Online Game: I Started with Max Charisma and Caught the Goddess's Eye - Chapter 410

Chapter 410: Chapter 410: There Must Be Something You Fear
The Ancient God let out a maniacal laugh,

reveling in what it believed was a guaranteed victory.

Its sharp limb swung down toward Luca at blinding speed—

And at that exact moment, Luca suddenly snapped his eyes open.

Out of thin air, a weapon materialized in his hand.

He instantly raised it, placing it between his body and the incoming razor-sharp appendage.

“You haven’t won yet! Cracking open the champagne now is a little premature, don’t you think?”

The Ancient God was utterly stunned.

It had no idea how such a reversal was even possible.

Luca seized the opportunity—

With one strike, he shattered the attacking limb and leapt back a dozen meters.

“The dream world is my domain! I can remain fully conscious in any dream.

You’ll never destroy me with mere psychic assaults here.”

Now standing in a safer position,

he shouted at the Ancient God with unwavering defiance.

“And you? A grotesque pile of crawling filth dares to call itself a god?

You’re nothing but a rotting heap stitched together from the corpses of lesser creatures!

You’re filthier, baser, and more pitiful than the mortals you so despise!”

Luca’s words drove the Ancient God into a frenzy.

It charged at him with blinding speed,

roaring like a beast driven mad.

As it barreled forward, its decaying body began to collapse further—

Chunks of insect flesh fell away from its torso, sloughing off in a putrid trail.

At the same time, the massive insectoid limbs it once wielded began to shrink and weaken.

Luca, of course, wasn’t going to just stand there and wait.

He once again activated his dream magic runes.

As the Dreamweaving Mist thickened around him,

the imagined weapon in his hands surged in power—

its strength rapidly approaching that of Starseeker in the real world.

When the Ancient God finally broke through the mist and lunged at him,

Luca was already midair,

wielding his dream-forged version of Starseeker with both hands.

“Today, I’ll show you how a mortal slays a god!”

The moment the Ancient God burst through the swirling mist,

Luca took the chance—

and soared upward, his blade gleaming.

Time itself seemed to slow.

Both Luca and the Ancient God moved with supernatural speed,

but every moment stretched long and sharp in the dreamscape.

With the help of the Dreamweaving Mist,

Luca evaded the Ancient God’s frenzied strikes.

He closed the distance and landed directly onto the decaying monstrosity.

The Ancient God’s rotting flesh reeked with a stench so foul,

even within the dream world, it nearly overwhelmed Luca.

“Corpses belong underground—

rotting in silence, not stinking up the air while dreaming of crossing into my world. You’re delusional beyond saving!”

Luca raised the dream-forged version of Starseeker high above his head,

and drove it straight toward the chest of the Ancient God’s decaying body.

This time, nothing interfered.

The imagined Starseeker plunged cleanly into the heart of the festering monstrosity.

“Hahaha!”

The head of the Ancient God—covered in writhing tentacles and eerily scattered eyes—burst into exaggerated laughter.

“A mortal is still just a mortal!

You didn’t actually believe I had a heart, did you?

An attack like that can’t harm me in the slightest.”

Luca listened to the words in silence, expressionless.

Then, the corner of his mouth curled ever so slightly.

“Oh? Is that so? Are you sure it didn’t harm you at all?”

His calm retort caught the Ancient God off guard.

“What nonsense are you speaking?

Have you gone completely mad?”

The Ancient God couldn’t make sense of Luca’s words—

But just as it spoke halfway, it suddenly felt it.

Its body was beginning to disintegrate—

And it was happening in a way that was irreversible.

“What… what is happening?!

What did you do to me?!”

The Ancient God screamed in disbelief,

its voice twisting into a furious, broken shriek.

It simply couldn’t comprehend—

Why was the carefully prepared vessel it had crafted… falling apart like this?

Luca stood there, watching the scene unfold with a faint smile on his lips.

Then he spoke softly:

“Whether in the Eternal World or in my own reality,

your rotting, monstrous body wouldn’t be so easy to destroy.

I may not believe you have the right to call yourself a god,

but I won’t deny it—

you do possess an extraordinary amount of primal power.”

As he spoke, he extended his right hand.

And the dream-forged Starseeker suddenly flew out of the Ancient God’s chest.

The moment the blade left its body,

the rate at which the Ancient God’s form collapsed increased drastically.

“But don’t forget—

we’re not in any real world right now.

We’re inside a dream.

And in this dream… my dream…

I have the right to shape reality as I see fit.

Whatever I want to happen—

will happen.”

As Luca uttered those words,

the Ancient God’s body began to break down at an accelerating pace.

The once massive, decaying form had now become nothing more

than a scattered heap of insect corpses,

blown apart and strewn across the dreamscape.

“You think this is enough to defeat me?! Even if you succeed temporarily in the dream world, I’ll still find another opportunity to seize control of your body!”

The Ancient God, now reduced to nothing but a severed head, still refused to give up.

It still believed it had a chance to win.

Luca let out a scornful laugh.

“Maybe. But at the very least, your plan didn’t work this time. And now that I’ve beaten you in the dream, I can wake Sophia. From her, I’ll be able to learn even more about you.”

The moment his words left his lips, the remaining fragments of the Ancient God disintegrated into ash.

Almost at the same time, Sophia let out a piercing howl and abruptly sat up.

“Don’t trust me! Whatever happens, don’t believe a word I say!”

Hearing her voice, Luca rushed to her side.

Sophia had already opened her eyes. Her face was contorted in pain, and her gaze was locked directly onto Luca.

“Do not trust me! I’ve been possessed by some kind of monster! Everything I said was a lie!”

“I understand. But first, calm down! I’ve already started breaking its control over you!”

It took Luca several minutes, but he finally managed to help Sophia calm down.

Once she understood what had happened, her expression turned somber and deeply troubled.

“It’s still lurking inside our consciousness. It could try to take control of us again at any moment,” she said in a low, grave voice.

Luca nodded silently.

“It’s all my fault. When we were following the river, I suddenly sensed a surge of primal power. I was going to tell you, but it dissipated so quickly. I decided I needed a moment to examine it more carefully.”

Sophia began explaining how she had come to be controlled.

As she spoke, Luca recalled the fleeting presence of a powerful supportive force he had once sensed deep within the Whispering Forest.

So that was when Sophia had been taken.

“I didn’t realize the primal power hadn’t dispersed. It actually entered my body and took control of me. After that… I could no longer feel your presence.”

Everything she said was actually something Luca had already anticipated.

He slowly nodded.

“I understand. And you don’t need to blame yourself too much. After all, the one controlling you was an Ancient God. No matter how powerful we become, we’re still only mortals in the end. Beings of a higher order will always find ways to exploit our weaknesses.”

He offered a few words of comfort to Sophia.

Sophia seemed to have regained some of her composure.

Her gaze drifted slightly as she asked Luca, “So what do we do now?”

“We can’t return to the original world through the node anymore. If we do that, we’d essentially be bringing an Ancient God back with us. That would be far too dangerous for humanity.”

Luca stood up and began to pace as he spoke.

Sophia nodded.

Even though Luca’s world wasn’t her own, she didn’t want to see it destroyed either.

“We have to defeat this Ancient God here, in the Whispering Forest.” As he said this, Luca suddenly came to a halt.

“Maybe there’s something in the forest that it fears! It’s been pushing us to hurry through the node and leave. That must mean there’s something in here that can destroy it.”

A sudden realization struck him—this was the most likely explanation.

Sophia’s eyes lit up as she heard this.

“You’re absolutely right! An Ancient God appearing in the Eternal World is extremely unusual. That means it was probably abandoned by its own kind, or accidentally left behind after some battle. That also means it’s likely being hunted by the gods of the Eternal World.”

Now calm, Sophia quickly pieced together everything she knew.

If there truly was a Chaos Deity in the Whispering Forest, then they might have a chance to join forces with it to destroy the Ancient God trying to control them.

A faint smile appeared on Luca’s face. “You’re right! But how exactly are we supposed to find this Chaos Deity?”

“I know how! You can release your primal power, can’t you? If you do that, the Chaos Deity will definitely come to you on its own!”

The method Sophia proposed was, in fact, the very same one the Mages’ Association had always used.

High-ranking mages from the Mages’ Association often used this exact method to deceive Chaos Deities.

As long as a Chaos Deity descended, they could seize the opportunity to extract some rare and precious knowledge from it.

However, this approach came with significant risk.

If the Chaos Deity in question happened to have a particularly violent temperament, it could very well launch an indiscriminate attack without any provocation.

After Sophia finished expressing her concerns, Luca responded without the slightest hint of hesitation.

“I don’t care! Combat is what I’m most familiar with. Whether it’s an Ancient God or a Chaos Deity, I won’t be taken down so easily by either of them!”

In the end, he and Sophia reached an agreement.

The two of them quickly left the dream world.

Still, before they could put their plan into action, they needed to make some necessary preparations—neither of them was currently in optimal condition.