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Since Haru came home, Aion has been busier than usual.

To take care of them, who were full of mouths and a bundle of trouble, he worked hard and strained his body to the point of exhaustion.

As a result, he felt a slight pain in his arm, perhaps because he had overdone it. He said while holding his tingling arm on his way home.

“Ouch…”

He has been working every day without a single day off recently.

In order to take responsibility for them, he worked to a level that would have caused an ordinary person to collapse long ago.

As a result, his body was feeling a little pain.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve done something like this..”

He spoke as if lost in memories, looking at his numb arm.

When he first set foot here, he spent every day training hard to survive in this cruel world, and as a result, he never had a day when he was in good health.

He was a man who moved his body excessively every day, with pain accompanying it.

Once he had gained a certain amount of strength, he could no longer feel any pain in his body, but perhaps because he had been too greedy in a short period of time, Aion’s arm was starting to feel numb for the first time in a long time.

“Am I being too greedy..?”

Aion said, looking at his slightly trembling arms.

Aion smiled involuntarily as he saw his own hands trembling like a patient’s.

To be honest, I was a bit greedy.

In his desire to raise them in a safe and affluent manner, he went far beyond his limits and subdued the monsters two to three times a day.

Even though he knew he was pushing himself too hard, he forced himself to act like everything was okay and made money.

But my body was very tired in the meantime.

Perhaps it was because fatigue was building up in his body that he almost made a big mistake today.

Morning. He headed to the mountain to subdue the demons.

In order to earn money, he forced himself to go to the monsters’ stronghold and subdue the monsters that were harming people.

The process was as easy as ever.

Basically, he had different powers than ordinary adventurers, so hunting monsters wasn’t that difficult for him.

That’s why he was somewhat relaxed and was subduing the monsters without thinking about anything.

“Keuuu…!!”

He continued to defeat the monsters that appeared before his eyes one by one.

As a result, all that was left there was Aion, breathing heavily, and the leader entity glaring at him in anger.

The monster, presumed to be the leader of the group, was glaring at him with its sharp teeth exposed.

In order to deal with the monster quickly, Aion punched it between the eyes at the exact moment it rushed in.

He used his fists as his main weapon whenever he hunted monsters, so he thought that this one would kill the leader-type entity, but contrary to his expectations, the monster that was hit between the eyebrows staggered momentarily from the shock, but did not fall.

Rather, you could even see him rushing towards Aion as if he was trying to counterattack him.

“……”

Aion was so shocked by the sight of such a monster that he couldn’t say anything.

He clearly hit the guy between the eyebrows with his fist. So, even though he was the leader, it was natural for him to lose consciousness, but contrary to Aion’s thoughts, the guy counterattacked and attacked him.

He quickly punched the bastard between the eyebrows and was barely able to catch the leader.

However, Aion couldn’t be completely happy with such achievements.

If this guy had been a slightly stronger, higher-level monster, he would have been able to survive the punch that was just thrown between the eyebrows.

In the worst case scenario, the monster could have counterattacked and I could have been in big trouble.

That’s why Aion couldn’t just be happy when he saw the fallen monster.

Aion thought as he recalled the events of that time.

‘If we continue like this… it could get dangerous.’

If the current situation continues, there is a risk of losing the battle against evil that will come later.

So, Aion closed his eyes for a moment and thought, then quickly got up from his seat as if he had sorted out his thoughts.

And I created a new goal.

“Shall we go get the Goddess’s treasure?”

It was to go in search of the Goddess’s treasure, one of the relics that exists in this world.

In the middle of the story, the main character, who was saving a civilian who had been attacked by monsters, is knocked off a cliff by a monster that attacks from behind.

He temporarily lost consciousness due to the shock, but soon regained consciousness and tried to escape the unknown forest. Then, he discovered a cave.

Since the main character had used up a lot of physical strength and energy, he headed to the cave to sleep out there and recover from his fatigue.

On the outside it looked like an ordinary cave, but in reality it was the entrance to the temple of the goddesses.

The stone statues of the goddesses there each represented anger, joy, and sorrow.

He could only stare blankly at the statue without saying anything, as the statue emitted an unknown aura.

Just looking at it made him feel like all the strength was leaving his body, but the main character was tested by one of the three goddesses.

The test that the Goddess of Wrath gave was to defeat the one she hated the most.

The protagonist, who lost his family to monsters, became enraged and slaughtered the monsters he had created in his illusions. After wiping out monsters for such a long time, he was eventually chosen by a goddess.

There were the Goddess of Wrath, the Goddess of Sorrow, and the Goddess of Joy, and the one who chose the protagonist was the Goddess of Wrath.

In this way, he gained immense power and began to cut down monsters and those who would bring about the end of the world one by one.

“If it’s one of the two remaining…can I use it?”

And Aion, who knew these facts, was tempted.

Even if we exclude the Goddess of Wrath from the three goddesses, as she is the one the protagonist needs to become stronger, there are still two goddesses left, Joy and Sorrow, so he thought about gaining the power of one of the remaining goddesses.

So, in order to obtain the power of the goddess, he was about to head to the place where the protagonist had fallen.

“My arm still feels a little sore..”

His hands were still sore, perhaps because his muscles were more shocked than he thought.

Of course, his arm didn’t hurt so much that it bothered him. He could bear this level of pain, since it was just a drop in the bucket compared to the pain he had felt before.

“It doesn’t hurt…but it’s strangely annoying…”

He said, swinging his arm back and forth, feeling a strange sensation.

It wasn’t so painful that I couldn’t move my arm, but should I just endure the irritating pain?

He grumbled in indescribable pain.

So he pretended not to notice the pain in his arm and headed towards the cave where the goddess’ power was sleeping.

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“Hmm…I think it’s about this much..”

Aion hurried his steps and found the cave that led to the statue of the goddess.

He wandered through the forest for a long time among the leaves and grass of the rich port, but he was finally able to find the cave where the goddesses were sleeping.

He searched the cave, spreading out his mana in waves just in case there were other people or monsters hiding inside.

If the place he found was just a cave, there would be various plants, animals, and monsters living there, but contrary to his expectations, there was not a single living thing inside the cave, so he entered the cave with a confident face.

[Thump thump.]

He entered the cave and walked deeper into the cave, his footsteps echoing throughout the cave.

After walking for a while, something brightly colored suddenly appeared before his eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, he was transported to a certain place. And when he got there, Aion knew right away where it was.

“Thank goodness you came safely..”

That was the place where the goddesses were sleeping.

It felt like I was in some other world, cut off from the rest of the world, and it felt out of place.

I felt like it was on a completely different level from what was said in the novel.

In the novel, it was briefly expressed as just a feeling of uneasy feeling, but when I actually came to this space, I felt so creepy that every nerve in my body stood on end.

Above all, from the moment I entered this place, I couldn’t shake the feeling that someone unknown was watching me.

He kept getting stares as if someone was staring at him.

He eventually began to walk forward slowly, under the gaze of an unknown person.

There was a long road ahead of Aion that seemed to have no end, and as he silently walked along the road laid out for him, he was finally able to see it.

“These are the statues of the goddesses..”

The appearance of three women who still retain their appearance from long ago.