novelhk Chapter 434 - 67: The Essence of the Game - You Don’t Lose, but I’m Making a Killing
Chapter 434 - 67: The Essence of the Game - You Don’t Lose, but I’m Making a Killing
However, after encountering the True Game, the Three Gods believed the purpose of using the fragments to cultivate civilizations was simply to enhance their own Power. This, in turn, would make it easier to search for and merge with other fragments.
They even thought the fragments themselves possessed a will and consciousness. Thus, once their side’s Power was strong enough, they could perform a master-servant fusion upon encountering other fragments.
This point became even more convincing after they encountered the True Game.
As for the first batch of Players in the Cosmic Game, it wasn’t that the Three Gods didn’t want to kill them at first—they couldn’t!
Because the Cosmic Game controlled the very source of these Players’ Soul Spirituality, even if the Three Gods killed these resurrecting ’Players’, they could still revive once more in the Game World.
These Players were under the absolute protection of the Cosmic Game.
Even when the Cosmic Game finally decided to hand over its supreme authority, it did so with conditions, similar to the ten-thousand-year contract Lince now possessed.
The Three Gods were absolutely forbidden from actively harming these Players for ten thousand years.
And as for the God of Thousand Faces, because of his unique divine Ability, the Cosmic Game also handed over the soul of the Player most ’compatible’ with it.
The God of Thousand Faces eventually used his Ability to fuse this Chief Player, who was similar to ’Lince’, into himself.
Although this Player retained his sense of self, he effectively became one of the God of Thousand Faces’s many ’avatars’.
In addition, perhaps influenced by the Chief Player, the Cosmos developed a sort of animosity towards Thousand Faces.
Thus, the Cosmos ended up dividing its Authority and giving it to the Mother of All Things and the God of All Machines, ’Cancer’, who were originally uninvolved.
It would be impossible to say that the God of Thousand Faces had no regrets about this!
But the God of Thousand Faces was a god true to his name.
The guy had too many ’personalities’, which resulted in the God of Thousand Faces’s core personality being somewhat exceptionally ’psychotic’.
Most of the time, the God of Thousand Faces didn’t act like a god.
He was more like a ’Lezi God’.
As long as his fundamental interests weren’t at stake, he would treat many things as mere amusement, with no concept of seriousness whatsoever.
Many times, even when this guy gained the upper hand in wars for Authority against the God of All Machines and the Mother of All Things, he didn’t take it seriously at all.
He’d sell out his Clan on a whim and couldn’t care less about the planets and living beings under his influence.
But, this guy was also a god who knew how to ’stir up trouble’.
Sometimes, when the Cosmic Game found a powerful civilization and assigned the war against it to one of the Three Gods by lottery or by turn, the God of Thousand Faces would seize the opportunity to launch a ’war for Authority’ against the other two Deities, who might be in the middle of their own civilization war.
With the God of Thousand Faces pulling stunts like this, the other two Deities naturally wouldn’t be left behind.
Thus, under the influence of the God of Thousand Faces’s chaotic antics, although the Cosmic Game had been expanding in scale over the years and its territory grew with each civilization war, the overall strength of the Clans under each of the Three Gods, who were all fighting for themselves, never saw any ridiculously qualitative leaps.
However, the Power of the Three Gods themselves had increased significantly.
At the very least, before obtaining and reactivating the Cosmic Game, the Power of the Three Gods had not yet reached the ’Authority Level’.
Furthermore, in the very beginning, these Three Gods all came from a single Fixed Star System.
And from an extremely rare Triple Star System at that.
A so-called Triple Star System is one where three planets orbit each other within a single Solar System, much like the relationship between Blue Star and the Moon. Moreover, all three of these planets were Life Planets.
So, after the Three Gods eventually emerged as the strongest from their respective planets, they went through some struggles, but in the end, none of them could gain an advantage.
Thus, over many long years, they developed a kind of unspoken understanding, a relationship akin to being both friends and rivals.
The Three Gods presented a united front to outsiders, ensuring the growth of their three planets and themselves.
And because the God of Thousand Faces was ’psychotic’, even after obtaining a treasure like the Cosmos, this guy never thought to hide it and slowly figure out how to activate it himself. Instead, he chose to find the Cancer of All Machines and the Mother of All Things to study it together.
And so, that is how the ’Cosmic Game’ reached its current scale and structure!
To be honest, when the God of Thousand Faces himself disclosed all this information to Lince, Lince couldn’t help but suck in a sharp breath.
’Damn.’
’What the hell is this God of Thousand Faces?’
’Any normal person, or any normal god, who got a treasure they couldn’t use themselves would hide it away and study it slowly, right?’
’How could they possibly share it with frenemies?’
’But this God of Thousand Faces guy just went and did it!’
’He even ended up creating two other owners for the ’treasure’!’
’What the hell?’
Another thing that Lince couldn’t help but complain about was that after he and the Cancer of All Machines had probed each other, the God of Thousand Faces himself had taken the initiative and dumped everything about the Cosmic Game on Lince.
And now, after the True Game had completely merged with the Cosmos, this guy had even explained the whole situation of how he obtained the Cosmos and his relationship with the other two gods.
’I have to say, you’d have to be out of your mind to pull something like that.’
’After all, even if I’ve now joined the camp of the Three Gods of the Cosmos, I’m still a newly joined ’Outer God’!’
’For the God of Thousand Faces to act like this, anyone who didn’t know better would think he wanted to get on my good side and oppose the other two gods.’
’But what was the reality?’
’After spilling all the secrets, and after seeing the True Game and the Cosmic Game form a contract and begin the merging process, that God of Thousand Faces guy sent me this information and was the first one to bolt.’