I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 230

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Thud!

“Ugh!”

Ow, my butt!

I rubbed my bottom that had collided with the ground.

It was as painful as when I nearly had my butt split into four pieces while riding a horse with Rute back when my stamina was still lacking.

“Ugh, the stench.”

I covered my nose against the terrible smell and conjured an orb of light to illuminate the surroundings.

Walls made of earth, passages wide enough for carriages to pass through without trouble, stretching endlessly out of sight…

“Is this the monsters’ stronghold?”

Between the stench and the sticky fluids smeared throughout the cave, it was certain.

‘Evil’ had kidnapped me.

‘Everyone must be in chaos.’

I could clearly picture my companions screaming and asking where the hell I’d gone.

“I hope they don’t get too shocked.”

Both Rute and Jin.

Thinking of those two who would do anything for me made me worry naturally.

With supreme-grade monsters already appearing, and now me disappearing on top of that, everyone must have lost their minds.

“…”

But this wasn’t the time to worry about those left behind.

Skitter skitter skitter skitter skitter skitter.

At the end of the passage.

A disgustingly large number of scorpion and spider-shaped monsters appeared.

Seeing that there were no supreme-grade ones among them, were they planning to kill me slowly?

I snorted and gripped my mace tightly.

Let’s see who wins.

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“…Ordel?”

Rute muttered with a dazed expression.

But there was no one to answer his call.

“Del?”

Even when he called out the nickname on his own, no scolding voice came back.

Ordel had disappeared.

“What!”

Jin, who had been fighting a centipede nearby, screamed with a pale face.

“Cha Siwon, no, where did Ordel go!”

“…”

That damn ‘Evil’ had sacrificed the lives of supreme-grade monsters and their subordinates as offerings and used that power to take Ordel away.

“‘Evil’ has kidnapped Lady Ordel!”

Idella, who had turned deathly pale, shouted loudly.

“Kidnapped? How on earth!”

“Even Duke Siery couldn’t stop it?!”

“Oh no, without the Holy Maiden of the Sun God, we can never win this battle!”

The faces of Airic, Seth, and Dominic twisted greatly.

People who had been absorbed in combat and only belatedly noticed Ordel’s disappearance began murmuring.

The morale that Ordel had restored with her stamina recovery potions was about to break again with her disappearance alone.

Rute, who had unknowingly sunk to the ground, grabbed a handful of sand. The golden sand was filthily clumped with black ash.

It looked like the aura of ‘Evil’ devouring Ordel, making his heart sink.

‘Evil’, that damn bastard was trying to kill another precious person of his.

Rute brushed off the sand he was holding as if throwing it away and stood up.

His silver-gray eyes glinted dangerously.

He had to find her.

He had to find Ordel quickly before she was in danger.

“Hurry and deal with all the monsters! We must quickly finish them and go search for the Holy Maiden of the Sun God!”

“Damn it, kidnapping, we didn’t expect this.”

Even Bizra and Carmen clicked their tongues harshly.

But contrary to their feelings, the supreme-grade monsters wouldn’t die easily, and just as they were getting impatient.

“Huh?”

Wind began blowing from somewhere.

Hair swayed and clothes fluttered.

People who thought it was just ordinary wind soon stiffened as even the desert sand began stirring.

“It’s a sandstorm!”

Someone shouted, but the southerners couldn’t believe it.

Sandstorms never occurred like this.

This was more like magic than a natural phenomenon…

Magic?

“Everyone get away from here!”

Then Jin shouted fiercely.

She kicked the head of a giant centipede to launch herself into the air and escaped the area faster than anyone.

“Run if you want to live! Get out of here now!”

“Get away from Lute Sieri!”

People who didn’t understand what was happening instinctively stopped fighting and started running at the subsequent shouts from Carly and Duke Aria.

Lute Sieri.

Just the name of the man known as a disaster in the Empire was enough reason to flee.

“My goodness.”

The people who had fled in haste looked back and involuntarily gasped.

It wasn’t admiration.

It was fear.

Sand and wind were swirling around Rute.

The gentle breeze soon grew large enough to swallow the supreme-grade monsters that had raised their heads to the sky.

The man like a disaster was causing a natural disaster with magic.

“That guy…”

Jin’s eyes narrowed slightly as she watched the scene.

Though the sandstorm had completely engulfed Rute, it was clearly visible to her eyes, which possessed divine power through the system like Ordel.

The golden aura and black stains he harbored.

The former was divine power, the latter was poison planted by ‘Evil’, wasn’t it?

Surprisingly, as the sandstorm intensified, the black stains diminished and the golden light grew deeper.

This meant his divine power was gradually growing stronger.

Ordel’s disappearance seemed to have acted as a kind of trigger for him.

Jin’s guess was correct.

“…”

Rute, who had caused the sandstorm, looked at the monsters struggling desperately to escape his power.

But monsters weren’t reflected in his eyes.

Memories from his past life that hadn’t surfaced until now.

Memories from after the day Jin died saving him began to surface little by little.

Before dying, Jin had passed the Sun God’s divine power she possessed to him.

Thanks to that, Rute was able to hide from ‘Evil’s’ gaze.

And finally discovered it in this desert.

A way to take revenge on ‘Evil’, who had ravaged the world and toyed with countless people including himself like playthings.

A way to kill ‘Evil’.

[This land is where ‘Evil’s’ power is most deeply embedded. Here, we can surely achieve our revenge.]

Probably, from the Sun God.

That’s right, that’s why he smiled.

The reason he had come to this vicinity was because this area contained the most of ‘Evil’s’ power.

The stronghold that he and Jin knew about was fake. There was no way he would reveal the real one to slaves he treated like toys.

This area was the real stronghold where that man had been hiding for hundreds of years.

Because he could use strong power here, he had kidnapped Ordel.

So Ordel must be somewhere around here too.

Crackle, crackle!

Golden light began to spread little by little around him as he gained enlightenment.

Unlike Jin and Ordel who received power from the gods, his own divine power built up through his own strength began to reveal its true form.

The sandstorm he created was filled with divine power.

Each grain of sand became a blade and rushed toward the demons.

Kyaaak! Kyaak!

Rute was one who gained divine power through hatred toward ‘Evil’.

His power, like the Sun God’s divine force, was incredibly strong against demons.

Even the highest-grade demons couldn’t withstand the tens of thousands, hundreds of millions of blades forged from Rute’s vengeance and anger.

The demons caught in the sandstorm were endlessly cut and torn apart, slowly disappearing.

Rute’s figure standing tall among them was truly terrifying.

“How could he do something like that…”

People each held their breath.

Even if he was the Empire’s strongest magic swordsman, how could he accomplish what even the Holy Maiden and Holy Saints couldn’t…

“Jin.”

Then Rute approached Jin instantly using magic.

His face without a trace of laughter felt more frightening than usual, making people unconsciously step back hesitantly.

However, only Jin faced him without moving at all.

“Their stronghold is in this vicinity. The place we knew about was just one of the fake bases they set up as a decoy.”

Jin’s face hardened at Rute’s words.

“Ordel must be at that stronghold too.”

“But I don’t know the exact location.”

That would be the case.

When he had come here, it was about two years from now.

Since sand constantly changes its form, it would be difficult to pinpoint the exact location.

【The ‘Traveler Guiding Souls’ tells you that with the power of the User and ‘Lute Sieri’, you will surely be able to find ‘Ordel’.】

【The ‘Sun Risen from Death’ also nods. The two of you are the people with the deepest connection to ‘Ordel’ in this world right now. If you combine your strength, you can definitely find her, they encourage.】

Then messages from the two gods appeared.

Though not very reliable, at least gods don’t lie.

“We can find her.”

Jin grabbed Rute’s arm.

“With your power and mine, we’ll definitely find them. Whether it’s ‘Evil’ or Ordel.”

The two gods said that Ordel and they had the deepest connection.

But their connection wasn’t only linked to Ordel.

Both were people who had suffered for a long time as ‘Evil’s’ slaves in their previous lives.

So one of them would surely find them.

“Release your power.”

Jin’s divine power rose from her entire body first.

Seeing this, Rute also slowly let his magic flow.

“Huh?”

Carly, who had been quietly watching the two, opened her eyes wide.

Lute Sieri’s magic power was definitely ash-colored mixed with gold.

At first it had only been the characteristic gray of House of Sieri, but one day gold suddenly began mixing in.

But now the color had changed again.

Now it was closer to white rather than ash-colored…

‘Can magic power color change this frequently?’

Magic power color was a unique color people were born with.

While it might change once through enlightenment, there were no cases of it changing as frequently as Rute’s.

But now wasn’t the time to ask for reasons.

From what she could see, those two were the only people who could find the kidnapped Ordel.

For now, she just had to wait quietly.

Soon Jin’s characteristic beautiful black light and the light gray mixed with gold that Rute emitted began to blend together.

It was truly beautiful light, unsuited to the anxious and urgent situation.

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