I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 232

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Brilliant light poured down along with the collapsing ceiling.

It was a sight so beautiful I would never forget it until the day I died.

My divine power had already increased by 30%, leaving me in an elevated state, but seeing Lute rushing to save me made my heart swell beyond mere joy.

I couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

“Ah.”

Then Lute’s characteristic gentle wind wrapped around my body.

It guided me toward Lute, helping me avoid the demons lunging to capture me.

But was Lute’s magic power always this color?

It used to be the House of Sieri’s distinctive deep ash gray mixed with golden energy, so why had it brightened?

“…Ordel.”

While I was puzzling over this, I instantly landed in Lute’s embrace.

He pulled me tightly into his arms.

“Ordel.”

“I’m fine.”

He must have been quite shocked, as Lute was trembling.

I patted his broad back.

At this moment, I was so glad to see Lute.

I hadn’t realized it, but after spending hours facing only demons in that dark place, I must have been a bit tense.

Seeing how relieved I felt upon seeing Lute.

“I’m not hurt anywhere either.”

“…Thank goodness.”

I had offered 3 billion in advance and told him I would strengthen my divine power if needed.

But that alone must not have been enough to reassure him.

“…”

“Lute?”

I thought we would climb up through the hole he’d made in the ceiling.

But for some reason, Lute wasn’t moving at all.

His trembling was even getting worse.

What’s wrong? Is he injured?

“Lute!”

The moment I looked at his face in surprise, I was startled.

Below, in the cavern full of demons.

He was glaring with wide eyes at where Feliks stood.

For anger toward Feliks and the demons who kidnapped me, something felt strange.

“Lute Sieri. Just how did you find this place?”

Feliks, who had lost me, spoke with an annoyed expression.

However, the dazed Lute didn’t even respond.

What he was looking at wasn’t Feliks.

“…I’ve seen this place before.”

“What?”

“I’ve been here before. In my past life.”

What did he say?

“Yes, it was definitely here. When those bastards were rampaging in the capital, I was here.”

The corners of Lute’s lips slowly curled upward.

Ah, this was the first time I’d seen him so intoxicated with ecstasy.

“I stole it using the power of ‘Evil’ that filled this place. I got revenge on the one who made me a slave. I did!”

Lute burst into loud laughter.

It was laughter that seemed like crying, truly desperate laughter.

What exactly did Lute do here in his past life?

What did he steal?

“You bastard, what are you talking about?”

I wasn’t the only one who heard Lute’s outcry.

Feliks glared at us.

“Stealing? Revenge? …Past life?”

“Curious?”

Lute grinned wickedly at him.

“If you’re curious, try capturing us and torturing us or something.”

〖Capture them and bring them to me!〗

Then a horrible shriek came from the darkness.

At that terrible voice that seemed to shake not just the body but the soul itself, I almost instinctively covered both ears.

This, this was definitely not a human voice.

It was ‘Evil.’

“Capture those two immediately!”

The demons all rushed toward us at once.

Lute, who snorted in derision, escaped through the hole in the ceiling while holding me.

Crash!

Soon the demons that had been in the cavern broke through the ceiling and walls to chase after us.

“Everyone, battle positions! These demons are stronger than anything we’ve fought so far!”

Lute shouted to the soldiers who had been waiting in the desert.

Lute set me down at a spot slightly away from the battlefield.

I waved to Jin and the Temple of the Sun God group, who kept glancing this way even while fighting demons.

However, my consciousness was entirely focused on Lute.

“What you said in there, what did you mean?”

What exactly did you do in your past life?

“I did something only I could do. A very enjoyable and exciting revenge.”

Lute couldn’t calm his excitement and kept shrugging his shoulders.

Seeing the black stains that had grown even fainter and the golden energy that had become much stronger in contrast, he must have properly recalled his past life memories.

What exactly happened during those few hours I was kidnapped?

“Sorry, but there’s no time to explain. First, let’s deal with those demons…”

As he seemed ready to charge at the demons immediately, I quickly grabbed his shoulder.

“I’ll go, so you calm down your excitement. Your pupils are dilated. If you fight like this, you might get hurt.”

No matter how strong Lute was, being this excited.

His mind must be complicated too, so he needed to calm down a bit.

“Don’t worry. I’ve gotten quite a bit stronger too.”

I lifted my mace.

Lute’s eyes widened at the mace that was emitting an even stronger light.

“I’m at 99% divine power right now.”

“Ha, no wonder I couldn’t take my eyes off you.”

Lute let out a hollow laugh.

“You left 1% on purpose, didn’t you?”

Instead of answering, I shrugged my shoulders.

He smiled back and nodded.

“Don’t get hurt. If you get hurt, then I really might become irreversible.”

“This time I’ll fight well without getting hurt.”

I don’t want to keep getting holes poked in my body either.

After patting Lute’s shoulder once more, I ran toward the battlefield.

The demons were strong.

Top-tier demons stronger than the centipede demon that had kidnapped me were swarming everywhere.

In that short time, there were already dozens of injured, and the priestesses with strong healing powers were too busy treating the wounded to even join the fight.

Though those with strong power like Jin and Carmen were holding their ground, more powerful strength was needed.

For example, power that transcends divine authority—the true power of a god.

I leaped high into the air.

【Activating the Sun God’s stigma ‘Radiance’.】

The sun gives all life the strength to live.

Daily bread, animals, people—none can survive without the sun.

But is the sun merely a warm and benevolent existence?

No, the sun permits no one to approach it.

Those who dare come close are mercilessly burned, no matter who they are.

The Sun God’s stigma ‘Radiance’ is a power that reveals precisely this dual nature of the sun.

“L-look there!”

“The, the Sun God?”

Light resembling the sun burst forth from my entire body.

Warm light enveloped the people who had been fighting like madmen.

“M-my wounds!”

“The light detoxifies when it touches you! Hurry, get closer to the light!”

The wounds of those bathed in sunlight healed, and the poison was purified.

To those who needed the sun, the sun generously bestowed its warmth.

Kyaaaaaaak!

But it showed no mercy to enemies.

The monsters’ bodies caught fire from merely touching the light.

They thrashed about as if trying to shake off flames, but in this vast desert, there was nowhere to hide from the light.

No matter how they fled, no matter how far they ran, the light would not forgive those who dared defy it.

“Since you tried to kill the sun, you must die by the sun.”

【Activating ‘Radiance’ stigma’s linked skill ‘Flames of Radiance’.】

Fire ignited on my clenched mace. It was beautiful flames mixing red and gold, truly resembling the sun.

I swung my mace toward the monsters still crawling out through the torn hole.

Kwaaaaang!

Kyaaaaaaak! Kiaaaak!

The monsters engulfed in flames let out agonizing screams.

The entire desert burst into flames.

I couldn’t help but smile at that beautiful sight, as if the sun itself had descended upon the desert.

Kwang!

Then Feliks burst out from the burning hole.

I could clearly see all the power he possessed in his eyes. My whole body tingled with exhilaration.

Ah, finally I had reached an equal position with Feliks.

* * *

“…Beautiful.”

Rute, who remained behind, was mesmerized by the spectacle Ordel was creating.

Ordel, wreathed in divine flames, was sacred and wondrous.

Ordel, when you’re rampaging so magnificently, how can I possibly calm my excitement?

Far from it, his heart beat even more fiercely.

In this world, only Ordel could make him feel this way.

Rute looked down at his own hands.

Thump, thump, thump, thump.

His hands trembled with each surge of his heart.

The desert filled with the power of ‘Evil’, the dark commune where that being had hidden for hundreds of years.

The moment he saw that place, forgotten memories came flooding back like waves.

It was thrilling.

He felt incomparable joy upon confirming the Achievement he had accomplished.

Having done it once, the second time would be easier.

[Have you finally recalled all your memories?]

At that moment, someone’s voice was transmitted directly into his mind.

Rute covered his ears at the hot, heavy voice.

This voice, I remember it.

[I was worried about what would happen if you were late. But it was needless worry after all. You most persistent human in the world.]

A voice like blazing flames.

A voice with dual nature, containing both mercy and wrath simultaneously.

This was the Sun God’s voice.

[The power you possess is an Achievement no one else in the world has accomplished. That Achievement will become a blade sharper than anything else, piercing the heart of the enemy you so desperately desire to defeat.]

The enemy, the heart of ‘Evil’.

The hateful ‘Evil’ that dragged him into the abyss and violated him at will!

Only after living another life had he finally gained the opportunity to truly kill that being.

Together with the only savior who had kept him alive.

“Haha!”

With a smile full of ecstasy, the golden aura he possessed swelled even larger.

Now only a single black stain remained on him.

“Yes, I must kill it.”

Rute gripped his sword.

What wrapped around the blade was not ash-colored but pure white divine power mixed with gold.

Rute, having finally fully unleashed his divine power, smiled as he charged toward Feliks.

In his previous life, at the moment of destruction when the world fell into ‘Evil’s’ grasp.

Rute had mobilized all the power he possessed to steal ‘Evil’s’ memories and destroy them along with his own body.

With the happiest smile in the world.

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