Starting with Growing Mushrooms

Chapter 712: Chapter 567: The Aggressive Goddess of Destiny, Online Quarreling

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Akusu was completely frantic with rage.

He had swept across countless civilizations in this Sea Region, and this was the first time he’d run into something this absurd.

He told those mortals the cruel truth, ruthlessly hammering their conviction.

But the other side also told him the truth.

Told him that there were real gods in this world, and that they were nothing but petty, pitiful mortals?

Instead, he felt like his own conviction had been smashed!

Gods...

"Damn it, what kind of trash is a god? If gods really exist, then why don’t you show up when mortals are drowning in grief!"

"Why didn’t you show up to save us when Akusu was destroying everything?"

"You bastards!"

"A pack of liars."

Akusu kept moving that colossal puppet body, the various gears of the entire city-construction Divine Object forming his towering, gigantic frame.

Every lift of his hand, every step he took, carried a tyrannical momentum that seemed like heaven and earth would collapse and all ages return to silence.

Compared with him, these hundred-plus guard teams were like ants before a Giant; logically, he should’ve been able to slap them to death in one go.

But right now, this annoying little gnat was jumping left and right, constantly infuriating him.

"Fly to the left, yes!"

"Hit him in the nostril, that’s it!"

"Hahahaha, you think I’m a fly? Laughable, laughable—flies can kill Giants too!"

"Because I’m the Goddess of Destiny, I can see infinite destinies, far-off futures."

Fortuna licked her lips, face full of excitement.

The other side, as a Divine Object, also had the Power of Destiny...

But her rank in destiny was way higher than theirs; she had clearly calculated all of his trajectories.

In front of Fortuna, the other side was nothing but a big dumb oaf who couldn’t hide a single move.

After swinging his arms a few times and still being harassed to death, Akusu finally realized this too.

"This kind of power..."

A trace of confusion flashed in his eyes. "Could it be gods really exist?"

"No! Whether gods exist or not, I can’t keep this up. The other side is toying with me the whole time. I have to get to the Ocean of Chaos; with Chaos shrouding me over there, she won’t be able to see through my destiny!"

He cast a wary glance at God, then immediately bolted toward the edge of this world after Heaven Opening.

Right now, as the mastermind behind the scenes, the master of this water hunting ground, he no longer wanted to hunt these prey.

He wanted to run.

But in the next moment, he was fiercely cut off by Fortuna:

"It’s useless! I already predicted your prediction!"

Akusu was utterly vexed, instantly flying into a rage out of humiliation. "Damn ant, so what if you guessed it? You buzzing around everywhere—can you even scratch me in the slightest?"

Fortuna was getting into it; her expression gradually sharpened. "A mere mortal dares to look down on me like this. Next, I should get a bit serious."

All kinds of her diving squads began their attack, scraping off a layer of skin from this city-construction Giant; all sorts of brick Divine Objects dropped down.

Among them were actually some tenth-order consummate Divine Objects acting as nodes—simple, babbling dolls.

"Change!"

Fortuna stretched out her hand and gently clenched it.

Vast and terrifying Destiny Divine Power slammed into those simple Divine Object dolls, changing their destiny and twisting their personalities.

In an instant, those innocent dolls were bewitched by destiny:

"Lady Goddess of Destiny, if it is your will, we shall obey without question!"

As soon as they finished speaking, these Divine Object dolls quickly ran over and joined Fortuna’s ranks.

This kind of turning enemies into allies truly shocked Akusu on the spot.

His heart was in complete chaos; he’d been scared stiff by Fortuna’s bizarre Destiny Divine Power and that terrifying first-strike kill.

He couldn’t get a grip on the other side at all, while the other side could peel off his Divine Objects whenever she wanted; with this kind of loss for him and gain for her...

Sooner or later, all his Divine Object parts would be stripped off and he’d be worn to death alive.

Those Divine Object dolls under his command... were actually being turned one by one into puppets of destiny!

Fortunately.

The dolls she turned were still pure and dumb; after joining her side, they were stupidly adorable in battle and actually made quite a bit of trouble instead of helping.

If they had the Wisdom of those 156 smart Divine Object team members, that would be a disaster.

Akusu had barely time to feel the slightest relief when he heard Fortuna shouting in the distance, "Lord God, please lend me your power!"

"I want Ultimate Wisdom, to upgrade the dolls who’ve submitted to me."

Looking at Fortuna winking and making faces in the distance, Liu Jun sighed, then casually tossed her a batch of Ultimate Wisdom so she could upgrade the Wisdom of the Divine Objects she’d turned.

"Ahahahaha!"

"Boy!"

"As the weak, as lowly mortals, you should let a Divine Spirit like me properly humiliate you, ok-kay!"

Fortuna started going nuts again, high on battle frenzy, laughing like a maniac.

Fortunately, the mathematicians nearby were already used to the Goddess of Destiny’s weird antics. With dead-serious faces, they said:

"As expected of Lady Goddess of Destiny—every god perfectly fits their own domain. The Goddess of Destiny before us really embodies the fickleness of destiny to the fullest!"

Liu Jun kept silent at the side.

Destiny is just a bitch who bullies the weak and fears the strong; right now, it really was being embodied to the fullest.

Those scientists were all talking big while frantically recording data. "This is unbelievable, so this is a god..."

"This guy, I bet even the emperors of all those great nations would end up dying with regret, falling under the hand of this Goddess of Destiny!"

"Your Majesty the Goddess, to win the strong with the weak... it’s just too, too unbelievable!"

The scientists had already been led astray by Fortuna, reduced to her hype squad, flattering the often-forgetful her until she was beaming with joy.

Liu Jun, on the other hand, didn’t find Fortuna’s power strange at all.

Fate’s first-sight kill is terrifyingly powerful.

A mere behind-the-scenes boss? Hunting down a deep-sea mastermind in the Chaos Waters?

You think you can block a god’s mechanics?

Fortuna’s mechanics were top-tier to begin with.

Her Ultimate Destiny holds supreme might over the destinies of Divine Objects!

And right now, Fortuna’s strength was built on Liu Jun splitting open the Chaotic Sea Water.

Otherwise, in the Ocean of Chaos, fate can’t be used... Fortuna would just be a weakling mortal without Destiny Divine Power.

She’d get slapped to death by this behind-the-scenes black hand in one go.

Mechanics countering each other is very important!

Liu Jun turned his head, looked at those few mathematicians, and said calmly:

"Measure all his stats carefully. See if we can do effective parameter tuning to完善 Akusu Civilization’s life-creation tech."

The scientists’ hearts trembled. Had Lord God taken a fancy to the other side’s power?

Which made sense: a technology from an ancient civilization was bound to have something worth learning.

The way they turned one Divine Object after another into parts of a Gear Divine Artifact Series and gathered them into an intelligent AI computer was actually a pretty good idea.

This trip, they were here as subordinates under the God of Merchants, helping God to develop this new section of the seabed.

"Kill!"

Akusu, seeing his Divine Objects constantly being subverted and heavily weakened, was furious. "Damn it, our race is clearly destined to be the protagonist. How could we possibly fall here?"

"I’ve already grown and created several of my own kind..."

"All I need to do is keep slaughtering Supreme Tenth Order beings in large numbers, so that after they die their Divine Objects get locked into the Gear Divine Artifact Series, and then I can breed more of my own kind..."

"By then, the sea will surely be teeming with life."

"With the Divine Objects snowballing, numbers exploding, the creatures of the Sea of Chaos will be as flourishing as the most primitive ancient oceans..."

"We are the future!"

"This dull Chaos Sea Region will one day be brimming with vibrant life!"

In Akusu’s eyes, the blueprint he was painting of that deep-sea fish race was completely feasible.

Kill the powerhouses of the upper waters and pop out strings of fish eggs, then hatch countless kin of his on the seabed.

But before he even had the chance to truly rise, he ran into these so-called gods.

"That so-called deep-sea fish race of yours, the entire dream of reviving Akusu Civilization, is just a lump of trash that fate doesn’t approve of!"

Looking at Akusu’s collapsing gaze, Fortuna said, "I am fate, you know. If I say you’re cursed by fate and not the destined protagonist, then you’re not."

Akusu: "Liar, you’re lying!"

Fortuna: "Fate doesn’t lie!"

Akusu: "Liar, liar!"

Fortuna kept piling on: "You only have the intelligence of a five-year-old. You think you have what it takes to drive this plan? You’re manic and brainless, dizzy and clueless, can’t even read a big character. If your IQ were high enough, you’d have improved that five-year-old mind of yours long ago and become a complete, truly wise lifeform."

"It’s precisely because you’re stuck at five years old that you’ll always be five... you’ll never establish your fish race."

Akusu was scolded until he was utterly rattled. "Damn it, damn it!"

...

Liu Jun watched from the side in silence for a moment.

When did Fortuna suddenly start quarrelling with a raging five-year-old kid?

To be fair, this behind-the-scenes boss really wasn’t that impressive.

Just like Fortuna said, after so many years, if his fish race could have developed, it would’ve developed already.

His five-year-old IQ had never been able to improve... he couldn’t even improve himself—he was just a raging beast.

Over the next few days, Fortuna kept slaughtering, pushing the battle line forward.

Liu Jun didn’t interfere. Instead, he went around inspecting the surroundings and searched for data on the ruins of Akusu Civilization.

He discovered that this ancient civilization did indeed have its merits and was overwhelmingly powerful.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that Akusu only hunted in waters around four hundred thousand meters deep; as a behind-the-scenes boss, his strength was no weaker than that Merfolk black hand hiding down at a million meters.

They were just two different types.

That Merfolk black hand was a real, living person, with a main body at a normal Tenth Order... so he hid very deep to avoid having his body found.

He hid his body in the deep sea, then let his Merfolk Divine Object troops go hunting in the upper four to five hundred thousand meter waters.

The essence of both of these guys was the same: hunting the powerhouses who entered this five-hundred-thousand-meter-level water zone to cultivate the late Tenth Order realm.

"In that sense, they’re just taking different paths to the same end."

"One builds a giant Divine Object lifeform made of Gear Divine Object components; the other wants to stack Merfolk Divine Objects and become a Merfolk King..."

Liu Jun didn’t know if this was the direction for breaking through to the next realm.

But clearly, it had extremely high reference value!

From the very start, Liu Jun had never taken those so-called minor realms within Tenth Order seriously.

He knew that reaching Tenth Order Perfection would be effortless for him; he’d never planned to linger there, but to go explore the Eleventh Order that no one had ever set foot in.

If it really exists...

But Liu Jun was also perfectly aware that the Eleventh Order should exist.

His own origin—Mushroom Soup—was proof of that!