Chapter 156 - 155 – Are The Gods Interfering?

After feeling that pain and spitting out a lot of blood, I felt my body being thrown as I continued to moan in pain. Again I fell to the ground and rolled over.

But this time when I tried to get up I couldn't move my body very well, it was like my legs weren't attached to my body and I couldn't move them.

I tried to get up anyway, but even my arms weren't strong enough, it was a strange feeling, my whole body was unusable.

'Damn it, I'm going to die if things go on like this.' I thought as I watched the armor slowly approach me. Already realizing the state I was in, she wasn't in much of a hurry.

I tried to crawl on the ground to get away, but even that I didn't have the strength to do it.

'Looks like all the injuries I ignored before decided to punish me.' I lay back as I looked up, then I saw the armor looking down at my face.

She was standing beside my head as she looked at me and was silent.

'Are you going to try to crush my head again? Just know I won't allow it.' I thought as I looked at the armor. She continued to look at me for a while longer and then lifted her foot over my head.

"Why don't you kill me otherwise? Isn't crushing my head too radical a thing to do?" Hearing my complaints, the armor completely ignored me and dropped its foot towards me.

But of course, I wouldn't allow everything to be that simple.

I couldn't use the goddess's blessing to heal myself right now, my other abilities are also unusable.

'I can't move my body very well, but nothing stops me from doing that.' Thinking that I saw the foot descend toward my face, but before it could hit directly my nose.

A shield was created over my face using magic. Of course, the protection broke shortly after being hit.

"How annoying you are." The armor lifted its foot and tried to hit my head again, but I used the protection one more time. I was managing to avoid dying, but the earth used in magic was all falling into my face.

I spat dirt from my mouth as I put on another shield and stopped his foot again.

Seeing that it wouldn't do, the armor tried to hit my belly, but I easily put another shield there. But of course, the armor started to lose patience and the glow inside his helmet increased.

"You look like an annoying insect that never dies even if you slap it 50 times." The armor said as a large amount of mana formed under me. The ground beneath me started to turn dark.

"What do you plan on doing?"

"I'll just kill you. It's going to hurt a little but it's going to be quick, don't worry."

"No, I'm sure it's going to fucking hurt," I said as I tried to drag myself out of there, but that black shadow under my body followed me wherever I went.

Right then, I started to feel something piercing my back and a sharp pain hit me.

"Guh~~" I moaned and gritted my teeth as I started to feel my back being pierced and something started to move inside my body. It was as if a person had reached into my belly and was moving my organs.

It was a strange and very painful feeling.

My eyes filled with tears as I endured that strong pain that hit me.

But of course, even seeing me suffer the armor didn't stop. I started to feel more of these things entering me from my back. I could feel these things wrapping around my ribs.

I could feel these things caressing my heart.

"I should have killed you sooner, just thought it would be fun to fight you for a while. But I was wrong, it just pissed me off deeply."

"I'm sorry if you can't have fun," I said as I stuttered from the pain I was feeling.

Even trying to use magic to try to make your magic be undone, my mana was being drained. So I just had nothing to do, it was useless.

I couldn't use magic and couldn't move. The only thing I could do was lie down and wait for my death. I hope that goddess doesn't get mad at me.

"Wait, will I be able to return if I die again?" That thought started to terrify me for an instant, but before I could scream or say anything, I felt my heart be crushed inside my chest.

A few seconds later, my vision blurred and darkened.

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At the same moment, I felt my body float as if I was flying, and then I felt an impact on my back showing that I was lying on something. My vision was dark so I couldn't tell.

It took a while for my vision to come back. I was lying on the floor and looking up at a white ceiling.

No, in my vision a beautiful woman also appeared, it was the Goddess.

"I died again, didn't I?" I asked as I stood up and looked at the nostalgic blank space around me.

"How many more times are you going to die? You were very reckless."

"Were you watching everything?" I asked a little awkwardly.

"Of course, I'm always watching you." The goddess put a playful smile on her face.

"So you mean you listened when I asked for your help and you didn't do anything?" I glared at her coldly, causing the goddess to pull away from me a little as she whistled and acted like nothing was happening.

"Okay, but now tell me why you did it." She walked quickly towards me as her shoe made a loud noise.

"Why? Because I wanted to level up, isn't it simple?"

"Just for that?"

"Do you even know what's going on down there? There's a stupid war going on between two countries that started for no reason."

"Oh yes, I know about that. That idiot interfering in my world." Isadora said this in a barely audible voice, so I didn't hear it very well.

"What's it?"

"It was nothing. I just said that I know this war is going on. It's really stupid, isn't it?" Isadora broke out in a sweat the moment she said those words. I soon realized she was hiding something.

Even a goddess can't hide her nervousness (She could read my thoughts, but whatever.)

"You know something, don't you?"

"Of course not."

"This is suspicious. You are the goddess who runs that world, so you should know why this war started."

"I do not know about that."

"Come on, tell me."

"I won't say."

"So you know, just tell me soon." With our exchange of words, the goddess seemed a little impatient. Then she turned to me and pouted.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you."

"Then say it." Isadora looked at me with disdain when I said this. But I completely ignored her gaze and just continued to listen to her words. 

Your explanation was useless! She really is a useless goddess.

"Hey, I can hear your thoughts."

Sorry about that, but it's true.

She just explained to me that the throne of Beastled had been usurped by a naive and dangerous person. And that I already knew because my mom had told me about it, so that information was useless.

I asked her if she had any motivation for usurping the throne and starting a war, but...

"This is just to harm me." She said it like it was normal.

I soon began to question whether this was even true. Someone invaded her world and started a war just to harm her? What kind of craziness is she talking to me right now?

"Have you forgotten that we are in the middle of a war between the gods? If they harm me and harm you, they will have a lot of advantage." Hearing my thoughts the goddess grumbled.

"But did they need to start a war? They just needed to somehow come to me and kill me or do something to stop me from leveling up, isn't that the normal thing to do?"

"You did not understand? They also want to harm my world, not just you."

"And does that make sense? Is your world good for anything other than me being able to live there and level up?"

"Well, if I had to say, the winning god's world will become the original world. So if they manage to destroy my world before the war, I wouldn't be able to participate."

"You didn't tell me about this before…" I questioned her while looking at her seriously, but she just smiled and ignored my gaze.

"But now you know. And about destroying my world, they can't act directly, so they use their subordinates to do it for them. Didn't you just get killed by one of them?"

"So that guy was a god's subordinate? That's why it's so strong."

"He's not that strong. If you level up a little more, you'll probably get a lot stronger than him."

"I hope so.... But besides this war, what else they did?"