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    Oliver followed the guidance of the wishing bottle and arrived at a strange place. It was pitch black here, but what was special was that there were bizarre beasts surging and fighting fiercely within it!


    These beasts were almost all deities like Oliver, some even reaching level 5 or 6, far surpassing a level 2 being like him. Their appearances were wildly varied—some resembled giant wolves, others looked like crabs, and some were like spiders covered in human skin…


    Besides these deities, there were also many purely rule-formed, unconscious traps—spatial rifts and distorted spaces. Countless gods and demons were surging forward, seemingly drawn by something special. They were killing each other while also being torn apart by the strange spatial traps and chaotic vortexes of this place! Vast numbers of deities were dying in droves!


    Oliver watched with his heart pounding in fear. This place was too dangerous! What could it be that was attracting so many deities to fight over it? His curiosity grew stronger.


    However, Oliver didn’t join the deities vying for it, because he was only level 2—competing with them now would be suicide. But he didn’t give up either. Because the wishing bottle’s faint guiding light was leading him toward a direction where almost no deities were present!


    Relying on the wishing bottle’s guidance, Oliver actually managed to bypass those deities and the labyrinth-like chaotic space, arriving at the center of the area! A round stone appeared before Oliver! It glimmered like a gray gemstone, radiating strange beams of light. Within those beams, the most ancient and chaotic laws flickered wildly!


    Could this be a treasure tied to the laws of chaos? Oliver mused—was this the very treasure causing the spatial turmoil and driving the countless deities outside to slaughter each other? “This treasure seems incredibly valuable!” Oliver’s heart raced with excitement.


    [Congratulations, you’ve uncovered a legendary treasure renowned throughout history and myth.] A mechanical voice rang out. Oliver flinched—last time he claimed the Wishing Bottle, no such announcement had popped up. It looked like this Chaos Gem was something truly extraordinary.


    Curious, he opened himself to a fresh stream of information from the Book of the Chaos Era. The Chaos Gem came into being before Aether shaped the world—a solidified essence of chaotic power. It had seen countless worlds rise and fall, brimming with limitless strength. Legend claimed it once belonged to Chaos, the Greek god of disorder, only to be lost amid the gods’ war, sparking fierce battles among rival factions.


    They say Zeus, head of the Radiant Alliance, wielded it to imprison the Titans during the Titan-Dragon War. In the chaos of Ragnarok, it sped up Asgard’s downfall… This artifact—alongside Gungnir, Draupnir, Skidbladnir, and others—holds a towering place in mythic history.


    “It’s mine!” Oliver’s eyes gleamed as his massive serpentine body coiled, shaking the void as he lunged toward the gem. Whoosh! But at that moment, a savage roar suddenly erupted from behind him. A monster pounced out from his rear. It turned out that a deity had noticed something special about Oliver, quietly followed him, and arrived with him at the center of this chaotic zone!


    Oliver’s snake eyes narrowed slightly as he turned to look at it. The creature was terrifying in appearance—its body was covered in thick black scales, its head resembling a massive wolf, but with a pair of antelope-like horns on its forehead. At the same time, the monster’s stat panel appeared before Oliver’s eyes!


    Name: Dark Horned Wolf


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    Race: Deity


    Deity Rating: 3


    Attributes:


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    <li>Defense: 350</li>


    <li>Strength: 450</li>


    <li>Chaos Power: 100</li>


    <li>Soul Power: 50


    Skills: Unknown


    Possessions: Unknown</li>


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    “A level 3 deity?!” Oliver’s heart jolted. He was only level 2 right now, and this monster’s stat panel, overall, was undoubtedly stronger than his! However, Oliver was among the strongest of level 2 beings. He quickly noticed that this level 3 monster had an extremely obvious weakness—its soul power was very low!


    “Concealment!” Oliver immediately activated his special skill, Concealment! His massive body, nearly 30,000 kilometers in length, vanished in an instant. To the monster wolf’s eyes, the giant creature seemed to have disappeared entirely, as if he had never existed in the first place.


    But the monster knew—Oliver hadn’t vanished. He had merely hidden himself in some way. Madness flickered in its eyes. It roared furiously and launched attacks in every direction, as if convinced that by striking everywhere at once, Oliver would have nowhere left to hide! Its attacks were terrifying, stirring the chaos into utter turmoil.


    But unfortunately for it, Oliver was unbelievably fast. No matter how vast the attack range, he effortlessly dodged every single strike, taking full advantage of his invisibility. The monster’s soul power was far too weak—it had no way of detecting Oliver.


    Hidden in the darkness, Oliver silently observed the creature’s every move. Suddenly, he spotted a crucial opening! His serpentine body glided noiselessly through the void, accelerating toward the monster wolf at a terrifying speed! Boom! Oliver abruptly opened his mouth and unleashed a thick, venomous mist.


    This toxic fog carried the chaotic power within him, infused with a deadly poison capable of corroding flesh and eroding souls alike. The mist rapidly engulfed the monster. Its scales began to sizzle with a sharp, grating sound. The poison’s potency was overwhelming.


    The monster wolf instantly felt its flesh being violently corroded. It howled in agony, thrashing its body in desperation, trying to escape the poisonous cloud. But Oliver had no intention of letting it go. He swiftly circled behind the monster, his snake tail whipping out like lightning and striking heavily against its back. This blow not only tore through its scales but also injected the toxins directly into its body!


    The monster’s screams grew even more wretched. Its struggles began to weaken, its eyes gradually losing their light. Finally, with one last unwilling howl, its massive body crashed to the ground, leaving behind only a mass of chaotic energy.


    Normally, Oliver would’ve pounced to devour that energy without hesitation, but right then, his gaze was locked on that gray gem alone! He stretched his enormous snake jaws wide and gulped the Chaos Gem down in one swift bite! At the same time, Oliver’s soul power surged, wrapping around it like a tide.


    If he could sync his soul power with it, Oliver would claim full mastery over it. Buzz~~ Buzz~~ The Chaos Gem quivered, resisting Oliver’s soul power with every pulse. Oliver realized in an instant that taming this Chaos Gem was leagues harder than controlling the Wishing Bottle had been!


    But that was fine. No matter how long it took, he was ready to invest the time. He had to become this gem’s master!


    Whoosh~~ Oliver’s soul power, thick like liquid, surged toward the Chaos Gem, completely surrounding it. He could feel his soul power draining rapidly. Soon, an unprecedented weakness hit him. The depletion of soul power felt like drowsiness—overwhelming drowsiness, as if he wanted to sleep for thousands, tens of thousands of years, never waking up.


    But he kept pushing. And Oliver began using his flesh to generate more soul power, sustaining the drain. His body, which had recovered to nearly 3,000 kilometers, started shrinking again—1,800 kilometers, 1,500 kilometers, 1,000 kilometers… 800 kilometers! Oliver’s massive frame shrank by more than half!


    Finally, he succeeded! “The Chaos Gem is mine?” Oliver snapped his eyes open, thrilled beyond measure. After who-knows-how-long, he’d finally resonated with the Chaos Gem on a soul level. The gem, now in his body, no longer felt foreign—it was as if it had always been part of him.


    And from within the Chaos Gem, vast waves of chaotic energy began pouring into his body like mad. Even the chaotic energy from the surrounding chaotic zone was drawn by the gem, rushing toward him! In that moment, the energy Oliver absorbed dwarfed what he’d gained from devouring the bloodthirsty fish by dozens of times!


    His body, drained from refining the Chaos Gem, now swelled rapidly with this influx of chaotic energy!