I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 199

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“…What?”

Everyone’s eyes widened in shock.

Only Rute, who had somewhat anticipated this, remained calm.

“Not the Princess, but the Crown Prince…? Good heavens.”

Seth let out a groan of dismay.

Even though I had accused the Crown Prince of being the culprit without any evidence, no one doubted my words.

Rather, Idella exclaimed like this:

“I knew it! I thought that bastard was suspicious from the moment I first saw him!”

Right, I should have listened to Idella’s words more carefully.

“Then Beth Lunata pointing to Her Highness the Princess was…”

“Probably trying to frame her. So the Crown Prince could operate without any problems.”

I don’t know why he specifically targeted Bizra.

If Bizra was called a traitor, the Emperor and Empress would be shocked and greatly shaken, so maybe he wanted to expand his influence during that gap.

“How truly despicable. Acting so friendly in front of others, pretending to care for Her Highness the Princess. But behind the scenes, plotting to kill her. So underhanded.”

Idella’s words were right.

In my previous life, the reason Feliks bothered to become lovers with Idella was probably to manipulate her more easily.

While pretending to be a good person and a wise ruler, his true nature was more sinister than anyone’s.

To think I believed the Empire’s future was bright while looking at such a person.

“But without evidence, you couldn’t report him to His Majesty the Emperor.”

Airic, who had been listening quietly, spoke.

I nodded and tapped my eyes.

“I haven’t mentioned this before, but I can actually see the dark aura that Evil’s subordinates possess. That’s also why I was certain Jesi Lunata was Evil’s subordinate.”

“Ah! So that’s how you knew the Crown Prince was an enemy.”

“It wasn’t visible before. That’s why I couldn’t suspect him, but I confirmed it for the first time today.”

The moment I saw the dark aura pooled in Crown Prince Feliks’s heart.

I had to struggle constantly to keep from retching right there.

The power Feliks possessed was so filthy that I wondered how I hadn’t noticed until now.

Even high-level demons weren’t that bad.

He truly was Evil’s minion.

“But Lady Ordel’s eyes wouldn’t serve as solid evidence.”

“Yes. And the Crown Prince probably realized that I’m the real Holy Maiden, not Miss Idella.”

In other words, from now on, there was a high possibility he would target me instead of Idella.

The problem was that I still couldn’t defeat Feliks.

“…I’ll strengthen Lady Ordel’s protection.”

Airic said with a stern expression.

Instead of answering, I gave a bitter smile.

Such things were meaningless.

To properly face Feliks, one needed divine power.

Excluding the aged Nashas, it was ultimately just me, Jeremy, and Rute.

But even those two weren’t complete.

Rute didn’t know how to use divine power, and Jeremy could only properly demonstrate his abilities when controlled by the Sea God.

Then there was only one method.

‘I need to strengthen my sacred power more.’

My divine power increased in proportion to my sacred power.

Sigh, do I really have to borrow money from Rute in the end?

What if I received more of Rute’s divine power? Wouldn’t the Sun God recover even more?

【The ‘Sun Risen from Death’ says there’s no point since he has already recovered as much as possible through divine power.】

【He informs you that it’s already a miracle that this much of his permanently damaged divine power has returned. In fact, he says he had no idea this was even possible.】

【The ‘Sun Risen from Death’ sobs with emotion, saying he’s so moved to finally recover this much power.】

Seeing him cry, it’s not a lie. There was no reason to lie anyway.

Come to think of it, there’s something I’m curious about.

I should ask when I’m alone.

“While we’re at the Sieri Duchy, it should be fine. That bastard has brains, so he won’t recklessly attack me while the duchy is protecting me.”

“That’s right.”

Then, with a heavy voice, the reception room door burst open.

“Were you having a meeting?”

It was Trisha and Mikhail, who had gone to monitor Princess Bizra instead of attending the temple ceremony at my request.

To find out through this attack whether she was really Evil’s minion or not.

“…Fortunately, it seems Her Highness the Princess was innocent.”

At my words, Trisha, who was sitting in an empty chair, nodded.

“Not just innocent. I heard some surprising stories.”

“Surprising stories?”

“Yes. Everyone here must be people you trust, right?”

“Yes.”

I answered without hesitation.

“Then I’ll trust them and tell you. Her Highness the Princess isn’t some subordinate of Evil. Rather, she’s on the side trying to eliminate them.”

The day Bizra was taken from the library because of Beth Lunata’s false testimony.

Everything she had said was true.

“They say she possesses the ‘Blessed Eyes.'”

What? The Blessed Eyes?

For a moment, I doubted my ears.

To think the Princess was the owner of the ‘Blessed Eyes.’

“Not the Crown Prince?”

“They say His Highness the Crown Prince doesn’t possess the eyes.”

Huh. So that’s why Feliks specifically targeted Bizra.

It was because of this.

The Blessed Eyes.

The founding Emperor who established the Karnuss Empire received blessings from the three main gods, and his eyes changed to a mystical blue-green color.

From then on, imperial family members born with blue-green eyes gained special abilities.

The ability to unconditionally discover the truth about someone.

Of course, it wasn’t an ability that could be used carelessly.

Only one truth could be learned per person.

But as time passed, the imperial bloodline gradually thinned, and the blessing weakened, so only one or two people per generation were barely born with the Blessed Eyes.

In the original story, it was said to be the Crown Prince…

But in reality, it was Princess Bizra.

So that’s why Feliks tried to eliminate Bizra by any means necessary.

If only Bizra disappeared, Feliks would have nothing to worry about.

“Despite having the Blessed Eyes, the reason Her Highness the Princess remained silent until now was because the Crown Prince had a firm grip on the Empire.”

That would make sense.

Bizra was a half-princess who barely maintained her position thanks to the Emperor.

In contrast, Feliks was someone who had been promised the next Emperor’s throne from birth.

If she made a wrong move, she could have been accused of coveting the Emperor’s throne and trying to drive out the Crown Prince.

No, knowing how sinister Feliks is, he would definitely have done that.

“Besides, there was also the watcher Jesi Lunata. She had no choice but to distance herself from the imperial family and pretend to know nothing.”

The more I dig, the more truly chilling Feliks becomes.

Like a rotten onion.

“But with today’s events, she finally made her choice. Lady Ordel, Her Highness the Princess said that since she’s going to die anyway, she’ll gladly join the game you’ve started.”

A Princess with the Blessed Eyes would be more reliable than anyone!

She would provide clearer evidence than my eyes!

I really did well sending Trisha and Mikhail to Bizra.

“With Your Highness the Princess joining us, His Majesty the Emperor and Her Majesty the Empress won’t be able to ignore us.”

Thanks to Bizra, we now had justification.

“But we can’t move right away. If we act thoughtlessly, that man might escape.”

Or the Emperor and Empress, swayed by sentiment, might spirit the Crown Prince away.

So we had to expose everything decisively at a moment he couldn’t anticipate, in front of everyone, leaving him no escape.

“We need to corner that man.”

Right now, Feliks must be seething with rage.

The poison he planted in Rute was suppressed, the Sun God’s Main Temple had gloriously revived instead of being destroyed, and he’d lost two of his closest associates in this incident.

That man would surely try to kill me soon, whether by framing me or some other method.

We had to move first before that happened.

“Before this Harvest Festival ends.”

Everyone nodded at my words.

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“Ha.”

In his bedroom after finishing all the cleanup.

Having dismissed everyone, Feliks sat on the sofa and ran his hands over his face.

The gentle, passionate face of the Crown Prince had completely vanished.

What remained were sinister black eyes soaked in vengeance and rage.

“…Ortel Kiris.”

Feliks clenched his fists tightly.

‘I never thought that bastard would kill Beth.’

Beth hadn’t been imprisoned from the start.

He had already replaced her with someone else beforehand.

While the person disguised as Beth threw Bizra as bait to throw the Imperial Palace into chaos, they planned to kill Idella at the Temple of the Sun God.

However, after suppressing his nausea and visiting the Monastery Temple, Feliks modified his plan.

Ordel, who had an oddly stronger presence than Idella, the real Holy Maiden.

Even after the real Holy Maiden appeared, the Grand Temple still revolved around Ordel.

Just as he found this strange, the moment she dared to call their god bugs and vermin in front of the Emperor and Empress.

Feliks decided he had to kill Ordel.

How dare she spout such blasphemy!

The god had said to kill Idella, but changing the order slightly wasn’t a problem, so he targeted Ordel at the Temple of the Sun God.

…But who would have thought Beth would lose to Ordel.

How could someone whose divine power was as worthless as trash.

Moreover, the overwhelming power she displayed wasn’t even at the level of a simple priest.

Holy Maiden.

It was definitely Holy Maiden level.

If the Sun God had chosen the fake he’d infiltrated as the real Holy Maiden, everything would make sense.

It was absurd, but if the Sun God had gone mad, it wasn’t impossible.

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