CH 346

The Zodiacs were dumbfounded.

‘What did he just say?’

‘One hour?’

The gods of Olympus were sweating bullets. Their seven-hour lifespan had been reduced in a flash.

Of course, the problem wasn’t just that Lee Gun possessed the Registry of Hades.

“He controls time…!!”

“This is crazy! Does the snake god possess the Divine status of Time?!”

“No way! Since he can use the registry, he must have a Death type Divine Status!”

In the first place, the Divine items of gods couldn’t be used by anyone. At a basic level, they each possessed an owner, and the owners had to possess similar attributes to the items. Only then could the owners use those items.

In the case of the registry, the Divine status of Hades had to be used, or one had to possess a similar type of power as the underworld god.

‘Shit! Who the hell is he? How come his data is missing from the records of the Divine world…!’

“Maybe, the snake god is a god of time. He was able to use the registry because he stole Hades’s Divine status?”

“Are you kidding me? Hades has been dead for only a day! There is no way the snake god could make a Divine status his own in just one day!”

“That’s right. It takes at least a hundred years to absorb a Divine status!”

At that moment…

“Tell me the location of the Registry.”

A menacing voice rang out, surprising everyone.

“Master of the Sea!”

The one to show up was a male god. He was a blue-haired god with a robust physique. With a dumbfounded expression, he said, “Do you think I’ll let this enemy do as he pleases? I’ll go bring his head on a platter.”

“I’ll go too.”

“Oh oh! Two pillar gods are stepping forward. This will be resolved with no problem.”

A male god possessing the Divine status of Poseidon appeared alongside a beautiful goddess of war. 

Sagittarius’s face turned pale when he saw them.

‘Why the hell are they here?’

Each faction possessed Pillar Gods, the highest-rank officer gods who held up each faction. They were the closest to being Great Spirits and were extremely strong.

‘That child will have a hard time if he fights a two-on-one battle against them!’

It wasn’t just power. Including the level of their Divine status, these gods amassed internal power and influence. With everything they possessed combined, they were overpowering.

‘Hades stole the Divine status of his father….’

The change of the guard had happened not too long ago, so Hades could be considered a juvenile god.

It was why he had become greedy and made deals with the other gods, stealing Hugo. He had been focused on making a network.

However, this wasn’t the case with these two gods.

‘They inherited their power long ago.’

For gods, time was power. Over time, their power became stabler and stronger.

When it came to the battle among factions, they were competitive in fighting for the top spot.

This was the reason for Sagittarius’s shock.

Of course, the master of the sea was oblivious to this, so he turned around.

“Wait a little. When I find where he’s hiding, I’ll have his head in no time—”

“Ahhhk!!”

“?!”

The master of the sea and the goddess of war jumped in surprise when Sagittarius screamed.

“Louis?”

Sagittarius clutched at his heart as if he was about to die. “Huhk—! I’m dying! My heart!”

When Sagittarius fell to the ground, both of them ran toward him, flustered.

“What’s wrong, Louis? Why are you acting this way?”

“Huhk…! I can’t breathe!”

They considered his complexion to be terrible. The master of the sea quickly called out to the other gods.

“Louis’s condition seems grave! Doctor! Bring a high-rank god here!”

The gods were taken aback when he asked for a high-rank healer god.

“We no longer have Asclepius-nim…!”

“What shall we do?”

Sagittarius was one of the important pillar gods of Olympus. Moreover, his current status couldn’t be shown to just anyone.

The master of the sea had a friendly relationship with Sagittarius, so he got angry.

“Call for that idiot Aquarius of the twelve Zodiacs! I think the snake god caused this, so I’ll quickly get rid of him!”

His words made Sagittarius desperately clutch at the master of the sea. “No! I think I’ll be better if you nurse me back to health!”

“W-What?!”

“It has to be you!”

“????”

Did this bastard lose his mind? The goddess of war clicked her tongue when she saw this. “You can stay here, Master of the sea. I’ll go decapitate the snake god.”

Sagittarius desperately grabbed at her arm this time. “You have to stay too.”

“What?!”

Sagittarius was known as the most handsome god within the Olympus faction. It didn’t matter if the god was male or female. He had the capability of seducing any of them.

At this moment, he tried to seduce the goddess of war. “Please don't leave me. Protect me from my side.”

The two gods had dumbfounded expressions on their faces, but Sagittarius was desperate.

‘My nephew will kill me if I let these two go after him.’

He would stop them from going to his nephew! He’d sacrifice his body to do so! 

However, the goddess of war merely snorted. “Fuck off! You aren’t my type. You can die for all I care.”

“Kuh-huhk!!”

The goddess of war ruthlessly stepped on Sagittarius as she turned around.

“Anyway, we should locate Pushover. Where is he?”

“Do you plan on negotiating with him?!”

“No way!”

“Then…!”

“Think logically. He is using a 5-star Divine item. That means he’s running low on Divine power.”

“Above all else, it comes down to the Permission Tickets.”

“!”

The master of the sea and the goddess of war smirked.

“I don’t know how a fledgling like him was able to purchase enough Permission Tickets to influence all the gods of Olympus, but he should be slowly reaching his limit. He won’t be able to maintain it.”

The Registry of Hades had a lot of constraints because it adversely affected the rules governing the gods. In other words, it was a Divine item that had a lot of maintenance expenses.

“Hades rarely used it since the maintenance expense was so high. He has taken so many gods hostage. There is no way he has any more Permission Tickets left.”

This was why these gods smirked as they sent a request to the Divine world.

“We are acting as a proxy for our Great Spirit. Olympus will pay to have our request granted by the Divine world.”

“For the next hour, the purchase of Permission Tickets is banned throughout the Divine world.”

They had no idea how the snake god had purchased so many Permission Tickets, but they stopped the snake god’s ability to buy any more of them.

The Divine world immediately accepted the request.

[The Divine world received the fund amassed by Olympus.]

[As requested, all official transactions will be restricted for the next hour. This includes ability exchange and Permission Ticket exchange.]

The gods were taken aback by the announcement.

“Even if you blocked the Divine world, there are other factions! They have heard the news about us, and they are ecstatic about it. What if they sell the Permission Tickets to the snake god… It wouldn’t be strange for those gods to give the tickets at no cost!”

“Yes. If the snake god wins, Olympus will be no more…”

The master of the sea laughed as if they were speaking nonsense.

“No, the gods of Olympus will deal with him, and we just have to place a barrier over the other factions.”

“Then…!”

The goddess of war unsheathed her sword and stabbed the ground.

[Territory Declaration (4 star)]

Kwahng!

After activating her ability, Athena raised her voice toward the sea god. “The rest of you should go to the Great Spirit of Ennead! Finish the Pushover deal!”

“!”

“Once we are paid, we can negotiate with the Divine world. We’ll be able to get rid of the snake god.”

At that moment, someone approached them.

It was Morpheus. He had communicated with Lee Gun when the latter was in the underworld of Duat.

“I’ve already sent my subordinates to the Great Spirit of Ennead a while ago. We’ll receive payment soon.”

“The snake god’s Divine power is probably depleted. It’ll be our victory once we make him reveal himself.”

They would make the snake god regret messing with one of the eight great forces. The gods smiled.

* * *

‘What the hell is he?’

Anubis couldn’t hide his shock.

‘That’s the power of a monarch!’

Other gods might not recognize it, but Anubis could see what Lee Gun was doing. The problem was the data of Time used by Lee Gun.

Shaped like an unknown gem fragment, it was clearly related to the unknown civilization, which the gods were frightened of. Moreover, this item contained the power of one of their leaders!

‘This was the case with the spear too. What kind of relationship does he have with a monarch?’

However, that was a problem for another time.

‘That is a 5-star Divine item.’

To take the entirety of Olympus hostage, Lee Gun would need a massive amount of power and mental strength. So why did he look fine?

Flash!

Suddenly, the gods near Lee Gun were surrounded by light, and they started to scream.

Pahng!!

“Kuh-huhk!”

“Kyahhhk!”

All the gods who had been trading Permission Tickets with Lee Gun were repelled by a light. Lee Gun furrowed his brows.

‘Expulsion skill?’

It was the light emanating from the Registry of Hades. This was a skill used by Athena. The Territory Declaration had been set in this location.

At the same time, anyone not belonging to the Olympus faction was pushed out.

In the end, all of the gods were pushed out of the neutral zone, and an unexpected voice rang out.

[All transactions regarding the Permission Tickets will be halted for an hour.]

[The Registry of Hades has only 1% energy left. It’ll be sealed after five minutes.]

[You can recharge the energy of the Divine item with Permission Tickets.]

[To reactivate the Registry of Hades, you need at least 100 Permission tickets (1% per 100 tickets)]

[Remaining Permission Ticket: 2]

[When the Registry of Hades is sealed, the ownership of the registry will be automatically transferred to the goddesses of fate.]

Lee Gun furrowed his brows, and the Constructs hidden in his shadow ground their teeth.

[They stopped the transaction of the Permission ticket so that Master cannot use the registry.]

In other words, Lee Gun had a crappy car that was running out of gas, and the Olympus bastards had temporarily shut down the gas station. Moreover, they prevented other sellers of oil from approaching him and sent them flying.

‘At this rate, the ownership of the registry will be handed over to the goddesses of fate?’

This meant Lee Gun had to earn his keep if he didn’t want the item taken away. 

“Well, it doesn’t matter to me, since I just have to kill them all.”

Anubis was shocked by those words. “You shouldn’t do that! Do you really plan on killing them all?”

“Why not? It’s a shame I couldn’t find Taeksoo. However, I can slowly search the empty house if I kill them all.”

“You can’t! You might get away with taking gods hostage, but do you realize how much Karmic debt you’ll amass if you kill that many gods?”

Lee Gun stepped on Anubis as if to say he should lower his eyes. Then, his eyes flashed. “Who cares about Karmic debt? Also, won’t it be advantageous for you if I die? Why are you so hell-bent on stopping me?”

“Why!! If you become a slave through Karmic debt, I’ll also become a slave as your Construct— Ooh!” Anubis shut his mouth as if he had revealed important information.

Lee Gun laughed with his eyes. “Really? It’s that type of system.”

Osiris, who had been listening to this, quickly changed the subject. It would be best to mess up the snake god’s plan and drag him to the gods of Olympus.

“We’ll help you, snake god. You cannot use the registry anymore, so you should give up on the hostage act…”

At that moment…

“Ah! You were here! Are you the Great Spirit of Ennead?”

“!”

Anubis’s eyes turned round. The gods of Olympus were approaching them with a lot of luggage in tow.

“Anubis-nim and Osiris-nim! You must be the Great Spirit since you have Pushover by your side!”

“!!”

While they had covered their faces, Anubis and Osiris were pillar gods of Ennead. They were famous figures in the Pantheon. Moreover, only one being could step on them with immunity, the Great Spirit!

“We couldn’t personally make contact with you. We assumed you were still here for the transaction. It was right of us to come looking for Osiris-nim.”

They were the god of Olympus. They had come here after going to Duat to complete the transaction.

As if to confirm this, information popped up.

[Affiliation: Master of Dreams (Morpheus)]

“When Hades died, we became in charge of completing the transaction. We are here to receive our payment.”

Lee Gun smirked. “I see. Payment?”

“Yes. I’m sorry about what happened with Hades, but you did receive Pushover. Since we caused great inconvenience to Ennead, we brought several items as sweeteners.”

“!”

They pushed forward their packs.

Lee Gun smirked when he saw the packs. They contained items that traded at a premium within the Divine world.

Of course, Lee Gun didn’t know what they were used for, so he overlooked them. But one item did catch his eye.

“We have Permission Tickets here. Anubis-nim requested a bunch. I heard the Divine item of Ennead needs a lot of Permission Tickets to use.”

Anubis hadn’t put much thought into it and had just requested a list of precious items. He screamed inwardly.

‘Damn it! Our plan…!!’

“Excuse me, Great Spirit… Why are you disguised as someone young?”

“What?”

The gods who had come for the transaction looked at him with odd looks in their eyes.

“That is… We know the Great Spirit of Ennead doesn’t like snakes…”

They wondered why the Great Spirit was giving off the scent of a serpent. That wasn’t all. The color red was considered ominous within the Divine world.

“There is no way the Great Spirit would make his eyes red…”

Then, their bodies flinched and shook when they felt the energy Lee Gun emanated.

After he raised his Divine power, Lee Gun’s black eyes started shining red.

This frightened the gods, and they reflexively raised their weapons.

“Who are you?”

“Who are you to act that way to the pillar gods?”

Lee Gun let out a frightening smile. “I’ll gladly use the items you brought me.”

Screams rang out.

* * *

Around that time, in Olympus, the palace where the Great Spirit resided.

“What?! The Registry of Hades is still working?!”

They were secretly here to look for Hugo’s other parts, and they couldn’t believe their ears.

“It hasn’t stopped yet? What happened?”

“Does he have enough Permission Tickets despite the trade being halted?”

“That’s impossible! He entered the Divine world just a while ago! How could he…!”

“Morpheus and his underlings were robbed by the snake god when the Master of dreams went to consummate the deal!”

“What?! They were supposed to go to Ennead! Why did they go there?”

The gods grabbed the back of their necks.

“We have no choice. Hurry up and find Pushover. We can make a clone.”

“If we put the clone out in the open, the snake god will show himself, and his Divine Power should be depleted.”

“Is that so? Taeksoo is here?”

“…!!!”

They heard a cold voice at that moment. The gods froze when they heard the voice emanating from next to them.

The snake god didn’t care about their reactions as his eyes flashed. “Thank you for leading the way!”