Chapter 240: Call Him Over For A Bit
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I'm Really Not the Demon God's Lackey Chapter 240: Call Him Over For A Bit

Andrew's mind was terrified by his latest guess.

But the more he thought about it, the more it made sense because the Clockwheel Worm was still considered a rare class of transcendental object even from a Supreme-rank's perspective.

As a gift, it was definitely valuable enough, or at least it was of equivalence to the demon sword. The bookstore owner's reluctance definitely wasn't a result of the Clockwheel Worm being insufficient in value.

This is absolutely the true power of laws!

The amount of power a Clockwheel Worm could exert was completely dependent on the user’s amount of aether. Due to numerous limitations, a Destructive-rank expending his full might would only manage to let it affect a small area.

Basically, it could only be used during crucial moments to save one's own life. But if the wielder was killed off before managing to activate it, then, this little thing would be useless.

Its use was really very limited.

Still, this was an artifact powerful enough to change one's fate.

Otherwise, Andrew's family would not have gone to the expense of building this device and then keeping this transcendental object as a family heirloom that was kept in secret and being passed down from each head of the family clan in succession.

But… Andrew felt that he had overlooked one thing.

And that was the bookstore owner before him. Just what sort of domains of power did he hold and till what extent?

As Secret Rite Tower had made all information and intelligence reports concerning the bookstore to 'sealed,' whatever the Truth Union could uncover for now was only bits and pieces.

All they knew was that Lin Jie’s capabilities were definitely at Supreme-rank or higher, but they didn’t know anything specific; only the general description of 'omniscient and omnipotent.'

However, were there any faiths that didn't portray their god as omniscient and omnipotent?

Andrew had tried to see things from a logical point of view and didn’t reckon that the bookstore owner was as powerful as claimed. There was a possibility that

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Translator Notes

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

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