Chapter 603 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

When an artist copied a famous painting, he’d usually place a grid over the picture and then draw that grid on his on paper. He’d turn a complicated picture into relatively simpler little squares and had ensured that the copy could be as similar as possible. This craft was often called the grid method; some more traditional artists considered it beneath them to try, but pretty much all young people learned it.

As a new-generation artist with a regular family background, Sui Xiong had obviously learned the grid method and had gotten quite proficient with it too. So the moment he got those coordinates, it only took a quick visual sweep of the God’s Kingdom for him to easily find the location they indicated.

To tell the truth, he had no idea what would be there, but he was willing to bet it was something really good.

A master god had absolute control over his followers. If the Master of Mystery wasn’t willing, the God of Art and Culture wouldn’t have had the chance to escape the battlefield. Being able to run all the way to Sui Xiong’s God’s Kingdom’s Shelter and, based on the way she spoke, even being ready to accept Sui Xiong as her master god—which was even less of a possibility. That meant that the Master of Mystery had already abolished the contract and had given back her freedom.

The Master of Mystery clearly meant to give the God of Art and Culture to Sui Xiong through this action, and the reason he was giving up the God of Art and Culture was most likely because of Wall.

Just based on Wall’s clergy, he could be said to be the Master of Mystery’s nemesis. The Master of Mystery mixed “mystery” and “knowledge” into one whole, thus forming his “mystery” clergy, but lately “knowledge” had grown independent and was continually growing on top of that. Sooner or later, as time passed, it would cause his own clergy to crumble.

If the Master of Mystery could obtain Wall as a follower, there’d be no problem avoiding such a situation. But that was already impossible, which was why as he was on the brink of defeat, the first thing he thought of was that he needed to do his utmost in order to please Sui Xiong. Doing so would hopefully prevent Wall from taking action, therefore keeping his clergy from being split apart.

Although this would only be a temporary reprieve, the longer he could stretch that time out, the better.

Letting the God of Art and Culture join the Void Mask God System was done with this goal in mind, and telling the God of Art and Culture those coordinates was, of course, for that same goal.

None of this was particularly complicated; you could figure this out if you just took a little time to think on it. Even if Sui Xiong had never eaten pork before, he’d still seen a pig walk—at the very least, he’d seen a big herd of pigs in the movie Angry Birds—er, that’s going off-topic. In any case, once Sui Xiong guessed what was going on, he made his decision and set off to get the item at those coordinates.

After choosing the second option, he made it look as if he was searching all over the God’s Kingdom. He walked back and forth, passed that location a couple of times without paying attention to it; then he tried exploring more carefully.

The tricks the Master of Mystery used to hide his things were quite fantastic. If Sui Xiong hadn’t known the coordinates beforehand, even if he passed through 100 times, he would never have been able to find it.

But after learning the coordinates and once he began probing the area, Sui Xiong immediately discovered a tiny hidden seal that appeared to have a God’s Kingdom within it.

A sealed God’s Kingdom? That certainly does count as something good, though it’s not as good as I’d have hoped…

By this point, Sui Xiong was no longer the country bumpkin he used to be: he knew exactly how valuable a sealed God’s Kingdom was going to be.

It’s just… back when the War God System fought that losing battle, they’d given him quite a few sealed God’s Kingdoms as war reparations. To this day, he’d only ever used one of them, so he really didn’t care all that much about this thing.

But whatever you might say about it, it was definitely still a valuable object worthy of being picked up.

The third time Sui Xiong had walked over here, he suddenly stopped and muttered, “It looks like something’s hidden here…” Then when he waved a tentacle and pulled out the sealed God’s Kingdom, the God of Heroes stared at him so hard it seemed that his eyes might fall out of his head.

“This… there are still treasures like this around here!?” As he stared dumbstruck at the gem-like God’s Kingdom Sui Xiong was holding, he couldn’t resist swallowing. “This is really… beyond my expectations…”

“Is it okay if I take this?” asked Sui Xiong with a grin.

The God of Heroes hesitated a moment, then let out a heavy sigh.

“Of course it is. If we agree to bet, we must accept to lose. Being able to find valuable objects is your own talent.”