Sovereign of the Ashes

A living Goddess of Wealth was worth far more than a corpse, especially one whose divine abilities and domains granted her such immense divine power.

Killing her would be like slaughtering a goose that could lay golden eggs.

Across the Astral Realm, most Rank Four and above beings traded using energy crystals, souls, or rare materials. Some deities used divine energy crystals as currency as well.

According to research by mages of the Magus Civilization, divine energy crystals were essentially high-grade energy constructs created by Rank Four or higher deities through fusing the power of faith with their own divine energy.

Mages from Magus World at Rank Four and above could also create similar energy cores, though theirs were purely elemental in nature and lacked divine attributes.

Creating such crystals required highly complex magic arrays and refined energy manipulation techniques, so only well-established organizations like the divine towers had the capability to produce them.

The practice of manufacturing energy crystals was not unique to the Magus World or faith-based civilizations. Some advanced technological civilizations had also developed similar processes.

While the energy blocks produced by technological civilizations were created through similar principles, most of them were used for mid- to low-tier applications.

In terms of quality, they could hardly compare to divine energy crystals or elemental crystals.

As for Aurelia, she could only listen in despair as the demons in the hall—and that sinister foreign goddess named Lorthisra—discussed her fate like she was just an object.

If she were enslaved, the annual output Lorthisra could extract from her in the form of faith power and divine energy crystals would be immense.

Just because Lorthisra had paid a steep price to take over the Moonlit Cat Goddess did not mean she could do the same with Aurelia.

First off, Lorthisra simply did not have the mental focus to control two divine clones at once.

Second, Aurelia’s divine abilities did not align with hers at all, and Lorthisra had no interest in exploring those laws of wealth.

She glanced at the Goddess of Wealth, clearly calculating her options.

The crimson chains binding Aurelia sprouted directly from the floor of the Bloodwar Hall, radiating the power of laws. Their source ran deep into the heart of Purgatory itself.

The Bloodwar Monarch was, without a doubt, a powerful peak Rank Six demon.

At least, of all the Rank Six beings Lorthisra had dealt with, very few could match him when it came to mastery over the laws.

A happy smile on their guest of honor’s face was what the demons had hoped, and that seemed to be where things were heading now.

Sein did not dare to interrupt Lorthisra’s discussion with the demon kings. Most of his attention was on the Goddess of Wealth.

Unlike Lorthisra, who was not all that interested in Aurelia’s divine abilities and only saw her as a divine energy factory, Sein was genuinely intrigued by her powers and laws.

It was not that he was a greedy person, but Aurelia had long been considered the deity in Faeloria most likely to follow in the Goddess of Magic’s footsteps. Her potential was clearly far beyond that of a mere intermediate deity.

Years of travel had broadened Sein’s view of the world, and over time, he had come to understand just how much weight money carried in a world like theirs.

Lorthisra had grown up in Blackhaven with an absurdly powerful adoptive father. She had never really needed to worry about resources. Naturally, she could not fully understand the true value of wealth.

Sein, on the other hand, had struggled through the early years of the Divine Tower of Verdant Spring alongside Master Lorianne.

He knew exactly how helpless one could feel in the Magus World when penniless.

Even Lorianne, a Rank Four powerhouse, had nearly torn her hair out just trying to scrape together enough money to buy a space fortress.

That alone said everything about how vital wealth was.

With the Magus Alliance continuing to expand, magicoins had made their way into every corner of its allied worlds.

Was the Magus Civilization truly held together by strength and authority?

Maybe.

But in recent years, it was the magicoins that had extended the Magus World’s influence across the entire alliance.

Within the alliance, magicoins meant access to resources.

So now, Sein could not help but wonder—if he handed over all his gains from Faeloria to the Goddess of Wealth, just how much could she return to him down the line?

After all, creating wealth out of wealth and managing economies was exactly the kind of thing a goddess like Aurelia was born to do.

Sein had racked up quite a haul during his time in Faeloria—divine relics, divine artifacts, and a whole pile of deity-level materials.

If he brought it all back and sold it through the Magus Alliance’s official channels, he would probably already have enough to fund the early stages of his own divine tower.

...Maybe even scrape together enough for a space fortress.

Even Lorianne, after reaching Rank Four, had not slain nearly as many Rank Four and above beings as he had.

Although she had a few enslaved planes under her control, most of those were long-term investments.

They were nothing like Sein’s one-off windfall during the Avatar Crisis.

Now that he was a demigod-level mage exploring the power of laws, Sein had to start thinking about his future.

Every mature mage needed foresight—waiting until Rank Four to start planning would be way too late.

By now, nearly every plane near the Magus Star Domain had already become a vassal or fallen under Magus World’s control.

So when the time came, there was no guarantee Sein would even find an unclaimed plane to conquer or extract resources from.

He might have enough to build a divine tower or a basic fortress, but what about everything after that?

Building a divine tower was not just about putting up the structure—it was a bottomless pit if he wished to grow it properly.

This was the same with space fortresses. Who would be content with a regular model?

The top-tier custom fortresses used by the Magus World’s elite were comparable to world-class secret treasures in both power and cost-efficiency!

Those monsters could easily cost hundreds of millions of magicoins to build.

Desire and ambition were limitless, and Sein’s pursuit of truth was no exception.

He could not just lock himself in a laboratory and expect results to magically appear.

Every magical experiment required money.

The only reason Sein had been able to grow this fast in recent years was because of the resources provided by the Purgatory demons.

Without their support, he would never have come this far so quickly.

“I should figure out how to convince the Spider Queen to lend me that Goddess of Wealth for a while,” Sein murmured, rubbing his chin.