I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 123

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Let me summarize.

Ordel had no idea that she had been infiltrated for the purpose of destroying the Sun God’s Main Temple.

However, through the Count’s family’s endless gaslighting and violence, she unknowingly came to sympathize with them and steadily led things toward destruction.

Looking at the diary’s contents, it seems she learned this fact belatedly and regretted it…

Then why didn’t she immediately leave the Count’s mansion and side with the Sun God’s Main Temple, instead continuing to cause trouble?

Did she only learn this fact just before I possessed her, so she didn’t have the chance?

But even so, this diary is too worn for something that’s only half a year old.

More importantly, this information.

This was high-level intelligence that would take at least several years of investigation to uncover.

How did Ordel, who had no money, no connections, and no recognition, manage to find out all of this?

“What exactly is Ordel?”

I asked the one who would know all the answers.

Ordel is a fake Holy Maiden, but that doesn’t mean the divine power she possesses is also fake.

The Sun God couldn’t possibly not know his own priestess.

“Not the original story, but what was Ordel who lived in this world before I possessed her?”

【’The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’ reminisces about ‘Ordel’ wistfully.】

【That child really… had a terrible temper, he says.】

“…”

I’m asking seriously here, and what? She had a terrible temper? Are you kidding me?

And why are you speaking such harsh words so wistfully?

“Answer properly.”

【’The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’ protests that he is answering properly.】

【Despite inheriting his power, that child had not even a speck of reverence for gods and always openly cursed him, he says while shedding tears.】

You deserved to be cursed. Look how much I’ve suffered because of you too.

【’The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’ sighs, saying that child is also his offspring.】

【He says she’s truly a pitiful child, so absolutely don’t hate her.】

“So you can’t give me a proper answer after all. Don’t tell me this is also something I can only know once that damn divine secret is unlocked?”

【’The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’ affirms.】

“…”

Even telling me Ordel’s identity counts as revealing divine secrets.

What’s with all these secrets? At this point, I’m getting scared of hearing about divine secrets.

I have a gut feeling that once I hear it, my insides will be very noisy.

I glared at the money pouch I received from the Count along with the Land of Rubar documents, then threw it into the air.

【5,000 gold has been stored in ‘The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’s’ offering box.】

【’The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’ recovers part of his power from his faithful follower’s devotion.】

【’The Sun That Crawled Out of Death’ bestows a blessing upon the Holy Maiden who devoted herself for him. The user’s divine power increases.】

【Current divine power held: 35.116%】

Now I have about 5,000 gold left until the divine secret revelation.

I can fill this quickly once I get my hands on the sacred stones.

So before that, I needed to get a weapon to protect myself first.

That way I’d feel secure even when hearing those noisy stories.

Just like in my previous life, when I held a police baton, I felt confident I could beat down knife-wielding criminals rather than being scared of them.

Knock knock.

“Holy Maiden, are you perhaps sleeping?”

Just then Victoria came to see me. I put the diary back in my inventory and answered.

“No, come in.”

“I’m sorry for the late hour, but the potions sent from the main temple have just arrived.”

Victoria entered carrying four large boxes. They were special boxes used for transporting potions.

“A total of 2,000 bottles.”

“Our potion making team really ground their souls to make these.”

I had asked them to make just a thousand bottles first, but they made twice that.

Even when I tell them sleep isn’t something you do after death, they don’t listen. As soon as I get back, I’ll have to knock all three of them out by hitting them on the back of the head.

Being knocked out counts as sleep too.

“Good work. I’ll call you when I’m done, so go ahead and leave.”

“Yes.”

After Victoria left, I was alone facing 2,000 bottles of potions.

This was my first time using blessing on such a large quantity at once.

“I coughed up blood when I blessed a thousand bottles too… I should be fine now, right?”

Back then, my body was in terrible condition right after removing half of the Sea God’s curse from Jeremy.

Plus my divine power was only 10% at the time.

Now I have 35%, well over three times that amount, and my condition is fine, so at most I’ll just cough up a few drops of blood.

【Activating skill ‘Blessing’.】

Golden divine power burst from my hands and covered all 2,000 potion bottles at once.

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“Ah.”

Victoria, who had just left Ordel’s bedroom, felt someone approaching and turned her head.

It was Rute, dressed more casually than usual, probably because it was night.

“The potions arrived?”

“Yes. The Holy Maiden is currently enhancing the potions’ effects with sacred relics.”

Since they were working together, Rute also knew this fact, so Victoria spoke without hesitation.

However, Rute was the only person who knew a truth she didn’t.

‘Is she using blessing?’

He had seen Ordel put blessing into potions right before his eyes.

He was even the one who had drunk it directly and personally proven its effects.

“I came because I wanted to see her use the sacred relic. Has she finished already?”

“I just informed her, so she probably hasn’t finished yet.”

“Good. Then let me go in and see.”

Seeing Rute approach the door, Victoria briefly conflicted over whether she should stop him.

That’s because Ordel always sent people away whenever she used sacred relics, as if they were bothersome.

But Rute was different from other people.

He was a colleague who shared responsibility for the potion business, and more importantly, someone that Ordel treated very specially.

Since Ordel was particularly generous toward him, wouldn’t it be okay?

Besides, he wasn’t someone she could stop with her power anyway.

“Your Grace?”

Victoria, who had finally given up and was about to step back, tilted her head in puzzlement seeing him standing still without entering for some reason.

“…”

However, Rute didn’t answer.

No, it would be more accurate to say Victoria’s voice didn’t reach him at all.

Ever since he heard a very faint sound just now.

Cough.

It was a coughing sound he was all too familiar with. He could recognize it immediately because he had experienced it countless times.

This wasn’t a simple cough, but the sound of coughing up blood.

And quite a lot of it.

“Could you step aside?”

Rute immediately commanded Victoria.

“Since I’m here, I have things to discuss with the Holy Maiden about the overall potion business. It would be troublesome if it leaked, so keep watch from a distance to make sure no one comes.”

Victoria looked flustered at the sudden command.

“Pardon? I would never leak anything. I swear to the Sun God…”

“I don’t trust anyone.”

However, Rute firmly cut her off.

“Except for our Holy Maiden.”

Victoria, who was about to argue back, closed her mouth at his following words.

Because they were filled with such deep sincerity.

After hesitating for a long while, she eventually moved to a spot about twenty steps away from the door.

Confirming this, Rute immediately opened the door and entered the room.

Click.

His face, which had been hardened even before entering, turned completely cold the moment the door closed.

“…Holy Maiden?”

In the middle of the bedroom.

Thousands of golden potions tinged with red light were all glowing at once.

However, that sight which would normally have been admirable didn’t register in Rute’s eyes at all right now.

Because Ordel had collapsed in front of them.

“Cough!”

Soaked in the enormous amount of blood she had vomited.

“Holy Maiden…!”

Rute, who had turned deathly pale, rushed urgently to Ordel.

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