A Deal

"You—you—you mean it?" Artemis pressed Lein. "You really won't deliberately target Zeus?"

Sigh!

Lein didn't know why he was always putting on airs. Even after becoming a god, he still hadn't kicked the damn habit.

A tiny provocation from another goddess, and Lein instinctively slipped into character—standing with his hands behind his back, chin tilted up at a 45-degree angle, his Divine Eyes sweeping over the Goddess of the Hunt with an air of disdain for the world.

Some theories had already convinced his disciples, so now he had no choice but to teach them to his master in reverse.

"Have you ever heard, 'The Master said by the river: What passes away is like this, never ceasing day or night'?"

"Ah!" Artemis shook her head.

"Chaos puts equal pressure on all the gods of Order. Since I've successfully struck back, that pressure will naturally fall on Zeus. So I don't have to do a thing. I can just sit by the River of Destiny and watch Zeus's corpse float past..."

If anyone else had said those words, even if Luo had come in person, they wouldn't have had the same effect as when Lein said them.

Who was Lein?

With his sinister schemes and methods that surpassed even the gods' wildest imaginings, he had destroyed and absorbed three divine systems. He was a mighty God King—and nothing like that rookie God King of Olympus, who had yet to prove himself in an external war.

Lein had declared with absolute certainty that Zeus was doomed. Artemis didn't dare contradict him outright. All she could do was ask timidly, "What makes you so sure?"

Lein said haughtily, "I have ten strengths, and Zeus has ten weaknesses."

Lein casually adapted the Ten Strengths and Ten Weaknesses argument of Guo Jia, the top