The third relic

Under the cover of night your party of four made it to the entrance of the temple. You placed your hand on the lock, scared that your reduced humanity might some how invalidate you before the goddess, but it activated, receding and opening silently to admit you and your demonic allies into the temple.

"I was worried the goddess wouldn't let me in..." you voiced your concerns out loud once you were all safely inside.

"I am not sure the goddess still exists..." Cygnus responds distractedly while looking around.

Cetus doesn't take notice at all, running into the first room to start clearing traps and making progress.

"I cast holy magic... so she isn't taking sides at all in all this... or she is actually gone." Cassiopeia says after a moment.

You kept walking as the demons began talking about what they knew. Each new revelation made your head spin as things clicked into place. You had not met a goddess when you died... it was just blackness. In a normal isekai you would have met the deity and gotten a cheat skill. Instead you what? Timed out in the waiting room that was that darkness.

"...and we have proof that her temples can be used for other things... no divine retribution or anything."

"But holy magic... creation magic... and of course the relics... they all exist... and still function."

"So either that power wasn't coming from her... just a power she used or was good at... or..."

"Or she left the power after she died or left or whatever."

Eventually you caught up with Cetus who was trying to brute **** her way through a puzzle.

"I thought you had already cleared this?"

"It fucking reset or something... and the solution isn't the same!"

"Let me..."

Cygnus joined Cetus and began directing the rotation of columns and pushing blocks.

"You might be the goddess..." Cass whispered in your ear causing you to start.

"What?!" you yelped loudly before repeating in a lower voice "What?"

"I have a lot of theories... thought about this a lot... but I think the hero may have been more than an avatar... she may have been the goddess herself... and a goddess who created us and humans... wouldn't have wanted to destroy it all... she would have wanted to save it right? To fix it? And so she became the slut queen to fix the problem."

It is an interesting theory...

"I have no way to prove that one though... I think when you have the three relics we may get the answer to other questions but not that one."

With a loud click, your conversation is cut short and the final door opens to reveal the pillar of golden light and the final relic. The pendant hanging in the air is gold and silver and emanates holy energy.

It seems wrong to corrupt it... to touch it with your tainted hands... but you need it to save... to save everyone.

Stepping forward you reach out and take it. Like the door it does not reject you, it lets you do as you please but immediately you see the metal's color change and the once golden light turn into a dark miasma. Despite this, you put it around your neck and feel as strength courses through your body. The fatigue of travel is washed away, and the aches of your sexual exploits fades as well.

With a nod you confirmed your resolve to your companions. It was time to face the demon king.