Virus King - Chapter 331

Chapter 331: The Golden Hand! The Terrifying Power of Greed!

TL: YYang

In the illusory world of nothingness, that beam of golden light fully coalesced.

At that moment, even Chen Bai couldn’t help but be enveloped and overwhelmed by the golden light.

An indescribable greed nearly consumed his entire mind.

Wealth, women, power, strength—everything. At that moment, he wanted to claim it all as his own.

This indescribable emotion felt like a venomous serpent, devouring his heart.

But it vanished in an instant, replaced by calmness. At the same time, Satan’s phantom disappeared from the Hell King’s Ring, and in its place was something slowly descending after the golden light receded.

What left Chen Bai speechless was that it appeared to be… a glove.

The embodiment of Authority could take many forms—equipment, skills one could learn, or even unique tools.

Without a doubt, this transformation of the Authority of Greed was clearly either equipment or an item!

It was a pure golden hand.

Compared to any gold ornament, it was even more dazzling and radiant, as if it contained all the mysteries of the world.

Just by touching it with his hand, Chen Bai felt as if he could control everything through this golden hand.

Eagerly, he examined the item in his hand in the void.

[Greed (SS+)]
[Soul Weapon—Hand Type]
[Experience gain +100%! Drop rate +1000%! Hidden Attribute: Luck +??, Charisma +??]
[Goldfinger: Transmute any creature, item, or equipment below your level into gold currency. The amount of gold obtained depends on your level and the target’s level. When used on a creature, the skill applies a 100% instant-death effect! Cooldown: 10 seconds.]
[King’s Treasury: Within the Vault of Greed, complete the corresponding trials to obtain treasures with no cooldown on activation.]
[Greed: Consume one gold coin to temporarily increase all attributes by +1. Consume 100 gold coins to permanently increase all attributes by +1. For every tenfold increase in your attributes, the gold coin cost doubles! There is no limit to temporary attribute increases through coin consumption, but permanent increases cannot exceed 50 points per day!]
[Mammon’s Hand: Once a day, you can randomly obtain an item, piece of equipment, skill book, or other specific object from across the multiverse. The item will be randomly ranked between B-Rank and SS-Rank.]
[Seven Deadly Sins—Greed (1/7): Current bonus: All attributes +7%.]
[Requirements to Equip: Soul Binding! Partial Authority of Hell! Must possess Devil (Demon) Bloodline!]

This thing…

Chen Bai’s pupils suddenly contracted as he stared at the item in disbelief. For a moment, he couldn’t recover from the shock.

What an absolutely terrifying item!

Putting everything else aside, the Goldfinger ability alone could easily eliminate any worries about money.

While it was true that gold wasn’t omnipotent in the vast multiverse, it could solve almost all problems outside the Abyss.

For someone wielding this Authority of Greed, gold became a resource to permanently increase their attributes and strengthen their foundation.

What did this mean?!

Even though Chen Bai had mentally prepared himself, seeing the equipment derived from the Authority of Greed still made him involuntarily gasp.

Any single one of these abilities was enough to defy the heavens.

Together, they weren’t just heaven-defying. They were invincible.

The power of Authority was this overwhelming. Even when the God and Devil Trial Grounds simulated and analyzed it with the abilities of the Cosmic Will, the visual impact and power were nothing short of terrifying.

Not to mention the ability of Greed, every single gold coin could temporarily increase all attributes by one point.

If he had a hundred thousand gold coins, wouldn’t that mean he could instantly become an Evolver with a hundred thousand attributes?!

Although this would only enhance his attributes without affecting his rank or realm, and his power wouldn’t truly surpass all limits, it was already near invincible!

Chen Bai gasped sharply. But in the next moment, just as he was about to bind the item to his soul, his eyelids abruptly twitched.

[You do not meet the requirements to equip or bind Greed!]

Chen Bai froze, then glanced at the equipment requirements again. Most were fine, but without a doubt, the truly noteworthy requirement was this so-called Authority of Hell.

“What the hell is this?! I need to obtain Hell’s Authority just to wield this thing?!”

Chen Bai furrowed his brow. Though he thought highly of himself and had the disposition to match, obtaining the so-called Authority of Hell was clearly impossible for him right now.

“Great Overlord, Greed unsettles your heart. To master Greed, you must first calm your emotions. As for Hell’s Authority, all you need to do is wear the Hell King’s Ring.”

Chen Bai paused at Satan’s timely reminder, but it instantly brought clarity to his thoughts:

“What’s the situation outside now?” he asked.

“Great Overlord, even if you hadn’t asked, I would have told you. All remaining participants who survived have been forcibly ejected into the Vault of Greed due to the collapse of the Path of Life and Death in Hell. You can leave now; otherwise, you might draw unnecessary attention.”

For now, Chen Bai had no intention of revealing his identity.

Damn it. He had come this far. He had already pushed through the extremes of this “First Embrace Ceremony” that no one else understood. If he didn’t seize some benefits now, wouldn’t the past ten days have been wasted?

With that thought, Chen Bai quickly stashed the Hand of Greed into the Evolver’s Secret Warehouse Vault.

The next moment, ripples and spatial distortions gently spread outward. A shattered spatial door opened, and Chen Bai’s figure instantly stepped through. At the same time, in front of Blood Moon City, countless participants seemed to be ejected from the fragmented world all at once.

Wails and cries of anguish erupted before the now-empty Path of Life and Death in Hell. Blending into the crowd, Chen Bai’s peripheral vision swept toward where the path had once stood.

But what he saw made him momentarily stop breathing. The enormous gate to the Path of Life and Death in Hell was now gone, completely vanished.

Damn. So that thing really exploded this thoroughly?

As Chen Bai pondered in confusion, a beam of blood-red moonlight suddenly descended from the sky.

Clearly, upon receiving news of the Path of Life and Death in Hell’s destruction, Her Excellency Lilith, the Blood Moon Goddess and Lord of Blood, had arrived immediately.