I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 229

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As I had said beforehand, the Sea God’s twins moistened the sand, and Duke Aria froze it, allowing us to fight easily even in the desert.

There was one unexpected advantage in particular.

Thanks to the divine power thoroughly soaking the sand, we could prevent monsters from suddenly appearing from beneath our feet.

In my previous life, the southern armies couldn’t function properly because of this.

I don’t know whose idea it was, but it’s absolutely brilliant.

“Huh?”

While killing monsters with my mace and chains, I suddenly noticed a strange sight.

Lute Sieri.

For some reason, he was just standing still without fighting.

He didn’t even budge when a monster charged at him.

I immediately hurled my mace at the monster.

“Lute!”

After retrieving the mace that had crushed the monster’s head in one blow, I ran to Lute.

“What’s wrong? Are you poisoned? Why are you just standing there?”

First, injuries… there were none.

The black stains still remaining on his body also showed no significant changes.

Then what on earth is happening?

“Lute?”

“…I feel like I’ve been here before.”

He muttered with a dazed expression.

“Yes, that’s right. It was a desert. I was laughing in the desert.”

“What?”

“I could only see myself laughing, but not the background. Now I understand. It was definitely around here.”

Lute looked around with a vacant expression.

His silver-gray eyes trembled greatly.

“Why was I laughing back then?”

“…”

Ah, Lute is seeing his previous life right now.

Probably after Jin’s death.

The events from that period that he said wouldn’t come to mind no matter how hard he tried to remember.

What could he have been doing to be laughing around here?

This isn’t even where monsters were staying.

“Ah.”

Then suddenly, Lute’s eyes cleared as he pulled my arm and swung his sword.

Kyaak!

The monster charging at me was cut in half by his sword energy.

He doesn’t notice attacks on himself, but immediately catches attacks on me.

I don’t know whether to call him foolish.

“Are you okay?”

“That’s what I should be asking you.”

I sighed and escaped from his embrace.

“We’re in the middle of battle right now. Save your thinking for after the fight ends.”

“I’m sorry. Whatever it was, whether a vision or something else, it came back so vividly.”

Lute said this while glancing at the sky.

“But visions and reality are different. That won’t happen again.”

“Of course not. Do you know how hard I’ve worked to prevent you from experiencing the same things as in the past?”

I worked myself to death to change the fates of everyone, including Lute, Jin, and Idella.

“I’ll pull myself together and fight properly, so don’t worry about me and take care of yourself. Don’t go getting pierced somewhere again.”

Lute looked me up and down and clicked his tongue.

Well, honestly, I do get hurt the most every time.

Thud!

Then the ground shook violently.

Everyone who was fighting staggered, unable to withstand the trembling.

“What the…”

“An earthquake?”

“That’s impossible. This desert region doesn’t have earthquakes. It’s definitely a monster.”

For the first time, the faces of those who had been fighting excitedly with the power of fatigue recovery potions hardened.

Lute and I immediately put our backs together.

“Do you sense something?”

“Not yet. But I’m getting an incredibly unpleasant feeling.”

An unpleasant sensation, as if a giant bug was crawling around not under my feet but on my legs.

Not just me, but everyone with divine power had similar expressions.

“Ugh, I feel like throwing up.”

“Me too.”

Idella and Jeremy also had faces trying to suppress nausea.

If Monica were here instead of in the rear, she would have been jumping around frantically saying to kill it quickly and get rid of it.

Just as I was about to smile slightly at that image coming to mind.

Crash!

A monster burst through the sand that had been hardened solid with divine power.

It was so massive that it felt like a building was growing from underground.

I was terrified by its size that even blocked out the sun in the sky.

“Disgusting!”

A body mixed with black and purple, huge teeth that could easily tear a person apart, long whiskers resembling a catfish, and dozens, hundreds of rustling legs.

Regular centipedes are already disgusting, but a building-sized monster resembling a centipede!

“It’s a supreme-grade monster!”

Dominic, who recognized the monster’s identity, shouted loudly.

“Those who cannot face it, fall back!”

At Dominic’s words, those with weak power and the injured hastily retreated.

Tension and fear appeared on the faces of people who had been confident even when fighting high-grade monsters.

That’s what supreme-grade monsters were.

Beings whose overwhelming presence made your legs weak just from looking at them.

How on earth do we kill that disgustingly huge thing?

Let’s try attacking it first.

【Activating divine power exclusive skill ‘Judgment’!】

Lightning struck down on the centipede’s head.

Kyaaaak!

But even after being struck by lightning, far from its body breaking apart, only a few disgusting legs fell off.

Flap, flap!

The legs that had been twitching even after falling to the ground writhed and slowly transformed into monsters.

Lute immediately launched his sword energy.

The monster’s body exploded and fragments scattered everywhere.

Even Lute’s attack couldn’t make it disappear completely, leaving fragments behind.

“They’re about mid-high grade.”

My face naturally contorted.

Each leg is at least a mid-high grade monster.

And it’s fine even after being hit by divine power.

‘They’re starting to bring out the monsters they used when completely destroying the Empire.’

Thud!

Then Jin, who had leaped high into the air, swung her axe at the centipede.

【Activating divine power exclusive skill ‘Void’.】

Black energy tore and slashed at the centipede.

However, the hard carapace wasn’t properly penetrated.

Just like when I attacked, only one antenna and a few legs were annihilated.

Clang!

Even from the neck that the axe aimed for came a sound like striking metal.

“Damn thing’s tough.”

The centipede’s head moved greatly.

As it prepared to strike Jin who was spitting curses, I immediately reached out and surrounded Jin with a protective barrier.

Then I looked at Carmen and Dominic who were nearby.

“Water!”

The two quick-witted people immediately soaked the centipede thoroughly with water.

I immediately snapped my fingers.

【Activating divine power exclusive skill ‘Judgment’.】

What goes with water? Lightning, of course.

Crackle!

Kiiiiaaak!

As expected, once soaked with water, the lightning’s effect became much greater.

As the hard carapace turned black and charred, Lute and Seth immediately launched sword energy toward the centipede.

But unfortunately, their attacks aimed at the neck came to nothing.

Thoom!

“…Are you kidding me?”

A hollow laugh escaped me naturally.

Another centipede appearing here isn’t too much?

And one tough enough to block two people’s sword energy at that!

It didn’t even end there.

Thud, thud!

Two more centipede monsters appeared.

In an instant, we were surrounded by four top-grade monsters.

“What a sight.”

Moreover, the one that got fried with water and lightning didn’t die and was still alive.

Hiss, hisss.

The one glaring at me in fury was far from dying and was actually recovering its wounds.

Are you kidding me. The difficulty suddenly got way too high!

“Everyone to positions! We’ll divide up and hunt them!”

At Count Kali’s shout, those capable of facing top-grade monsters hastily formed groups.

Dominic and Duke Aria, Carmen and Count Kali, Lute and I formed one group.

Since Duke Aster who was in charge of the rear wasn’t here, Jin, Airic, and Seth formed one group.

The other knights and mages took appropriate positions.

“If we can’t finish off that weakened one first, we’ll be cursed forever, right?”

What Lute and I were assigned was the centipede we hadn’t managed to kill.

“We can do it with just the two of us. Shall we try water again?”

Lute extended his hand.

Water droplets bounced up above his palm.

“Do it.”

As soon as I nodded, he poured waterfall-like water over the centipede.

It might actually be more effective than the Sea God’s divine power.

For me, that is.

I rose above the rampaging centipede’s head.

And thrust my hand into the pouring stream of water.

【Absorbing divine power possessed by ‘Lute Sieri’. Fusion skills can be used.】

With his divine power, I can use this skill.

【Activating fusion skill ‘Execution’.】

【Activating divine power exclusive skill ‘Judgment’.】

【Warning! Using divine power exclusive skills simultaneously may strain the user’s body!】

I ignored the warning message.

What more could it do besides making me cough up blood?

Bang! Crackle!

The blade infused with lightning began to butcher the soaked centipede.

Since it was a body that had already been fried by lightning once, this time it was sliced very well.

“Kugh!”

I was only briefly pleased watching the centipede turn to powder.

I barely managed to swallow the surging blood.

If Lute saw this, he’d immediately stop his magic and try to stop me.

In a pinch, I could just drink the potions I’d stocked up in my inventory, so it’s fine…

“Ordel!”

Then at the voice calling me urgently, I flinched and trembled.

Huh, I thought I did well holding back without bleeding, but was I caught?

“Ordel! Danger!”

But something was strange.

Why does he look so urgent? And danger? What could be dangerous…

“Huh?”

At that moment I saw it.

The ashes of the centipede that had been crumbling under the lightning blade were surrounding me.

Pop!

At the same time, as many as ten enemies suddenly revealed themselves.

The chilling energy they wore, the terribly disgusting and revolting power that made me nauseous!

Opposite to taking Feliks at the banquet hall, ‘Evil’ had directly used its power to send its subordinates to me.

I immediately attacked them with the fusion skill.

“…Damn it.”

However, even when slashed by the blade, the enemies neither screamed nor fled.

As if dying by my hand had been their purpose from the start.

“Ah.”

The moment their energy completely surrounded me.

Only then did I realize.

This was a snare aimed solely at me, created by them sacrificing their own lives.

【’Sun Risen from Death’ is!】

【’Traveler Guiding Souls’ is!】

【’Raging Sea’ is!】

The Three Patron Deities’ System Messages urgently colored my vision.

However, even spewing lightning with my whole body, I couldn’t purify ‘Evil’s’ power.

“Ordel!”

With Lute’s urgent cry as the last thing I heard, my vision went black.

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