"It's just polishing armor, why would it be so expensive? This price is enough to buy a new set of armor. Lalatina, don't be silly and pay for it," Chris said fiercely, pulling her blonde friend beside her.
"Boss, you're not trying to scam my friend because she looks easy to trick, are you?"
"How could I— Although the price is a bit high, alright, I'll give you a discount." The weapon shop owner clicked his tongue. This kind of young lady, who clearly came from a wealthy family and knew nothing, was the easiest to scam. It was a pity there was someone causing trouble.
"Hah-hoo~" Lalatina trembled when she heard the clicking sound, her breathing suddenly becoming rapid, her face filled with a contradictory expression of innocence and lust.
"Tsk— come pick it up tomorrow." The boss clicked his tongue again, annoyed that he hadn't managed to scam any money. However, seeing the girl's rapid breathing, he probably thought she was angry because he was trying to rip her off.
He wasn't flustered at all. Anyway, there were only three weapon shops in Aksel. If they didn't buy from him, they would buy from the other two, and the three of them were in a cooperative relationship, heh heh. Adventurers were still too naive.
"Although it's still expensive, it's barely acceptable," Chris said, her arms crossed, an expression of dissatisfaction on her face.
She looked at her friend beside her, a cold sweat breaking out.
"Lalatina—"
"Just now, that boss was clearly trying to scam me, yet he clicked his tongue so forcefully and then tsked. It was really, um, he's a villain, um!" Lalatina hugged her chest, her mind filled with who-knew-what nonsense, making gurgling, nonsensical sounds.
"...Lalatina, how should I put it?" Chris spread her hands and sighed.
Although Lalatina's personality was a bit, well, a bit off, her family had been devout followers of her, the Lucky Goddess, for generations.
Before Lalatina ran away from home, unable to bear the pressure to marry, she wished for a good friend.
As a Goddess, she naturally had to answer the prayers of a devout follower, but she didn't know what kind of friend Lalatina wanted. Plus, she herself wanted to skip work and play on the surface, and incidentally retrieve the 'Divine Artifacts' that Aqua Senior had sent to this world.
So she transformed into a thief girl and came to Lalatina's side.
Without a reliable friend, a young lady like Lalatina, who lacked common sense, would easily fall prey to scams.
"Chris, from, from now on, call me Darkness. Calling me Lalatina is too embarrassing," Lalatina whispered shyly.
"Darkness, is that your Adventurer's name? Then I'll call you Darkness in front of outsiders," Chris nodded.
"Oh, right, Chris, do you want to take on a quest related to minotaurs now? I often read in adventure stories about minotaurs humiliating and trampling Adventurers, especially female Adventurers."
Darkness righteously patted her chest: "I think, as a Crusader, it's necessary to eliminate such lewd minotaurs."
"Sigh~" After speaking, Darkness took a deep breath, her cheeks flushed and very excited, her eyes looking at Chris expectantly.
Chris broke into a sweat, but after spending more than ten days with Darkness, she had almost gotten used to it.
"Minotaurs, those are almost exclusively a race found in the Demon King's army occupied territories. Outside of the Demon King's army's territory, minotaurs are almost extinct."
"Ex, extinct?" The high light in Darkness's eyes instantly vanished, like a salted fish losing its dream.
"Ah, I think I'd better find a suitable party first— maybe later when we fight our way into the Demon King's army's lair, we can, we can, heh heh," Darkness said, drooling at the corners of her mouth.
"..."
Chris, pull yourself together, Lalatina! The reason for subjugating the Demon King can't be so strange!
Just then, Chris felt an extremely penetrating gaze. She felt as if she was seen through, from inside out, from her human form to her divine essence.
Chris stiffened, instantly covering her chest with her hands, her cheeks flushed red, and immediately looked in the direction of the penetrating gaze.
Black medium-length hair, the tips just touching his shoulders, handsome features, a physique even the male Gods in Heaven hadn't achieved such perfection.
A superior divine aura, like a raging storm and tsunami, surged towards her. In the face of such an aura, she felt like an ordinary human standing beneath a giant wave.
"Gulp~" Chris's neck felt as if it was being squeezed by an invisible pair of hands, unable to utter a single word.
Finally, she looked into those most striking golden eyes.
Her consciousness was instantly sucked into those eyes.
Spinning, spinning, ceaselessly spinning.
After her consciousness stopped spinning, she found herself in a rotating galaxy, with streams of world aura emanating from it.
The world's aura was fleeting, leaving behind things she couldn't understand or comprehend.
She had only felt this incomprehensible and ungraspable power in the Genesis God Temple in the God Realm. Legend said it was the supreme power that created the 'God Realm' and permeated many worlds.
It was rumored that only the 'Genesis God', who had never appeared, controlled this power.
But the power in the God Realm was like mud compared to what was before her now.
Although she didn't understand it, she knew that it absolutely far surpassed the power in the God Realm.
The galaxy slowly narrowed, and the spinning galaxy was actually the pupil of a giant eye. Chris only felt her consciousness continuously falling.
The next instant, her consciousness returned, and she was still standing in place.
The moment her consciousness returned, she shrieked: "Ah!" As she retreated, she bumped into Darkness behind her. Darkness also cried out, and both of them fell to the ground.
"What's wrong, Chris?" Darkness asked confusedly.
"N-no, no, nothing, ha, haha—" Chris chuckled dryly, her face pale, looking fearfully at the unfamiliar God who was now looking at her.
She screamed internally.
"Genesis God! That's the Genesis God!"
She was just a minor Goddess, how did she encounter the 'Genesis God' in the plane she was Guardian of! Oh my God!
What should I do, what should I do?
Chris was utterly panicked.
She didn't know if this 'Genesis God' was just passing by or what, but he was walking towards her now.
"Chris?" Darkness looked bewildered, not knowing why Chris suddenly looked like she had seen a ghost. She followed Chris's gaze.
She only saw a very handsome man, with a hint of a mischievous expression at the corner of his mouth, clearly giving off the vibe of a scumbag.
"Chris, you know him? Could it be! Could he be the abusive scumbag who abandoned you, which is why you're scared of him?" Darkness's expression hardened, instantly imagining the most probable relationship in her mind.
"That's not it at all!" Chris panicked even more when she heard that.
Slandering the 'Genesis God' would bring bad luck, even if the other party might not be the Genesis God of the God Realm.
"Heh heh~" Xia Wei walked towards the sweating Chris and the questioning Darkness.
He had only released a tiny trace of the Gods Base's aura.
This aura was too high-end; any God who felt it would have endless fantasies.
"Gah!" Chris's expression was so scared that she looked like an emoji as she watched him walk towards her.