I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 224

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“War?”

The Emperor and Empress’s faces hardened.

“Didn’t you expect this?”

We have to go catch the one who ran away, or are you planning to just leave him be?

If we do that, he’ll keep sending monsters like he did now, won’t he?

“Well, we have no way of knowing where the monsters are.”

The Emperor let out a sigh.

Ah, right. Everyone doesn’t know that.

“Their stronghold is in the Southern Desert. I don’t know the exact location either, though.”

“What?”

At my words, the Emperor and Empress’s eyes widened.

Carmen and Dominic also seemed unaware of this fact, as they let out hollow laughs.

“It’s not for nothing that monsters appear particularly frequently in the south. When I went directly to the south last time, God confirmed it for me.”

Now even lies come out smoothly.

“Huh, all this time I thought monsters occurred naturally.”

Well, they mainly appeared frequently in the south, but they also showed up in other places from time to time, so it was natural to think that way.

“If we win this war against the monsters, no more monsters will appear in the Empire from now on.”

Jin also supported my words.

She was the only person who had all the memories of her previous life.

If Jin said so, then naturally it was true.

“Then we have no reason to oppose the war either.”

The Emperor gripped the armrest tightly with a hardened face.

The Empress, who had been quietly watching us, spoke up.

“By any chance, would Feliks also be there?”

At that question, we all looked at her.

“Sofia.”

The Emperor let out a groan and took her hand.

The Empress shook her head.

“I don’t mean anything else by it. Feliks is a traitor who not only joined hands with monsters in the Crown Prince’s body but also killed members of the royal family.”

The Empress clenched both fists tightly and spat out her words.

“We must ensure that such a thing never happens again in the Empire’s history. For that reason alone, he should rightfully be executed in the capital.”

“…”

We fell silent at words that were harsh but all too correct.

How much courage must it have taken to say those words.

“If bringing him to the capital is deemed too dangerous, then he may be executed on the spot.”

The Empress looked at the Emperor as if seeking permission.

Unlike her slightly trembling fists, her eyes looking at the Emperor showed not a trace of wavering.

It meant these were her true feelings, not false ones.

“…I agree with the Empress’s opinion.”

In the end, the Emperor also accepted her will.

“Then according to both of your wishes, the deposed Crown Prince Feliks will be executed in the capital, but if he poses a threat to the Empire, he will be executed in the south.”

Since the Emperor and Empress, who were also Feliks’s parents, had decided this way, we had nothing more to say.

“Then I will immediately summon the nobles for a meeting. The Imperial Family promises to dispatch our finest army so this can become the final war against the monsters.”

“I hope you can decide as quickly as possible. We can’t give them time to reorganize.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

After the conversation ended, we left the conference room first.

Through the gap of the closing door, we could see the Emperor bowing his head and the Empress patting his shoulder.

“I too would like to express my gratitude to all of you.”

Bizra, who came out with us, bowed his head to us.

“If it weren’t for you all, I would have died under false accusations without even avenging my parents.”

Feliks, who murdered Bizra’s parents and the Emperor’s brother and his wife.

That truth was shocking even thinking about it again.

“As the new Crown Prince, I hope the Imperial Family and the three main temples will continue to maintain our cooperative relationship as we do now.”

Bizra, who had finally revealed all the truth after years of endurance, looked at us with firm and steadfast eyes.

Having Bizra rather than Feliks become the next leader was this Empire’s greatest blessing.

“Of course. Please take care of us in the future as well.”

Bizra and I exchanged handshakes with smiles.

Bizra’s eyes gleamed beyond sparkling to almost menacingly. His strong will to thoroughly extract soldiers from all the nobles was powerfully conveyed.

Thanks to that, I could wait very comfortably.

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While the noble assembly was being convened, Jin was given one task.

‘Have a proper conversation with Nashas, High Priest.’

Since it was a task given by her one and only friend, she couldn’t run away from it.

Eventually, Jin found herself facing Nashas, the High Priest of the Eternal God, in the reception room of the Imperial Palace where she was staying with Ordel.

“…”

“…”

Jin carefully looked over Nashas sitting across from her.

This wasn’t the first time she had met her.

Well, it was the first time in this life.

She had met her in her previous life when she lived as a slave of ‘Evil’.

The Shrine of the Annihilation God, which had lived leisurely like hermits and only hastily opened its doors when the south was being devastated.

Even in an old man’s body, Nashas had done her best to treat the injured on the front lines and evacuate them to the rear.

It’s just that people whose anger toward the Shrine of the Annihilation God had reached its peak couldn’t see her.

That was when Jin first met Nashas.

“Nashas Dallan, High Priest of the Eternal God, greets the daughter of the newly appeared god.”

Nashas bowed her waist.

Jin roughly nodded her head.

“I’m Jin. …I mean, it is.”

She spoke informally as usual, then added with an “oops.”

Then Nashas smiled.

“You may speak comfortably, Holy Maiden.”

“This is more comfortable.”

If her friend Ordel had heard, she would have been furious.

More than anything, speaking informally to Nashas bothered her in various ways.

It wasn’t simply because of age.

“I heard that the Holy Maiden is very close friends with the daughter of the Sun God.”

“That’s right. We’re very close.”

When she said it proudly, Nashas smiled warmly again.

That smile was so unfamiliar that Jin turned her head away sharply.

Nashas was uncomfortable.

This was why she had been reluctant to meet her.

“You must feel very unfamiliar since you suddenly became a Holy Maiden. I understand that feeling.”

It wasn’t particularly sudden though.

“So you may stay at the Sun God’s Main Temple with Ordel rather than at the Shrine of the Annihilation God.”

“…What?”

At words she never imagined, Jin’s eyes widened.

Unlike the other two places, the Shrine of the Annihilation God rarely produced Holy Maidens or Holy Sages, making them that much more precious.

She didn’t have to come with them?

“We don’t want to oppress the Holy Maiden. The Holy Maiden should rightfully stay where the Holy Maiden wishes to be. That is what we desire.”

She was speechless.

She had become a Holy Maiden through a contract with the Annihilation God, but since the duties of a Holy Maiden weren’t included in the contract terms, she planned to live as she pleased.

She also didn’t want to be separated from Ordel.

But now that Nashas had spoken like that, her heart felt strangely restless.

“I wanted to meet you because I absolutely had to tell you this.”

Nashas rose from his seat.

Flustered, Jin unconsciously stood up as well.

“Are you leaving already?”

“Yes. I cannot take up too much time from someone who will need to move busily from now on. Ah, one thing.”

Nashas looked around Jin’s vicinity.

At the sight she had seen before, Jin unconsciously flinched and trembled.

However, unlike in her previous life, Nashas simply smiled joyfully.

“…Holy Maiden, you also possess the same beautiful golden color as Lord Ordel. It is an honor for this old body to be able to serve Holy Maiden Jin.”

Nashas bowed his head.

At that sight, Jin bit her lips tightly.

As she had thought before, this person was truly foolish.

“If you ever need our strength, please come to us anytime. The Temple of the Annihilation God will always stand with the Holy Maiden.”

Leaving those words behind, Nashas departed.

Jin, who had been quietly staring at the closed door, collapsed into her seat like someone who had lost all strength.

【The ‘Traveler Guiding Souls’ asks if you’re still the same good child as always.】

“…Be quiet.”

Jin frowned deeply and flopped down on the sofa.

Nashas had been the same in her previous life too.

‘How can it be that a child of god is trapped by such wicked power?’

One day, when she was living as Count Kiris’s slave after being forcibly injected with the power of ‘Evil’ by him.

Having received orders to destroy the Southern Region along with monsters, she encountered Nashas, who didn’t flee but stayed until the end to care for the injured.

And when Nashas saw her, rather than condemning her, he felt sorrow.

‘Poor soul. The Sun God is struggling to protect you.’

What had she felt when Nashas, who had looked around her as if understanding, said those words?

Jin, who had been hating the Sun God for granting her only such feeble power, felt as if the ground beneath her feet was crumbling the moment she heard those words.

Even after losing power to such an extent, he was still expending energy to protect her.

Foolish Sun God, stupid Sun God.

‘Someday you will break free from those evil chains that bind you and find freedom. Someone will surely save you.’

Originally, her mission had been to kill Nashas.

But was there really any reason for her to follow orders?

‘…If you don’t want to die, get lost.’

So Jin let Nashas live and sent him away.

Though she was beaten that day for defying orders, the image of the only person who had pitied her remained in her mind for a long time.

It was from that moment that she began to harbor hope that someone who would truly save her might appear someday.

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