The Man Who Made a Pact with God

“Tear you into pieces? Pieces? Bit by bit? Hihihihihihi… Gahahahaha!”

As if hearing the funniest joke in the world, it clutched its stomach with both hands, using its third hand to cover its mouth as if trying to suppress its laughter.

But that restraint was nothing more than a pretentious act.

The laughter still leaked out uncontrollably, until it finally gave up and burst into open cackling.

“Ahahaha… how interesting. You people… are really interesting.”

Laughing so hard it went limp, Avisotel leaned against a petrified lizard.

With its third hand, it pointed at Ye Yousheng.

“You’re relying on this human? This human who couldn’t even beat that stupid bell? Muhehehe!”

Eve looked at the ridiculous monkey with disdain and said coldly,

“Yes. Is there a problem?”

“…A problem?”

Avisotel’s eyes widened as it bared its teeth.

“The problem is huge!”

Boom!

With a casual stomp, it crushed a massive crater into the famously sturdy labyrinth floor.

Avisotel possessed strength completely mismatched with its body.

Its level had already exceeded one hundred—

a being above the fifth tier, a monster beyond common sense.

Lulu once said there was a decisive difference between the fifth and sixth tiers…

but Ye Yousheng still didn’t know what that difference was.

The monkey wiped away its grin and narrowed its eyes at Eve.

“Woman, I know you’re strong.”

“I can tell from the way you look at me.”

“But the one here right now… isn’t your real body, is it?”

It had already seen through it.

The Eve before them was merely a projection—not her true form.

Only the monsters below the fifth tier had been intimidated into immobility.

But Avisotel had noticed immediately.

“I can’t sense any danger from you.”

“So you’re just bluffing, hehe… I’ve seen right through you!”

“You humans really love playing tricks, don’t you? Hehe, I like that!”

“But still… this is the first time I’ve seen such high-quality food.”

“Just your appearance alone is so beautiful!”

“If I could taste you… how wonderful would that be… Hihihihihi!”

It was insane.

Or perhaps… this was normal for it.

Because it wasn’t human.

It was a monster.

To it, eating humans was simply natural.

That was why it could trample human morality and reason without hesitation.

“Come on! Didn’t you say you’d tear me into pieces? Like this!”

Avisotel clawed at its own body, ripping open its skin and exposing flesh,

then carved even more wounds into the torn areas.

“Don’t worry. Your life, Yousheng will take it from me.”

“Gahahaha! Him? This weak, pathetic human?”

“……”

In truth, Ye Yousheng’s feelings were complicated.

Thinking rationally, asking someone on the brink of death to fight a level-100 monster was absurd.

But the one who said it was the Goddess of Life.

A god.

And Eve was bound to him by contract.

She might deceive anyone else—but never him.

“The contract I formed with Yousheng is a Symbiosis Contract.”

“Do you know what that means?”

This was the first time Ye Yousheng learned the type of contract he had with Eve.

His status panel only listed “Contract with the Goddess of Life,” without specifying the type.

There were many kinds of contracts—alliances, family bonds, master-servant pacts, familiar contracts…

Each declared a relationship and granted special connections and blessings.

But the one between Eve and Ye Yousheng was a [Symbiosis Contract].

A contract so intimate that even lovers would hesitate to form it.

Once formed, there could be no secrets between the two.

They would share everything.

Neither could survive without the other.

If one died, the other would die as well.

A contract of absolute fate.

“This means I will share everything with him.”

“My body, my knowledge, my memories, my life… everything I have belongs to him.”

Eve pressed a hand to her chest as she spoke with pride.

To her, forming a contract with a human—

especially one with no magic—

was not shameful.

Nor was it something she was forced into.

She chose it willingly.

She believed in him without reservation.

Believed in the man who gave her purpose.

That was why she accepted the contract wholeheartedly.

Even though it meant that her near-eternal life gained a single fatal weakness.

Yes—

the moment the Symbiosis Contract was formed,

there were no barriers between them.

They could even understand each other without words.

Only because Eve was currently sealed

did the contract fail to fully function.

But she was still a goddess.

Even sealed, she was still the Goddess of Life.

Eve’s phantom drifted behind Ye Yousheng.

She gently embraced him from behind.

“I don’t want to see you die.”

“And I don’t want to see you get hurt.”

“So I’m going to lend you this ‘skill.’”

“Maybe it’s cruel… but I hope you can accept it, Yousheng…”

There was no physical sensation.

Yet Ye Yousheng still felt the warmth.

Eve had always cared about him.

Even when inside the phone, she had been watching him—

worrying for him, grieving for him.

<Under the effect of [Contract with the Goddess of Life], a new skill has been generated: [Life Drain]>

[Life Drain (Active) Lv MAX]

[Skill Effect: When a designated target is killed, absorb 100% of the target’s life value. Due to lack of divinity, it can only be used while in a near-death state. The absorbed life value has no upper limit and is tracked separately. Upon leaving the near-death state, the absorbed life value returns to the goddess’s body.]

The horn of counterattack had sounded.