The slime had brought a massive lump of light.
At a glance, it was an ordinary lump of light, but the moment Lee Geon saw it, his face noticeably twisted.
For no other reason.
[The Great and Sturdy Thing of Kreator]
The instant Lee Geon saw it, he flared up.
"Ugh. Disgusting! Don't bring that in!!"
"!!"
At times like this, he wished the Eye of the Divine Beholder skill hadn't activated.
But because of that, Lee Geon could only furrow his brow even more.
Kreator was one of those special gods, powerful enough to have been the progenitor of several monarchs.
However.
'Kreator. Surely it's not that guy...'
In that moment, Lee Geon recalled the blond man who insisted he was his biological father.
The only Kreator Lee Geon knew was that Thirteenth Original Inhabitant.
But perhaps it read his inner thoughts,
the slime carrying the large and sturdy thing slapped against its master's leg,
as if asking what on earth he was thinking.
[Ga says he's angry and told you to keep it safe]
[Says it seems like an important item]
Then Lee Geon seriously looked at Hyugo.
"Wow. This is big. You wanna swap with this one?"
"Sw... cough! You crazy bastard! What did you just say?"
"Why? You're smaller than m..."
"Not small!!!!"
Hyugo immediately flared up.
Geon, that punk. A guy who hasn't even used it keeps teasing him. Time to show him what's what.
"Whose is that in the first place!"
"I don't know either. But it seems like Kreator's power."
"K-Kreator?"
The frozen Hyugo also recalled the same person, so the slime kicked its head in irritation.
But regardless, Lee Geon eagerly recommended it, saying it was a jackpot.
"Just look at the size of that light, it's an insurmountable wall. With that one, wouldn't Jiwoo like it too? Then I might really become the club owner."
"Argh!!!"
Hyugo kicked the massive lump of light with his foot as if he didn't need it.
"If you like it so much, then you take it or whatever!"
"No. It's dirty."
"And it's fine for me to take that dirty thing?"
Well, whatever.
Though he'd spoken crudely, strictly speaking, this was the life force ability of gods.
"Why are they collecting stuff like this?"
"I don't know. What's certain is that the owners of these things all seem to be famous gods."
"Famous gods?"
At the same time, Hyugo thought, 'Oh no.' Come to think of it, he'd heard rumors that the major male gods of the divine realm oddly avoided the goddesses.
Wasn't that why he himself nearly got sold off as the 19,788th husband?
Could this be related?
But Lee Geon laughed.
"Anyway, seeing how the Goddess of Fate took yours, doesn't that mean you're recognized as a god of that level?"
If that were the case, the most dangerous one was Lee Geon himself.
It was then.
[The energy of
Along with that notification, a loud crash resounded.
Bang, bang, bang!!!
The wall of the room they were in shattered.
And at the face that barged in roughly, Hyugo was startled.
"Th-this swindler Snake God!"
The one who barged in with a fiercely enraged expression was an old woman.
[Divinity: Atropos (Future)]
And the moment she saw Lee Geon, she aimed her gun as if to kill him.
"Snake God! What on earth did you pass off to us?!"
Seeing her face filled with murderous intent, Lee Geon's eyes widened.
It was because of the Scorching Lord, dying behind Atropos (Future).
The Scorching Lord was weeping sorrowfully, held by the middle-aged goddess Lachesis (Present) and the little child goddess Clotho (Past).
"Bwaaah, my purity, my purity...!"
The Scorching Lord was clutching between his legs, trying to die.
But regardless, 'Future' flashed her eyes.
"How dare you deceive us and hand over defective goods?!"
"Oh my. What's this. Already caught on? I thought you wouldn't figure it out until the first night."
"Do not look down on us!"
The old woman, who had heard shocking words from the Virgo Celestial Deity, had immediately put her hand between the Scorching Lord's legs and used her power.
And among the three Fates, 'Future' was the goddess who severed destiny.
It was she who had severed Hyugo's divinity and even his lifespan.
At the same time, by simply passing through the body and inserting a hand, they could read all of the opponent's fate, so they had noticed.
"He's already dying to the point of death, so there's nothing left to sever!"
'Future', who had tried to sever and keep even the Scorching Lord's abilities, was greatly enraged.
"How dare you deceive us and send such a fake!"
On the other hand, Louis was crying his eyes out.
"Bwaah, I haven't even married yet and I've been defiled...."
At the Scorching Lord's expression as if the world had crumbled, Hyugo and Lee Geon were dumbfounded.
'What the hell did that guy go through...'
Well, that wasn't important.
"So. Are you here to offer the Rulebook?"
The goddess made a face of utter exasperation.
"The Rulebook? We certainly do have it, but you think of the Rulebook after giving us this thing?"
"Ah, so you've come to offer a betrothal gift then?"
At Lee Geon's brazen grin, the old woman clutched the back of her neck, her eyes flashing.
"There is a limit even to humiliating the goddesses directly under the Divine Realm. Take it and go b..."
Then, from behind, 'Present' and 'Past' spoke.
"Unni, if you don't want it, how about we two split it?"
"Yeah, we only need this god's heart and face."
"It's fine above the waist, so it's okay."
At those words, Lee Geon suddenly laughed for some reason.
"Are you sure you've checked the defects properly?"
"What?"
No sooner had the words fallen than the slime leaped up and stripped off the Scorching Lord's hairpiece.
And at the revealed sight, the goddesses and the Scorching Lord were horrified.
"Kyaaaaak!!"
"Aaaak!!"
The slime happily twirled the wig around.
Especially 'Past', who had said just the face would do, was trembling as if in shock.
"L-Lord Louis. Bald. Bald."
Past, who had been excited until just now, threw the Scorching Lord away.
Then, like the old woman, her eyes flashed.
"You wretch!! How dare you give us such defective goods!! I won't forgive you!"
At her face as if demanding an immediate return, Present, Lachesis, sparkled her eyes.
"Ah then, can I take this..."
"You stay still!!"
The Fates glared at Lee Geon as if to kill him.
"Unless you're mocking us, there's no way you'd give such a thing as a gift!!"
The Scorching Lord, receiving such treatment, cried as if wounded.
But the old woman who had read the Scorching Lord's fate looked at Lee Geon with fury.
She didn't seem angry merely from being humiliated.
"Because of you, all our plans are ruined. We tried to obtain this bastard because he's Kreator."
"!"
At the unexpected words, Lee Geon and Hyugo couldn't believe their ears.
For different reasons, respectively.
"Because he's Kreator?"
"No. Who's Kreator?"
Hyugo looked baffled as if hearing this for the first time, but Lee Geon let out a hollow laugh.
"Then, is this thing inside him also related after all?"
When Lee Geon pointed at the object of Kreator he had found inside, the old woman laughed as if disgusted.
"Yes. Kreator, the god of blessing, are gods used as weapons of the divine realm. Before they rose as the 9th great power, they were weapons each power regarded as highly precious."
"!"
"But at some point, they went extinct, so we tried to revive them. Since if we have their reproductive information, it's possible."
Lee Geon laughed incredulously.
But the old woman glared at him as if incensed.
"If we just capture Kreator, we can seize control of the greatest powers. But Kreator went extinct long ago, and the only remaining one was Asran. But of all things, even he died, and worse, the soul in that body vanished, so the plan was ruined."
Thus, the old woman smiled murderously as she looked at the Scorching Lord.
"In the midst of that, how thrilled we were to learn that this bastard was the reincarnation of that precious Kreator chief's son! But what?"
Hearing this, Lee Geon looked at the Scorching Lord with disgust.
His gaze asked if the chief's son had wiped out his own clan because he coveted their power.
At that sight, the Scorching Lord, Asran's brother, was sweating profusely.
Though he'd recently found it, his past life memories were clear, so there was no room for excuse.
But in truth, at their conversation, Hyugo broke into a cold sweat.
The Scorching Lord's identity and such mattered not at all to Hyugo.
'Geon comes first.'
It seemed the other side hadn't noticed yet, but the guess that Lee Geon, being Kreator, shouldn't be here was turning out to be correct.
"Of all things, right before obtaining Asran, that bastard died...!"
But right then.
"Ah. Really? So it was you guys after all?"
"!"
Everyone was startled at the Virgo Celestial Deity's entrance.
The Virgo Celestial Deity looked at the Fates as if they were pathetic.
It couldn't be helped.
"No wonder you seemed sad in a different way when Asran died."
"......!"
"Isn't that right? Former retainers of the Serpent Bearer constellation."
"......!!"
The Fates were greatly shocked.
But the Virgo Celestial Deity laughed.
"Well, all the other Serpent Bearer retainer gods are slaves now, but seeing how you're being treated, it must mean you sold out your master's information."
Meaning they had never had any loyalty to begin with.
But that wasn't what mattered.
"Before Asran died, he said there were bastards targeting Kreator. Was that you?"
Then the old woman let out a hollow laugh.
"You seemed to like Asran quite a bit, so I get that you hold a grudge against us. But regrettably, that's not what Asran was talking about. There are already bastards collecting Kreator, so we were just trying to make one separately."
The old woman glared at Lee Geon as if she didn't care either way.
"Anyway, revive this bastard's ability! Snake God! With your power of life, you can resurrect that part of him too, can't you?!"
But Lee Geon smiled grimly.
"Don't want to? I plan to leave him like that forever."
At those words, the Fates gave a hollow laugh.
That he had guts in front of the Fates.
"You already suffered at the hands of Hercules, yet you haven't come to your senses."
"We expected some incredible bastard since you wrecked Olympus, but your ranking was even in the lower ranks."
"That's proof you can't even handle your divinity properly!"
"Don't mistake rampaging and luckily blowing away a ruling god's level as your own power!"
They immediately summoned a certain book.
It was a divine artifact capable of manipulating the fate of gods.
Just as they had interfered with Hercules before, they intended to render Lee Geon immobile.
But right at that moment.
Hmph!
"!!"
Along with Lee Geon's laugh, the Fates' eyes widened.
When had he appeared? Hyugo had materialized above the goddesses with a menacing glare.
And in an instant, he snatched the book they held.
"Kgh!"
"You bastard!!"
It was a considerable authority, to the point they hadn't even noticed him approaching.
So they were flustered.
'What is this? The divine realm's measurements can't be wrong.'
On the other hand, Hyugo, having seized the Book of Fate, frowned at the goddesses.
'Something's strange.'
Hyugo had met the Fates before in the palace of Hades. That was also when he saw Giselle.
And though his memory was hazy because he'd been tortured and collapsed from exhaustion back then, this was certain.
'Those weren't the ones I met then.'
That's why it was strange.
'Are there more Fates?'
And when Hyugo snatched the book, the Fates looked at him as if incredulous.
"You carry such karmic retribution, yet you dare think of staying beside the Snake God."
"What?"
"With that karma, you could even immediately kill the Snake God."
The Fates flashed their eyes and approached Hyugo.
"If you're not going to use it, then hand it over to us!"
Right then.
"Fools. Who said you could covet what's mine."
Then, a powerful force surged, startling the goddesses.
"Wait! That power is!"
"Different from the ranking...!"
At the goddesses' exclamation, a hurried voice came from within the shadows.
[Actually, there was a problem regarding that.]
It was the Fates' retainer god.
[You see, it hasn't been updated yet, but according to the civil servants, the evaluation of divinity wasn't included in that ranking table...]
"What?!"
[And the ranking that reflects everything was said to be so high that even the civil servants were shocked...]
"Those guys who are supposed to maintain impartiality were shocked?! Just how high is it!"
And that was the moment.
Lee Geon, as if he had been waiting, curled his lips up and flicked his fingers.
(To be continued in the next episode)