I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 196

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“Crack!”

Beth’s nose broke with a snap.

I grinned wickedly at her caved-in face.

“How crude!”

Crude? I just made good use of my sturdy head.

Beth pushed me away and leaped into the air.

Whoosh.

I drew out my divine power like a rope and wrapped it around Beth’s neck as she flew away.

“Flying alone is cheating.”

Before she could break free, I yanked the rope and slammed her straight into the ground.

Bang! Crack!

“Urgh!”

The ground split around Beth as she crashed back-first.

I leaped up and swung my mace toward Beth.

Crash!

The ground was dug even deeper.

Beth, completely buried in the cracks, managed to block my mace with her sword while coughing up blood.

However, the blood wasn’t red.

“…Black blood.”

It was a color no ordinary person could have.

“At this point, you’re basically no different from a demon.”

“This is proof that I was chosen by God. Don’t speak so carelessly.”

“Ah, you were chosen alright.”

I sneered at her.

“As a convenient tool to use and discard. You don’t really think ‘Evil’ cares about you, do you?”

“…”

“You’re just tools to be used and thrown away like trash when no longer needed. Do you think you’ll get a position when ‘Evil’ rules the world?”

What a foolish delusion.

“Rather, you’ll also be used as sacrifices for its power.”

This was actually what ‘Evil’ did in the previous life shown by the Three Patron Deities.

The moment it tried to sacrifice even its own followers to gain greater power.

The Three Patron Deities, who barely survived, turned back time and its attempt failed.

If they had been even slightly late, this world wouldn’t exist.

To blindly believe in such a being. Pathetic.

“…Strange. You speak as if you know something.”

However, Beth still glared at me with hostile eyes.

“This isn’t just the level of knowledge you’d gain about our god through the Holy Maiden.”

“You know a lot about us too, so there’s no law saying we can’t know about you.”

Whatever you’ve realized, it’s already too late.

Whoosh.

Several spears of light appeared behind my back.

“If you betray ‘Evil’ even now, I’ll give you an easy death. How about it?”

“…Even if I live as a tool and die as a tool, as long as my body can be of help to that person, I don’t mind.”

That person?

It can’t be ‘Evil’ since it’s always called a god.

Is she talking about some Holy Maiden or Holy Sage who’s a minion of ‘Evil’?

“Forget it if you’re not going to think.”

Even if I tortured this one, they would never open their mouth.

Even Jessi Lunata revealed the names of blood relatives but never disclosed who the Holy Maiden or Holy Sage was.

Rather than waste energy on useless interrogation by keeping them alive, it was better to kill them and reduce ‘Evil’s’ power even slightly.

I kicked Beth and leaped into the air.

Then I launched spears of light at Beth, who glared at me with pitch-black eyes until the very end.

Bang, crash!

“…What?”

However, the spears didn’t pierce her.

The translucent black protective barrier that had surrounded the high-level demon was now wrapped around her.

The spears made from the holy gun couldn’t penetrate the barrier I had easily shattered with my mace?

Why?

…Could it be that the barrier broke easily at first because Beth wanted to lure me into the hidden stairs?

Then this was created by a subordinate of ‘Evil’ incomparably stronger than Beth.

And close enough to deploy the barrier immediately.

“…”

My blood ran cold.

My fingertips grew cold.

Without realizing it, my gaze moved on its own.

Near the protective barrier where the Emperor was.

The one who wasn’t participating in battle but commanding from the rear.

Crown Prince Felix.

My eyes met directly with those beautiful blue-green eyes.

As if he had been watching me continuously too.

Ah, this is instinct.

The instinct of my subconscious, having died once before, to be wary of someone trying to kill me again.

Felix, whom I thought was the heroine of this world.

Was now trying to kill me.

“That person is whipping me into action.”

However, I didn’t have time to keep staring at the Crown Prince.

Crack, snap!

Beth broke the spears of light and stood up.

Before I knew it, Beth’s eyes had turned completely black, even the whites.

Even the blood vessels throughout her body gradually turned black.

Seeing her becoming more and more demon-like, I quickly swung my mace to release divine power.

Crash!

But the black barrier neutralized the divine power again.

Damn it, even with 50% divine power I can’t break it?

Just how strong is that bastard?

“Even if my body turns to dust, I will definitely kill you here!”

The moment Beth, whose eyes had turned completely black, shouted.

Burst!

The sticky liquid mass lurking inside the stairs exploded.

Dozens of demons began pouring out from within.

“Ahhh!”

“B-be careful! These are demons incomparable to the ones we just killed!”

“T-the weakest ones are intermediate demons! Most of them have poison!”

Damn it!

Everyone’s already exhausted, and now even stronger demons!

“Jeremy, we have to stop that!”

Idella, who had defeated the high-level demon, also ran toward them with Jeremy.

“If it’s too hard to handle, just retreat! You’re in the way!”

“Clear a path so we can attack freely!”

“Those who can’t use sword energy, fall back!”

Following Carmen, Duke Aria and Count Kali all shouted fiercely.

Those who were injured or weak retreated in panic.

Finally, with empty space created, those who formed the main force of battle began unleashing fierce attacks toward the monsters.

But no matter how strong they were, there were too many monsters.

Moreover, with poison involved, even with the Priests of the Sun God present, killing them all without casualties was impossible.

“Does it bother you?”

At that moment, dark energy flew toward my face.

If I hadn’t dodged hastily, my eye would have been torn instead of my cheek.

Just like what I had done to Jessi Lunata in the cabin.

“Even if not everyone dies, someone will suffer fatal injuries that cannot be healed.”

Beth’s mouth stretched wide to the side.

Completely consumed by the energy of ‘Evil,’ she now seemed to be losing her mind.

Just like Rute had been at the end of the original story.

“…”

Moreover, fatal injuries that couldn’t be healed.

That was what Seth had experienced in the original story.

Seth, who had suffered fatal injuries that caused him pain until death while fighting Rute, who was completely consumed by the power of ‘Evil.’

Even in the vision of past lives shown by the Three Patron Deities, Seth couldn’t escape alone and had to receive Airic’s help.

It was all from past lives, and would never happen in this life, but…

This feeling is really unpleasant.

“But if you die, I’ll withdraw immediately.”

Beth giggled and pointed at me with her finger as if to stab.

“If only you die by my hand, I swear to my god that I will return without fighting any further.”

“…”

I looked at our allies who were struggling against the monsters.

If I don’t die here, someone among them might get hurt or die.

If I don’t die…

“As if I would.”

I snorted and suddenly launched divine power like a dagger.

“Aaah!”

Beth screamed as the dagger pierced through her eye in an instant.

The protective barrier didn’t activate this time. She must not have predicted it.

And why would I die?

Without me, the Holy Maiden of the Sun God, they’d all die anyway.

To avoid repeating the past life, I absolutely had to survive.

Moreover.

“At least here and now, no one will die. Because I’ll make sure of it.”

【Activating skill ‘Holy Spear.’ Enhancing physical abilities.】

I charged at Beth once again.

This time she activated her protective barrier in time, blocking my mace.

Then Beth, as if she had been waiting, stabbed me with her sword tainted with filthy energy.

With a thud, the pain from long ago came flooding back.

The sensation of the blade that had killed me.

It hurt, it was agonizing, and trauma seemed to rush over me, but.

I gritted my teeth and smiled.

Why?

Because I had been waiting for this very moment.

Thwack!

I struck Beth’s head with my mace.

“Ugh, damn, crazy!”

Beth glared at me while bleeding black blood profusely.

More precisely, at her sword embedded in my abdomen.

I pulled out the sword with trembling hands and threw it to the ground.

“Just like with the high-level monster earlier, and now too, when you attack us, the protective barrier disappears.”

“…What?”

“So I aimed for that moment. I have healing power anyway.”

Despite being pierced by the sword, barely any blood flowed from my stomach.

The energy of the Holy Spear had been healing my body even before being stabbed by the blade.

I tried not to use my body recklessly, but now I have to win, so there’s no choice.

“Shall we continue like this? I’m curious whether my power will run out first, or you’ll die first.”

“Cra, crazy bastard.”

A bastard who willingly chose to become a tool of ‘Evil’ is calling perfectly normal me a crazy bastard.

“If you want to die so badly, I’ll kill you right now!”

As Beth shouted fiercely, all the monsters simultaneously turned to look at me.

And ignoring the people blocking them, they began charging straight toward me.

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