[Ahhhk! My lifespan suddenly became shorter!]

[Help!]

[Seven hours? This makes no sense?!]

[Who the hell is that crazy bastard?]

Lee Gun smirked when he heard the frantic screams. After the communication bird sent to Ennead had been fixed, Lee Gun had used it for his own. This was why he was able to hear these gods’ voices very well.

“Alright. It seems their life expectancy really dropped.”

He had worried it would fail, but the voices assured him that he had been worried for nothing. 

On the other hand, the god of the underworld was dumbfounded by the situation.

“That crazy bastard!!!” The shocked Anubis looked at Lee Gun.

To find Hugo, Lee Gun had entered Duat as a package. After that, he had skinned the leather of the Ammuts.

At that point, Anubis had already realized Lee Gun was a psychopath, but he never expected Lee Gun to threaten the lives of the gods. Moreover, he had witnessed something else.

[Ah! I made a mistake. I was supposed to specify the time.]

[What?!]

[Whatever. The underworld doesn’t have enough residents. They can die quickly for all I care.]

He had seen Lee Gun cackle while saying that.

Hugo also seemed surprised by these events. He was thankful that Lee Gun would go so far for him, but for some odd reason, he felt as if Lee Gun’s goal had changed.

On the other hand, Yooha looked a bit disgruntled. It was for no other reason. “You should have left it as seven minutes.”

“If I had done that, they would have died before they could bring out your father.”

“Ah! You’re right.”

Hugo looked at the two, taken aback.

Then, Lee Gun took something else out of the kiosk. It seemed to be his own data.

[Talent in Possession: - 100 million]

[Ability available for sale] (Unit Price)

Life

1 star [Super Regeneration] [Absolute Defense]: 500 million

2 star [Pain Revival]: 1 billion

3 star [Pain Creation]: 5 billion

4 star [Return]: 10 billion

5 star [Return 2] [Cycle]: 20 billion each

6 star [???]: Price inestimable

Death (same prices as above)

1 star [Eliminate]

2 star [Reaper Summon]

3 star [Pond Walk (Warp)] [Personal Poison]

4 star [Soul Disassemble]

5 star [Destroy All Creation] [Cycle]

6 star [???]

??? (Price inestimable)

1 star [Gaze of a God] [13th Sense] [Creation Workshop]

5 star [Act forbidden by the gods]

[Miscellaneous skills that can be sold] (500 million each)

[Oblivion] [Get Hit Instead of Me] and 10 other skills

[Item available for sale]

[Time’s Data]: 10 billion

[Abyss’ Data]: 10 billion

…

[Aquarius’s Data]: 100 million

[Confusion’s Data]: 10 billion

[Constructs available for sale]: 5

Anubis was shocked when he discreetly glanced at Lee Gun’s sheet.

‘He’s a fledgling, so why is he judged so highly?’

Lee Gun had just taken out the personal data of a god that the Divine world had assessed.

This surprised Anubis. The Divine world was a miser, yet it had given such a high price to Lee Gun’s abilities.

‘That means the Divine status is higher in quality.’

What the hell were the Divine powers that were "Price inestimable"?

‘Does that mean a price can’t be put on them?’

However, something was even more shocking.

[Divine world debt: 30 billion Talents]

[Forced Labor: 1000 years]

Anubis was shocked by the debt Lee Gun had amassed.

‘Crazy bastard!!!’

What the hell did he do? He was a fledgling god who had been here for only a day, yet he had accrued this much debt!

Of course, Lee Gun would be able to quickly pay the debt off, considering the items he possessed. It also made Anubis that much more shocked.

‘He was able to run up such a large amount. It means he’s someone that the Divine world is cautious of…!’

He was a very dangerous person. Of course, Anubis had a good idea as to why.

[Ahhk! Help!]

[I don’t want to die like this!]

[Do you need money? I’ll give you anything!]

“Good! I’ll be able to resolve my debt if I charge them a fee for their lives.”

Anubis started to sweat. This bastard would be a calamity to the Divine world!

* * *

Around that time…

“How does that make any sense?!”

“Where did this crazy bastard come from?”

Suffering from Lee Gun’s attack, Olympus was a maelstrom of confusion. These beings were gods. To them, whether it was seven hours or seventy years didn’t matter; a time of that magnitude felt like a nap to them. Some gods even took seven hundred years to take a bath.

This was why a life expectancy of seven hours was unimaginable. Those who had reached the Zodiac rank didn’t even think about their deaths. So what the hell was this?

Of course, Sagittarius had also received the notification.

‘Nephew! I blocked the Great Spirit of Ennead for you!’

Sagittarius inwardly felt sad. After dealing a blow to the Great Spirit of Ennead, he had a tough time running away.

‘It was really hard to get out of there!’

Sagittarius clutched at his face as if to ask why he was being treated this way by Lee Gun.

‘Aren’t we peers as members of the thirteen Zodiacs…!!’

In the end, he took out his phone-like device.

‘I’ll have to contact my nephew, and I’ll ask him to return my lifespan…’

Bbah-gahk!!!

“Kuh-huhk!!”

Lime came out of Sagittarius’s pocket and unleashed a beating on him. The slime didn’t want any funny business against its master, so it stepped on the face of the fallen Sagittarius.

Puh-guhk! Puhk, puhk, puhk!

Sagittarius was dumbfounded. This bastard had acted the same way in front of the Great Spirit of Ennead!

“Why are you acting this way toward me?”

Considering its owner, Sagittarius wondered if the slime just hated him.

Lime kicked Sagittarius as if to say he should go look for Hugo.

On the other hand, the gods were shell-shocked after having their lifespan suddenly reduced.

“Damn it! All my subordinates have been dragged to the underworld, so I can’t tell them to conduct a search!”

“He purposely got rid of our Constructs to tie our hands and feet!”

“Why did Hades have to drag him here? Whatever! We should kill Hades first!”

“He’s already dead!”

“Damn it! That’s why I said we shouldn’t mess with someone who already has an owner!”

“It’s fine! We are wasting time by fighting among ourselves!”

They got ready to look for Lee Gun.

“That bastard has the registry of Hades! We just need to use the tracking ability on the Divine item, and we’ll be able to find his location!”

“Ah! That’s the master of the Sun’s…!”

Their gaze landed on Sagittarius, and the god of the sun flinched.

“Oh, great pillar god of Olympus! Give us the ability to be able to track the Registry of Hades!”

“We will be able to find the dirty bastard with it!”

Sagittarius started to sweat under their gazes, and when Lime glared at him, he pretended to faint. “Ah! I’m out of power. I can’t use my ability!”

“Oh, pillar god!”

“I think the snake god did something to me…!”

The gods were shocked at this sight. They held Sagittarius.

“That underhanded bastard used his power against a pillar god!”

At that moment, someone raised his hand.

“I have a detection-related skill!! The Registry of Hades is active in the Ancient temple!”

The eyes of the Olympus gods flashed. The more renowned Zodiacs of the ground especially felt anger at the situation that they found themselves in.

“I’ll kill that impudent god!”

“How dare he blackmail us with the lives of the gods?”

“!”

The high-rank gods savagely let out their Divine power.

Sagittarius, who was pretending to be unconscious, felt his heart sink. Lee Gun would have a hard time if gods of that caliber ganged up against him.

‘No! They are top-100 ranked gods, who boast a long history!’

Sagittarius became desperate, but the other gods moved faster than him.

“Let’s quietly head toward there. If the other factions find out about this situation, we’ll be in big trouble.”

“That’s right.”

They mobilized quickly. However, when they were about to enter the neutral zone, where Lee Gun was… 

“Where are you guys going?”

“?!”

Other gods blocking the entrance to the neutral zone made an appearance. The gods of Olympus glared at these other gods.

‘Valhall, Eden, Kunlun…!’

Gods of the other factions approached the gods of Olympus with menacing expressions. Moreover, they had come in significant numbers. 

This surprised the gods of Olympus.

“What the hell are you doing? Get out of our way!”

“We don’t have time to deal with you guys….”

“I heard your guys’ lifespan shrank into seven hours.”

“?!”

“Ha ha ha ha! I don’t know what happened, but we just need to stall you guys for seven hours. That’ll lead to your annihilation, right?”

“That’s awesome! We just need to stall them a little, and it’ll be the end of Olympus!!!”

“Capture them!!!”

“??!!”

The forces of Olympus turned pale as they inwardly screamed. Which bastard spread the rumor already? Of course, their question was answered in no time.

[Ah! That’s right. Can you hear me? I’m telling you this just in case you do something foolish, like trying to come and capture me. I’ve already spread the news about you guys throughout the Divine world.]

“?!!”

He was the one to spread the news!

Lee Gun cheekily laughed.

[That’s why you shouldn’t even think about doing something foolish. Bring back Pushover, whom you guys kidnapped. Idiots.]

“…!!!!”

Murderous intent appeared in the eyes of the gods of Olympus. They were being played by a low-rank snake god, who had no fame or forces!

Desperate, the gods of Olympus yelled.

“Hermes!!!! Where is the messenger god?”

“Hermes! Are you listening to us? Use your Return ability to get rid of these guys!!!”

“No, you should use your address book to summon the snake god!!”

The gods who had been trying to contact Hermes looked taken aback.

“We can’t contact the messenger god, no matter how many times we try!”

“What?! Why?”

“We have no idea! He doesn’t even accept the summoning!”

At this point, they were in turmoil. They had no idea why that attention hog wasn’t showing himself, but it didn’t matter.

“Where is Pushover? Just hand him over!”

“What nonsense are you talking about? Pushover is an item treasured by the Great Spirit! There is no way the Great Spirit will hand him over!”

“We don’t have time to bicker about that! We have seven hours! Our lives should be prioritized—!”

At that moment…

“That bastard made one mistake.”

“!”

Everyone was surprised by the sudden voice.

Three goddesses had appeared among them.

“The three goddesses of fate…”

These three goddesses were a version of the goddesses of fate. Moreover, the three goddesses of fate were treated on par with the Great Spirit ranks. The pillar gods dared not mess with them either.

Moreover, they had recently worked with Hades and seemed to have a grudge against Lee Gun for killing Hades.

“The snake god likes to play it smart. However, thanks to his personality, he left behind information about his Divinity.”

“Information about his Divinity?”

“It was in his voice.”

“!”

“A lot of information could be gleaned from his voice. Six hours will be more than enough. He did something stupid.”

When the goddesses used their abilities, Sagittarius’s face turned pale from fright. That was a 5-star rank power!

‘It’s the power that could sever the thread of fate!’

Sagittarius quickly ducked out of sight and sent a text message to Virgo.

[What are you doing? Hurry up and contact Lee Gun! Tell him to return our life expectancy to its original state!]

At this rate, Lee Gun would die. If Lee Gun got dragged away and interrogated, they would find out he was in league with Lee Gun!

[Hurry up and tell him to extend our lifespan!! We’ll really die in seven hours if we get imprisoned!]

However, the reply was cold.

[I don’t care. My life expectancy wasn’t decreased.]

“?!!!”

What the hell?

Soon, the three goddesses used the information from Lee Gun’s voice to drag out Lee Gun’s soul. They were about to cut his fate when…

“Huh-uhk!!”

“Kyahhk!”

The three goddesses foamed at their mouths as they fell over.

This shocked the gods.

“Hey! What’s wrong? Are you ok?”

They had tried to extract Lee Gun’s soul remotely, but they shook in fear.

“Kuh-huhk, kuh-huhk…! That snake god… What the hell is contained within his body… Hah-oohk!”

When they tried to discern the identity of Lee Gun, they were overpowered by the gaze of a monster. It was as if they had seen something that shouldn’t be messed with. Moreover, they had clearly felt something.

‘That bastard…! He isn’t a god!’

‘What the hell did Hades let into the Divine world?’

At that moment…

[Time is ticking. You have three hours.]

“…!!!”

The gods became angry when they heard Lee Gun’s voice.

“What nonsense are you talking about? Only thirty minutes have passed….”

However, they had no choice but to scream. The time, which had been 6 hrs 27 min and 38 seconds, had changed to 3 hrs 27 min and 38 seconds.

“Ahhhk!!! What the hell happened?”

[I killed someone who dabbled in the realm of time. I had some of his data left, so I used it to speed up the time.]

“What?! What kind of data can— Ahhhk!”

The gods screamed when an enormous magic circle appeared on the floor of the neutral zone.

Lee Gun had used a skill by utilizing Time’s data. It hastened the time pertaining to the bodies of the gods.

[Your remaining lifespan is one hour.]

“Ahhhhk!!!”

Lee Gun smirked.

[Next, it will be seven minutes.]

The frightening voice rang out.