episode_0274

“Peter….”

“Oh, this guy has quite a bit of faith. Umm…yeah. He was the god who established weights and measures. It must be a pretty old god.”

Akasha, perhaps able to discern the faith she had absorbed, was satisfied with the faith that filled her as she reflected on Peter’s contributions to the underworld one by one.

“It’s later than I thought. It looks like it took that much time to organize the surroundings, right?”

“…It’s a meaningless question, but I’ll ask first. How many people are there?”

“Haha! That’s a really meaningless question. From now on, all those who call themselves gods will have their faith taken from me and disappear, so there is no need to wonder.”

“It’s impossible.”

“If it wasn’t you who appeared in front of me now, but Stella or Prinia, it would have been impossible.”

An attitude that clearly ignores me. There were no elements to refute. Akasha may have eaten quite a few gods in the meantime, but her faith far exceeds what I currently have.

There is a difference in basic specs between humans and dragons, and if even faith is this different, there is no need to compare.

“Don’t worry. I’ll meet them soon.”

“Really? Then I must take action right now to accumulate faith as quickly as possible.”

Akasha raises her arms. I am ready.

Soon my faith and his faith intersect as physical forces. At the same time, I felt a tingling sensation in my hands as I felt like I was hearing a bursting sound that could not have been heard in the vacuum of outer space.

I asked Akasha about the engagement between pure faiths.

“Are you going to fight with faith alone?”

“It’s a warm-up. Because I want to get used to this power as much as possible before dealing with Stella and Prinia.”

“Unexpected. Since I don’t have the means to replenish my faith on my own, I thought I would save it as much as possible.”

“When you have to use it, you have to use it. It is unbecoming of a dragon to waste what you have and do foolish things.”

“Really? The dragon I know is so blinded by what he doesn’t have that it rushes to his death.”

Akasha’s eyebrows twitched as if she knew she was talking about herself.

“You have a talent for provocation. Be thankful that you are one of the few gods with fighting ability.”

It seemed that Akasha was still planning on using me for combat practice using faith. I didn’t like it, but considering the pros and cons, it was a good thing.

At least it would give Stella and Prinia time to come here… It didn’t matter even if Akasha changed her mind.

It may look a bit out of place, but since my body was strictly in the Underworld, I could escape this universe in an instant and return to the Underworld if I had the will.

It would be okay if Akasha came back, but as a result, you wouldn’t be able to gain additional faith, and since Arzen and Luv would be there, the situation would be much better than now.

After completing the calculations in my head, I decided to fight against Akasha as fiercely as possible.

“Although I wasted my faith looking for the children… I am not one of those gods who goes anywhere and gets told that I lack faith!”

What I think is ahead of Akasha is the level of proficiency in faith and the factor that it is slowly but surely recovering. Although the environment was extremely harsh, my heart was so excited that I couldn’t control it.

The bad relationship with Akasha has been going on for a long time. Whatever the outcome, the time has come to end the relationship.

“Okay. Show me your mettle as a senior god sometime.”

“I have never had a junior like you!”

Once again, the two faiths collide. The amount of faith they put into each other was small but completely offset, which was pretty good news to me. Because there was less faith on my part.

‘There is actually a problem with efficiency…!’

The most fuel efficient is when you do things that are similar to the faith that has been passed down to you. All of the beliefs that Akasha stole came from gods who were far from battle. Your efficiency will be just as bad as mine.

Moreover, this is something I realized after encountering it myself, and it felt like they were scattered here and there, unable to achieve unity, perhaps because they had indiscriminately taken away the faith of various gods.

If the density is this low, no matter how much faith is stolen, it will not be a big threat to Stella.

‘Thank goodness. Of course, problems remain…’

Unlike my children, Akasha mercilessly killed those who usurped their faith after coming here. It goes without saying, but a god who has lost his faith and dies will not return.

The fact that God is immortal is because the faith of those who believe in him is the basis. In a way, Akasha had truly achieved divine death.

‘I could die….’

It was a potentially fatal problem for gods who had half forgotten the concept of death. Even if objective power was superior, it was unclear what effect the tension caused by the fear of death would have.

Of course, even if I get attacked by Akasha here, I won’t die. To be precise, I will die as a god, but my human body still remains in the underworld, so at least I won’t have to die here.

‘Drain as much faith as possible!’

In the end, all I can do in this situation is to somehow waste Akasha’s faith and erase any remaining possibility of Stella’s defeat.

“The momentum has increased. Good, very good.”

When I tried harder, Akasha must have thought it was a struggle, and a smile appeared on her face. Okay, laugh out loud now.

My confrontation with Akasha took longer than I expected. Some things went as planned, and some things went beyond expectations.

What went according to plan was that Akasha’s faith decreased noticeably.

What was unexpected was that the density of faith wielded by Akasha gradually increased. Akasha’s faith, which had begun to become more elaborate, was now difficult to block due to its insufficient amount, so an equal amount of faith had to be used.

“Ugh….”

“That’s it. I think I’ve learned it well enough.”

“I forgot for a moment how great dragons are… I can’t believe they’ve already dealt with faith to this extent.”

My appetite was bitter. It took me a year to decide on the direction of my faith and handle it leisurely.

However, Akasha was able to skillfully handle a faith that was not hers in less than a day.

“The more I use this power, the more confident I become. That I was finally able to achieve what I had wanted so much.”

“Ha, no matter how much faith you have, it won’t be enough to resurrect a first love that is already long overdue.”

“…No. possible. Of course, to achieve this level of efficiency, you would literally need an enormous amount of faith.”

There was no special emotion expressed in Akasha’s tone of voice. However, there was an implied intention to kill all existing gods.

“Stella and Prinia… It is possible if we can steal those two years of faith.”

“…It looks like you don’t know something. The faith of those two is greater than the faith of all the other gods combined?”

“To me, whether a simple number is big or small doesn’t really matter. Even when I had no faith, I made every effort to deal with them. But now that I have come into possession of faith…”

“No, it’s true that you don’t know anything. I’m sure you have some hidden tricks, but the Stella I know can beat you right now without any problems.”

“In that case, all you have to do is steal more faith from other gods.”

“In what time period?”

“Hmm?”

Akasha tilted her head as I continued to tease her.

“Something bothers me. You were acting like Stella was coming here soon.”

“It’s too late to realize it.”

As soon as I finished speaking, I felt a huge amount of faith that seemed as if it would explode at any moment. Perhaps Akasha feels the same way as I do. Look, his expression has already turned cold.

A feeling of pressure that makes you feel like you can’t breathe. When Stella is properly prepared for battle in outer space, it gives off this kind of momentum.

“…How?”

Even though I was an ally, Akasha, who was immediately in a hurry, did not erase her doubts about how Stella had accurately pinpointed where she was.

“Did you trace your faith? But I certainly pitched my tent with faith…”

“Oh… You already know how to do such tricks, and strangers will think you’ve become a true god. It may be a shame for you, but Stella and I have very similar beliefs.”

Thanks to this, even though I don’t know Stella’s location, Stella knows my location like a ghost and can visit me. It must have noticed that I kept sitting still in one place when I was supposed to be moving around in a hurry, so it came running.

“How is that possible?”

“Sorry. That’s confidential… If the story gets out by mistake, I’ll be beaten to death by Arjen.”

I can’t be sure, but it may be because it was the first time I mixed myself with Stella in exchange for a musical instrument. From then on, every time I went to outer space, Stella pinpointed my location and searched for me like a pair of tweezers.

“Anyway, your plan to avoid Stella for as long as possible and gather up all her faith ended here.”

For the first time in a while, I relax and smile in front of Akasha. Contrary to mine, Akasha’s face became extremely frowning.