Everyone:...
The moment those words were spoken, the entire room fell silent. Everyone seemed to need a moment to process them.
They blinked, finding it utterly absurd.
What the hell was this guy talking about?
"What did you just say?" Nie Jiutian could not help asking. From the beginning of the battle against the gods until now, this was the first time he had begun to doubt his own ears.
"Pain... how could you have killed it? As for Death, hadn't it died long ago?"
Judging by the timeline, it was hard to say whether humanity had even existed when Pain died.
"It did die long ago, but it wasn't completely dead."
"Only a few days ago did it truly die—right in front of me. Its spirit and soul were utterly reduced to nothing."
"I can confirm its death, and half of its power is now with me."
Whenever Lu Ce opened his mouth, the scene became exceptionally quiet. Everyone stared wide-eyed and listened, afraid of missing even a single syllable.
What Lu Ce was saying now seemed far more important than anything he had said before.
A few seconds after his words fell, the people gathered around him exploded into an uproar!
"So that means you're the God of Suffering now?!"
"How did you do it? How did you find it? Can you already fight gods now?"
"When exactly did this happen? Why did we never sense anything?"
"So you defeated Pain?! Then why do you say we can't win!"
"..."
These people normally cared somewhat about maintaining their status, but now every one of them had lost their composure. They chattered noisily like common townsfolk.
They could not even stay seated. Everyone stood up, and aside from Lu Ce himself, the only people still sitting were Xie Antong