“What? 564,477 entrants?”
“Th-that is correct!”
Meanwhile, at that time, the divine realm was turned upside down.
It was because of the sudden influx of entrants.
“Hey, what is this sudden nonsense?!”
“Well, some crazy god blew up the immigration facility’s device….”
“What?!”
I mean, what kind of lunatic would do such a heaven-defying act?
“All personnel are currently moving to repair it.”
“But at this rate, we cannot know which gods have entered!”
“……!”
The elite affiliated gods of the divine realm, that is, the bureaucrats of the divine realm, were racking their brains. In fact, many among them were colluding with the stellar gods.
So it was a problem.
“Then we can’t find that bastard, can we?”
“They definitely said it was the god of Ophiuchus, right?”
“That is correct.”
Indeed.
Actually, they had received a list beforehand of gods requiring special attention.
[Snake god of the twelve zodiac]
[Stellar god of Earth]
[May come looking for his followers, so monitor him]
[You may even ban his entry]
I’m not sure, but the order was to expel a single low-ranking snake god.
‘Well, I never dreamed that gods would band together so tightly over a mere affiliated god from humanity.’
Well, anyway, it didn’t matter.
“Was there a snake god in the twelve zodiac?”
“What? You don’t know? Well, he’s a level-1 confidential subject.”
“Level-1 confidential?”
Anyway, the twelve zodiac were quite famous.
That was because currently the Pantheon had eight major factions. And they were beings that commanded hundreds of billions of stars and dimensions.
They were the leaders of dimensions, kings of gods.
At the same time, kings of the universe who made all life across dimensions their subjects.
And the twelve zodiac were one of those factions, once called the ninth faction.
‘Now, however, they have declined almost to extinction, so many don’t know them.’
But of course, that wasn’t important now.
“The stellar gods told us to track that newbie. Maybe he’s among the illegal entrants? What do we do?”
“Hey, is losing that snake brat important right now? The priority is fixing the immigration facility! What if an evil god crawls in while we’re at it?”
“True. That mere snake god, the affiliated gods will handle him quickly. He’s the lowest-ranked god anyway.”
After all, he was a backwater bumpkin god. An unknown, lowly minor god at that.
“Right now, finding the terrorist takes priority over scum like that!”
They hurriedly rushed to the immigration facility.
* * *
And around that time.
The actual terrorist was muttering curses.
“Damn, this ride quality sucks!”
Igeon was currently passing through an unknown passage.
The sensation was like riding a roller coaster. He was being sucked into somewhere along a dark tunnel with no end in sight.
At the same time, he immediately recognized where he had felt this before.
“Damnation, it feels exactly like when I entered that monster’s esophagus!”
He cursed whatever bastard made such a passage, but the nasty sensation didn’t last long.
Bam!
“Ugh!”
With a bright light, Igeon burst out of the tunnel.
Opening his eyes, he flinched in surprise.
‘That place...’
The place he was thrown into was a space as vast as the universe.
Not only was there no end in sight, it was a colossal universe that could swallow a god in an instant.
And Igeon clearly saw it.
The familiar world unfolding before his eyes.
It was a world like seeing a black hole.
There was a black sphere, and around it a red vortex raged like a typhoon.
And from the black sphere, a pillar of red light was extending.
Up toward the sky, toward the heavens.
It looked like an elevator connecting to the divine realm.
And that place was the lowest world of the divine realm, the
It was where Yeonwoo’s soul had been, and where Hugo had fallen due to the Demon Realm’s temptation.
But this time, Igeon’s destination was not that place.
Bam!
“Ugh!”
Igeon was flung straight toward the red pillar.
And the moment he was swept up in the red beam of light, he was dragged upward in an instant, as if riding an elevator.
[Entry to the Pantheon is permitted]
Along with a voice that seemed to echo from the cosmos, Igeon saw an unfamiliar world.
It was a bizarre world, seemingly made of a regular icosahedron.
And there, where dimensions interlocked and emitted colossal energy, was the world of the gods.
Pantheon.
A composite of ten thousand entwined dimensions.
And then it happened.
[Information from the ticket remains in your body]
[“Where Hades is”]
[Coordinates unclear. Do you have specific coordinates?]
There was no way he knew any specific coordinates, but that didn’t matter.
“That bastard’s house.”
[It is the 5th dimensional layer]
[Warning. That area is high-class (very expensive area).]
[Can you afford the toll as a lowest-ranked god?]
[You may incur immense debt]
[You are given the chance to choose an alternative area]
At the sneering voice, Igeon laughed as if disgusted.
“Shove off, just send me to the 5th floor.”
At Igeon’s words, a scream came from his hand.
It was the satyros that Igeon had kidnapped to extract information about Hades and Hugo.
“Aaaah! The crazy 5th floor?! You were trying to go to a higher dimension! Is that possible?!”
He wasn’t sure, but the 5th floor must be a very nice place.
And sure enough.
[The 5th floor is a high-rank god exclusive zone. It’s expensive]
[100,000 talants are required]
[However, since it’s your first move, 1,000,000 talants are collected as a fee including tax]
[If even 1 is short, you will immediately be sentenced to 1000 years of forced labor and a 10,000,000 talant fine]
Unlike the satyros who was horrified and tried to flee, Igeon smiled.
“I brought something just for this.”
Igeon pulled out a small cloth pouch from his bosom. And when he opened the pouch, the satyros’s eyes went wild.
Because of what was inside.
“Oh, oh my god! All gold coins! They’re talants! How much is all this!?”
“Well, they’re fake.”
“Excuse me?!”
Igeon could create anything with his ability.
And this too was something he created after seeing the currency of gods.
In other words, counterfeit currency!
“Hahaha! Take it, you bastards! Toll fee!”
The satyros screamed, asking whether such a thing would work in the divine realm.
But.
[1,000,000 talants satisfied]
[Toll payment complete]
[Welcome. The divine realm welcomes wealthy gods.]
“Aaaah! The divine realm is fooled by counterfeit currency?!”
But Igeon grinned.
That wasn’t just something he made. It was a high-quality item that employed even the 3rd stage of
“Now then, to the 5th floor....”
[Counterfeit currency detected]
[Growling sounds are coming from the talants]
[The talants have egos]
[The talants have been made so beautifully that talant manufacturers would despair.]
[The originals are far uglier than these]
[Exiled on suspicion of producing counterfeit currency]
“What the hell!!”
Igeon, who got caught because he made them too well, was immediately thrown out.
“Aaaah!”
Thrown into the icosahedral world, they fell as if skydiving.
[A low-ranked god (rank unassessed) dared try to deceive the divine realm with counterfeit currency]
[Did you think the high gods wouldn’t notice the shameless act of breathing life into the gods’ currency?]
[Sentence: 1000 years of forced labor and a fine of 10,000,000. For the crime of insolence, the numbers are multiplied by 3.]
Igeon was dumbfounded.
“What are these morons saying! If our babies hadn’t made growling sounds, you idiots wouldn’t have known till the end!”
No, wouldn’t currency with ego be more valuable?
And they don’t even give them back!
[Falling to the 20th dimensional layer. The lowest layer.]
At that voice, the satyros went pale white.
“Aaaah! Not the 20th layer!”
The divine realm was basically a world layered with overlapping dimensions.
And like the Earth’s core, the deeper you went, the worse the layers became.
Just as the upstream is cleanest, all the discarded things from above flowed downward, so at the very bottom was a waste disposal site where all the filth of the divine realm gathered.
In other words, the final 20th layer was the absolute lowest, a garbage dump you must never fall into!
“If you get caught there, even high gods lose their divinity! Quickly apply for mediation... Aaaah!”
Mediation my ass.
A great force struck Igeon down, as if telling a low god to become mere dust forming the divine realm.
Bam!!
It felt like being pressed by strong gravity. Igeon was flung to the lowest layer in an instant.
Crash!
“Ugh!”
After that, it was a series of dizzying sensations.
As if falling through shattering glass walls stacked layer upon layer, Igeon was dragged toward the very bottom in the blink of an eye.
And Igeon still couldn’t exert his power.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
“Ack! At this rate I’ll really go all the way to the disposal site!”
It seemed the divine realm was intent on stripping Igeon of his divinity.
Thud! Thud! Thud!!
[Exiled from the 15th dimensional layer]
[Exiled from the 16th dimensional layer]
[Exiled from the 17th dimensional layer]
As if telling him to know his place, Igeon frowned at the force that fiercely pressed down on him.
[This is the 18th dimensional layer]
[Exiling from the 18th dimensional lay...]
Right then.
Crack!!!
“!!!”
Igeon stretched out both arms as if driving his hands into the wall of the dimension. It looked like he was trying to slow down.
Screech!
“H-Hyungnim!!”
The satyros went pale white.
“It’s useless! The layer’s power is too strong!”
It wasn’t for nothing that even great gods paid full fare to move between layers.
Hardly any god tried to resist the divine realm’s administrators, and even if there was a gutsy one, they usually ended up torn apart miserably and finished their lives in the lowest layer.
“At this rate you’ll just become a cripple... Ack!”
But at that moment.
Boom!!!
“Ack!!”
An enormous sound struck the dimension.
It was a sound as if tearing the dimension apart.
And after some time,
with that sound, the satyros couldn’t shut his mouth.
Along with the sound of the dimensional wall shattering, Igeon, who was about to be exiled, came to an abrupt halt.
He had overcome the divine realm’s power that was pressing him down!
But Igeon himself was nonchalant.
“Haa, I thought my shoulder was going to pop out. If I get a herniated disc at this age, are you going to take responsibility?”
No, this isn’t something that ends with a herniated disc!
The satyros screamed silently.
‘Just how tough is his body to withstand that!’
At the same time, a thought hit him.
‘Could he be a derivative god manifested from diamond?!
A material god! Yes! That was highly likely. Surely a hard mineral used to make the stellar gods’ weapons had been deified.
Otherwise, this situation was absolutely incomprehensible.
But that wasn’t the important thing now.
Plop plop!
“!”
Seeing the ceiling from the falling debris in the sky, the satyros almost screamed.
‘The layer’s boundary is shattered!’
From the gap Igeon had broken, a bizarre roar could be heard.
At that, the satyros gulped ominously.
‘Surely not... no problem will arise in the upper layers, right...?’
But he couldn’t worry for long.
“Gack! Hyungnim, wait! Don’t grab my collar... Aaaah!!”
Igeon dragged the satyros and jumped into the dimensional gap he himself had broken.
* * *
The place Igeon jumped into seemed to be connected to the sea. And how long had it been since he was swept into the dark ocean?
“Pwah!”
Finally, Igeon, who had been swimming, surfaced. At the same time, he irritably swept his hair back.
“Anyway, because of that idiot O Taeksu, I’ve suffered decades’ worth of hardship...”
But right then.
“Kyaaah! A handsome male god!”
“!!”
At the sudden voice, Igeon was startled. Turning his head, there were some half-naked goddesses in swimsuits.
“Oh my, who is he? A new employee?”
“How long has it been since we saw a humanoid!”
“Didn’t he just break through the dimensional wall?”
“Oh my, really?! Good thing we came to hang out!”
And Igeon wondered why he had fallen into such a place, but he soon realized the reason.
[Congratulations. The 18th dimensional layer is an entire layer of entertainment.]
[Caution. You could squander all your talants in a single day.]
“……?!”
Perhaps thanks to entering the divine realm, a familiar voice was heard again.
In reality, it was the voice of Igeon’s father, the 13th, but Igeon knew it as the voice of Ophiuchus’s throne.
The voice kept speaking to Igeon, but he ignored it completely and turned around.
“Hey. Where’s the exit here?”
At that, the goddesses looked disappointed, but Igeon said he was busy and looked for the guide, the satyros.
But.
“So happyyy! I’ll live here forever! This is paradise!! … Blub blub!”
“…….”
The satyros, cradled in a goddess’s embrace, seemed so happy he might die, or rather drown to death.
Finally, just as Igeon was about to say something about that sight,
‘!’
Was it because he entered the divine realm?
Igeon gradually felt his divine power returning.
So he immediately tried to detect Hugo’s aura, but soon frowned.
‘As expected, I don’t feel anything.’
In fact, even when on Earth, he had used the affiliated god of Virgo to track Hugo.
But all attempts failed.
‘I thought I’d feel his aura in the divine realm.’
It might be the power of Hades’ divine artifact, the transparent helmet
And in that case, there was only one way to find Hugo.
That is, find the culprit who kidnapped him.
But meeting that bastard was already a problem.
‘Will I be able to go up to the 5th floor?’
Looking at the sky, something like a red barrier was visible. It must be the wall blocking each layer.
And the thickness of the wall was considerable, and his counterfeit currency was discovered, so going up would require taking substantial losses.
But.
‘Well, can’t be helped. Just break it.’
Grumbling that it was annoying, Igeon was about to turn away.
“What a lucky day today. Lord Hades is here as well, and now such a wonderful person has come!”
“Right, I heard he obtained a very rare affiliated god? I’ve never seen Lord Hades so happy before!”
“He even brought other famous gods!”
At those words, Igeon’s head, which had been fuming until just moments ago, jerked around.
What? Who’s here?
A vicious smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, as an added bonus.
(Continued in the next episode)