Chapter 1635 - A Nagging Goddess (2/2)

While Lil Pea was now a demon hunting-fish who was trained vigorously by Nangong Sanba as well as Lorissa, she was still only three years old and about one-foot-one tall. She was a child, all things considered, and Hao Ren had never seen her as a key member of his team.

And due to her daredevil nature, Lil Pea was much less well behaved than Rollie outside, even though the latter was subservient to the former…

Raven 12345 could only shrug as she faced the question. “Beats me, I’m just basing it off the prophecy this thing gave me.”

She pointed at a very intricate crystal prism on her desk.

Hao Ren was intrigued by the prism. “What’s that?”

Raven 12345 did not bother hiding it. “A Prophecy Crystal. A nice toy given from above. When I run into horrible roadblocks at times, I’ll use it for help.”

“Wow, that’s very neat!” Hao Ren was surprised before turning to the Prophecy Crystal. “What am I having for dinner tonight?”

A sentence appeared immediately above the crystal. “It was pork chop rice, but Lily had eaten it so Vivian is cooking egg fried rice as she is zapping the dog.”

“…Damn, that’s awesome!” Hao Ren exclaimed.

Raven 12345 glared at Hao Ren. She was just about to warn him properly about developing a habit of pinning his hopes to fate and destiny, when the next moment, she found the latter using the destiny-altering device to ask what was for dinner. That left her swallowing all her reasoning back, and she managed a “and that is what you decided to ask?” before she almost choked herself to death.

“I was just testing it out,” Hao Ren said, matter-of-factly. “Is there a simpler question than that?”

“…Go back and prepare then, there’s nothing here for you already…” Raven 12345 said in resignation.

Hao Ren gave a curt “oh” and was not sure if it was just him, but the crazy goddess sounded lifeless earlier.

As he had taken some time to hammer things out with the goddess about the World Terminal, by the time Hao Ren had got home it was past dinner time. Everyone at home had already eaten and were in their rooms busying themselves. The only people in the living room were Vivian, who was lecturing Noobie, and Rollie who was curled up on the cushion watching TV. And oh, not forgetting Lily, who lying face-up on the sofa, groaning.

“Ah, you’re back.” Vivian stood up as she saw Hao Ren step into the house. She wanted to rant, but before she could say anything, Hao Ren interrupted her, “Lily ate my pork chop rice, right? Egg fried rice is good too, and what the hell are you groaning there for? I made you a set of Metal Garuru armor, and you stole my food, the hell are you groaning for?”

Vivian was stunned as Hao Ren took the words out of her mouth, and Lily immediately bounced off the sofa, “Mr. Landlord, were you peeping?!”

“Shut up, I was just trying out Raven 12345’s high-tech toys,” Hao Ren said as he lay on the sofa. “Well, the navigation mark to the kingdom of the goddess is complete. Now, all we need to do is to search for it.”

“Wow, that actually worked!” Lily immediately scampered towards him. Even though she knew Hao Ren went to Raven 12345 specifically for that, but after she heard the news, she got excited. “So the ‘Umbral Realm’ that we have been searching for so long… it’s now a done deal?”

“Finding the location is just the first step. There are countless trials waiting for us there, and that’s the main event.” Hao Ren shook his head. “But the good news is that Raven 12345 has provided a powerful cheat code. Here.”

He took out the “Seed of the World Tree” from his pocket, and the greenish orb was covered by a shield as it radiated a mysterious glow. The moment Hao Ren took it out, the entire living room was filled with some sort of divine power.

Lily looked at the item quizzically as she mumbled, “So… we need to boil this too?”

Hao Ren’s karate chop landed on her head the next moment. “This is not Lil Pea’s egg!”

Even Vivian came over now to join in the commotion, and she was still holding the struggling Noobie in her hand. “What’s that for?”

“You’ll be surprised by this. The World Tree! The thing that can control a universe’s constants.” Hao Ren had wanted to play the reveal up but could not control his big mouth and blurted the whole thing out. Only after that did he notice Noobie in Vivian’s hands and out of curiosity, he asked, “I saw you talking to it earlier? What are you talking about? Can that little thing understand human language?”

“She understands, but she refuses to listen.” Vivian shook the little tot in her hand resignedly, “… Wait a minute, what did you say that thing was again?”

“The World Tree, the World Terminal, the Sovereign Core, the Heavenly Server, call it what you want. It can replace you as the CPU of the Throne of Destiny.” Hao Ren smiled. “Now you don’t have to worry about being frozen onto a chair and have a group of twenty-five violent thugs in gaudy-looking outfits raiding you every week.”

“…That was the least of my concerns!”