[You push open the mausoleum’s exit gate and appear before the demon lords who have been waiting for a long time…]

[At the very front, the Demon Shaman has always hoped you would be the victor of this challenge. Yet no one is more aware than the one who personally carried out the ritual that you are merely a weak demon.]

[It desperately hoped you would walk out of the mausoleum alive, but reason told it that some step of its ritual must have gone wrong, which was why what was born was not the Abyss Child but a Goat-Horn Demon.]

[Now that you appear completely unharmed, the Demon Shaman is shocked beyond measure, yet at the same time it secretly relaxes the taut tension in its heart and feels the relief of having survived a disaster.]

[At this moment, a ridiculous thought surfaces in its mind. Could it be that you really are the Abyss Child, even though you are a Goat-Horn Demon?]

[The demon lords had mentally prepared themselves beforehand, but when they finally saw you as the victor, they still could not help looking horrified.]

[Your appearance means that in their eyes, a lowly Goat-Horn Demon possessed strength sufficient to defeat a demon lord.]

[For something so completely contrary to common sense to occur, they can think of no explanation other than that you are the Abyss Child.]

[That crimson all-over demon lord who has repeatedly doubted you, the Abyss Slaughter Demon King, seems still unconvinced. It suddenly speaks up, asking loudly why only you have come out and where the Abyss Pain Demon who challenged you has gone.]

[You let out a cold laugh and loudly declare that you already said anyone who dares question you or challenge you must pay with their life.]

[Since the Abyss Pain Demon dared to be the first to jump out, then as the price of losing the challenge, of course it is already dead.]

[But in consideration of its admirable courage, you granted it the right to die inside the mausoleum and rest there for eternity together with the countless ancestors.]

[Unlike a certain demon lord that only knows how to flap its lips and does not dare challenge you at all…]

[By this time, more than half of the demon lords have already accepted your identity.]

[Among the demon race, the law of the jungle rules and strength is revered.]

[You have managed, with the weakest body of a Goat-Horn Demon, to kill a demon lord level Abyss Pain Demon. Once you as the Abyss Child grows strong, you will surely be able to display even greater might.]

[Moreover, the divine stele clearly records that the Abyss Child will eliminate Omniscient True Knowledge, replace Omniscient True Knowledge, and be reborn as the true Abyss.]

[Though right now you appear to be a weak Goat-Horn Demon, once you accomplish the great deed recorded on the divine stele, you will be reborn as the mighty Abyss and become the holy object of worship for all demons.]

[With you, the Abyss Child, leading them, it will only be a matter of time before the demon race’s glory is restored.]

[Many demon lords bow their arrogant heads and show you devout respect, though a small half of them still harbor doubt toward you, especially the Abyss Slaughter Demon King…]

[It loudly questions that the Abyss Pain Demon who challenged you earlier was among the weakest of the demon lords present.]

[You took so long just to defeat the Abyss Pain Demon, so it very much doubts what method you used to defeat your challenger.]

[Once those words are spoken, the demon lords who have accepted your identity glare at it angrily and collectively denounce it.]

[At this point, you would not need to explain or refute anything to largely secure your place as the Abyss Child, but your mindset is no longer what it was when you first arrived in the Abyss.]

[You initially pretended to be the Abyss Child because circumstances forced your hand and you wanted to keep yourself alive.]

[However, after going through various events, many signs now show that the Abyss Child is not anyone else but you, the Apostle who was teleported here by a mistake.]

[You are the legitimate Abyss Child, and once your identity is fully confirmed, the benefits you gain will be beyond imagination.]

[Therefore you must annihilate every opponent and strangle every thought that questions or doubts you in the cradle.]

After gaining the Lord of Corruption’s shell and leaving the mausoleum, Lin Xun had already figured out how everything fit together.

The divine-shell reward of this deity-level Lord of Corruption might exist within the game’s process, but it should not be obtainable in the current quest flow or at the current time node.

This shell was most likely a price the Abyss had paid to buy him over, a reward the Abyss was offering in order to pry loose a brick from the wall of Omniscient True Knowledge.

The divine stele’s words were very clear. The Abyss Child would kill Omniscient True Knowledge, replace Omniscient True Knowledge, and finally revive as the new Abyss.

That obviously meant the Abyss itself could not beat Omniscient True Knowledge. After being beaten to a pulp many times by the all-knowing one, it wanted to use another power to destroy its enemy. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

And he, an outsider Apostle, was a very suitable candidate.

Apostles possessed terrifying growth curves, could leap tiers in a very short period of time, and he himself was a trusted core member of the enemy faction who knew quite a few secrets of the Omniscient True Knowledge camp.

If they could win over the True God’s Envoy and make the True God’s Envoy become the Abyss Child, there really might be hope of taking down Omniscient True Knowledge.

So the Lord of Corruption’s shell was probably the price the Abyss paid to buy him off, only the time to hand out the reward had not yet come.

He had not yet shown loyalty toward the Abyss, or had not passed the trial the Abyss set.

Therefore the shell reward likely still bore some kind of limit or seal, which was why there was no Possession option.

Even more obvious, however, was that Omniscient True Knowledge, no, the Servant of Knowledge, already knew everything.

Since the enemy wanted to buy off the True God’s Envoy, the Servant had simply delivered the reward ahead of time to the True God’s Envoy.

Hence the Servant sent down the Beast of Disordered Knowledge to guide Lin Xun to the shell hidden beneath the throne.

In this way, the money was paid by the Abyss, the reward was handed out by the Servant, and the Apostle would remember only the Servant’s kindness. Why would he abandon the identity of True God’s Envoy to become the Abyss Child?

“This Abyss deserves to get beaten silly. It cannot win a fight, and its wits are crushed into the dirt. It really has no one to blame but itself for losing so miserably…”

Rather than say the Abyss was too weak, it was more accurate to say their own main god was too strong.

After all, the authority of Omniscient True Knowledge was simply too broken.

The instant the Abyss made any move against him, the Servant of Knowledge on this side would already know and would easily resolve the matter and even strike back in passing.

No matter who served as the Abyss, they would probably not be able to beat Omniscient True Knowledge.

“What do you do when your own oath deity is too strong, and doing a total stomp is too easy?”

[Having understood everything, you decide to peel off the sugar coating of the Abyss’s sugar-coated cannonball and eat the sugar, while the cannonball itself… is of course fired back.]

[You decide to pretend to become the Abyss Child and accept all the benefits, then offer up these demons who worship the Abyss and the hidden demon deities within the demon race as sacrifices to the Servant of Knowledge in exchange for rewards.]