I Don't Agree to the Terms

"Rebellion?!" Gu Shanhai, who was earnestly working on refining his Divine Skills, suddenly noticed something abnormal.

Although it was just a small faction, Gu Shanhai had detected the problem.

Rein, with his identity as an Abnormal God Emperor, could suppress all disloyalty, much like the permanently loyal Dynasty Struggle System that had been within Jiang Lu.

Furthermore, anyone with eyes could see that after Rein ascended to the throne, the lives of all people visibly improved and civilization prospered. The only downside was that the pace of abnormal strengthening would accelerate, but no one knew about this, and Rein could keep it under control since he was part of the abnormality, thus he too was growing stronger.

Naturally, Gu Shanhai was growing stronger as well, albeit not as significantly.

"Is it the will of Human Dao?" Gu Shanhai thought of this possibility first. Seizing power wasn't like inviting someone to dinner; there was bound to be killing and bloodshed.

However, he quickly dismissed the idea. Human Dao did not have such capability; its side effect was to cause disasters, but that required specific conditions to trigger.

It wasn't that a rebellion wouldn't happen, but the current conditions were not right for one, akin to a dynasty's peak versus its imminent collapse. Only in the latter scenario would Human Dao act, not to harm, but to swiftly choose a candidate through large-scale mayhem.

As for now, Human Dao was not foolish. It wanted to gain the upper hand, not squander a favourable situation.

"So, is it another anomaly or something Rein mentioned before that resonated with him?" Gu Shanhai wondered... Oh, he didn't have eyes now, only plant tendrils like tentacles on his face.

"Let's go and see what it is that's so bold." Gu Shanhai never considered that the other party might be initiating a rebellion.

The prerequisite for initiating a rebellion was that people could no longer survive. As long as there was food, no one would rebel.

If Zhu Yuanzhang had been fed, there wouldn't have been a Great Ming Dynasty that followed.

His massive body began to move. He considered using the Five Elements Great Escape for transportation, but after giving it some thought, he concluded it would be too costly. If he walked, it would consume some mana, but substantially less; and given his enormous size and inherent speed, walking would indeed be more economical.

Gu Shanhai's speed had not slowed down despite his increased size; on the contrary, he had become even faster, his development well-rounded.

In just tens of seconds, Gu Shanhai arrived a thousand miles from the site of the rebellion. He didn't approach further but observed from a distance.

He could tell immediately, the person at the forefront, passionately delivering a speech, bore a quality that Gu Shanhai found familiar.

"This quality is that of a protagonist," Gu Shanhai recognized instantly.

In Rein's case, he was indeed no longer the protagonist after becoming an Abnormal God. This title had been stripped from him, and seriously speaking, he only belonged to the protagonist of the past era, not the current one.

"No, there's something wrong with the person's identity..."

Subsequently, Gu Shanhai quickly pinpointed a significant problem.

It wasn't that there was an issue with the individual, but rather with the identity of "protagonist."

"An anomaly?" Gu Shanhai instantly considered this possibility.

Like the protagonist of the Adventurer Era, reborn after the death of the Heavenly Destiny Saint, the protagonist of the Abnormal Era must also inherently be an anomaly.

Otherwise, these changes could not be explained.

Thus, this anomaly should be granting someone the treatment akin to a protagonist, though the side effects were not clear to Gu Shanhai as he had just encountered the main subject.

"For now, let's label this anomaly as 'Destiny', an intangible and substantial entity, perhaps a subtype of Human Dao's will, but targeted at an individual rather than encompassing the whole of human civilization."

"As for its abilities, let's test them."

Gu Shanhai indicated that this act of rebellion would have to pass through him first.

He dug a stone from the ground; in Gu Shanhai's view it was indeed just a stone, but to an ordinary human, it was akin to a small mountain.

He threw the stone, its terrifying potency burst instantly, along with a sonic boom that slammed directly into the person who was delivering the speech.

Boom~

A violent tremor followed, causing subsequent explosions.

"He really escaped death," Gu Shanhai squinted and then noted, "The basic ability of turning misfortune into fortune is still there. As for the method of escape, it seems to involve using some anomaly."

"This indicates some resistance to anomalies or perhaps mild side effects?"

Gu Shanhai quickly pinpointed where the person had landed.

However, upon closer inspection, something seemed off.

"I thought he had fled, but it turns out he revived?"

A spring was boiling continuously, and from it emerged a naked figure whose expression held confusion, as if he had not expected to die.

"But it can be considered a form of escape too, only limited to himself not being wounded; otherwise, he might not necessarily be able to revive."

If Gu Shanhai had attacked directly with a spell instead of using a stone, even if the person could have revived, it would only have revived a fool.