I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 205

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“Using the Sea God’s divine power for cleaning. This is absolutely ridiculous…!”

Dominic shouted with his face turning bright red, calling it humiliating.

However, even while doing so, he diligently swept and wiped the Temple of the Sun God with his divine power.

Every time the blue waves swept through, everything sparkled brilliantly.

“I’ll make you pay for this with Holy Stones!”

For someone who’s embarrassed, he’s doing way too thorough of a job, isn’t he?

【’Raging Sea’ clutches the back of his neck and collapses.】

【’Sun Risen from Death’ watches the water cleaning with a much brighter face, enjoying the show.】

In an instant, the situations of the two gods had completely reversed.

“Why the hell am I in this situation…!”

Sharalang.

Dominic’s resentful cry was accompanied by sparkling sound effects that really didn’t match the situation.

He seems quite talented at cleaning – shouldn’t he consider changing careers?

“Over there too, and there! Oh, this side too!”

Idella grabbed onto Dominic like that and dragged him around every corner of the temple.

I told you Idella isn’t someone to be taken lightly.

“Hm?”

While Dominic was roaring like a lion and cleaning the temple.

Carmen was standing in the center of the temple that he hadn’t managed to clean yet.

More precisely, in front of the corpse of the monster that had penetrated deepest among those that attacked the temple.

Though it was melting away from the divine power, it must have been quite strong as its form remained, and around the corpse, poison was bubbling as it reacted to the divine power.

I was wondering if Carmen would help clean that up when.

Splash!

She suddenly plunged her hand into the bubbling poison.

“What kind of crazy thing are you doing?”

I rushed over in shock and grabbed her arm, but.

Hissss.

Her pure white hand was already turning black from poisoning.

“Have you gone mad with a death wish?”

When I infused divine power, Carmen flinched and trembled.

What’s this? Why are her eyes like that?

Her blue eyes staring intently at the golden divine power purifying the poison were, how should I put it.

Filled with madness.

“…Is this also divine power?”

Just as I was about to let go of her hand after the purification was complete, feeling uncomfortable.

Carmen grabbed my hand tightly.

What the hell, this is scary.

“Uh, it’s not divine power, just a purification ability.”

So couldn’t you let go?

Your nails are about to dig into my wrist right now.

“Even though it’s not divine power, you can purify monster poison this quickly?”

“Because Sun God’s divine power is the monsters’ weakness. Purification is also our specialty.”

“…”

“What are you getting jealous about? The Sea God’s divine power has stronger attack power than ours.”

Carmen flinched as if wondering how I knew what she was thinking.

How would I know?

Your eyes are full of desire.

It seems the divine power I used yesterday is bothering her.

“We each just have different specialties.”

“Then if I had divine power, could I become stronger than you?”

So that’s what she wants.

“Since the Sea God’s divine power specializes in attack, then I could become stronger than you, right?”

Instead of answering, I glanced at the air.

【’Raging Sea’ watches the two with a quiet expression.】

Does Carmen know?

The fact that the Sea God is focusing on this conversation right now.

“In terms of objective attack power, you’d naturally be stronger.”

Carmen’s eyes widened.

But I immediately continued.

“However, you wouldn’t be able to defeat monsters instantly like I do. Their natural enemy is the Sun God, not the Sea God.”

I asked.

“Do you want to become stronger than me? Or do you want to sweep away monsters in one blow like I do in front of other people?”

“…”

Carmen’s eyes wavered.

Was she twenty years old?

Even though she’s rude, bad-tempered, and violent, she’s still young after all.

“Divine power has poor cost-effectiveness unlike what you imagine. It’s power you don’t need to obtain.”

I can use it easily because it’s a skill through the system, but Carmen definitely wouldn’t be able to.

As you can see just by looking at Jeremy.

“Don’t think about seeking poison to drink and just give up. You’re strong enough even without that.”

Anyway, the Sea God doesn’t seem to have any particular intention of granting Carmen divine power either.

In my previous life, he didn’t give her divine power until she died.

This life would probably be the same.

“Instead of thinking useless thoughts, help clean this place with water. The smell is so terrible it’s giving me a headache.”

It was the moment I put my hand on Carmen’s shoulder and stood up.

Tap.

She grabbed my hand.

“Let me ask just one more thing.”

“What?”

“What price did you pay to obtain divine power?”

Price? What price?

“Divine power can only be obtained by paying a price.”

Just like how Nashas lost both eyes, and Jeremy lost his reason.

“What did you offer as a price? What did you sacrifice to gain such strong power?”

That… I’m just learning about this now.

Well, I suppose humans can’t use a god’s power without paying any price.

Then there’s one price that comes to mind for me.

“The lives of myself and someone precious to me.”

Me, who lived and died as a detective.

My friend who abandoned his own life to bring me back to life.

Because of that, I gained the system, and through the system, I obtained divine power.

The price I paid was two people’s lives.

“…”

Carmen opened her mouth, perhaps shocked by my words.

“I told you the cost-effectiveness is poor. So don’t worry about unnecessary things and just help clean well with divine power.”

When I unconsciously patted Carmen’s head, she opened her eyes wide.

Ah, her crouched figure looked like the trio of Idella, Monica, and Jeremy, so I unconsciously…

Since it would be awkward to apologize, I just smiled brightly and left.

But still, the price for divine power.

There are currently four people who possess divine power.

Me, Nashas, Jeremy, and Rute.

I know the price Nashas and Jeremy paid.

Only Rute remains.

What price did he pay, I wonder.

Sensing Jeremy’s presence, it was divine power great enough to restore the Sun God’s permanently lost strength, so the price must have been quite substantial.

‘Don’t tell me Rute also sacrificed his life?’

In the original work, Rute eventually dies without leaving even a piece of his corpse behind due to Idella and Feliks’s cooperation.

But perhaps reality might be different from the original.

If he gained divine power after regression, it wouldn’t have been an ordinary death.

Could it be that Rute shook off Evil’s power and helped the Three Patron Deities regress?

Then making a contract with the Sun God through the system would make sense too.

Ha, it’s a shame Rute isn’t here right now.

Today was rare in that Rute wasn’t with me.

Vice-commander Jun Ludmin returned from her business trip to the Southern Region and said they had a lot to discuss.

Even if he were here right now, there’s nothing I could find out immediately.

Still, I felt quite disappointed.

Instead, I raised my head to look at the sky.

The Three Patron Deities, who had been chattering excitedly just moments ago, all fell silent as if they had made a promise.

Normally, this silence would have been quite annoying, but now it somehow felt like they were all nodding their heads together.

Thump thump.

My heart, having gained great enlightenment, began beating loudly on instinct.

It was at that very moment that something came flying at me.

【Warning!】

【Warning!】

【Automatic warning system activated.】

【AI system notifies the user. Enemy attack has begun, please be careful!】

“Lord Ordel!”

I quickly turned my head to see a black dagger flying toward me.

But before it could reach me, Jeremy’s thrown blade struck the dagger in mid-air.

Bang!

An explosion occurred and black smoke billowed up.

“Be careful! It’s poisoned!”

【Warning!】

【Two more attacks incoming!】

Bang, ba-bang!

As soon as the system message appeared, more attacks that Jeremy couldn’t block came flying.

He deflected the blades, but poisonous smoke billowed up.

“Lord Ordel!”

“Purify it quickly!”

“Catch the enemies!”

Beyond the poisonous smoke obscuring my vision, I could hear my panicked companions’ voices.

I held my breath and gathered divine power in my eyes.

I can’t see anything because of the poisonous smoke, but it doesn’t matter.

What my eyes capture is the aura of ‘Evil’ anyway.

【Coordinates fixed. Preparing skill activation.】

There were seven subordinates of ‘Evil’ in the vicinity.

They were all charging at me.

Seeing their aura churning violently as if about to explode, they must be planning to self-destruct along with me.

Not a chance.

I snapped my fingers.

【Activating divine power exclusive skill ‘Judgment’.】

Crack!

With a brief thunderclap, seven bolts of lightning struck around me.

In the blink of an eye, the poisonous smoke was purified by divine power and scattered.

I brushed off my clothes and raised my head.

The seven enemies who had been charging at me lay charred black and dead.

“O, Lord Ordel.”

“I’m fine, so don’t worry.”

It seems to be quite a strong poison, but it’s useless against me.

Just in case, I’ve been wearing a sacred barrier continuously since the moment I left Siery Manor.

“It seems the attack on the Temple of the Sun God was to lure me out of Duke Sieri’s Mansion.”

Reducing the Sun God’s forces and targeting me too.

As expected of that sinister bastard, he doesn’t do just one thing.

I’m getting a bit annoyed. If I just take this lying down, I wouldn’t be Cha Siwon.

“I should spread some rumors.”

Your plan—I’ll turn it around and put it to good use myself.

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