"Fame… 200?"
Fang Yuan was stunned; he'd never seen such a high Fame stat before.
Passed down for all ages?
Is this the pull of Satan's name?
Actually, Fang Yuan had fully expected Lucifer to rack up that much fame—after all, Satan is shorthand for the Devil; mention God and people always bring him up.
But what truly shocked Fang Yuan was—
the damn panel hadn't nerfed the Fame stat at all.
Still, that was perfect, and Fang Yuan happily checked out the rewards his dear Lucifer darling had unlocked.
[Starter Reward: Item acquired – forbidden fruit (S-Rank)!]
"forbidden fruit?"
If not for the time-stop, his face would've twisted into a comical expression.
"Is it the thing I'm thinking of?"
A man and a woman secretly eat the forbidden fruit… heh-heh-heh.
He looked at the item description.
[forbidden fruit (S-Rank): Generates one every 20 years; causes the eater to Fall instantly, completely reversing their mindset.]
"Oh, the Adam-and-Eve sort," Fang Yuan said, disappointed. "Boring."
He'd hoped it would make a goddess jump straight into bed with him… ahem.
But jokes aside, his eyes still lit up.
What do you mean 'forbidden'?
Feed it to a good guy and it's a blackening fruit; feed it to a villain and it's a redemption fruit—a straight-up mind-flipping nuke.
Telepathy can pull that off too, but only on targets with weaker mental stats, whereas the forbidden fruit has no such limit.
Fang Yuan doubted any S-Rank reward unlocked by Satan could be blocked so easily.
And this was only the starter bonus.
As expected of an SS-Rank employee—top salesman from day one.
He kept scrolling.
[Tier-1 Reward: Item acquired – eternal fall (S-Rank).]
[eternal fall (S-Rank): Special weapon; can fuse with other items while preserving their unique effects; fusion timers are judged independently.]
"A weapon?"
"Perfect timing; I was just complaining the trident of poseidon breaks too easily."
It suited him perfectly—he'd never had a personal weapon, just swapped between whatever worked: Infinity Gauntlet, trident, shield, you name it.
Now one weapon could cover every need—exactly what he wanted.
"Nice," Fang Yuan said to himself. "Guess I won't have to fire this employee."
What? Top salesman can't be canned?
In a company that runs last-place elimination, even the sales champ can get axed.
He read on.
[Tier-2 Reward: Aura acquired – Root of All Evil (S-Rank).]
[Root of All Evil Aura (S-Rank): After the host causes someone to Fall, rewards are granted based on the target's traits.]
"Hey, a combo popped," Fang Yuan grinned.
The Root of All Evil Aura and forbidden fruit were made for each other: feed the fruit, trigger the Fall, then collect the reward.
"Excellent—Satan can be Employee of the Year," the big boss Fang Yuan declared.
Whether the sales champ earns that title is, after all, the boss's call.
Next came the headliner.
Fang Yuan held his breath.
[Tier-3 Reward: Character Template – Lucifer Morningstar (SS-Rank, 0.1% development)]
An SS-Rank Character Template!
Fang Yuan was ecstatic; he exited the reward time-stop at once.
Equip template!
Lucifer before him raised an eyebrow. "Looks like you cleaned up."
Fang Yuan couldn't speak—not just because of the template'S-Rank, but because—
"The burn is insane," he gritted internally.
Character Templates run off his current stats; the gap between him and Satan was too vast for an instant leap.
Yet he was thrilled—Satan's template was overpowered.
The World in his eyes was no longer what flesh could see.
Crowds streamed down the street, and every person shimmered with countless threads and auras.
He flicked one old man's thread—and the geezer turned into a young guy on the spot!
"Whoa!"
Onlookers gasped, thinking it was street magic, and swarmed closer.
Fang Yuan tapped another aura; the young guy became a grown woman!
People recoiled—they'd watched the sex change happen in plain sight.
"A Superhuman?" a savvy bystander asked.
With Superhumans like Clark and Arthur around, humanity had accepted their existence. A man turning into a woman was wild, but this was Gotham—Earth's front row for gossip—and folks adapted fast.
Only then did Fang Yuan realize those threads and auras were the person's traits!
Not just bodies—sky and World brimmed with data too. He casually slashed the air, turning broad daylight into night!
"Whoa!"
The street erupted; everyone stared skyward in shock.
"It's dark?"
"An eclipse?"
But they quickly realized something was off—celestial bodies move by set paths, and the Moon couldn't just pop between Earth and Sun.
So everyone hurried away from the old man—no, the young woman.
Fang Yuan could even see the panic spreading through the crowd; those intangible things were now quantified before his eyes.
Under the Satan Template, Fang Yuan felt as though he'd opened the World's back-end console, free to tweak any parameter at will.
"Three… two…"
Suddenly, Lucifer began a countdown.
Fang Yuan didn't understand why, but the instant Lucifer said "one," Fang Yuan was kicked straight out of the Satan Template.
Fang Yuan frowned over at him, thinking Lucifer had pulled some trick, but Lucifer just shrugged. "That's as long as you can hold it."
With a wave of his hand he undid every change Fang Yuan had made: the young woman reverted to an old man, night turned back to day, traffic returned to the streets, and everyone acted as though none of it had ever happened.
"No idea how you're using my power, but eight seconds." Lucifer spread his hands. "That's your limit for now."
Fang Yuan nodded, not discouraged—permission dogs can't stay in admin mode too long or they draw aggro.
"With an ability like that, why bother fighting God over Earth?" Fang Yuan muttered.
This back-door power rivaled a fully-gemmed Infinity Gauntlet; if it were him, he wouldn't obsess over a single planet.
Lucifer ground his teeth. "What do you understand? It's about face!"
"Face!"
Satan repeated.
"Only Mammon, that short-sighted fool, thinks this wager doesn't matter!" he added, taking a swipe at his son.
Then Lucifer remembered Fang Yuan was someone who'd made God look foolish, and his face brightened into a smile.
"Of course, you're different. If anything fun like that Constantine business ever comes up again, call me!" Lucifer said in perfect Good Big Brother mode. "I'll get you something nice."
A promise from Satan—those who know, know.
Fang Yuan ignored Lucifer and stepped back into the frozen-time reward screen.
And now walking toward us—Fourth-Tier reward!
[Fourth-Tier Reward: acquire the Under-Heaven Halo (SS-Rank)!]
Under-Heaven?
The phrase made Fang Yuan picture the man who says "I'm Zhang Zhiwei—Zhang of arrogant Zhang," but he quickly realized what it really meant.
Who else could rank above Satan except that one?
[Under-Heaven Halo (SS-Rank): In any World where God exists, the host's spiritual will can never be destroyed.]
Surprisingly, Satan's fourth-tier reward was only a single sentence.
Yet the impact on Fang Yuan was huge.
"My spiritual will can't be destroyed—so even if my body's pulverized, I'll still exist?" Fang Yuan realized at once.
What was this?
A heaven-issued get-out-of-death token.
Sly Lucifer, secretly colluding with Heaven—absolutely… wonderful!
Lucifer fraternizing with the enemy didn't matter; as long as the benefits landed in his pocket, all was well.
Besides, Hell was basically a department God allowed to exist anyway.
It didn't boost his combat strength, but it massively guaranteed his safety, and Fang Yuan was very satisfied.
Next came the most important reward.
"First-ever fifth-tier reward and it's SS-Rank—so exciting."
He opened the fifth-tier reward, full of anticipation.
[Fifth-Tier Reward: acquire exclusive ability—Divinity (SS-Rank).]
[Divinity (SS-Rank): Convert every mastered law into divine authority, raising your life to a higher order.]
"Becoming a god?"
Fang Yuan froze.
Satan's fifth-tier reward had actually unlocked the road to godhood for him.
Though Fang Yuan already possessed divine power—Thor's, for instance.
Marvel's Thunder God was essentially just a very powerful alien; so-called divine power was merely another form of exotic energy.
But this Divinity could directly elevate his life order—the difference was obvious.
Unlike traditional gods, each tied to a single domain, his Divinity let him master multiple laws, with no need for worshippers or incense.
Good stuff—seriously good stuff.
In a cultivation world, this would be the Great Dao laid out before him.
"What shiny new toy did you get?"
Seeing Fang Yuan emerge from the time-stop grinning, Lucifer asked with a jealous twitch.
He suddenly felt he'd been played: Fang Yuan had only promised to take him out for fun, and Lucifer had eagerly signed the invitation, yet Fang Yuan seemed to have reaped a heap of benefits.
And he still hadn't gone out to play!
Fang Yuan could read Lucifer's mind at a glance.
This Satan was surprisingly human, even bogged down with family-and-work worries; more a middle-aged salaryman than the king of devils.
"Don't worry, I'll take you out to play right now," Fang Yuan soothed.
Satan was the top sales rep of his company; when your star performer makes a request, you deliver.
He wasn't some clueless boss.
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