Chapter 347

"Hmm..." Witch K suddenly said thoughtfully, "I wonder what Aurelia's reaction will be when she wakes up and finds out what she's been doing in the city these past few days."

"Well."

Ryan's expression was strange.

The usually aloof City Lord has transformed into a lively young woman, smiling and waving to the citizens everywhere. And you know what? The contrast is quite captivating.

"It's nothing, at most it's just social death."

For the next two days, Ryan perfectly played the role of a boyfriend to a girl in love, accompanying Aphrodite on a tour of the City of Desire.

Although the City of Desire was not large, it was not small either. In three days, they managed to see most of the interesting places. On the evening of the third day, Ryan and Aphrodite appeared in the central square of the city and strolled leisurely around the huge statue of the god of desire.

Looking at Aphrodite walking ahead with her hands behind her back, Ryan couldn't help but say, "The third day is coming to an end."

The City of Desire has no day or night, but in terms of time, it's already the last hour of the third day.

"Yes, it's almost over."

Aphrodite's smile slowly faded. She stopped, looked up at the deep starry sky, and then reached out her hand as if trying to grasp something.

"Time really flies... I always thought Janus's timeline was unreasonable. Why is there only 24 hours in a day instead of 48? But then, when I was alone in the Chaos Space, I realized that a day should only have 12 hours."

"Indeed, neither humans nor gods can escape desire, even desire itself is like that."

Aphrodite chuckled softly, turned to look at Ryan, and asked, "Lord Ryan, what is your strongest desire?"

Ryan thought for a moment and said, "Probably living freely."

To be honest, he couldn't quite figure out what Aphrodite was thinking. After shopping, she was here lecturing him on life's philosophies. If he didn't know Aphrodite's identity, he would have wondered if there was something wrong with the concept of desire.

"Freedom... Ah, that's such a luxury for me. But then again, freedom means being able to do whatever you want, and thinking about it that way, it seems even harder to achieve. Even the Creator has his worries... Sigh~"

Aphrodite sighed softly.

"What's wrong?" Ryan asked, puzzled.

"It's nothing, just that something I've been hesitating about has finally been decided." Aphrodite smiled. "Lord Ryan, are you happy these past few days?"

Ryan shrugged. "It's not bad, I guess."

He had no reason to lie, and doing so occasionally was indeed nice, even though shopping took far more energy than he had imagined.

"That's good. At least... the last memory I have of the Creator is happy, not sad... that's enough."

Aphrodite's voice grew softer and softer until Ryan couldn't hear it anymore.

Just as Ryan was about to ask Aphrodite what she meant, everything around them suddenly fell silent.

As if time and space had been sealed off, the entire central square fell silent, and even the colors turned into a deep, dark tone. The next moment, a power filled with chaos and turmoil instantly filled the surroundings!

Ryan was shocked. In his mind's eye, he seemed to see a familiar figure—a huge cross standing between heaven and earth, and bound to the cross was the fallen woman who had been chasing him!

"Aphrodite!"

"Hmm...three days." Aphrodite looked up at the clock standing in the square. The hands corresponded to the time she had mentioned with perfect accuracy. Aphrodite's eyes dimmed, and a deep reluctance appeared in them.

"My Lord Creator, it is time to part."

Ryan looked into the distant void and saw the hanging woman rapidly approaching. He then glanced at Aphrodite, wondering what this woman was up to.

Was this a deliberate scheme to frame him? Or was the prediction about the Misty Space wrong?

Boom!

The scene of space collapsing swept over us in an instant!

The collapsing space approached rapidly, engulfing everything in the plaza. Ryan tried to escape, but found his body imprisoned by this space, unable to break free!

Just as he was about to be swallowed up by the collapse, Aphrodite suddenly reached out and gently pushed him.

The interaction between the two pushed Ryan away into the distance, while sending Aphrodite into an abyss of endless collapse.

To Ryan's surprise, he saw the smile on Aphrodite's face and heard the gentle voice in his ear.

"Farewell... Creator."

Swish!

The intense mental shock pierced Ryan's mind, almost making him scream, and it took him a while to recover.

"Ryan!!!" Witch K rushed to Ryan's side. "What happened?!"

She had just sensed a strong danger approaching, and then Ryan and Aphrodite suddenly vanished mysteriously.

"I... wait, where's Aphrodite?!"

Ryan instinctively looked around.

At that moment, a gap was torn open in the space around her, and the next second, Aurelia's body was thrown out of it.

Ryan instinctively caught her, and was about to call out "Aphrodite" when he suddenly realized that Aurelia was just Aurelia... Aphrodite was gone?

A strong burning sensation came from his right hand. He turned his hand over and saw that the mark of desire was rapidly solidifying. As the power of the mark grew stronger, Ryan felt that he was becoming more and more closely integrated with the path of desire.

At the same time, he also sensed that the being that originally held Divine Authority along the path of desire was disappearing at an extremely fast speed!

"Rather than being bound, it's better to simply vanish..."

"The last three days, thank you for your company, Creator! Hehe~"

A faint sound drifted up from the path of desire, accompanied by what seemed like a shrill scream, and vanished along with the power of desire.

Chapter 219 The Path of Fusion, Becoming a God!

She's gone. Aphrodite has vanished.

Ryan could sense that the entire path of desire was being violently disrupted as a result.

If the emotions conveyed by desire and pleasure before were happiness, then now, it is an unprecedented and heavy blow, and all the Supernatural Being walking on this path are feeling the depletion of their power.

The God of Desire has fallen!

Ryan couldn't believe it. He had always thought that Aphrodite's appearance was a brief breakthrough from his restraints due to his increased power, after all, even Aphrodite herself had said so.

But that's not the case at all. Aphrodite briefly broke the seal, but the hanging woman also broke free of her restraints, chasing after her desires to kill Ryan. But at the last moment...

"The power of the God of Desire has vanished?" Witch K frowned. Although she wasn't a follower of the Desire path, she could still sense the change at that level. The commotion caused by the fall of a god was immense.

And, there also seemed to be an extremely terrifying force that appeared just now.

What exactly happened just now?

Ryan didn't answer, but looked down at the mark on the back of his right hand. At this moment, the Mark of Desire had transformed into a mark symbolizing the Divine Authority of desire.

In her final moments, Aphrodite returned to Ryan all the memories she carried, along with the power of desire.

If Ryan can refine it, he can become the new God of Desire.

But Ryan wasn't happy at all.

"Rather than being bound, let it all dissipate and enjoy the final pleasure..."

Damn it, that damn guy!

Including Janus, both the true gods and the Outer Gods were affected by the power of that mysterious woman.

Ryan swore that if he got the chance, he would kill her!

"Ryan, what's wrong?" Witch K still hadn't figured out what had happened. She didn't even understand why the God of Desire was following Ryan. It was only out of trust in the latter that she understood. Otherwise, she would definitely have asked Ryan for clarification.

"No... Phew~k, I should be able to become a god now."

Ryan's words left Witch K speechless.

"Become... a god? You're not kidding, are you?"

That's an existence beyond the Eighth Tier.

"That's right, we'll leave this City of Desire after we become gods."

The existence of the upside-down woman posed a great threat to Ryan. To fight against that creature, one would need at least god-level power, so becoming a god was of utmost urgency.

Perhaps this is the path I must take... Ryan pondered, because the breakthrough of the normal mark had reached its limit, while the power of the Misty Space had been increasing, yet it had been unable to be moved.

He had a feeling that it wasn't that he couldn't use the power of the Misty Space, but rather that his current strength was insufficient.

After glancing at the unconscious Aurelia, Ryan had the witch K take her back to the castle, and then went alone to the place where the Scepter of the Bizarre was sealed.

I've been spending these past few days shopping with Aphrodite and haven't had a proper chance to visit this place, but Aphrodite has clearly stated that the treacherous god Moras has fallen, and the secrets he hid might just be hidden in the scepter.

However, Ryan did not rush to investigate the scepter. Instead, he set up a barrier at the center of the seal and began to absorb the energy contained within the mark.

"The path of desire has now become Faith Path without a master. I have the authority given to me by Aphrodite, and I can absorb it without any obstacles."

"Once the refinement is complete, I will be the new God of Desire. Then I will continue to absorb the authority from the other three pathways, and my memories should also be restored along with them... By then, even if my strength doesn't return to what it was before, it shouldn't be too much different."

Ryan had initially planned to distribute authority among his Alts, but he made a mistake. No matter how many newbies there were, they couldn't defeat a high-level player. If he couldn't return to the level of a creator, he wouldn't be able to eliminate that mysterious woman.

The correct approach is to consolidate power and then differentiate it.

As he pondered, Ryan calmed his mind and began to refine the Mark of Desire.

Unlike the previous marks, the mark of fused authority was far beyond the power of the chosen one. After Ryan's Mental Power merged into it, he immediately felt the vastness of the entire path of desire, as boundless as the starry sky.

He is like a star in this sky, giving his all to shine.

In this starry sky, besides him, there are many other stars, each corresponding to a Supernatural Being walking the path of desire.

And those Power of Desire are this sea of stars. The stars absorb the power of the sea of stars to become stronger, making the light reflected in the starry sky even more dazzling, until they become the only irreplaceable existence here.

Ryan had a feeling that the Faith Path itself had always existed, and that God was just one star among many. It was just that God's power had become so great that He could control all the energy in the cosmos and mobilize it according to His will.

But God's power is not achieved through his own ability; rather, it requires a trigger, namely God's authority.

Power is the key to unlocking the energy of the cosmos, and gods are those who, after reaching a certain level of strength, refine this key to become true gods on the Faith Path.

"To refine authority, one needs to reach the limits of human strength, specifically the Eighth Tier limit. With my current power, this is impossible, but since the authority itself belongs to me, I can refine it..."

Power is not born from the body of God, but exists after creation; it is the cornerstone that lays the foundation for the stability of the world.

Time and space, sun, moon, earth, order, death, war, chaos, desire, wisdom... these forces that pass through the land support the existence of the Rhea Continent... After Ryan's spirit merged with the Faith Path, these insights seemed to emerge naturally.

The refining process went much more smoothly than he had expected. Aphrodite gave him her last bit of power before her fall, to help him refine the authority.

As Ryan soared through the starry sea along his Faith Path, the stars he transformed into frantically absorbed their power, causing his strength to surge wildly.

Soaring!

Bang bang~

Bang bang~

Bang bang~

The sound of a heartbeat was clearly audible.

At this moment, he could look down upon the stars he had transformed into along the way, which beat like hearts, bursting forth with unprecedented power!

After an unknown amount of time, Ryan, who was cultivating in the sea of stars, opened his eyes and felt the complete refinement of the power. His Mental Power spread rapidly outward along the sea of stars, almost instantly enveloping the information of all the Supernatural Being traveling along this path.

"So this is what it feels like for God to look down on believers."

That's amazing.

Ryan can see anyone if he wants to.

Of course, this requires the other person to be walking on this path or performing a ritual related to desire; otherwise, he cannot see it.

Ryan focused his mind and then discovered something else: the power in the Star Sea was not static, but rather grew stronger as the number of Supernatural Being and believers increased, and vice versa.

No wonder gods compete for faith power; the more believers there are, the stronger the power that flows through them, and the more power the gods can mobilize... Ryan suddenly thought of the Misty Space, which seemed to have corresponding stars, and the effect was similar to that of the Faith Path.

His thoughts shifted, and his spirit withdrew from the Faith Path and returned to his body.

Boom!

Almost instantly, the residual power of his ascension to godhood erupted, shattering the barrier he had set up beforehand.

"So strong!"

A hint of joy appeared in Ryan's eyes.

"As expected of the power of a god, and an unbound god at that. Eighth Tier being is simply no match for such power."

Although Eighth Tier Supernatural Being are also called demigods, the gap between them is actually insurmountable.