Cheng Shi was sucked away again.
The second audience with God was clearly more practiced than the first, He didn't resist, allowing His consciousness to fall into darkness.
Who is it this time?
God of Amusement or the Bitch God?
No, can't think!
At least not like this!
In front of them, He had no freedom of thought at all.
Even imagination could be judged as the sin of blasphemy.
Lord said, before deceiving Him, I have to endure.
I endure!
His consciousness became clear again from the blur, Cheng Shi opened His eyes with trepidation.
He had already prepared for the worst, and even quickly drafted a mental script, wanting to subtly argue:
His blasphemous remarks were just "incompetent trash talk," and He didn't really consider a certain someone a bitch.
But unexpectedly, what He saw this time was not the eyes of some Existence painted with stars, but a winding white staircase, extending from His feet into the unseen Void.
Each step of the staircase was like a huge vertebra, with bone holes on the surface, dazzlingly pale.
The sides of the vertebrae also grew thick and long intermuscular bones, extending outwards like blade-like cliffs.
Due to the high slope between the bone joints, Cheng Shi looked up and immediately found that the endless, densely arranged white bone staircase resembled a massive fish bone, floating in the endless darkness, emitting a terrifying white light.
If this was truly the bone of a fish, then this fish could not possibly be described as "huge."
Perhaps all the adjectives Cheng Shi had learned to describe "large" lost their measuring function in front of its volume.
Just one bone surface made Cheng Shi feel like it would take at least more than ten minutes to walk across.
Cheng Shi was so shocked by the colossal object before Him that He was speechless, momentarily stunned on the spot.
Just then, a chaotic mix of sounds rang out in His ears.
This was a sound that was difficult to describe.
It was both sharp and hoarse, both ethereal and heavy, as if the voices of men, women, old, and young were mixed together, indistinguishable from each other, without distinction between front and back, resonating in unison.
"Come up! Hurry up!"
Cheng Shi was startled by the sudden shouts, He quickly turned His head to look, only to see that on the "fish bones" where He hadn't seen any Existence just now, countless life forms suddenly appeared.
These never-before-seen creatures stood in line on the fish bone cliffs as sharp as knives, jumping down one after another like dumplings being dropped into a pot.
And below the "cliff," was the endless Void.
As soon as the life forms jumped down, their entire bodies of flesh and blood were quickly washed away by the Void, until they fell onto some unseen "ground," and only their remaining bones shattered.
The immense impact force shattered the skeletons, but only the skulls were preserved.
Countless pale skulls rolled and surged towards Cheng Shi, gradually piling up on both sides of the vertebral staircase, frantically opening and closing their jaws, using their remaining teeth to creakingly welcome Cheng Shi's arrival.
"Come up! Hurry up!"
"The master is waiting for you! He is waiting for you up there!"
Cheng Shi was stunned by this unprecedented scene.
To be honest, anyone would be stunned.
Everything before Him was too incredible, too beyond human cognition, so much so that the legs He was preparing to move unconsciously felt a little weak.
Looking at the countless skulls wildly "clacking" on the side of the stairs, Cheng Shi kept thinking:
If I take a step forward, they won't come over and gnaw on me, right?
"Come up! Hurry up! The master is waiting for you up there!"
The longer Cheng Shi remained in place, the faster these skulls' mouths opened and closed.
He seemed to have guessed which Existence was up there, He swallowed hard, gave Himself a pep talk in His heart, and then stepped out.
The moment Cheng Shi stepped out, His entire person's skin, flesh, tendons, and blood were stripped away, falling onto the spot, leaving only a crystal-clear, jade-like skeleton that rushed forward.
And with one rush, it was one step.
This seemingly huge staircase, the moment He moved, automatically moved downwards, cushioning His feet.
The speed was so fast, it almost whipped up a gust of wind in the Void.
With Cheng Shi's movements, the skulls on the side of the stairs became even more noisy.
"Hurry, hurry up! Faster! Don't make Him impatient!"
Cheng Shi didn't dare to take a second step.
He didn't know if it was the wind in the Void that was too strong, or if taking off His "clothes" wasn't warm enough, He felt cold all over.
He rubbed His hands over His familiar yet strange skeleton, and then subconsciously covered His crotch.
Holy crap, isn't this streaking?
Huh?
Seems like there's no need to cover, the things that should be covered are gone...
He looked down, whoa, they were indeed gone.
Then this doesn't count as streaking!
Cheng Shi's mood inexplicably improved, He chuckled softly and strode forward.
The fish bone descended section by section, the white bones piled up layer by layer.
By the time Cheng Shi counted in His heart that He had taken a total of 404 steps, the unchanging fish bone staircase before Him finally showed a change.
A commotion came from all directions, and the voices of men, women, old, and young suddenly exploded.
Immediately after, endless skulls floated up from behind Him, beside Him, and in front of Him, flying rapidly forward.
The white torrent instantly swept upwards, pulling out a spectacular, inverted waterfall of skulls in the darkness-filled Void.
Cheng Shi stood motionless on the stairs, waiting for His arrival.
Not because His legs were weak, but because He had already felt the aura of Death.
It was so dense it made people despair, so viscous it made people panic.
This was a true road leading to Death!
Countless skulls fell like rain, and in the blink of an eye, a White Bone Throne was piled up in front of Cheng Shi.
And on that throne, a giant skull was looking at Cheng Shi through its black hole-like eye sockets.
"Cheng, Shi."
His voice was like cold flames erupting from the abyss of hell, bone-chillingly cold.
Even though Cheng Shi was only left with a skeleton, He felt like His bone marrow was about to freeze.
This is Death!
The Third God of the Life Fate!
"Yes."
Cheng Shi gritted His teeth and endured the rampaging Divinity of Death, nodding His head.
"Very, good."
"I, want to make, a deal, with you."
?
A deal?
With your grandeur, am I worthy?
Cheng Shi was afraid this was a trap Death had dug for Him, so He blurted out:
"If you fancy something, it is my honor."
What on His body could gain His attention?
Thinking about it, there was only that item, When Fear Arrives.
The giant skull didn't make a sound for a long time after hearing Cheng Shi's response, and only spoke again after a while:
"You, are, not quite the same, as what He said."
Who?
Who the hell talked bad about me behind my back?
Cheng Shi didn't dare to ask, so naturally, He could only smile awkwardly.
But this skin-deep fake smile couldn't be expressed on a skeleton at all, so it was equivalent to no response.
"Take it out, the deal, won't mistreat, you."
Cheng Shi really wanted to ask, how can I take it out like this now?
But unexpectedly, as soon as His consciousness moved, everything in His personal space poured out at His feet.
Looking at the miscellaneous things scattered all over the ground, Cheng Shi was extremely embarrassed.
He quickly squatted down and found the dagger He needed among a pile of knockout drops, ropes, poisons, and masks, and then respectfully held it up.
"Very good, do you know, what this is?"
"When Fear Arrives, a From God relic with the dual Divinity aura of you and another God..."
Cheng Shi knew that in the Mouths of the Hope Continent people, demigod artifacts were collectively referred to as From God relics.
"fear... A bad, name."
"Humans, for billions of years, have made no progress, in naming."
"Its name, is called, garuda's dagger."
"..."
garuda's dagger...
Okay, okay, may I ask this True God, how did you have the courage to say that humans are bad at naming things?
It's not scary when top students are humble, it's scary when poor students are oblivious!
But Cheng Shi didn't say a word, just listened quietly like this.
This God before Him seemed to have a strong desire to share.
"Garuda, is a From God, of Life."
"And also, I, most trusted, Envoy."
"But He, made a mistake."
"Fell in love, with a, bitch."
!!!
Holy crap!
What the hell?
This word, are the Gods also using it?
At this moment, Cheng Shi's brain boiled!
How to say it, in this kind of occasion, hearing a God say the word 'bitch', it was simply explosive and exciting!
Whether it was the level of gossip, or the sense of identification, they both reached their peak at this moment.
See how coincidental it is, I also know a bitch!
And she...
*cough cough*, forget it, think less, listen more, save my dog Life.
But thinking about it, the God whom Death called a bitch was probably the source of the other half of the Divinity of When Fear Arrives.