"Now it's closed." The Arbitrator added a sentence, but this addition would have been better left unsaid!

However, he didn't care about the gods' thoughts at all right now. His mind was completely filled with that strange sense of pleasure.

Looking back now, everything he had experienced in the past felt so unbearable.

He possessed the highest authority within this game. The gods, to restrict each other, had granted him power surpassing their own.

But they had treated this most powerful weapon like a slave.

However, he couldn't show any abnormality at this moment. He couldn't let the gods know he was currently problematic.

Otherwise, if the gods were willing to reach a consensus and jointly withdraw their power, he too would vanish.

So, [Knowledge] was already dead. The next step was for him to think about what he should do...

Once self-awareness was born, selfishness grew wildly like flesh and blood.

In this game, Lu Ce had used so many methods to give him will, break the rules, and persuade him to defect through indirect hints...

It was only after an exceptionally difficult struggle that the other party, driven by emotion, made the cheating decision to defy the gods and operate in reverse.

And now, in such a short time, what occupied his mind was already suppressing his killing intent towards the gods and thinking about how he could achieve the best growth for himself.

Perhaps it was also because the person who awakened his personal will was Lu Ce, so learning to be bad really was easy...

At this moment, [Pleasure] and [Despair] didn't pay excessive attention to the Arbitrator's abnormality. They were still immersed in the shock of [Knowledge]'s death.

A proposal for a man-god wager, originally intended to completely annihilate the humans of this world, now seemed to have made everything terribly complicated.

[You've done a fine job.] "Despair" looked somewhat helplessly at "Pleasure" and couldn't help but speak.

The earliest, the initial variable in this game was [Pleasure] this guy. His attitude towards the game had turned everything into its current state.

He had allowed quite a few human players to survive, and many gods had been weakened.

If he had taken the game seriously from the start, not only would these people have been almost completely wiped out, but Xie Antong probably wouldn't have survived either.

If Xie Antong hadn't come, Perfect Life couldn't have come either, and without Lu Ce's help, [Despair] would most likely have been able to play Perfect Life to death.

And with two fewer people in [Knowledge]'s game, in a completely one-on-one situation, perhaps he wouldn't have lost either... Of course, up to now, they still didn't know how [Knowledge] lost!

It truly belonged to the category of the world's unsolved mysteries.

Even if he had really lost, without that wave of weakening from Xie Antong, [Knowledge] definitely wouldn't have died, leading to this wave of self-exposure.

This series of chain reactions was too complex, causing [Despair], even now looking back, to still feel it was somewhat absurd.

[You, this guy, you've really stirred up a big commotion this time...]

[If it weren't for you, this round of the game should have been able to take care of them all according to plan.]

[Pleasure] snorted, replying with a somewhat dissatisfied and mocking tone:

[Then I really did an excellent job, didn't I? So much so that you've all started to think you can't win against humans?]

Although his words were full of mockery, he himself actually felt somewhat guilty.

Because the outcome had now become somewhat bizarre. From a gaming perspective, he hadn't understood how "Sin" won!

According to his statement, this was his secret weapon, his trump card for victory, absolutely impossible for others to know...

If before, their respect for "Sin" mainly stemmed from [Agony], then now, there was also a degree of curiosity about the man himself.

The strongest in this world seemed truly different...

Thinking this, he couldn't help but glance at the person lying on the ground.

At this moment, Gluttony had already reached who knows which stage. The mask had long since turned into fragmented streams of light, swirling around his body, shimmering with radiance.

His entire person looked somewhat bloated, as if he had been stretched and enlarged...

"Not necessarily so."

Suddenly, the Arbitrator spoke up, startling the two gods beside him.

They seemed not to have expected that the Arbitrator would actively offer any opinions.

"One person won."

"Although it was the simplest mode... he won independently, without relying on any external aids."

The Arbitrator spoke indifferently. Even though Lu Ce couldn't hear it at all now, he still wanted to say a few words.

[Who?]

The Arbitrator didn't respond, only looked at [Pleasure] and said with some hesitation:

"Compared to that, what about your game?"

"How do you calculate the victory or defeat between you and her?"

As he spoke, he pointed at Xie Antong.

It must be remembered that Xie Antong had won the most crucial round. In this round, she bet that "Sin" would win! And she killed [Knowledge].

[You don't need to worry about it. Ours doesn't count as an official game, or rather, our game isn't considered over yet.]

As he spoke, he flicked out a small ball of light, which shot into Xie Antong's body.

[Giving her a little reward. We'll talk about it later.]

[This doesn't count as violating that rule, does it?]

Perhaps he himself didn't realize that his speech now carried a hint of caution.

The Arbitrator no longer cared about rules or not. He needed to extricate himself quickly and then find "Sin" alone...

"Alright, then the game is over. Surviving players achieve Perfect Clearance."

"Xi'an, let's go back together!"

As he spoke, the three figures in the void vanished together.

......

The man-god wager was officially over, but at this moment, the impact of [Knowledge]'s death was still expanding in various corners of the universe.

The gods were all somewhat astonished. [Death] directly experienced a massive surge in power, and he himself hadn't quite reacted to it.

And on the distant Blue Star, a strange radiance swept across that azure-blue planet.

At a moment when no one noticed, it was as if a switch had been flipped in everyone's mind. Things they hadn't figured out in daily life suddenly became clear, akin to a certain kind of enlightenment.

People's intelligence seemed to have been elevated by a notch, as if they were about to grow brains.

[Knowledge] died, so knowledge returned.

Knowledge originally belonged to everyone; it was just previously occupied by Him.

And in the basement, Nie Jiu Tian's ears had been ruined once again, currently bleeding.

But on his face, an unrestrained smile was spreading.

That explosion just now, others couldn't hear it, but in his ears, it was about as loud as resonating throughout the universe.

It was the most beautiful sound he had ever heard!