Aphrodite / Godslaying

Especially when he had absolutely no idea what it was.

"Seriously, what's wrong with you, man? Why did you refuse my contract?"

Aphrodite's voice was somewhat weak, but still high-pitched, expressing her anger with an air of superior dignity.

"Hmm, Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, I guess the reason you're in such a hurry to form a contract with me is because you're going to die soon, right? So you plan to use this belt to sign a contract with me and share my life force? How wicked you are!"

"Then let's just change the name to 'Evil Goddess'."

Seeing Aphrodite's anxious face and near-death state, Ren roughly guessed the truth.

Aphrodite, however, grew impatient. "You ungrateful man! To be able to unite with this goddess is a tremendous blessing. Countless gods in the divine realm desire to be intimate with me, and you... a lowly and mediocre mortal, actually rejected this goddess's advances."

"How dare... even call me the wicked goddess!"

"So it seems I was telling the truth?"

Ren sneered.

What kind of goddess, emerging from some obscure corner, dares to try and share his life force?

"That's a blessing for you! You, a mere mortal, could never have such an extraordinary encounter in your entire life!"

Seeing Aphrodite's arrogant attitude, Ren was not annoyed at all. Instead, he thought of a way to teach her a lesson.

"You're absolutely right, normal people won't encounter a goddess descending from the sky when they spread out their knowledge."

"Now that you know, why don't you quickly obey my orders and enter into a contract with me?"

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush. I know you just want to live, and I have a way for you to continue living without having to make a contract with me, a mere mortal."

"How could a mere mortal possibly know such a method?"

Aphrodite's face was filled with disdain.

But then she saw a purple and white sphere with a capital M printed on its surface appear out of thin air in Ren's hand.

"As long as you crawl inside, you won't die, and if you get injured in the future, you can crawl back inside to slowly recover."

After listening to Ren's words, Aphrodite frowned deeply.

Although she didn't want to believe what a mortal was saying, the sphere in his hand gave her a feeling that she could survive if she went inside.

And the goddess's intuition is always spot on.

"Mortal, you didn't set a trap inside, did you?"

"Just tell me, are you going in or not?"

Ren remained completely unfazed.

If he doesn't take the initiative, then he'll have no choice but to throw it away.

"Mortal..."

Even so, Aphrodite felt her life force rapidly draining away, as if she might disappear at any moment.

With the contract failing and her own death looming, she had no choice but to temporarily heed the man's advice, transforming herself and the belt into light as she entered the void.

"The goddess Aphrodite has been successfully subdued."

Ren chuckled softly.

"They're so easy to fool, they actually won over a goddess so easily."

Just as he was feeling happy, the Master Ball in his hand suddenly began to vibrate.

It wasn't because the containment failed; the little sprites inside were trying to break free.

Once a Pokémon is successfully captured, it can no longer resist containment on its own. The reason for the vibration is that the Master Ball does not modify the will of the contained Pokémon; it only instills in them the instruction that the holder has become the master and can only obey the master's commands.

Furthermore, since Ren had deliberately opened the Master Ball, Aphrodite sensed something was wrong the moment she successfully contained it.

"You lowly mortal! How dare you deceive a goddess!"

Only a goddess's delicate shout could come from a doll that was only thirty centimeters tall.

Chapter 440 Aphrodite

Upon hearing this, Ren looked curiously at the girl who had spoken.

Like a bubble, a girl of about twelve or thirteen years old appeared before me. Although her appearance was still young, she was stunningly beautiful.

Her radiant blonde hair was tied into twin ponytails, and her figure was slender and beautiful beneath her pure white outfit.

Her appearance is somewhat similar to that of Aphrodite, but she is only about 30 centimeters tall.

Ren looked at her curiously, a hint of admiration on his face.

As a qualified Pokémon, it is essential to have a one-to-one communication with the Pokémon you have captured, so Ren knew that the figure in front of him was the stunningly beautiful goddess Aphrodite from before.

I never expected that she would grow to the size of a figurine.

What can he do with such a tiny thing?

"How did it get so small?"

"Because I lost much of my power due to Nemesis, I can only maintain it in this way most of the time. However, when I accumulate enough power, I can occasionally return to my original form... No, wait!"

The petite... or rather, very small goddess in a real sense, glared fiercely at Ren.

"What on earth is going on?! Why did you, a mere mortal, lie to me?!"

"Lying to you? Who's lying to you? Just tell me if you're not going to die."

If it were a normal day, when Ren was in a good mood, he might actually have thought of a way to help Aphrodite recover from her injuries.

Bio-Brand Hand Sanitizer and Senzu Bean might be able to save us.

But since this girl looked down on him from the start, even if she wasn't hostile, Ren couldn't be bothered to argue with her.

Forget all that, I'll just give you a Master Ball and then you'll call me master.

Aphrodite was stunned for a moment.

But to be fair, Ren really wasn't lying to himself.

She, who could have died at any moment before, actually survived after entering that purple and white sphere.

But the price was that this lowly human had become the master of her, the goddess of love and beauty.

If this were to reach the realm of the gods, the other goddesses would probably laugh their heads off.

But Aphrodite had no other options at the moment.

She had just tried to secretly use the "Belt of Friendship" to summon a god for help, but was shocked to find that despite being her divine artifact, she couldn't use it on her own.

A voice in her mind kept telling her that she needed the master's permission to use the divine artifact.

So what kind of magical artifact is that ball?

Even though she was on the verge of death, she wouldn't be easily sealed and contained by ordinary tools.

Why would an ordinary person possess such a thing?

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush. Now that you're my little fairy, since you can't resist, you'll obediently be my secretary from now on."

Ren chuckled, quite satisfied with the effect of the Master Ball.

Unfortunately, he has already used up five Master Ball, and the Master Ball that just contained Aphrodite was his last one.

He does still have a few regular Poké Ball.

However, judging from the success rate, it can only be used to subdue some worthless targets, and will most likely end up gathering dust in the future.

Fortunately, the Master Ball was put to good use at the last moment.

"You actually dared to try and get a goddess to be your secretary, a mere mortal!"

Aphrodite was instantly enraged. She wanted to unleash her powers to teach this arrogant human a lesson. It was utterly absurd that she needed this man's permission to use her power!

Therefore, she could only imagine in her mind a scene of herself trampling Ren under her feet and ordering him around.

"Speaking of which, where exactly is this place?"

I asked Ren asked.

Upon hearing this, Aphrodite looked around, then closed her eyes and silently sensed the surroundings.

She was then shocked to discover that she was in a completely unfamiliar world, and that she could not obtain any useful information from the fragments of information she had captured with her divine power.

"Where... where is this?"

Aphrodite was stunned.

What did she do with that?

Is this still the realm of gods?

"I asked you because I didn't know."

Ren was somewhat surprised.

The locals don't know about this?

But he quickly seemed to realize something and asked, "Were you being chased just now?"

Hearing this made Aphrodite furious.

"It was that woman Nemesis. I didn't have any deep-seated hatred for her, yet she insisted on killing me. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have become such a petite yet adorable creature!"

As she recounted her past experiences, Aphrodite inadvertently praised herself, her chest puffed out in a gesture of self-assurance.

Then, as Aphrodite continued her account, Ren more or less figured out what was going on.

Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, once lived on Olympus, but due to some unclear relationship, she became enemies with Nemesis, the goddess of vengeance.

Since then, Aphrodite has been relentlessly pursued by Nemesis. Until Ren met her, Aphrodite was besieged by the gods and severely wounded by Nemesis. She was forced to abandon her hiding place and use her divine artifacts to tear open space and escape.

But then it didn't really end up in this world.

Ren witnessed what happened next firsthand.

If he wasn't mistaken, the arrow that was shot at him was from Nemesis, and the muffled groan he heard was from the Ultra Slash that had injured the other party.

Unfortunately, the spatial rift was closed after that, otherwise Ren would probably be fighting Nemesis by now.

"What ambiguous relationship? My relationship with Hephaestus is purely mythological; in reality, I have never married any god! Yet they fabricate stories about me having an affair with another god, and Hephaestus testifies against me, making me the target of everyone's accusations!"

"However, I know very well that those gods are accusing me of being a fraud, and what they really want is my divine artifact, the 'Belt of Friendship'!"

"Honestly, I didn't want to be involved in that war, but they just had to drag me into it!"

Seeing Aphrodite puffing up her cheeks like a steamed bun, Ren fell into deep thought.

This storyline sounds familiar.

However, he didn't press the matter further, since Aphrodite, like him, was also a transmigrator from another world.

Just as Ren was about to take her around to investigate some intelligence, the western part of the night was suddenly illuminated by a crimson color.

Bright lava erupts from the long-dormant volcano, the source that illuminates half the world.

The volcanic ash that spews out rises rapidly into the sky, and then slowly falls back down due to gravity.

At the same time, a massive amount of magical power began to condense on the volcanic rock.

Chapter 441 Godslayer

The ongoing volcanic eruption under the cover of night has drawn the attention of the entire city.

Although the volcano is some distance from the city where people live, the volcanic ash that hits the sky can still affect the surrounding area.

However, most people don't care about this issue right now.

Ren mingled in the crowd, while Aphrodite peeked out from under his clothes to watch.

"Such immense magical power... It's more than enough even compared to Zeus, the god of the gods!"

As a member of the gods, Aphrodite could clearly sense a surge of magical power erupting near the volcano.

That magical power was already quite rare in the divine realm she had once inhabited.

And she realized once again that the world she had accidentally fallen into after tearing open the spatial rift was completely different from her original world.

"No, something seems to be there."

After watching for a while, Aphrodite muttered to herself.