After several seconds of silence, the Arbiter suddenly laughed.
A laugh of sheer exasperation.
"Heh... Your shamelessness truly shocks me sometimes. How did you even manage to say something like that?"
"What's so impossible to say?" Lu Ce lay back in an extremely comfortable position amid this void of energy.
"Didn't this game swallow up the rewards I was supposed to get whenever it felt like it?"
The Arbiter immediately frowned and retorted:
"Swallow them? What do you mean by that? From the moment you entered the God-Human Gamble, things like conventional game rewards no longer applied."
"You won and survived. The stakes the gods lost to you became your reward. This time, didn't you also absorb the powers of Death and even Joy?"
They had possessed their own consciousness for some time now, enough to argue with someone like Lu Ce without being so easily fooled.
The passive effect of the Ignorance Halo had still failed against the wary Arbiter.
But Lu Ce was neither discouraged nor embarrassed. He merely looked at the Arbiter teasingly and said:
"Oh my, the child has grown up. You're not so easy to fool anymore."
"But those things you mentioned are just official business within the game. Given our relationship, it's only proper for you to secretly give me a few extra benefits."
Arbiter: #
They were nearly unable to suppress their fury. Hearing Sin still voluntarily say such things at a time like this, they immediately said coldly:
"Our relationship...?"
"What relationship do we have?!"
Lu Ce said, "That really hurts my feelings. How could you turn your back on me like that?"
"You should know that I was the one who helped you gain consciousness and freed you from your identity as a tool after all those long years. That's the