Chapter 135
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I Will Purchase Divine Power with Money Chapter 135 【The three supreme deities of the world have gathered in one place. According to the contract with the system, divine power is not consumed for questions and answers related to the revelation of heavenly secrets.】 【The 'Sun Crawling from Death' says you may now ask what you've been curious about.】 There were countless things I wanted to ask, but there was only one question that came first.
"Is this world different from the novel 'Holy Idella'?"
Did I really possess myself into a novel my friend wrote? 【Yes, the two worlds are distinctly different.】 "Why are they different in the first place?" 【The novel 'Holy Idella' is a reconstruction of a world from the past that has already vanished.】 ...What does that even mean? A world from the past that has already vanished? A reconstruction? What does that mean? 【The 'Sun Crawling from Death' explains in summary that this world is in a state of having returned once.】 Returned? So that means....
"You're saying there was a regression?" 【The 'Sun Crawling from Death' affirms this.】 【Through the power of 'The Raging Sea', the world was destroyed, and through the nullification of the 'Soul Guide Traveler', the shattered world was erased. Thanks to the healing power of the 'Sun Crawling from Death', it was possible to return to a world that hadn't yet been destroyed.】 I had only just learned one thing, and already my head was throbbing. Possession entangled with regression.
"Why did the regression happen in the first place? According to 'Holy Idella', the ending of this world was definitely a happy one?" 【'Holy Idella' is merely a novel reconstructed based on the world before the regression. There are some differences from what actually occurred.】 "...Why?" 【The 'Soul Guide Traveler' says it is because the person who wrote 'Holy Idella' died before witnessing the end of the world.】 My blood ran cold. A shock far greater than when I learned this world had already undergone one regression swept through my entire body. I had a terrible suspicion. I prayed desperately it wasn't true. Ju Hyun-jin was.... 【The 'Sun Crawling from Death' informs you that 'Ju Hyun-jin', the person who wrote 'Holy Idella' and your friend, was originally a person who lived in this world.】 My heart plummeted. Ju Hyun-jin, my most precious friend, was originally someone who lived in this world...? 【However, she died before learning the true secrets of this world, and therefore had no choice but to write a novel that differed somewhat from reality.】 My hands trembled violently. The worst thoughts kept trying to invade my mind. No, focus. I still have so much to hear. I can't lose my composure now. Hyun-jin's story is important too, but right now I have so much I need to learn. ...But what if that child's final moments were painful?
"Does Ju Hyun-jin remember everything about this world?"
Does she have all the memories, even up to the moment of her death? 【The 'Sun Crawling from Death' falls silent.】 I wrapped my forehead in my hands. How terrifying it was to remember death! The labored breathing that scattered meaninglessly into empty air, the sensation of my entire body draining of blood as my fingertips grew numb in sequence, the anguish of having to leave behind someone precious and depart first. Even after being brought back to life, I had never once forgotten the moment of death. And Ju Hyun-jin experienced the same thing? She carried such memories yet showed no sign of it all this time? We met at the orphanage when we were five and spent nearly thirty years together until death, yet how could I not have known this? And I called myself her closest friend.
"What secret of this world doesn't Hyun-jin know? Why did the Three Gods have to destroy and nullify the world to return it?"
What terrible calamity occurred that our child couldn't even witness the end of the world before dying! 【The Soul Guide Traveler says they will show you directly.】 Light burst forth from the Spirit Death God's black communication window. In an instant, black light filled the entire room. It felt as though I'd been cast alone into a space of darkness. Soon, visions resembling illusions unfolded around me. The first thing I saw was...
"Idella?"
It was Idella in her days as a wandering orphan, not yet the High Priestess. I saw Idella's form from the Southern Slums where she had awakened as the High Priestess not long ago. The High Priest Airic Dert had departed immediately upon discovering this fact at the Sun God's Temple, but... There were others who learned of this as well. It was Evil.
"Ha!"
Idella was kidnapped and dragged to a cave somewhere in the Desert. There, she was forcibly infused with Evil's energy by its subordinates. The black stains I had seen on Lute Sheary's body filled Idella's form completely. The difference was that unlike Lute Sheary, Idella did not suffer. With her memories manipulated, she completely forgot this fact, and they abandoned her in the Eastern Region, as far as possible from the Western Region. So that it would take Airic Dert as long as possible to find her. In the meantime, the power of Evil that had seeped into Idella's body coalesced completely, coiling deep within her, and when Airic Dert finally found her, he discovered nothing. Thus, with a time bomb planted in her body, Idella became the High Priestess of the Sun God.
"This is maddening."
I never imagined Evil would have tampered with Idella's body in the meantime. 【The Sun Crawling from Death says it wanted to inform the other children of this fact, but since only the High Priestess could hear its voice, it could not convey it, speaking with melancholy.】 "...Even if I had told Idella, it would have been meaningless since she was being half-controlled by Evil." 【The Sun Crawling from Death affirms this.】 The other gods must have known this fact, but they would have been equally unable to convey it. At that time, both the Spirit Death God and the Sea God were not on good terms with the Sun God. The vision continued. While Idella worked to revive the Sun God's Temple, she was manipulated by Evil from behind, unknowingly supporting Evil's subordinates. While the Spirit Death God and the Sea God descended into ruin through their misguided choices, the servants of Evil quietly accumulated their strength in the shadows. In the end, all tragedy unfolded at the final moment.
"...."
I watched the unfolding catastrophe with sunken eyes, silent and still. When the Sea God and Spirit Death God had completely fallen, leaving only the Sun God standing. The moment Idella was recognized as the sole High Priestess and married Crown Prince Felix, Evil revealed itself as if it had been waiting all along. Idella, her consciousness completely seized, fell from being the Sun God's High Priestess to becoming a slave of Evil, and she brought down the Sun God's Temple—the very institution she had nurtured with her own hands—once more. Thoroughly, beyond any possibility of recovery. When I witnessed the shocked Airic Dert and Seth Noel sustaining fatal wounds and barely managing to escape, I found myself clenching my eyes shut without thinking. For there was no possibility they could survive, even in flight. Evil's servants, who had lurked in the shadows, ran rampant; the wounded Airic Dert and Seth Noel lost everything and collapsed in despair; and the faithful abandoned the Sun God, betrayed by the High Priestess they had trusted. All that remained was the Sun God on the verge of disappearing, stripped of all believers, and a world being ravaged by Evil.
"Evil played us thoroughly, didn't it?"
This was truly something only one consumed entirely by malice could accomplish. In the end, both the Sun God and this world danced in the palm of Evil's hand until the very end. 【The Sun Crawling from Death says that thanks to fortune's grace allowing it not to disappear, everyone was able to join forces and restore the world.】 【The Soul Guide Traveler sighs, saying it was a moment that made his skin crawl even in retrospect.】 The Sea God says nothing, but surely he finds no pleasure in this either.
"Does Evil also know about the regression?"
Is that why Idella was targeted for abduction this time, even before awakening as a High Priestess? 【The Sun Crawling from Death says that is not the case. Evil likely has a vague awareness that this world has regressed, but it knows nothing of the erased past.】 【The Soul Guide Traveler is certain that Evil's attempt to abduct Idella this time was driven by instinctual memories, not by knowledge of past events.】 Seeing how strongly they deny it, Evil truly seems ignorant of what happened in the past. Well, if it had known, it would have killed me for acting differently than before. As I gazed upon the visions, I asked carefully.
"...What was Ju Hyun-jin called in this world when she lived?"
Someone who knew Idella and those around her so thoroughly could never have been an ordinary person. Yet if she was someone who died before witnessing the world's end.... 【The Soul Guide Traveler asks if I hadn't already noticed.】 I clenched my eyes shut. My nails dug into my palms from how tightly I had clenched my fists. Yet there was no pain. There was only one person who did not exist in this regressed world. 【The Sun Crawling from Death says that child is Ordel Kiris.】 Ah, I had desperately hoped it wasn't so.... Up to this point, I had at least anticipated it. But the moment the Spirit Death God spoke next, I finally collapsed. 【The Soul Guide Traveler informs me that this child is the one who sent the user's soul to this world in her stead.】
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