You Have Been Invited to the Auction House of the Gods - Chapter 175

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175

[5,000 GOLD has been charged.]

[A powerful causality has been paid.]

[※ Warning: A powerful divine oracle is descending.]

It was the moment I sent a sound transmission through a paid divine oracle.

Elena’s two floating swords crashed to the floor.

Elena’s face was colored with bewilderment.

The amount was completely different from the oracles I’d been sending bit by bit, paying dozens of gold each time.

The longer the content of the oracle I sent, the more additional fees were attached.

But the effect of the oracle wasn’t that long-lasting.

A few seconds at the shortest, a few minutes at the longest.

It would only shake Elena’s stigmata for exactly as long as I had paid for.

To be honest, at that point it was starting to feel like a waste.

Converting the gold I used to cash, it was hundreds of millions.

I was essentially paying hundreds of millions

to send paid text messages to a cup fragment.

If that was the case, I might as well go big with one decisive strike.

That was the mindset behind this oracle.

When I steeled my resolve, what came into my view was Park Si-on.

Holding a long spear in one hand and a war hammer in the other.

Clearly the noble figure of a saint emanating sacred power, but…

Right, Park Si-on was scheduled to become the next saint anyway.

Then I should tailor the oracle accordingly, shouldn’t I?

— The one who shines by their own light is this era’s saint.

Though she clutched her cross necklace, the Holy Grail’s choice was not reversed.

I immediately kicked off the ground and charged at Elena.

Elena immediately thrust Longinus forward.

She seemed to have quickly assessed the situation, but that was all.

From the moment her stigmata was neutralized, the only defense line protecting her had crumbled.

The holy sword and demonic sword that had protected her,

the sacred magic that had delivered powerful judgment.

All of it vanished in an instant.

What remained was only herself.

I looked at Longinus thrusting toward me.

This had never been a real fight to begin with.

If not for the risk of the Vatican Catacombs being blown away,

Elena would have already been subdued without even being able to resist.

Even if she had maintained her stigmata continuously.

So she should be grateful that I—no, Park Si-on—would become the Vatican’s master.

I raised my sword to parry, and with a metallic clang, Longinus was deflected.

And Park Si-on struck through her wide-open gap.

Park Si-on’s spear, aimed at her neck, precisely snatched her necklace.

She threw aside even Longinus and reached toward the cross necklace.

“No—”

What was there to refuse?

I immediately struck her paralysis point.

She froze in place with her hand still outstretched.

‘I’ll tell them to lock up the Saint when Yamyeong comes.’

In the containment space meant for cult leaders.

I sheathed Galmu and picked up the fallen Holy Grail.

‘I should quickly make a saint and return to Korea.’

Having been here quite a while this time, I was missing Korean food.

Just as I turned around to wrap up the situation, I faced an unexpected circumstance.

“Saint… sir?”

Park Si-on awkwardly spoke up.

At first, I didn’t understand.

But soon I was able to discover the cause of that bewilderment.

The Holy Grail in my hand.

That Holy Grail was choosing me.

As the saint of the next era.

‘Does this thing also like wealthy patrons?’

I brushed aside such useless thoughts and was pondering how to resolve the current situation,

when at this very moment, I heard the voice I least wanted to hear.

“Oh…?”

Where I turned my head, that Pope bastard was standing.

No, it wasn’t just The Pope.

The Pope, Raphael, Park Ju-yong, the goblins.

While everyone in the Holy Grail Chamber was bewildered, it was The Pope who broke all that silence.

Right, if it’s The Pope, he could resolve the current situation—

“Oh, a saint?”

Damn it.

Not deterred by that, The Pope winked and flicked his finger toward me.

I silently looked down at the Holy Grail, then dropped it to the floor.

“Come to think of it…”

The Pope and Raphael aren’t big problems.

The cause from the beginning was…

“The Holy Grail is the problem.”

I lifted my foot as it was.

And the moment I was about to bring it down, everyone in the room rushed toward me without exception.

“Vice Guild Master! That’s a holy relic!”

Park Ju-yong desperately grabbed hold of me.

“Holy relic my ass, what kind of damn holy relic designates me as a saint when I don’t even have stigmata!”

“Han, Hunter Han Sang-in, please calm down first…”

Raphael also couldn’t do anything and hesitated.

And The Pope visible between them…

The Pope, who should be stopping me the most, was enthusiastically cheering.

Seeing that sight, I stopped kicking.

“Right…”

“Haah… finally calming down…”

I wrapped sacred fire around my foot.

“Si, Si-on! Block it with your body! With your body!”

At Park Ju-yong’s words, Park Si-on wrapped his entire body around the Holy Grail.

“Let go! If I become a saint anyway, I’ll destroy Vatican first!”

For the first time, I felt regret.

I should have just blown up the basement with Elena and all, without thinking about Vatican…

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[First Korean Saint Born, Who is Park Si-on?]

[Saint Park Si-on’s Biggest Sponsor Guild is Ashin? How Far Does Han Sang-in’s Foresight Reach?]

[S-Rank Dungeon Break During Saint Selection, Korea’s Ashin Guild Active Once Again]

I looked over the news headlines that kept coming up.

↳ No, how did Han Sang-in know to be at Vatican?

↳ Maybe he’s cursed. S-rank dungeon breaks happen wherever he goes.

↳ Bullshit. Except for Vatican, he went there because they broke out lol

↳ Saint Park Si-on, please make me win the lottery jackpot.

↳ lol If that worked, Vatican would have the most money worldwide.

↳ But they really do have a lot of money.

I closed my smartphone after looking at the nutritionless comments.

Elena’s case was immediately handed over to Yamyeong.

Heretic’s Dungeon.

I had her imprisoned together in the very place where I had previously thrown Doctor.

According to Yamyeong’s report, the two seemed to be acquainted.

The Doctor was pleased to see Elena,

and she reportedly showed blatant contempt the moment she saw the Doctor.

I acted as if nothing had happened and took a spoonful of the gelato in front of me.

At least the Holy Grail wasn’t broken.

The Pope had intended to announce Park Si-on as a saint from the beginning.

If he could manifest stigmata without the Holy Grail’s selection,

that alone already proved his qualifications as a saint.

The reason the Holy Grail chose me was because of the 5,000 gold Divine Oracle I paid at the end.

The more specific a Divine Oracle becomes, the more additional fees are charged.

That’s why the things that come down as Divine Oracles have various interpretations.

However, the Divine Oracle I delivered this time was quite specific.

In the Holy Grail Chamber, the only child who glowed with his own light was Park Si-on, who manifested stigmata alone.

However, there was one thing I had overlooked.

That my Divine Authority was Sacred Fire.

My flames, which could be more sacred than Sacred Power in some ways,

were perceived as brighter than Sacred Power due to their nature as ‘flames.’

‘I never thought it would choose me as a saint when I don’t even have stigmata.’

I sighed and scooped another spoonful of gelato.

It was fresh and had a chewy texture.

It was a proper authentic gelato.

Park Si-on was sitting in the chair across from me.

And The Pope and Raphael were seated on either side.

The Pope, having removed his ceremonial robes, was just a kindly rural grandfather,

and Raphael had somehow lost weight and was back in solid shape.

Saint Park Si-on was eating gelato while receiving abundant love from Vatican’s top two figures.

Well, as the first saint in Vatican history to manifest stigmata on his own without the Holy Grail, how could he not be adorable?

Moreover, with his Sacred Power levels being legendary and his spear skills also top-notch,

to these two men, Park Si-on was as lovable as a grandson seen in their twilight years.

‘Do they know that the freshness of that gelato in his hands is thanks to the Asin Mediterranean Branch?’

The reason rocket delivery was possible even to this remote rural village was thanks to Asin.

The place where we were eating gelato now was Saintly Knight Captain Raphael’s cabin.

Festivals celebrating the saint’s selection were continuing throughout the Mediterranean region, but the saint himself couldn’t properly enjoy them.

Wherever he went, people lined up asking for his blessings.

So the place they ultimately chose was Raphael’s rural cottage.

I didn’t really need to follow along, but I still had work to do.

I took another spoonful of gelato and opened my mouth.

“This might sound crazy, but…”

Both of their gazes turned toward me.

“I think we need to seriously prepare for the force called the Cult now.”

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