Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough

Chapter 911: The Black Knight's Warning, Alluring and Dangerous

[Well, since so much time has passed, you must have met many gods by now, heard them say all sorts of things about me being some twisted schemer or something like that.]

[To be fair, they're all slandering me. They just don't understand what I'm doing. The truth is, I've always loved them.]

[Yeah, that's right. Otherwise, why would I spend so much time trying to kill them?]

Agony walked forward, suddenly chattering like a blabbermouth.

Lu Ce thought to himself that this guy really was too unserious. These were pre-recorded messages, yet he still had the mind to ramble like this, as if they were actually having a conversation.

[They have many questions about me, and I'm sure you do too. But no matter what the questions are, we first need to get one thing straight.]

[What exactly... is a god?]

[Back in the day, I was confused about this question too, and I did quite a bit of research and experimentation because of it.]

Lu Ce's heart stirred. On this question, it seemed like only Xie Antong had ever pondered it before. Back then, she thought she was about to die, and desperately tried to share her discovery with the world.

She said that gods were energy itself, that they had to keep growing, and that if they ever stopped, they would collapse completely.That guess of hers had directly drawn the murderous intent of the gods. Now, according to Agony, this topic was indeed quite taboo.

What he hadn't expected was that even the gods themselves didn't know what a god was. Even Agony himself had needed to research it?

[Last time you summoned me, I noticed that girl from your world actually managed to guess part of the truth. Impressive...]

[Too bad.]

"Too bad?" Lu Ce sharply seized on that word. "Too bad about what?"

Agony naturally couldn't reply to him right now and continued along the pre-set path, speaking:

[This doubt first arose because I didn't know my "past." From the moment my memories began, I was "Agony."]

[At first, I thought I just appeared out of nowhere. But back then, when the gods weren't yet powerful, there was a situation called "Divine Throne Strife."]

[Two gods with similar energies would fight each other, and ultimately, the newer one would survive.]

[At that time, I thought my fellow traveler had been replaced. But to my horror, I discovered—no!]

[They were almost completely identical. The exact same style of conduct, the exact same methods of handling problems. Since they had absorbed the previous one's memories, they looked exactly like the same god! Not a single change!]

As Agony said this, his expression turned extremely grim, and even Lu Ce beside him felt a chill run down his spine.

He couldn't help but think of Xie Antong, of her current abnormal state that resembled Pleasure.

[So, what was I originally? Was I always "Agony," or was I something else before, and only thought I was Agony after becoming Agony?]

[Since I'm an energy body, I wanted to test whether an object without intelligence could generate its own will after being infused with energy.]

[Originally, I just wanted to rule out one wrong possibility. But after nearly an epoch of failure, I found a half-finished product.]

[Namely, this thing. Back then, I compressed it into a metal sphere and called it the Mechanical Core.]

After he finished speaking, Lu Ce's heart suddenly jumped. It couldn't be...

Before his doubts could settle, the answer appeared directly before his eyes. A black light flashed in the air, and the Black Knight's figure materialized.

The moment it appeared, it exclaimed in mid-air:

"Damn! It really is this guy! I remember now! Run, Sin! Don't stay here!"

Its voice had lost all trace of its usual joking demeanor and turned deathly serious. It was like that one friend who was never serious suddenly red-eyed, telling you to run for your life.

"Black Knight?" Lu Ce stepped forward and grabbed its handlebars, frowning.

"Don't listen to what He says. He's dangerous. He's absolutely the most dangerous of all the gods!"

The Black Knight's warning was severe. Its massive body was even actively pushing Lu Ce backward.

"Calm down!" Lu Ce's expression turned a bit ugly, then he smiled and said, "What, don't you have faith in me?"

The Black Knight fell silent. In its eyes, the Lu Ce before it was all-powerful. Even fighting against the gods, it had never thought there was a problem. But after seeing Agony, it had remembered many things, and it was a purely stress-induced reaction.

"Be careful. Don't listen to what He says!"

"What He says is always alluring, but it's also the most dangerous. It might even make you lose your life without realizing it..."

Lu Ce frowned. The Black Knight was clearly having issues right now, looking like it had been scared senseless.

But he couldn't leave now anyway, so he just raised his guard even more internally and turned his gaze back to Agony.

"Continue."

During the time the Black Knight appeared, Agony had remained silent, as if actively waiting.

After Lu Ce spoke, He replied:

[If you want to leave, just go ahead. You can bring it up anytime. I won't stop you. This isn't imprisonment, and we shouldn't be enemies.]

[I'm already dead, truly dead. You are "Agony" now. I'm just your predecessor.]

The corner of Lu Ce's mouth twitched. In human terms, the word "predecessor" wasn't used like that.

Agony's tone was perfectly natural, without any coercion or aggression. But it was precisely this contrast that made Him seem more powerful than the other gods.

The two of them continued walking step by step, though this time the Black Knight followed alongside, looking like it was ready to strike at any moment.

[After creating it, the other gods were basically copying me.]

[They would pour power into weapons, and after enough energy nourished them, the weapons would develop a so-called "self-awareness," and they'd call them divine artifacts.]

[Boring. Nothing but low-grade junk.]

Agony said this offhandedly, as if it wasn't important information at all. But to Lu Ce's ears, it was like discovering a new world.

He had already suspected the Black Knight's origins before, wondering since it could talk on its own and had similarities to divine artifacts, why couldn't it become one?

So he had gotten it all wrong. It was the predecessor of divine artifacts!

All this time, he had been thinking the father looked like the son!