I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 160

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While everyone was holding onto Ordel and crying, Airic stared at the two people standing side by side with a stern expression.

Ordel, who had thrown off her holy maiden robes and was wearing an elegant, mature dress.

The glamorous dresses she wore during her extravagant days had suited her well, but the outfit she wore now was also breathtakingly perfect on her.

However, there were too many troubling points for him to simply admire her.

First, there was Lute Sieri standing beside Ordel.

He could understand what had happened without needing an explanation.

Ordel had gone to find Lute for some reason, and Lute had gladly provided her with a place to stay.

Just as Ordel treated Lute specially, he felt the same way about her.

Whether Lute’s reason for claiming not to know Ordel’s whereabouts was due to his own desires or her request was still unclear.

If it was the latter, the situation would become complicated.

It would mean Ordel truly had no intention of returning to the Sun God’s Main Temple.

Airic clenched his fists tightly.

Now that he had met Ordel here, he had no intention of backing down.

Her rightful place was at the Sun God’s Main Temple, not beside Lute Sieri.

Even if she wasn’t the true Holy Maiden, the fact that she possessed the Sun God’s divine power couldn’t be denied.

“Holy Maiden.”

Having made up his mind, Airic approached Ordel, who was skillfully comforting the startled Jeremy despite her own surprise.

She made an awkward expression.

“I’m not the Holy Maiden anymore, so isn’t that title a bit inappropriate?”

As she said this, she glanced at Idella, who was sniffling together with Monica.

Something felt strange.

“Not the Holy Maiden? The Sun God’s Holy Maiden is only one person, Lady Ordel!”

Monica shouted angrily with bloodshot eyes.

Then she roughly pushed Jeremy away from Ordel’s embrace and threw herself into it instead.

“Do you know how worried we were?! Disappearing without a word! Please never leave again. Please return to the Main Temple. We were wrong!”

Ordel’s light purple dress became damp with tears.

Ordel awkwardly patted Monica’s back.

“You did nothing wrong. Rather, the one who was wrong was me… And calling me the Holy Maiden.”

Ordel glanced at Idella again.

Sensing something ominous, Airic quickly interrupted before Ordel could continue speaking.

“Wait a moment. Holy Maiden, I’d like to have a private conversation with you.”

“Pardon?”

“Now, immediately.”

Ordel blinked in surprise at Airic’s unusually strong demand.

But her hesitation was brief. She nodded and gently separated herself from Monica.

“Alright. Then let’s go inside… Oh, Lute, sorry but could you wait for just a moment?”

And then she said something shocking.

Monica, who had been wiping her tear-soaked face, Idella who had been comforting her, Victoria who was looking up at the sky trying to hold back tears, and even Seth who couldn’t say anything with his pale complexion—everyone was shocked.

Airic was no different.

What, what did she just say? What did she call Duke Siery?

Did she just call him by his first name?

“If you leave me behind…”

“I’m not running away. I’ll come back.”

Not only that, she was even speaking casually to him.

Much more so than when they occasionally met at the Main Temple.

It hadn’t even been ten full days since Ordel left the Main Temple, so what could have happened in that time for them to become so close?

“Then let’s go, High Priest.”

Ordel entered the temple first.

Airic looked at Lute with a complicated expression.

The deep satisfaction on his face was uncomfortable in many ways…

But right now, his conversation with Ordel came first.

The two stood before the massive marble altar where offerings to the gods had once been made.

“How fascinating. This place has been abandoned for so long, yet rather than feeling dirty and filthy, I first feel mystified and still sacred.”

She touched the altar, which was incredibly dirty with soil, dust, and fallen leaves, without any hesitation.

Her face showed admiration as she looked around the temple that had been taken over by tree vines.

“High Priest, you also came here to reopen the Capital City temple, didn’t you?”

“…That’s correct. Don’t tell me you had the same thought, Holy Maiden?”

“I was just going to do some simple cleaning.”

Before Ordel could say more, Airic spread his divine power around them to block any sound from leaking out.

To ensure their conversation wouldn’t be exposed to anyone.

“Holy Maiden.”

“Now that everyone knows I’m a fake Holy Maiden, what should I do if you keep calling me that? Just call me Ordel, please.”

At the sight of Ordel’s awkward smile, Airic squeezed his eyes shut.

She’s seriously misunderstanding something right now.

“There seems to be a misunderstanding.”

“A misunderstanding?”

“Yes. The fact that you were a fake Holy Maiden has not been revealed to anyone.”

“What?”

Ordel’s eyes widened in apparent confusion.

She looked outside urgently, then back at Airic.

“What do you mean? Why? Didn’t Miss Idella awaken as the Holy Maiden?”

Good heavens. So that’s why she kept glancing at Idella.

Who would have thought she was under such a misunderstanding?

“It’s true that Miss Idella awakened divine power shortly after you left. But she’s not the Holy Maiden.”

“…What?”

“She awakened High Priest-level divine power, not as the Holy Maiden.”

There’s a big difference between awakening as a regular priest and awakening as the Holy Maiden.

“If she had awakened as the Holy Maiden, beautiful bell sounds would have rung out from the divine statue along with the light. But when Miss Idella awakened, no bell sounds were heard at all.”

When making Ordel the fake Holy Maiden, Airic had been alone in front of the divine statue, so he had lied about hearing the bell sounds.

However, when Idella awakened, many people had gathered in front of the divine statue.

And none of them heard any bell sounds.

“She is not the Holy Maiden. Therefore, everyone still knows Lady Ordel as the Holy Maiden.”

“No, wait, Idella, what?”

Having firmly believed that Idella had awakened as the Holy Maiden, Ordel looked extremely flustered.

Though he had watched her closely for over two years, this was the first time he had seen Ordel so confused.

“I don’t understand why you had such a misunderstanding. Moreover, how did you know about Idella’s awakening? You had left the Main Temple before that happened.”

Yes, this is what I’m most curious about.

Ordel had left the Main Temple at 4 AM.

Idella awakened at 8 AM.

There was a four-hour time difference, so how did she know about this?

“Come to think of it, it’s also strange that you brought Miss Idella with you. As if you already knew she would awaken soon.”

“…”

“And as the Holy Maiden, no less. That part was wrong, but it’s still odd no matter how I look at it.”

Actually, he had been sensing something strange about Ordel for quite some time.

Her suddenly changed personality wasn’t the problem.

It was her abilities.

Ordel’s original divine power was at most at the level of a novice priestess.

Even with blood, sweat, and tears, it was questionable whether she could become a full priest—it was that weak.

But from the point when her personality changed, her divine power seemed to have become considerably stronger.

She could split tables in one blow, and someone who had hardly trained in divine power suddenly began using it skillfully.

‘The biggest problem is that she purified the demonic poison in the Southern Region.’

How shocked he had been when he received Seth’s report.

She was someone whose divine power was too weak to even have healing abilities, so how was that possible?

So there was only one hypothesis he could think of.

“Holy Maiden. Have you perhaps gained the power of foresight?”

Future prophecy.

The divine realm that only God could access, not permitted even to Holy Maidens or Holy Sages.

If Ordel had been chosen by the Sun God and gained that ability, then everything she had shown so far would be explained.

“Please tell me the truth, Holy Maiden.”

Airic spoke earnestly to Ordel, who couldn’t continue her words.

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After Ordel and Airic had left.

Everyone except Jeremy, who was endlessly staring only at the inner part of the temple where Ordel had entered, was glaring at Rute.

Ordel calling his name so naturally.

What on earth had happened between the two of them in less than ten days?

“Since when have you been with the Holy Maiden?”

Seth, the only one who could match Rute, stepped forward and asked.

Monica, Idella, and Victoria demanded an answer from Rute with fervent eyes.

“Didn’t you say you didn’t know the Holy Maiden’s whereabouts when the High Priest sent a letter asking?”

The person who had the hardest time after Ordel left with only a letter was none other than Seth.

How tormented he had been, unable to find even a trace of Ordel’s whereabouts despite searching for days and nights without sleep.

Rute, who had been playing dumb all this time, was so resentful.

“I was with her from the beginning. Ordel came to me as soon as she left the Grand Temple.”

However, Rute smiled shamelessly as if he wasn’t sorry at all.

Like a victor.

“Thanks to you all not forgiving Ordel, I was able to get my chance. I’m really grateful.”

Everyone’s murderous gazes poured down on him, but Rute remained leisurely.

Everyone knew that was the composure of one who already possessed what he wanted.

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