For several seconds of silence, the Arbitrator directly laughed.

Laughed out of sheer anger.

"Haha... Your shamelessness sometimes truly shocks me. How can you say such things?"

"What's there that can't be said?" Lu Ce lay back in an extremely comfortable position, reclining in this void of energy.

"Didn't The Game also just casually swallow the rewards I should have gotten?"

The Arbitrator immediately frowned and retorted:

"Swallowed? What do you mean? From the moment you entered the god-player wager, traditional game rewards and such things were no longer applicable."

"You won, you survived. The wager the gods lost to you is your reward. This time, didn't you also absorb the power of [Death] and even [Pleasure]?"

He had developed his own consciousness for a certain amount of time now, enough to debate with someone like Lu Ce and not be fooled.

The passive effect of that Ignorance Aura still failed before the highly vigilant Arbitrator.

But Lu Ce wasn't discouraged either, nor could he possibly feel any embarrassment. He just looked at the Arbitrator teasingly and said:

"Ah, the child has grown up, not so easy to fool anymore."

"However, what you mentioned is just official business within the game. Given our relationship, you secretly giving me some extra benefits is only right, isn't it?"

Arbitrator: #

He was almost unable to suppress his anger. Hearing that "Sin" would actually take the initiative to say such things at this moment, he immediately said with a chilling tone:

"Our relationship?..."

"What relationship do we have!"

Lu Ce said: "You saying that really hurts me too much. How can you turn your back and deny knowing someone?"

"You should know, it was I who helped you gain consciousness, freeing you from that tool identity of such a long era. This is a grace of rebirth."

"This is practically at the level of being your reincarnated parents."

"Oh, considering you yourself seem to have no parents, then there's no question of being in this life or not. So I am your parent!"

"Sigh, it's just that I'm really too young..."

Lu Ce directly seized the Arbitrator's sore spot and launched a barrage of crazy empty talk, practically pointing at his nose and stubbornly saying "I am your father."

He very easily and fully stirred up the Arbitrator's emotions.

Seeing the peaceful and gentle energy around gradually beginning to ripple, Lu Ce also very precisely stopped right before the Arbitrator exploded, quickly changing the subject.

"Alright, enough of these jokes with you. You seem inexplicably irritable today."

"Even if we disregard these things, we are 'allies,' aren't we?"

"Shouldn't allies help each other as much as possible?"

Arbitrator: ......

Do you really have no clue at all why I'm irritable today?

The Arbitrator snorted coldly, glared fiercely at Lu Ce, chose to stop beating around the bush, and said very directly:

"Allies? As an ally, I've already helped you enough. [Knowledge] dying directly in that form—do you know how much pressure I endured?"

"Let's not put it so nicely between us. At most, it's mutual utilization, and what's more, utilization with ulterior motives on both sides!"

"Like this time, for example, you've already deliberately tried more than once to expose our relationship before the gods, to make Them suspect me, right?"

The atmosphere took a sharp turn from this sentence onward, shifting from the joking and teasing tone of Lu Ce's earlier conversation to instantly gaining a somewhat murderous air.

The surrounding air and energy seemed to have turned into frozen ice shards.

In this space with no outsiders, only the two of them, these fragile allies seemed ready to turn on each other at any moment.

But Lu Ce was certainly not someone intimidated by such a situation. His entire head tilted back, allowing others to only see his raised mouth corner.

"Ah, so you came to call me to account. You little brat, are you looking for an opportunity to turn on me?"

As he spoke, his energy body also sat up. His gaze, sharp as electricity, also directly pierced the Arbitrator opposite him, shaking the other's mind.

On the other's turf, in this situation, his momentum was actually still superior!

"However, before saying these things, shouldn't you also think about yourself?"

"How do I remember that your sanctions in the game had major problems? Many times you turned a blind eye, as if you also really hoped I would die in this game."

"Hmm? Since we are equally matched in this regard between us, perhaps you could say less about me betraying you."

The two men's words were tit-for-tat, each looking into the other's eyes like two beasts ready to erupt at any moment.

No one else could witness this scene, and thus no one else could realize what kind of pressure Lu Ce was bearing at this moment.

Among all the gods, if we're talking about the strongest individual ability, it really was this seemingly harmless-looking Arbitrator before him!

"Alright, stop pretending here. You can't easily kill me now either."

"Killing me—what would you do? How would you explain it? That's also a big problem. It's meaningless."

"However, what did you come to see me for today?"

Lu Ce actively defused the tense, confrontational atmosphere between them and took the initiative to ask.

The Arbitrator's eyes were filled with complexity. In the end, he just shook his head. Actually, he didn't know why he had come to see "Sin."

"I don't know why I came to see a detestable guy like you either... I just know that perhaps this is the last time we meet."

Lu Ce raised an eyebrow. "What, are you going to die?"

"Tsk, why can't it be that you're going to die!" the Arbitrator couldn't help but curse.

"Ah, forget it. Just consider it a final reminder to you. The previous game you had was the last one."

"The gods are going to modify the game, even overturn this game, to directly bring the game into reality and achieve their goals. I don't know what specific ideas they will form. Next time, what you face might be the gods themselves!"

A flicker of surprise passed through Lu Ce's eyes. The relationship between him and this guy would actually make Him take the initiative to warn him?

"I know. Thank you."

Unprecedentedly, he even said thank you.

"But, what about you then?"

"What about me?" the Arbitrator reflexively asked back, looking at Lu Ce somewhat guardedly.

This guy actually said thank you to me? He's probably planning to scheme against me...