New Gods of North America

After confirming that nobody wanted these things, Wayne packed up all the extraordinary materials.

Hmph,

If you guys don't want them, I'll take them.

Lina, on the other hand, was openly badmouthing Wayne:

"Don't learn from him, everyone. This guy drinks holy water all day long for no reason. He can survive only because of his strong vitality. If it were someone else, they would probably have turned into extraordinary materials themselves..."

Hearing this, Willie and Damon McReady silently looked towards Wayne's exploded cabin,

and then nodded in agreement.

The other agents looked at Wayne with a strange sense of "awe."

Wayne didn't return to the office directly. He first took the extraordinary materials to Ineisha to see if she needed them,

and also to check on her current condition.

Ineisha's condition seemed to have improved slightly. The pupils of her eyes were no longer so scarlet, and her lips had regained some color,

but it felt like she was still "bathing", still looking like she had just crawled out of the tub, dripping with water all over.

Ineisha observed the extraordinary materials for a while, but didn't pick anything out:

"Although I feel that their ranks are not too high, but... are you sure you want to absorb so much pollution? I feel that it's even more than what you absorbed in that native tribe before, and it's also more 'active'."

About the same as in the Tecumseh tribe?

That's a piece of cake?

Wayne's spiritual intuition told him "no problem", so he even comforted Ineisha a little, "It's okay, can't waste them."

Ineisha didn't persuade him further, "Then you'd better find a relatively quiet open space... and also have someone supervise nearby, so that they can rescue or warn you in time if something unexpected happens."

Wayne nodded to show that he understood. After letting Ineisha continue to rest, he returned to the office, called Doug over to protect him, sat down, and prepared to "start eating."

Wait,

When I blew up my cabin before, my spiritual intuition didn't seem to give any warning...

Although it was indeed "no problem" in the end,

but the spiritual intuition's judgment of "no problem" seems to be different from ordinary people.

Wayne thought for a while, then took the extraordinary materials out of the office, and also took a bottle of holy water to keep his throat moist.

This time, Wayne had already thought of a plan. He would go outside to a small bush in the yard, and absorb these things first.

If it really "doesn't digest", there's still that stone slab fragment in the cellar. That thing is much better than holy water. It can make the spiritual power in the body easily digestible.

Wait a minute,

Since that stone slab fragment can make the spiritual power in my body easily digestible, can it be used to directly purify extraordinary materials?

Hey, I'm such a clever little ghost.

By the way, Wayne thought that he hadn't had time to tell Lina about Miss Ovilia being affected by that stone slab fragment before,

so he called Lina over as well, so they could go to the cellar together to check the situation.

"I can't see anything unusual... and the Sage didn't give me any warning..."

Unexpectedly, even Teacher Lina didn't find anything wrong with this thing.

But she was obviously more experienced in "metaphysics":

"You said it can help you digest those spiritual powers that can't be absorbed. It sounds like it can remove specific 'pollution'. There are several reasons for this situation... Can you demonstrate it for me first?"

Wayne was actually doing this kind of experiment for the first time. He picked a piece of extraordinary material that looked pleasing to the eye,

and then put it on the stone slab fragment.

The good news is that the stone slab fragment can indeed remove the pollution from the extraordinary material,

but the bad news is that it "ate" the entire piece of extraordinary material...

And after it "finished eating", it didn't seem to have changed at all, not admitting that it was full.

Lina seemed to understand and picked up the stone slab fragment to continue observing:

"There are three common effective ways to 'remove pollution'. Purification or rejection in the 'holy' domain, 'suppression' caused by high-ranking existences in the same domain, and... 'sacrifice' to a specific deity.

"If I had to guess, I'd say it's like the last one."

"So can I continue to use it?" Wayne asked. Everything else was easy to say, but this question was more urgent.

Lina silently shook her head:

"I don't know... When it comes to matters involving deities, even the Sage may not give a response. But if this thing is indeed 'effective', then the rational approach is definitely to use it as sparingly as possible.

"Because you can't judge when it will fail, or whether it will attract the 'attention' of higher-ranking existences—the consequences of the latter are usually more serious. Not all higher-ranking existences are benevolent, and even if they are, humans sometimes cannot bear it."

...

After explaining the situation clearly, Lina didn't try to dissuade him.

Wayne didn't struggle for too long and chose to continue trying the old method.

Anyway, if "as long as you make contact with higher-ranking existences, you'll be doomed", then I'm afraid I've already been hit before. I don't care about more debts,

and the extraordinary materials at hand are currently in Wayne's eyes to the extent of "dropped on the ground, but still edible after washing", so wasting them is not environmentally friendly.

So Lina guarded the entrance of the cellar,

and Wayne, with a series of operations, "unboxed" a pile of extraordinary materials one by one.

It felt similar to the "mushroom man" he encountered in the dormitory before, bloated stomach, indigestion,

but the "weight" of these things was not as good as that "mushroom man". After absorbing them all, the extraordinary materials one by one "shriveled" or "turned into dust\

,"adding up to only the equivalent of one "mushroom man".

Wayne was also familiar with the next process. He called out to the entrance of the cellar, then touched the stone slab fragment with a little caution but incorrigible nature,

The "cocoon" wrapped around the spiritual powers in the body, or the "impurities" mixed in it, seemed to be cleared instantly as before,

and those spiritual powers absorbed into the body were soon truly "digested" and became part of Wayne's "mana bar."

"It seems that this method can really only be used by you. I feel that your condition is much more stable than that of extraordinary people of the same rank..."

After Lina came down to confirm the situation, she had no objection to Wayne's method of "recycling waste" for contaminated extraordinary materials, and even seemed a little envious.

But like Ineisha, her perception of this stone slab fragment also became not very good,

So Lina reminded Wayne again:

"The promotion of extraordinary people is always risky. Finding a way to absorb contaminated extraordinary materials relatively safely is not necessarily a bad thing.

"But you still have to be vigilant. Using things like this that you can't see the problem with, sometimes the potential danger may be even higher. Maybe at some point, it will make you a 'sacrifice' yourself."

Um...

The reasoning is correct, but hearing this from the evil god's "biological daughter" always feels a little weird...