They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 325: Fraudster

"No, no, I should just be an ordinary person. Where did I start to become abnormal?"

"Could it be that it's been like this ever since we arrived here..."

"Sure enough, we shouldn't have walked on that road with the missing manhole cover on a rainy day in the first place."

Ria comforted himself a little. One reason he was carrying a cane now was to scout ahead in critical moments and avoid falling into the sewers again.

"Don't let me find out who stole the manhole cover!"

"Goo?" Little Swarth watched as Ria started saying things that were out of character and hard to understand when no one else was around, and then watched him walk to the bookshelf and pick up a book.

"Divinity sounds like an object, and even if we were to take on followers, we couldn't consider those people. Nobody knows whether what that ghost just said was true or false."

As he spoke, Ria used the Batantusa coin to divine the future, and it landed heads up.

it is true.

"...Let's be more cautious."

Ria took the coin back. He was already expressionless after losing his eyes, so this pain was nothing to him; it even made him more lucid.

"To portray a werewolf, one can start with Hephaestus; to deceive others, one must first deceive oneself."

If you interpret those memes simultaneously, they become werewolves, guards, hunters, magicians, and black marketeers—

A ruthless businessman who is adept at protecting his own interests and using fraudulent means.

Fraudster

“Interesting.” Ria tried to use his supernatural abilities to change his appearance. He and Little Swarth were one, so in theory he could also distort his appearance at will.

However, the process is extremely painful, so Ria usually doesn't try it easily.

Little Swarth crouched down in front of Ria, his two round, golden eyes staring straight at him, his ear feathers twitching in surprise.

It saw that Ria had turned into a gray wolf dressed in capitalist clothes. The wolf was standing upright with a tail that was a meter long, and its long gray fur almost squeezed out of the clothes.

This image is both mysterious and dangerous, as if staring at it for even a moment would cause its fangs to pierce someone's throat instantly.

"Isn't this what a werewolf should look like?"

In the end, Ria did not choose to directly play the role of Hephaestus. He preferred to go against them. Blindly following others might end up not even knowing how he died.

He adjusted his glasses, the lenses reflecting a cold light.

Behind the lenses were deep, terrifying, light gray-blue wolf eyes that seemed to see right through a person's heart.

"Before I start performing, I need to check my followers' assets. After all, it's only right to pay back debts, and they already owe a lot."

The blank page was turned, and Gray Wolf stared at the contents of the book, feeling as if it were indeed true.

He took all these things with him, intending to sell them at a high price sometime, and tell everyone who asked that they were antiques.

In fact, they are indeed antiques.

As for the murals, Ria went back and studied them carefully for a while, but still couldn't come to any new conclusions.

The ghosts said they could become his familiars, but Ria didn't even know how to find them. Perhaps most of the time there was no need to look for them, but familiars who couldn't be found in crucial moments were still useless. Ria had never thought about taking on familiars; if he had to choose, his familiars had to be creatures related to money.

For example, Schwarz, Schwarz, and more Schwarz.

The mythical black dragon sounds like a master at accumulating wealth, like an oversized piggy bank.

"This was a good haul, and some of my long-standing questions have been answered... but why do I want to fight Hephaestus even more now?"

Lia muttered to herself as she walked around the building again. The rest of the building was empty, with no special decorations except for candles.

There are no doors or windows here, and it's unclear where the entrance and exit are. But it wouldn't be right to say that someone wanted to lock him up here, since such walls are simply not enough to restrain Ria.

He only needs to stomp on it, and the whole wall will collapse.

"Destroying ancient buildings doesn't suit my style, and besides, this place holds the fruits of an artist's labor..."

After careful consideration, Ria decided to have Schwarz pack up all the murals and take them away, while she continued to search the palace for anything else.

Several tens of minutes later, the young man, who had transformed into a gray wolf, arrived at the top floor carrying a kerosene lamp and leaning on a cane.

There was a sacrificial altar, and on top of it was a treasure chest that looked a lot like the ones pirates used to hoard their voyages.

The dark tentacles opened the box, and the pile of gold inside almost blinded Ria.

The tentacles quickly closed the box again.

“I have a feeling that those people are setting up a game, watching me move forward step by step, setting up challenges for me in different places, and now they are placing gold as a reward.”

"How disgusting and stupid. Memes don't represent character. Do I look like the kind of person who would be swayed by money?"

Ria thought to herself with disdain for them, then said to the mythical creature, "Swarth, put the things away."

"...Gu."

Little Swarth grew larger, intending to swallow those things whole, but just as it got close, Ria said, "Wait."

He stepped forward and used his tentacles to push aside the top layer of gold, discovering that what lay beneath was a pile of compressed sponges.

In response, Ria felt that their desire to become his dependents was serious, and they had even learned a fair share of the "marketing tactics."

This practice is typically used in restaurants or stores to make food appear plentiful, when in reality it's just one layer.

If an unknown being can grasp such a profound essence, then it has truly learned bad habits from humanity.

"Stop holding back, Schwarz. Let's take this place with us. If we can't take it with us, we'll dismantle it and take it back to sell. We've come all this way, we can't go back empty-handed."

"Awooo!" Little Swarth exclaimed excitedly, quickly using his tentacles to corrode a hole in the wall, allowing Ria and himself to escape.

The moment the wall was breached, a salty sea breeze rushed in, and the Black Sea hanging in the sky ostentatiously proclaimed its presence, occasionally emitting the "splashing" sound of rolling waves.

However, due to their remote location, these sounds were not clearly audible, appearing eerie and desolate, making one worry about when they would all pour down.

Below the Black Sea lies a complete city, enveloped by a forest, and the building where Ria and his companions are located is situated at the very edge of the forest.

Looking further out, you can see a boundless ocean of gray silt. This silt remains peacefully in place, with no trapped heads or supernatural creatures inside, and it is quite tranquil.

(End of this chapter)