"Greed truly was the greatest weakness."
The Tree of Time sighed inwardly. If not for greed, they would not have stayed behind to wait for news. If not for greed, Chthon would not have challenged the Star God alone.
It was all because of greed that their plan had completely failed, allowing the Star God to escape back to the King of Abilities. This was going to be troublesome.
Death and Chthon both wore ugly expressions, especially Chthon. He was particularly worried that the Mechanical Demon King would notice the Curse on the Star God. If it were discovered, things would be bad.
The Mechanical Demon King was a major figure in the Curse Realm. His attainments in curses surpassed even Chthon's. Once he discovered the Curse on the Star God, he would definitely do something—perhaps even turn around and compete with Chthon for control of the Curse.
For anyone else, such a thing would be impossible. After all, Chthon had cast the Curse himself. But when it came to the Mechanical Demon King, even the arrogant Chthon had to admit that the other party could truly do whatever he wanted with curses.
"What a bunch of vermin. It seems I must activate the Curse as soon as possible. Once the Curse is activated, even the Mechanical Demon King won't be able to take it away."
Chthon cursed and began contacting the Great Demon God, demanding that he provide a large amount of Divine Power. On one hand, Chthon's body needed repairing; on the other, he needed to hasten the Curse's maturation.
Fortunately, the Great Demon God was Chthon himself. Otherwise, he would probably have struck his own Bishop dead long ago. Other gods developed believers to make money, while he developed believers only to lose money.
"You have drained