"Ash spoke up suddenly from the side. "Chloe's here."
Theus looked up and saw a Banshee hurrying over. She wore no armor and had come from Blood Port.
Chloe usually worked at the Tribunal in Blood Port. She must have rushed here by Assault Coffin.
Sure enough, when he opened the diary, Chloe's handwriting was all over the place.
"Is something wrong? If not, I'm going to sleep for a while. My head's spinning."
Theus hesitated, but instead of replying, he picked up a pen from the table and began writing in the diary.
"Feeling dizzy is normal. And I really have run into some trouble."
"This feeling... Hm? You're hurt?"
"How did you know?"
"There's blood on your pen tip."
Only then did Theus notice that the blood he had spilled onto the table had not only stained the documents, but also gotten onto the fountain pen.
"Just an accident."
"Don't let your blood get on the diary again. I always feel like, if there's too much of it, it might purify me."
Only then did Theus recall that his blood did indeed possess a certain purifying power. When Monica had built the prototype Steam Engine, she had used his blood to draw a magic array inside the furnace to control the Pollution.
At the time, he had even worried that if Steam Engine production increased in the future, he might be drained dry.
"Wait, my blood can only purify Pollution and evil gods, right? Since when did you become an evil god?"
"There isn't much difference between Transcendents and evil entities. Once you touch Transcendence, you inevitably drift farther and farther away from humanity. You can purify evil gods, so it isn't strange that you can purify me too."
"Besides, I've been dead for a long time. There's