Ch.2626. Disposing of the Spoils

“Looks like it’s all over, you mutt.”

“You, you, you, you, yooooo■ㅇ■■o■ㅇ■■■■■───!!!!!”

As I was watching the moving scene of Bjorn’s revenge coming to an end, I mocked the mutt (wolf god) who was now subdued and facing death at the end of my spear.

Despite being bound by red chains, the creature somehow still had energy left and was howling madly.

“You know what, you’re too noisy. Could you please shut up?”

Click.

“────!! ───!! ──! ──────!!!”

Of course, with all this shouting making my ears ring, I muzzled him to block his howling. Now it’s finally time to dismantle and devour this creature… but.

‘This creature with nothing worth eating sure put up quite a fuss.’

Since this being without faith and barely any soul had almost nothing worth extracting, I decided to handle the material realm cleanup first.

I sent the gladiators back to the Colosseum after recovering their equipment and completely healing their fatigue and wounds. I also ordered Rael, who had worked hard today, to briefly descend to the mortal realm as my representative to commend the members of the Revenge Order.

It might seem strange to give Rael more work after she’d been working all day, but make no mistake.

The very act of appointing her as my representative during this commendation is a great blessing and honor for Rael—who harbors fanatical devotion toward me.

Anyway, I also bestowed jewelry imbued with the power to block sunlight and golden chalices that flow with blood capable of satisfying hunger with just one sip to the vampires who participated in this holy war.

For Lisa, I sent down an avatar in the form of a wolf therianthrope to commend her.

And after everything was done, as I watched the mutt who had been shouting alone until he tired himself out, I smiled brightly───

And began the process of separating this divine territory from the mutt.

“─────────! ───. ────! ────────!!!!”

As I stripped away the wolf’s influence from the divine territory—more precisely, removing his divine rank and converting the territory into an ownerless mass of divinity,

the mutt seemed quite frightened, looking at me with pitiful eyes as if begging me to stop.

But I’m not one to stop just because of that.

“…Yum.”

In the end, I devoured the mass of divinity that was once a somewhat complete divine territory, and now only one thing remained.

“Hey, how does it feel? To be trampled and reduced to a pathetic being who can’t even be a god?”

“─────────?!!”

“Ah, sorry. You can’t speak, can you? Then I’ll take that as a positive and eat you up nicely. Not bad, right?”

That one remaining thing was to devour this mutt whose entirety consisted of just a wretched body and the divine rank of a wolf.

As the creature swelled its body, I slowly decomposed and absorbed the divinity that constituted that swollen form, while simultaneously absorbing the divine rank that served as the vessel for that divinity.

And as a result.

Marduk

Race :: God

Type :: Personality-based Thought Complex

Occupation :: Evil God (Low)

Attributes

Divinity :: Medium

Divine Rank :: Medium

Faith :: Medium

Interference Level :: Low

Believers :: 891

Souls (Believers) :: 14537

Souls (Sinners) :: 0

Divine Ranks

Revenge: 100% (Low) Blood: 57.9% (Low) War: 4.1% (Lowest) Violence: 2.4% (Lowest) Vampire: 100% (Low) Wolf: 31.7% (Lowest)

Skills

God’s Eye (Low), Bestow Blessing (Medium), Grant Divine Magic (Medium), Divine Punishment (Low), Grant Miracle (Medium), Divine Artifact Creation (2/2), Apostle Designation (2/2)

‘Oh, it exceeds 30%?’

I was satisfied with the divine rank percentage that far exceeded my expectations by surpassing 30%, while simultaneously marveling at the wolf god’s existence that remained even after I had completely stripped away its divine rank.

“Whiiine… whiiine…”

Sensing a threat to its life, it rolled over exposing its belly and whimpered, as if trying to excuse itself by claiming to have only the intelligence of a puppy, but one must never be deceived by such an act.

Based on the circumstances, the name of this wolf-type monster that was called a wolf god after obtaining divine rank is Fenrir.

Named after the wolf in Norse mythology that devoured Odin, the supreme god, in one bite,

it’s also a first-class boss monster famous for the Ragnarok event where it leads wolf cubs to devastate the game world’s setting in the northern snow region when event conditions are met.

Other representative first-class boss monsters include the Death Lord (a higher form of Death Knight) with the grand title of Lord of All Undead, and Lord-class Ancient Dragons,

which indicates that this creature is inherently of a race that can approach godhood and could even ascend to become a god if conditions are met.

‘Judging by its size… did it follow the standard route?’

Moreover, judging by this creature’s size and other factors, it seems it didn’t encounter variables like events along the way but simply grew normally to reach this point,

and even now with all its divine power drained, it still ranks at least at the zero-class level, considered to be at least a demigod.

It might even be possible for it to ascend and become a god again, which is why it’s trying to survive by acting so pathetically───

“……..”

Knowing this, I could only view it as pitiful.

But regardless of that pitifulness, this wolf is too rare and powerful to simply boil into a blood soup for Lisa or a health tonic for Bjorn.

Not only is it a zero-class boss monster considered to be a demigod, with a rarity of perhaps no more than 10 in the entire world,

but above all, perhaps because it was formerly a god, it can enter the divine territory, a non-material realm, with its physical body.

“…Wait, would it be possible?”

Moreover, since I now possess the divine rank of a wolf, it’s not entirely impossible to control it,

so I decided to keep it alive and make use of it rather than killing and dismembering it.

“Ah, right. I should erase its ego.”

“W-wai────────”

Of course, all I needed was its rare physical abilities, not its mind full of thoughts of betrayal at the first opportunity, so I cleanly bleached its soul using a bit of faith.

“…………”

“Oh, it worked.”

And thus, with all memories and records engraved in its soul cleanly erased, this Fenrir became a bio-robot moving only according to memories remaining in its body and instinct,

and I decided to use it as a vessel for my avatar when operating in the material realm.

Unlike the bodies of my subordinates that I had been using until now, I could use its zero-class level physical power without much faith consumption,

and unlike before when I had to consume massive amounts of faith every time I descended to seriously convey something, this body could handle such messenger roles without issue.

“…Possession.”

So after I decided to use this body, I whispered softly, and a part of ‘what constitutes me’ separated and struck Fenrir like a bolt of crimson lightning───

KWAGAGANG!!!!

With the strange sensation of my part contained within that lightning seeping in and taking control of the soul, I somehow found myself inside the wolf whose silver fur had been dyed blood-red.

“《Is this… how it works?》”

Having acquired an actual physical body after a long time, at first there was an unfortunate incident where both the wolf’s body and the god’s body moved together, perhaps because it had been too long since I actually moved a body.

But that was only momentary.

By simply focusing my consciousness a bit more on the wolf, I was able to move only the wolf’s body, and as I twisted around checking my condition, I suddenly felt some discomfort.

Unlike my previous forms such as a therianthrope with wolf ears and tail or a floating skull, the wolf’s body with its reverse-jointed structure and four-legged gait was certainly a bit uncomfortable to move.

Personally, I’m the type who hates when non-human characters become humanized in novels…

But I never expected that being in this position myself would make me so desperately want humanization.

Therefore, without a moment’s hesitation, I cast polymorph—a shape-shifting magic that this possessed body could use—to transform into a form optimized for Fenrir’s body.

But rather than changing all at once as I had thought, the transformation was slow enough to resemble that of a werewolf from movies I had watched in my human days.

The first area to change was the skeleton.

As the spine straightened and the pelvis transformed into a human shape, the reverse-jointed structure changed to resemble that of a human, and simultaneously, changes occurred in the skin.

The muzzle shortened and the fur receded into the skin, the red leather gradually changing into flawless, firm flesh-colored skin, with only the hair growing longer.

Except for the ears growing on top of the head and the wolf’s tail, no trace of the wolf remained, and certain parts of the body swelled, creating curves.

And so, upon seeing the final form of a glamorous red-haired wolf therianthrope beauty (※naked), I…

‘Could it be that the wolf god… was female?’

Dumbfounded by the wolf god’s completely unexpected gender, I could only stare blankly, taking in that nearly perfect body with my eyes.