Everyone's eyes widened at the item Igeon pulled out.
At first glance, it looked like a golden gemstone crystal.
And while they wondered why he would take something like that out now of all times, the goddess of childbirth seemed to realize the reason right away.
[You're not thinking of using Hermes' divinity to find me, are you?]
The reason Cheon Ji-u couldn’t give birth was because of that goddess connected to Eden.
And if that goddess were dealt with, the source of Cheon Ji-u’s suffering would also disappear.
In other words, he intended to use Hermes’ address book to locate her.
But the goddess snorted.
[Unfortunately, no other god has ever been able to draw upon his power.]
It was extremely rare for gods to wield two or more divinities. To even use one at a passable level, you had to absorb it into your body and raise it to the 5th step, which was inefficient and carried a high risk of failure. On top of that, it would degrade the abilities and efficiency of one's original divinity.
Only a Great Sage God could perhaps use multiple divinities, but as for Hermes’ divinity, well.
‘Unless it’s an offensive authority, drawing out its full power is difficult.’
If it were purely destructive power, even a Great Sage God could just brute-force it.
But Hermes’ divinity was that of a courier—someone who could browse the addresses of all gods and travel anywhere. It inherently required a mind capable of memorizing every address and an agile body, so even a Great Sage God would struggle to draw out 100% of its power.
Even a Great Sage God would manage maybe 20%.
Perhaps that was why.
[You won't even be able to reach this place, let alone find me.]
At that, Igeon sneered.
“Doesn't matter. I'm not the one using it.”
[Then you intend to pass it down? Before that can happen, the mother and child will die.]
The passing down of a divinity takes at least a month.
[If not that, then you don't mean to transfer it to that monster, do you?]
The goddess looked at Hugo with scorn.
[Not even that monster, but who would dare to think they could use Lord Hermes’ power…]
But then.
Igeon reached out and pulled something from the inside pocket of Hugo’s jacket.
It was none other than...
“A fountain pen?”
I Jae-won, having recognized it, narrowed his brows.
“That’s definitely what Sir Igeon gave Hugo as a birthday present...”
“What are you talking about! That’s a limited-edition antique fountain pen, only ten worldwide, from a luxury brand, based on a manhwa!”
“Ah, that’s the original. The brand copied it later after seeing an interview photo.”
“What?! Really? I need to steal it later... ack!”
Cheon Seong-jae, mid-sentence, got smacked by his sister.
And Igeon, knowing full well that Hugo always carried the fountain pen inside his jacket, narrowed his eyes.
Long ago, Igeon had caught a giant squid monster and used it to make a fountain pen that never needed a refill.
‘More than a birthday present, it was made so he could write lines as punishment in my stead.’
Since Hugo constantly broke things and was forced to write reflections.
Anyway, if it was something he had made, his look seemed to say it would be useful as a vessel.
And at that look, Hugo felt a chill.
‘That bastard, no way.’
As expected, right at that moment.
Flash!
With a dazzling light, the divinity of Hermes flowed into the fountain pen.
Then something astonishing happened.
[Assimilated into the vessel.]
[A new divine object has been completed.]
[Divine Artifact - Quick Service (EX)]
He had created a divine artifact using Hermes’ divinity.
Just like when he had used the Cancer constellation god to make drachma materials, or the Aquarius constellation god to make a kettle.
‘Since I can’t use the one I swiped from Hermes last time.’
Those damned Olympus bastards had definitely deactivated its functions.
Anyway, after making the pen, Igeon immediately rolled up Hugo’s sleeve.
Swiftly!
“Wait, what are you... Agh!”
As Igeon imbued the pen with divinity, the pen began to move on its own.
“What on earth...!”
At the same time, something remarkable occurred.
[Quick Service (EX) begins automatic address transcription according to the parent’s will.]
“!!”
Hugo flinched at the strange symbols etched onto his forearm.
“What the hell? What’s it writing?!”
“The addresses of all the beings in the divine realm.”
“What?!”
[Quick Service is delighted and has inscribed the coordinates of all childbirth goddesses existing in the divine realm.]
[Eden’s childbirth goddess and 1 other (detailed address omitted)]
[Valhalla’s childbirth goddess and 1 other (detailed address omitted)]
…
[Miscellaneous faction’s childbirth goddess (detailed address omitted)]
Hugo immediately felt a foreboding.
And sure enough, Igeon smirked wickedly and shoved something into Hugo’s hands.
“Deal with the son of a bitch who messed with your wife yourself.”
“What??”
“Just go find him and kill him.”
Igeon then wrote a single word with the pen.
[Delivery commenced]
With that, the strange symbols on Hugo’s forearm flared brightly.
“Wait... Whoaaa!”
In the blink of an eye, Hugo was enveloped in light and vanished.
The goddess of childbirth had a flustered expression at the sight.
[You didn’t...!!]
Igeon glared at the bewildered goddess, eyes flashing.
“Well, whether you hide your identity or where you are, as long as you’re a childbirth goddess, you’re bound to be one of these.”
[...No!!]
“You can run, for all I care. Doesn’t matter.”
Igeon infused power into the birds he’d caught. They instantly transformed into flower-patterned paper.
Then, using the divine artifact, Igeon wrote something on that paper.
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Once the characters were etched onto the paper, Igeon then used another bird to create a flower-patterned envelope. He neatly folded the fountain pen and the letter inside.
And then.
“Delivery. To the Demon Lord.”
With those words, the envelope vanished instantly.
“Uncle!”
People stared in astonishment, but Igeon, having sent off the pen like a parcel, smiled menacingly.
“Well, he’s a clever one, so he should manage some creative use.”
“I-is it... wise to hand something that precious over to a mere demon lord?”
“It’s fine. I’ve got a mark on it, so it’ll return to me whenever I call.”
“Then...”
“So even if Hugo can’t find you, it means the Abyss will devour every last one of you anyway.”
[......!!!]
“You get it now? Then put things back to normal this instant, you little shit.”
The look on the childbirth goddess’s face was priceless.
***
Meanwhile.
“Waaaaaah!”
Forcibly dispatched by Igeon, Hugo was screaming. Countless addresses of childbirth goddesses were now written on his arm.
And.
[Now moving to the first delivery location.]
Bang!
In an instant, Hugo flew across dimensions, crashing face-first into the ground.
Boom!
The place he landed was a beach. Along with the sound of waves, a scream rang out right beside him.
“Eek! Wh-who is this man!”
“Uh, n-no, not this suspicious guy... nope, not this person!”
At Hugo’s words, the symbols on his forearm lit up.
[Now moving to the next delivery location.]
“Ack!!”
Hugo was flung somewhere else again.
This time, he arrived at a restaurant.
“Kyaaaah!!”
Landed on a rice bowl, Hugo let out a groan.
“N-no... not this person either!”
[Now moving to the next delivery location.]
[Wrong delivery]
[Now moving to the next delivery location]
……
[Now moving to the next delivery...]
And after crossing dimension after dimension, getting slammed into floors over and over...
Flash!
[Arrived at the 12th delivery location.]
[Before Eileithyia of Olympus]
“…Dammit!”
This time, he was thrown into some temple. It was a sacred place full of angelic paintings.
But as Hugo lifted his head, his eyes turned brutal.
“Found you.”
“...No way!!”
Before him stood the very goddess who had appeared before them.
The goddess went pale.
And Hugo, having deduced her identity from the address information, grinned savagely.
“I figured you were an angel from Eden, but this is unexpected. So you’re from Olympus?”
“......!!”
The Olympian goddess. Eileithyia, the divine goddess of childbirth, froze.
She had even changed her appearance so that other gods couldn’t possibly recognize her.
“You had a bounty on your head, so you changed your form and latched onto Eden?”
“......!”
That was it.
She was originally from Olympus, and after becoming a refugee, she had been taken in by Eden.
Of course, she had been turned into a human because of Igeon, but with the help of a genius blacksmith in the divine realm, she had regained her godhood.
And there was no way Eden would have left her alone, knowing she harbored vengeance against Igeon and Hugo.
But that wasn’t all.
The moment she arrived in Eden, she had figured out Hugo’s identity and used his family to try and harm Hugo and the Serpent God. Now she was sweating.
‘Damn it... He really came here?’
This was deep inside Eden’s inner sanctum.
‘And he broke through the security in one go?’
Perhaps Hermes’ divinity wasn’t given out for nothing.
But faced with Hugo, the goddess exuded murderous intent and held up the bomb Igeon had given him.
“How dare you mess with Ji-u? There’s a limit to how low you can go.”
“Ha, stop pretending you care about humans, you disgusting creature! Filthy devourer scum!”
Hugo was dumbfounded.
“I don’t know why you keep spewing that kind of bullshit at me, but there’s a limit to my patience...”
“You don’t know? Well, not many monsters are self-aware of their own repulsiveness.”
No sooner had she spoken than the goddess’s authority blasted toward Hugo.
“!”
Even a goddess presiding over childbirth had offensive authorities.
One of them was excruciating pain!
“Guhak!”
Originally, a childbirth goddess was one who aided mothers, but conversely, she could delay and block childbirth to inflict agony. And she could recall just that pain and bestow it upon an opponent.
As Hugo clutched his arm and writhed in pain, the goddess hurriedly fled.
‘I must quickly announce that monster to the world, and mobilize all factions.’
But then.
“Kyaaaak!!!”
The goddess shrieked.
A sharp pain split across her back. Her back torn, she collapsed in agony.
Turning her head, she froze.
Maybe the pain had triggered her instincts.
Hugo’s eyes had changed into those of a beast, not a human.
‘That’s...!’
At the same time, Hugo lunged to tear the goddess apart.
“Guhak!!”
Fleeing, the goddess summoned a bird to snatch the object Hugo was carrying. It was the bomb Hugo had brought—Igeon’s bomb.
‘If I use this!’
The thrown bomb flew straight at Hugo.
Booom!!!
Its power was unimaginable. Watching it, the goddess narrowed her brows.
‘It’s humiliating, but this is the power of the Serpent God that brought Olympus to ruin.’
The ultimate bomb condensed with Igeon’s technical prowess. Sent even to demon lords and Great Sage Gods, it was sure to deal significant damage to Hugo as well!
But then.
The goddess went stark white at the silhouette standing where the smoke cleared.
“That...!”
Hugo was letting out a hollow laugh, as if dumbfounded.
His body bore wounds, but they were barely scratches.
‘He’s fine after taking that?’
Had he swallowed the bomb’s power with the power of predation?
The goddess bit her lip.
‘Damn it, as expected of a 1st generation warlord...!’
But there was no time to analyze or be shocked.
“Aaaah!!!”
Hugo caught up and brutally tore the goddess apart.
Sllice!
Trying to flee was useless.
As if hunting prey, he butchered the god.
Rrrip! Rrrip!
Only after ripping out her divinity did he raise the corner of his mouth.
What he saw wasn’t a corpse, but a meal.
Hugo reached out to devour his prey.
But at that moment.
Crackle!!!
“Ghuck!”
A light burst from within Hugo’s body, and an unknown force struck his mind.
[Suppress the instinct of predation.]
It was restraining him.
And the identity of that power was the power of the Creator, which the Slime had fed him when they met the Goddess of Fate.
[Suppress the instinct of predation.]
“This...!”
Memories engraved on his soul tormented him.
But as Hugo glared, his eyes blazing as if to tell it to screw off, even the Creator’s power was extinguished.
Bam!
Finally, with the nuisance gone, Hugo approached the goddess’s corpse.
The intense scent of prey, something he hadn’t smelled in ages, stimulated his sense of smell, his desires.
And there’s a saying for a reason: once a beast tastes blood, it can never return to before it knew that taste.
If he tasted this blood, he too would walk a path of no return.
But Hugo, as if the pleasure of this moment mattered more than any of that, eyed the prey.
Just as he was about to lay a hand on the blood and flesh...
[Wahhh!!!!]
“!”
At the sudden cry of a newborn, Hugo flinched.
His mind snapped back.
At the same time, a familiar voice reached his ears.
[Is it taken care of over there?]
“……!”
It was Igeon.
[This side’s resolved too, so come back. The kid’s healthy.]
Hugo stared blankly at his own hands.
What had he been about to do just now?
But Igeon laughed.
[Congratulations. Also, you’re probably going to cry a bit.]
C-cry?
Why?
(To be continued in the next episode)