Chapter 654: Banquet with the Gods

Chapter 654: Banquet with the Gods

The Gods’ hierarchical system could be simply described like this: Athenae was at the peak, above the Absolute Gods, who were akin to emperors. Spear God Aerdes was like a king below that. Although they were all Gods, their world followed a strict and indisputable system.

Among the Gods, Aerdes could be considered to be the one that had remained in her position for a very long time. She remained steadfast and firm in her throne and was one of the candidates of becoming an Absolute God. But one day, she left her position and entrusted it to a human legend before disappearing.

Rumors circulated among the Gods. Some said that the human had defeated Spear God Aerdes. There was also speculation about how Spear God Aerdes was left dying from an unforeseen accident, which forced her to relinquish her seat and entrust it to the human.

However, there was one thing that everyone was sure of. All of them firmly believed that the one that inherited the position of the Spear God was a great person. Otherwise, it would not make sense for them to inherit Spear God Aerdes’ powers.

At this very moment, the new Spear God, an old veteran, knelt on one knee and paid his respects to the Continental God that they were mocking, the very same Continental God that liked to eat and was a mere king of men.

“Your Majesty, you called for me?”

Vwooooooooong—

Ardees’ fire golem had been instantly knocked down the moment the old man appeared, a feat that revealed his greatness as the Spear God.

‘Did, did he just say Spear God?!’

‘The Spear God that we have heard about from the rumors is that man’s vassal?!’

‘What the hell? What kind of ridiculous bullshit is that? How can a God be the vassal of a mere human’s... no, the recently ascended Continental God?!’

Everyone was in disbelief. Of course, it was only natural. After all, it was rare even for the Gods to have other Gods serving under them.

The one that was most surprised was Ardees. He knew best about the fire golem’s capabilities and powers. Its HP volume was ridiculously high, and that was not all.

‘An ordinary God’s attack would never be able to pierce through its defenses.’

Of course, it was only proper to categorize these so-called Gods below someone at the Spear God’s level. However, there was one thing that Ardees was certain of, if that Spear God remained standing there, then he would never have a chance of defeating the one hailed as the Food God.

‘This can’t be happening... are you telling me that I won’t be able to touch that trivial man just because of his subordinate?’

Ardees turned despondent. The vassal was preventing him from beating the shit out of the weak and trivial human.

“Your Majesty, do you have any orders for me?” Ben asked politely, still kneeling down on one knee.

Ben had been Minhyuk’s vassal for the longest time. As such, he was very quick in deducing what the boy wanted to do. He quickly glared at all of the prying eyes that surrounded them. Everyone that met his gaze all shuddered and turned away.

Then, Ardees said, “This fight will be considered void. I summoned the fire golem to show our true worth. But you summoned the Spear God? Don’t you think that’s beyond ridiculous?”

Ardees tried to get out of the situation to the best of his abilities. However, Minhyuk just looked at him as if he found it funny and scoffed, “You can do it, but I can’t? There’s nothing more ridiculous than that.”

“I clearly said that I will fight you. I never mentioned that I will fight the Spear God.”

Minhyuk frowned, “Ho, that sounds like you’re telling me that you can win easily if the Spear God is not with me.”

“Isn’t that only natural?” Ardees sneered. He was sure that this was the reason for the man’s confidence. Ardees was very confident in his assumption. The man in front of him was only able to be so arrogant because the Spear God was by his side. Perhaps it was the Spear God that helped him reach the realms of the God.

“Is that so? Ridiculous. I’m pretty confident that I will be able to knock you down in just one hit.”

“So, you’ve gone mental.”

“You have started to talk arrogantly just because you summoned a God.”

“As expected of a human. Such arrogance...”

It was not just Ardees, even the other Gods clicked their tongues at Minhyuk.

At the same time, a brilliant idea came upon Minhyuk.

“Hoo... Hooo... Hoo... Hooo...”

Minhyuk began to breathe heavily, his feet stomping heavily on the ground.

Crack! Crack, crack, crack!

“You’re belittling me?!!! The great me?! The king of a nation and a human that became a God?!!!”

Then, Ben, who was quick on the uptake, quickly scrambled up. Having seen Minhyuk’s wink that the others failed to see, he said, “Your, Your Majesty... please, please calm down. You can’t grow angry like last time. The last time you got angry like this, you killed plenty of your subordinates, did you not?”

“Don’t stop me, Ben. I won’t let any of these people that have belittled me go!”

“Your Majesty, I beg you. Please calm yourself down!”

At that moment, Ardees and the other Gods realized that Minhyuk had an anger-management issue. When they thought back, they realized that he had also punched Ardees in the face just because Ardees flipped his plate over. No matter how they looked at it, it was definitely an anger management issue.

“...”

“...”

The feeling of shock deepened at those words. This was more so the case for Ardees. His eyes had grown wide as he thought, ‘That’s, that’s not true... that’s impossible.’

He wanted to deny it. No, in fact, he wanted to get out of this situation right now. But before he could do so, a bright light burst from behind them as a throne was created.

[God of Origin, Mother Athenae, has graced the Banquet with the Gods with her presence.]

“...!”

“...!”

The greatest God had made an appearance. As she appeared on her throne, she said, “The first foreigner to receive my recognition and my first knight...”

“...”

“...”

“...Congratulations on ascending and becoming a True God.”

“God’s Knight?”

“Him?”

“None of the Gods has ever been God Athenae’s Knight though...”

The impact and significance of a God’s Knight was very huge. This was because becoming a God’s Knight meant that they had received Athenae’s recognition. It was a very unbelievable achievement that not even the Gods have achieved.

Minhyuk showed courtesy towards Athenae and said, “Thank you.”

Minhyuk knew that he would have probably lost in the battle against the Corrupted God if Athenae had not appeared to help him. That was why he was truly grateful to her.

“...This is impossible,” Ardees shook his head in disbelief.

The God of Origin and one of the Absolute Gods had come to congratulate a human’s ascension to being a True God. That was completely ridiculous. However, with this, there was no way that Ardees would be able to avoid the duel against the man.

Ardees then thought, ‘Perhaps that man was only able to defeat the Corrupted God because the God of Origin descended, made him into her knight and shared with him her power?’

This was the only way that it could make sense. At the same time, Ardees knew that he should immediately launch an attack. He thought of using his most powerful attack, Flaming Explosion. It was an attack that allowed him to turn his opponent to ashes upon summoning a gigantic bead of blazing flames. Ardees was confident that he would be able to kill that man with this one move.

“Flaming...”

Unfortunately, he was unable to finish his sentence.

“Sword of Absolute Death.”

Stab!

“...?”

Ardees did not even realize that a powerful sword was already stuck in his head.

Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, stab!

Immediately after that, hundreds of sword blades appeared and stabbed through his body. However, it did not end there. The man did it again.

“Sword of Absolute Death.”

Stab—

Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, stab!!!

Crackle, crackle—

The arrogant God, Incarnation of Fire Ardees, had persecuted and trampled on many Continental Gods. He was also someone that has committed plenty of evil acts by borrowing and using the influence and power of the God of Death. This very same God died within four seconds, turning into ashes and disappearing into the wind.

At the same time, notifications rang in Minhyuk’s head.

[You have acquired the Title: ‘The One that can Even Deceive the Gods’.]

[You have received three God’s Recognitions!]

[You have lifted the seal of the Corrupted Goddess’ Ring!]