## Chapter 1472 – Cheonma Kim Katz

The power of the Outer Gods permeates the widely spread barrier.

Those bastards are completely dead. Only their power and will remain. Absorbing such things into my barrier was a very simple task.

ㅡSwish.

Soon, the absorption was complete.

All the fragments of power that filled the space disappeared.

I immediately measured the absorbed powers. They weren’t that transcendent or destructive. The words transcendence and destruction are concepts only allowed for this Kim Katz.

The Outer Gods were in a terrible state, so their power itself wasn’t that intense.

However, there were many powers and knowledge I didn’t know. This was extremely useful and could further develop me. That felt pleasant. This is just a huge win.

Next.

The will that flowed in.

That will was determined to protect humanity. The monsters that had been eating away at faith and souls for thousands of years, at least had the awareness that they were gods. The Outer Gods established their egos while absorbing souls, and after that, they began to agonize. Did they become like humans because they ate human souls?

“Kardia and Elise’s wounds will lessen.”

Of course, that doesn’t change the fact that they’ve been sucking on hundreds of billions of souls for thousands of years. They’re truly monsters. But for the people who worshiped those monsters, this fact will be their last comfort.

“Still, this much power.”

They said they would soon disappear, but roughly looking at the remaining power, it seemed like they could last for hundreds of years. They were destined to suck on souls until then and then disappear.

Suddenly, I thought about Lich, and this was something that would definitely make him freak out. Sucking on more souls for hundreds of years? Inhumane, dezaaaaaat!!! He’d probably act like that.

While mulling over the situation and examining the acquired power, it happened.

ㅡFwoosh.

Something started to bother me, and that was that my vision was too bright.

“Oh, shit, is that eye-shine?”

Surprisingly, eye-shine was erupting from my eyes like fire…! But eye-shine was like a skill that I could use at any time. The reason I was surprised now was!

“Eye-shine is coming out even though I didn’t turn it on!”

That means, could it be!

“Could it be that having eye-shine is now my default state!!!”

Eye-shine was a kind of active continuous skill that I could activate and maintain if I wanted, but now it looked like eye-shine was coming out even in my default state!

“Turn off! Turn off, you bastard!”

ㅡTsupat!

After deliberately paying attention and turning it off, the eye-shine disappeared.

ㅡFwoooooosh!

But that wasn’t all.

A ring of light was created vertically behind my back! Light was erupting from that ring, creating a halo behind me! Like some kind of Buddhist god!

Aureola!

“This too, shit!”

It was something I could create if I wanted, but this too had become my `default state`! This is absurd! From now on, I’ll have to live with the inconvenience of having to deliberately turn off my eye-shine and halo…!

“How annoying!”

ㅡTsupat!

I even turned off the halo that was frantically emitting light from behind my back. I’m going crazy. Did I absorb the power of a god? I’ve become so unbearably sacred that eye-shine and a halo have become my default state. Thinking about my image, it’s a positive thing, but whatever. This might not be so bad.

Anyway.

“Okay.”

I felt the inside of the barrier.

I could clearly feel the power of the Outer Gods that had melted into me and become part of me. Because they had all merged at the last moment, I couldn’t know the exact number, but they definitely existed within me.

Existing means.

“Mersin or Bulverza. And like those bastards Vugal, I can summon them.”

Within my barrier, I can summon almost any being. The black people of the Congo. The Korean-American merchants of LA. Even a sinister little creature with green and red heterochromatic eyes. In addition, I can summon all kinds of evil spirits and even the remnants of Lich.

Therefore, I can also summon the Outer Gods.

“Cheonma Shin Gong, Cheonma Verde.”

I simply commanded.

ㅡFwoosh.

A white burning flame rose up before my eyes. The rising form transformed into an extremely familiar shape.

The completed form was.

A 5-meter tall bronze paladin wearing the bronze full body armor of the Brass Celestial Angel Society. Behind him were three pairs of huge bronze wings. Wings where each feather was made entirely of shimmering bronze.

ㅡFwoosh.

The inside of the helmet was burning white. Verde had descended into my barrier as a kind of living armor.

“Can you hear me?”

There was no answer.

ㅡ…

Of course, he actually disappeared, so what remains here is just my friend with a superficial will.

Still, this seemed quite useful.

These days, I’ve been exploring the technology of manifesting beings from within the barrier to the outside world. If I could summon and control the remnants of the Outer Gods in this way, it would be quite profitable.

“I won’t have a use for it yet. Disappear for now.”

ㅡTtaak.

With a flick of my finger, he was absorbed back into the barrier.

“Good.”

This confirmed that the Outer Gods had been incorporated into my Kim Katz Park. And. From that fact, I was able to find out something even more amazing.

“Oh.”

I changed my view.
No. There was no need to change it.

As I wished to observe, another scene momentarily overlapped with reality. It was. A bundle of countless strings.

“The strings of divine power connecting the Outer Gods and the priests on the ground.”

That string.

That string that stretched out from my barrier.

Reached the real world.

And now, my power was being slightly consumed through that string.

“That means… the priests on the ground haven’t lost their divine power.”

I’d have to go out and check to know for sure, but now I could see all the strings of divine power. I thought those strings would all disappear the moment the Outer Gods disappeared, but that wasn’t the case. Even that had all been absorbed into me.

“But.”

The divine power supplied to the priests was, strictly speaking, a different kind of property than my pure power… Yes. That’s what it is.

I understand.

It’s similar to Verde’s divine power, but subtly different. Similarly, it’s similar to Ijzermart’s divine power, but strangely different.

The conclusion is one.

The powers of the Outer Gods have all merged into one, and with that, all the priests on the ground are wielding the same power.

“Is it a kind of Kim Katz filtration device?”

My immense power passes through the `Outer God Engine` that exists within my barrier, is converted into a new divine power that combines all the powers of those Outer Gods, and is then supplied to the priests. And the decision to supply that power was entirely up to me.

From now on, all the priests on the ground will be supplied with divine power from me.

If I want, I can bestow this power through baptism, and if he does something shitty, I can take it back. As soon as that thought occurred to me, a sense of relief came over me.

“Troublesome things will decrease.”

According to this Kim Katz’s standards.

In other words, according to the absolute fusion-Confucianism standards, I will bestow this new divine power upon humans who have been nurtured and passed my test. In that way, I can mass-produce paladins filled with fanaticism and law-abiding spirit.

I immediately calculate the power.

Tens of thousands of priests are being supplied with power from me, but this was at a level that didn’t even tickle me. Even the dying Outer Gods were able to handle those divine powers, so there’s no reason why I wouldn’t be able to handle it.

“It’s fucking honey.”

I especially liked the divine power.

Of course, I liked everything else too. Even the kinds of power that still needed research, I liked them all.

“Yeah… it ended well. But.”

Thinking about it.

“If all the gods have disappeared, can’t I say that I’m the only god?”

The only god, fucking hell, I hate it.

“Ah, shit.”

No.

Since the Outer Gods are absorbed, I can set all these bastards up as figureheads, and then tell people to believe in whatever god they want. I can adjust the problem of giving out divine power well in the future.

ㅡZzzzzzz.

Anyway, I opened a dimensional hole again.

I’ll study the rest later, and today I’ll go back and tell all my women what happened. Kardia and Elise will be waiting a lot.

          *     *     *

Even without deliberately concentrating, the knowledge absorbed into the barrier flows into my head.

The doctrines of each religion.

Those doctrines were created by each Outer God based on their own standards, trying to understand humans as much as possible and maintain this human world. Of course, the interpretation is done by humans.

For example, this unknown Outer God, classified as an evil god, pursued the survival of the fittest for humanity. He pursued the survival of the strong, regardless of means or methods. He believed that this would guarantee the survival of the human race and allow them to protect themselves.

Some other Outer Gods pursued a strictly controlled society. Still other Outer Gods pursued the ascension of the human race, and other Outer Gods even thought about using mana.

The result of countless gods projecting their own ideologies onto humans. Maybe it’s similar to the War of Idols. But at least the fact that they had been agonizing was solidified as a fact within me.

“Katz… more than before you left.”

I come to my senses at Claudia’s words.

“You’ve become stronger. Strong enough to be felt even from here…”

Claudia with a dazed face.

I gave her a smirk.

They were already waiting when I came out.

“How long has it been since I left?”
“About a day.”
“It didn’t seem that long, but quite a bit of time has passed.”

I didn’t know the flow of time would be so different.

“Hehehe, anyway. I’m back. And I brought a lot of gifts. Kardia. I’ll ask you first, but have you received any unusual reports?”

Specifically, reports about priests.

If it’s been a day, there might be some kind of signal.

“Unusual reports. Are you talking about the priests?”

Kardia answered with a serious face.

“Oh. You guessed it right away.”
“You went to meet the Outer Gods. I naturally thought there would be some kind of impact on the priests.”
“So, what’s the change?”
“The divine power… has changed subtly. And although more confirmation is needed, for some reason, cases have appeared where priests with different religions are using the same power.”

Cases haven’t appeared, but they will in the future.

This has become certain.

“So, Saint! Did you confront them!!!”

Elise shouted like someone banging on a door.
I immediately placed my hand on Elise’s head.

“Yes. Elise. I saw everything.”

Then you have to tell us.