059 Hua Tie Liu Li

It felt as though he had dreamed a very long dream.

Born from chaos, named by reality, fighting with sword in hand, usurping power and seizing the throne, resisting invasion, then suffering defeat and exile.

—Lioz, God of the Present World, and his ordinary, unremarkable life.

Gaia's wolf claws should have fallen with killing intent and death, ending that life. As a Cannon Fodder God, he was not entitled to return his soul to the Nether Abyss; all that awaited him was utter annihilation.

However, the course of the dream changed.

Gaia did not kill him. Instead, it exiled Lioz from the Star Abyss.

—What exactly was it planning? Was it playing some grand game, or merely indulging in a boring, twisted amusement? Or had it simply become so convinced of its invincibility that it feared nothing? Whatever the case, Lioz knew one thing: he was still alive.

Not only that, when the Eternal Speaker, Red King, swung Divine Sword Only Plunder at him, it did not harm him. Instead, it bestowed upon him a faint desire.

That desire was called "unwillingness."

Unwillingness to accept that others possessed what he did not, unwillingness to see his efforts ignored, unwillingness to watch what should have been his fall into someone else's hands.

Just as Rielly had once said, she had given him a name carrying the meaning of "understanding," so that one day, he could find what he truly desired.

Lioz decided to plunder Seeds, seize all his privileges and identities, and finally kill him completely.

Bound by the curse of the Layered Abyss, he had no choice but to reside within the mortal Li Aoz, intending to recuperate. But then the unexpected happened—Li Aoz was killed by a Spirit Wraith, and his long-term residence within a mortal body caused his