Chapter 261: He Doesn't Treat Me as a God, Nor as a Human
Thor and Cheng Tian both wanted to blaspheme, the difference being that Thor wanted to but didn't dare, while Cheng Tian was already doing it with gusto.
Fina's identity was that of the Twin Goddesses of the Kingdom of Yisu, but deep down, she was still a young maiden at heart. She actually disliked the overly reverent attitude of the Six High Priests and Temple Knights towards her and her sister.
Based on this, if someone could treat them as friends, they would actually welcome it from the bottom of their hearts... But can being friends also mean being toys!?
Fina, the Red Moon, flying in mid-air, had a delicate blue-and-white cloth strip tied around her slender 56-inch waist. This cloth strip perfectly matched the clothes she was wearing, perhaps even torn from them. The other end of the strip was tied around Bazett's slender 55-inch waist. Bazett, a slender female Mammoth with a conventional Strength attribute of 44 points, was being dragged along in flight.
Fina was the kite, and Bazett was flying the kite... Is this, is this right?
If the Temple Knights saw this scene, they would probably let out terrifying, sharp screams in unison, then everyone would brandish their swords and shout slogans like "Blasphemy!", "Disrespect!", "Evil doers, release our Goddess!" They would charge towards Cheng Tian and his group like madmen, each one going berserk, determined to blast Cheng Mouren, the instigator, into dust!
Each floor of the Black Tower was essentially an independent space, with very large scenes, but the routes were intricate and had extreme elevation changes. There were also numerous doors and passages with height restrictions, which meant that large War Elephants and flightless Primordial Wyverns couldn't move freely here.
As one of the Twin Goddesses, Fina had special permissions and magic, but her physical attributes were relatively weak, which was very disadvantageous for the current speedrun.
However, if Cheng Tian or Bazett carried her, putting aside whether the Goddess would agree, just the act itself would affect their combat power.
But when Cheng Tian saw that the Goddess, as a descendant of winged people, could break through the Black Tower's restrictions and fly freely, but her flying speed was clearly not picking up, he came up with the idea of flying her like a kite.
The inspiration came from the General in "Gintama" whom Gintoki used as a prostate brake snowboard.
As the younger sister of the Twin Goddesses, who held the authority of "Freedom," Fina's personality and way of thinking were far more unconventional than her older sister, Leia, who held the authority of "Order."
This act of flying the Goddess like a kite, which was in some ways even more blasphemous than Thor's thinking, instead gave her a thrilling sensation of personally tearing apart all the red tape of the Kingdom of Yisu and dumping the shreds onto the heads of the Six High Priests!
"They don't treat me as a god, nor as a human." — Fina.
Thor and Yug, these two brothers, were already capable of separating the Twin Goddesses' identity from their divine status to some extent in the Kingdom of Yisu, but flying a goddess like a kite? That was truly something only Cheng Tian could do.
Forget doing it, they couldn't even imagine it!
This time, Cheng Tian took the lead. With the mask's bonus in Evernight Mode and the effects of the equipped Balford Twin Swords set, Cheng Tian had a high Agility attribute of 28 points. As for the weight of the orangutan Utan, it was temporarily entrusted to the Skeleton Kickers.
Having switched to speedrun mode, Cheng Tian's strategy for advancing through the map also changed directly.
Except for critical boss units and main boss units, all other units were skipped.
They had even run far away, but the soul fragments bursting from the monsters' bodies were still desperately chasing them, pulled by the Ghost Gauntlet.
Relying on Cheng Tian's understanding of the Black Tower map, which was more familiar to him than its creator, they quickly arrived and kicked open the Beast Demon Gate.
A massive, independent arena stage, like the Four-Sided Platform in Meteor Butterfly Sword, lay brightly before the group.
This was the only path to the second floor on foot, and also the exclusive arena for the boss battle. As soon as they took one more step forward, the boss would immediately appear.
Fina, who had been wildly buffeted by the wind but hadn't shown any signs of her cheeks flapping or her hairstyle being messed up, now had a serious expression. She had already sensed the magical fluctuations of a large, evil monster directly above.
Among the hordes of monsters that once ravaged the land of Yisu, in addition to numerous regular monsters, there were also six giant monsters. After the Black Tower was built, all six of these monsters took up residence in the Black Tower, seemingly serving as guardians for each floor.
However, before Fina could even utter a warning, two summoning circles appeared beside Cheng Tian.
Then, to Fina's astonished gaze, two colossal beasts were summoned from the summoning circles respectively—
Mammoth War Elephant and Crimson Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The Black Tower's summoning circle directly above the arena glowed, and then a massive red creature descended from the sky, landing opposite the group.
This was a grotesque monster, a fusion of flesh and machinery, with clear elements of a chimera-mechanical composite.
A gigantic mechanical arm covered in armor, a spine so slender it looked like it would snap under the arm's weight at any moment, arthropod-like feet, a mouth full of sharp serrated teeth where its reproductive organ should be, and an overall inverted triangular shape—
The Crying Domain Guardian! The Iron-Armed Mad Beast, Bellaganda!
But an awkward situation arose.
As one of the giant monsters that invaded the Kingdom of Yisu, this Iron-Armed Mad Beast was only about 5 meters tall, not even as tall as its arm span, which was roughly 8 meters when fully extended.
For Yisu, whose combat power was mainly concentrated in mages and knights, this was indeed a behemoth. But for Cheng Tian's side, it was clearly insufficient.
The Mammoth War Elephant alone, from its leg to the tip of its head, was almost 6 meters tall, not to mention the Crimson Tyrannosaurus Rex, a mutated dinosaur that stood over ten meters tall when upright.
Bellaganda, the Giant-Armed Mad Beast, which had been roaring wildly with both its upper and lower mouths upon landing, attempting to intimidate the humans, was immediately roared back by a mix of dragon roars and elephant trumpets!
For such an enemy, Cheng Tian merely snapped his fingers and pointed forward.
"Get it."
The elephant and the Tyrannosaurus Rex charged directly at Bellaganda with heavy, thudding footsteps.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex bit its arm, and the elephant's trunk pulled at its leg, immediately knocking the inverted triangle, which only trained its upper body and not its legs, to the ground.
Normally, the strategy for Bellaganda was to attack its large lower mouth. After a certain amount of damage, it would become stunned, and then the brain replica, protected by a metal skull on its head, would be exposed. Attacking it would deal true damage. After taking a certain amount of damage, the monster would reawaken, and then a new cycle of damage would begin.
As a semi-mechanical, semi-living entity, Bellaganda's only weakness was its brain; other parts were replaceable.
However, when it was jointly suppressed by two beasts significantly larger and heavier than itself, it couldn't even lift its proud giant arms again.
And then, its metal skull, which protected its brain tissue, was forcibly pried open by Bazett, who, under Cheng Tian's instruction, activated Mammoth's Fury, temporarily boosting her Strength to the extreme value of 50 points.
There was no flashiness, no skills, only one fatal output after another.
Fina covered her eyes, watching the entire process of the monster's brain being made into a mess through the large gaps between her fingers.
One minute later—
"Giant-Armed Mad Beast Bellaganda, deceased."