"Greed of mankind, ahhhh!" Before Quan Tian's Angel Matifa could finish cursing, he was already rolling on the ground, burnt by the divine fire released by Rody.

"Matifa, remember, you are no longer a high and mighty Quan Tian's Angel, but a prisoner," Rody said with a smile. "As a prisoner, you should have the awareness of one. I know every angel has something called the Holy Silver Cross. Take yours out! I like that little trinket..."

"As long as I am alive, you think you can use my Holy Silver Cross?" Matifa sneered at Rody's ignorance.

"No matter, I can refine your will with divine fire. I have ways," Rody chuckled. "Instead of worrying about this for me, you might want to worry about the torment of soul-burning by divine fire. I'm not always in a good mood. Maybe if I get angry, you won't be so happy!"

"You're threatening me?" As a high and mighty Quan Tian's Angel, Matifa couldn’t stand being threatened by others.

"As long as you have the value to be threatened, then I will do so! If not, I'll just kill you outright!" Rody laughed heartily.

"We actually have a way to lift the divine punishment, but it requires both of us to let go of doubts and suspicions, and work together..." Matifa suddenly softened his tone. "Rody, your name is Rody, right? Don’t you want to be free? If you can trust me, then I have a way to lift the divine punishment, and you won't have to go to hell and suffer. We just need two days, and then we can go our separate ways."

"Really?" Rody looked at Matifa skeptically, as if looking at an idiot.

"You have to believe me. As a distinguished angel, I absolutely will not lie!" Matifa almost seemed like he would swear on his life.

"Of course, I believe you, haha. What are you? A distinguished birdman, right? You're a natural liar, able to deceive without paying the price. How can I not believe you?" Rody chuckled. "If you could lift the divine punishment, you would have done it long ago. Why bother talking such nonsense with me!"

"To lift the divine punishment, two people need to cooperate!" Matifa cried out in desperation, no longer caring about being called a birdman.

"Really?" Rody yawned lazily. "Well then, beg me!"

"What did you say?" Matifa was stunned.

"Beg me, or I will not agree!" Rody said without even glancing at him.

"Rody, you are too much! I have already been humble enough. I am a Quan Tian's Angel, speaking to you so gently is already giving you a great honor! But you? You just make more excessive demands! Know this, freedom is for both of us. After lifting the divine punishment, not only I but also you can freely return to the human continent. Why wouldn't you want that?" Matifa was furious, but his tone softened in the end.

"Beg me..." Rody nonchalantly said, casually cleaning his ears.

"Don't dream, you, you're just too much!" Matifa's face changed color; this was more unbearable than killing him.

"La la la, la la la, an angel is going to hell, everyone clap your hands to welcome him! La la la, an angel is moving, the devils will surely like him!" Rody sang a nursery rhyme, infuriating Matifa to the point of steaming rage. If it weren’t for the protection of the Chains of Binding God, he would have drawn his holy sword and cut Rody in half. But now, he was utterly helpless.

"I, I beg you..." After enduring Rody's singing, Matifa almost spat blood and finally pleaded softly with Rody.

Pride was hard to swallow, but not as important as freedom.

Besides, if he really went to hell, he believed the devils and demons there would welcome him just as Rody sang. By then, losing face would be even worse. Currently, there was no one around except Rody. Begging him quietly now and killing him later to regain his freedom meant no one would ever know about this humiliation.

Quan Tian's Angel Matifa, after much thought, decided that this was not the time to worry about pride and thus spoke up.

"Speak up, I didn't hear anything!" Rody pretended to listen, putting his hand to his ear. Matifa, seeing the smile on his face, knew he was being mocked and felt like exploding in anger, but he was powerless against this unscrupulous human.

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"Go to hell!" Matifa yelled furiously.

"Oh, I heard that clearly!" Rody flicked a small ball of divine fire, and Matifa, despite being protected by the divine chain, felt his soul burning in agony and rolled on the ground in pain.

He tried to beg Rody for mercy, but the pain was so intense that he could only scream in agony.

Rody hummed a tune while dragging Matifa along.

A huge shadow passed over the sky. Initially, intending to dive down at the sight of the four-winged angel, but upon seeing Rody enveloped in unquenchable divine fire and tormenting the Quan Tian's Angel, it mistook Rody for an incredibly powerful being and hastily fled.

"A hellish black dragon? There are dragons here!" Rody was startled too, but seeing the black dragon afraid of him, he felt reassured.

"I beg you, please, I, I beg you!" Matifa, unable to bear the torment any longer, pleaded.

"You're not sincere at all, how can you move my heart!" Rody shook his head and sighed.

"Rody, I beg you... Let's talk nicely, let's lift the divine punishment together, okay? I beg you..." Matifa felt that if his companions saw him like this, even if he survived and returned, he would be ruined.

"Speak until I'm moved," Rody was unrelenting.

"I beg you..." Matifa internally seethed with hatred, but he put on a sincere and pitiful face. Suddenly, he realized he was quite good at acting pitiful, almost moving himself.

"Shed some tears! Maybe it will work better!" Rody suggested.

"Rody, wuwu, I beg you, as a Quan Tian's Angel, I'm humbly begging you, isn't that enough? Wuhu..." Matifa cried profusely.

"Almost there, almost! My heart is softening a bit!" Rody nodded affirmatively, saying, "If you keep crying for an hour, I believe I'll be moved by your pleas. Ah, about the Holy Silver Cross you mentioned, don't you have many at home? Give me the one you're carrying, or else keep crying! It's quite comforting to hear!"

"Give it." Matifa originally wanted to say that each angel only has one Holy Silver Cross, and if lost, it takes great effort to obtain another. But he figured Rody wouldn't listen to his explanation and saved his breath. After all, it's just a demon-subduing Holy Silver Cross. Given!

Reluctantly, Matifa took out the Holy Silver Cross, considering using it on Rody, but doubted its effectiveness due to the Chains of Binding God's protection. Moreover, keeping it imprisoned here meant he had to stay alongside it. After much thought, he threw it to Rody, hoping the divine fire would destroy it, so Rody would end up with nothing.

Unexpectedly, Rody flicked out a bit of his divine fire, quickly enveloping and easily securing the Holy Silver Cross.

"Let's talk about what treasures Heaven has!" Rody prepared to chat with Matifa about home matters. Of course, even if Matifa was a fool, he knew the greedy human's intentions.

"Don't covet my things, Rody, you insatiable devil. Do you know how important the Holy Silver Cross is to us angels? It's a symbol of our identity. After you've taken my Holy Silver Cross, don’t expect to extort anything else from me! You damn vampire, you should fall into hell!" Matifa raged, growing more furious the more he thought, and couldn’t help but curse out loud.

"Calm down, let's talk nicely," Rody said with a smile. "As fellow sufferers, we have plenty of time!"

"You damn..."

Three days later.

Seeing the huge, mountain-like shadow in the sky getting closer, Matifa said anxiously, "Rody, it's enough. Taking more treasures from me is useless! Understand? You can't use my things! And the last treasure I already gave to you. I really don't have any more!"

"Is that the entrance to hell?" Rody chuckled. "Hell, here I come!"

"I'm talking to you!" Matifa protested weakly.

"Really? Say what you like, I won't listen to an angel who has treasures but won’t admit it." Rody whistled casually.

"The last treasure, I really gave it to you! Otherwise, I’ll give you some Heavenly Realm magic crystals, made of top-grade magic crystals with certain magical powers!" Matifa compromised again, not knowing how many times.

"I think at the entrance to hell, using them to bribe the hell judge or the three-headed hellhound might be a bit useful," Rody showed no interest in the magic crystals, focused only on getting Matifa’s treasures. Previously, Matifa claimed he had no more treasures, but Rody still successfully extorted five items, including two magic spheres, a golden scale, a feather of the Light God, and a treasure bottle containing the Heavenly Realm’s divine spring.

Matifa cried every time he handed over a treasure, each one being an object of envy in the Heavenly Realm.

But now, he was forced to use them to please the damnable Rody in exchange for his final freedom.

"Don’t think about my holy sword; it’s really my last treasure." Matifa begged desperately, hoping Rody would leave the holy sword for him, as Rody couldn’t possibly use his sword.

"No, keep the sword!" Rody shook his head. "I want something else, understand? Something suitable for me!"

"Damn, I told you the last treasure is already yours!" Matifa yelled in frustration.

"I have plenty of time. Think it over and then tell me." Rody took out a magic book, focused on reading, ignoring Matifa’s frantic yelling.

"You... Rody, alright! I compromise again, understand? As a Quan Tian's Angel, I've already paid enough for freedom, and you've received enough. You should be satisfied, not so insatiable... Fine, as if I said nothing! Listen, in Heaven, there is a very powerful war beast that is almost impossible to see in the human realm, the Unicorn Divine Beast. This is its egg, formed after its death, which can be resurrected with the owner's blood... Although it was my mount when I was promoted to Archangel, I give it to you! In Heaven, this is worth a hundred thousand magic crystals! Rody, tell me this is your last request, or the gods will surely curse you!" Matifa cried again for voluntarily chasing after Rody, wishing he hadn't, and that it had been Arouse instead.

"Quan Tian's Angel Matifa, well done! I like this gift, but this won't be my last request..." After receiving it, Rody still extended his hand, smiling, "I also like magic crystals. As friends, wouldn't you give me some as a souvenir?"

"You really are..." Matifa, exhausted from cursing Rody, took a deep breath and yelled, "I have nothing left!"

"There are still magic crystals!" Rody asserted confidently.

"If I give you those, what about me? I'm now the poorest angel in all of Heaven, what more do you want?" Matifa was on the verge of tears, wishing he could bang his head against a wall and die.

"Then give me a time hourglass, or a space fortress, or an escape orb..." Rody was aware of many treasures in Heaven, things Philbis had used on him, so he remembered them well. If Matifa knew it was Philbis who informed Rody, he would surely deal with Philbis harshly upon returning.

"Light God above, let me die..." Matifa cried out in agony.

"Cry slowly, I have plenty of time." Rody's words made Matifa cry even louder. In the sky, a huge shadow flew by, not a hellish black dragon but a terrifying demon with blood-red wings. Seeing the Quan Tian's Angel being dragged by divine chains towards hell, crying all the way, it was terrified and quickly fled.

One day later.

"Really, this is the last item!" Matifa said with certainty.

"Don't rush..." Rody nodded, "Take your time to think, I have plenty of time..."

Two days later.

"This is really the last item, Rody, I beg you, let's lift the divine punishment together, or it will be too late. I see the gates of hell, damn it, if we don't leave now, we'll be torn to pieces by hundreds of thousands of devils!"

"Think about it again, I'm not in a hurry. If you had brought everything out willingly, we could have gone home by now!"

"Ah, Light God, my Father God, let me die!"

Creatures inside and outside hell, hearing the Quan Tian's Angel's miserable wails, were all terrified and fled. It was too horrifying; there was a creature that made a Quan Tian's Angel beg for life and death. Was it a god descending into hell?

Soon, all creatures that saw Rody and Matifa spread a terrifying rumor: a powerful god was born, not going to the realm of gods but dragging a Quan Tian's Angel to hell with divine chains, punishing him with divine fire along the way, making the miserable angel wail every day...