaranteed death; the 【One-Shot Hit Pistol】 is a guaranteed hit, but it must be paired with the 【Destruction】 bullet to guarantee death; the 【One-Shot Kill Pistol】 guarantees death."

"Victory condition: you do not die after firing. I have imbued the guns and bullets with power; death is blessed by my power, and neither you nor I can escape it."

The God signaled for Xia De to make the move himself:

"You choose the bullets and pistols for us separately, and you also decide which of us we each aim at. In this way, all I can do is pull the trigger. I swear by Mr. Ring, I will not cheat."

Amidst the howling wind came the sounds of battle from the ruins. Two bullets stopped in front of Xia De, and Xia De took a look:

"I'll take the one on the left, you choose the one on the right."

He said, taking the two bullets.

The three pistols stopped in front of Xia De, and Xia De looked again at the God waiting for him at the edge of the cliff under the moonlight:

"I'll use the one on the left, you use the one on the right."

After speaking, he inserted his "left bullet" into the left pistol, and inserted the God's "right bullet" into the middle gun.

Thus, the empty "right pistol" floated toward the God, while Xia De took the left pistol that had a bullet. It wasn't that Xia De didn't want to put both bullets into the middle gun, but that the magazines of the three guns could only hold one bullet each, and there was no way to put bullets into the barrels.

The God did not accuse Xia De of breaking the rules, but instead signaled for Xia De to choose the direction to fire.

Xia De gripped the gun he had chosen for himself:

"Gun of Kindness, four total situations; if it points at you, I definitely die, one-half; One-Shot Kill Pistol, if it points at me, I definitely die, one-half; One-Shot Hit Pistol, only if 【Destruction】 points at me do I definitely die, one-fourth."

After a slight pause:

"In 12 situations, pointing at you, the probability of me not dying is higher."

On the snowy cliff above the high mountain, the God raised the empty gun and aimed it at Xia De, and Xia De also pointed the gun in his hand at the God:

"From a probabilistic standpoint, this is the optimal solution."

The 【God of Misfortune】 then asked him:

"Do you firmly believe in probability?"

"Not firmly believe, it's just that all accidents are the accumulation of inevitabilities. God, that you and I meet here tonight is probably also for some reason I do not yet know."

"At this moment, you do not intend to put me to death; the winning and losing of this game is only relative to the game itself. But for me, perhaps losing is winning."

God and man raised their guns and pointed them at each other, the two circling and pacing at the edge of the cliff, and the God asked again:

"Why is losing winning?"

"This is also just a possibility, because you have no need to kill me here."

God and man then stood simultaneously at the edge of the cliff, the wind and snow blowing from their sides; this night was a bit too long for the Outsider.

So he did not ask anything else, but simply asked:

"God of Misfortune, since you have already asked so much, can you answer one last question for me before pulling the trigger?"

The God agreed:

"I can."

"Is this meeting you arranged with me for the purpose of having me fall here, at the 【Saint's Cliff】?"

The God smiled and replied:

"Your fall actually began long ago; fate did not start flowing only at this moment."

The Outsider nodded in thanks, and then God and man pulled the triggers simultaneously in this night color that no one knew of.

Click~

The God's empty gun naturally could not fire a bullet, while the Outsider's muzzle erupted with fire, and then—

Bang!

(Little Mia is running...)

Five minutes ago, in the ruin battlefield.

Two Gods used the starry sky as a chessboard to place their pieces. If she had encountered such a thing at any other time, Stella would definitely have looked up and firmly remembered this mythological scene within the limits of what she could bear.

But tonight she could not do so. Holding the three Rings of Fate—【Ice and Snow】, 【Sprouting】, and 【Tenacity】—although she had gained power unimaginable in the past while in the Fate Stance, the power of ice and snow and the sun displayed a posture in her hands completely different from when in Claire's hands. But even so, on this battlefield of the final battle of fate, Stella felt that she was still a "supporting character."

Star-Breaker, Punisher of Evil, Lei Sheng, Balanced Chosen One Yin Yi Yi Lu Na Beiyasi, holding the crimson thunder spear, became the main force resisting the skin-shedding snake; Luweiya, who had always been with everyone in the image of a "not good at fighting" diviner, held the 【Night Watcher】 and, together with the three demigod witches, faced the snake's doomsday power directly. After the Moon God appeared, because of the Moon Mark, the hundred-meter-long holy silver sword light she swung was already completely no less than Xia De's style when fighting.

There were also Sister Daifulin who had promoted to the Thirteenth Ring, their own Speaker, their own teacher, the Great Witch of Light who had suddenly promoted, the Great Elf with sharp ears, the Butterfly-Winged Miss, the Vampire of Light, the Guardian of the Earth, and so on. These witches and Ringed Shushi who held different numbers of Rings of Fate each had power surpassing Stella, who had "three fates."

Not to mention the three demigod witches who jumped out later to join the battlefield; their style and power made Stella dare not imagine.

Especially the "other Speaker." Stella didn't know what was going on with this "Speaker," but the other party even used power similar to the snake directly in this dim yellow world. Even without holding any Ring of Fate, the power of the "other Speaker" was no less than the other two demigods.

Thus, the white-haired girl felt more and more that she didn't seem as important as she thought.

The unicorns that appeared later, as well as Ai Li who held two rings, made Stella in the battlefield feel a little more relaxed. She felt that she was still stronger than a single unicorn without a ring.

As for the Ringed Shushi who came to support from the Sect, Academy, and Prophecy Society, only a very small number of them possessed Rings of Fate, and most of them held "forged" rings. Their attitude of not fearing death also made Stella feel a little ashamed.

However, Stella had always vaguely felt that she probably wouldn't be the final candidate for the Chosen One, so seeing so many people stepping into the battlefield one after another to fight the Doomsday Snake, she was actually quite happy.

Therefore, while the God was playing chess in the air, Stella, who had received Luweiya's order, left the center of the battlefield without worry, preparing to go to the temple to compete for the final Chosen One.

?? PS: Next, part of the events of the spring of 1853 will be revealed.