"That's right, Chthon. This is all your fault."
Everyone nodded. Chthon still refused to admit fault. He said, "How was I supposed to know the Mechanical Demon King would be so ruthless? He actually set up Immortal Kang of the Main Universe and completely wiped him out?
I used the Curse to deal with the King of Abilities, all right? Was I supposed to be like you lot, doing nothing but waiting for the King of Abilities to kill himself?"
"What did you say? How were we doing nothing? We were constantly fighting the King of Abilities, all right? We even lost a whole bunch of avatars and suffered massive losses!"
Everyone began arguing with Chthon. Immortal Kang's death had cost their side one of its main combatants, and they were all in terrible moods.
Immortal Kang had not been their subordinate, but an existence on the same level as them—a fellow ally. Yet he had died just like that. How could they possibly be in a good mood?
Of course, a turncoat like Set was surely in an excellent mood. On the surface, however, he put on an enraged expression and kept denouncing Chthon.
After arguing with everyone for a while, Chthon impatiently shouted, "What exactly do you want? Are you trying to break up with me? Without me, you can't deal with the Mechanical Demon King at all."
"And with you, can we deal with him?"
Demon snorted and said, "Chthon, we only want one promise. From now on, you are absolutely forbidden from using the Curse. As long as you agree to that condition, we'll pretend this never happened."
The others nodded, indicating that they meant the same thing. It would have been one thing if Chthon's Curse only screwed himself over, but the problem was that