Chapter 453

Chapter 453: Chaos Swamp Waves Stirred, Subspace Trees Amid Wild Clouds!

"Hold on…"

"Is there some misunderstanding between us!?"

When Vashak declared his loyalty to Barbatos, Barbatos felt completely rattled.

What utter nonsense was this!?

Branded with the "sharp teeth giant jaws" mark, wrestling daily with "meat fall" or resisting it—yet still being seen as Barbatos’ die-hard follower?

What twisted logic was this Third Seat using?

Bizarre beyond belief!

“Damn it!”

“I’d rather die by Barbatos’ hand or the Giant God’s!”

“But not by a fool like this!”

“Help me—!”

“Anyone will do…”

“Even if it’s…”

“the Giant God!”

Barbatos screamed inwardly, pleading for rescue.

But Vashak paid no heed. Instead, he argued relentlessly, spinning political analysis off the cuff.

"Don’t try to trick me or make excuses!"

"That Barbatos may have failed repeatedly against the Giant God and betrayed the Chaos Swamp Realm’s interests, but his judgment of people is sharp!"

"In thousands of years, he’s never slipped up in this regard!"

"He won’t this time either."

"Besides, everyone knows Lady Xidi and Gimmerly’s faction opposes Barbatos—you’ve always clashed with them."

"That faction constantly resisted attacking the Giant God, even pushing for appeasement."

"Given your past stance, you’d never support their soft approach!"

"Plus, Gimmerly gained the ‘authority of the void’ and crushed you. With a core councilor’s pride, how could you join Xidi and Gimmerly’s faction and stoop beneath them?"

"So you can only be loyal to Barbatos. It’s your only path!"

"Kill you, ally with Lady Xidi’s rebels, and I’ll overthrow Barbatos!"

The Third Seat Vashak lifted his chin, as if unveiling a grand scheme.

"That fool Barbatos knows nothing about handling the Giant God."

"He can’t win over the appeasement faction."

"And he’s clueless about confronting the Giant God!"

"We’ll pretend to engage the Giant God, offer a token position, and pacify him temporarily."

Hearing Vashak actually propose to appease the Giant God, many Chaos Demon Gods showed surprised expressions.

"Don’t be surprised; the Giant God certainly had his unique qualities."

"Otherwise, he wouldn’t have become chaos’s great enemy!"

"According to my intelligence system, separate from Barbatos…"

"For example, the Giant God could massively alter mortals, making them stronger and even turning them into a kind of ‘enhancer’ able to trade with deities."

"This was such a priceless treasure!"

"If we could apply this knowledge and skills to demons…"

Thinking of this, various scenes appeared in the minds of the Chaos Demon Gods.

They seemed to see that whether it was the Abyss deities, the Ether Mother’s forces, the Ether Dragons, or even the barbaric deities from the Primal Wilderness, all would bow down to get the demons that could boost them!

And they, the Chaos Demon Gods, would reap huge rewards, each gaining a top-tier divine body!

"See? Only by getting the Giant God’s secrets could we truly stand unbeatable!"

"As for how to get them… We just needed to use our traditional chaos trick—smooth talk, to pick apart and trick the secrets from the Giant God, then take him down!"

"By then, the Giant God would just be a pile of useless dregs; surely, Lady Xidi wouldn’t care about his fate!"

"This matter could be solved so easily!"

"But what about Barbatos!?"

"He kept wasting such a huge treasure of the Giant God while pushing the peace faction to the other side!"

"He’d lost his mind!"

"He couldn’t even think of sensible or moderate ways!"

"A crazy deity, one who kept sending everyone to die for the Giant God, wasn’t fit to lead chaos!"

"Look at the mess he’s made!"

"The demon gods are suffering badly; aren’t you all the same? The deities fighting the Giant God still have their lands squeezed by the First Demon God! The shards of divine rank they found with effort, they couldn’t keep!"

"Demon gods kept falling one after another; we were scared stiff and worn out!"

"Listen to me; the Will of Chaos never wanted you demon gods to suffer. It’s the First Demon God Barbatos hiding your pain from it!"

"So, the Chaos Council and the whole Chaos Swamp Realm needed a powerful deity to lead you in overthrowing Barbatos’s bad rule!"

"And the only one up for this big job was me!"

"The skilled orator, the master of plotting and trickery, Vashak, the Chaos Demon God!"

"Under my lead, we wouldn’t just solve the Giant God problem but lift the chaos demon gods to new heights!"

No wonder Vashak was a clever, ambitious talker.

His smooth words, mixed with "charm magic," had whipped up the Chaos Demon Gods’ feelings.

"Right! Just like that!"

"Let’s do it!"

"We must tell the Will of Chaos about Barbatos’s rot and uselessness!"

Looking at the excited deities around him, Vashak nodded in satisfaction.

"Very well!"

"Today, I’ll start by sacrificing Barbatos’s most loyal follower!"

"His divine rank and Soul are yours to claim!"

After saying this, Vashak walked toward Barbatos.

The unlucky demon god destined for sacrifice wore an expression of helplessness and absurdity.

"You…"

"Your scheme won’t succeed!"

"What a foolish plan!"

Vashak’s strategy relied on too many assumptions; worst of all, he’d hastily crafted battle plans based solely on his "impression" of the Giant God.

He wishfully believed the Giant God would not only be easily deceived but also stupidly cooperate with him.

What nonsense!

Yet Barbatos’s furious roar only deepened Vashak’s misunderstanding.

"Haha, seems you’re quite devoted to Barbatos."

"Then pay the price for your loyalty!"

Vashak sneered as he closed in.

The surrounding Chaos Demon Gods retreated to the periphery.

Though Barbatos was caught in Vashak’s "God Binding Trap," the clash between two chaos councilors still unleashed power beyond what these underlings could withstand.

"Sacrifice him!"

"Kill! Wahahaha!"

"Shards of divine rank! Soul fragments! All ours!"

They merely clamored noisily, cheering from the sidelines.

Eagerly they awaited the coming slaughter and feast.

Little did they know they weren’t the masters of this bloodshed and revelry.

The true master was another!

"Hmm…"

Trilobite hid behind sprouting "red tree ferns."

In the Chaos Swamp, his "red tree ferns" grew stunted and shriveled, no taller than shrubs.

"Probably because the scalebark trees block the sunlight…"

"Must persuade those Suchosaur-evolved Troodons to tear down this scalebark grove later!"

"But now…"

【Ding… Ding… Ding…】

Alarms blared urgently.

His System pinpointed targets this way—

the nearer the prey, the louder the chime.

Now it rang louder than ever!

"Who knew this ‘Evolution Consultation Room’ doubled as an alarm!?"

"Truly, it’s one of my ‘kin’—some Dilophosaurid creature trapped here."

"Stuck in the swamp, I suppose? Then targeted by a bigger predator!?"

"And swarmed by so many medium-sized and small-sized predators? Here to scavenge or snatch scraps!?"

"Too puny. Better reserved for clients."

"For instance…"

Trilobite eased his body into the muddy water, sensing vibrations; his ear canals and jawbone detected tremors in the air.

Just as expected…

"Rawr! Hungry! Find food!"

"Eat this! Leaves! Rawk!"

"Not enough energy! Got meat!?"

The Troodons sounded close.

"These opportunists struggle with large prey and can’t tear big carcasses, but they’re decent hunters for smaller game."

"As for that large predator…"

Trilobite spotted a bizarre-looking creature.

"Huh…"

"Archosaurs sure birth the ugliest freaks."