Chapter 312: The Borderlands of the Dense Forest

Bai Liu took a step towards Tavel, picked up Tavel's hand and placed the black ring of the bone whip on it with a gentle smile, "Have you thought about it?"

Tavel gazes calmly at Bai Liu in his vision, his silver-blue eyes silent, a pure black whip appearing in his hand.

"Perhaps there is a day in the future when I will die in exchange for your love, but not now."

Bai Liu's face grew into a smile, "Why not? Now your presence only makes me feel miserable, doesn't it?"

Tavel looked straight up at Bai Liu: "Because I don't want to."

Bai Liu's face was strained.

"Even if all I can do is make you suffer, I will be there for you." A hurricane of wind blew behind Tavel, whipping his long hair and sending the lapels of his suit tumbling.

"Your pain and your faith can only be mine, desire and love can only be bound to me."

"Until you kill me completely, I will never release you to believe in other evil gods."

"You are mine."

Tavel lifted the whip and he looked Bai Liu flat in the eye: "Vile as it is, I do get so greedy when I love someone."

"Like that? Then there's nothing to be done." With a regretful sigh, Bai Liu also raised his whip and looked at Tavel with a grin, "Then we'll just have to kill you."

The tavern in front of him shatters like a burning old photograph, the illusion disintegrates, and Tavel stands at the bottom of the muddy lake holding a black whip.

Everything around us is a jumble of coloured lines, like uncoloured sketches superimposed randomly on a psyche, except for the real earthy grey of the lake floor beneath our feet, where rotting, writhing bodies writhe in the mud.

This is the real game world, and it's falling apart.

Bai Liu, with a completely blackened whip in his right hand, stands far away from Spades, his shirt soaked through, dripping down in patches against his body.

"You're not willing to give up accepting the power of the evil gods, are you?" Tavel inquired in a calm tone.

Bai Liu looked up slowly, " Xie Ta, we both chose to solve the problem in the way we hate the most."

"If I turn back now ......"

"There's no value, is there?" Tavel picked up on Bai Liu's comment, "Is getting value that important to you?"

"The essence of all human existence is the acquisition of value." Bai Liu looks calmly and directly at Tavel, "except that some value can be obtained from oneself, and some value has to be obtained from others."

Tavel's long hair was swept up by the wind that came from nowhere, and even his voice was blown unreal.

" Bai Liu, what about you, what is the value you want to get?"

Bai Liu looked up at Tavel, blown into a blur in the wind, and spoke slowly: "I want to be able to dominate the value of God's existence."

"Even if you are completely consumed by desire because of this value, is that okay?" Tavel asked softly.

Bai Liu exhaled and he suddenly smiled, "Completely consumed by desire?"

"Did you know me the first day, Xie Ta? When did I exist out of desire?"

"I am originally a collection of desires, and if I were to devour, it would be I who would devour the desires, not the desires who would devour me."

The wind grows stronger and the reverse cross pendant hanging around Bai Liu's neck flutters in the wind, shimmering with a peculiar glow.

Tavel rushes out of the wind, a clean black whip coming straight for Bai Liu's face, Bai Liu slants his shoulders to avoid it, Tavel is already close to Bai Liu, he reaches for the reverse cross pendant on Bai Liu's chest without looking away, his fingers already touching the surface of the pendant.

Bai Liu doesn't pause, he raises his hand and throws a whip, which Tavel retracts.

The moment the two whips struck, the whole space continued to shake and distort.

[System warning: The world line of The Dense Wooded Frontier is collapsing because it can't hold too much data related to the evil gods ...... has now collapsed by 80 percent ......]

Bai Liu was almost brought to his knees by Tavel's whip and took several steps backwards in quick succession.

Seeing the blood spilling from the corner of Bai Liu's mouth, Tavel took a step back, lips pursed, and the whip retracted slightly.

...... No matter how firmly he said it, he had no way of coming down hard on Bai Liu.

Bai Liu barely hesitated before swinging his whip again.

Instead of using the whip, Tavel sidesteps the whip and pulls it back with a one-handed grip, his other hand reaching out to hook the reverse cross that Bai Liu swings out of the collar of his shirt.

The moment Tavel touched the reverse cross, Bai Liu looked Tavel straight in the eye without dodging, he suddenly smiled, lowered his head and took the reverse cross in his mouth, pressing the pendant under his tongue, even as Tavel's finger was bitten by Bai Liu.

Tavel paused, let go of the whip, bent his knees over Bai Liu, opened his thumb and forefinger to jam them into Bai Liu's mouth, and reached in with his other hand to rip the reverse cross out of Bai Liu's mouth.

In close quarters, Bai Liu had no advantage with the whip and was unable to resist as Tavel was pinned down.

The next moment, countless corpse hands reach out of the mire around Tavel, grabbing his feet and pulling him down.

Bai Liu took the opportunity to get away, spitting the reverse cross out of his mouth sideways and reversing the whip towards Tavel.

[System Warning: 'The Dense Wooded Frontier' Worldline Now Collapses 95 Percent ......]

Tavel lashed the corpse's hand that was pulling him free and stared at the long whip that was coming straight at him with open bone spikes, gripping the whip tightly in his own hand.

"It's forbidden to fight this big in a game pool-!!!" A roar interrupted the world at the bottom of the lake as the Reverse God came slashing in through the messy lines around the bottom of the lake with his heavy sword raised, landing firmly on the bottom.

As soon as the Reverse God hit the ground, he broke down and shouted, "You two little brats do something good! If you keep fighting, this place will collapse! There's no need to bury a world with you two in a love fight!"

But neither Bai Liu nor Tavel listened to him, and they continued to fight.

The bottom of the lake is shaking, the edges are like dry clods of earth that have been frozen for a long time and are beginning to crumble under the speedy stamping of Bai Liu and Tavel.

[System Warning: 'The Dense Frontier' worldline now 99% collapsed ......]

The double-ignored Reverse God took a deep breath as he slowly raised his heavy sword, his face so dark it was about to drip, "-Use Inquisitorial Authority - Evil God Judgement."

[System Warning: Does player Judge of the Reverse God use the highest level personal skill (Evil God Judgement) from the Monster Book identity (Judge of the Reverse God)?

[Yes.]

As the two whips collided and crossed again, the Reverse God appeared in the middle of Bai Liu and Tavel with his heavy sword held aloft like a flash.

The Reverse God slashed down hard at the place where the two black whips crossed with a stony expression.

A violent burst of white light exploded from where the heavy sword had cut down, and the tremendous impact shook both Bai Liu and Tavel so hard that they both had to let go of their whips and were knocked a long way down.

The two pure black whips and the heavy sword shattered with an unbearable cracking sound almost simultaneously, and the whole world line blossomed into a distorted multicoloured halo, the sky shimmering like a mosaic as pieces kept flaking down from everywhere and smashing to the bottom of the lake, swallowed up in the mud.

The corpses at the bottom of the lake let out heart-rending howls of misery.

The black whips made a crunching sound under the heavy sword, its polished surface cracked clearly like cracked glass, and the world line that had been stirred up by the two whips finally calmed down.

The Reverse God gritted his teeth and pressed down on the heavy sword in his hand, the veins on his forehead and neck bursting out, his eyes and face turning red, blood seeping from his mouth, nose and pores, the bones in his hands gripping the heavy sword breaking at every turn, even his shoulders caving in.

[System Warning: Player Against the Gods' Inquisitor's life value is dropping drastically ......]

The Reverse God choked and coughed, vomited out a large clot of dirty blood, and said in one word, "-- It is said that children should not play with toys that are too aggressive when playing games, it is easy to hurt each other, and in the end it is you who will be sad-- -"

"There is no point in continuing this ad hominem game."

[System Alert: Player Judgment of the Reverse God uses the Judgment of the Evil God to terminate the Evil God Inheritance Ritual and neutralize the power of the Evil God, ending the world line disintegration].

[System warning: All players are forced to exit the game while the world line of "Dense Woods Borderlands" is under full repair.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu has quit the game.

Tang Erda and Liu Jiayi, who had been guarding the pool, noticed an unusual movement in the pool and turned their heads to look at it.

Bai Liu, with his long hair spread out and soaked to the skin, reached out from the pool and Tang Erda immediately reached out and pulled him up.

When Liu Jiayi saw the front of Bai Liu, her expression changed: "How did you get so badly injured?"

Bai Liu, blood spilling from the corners of his mouth, his long hair clinging to his pale face in disarray, the long whip he held in his hand reduced to a mangled handle and the shattered remains of a bone whip that was falling down, his shirt covered in blood.

"My wounds are not serious." Bai Liu Liu lifted the back of his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, his expression faint, "The others were hurt worse than me."

"That tactician called Reverse God is probably going to die in the game."

Tang Erda was shocked: "You killed him?!"

"No." Bai Liu said, "The Reverse God somehow managed to rush up and cut the whip off of me and Xie ...... Spades, and some kind of power in the whip related to the evil gods backfired on the Reverse God."

"When I logged out I saw the Reverse God kneeling on the ground with his hands on his heavy sword spitting blood and feeling like he was going to die."

Even Liu Jiayi was shocked: "Chopping up your whip and Spades' whip? Yours is fine, it's an add-on, Spades' is a skill weapon, how did it get cut?"

"I don't know." Bai Liu lowered his eyes and walked forward, "It seems to be something to do with his skills."

" Bai Liu ." Tang Erda took a deep breath and held Bai Liu's shoulders to keep him from moving forward, "...... asked you something, that succession ritual of whatever evil god, did you really finish it?"

Bai Liu side-eyed, " When did Captain Tang become interested in this kind of middle-aged, game-changing identity ritual?"

"I haven't actually figured out what the hell this ritual is, but I don't think it's as simple as you make it out to be." Tang Erda's dark blue eyes locked on Bai Liu, "Did you finish it?"

Bai Liu is quiet for a moment and says frankly, "Semi-completed, if you must say."

"I was given the status of heir to the evil god and an enhanced body, but the whip was cut off and the most important reverse cross in the ritual was desperately snatched away by that Spades guy."

Tang Erda was inexplicably relieved as he released his grip on Bai Liu's shoulder and said a little awkwardly, "...... I was in a bit of a hurry just now, are you okay?"

"Nothing." Bai Liu turned his head, arched his eyebrows at Tang Erda and smiled, "It's Captain Tang's duty to monitor me not to turn bad, and good citizens like me are perfectly cooperative with any enquiries Captain Tang makes in the performance of his duties."

Tang Erda is stunned by Bai Liu's smile.

Bai Liu's previous smile had a polite hypocrisy to it, as if he was trying to write the words "I'm cheating on you" on his face, carelessly, not as if he was trying to deceive someone.

But now Bai Liu's face is pale and his mouth is bloody, but there is no sense of weakness coming through at all. Instead, he smiles with a fluttering sense of elevation, making it seem as if he is the one you turn to for help, and he is listening very carefully to your distress, smiling and indulging you, willing to solve your problems.

...... This way of facing people in a divine posture seems like Bai six.

"I'm not badly hurt, so let's go back to the guild and see how the rest of the team is doing."

After saying that, Bai Liu walked forward without looking back, Tang Erda took a hesitant look at the game pool and called out to Bai Liu, "Don't you ...... wait for Spades for a while?"

Bai Liu smiled and looked at Tang Erda: "I didn't kill Spades, nor did I kill the Reverse God, I didn't kill any good people in the game, don't worry about that."

"Or maybe you're not sure about me and think I'm lying and we can stay here for a bit?" Bai Liu said thoughtfully.

"No." Tang Erda reached between Bai Liu and the game pool and hesitantly asked, "You and Spades are in a game where you two ...... are getting married and kissing and carrying each other... ...

"It looks like a good relationship." Tang Erda struggled for an adjective and said dryly, "Aren't you going to confirm Spades' status?"

Tang Erda dropped out of the game early on, not having seen the later strife between Bai Liu and Spades, and stopped at the stage where Spades rescued them to find Bai Liu.

Bai Liu blinked slowly and said in a daze, "Oh that one."

"That's just a game." Bai Liu smiled, "I didn't take it seriously."