Chapter 86: The Goddesses’ Schemes
Misha actually didn’t want it to be this way.
He had already formed a firm alliance with the Yong Zhe. Truthfully, he should have told him long ago and shared the information that the monsters were also connected to the Divine Realm. Perhaps they could have uncovered some amazing clues from it.
Fortunately, it shouldn’t be too late. Once he finished speaking with Genesis, he would go back and tell the Yong Zhe the whole truth immediately to avoid any more complications or accidents.
Arlo looked at Misha. Seeing that Misha hadn’t replied, he turned to Genesis to vent about how hateful the Yong Zhe was.
“We’ve tried many ways,” Arlo said. “He simply refuses to go to the Mo Wang Cheng. He won’t even lift a finger against a monster.”
Genesis: “Not even a monster?”
“He has a very good attitude toward monsters.” Arlo thought of Ashby, who had been beaten up for no reason, and shook his head before adding, “His relationship with monsters is secondary. I should say that his logic… is too strange.”
Genesis was stunned, as if she had remembered something, and couldn’t help but press further. “Logic?”
“He feels that monsters haven’t done anything wrong. Most of the time, it’s humans invading monster territory, and the monsters only fight back in self-defense,” Arlo sighed. “And he doesn’t plan on attacking monsters who haven’t done anything bad.”
Genesis: “…”
“I don’t think he wants to eradicate monsters; he wants to set them on the right path,” Arlo couldn’t stop shaking his head. “It’s too strange. How can there be such a bizarre Yong Zhe?”
Genesis: “…”
After all, the connection between the Divine Realm and the mortal world wasn’t that smooth or casual. In the past, when Arlo reported the progress of the Yong Zhe’s mission to Genesis, he hadn’t been this detailed. At most, he just said the Yong Zhe was strange, unwilling to go to the Mo Wang Cheng, and hadn’t killed a monster yet. Arlo hadn’t mentioned the specific reasons, and Genesis, overwhelmed by an excessive amount of communication and paperwork, hadn’t listened closely.
She didn’t know that Misha had been deliberately blocking information because he didn’t want Arlo to convey the truth about the Yong Zhe’s extreme eccentricity, fearing the Divine Realm would actually strike him down. She only knew that the Yong Zhe Arlo described felt vaguely familiar to her.
“This personality…” Genesis frowned. “I think I’ve heard—”
“Ah! He won’t go to the Mo Wang Cheng!” Misha suddenly raised his voice. “So, am I supposed to go find him today?!”
He was practically blathering out of pure nervousness. His guess was right; Genesis had indeed heard of Lance’s past outrageous behaviors. Genesis was a goddess who dealt with many worlds, after all. She might have even spoken to the previous Yong Zhe. This meant the current one was at high risk of being exposed in front of her. He was worried that if Genesis kept asking, she would guess his identity.
Genesis and Arlo were suddenly interrupted by him. For a moment, they didn’t snap out of it. Both were startled and looked at Misha with some confusion. Misha could only try his best to put on a pure, innocent look, smiling brightly at Arlo and Genesis.
Misha: “He… he has always refused to come to the Mo Wang Cheng.”
Genesis nodded. “We already know this.”
Misha: “Then… then… would it be better if I went to give him a bit of a hard time?”
“Oh, right. You can go find him on your own initiative,” Genesis said seriously. “But Arlo says he’s very sympathetic toward monsters—”
She paused again, turning to Arlo to verify the specifics of that statement.
Arlo felt quite strongly about this. “He even took in an Archdemon.”
“That wasn’t ‘taking him in’!” Misha shouted. “They signed a contract to force Ashby to work for him. That doesn’t count as taking him in, right?!”
Genesis was utterly shocked. “A contract?!”
Misha: “…It’s oppression! It can only be counted as oppression!”
But Genesis didn’t seem to hear him. She just sighed worriedly and said, “He’s very sympathetic… toward monsters.”
Misha continued to raise his voice. “It’s just exploitation in disguise! It’s all to satisfy his desires. This is oppression! Naked oppression!”
Genesis sighed deeply again. “To be safe, let’s change our strategy.”
She thought that since the current Yong Zhe had no hatred toward monsters at all, the first thing they needed to do was naturally cultivate that hatred. Only with disgust and deep-seated hatred would the Yong Zhe take the initiative to attack monsters and properly fulfill his duty. If they wanted to create conflict between the Yong Zhe and monsters in such a short time, they might need to use special means—preferably starting with those close to him.
Genesis hesitated. This wasn’t a tactic they commonly used, and based on her values, she really didn’t want to do something like this. But she thought that this was her job, a requirement from the God King. She had no choice. She sighed deeply and asked Misha hesitantly, “I heard… the Yong Zhe seems to be very fond of you.”
Misha: “……………”
That’s not right?!
Who spread that rumor!
Arlo! You big mouth!
Genesis was very hesitant. “Misha, generally speaking, it’s impossible for the Divine Realm to support this kind of feeling.”
Misha shouted, “What feeling! He and I don’t have that kind of feeling!!!”
Genesis was first startled by the volume of Misha’s voice, but then she couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. Since Misha didn’t have those feelings for the Yong Zhe, her subsequent work would be easier to carry out. At least she wouldn’t have to carry too much terrible guilt.
But Arlo cleared his throat and whispered from the side, “Misha, but the Yong Zhe toward you—”
A blush instantly spread across Misha’s face. He didn’t know why Genesis and Arlo were suddenly concerned about his love life, but this really wasn’t the point. He didn’t want to talk about such things in front of everyone. He could only protest hurriedly, “No, no, he doesn’t, and I don’t. No one does… there’s just none!”
Genesis nodded deeply, feeling she had seen Misha’s attitude. Regardless of what the Yong Zhe thought, at least Misha was unwilling to accept it.
Thus, Genesis cleared her throat and gave Misha a serious suggestion. “Reveal your identity to him.”
Misha: “…Huh?”
Genesis: “In this situation, if the Yong Zhe finds out you are the Mo Wang, he will definitely be furious.”
Misha: “…”
No, that doesn’t seem right.
Genesis: “The Mo Wang’s deception will be his motivation to attack the Mo Wang Cheng!”
Misha: “…”
There won’t be any motivation! Everyone will just feel very awkward!
He stood upright. He didn’t want to face the stupidity of forgetting to tell the Hero about this. Misha shook his head vigorously.
“It won’t work,” Misha tried to find some evidence to prove his point. “He has no malice toward monsters. Even if I reveal my identity, it won’t be useful, right?”
“It’s simple,” Genesis said. “You just need to humiliate him.”
Misha: “…”
Genesis: “I remember this is also a required course for you Mo Wangs, right?”
Misha: “…Yes.”
Genesis: “You are Alisa’s best student!”
Misha: “…”
Misha wanted to cry, but no tears came. Yes, in the Mo Wang’s mandatory courses, there was indeed such a lesson. A qualified Mo Wang should be proficient in the art of humiliating the Yong Zhe, able to provoke them in every meeting and trample their character into the ground. Only then could the Yong Zhe’s heaven-toppling hatred toward the Mo Wang be maintained.
But this course… Misha hadn’t learned it very well. He had memorized all the insulting lines Teacher Alisa gave them, but he found it truly difficult to say those words that belittled the Yong Zhe’s character. It was only because the final exam for this course was a written one—not requiring him to actually scold anyone—that he had barely managed to pass and escape.
And now, the retribution had come. He didn’t even remember the words he had memorized!
Humiliate the Hero? With this thick-skinned and incredibly bold Yong Zhe, it would be lucky if he weren’t the one being humiliated! How would he have the courage to humiliate the Hero?
But under the gaze of Genesis and Arlo, Misha had no choice. He had no reason to refuse. He was too nervous, so any reason he thought of was pale and weak. But if he went along with what they said, then from now on, he wouldn’t be able to stay by their and the Yong Zhe’s side as Misha.
He swallowed nervously, but then he couldn’t help but think that with the Yong Zhe’s usual wit, he would likely understand the predicament Misha was in very quickly. He just needed to give the Hero a small hint and then find a way to convince Genesis and Arlo to let him take the Yong Zhe away.
Then, he could follow the Yong Zhe and slip away to the Dragon Race to figure out the truth of everything.
Misha cleared his throat.
“I feel that humiliation is far from enough to provoke the Yong Zhe,” Misha said seriously. “In this situation, we should think of other ways.”
Genesis frowned. “Is there any other way?”
“I can kidnap him,” Misha said with nervous gravity. “Throw him into the dungeon of the Mo Wang Cheng and let him experience the pain of being the Mo Wang’s prisoner.”
Arlo was stunned. Genesis also blinked nervously and asked, “Isn’t that a bit too much?”
Misha: “…”
Genesis: “It wouldn’t be good if you beat the Yong Zhe into a pulp.”
“Teacher Alisa said that making the Yong Zhe a slave is also one of the Mo Wang’s reasonable tactics,” Misha explained to Genesis, feeling extremely nervous. “As far as I know, there are several successful cases where the Mo Wang threw the Yong Zhe into a dungeon, which actually stimulated the Yong Zhe’s fighting spirit.”
“But… the problem is…” Genesis quickly turned her head to look at where Lance and Samuel were, then lowered her voice even further. “Can you actually catch him?”
Misha: “…”
Arlo: “…”
“I heard his strength is very formidable,” Genesis was nervous. “It won’t be that easy, right?”
Arlo: “Indeed…”
Misha: “I have a way!”
Genesis and Arlo turned to look at him together.
“As… as long as I catch him off guard. Yes, right, as long as he lets his guard down and is completely relaxed, I can catch him!” Misha tried his best to make things up. “A lapse in spirit, plus a little bit of illusion.”
Arlo frowned. “Do you think he’s ever been relaxed?”
Misha: “…”
Arlo: “This might be a major difficulty.”
Misha: “…True.”
But Genesis, as if she had thought of a winning move, spoke with great excitement. “I have an idea!”
She paused, then looked at Misha with a bit of a guilty conscience. “Misha, but for this plan, you might need to sacrifice a little.”
Misha: “Sacrifice?”
For some reason, his heart was uneasy. He felt that whatever Genesis was about to say definitely wouldn’t be a good idea.
“Although I haven’t taken the courses for Mo Wangs and Divine Envoys, and I don’t know what the Yong Zhe is like,” Genesis said, nodding with her hands on her hips. “Based on my understanding of romance—”
Misha: “…What understanding?!”
Genesis: “Male gods in love are always at their most defenseless.”
Misha: “Huh???”
Genesis: “He likes you! If you confess to him, he’ll definitely let his guard down immediately.”
Misha: “No, no, no, that is absolutely not okay.”
Genesis: “Oh, right. That’s not okay.”
Misha breathed a sigh of relief.
Genesis: “It’s too mild. Let’s go with a forced kiss instead!”
Misha: “ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!”
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