I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 225

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However, the savior never appeared in the end, and Nashas also couldn’t overcome old age and returned to God’s embrace shortly after.

It was from that moment.

If there was no one in this world to save me, I resolved to destroy everything about ‘Evil’ with my own hands.

‘Who knows? In the next life, perhaps a savior will appear to rescue us wretches.’

It was also for this reason that I said these words to Rute.

And shortly after, I interfered with ‘Evil’s’ plan to kill Rute and gladly died in his place.

Because Rute could carry out proper revenge better than she could with her meager power.

It was truly a terrible death, but it didn’t hurt.

Rather, I felt liberated because I had ruined his plan and could finally escape from that detestable life.

I had no idea until then.

That instead of tasting the true freedom of death, I would be reincarnated in another world with all my memories intact.

…And that there I would meet a true savior who would rescue her soul that had been broken beyond repair.

【The ‘Traveler Guiding Souls’ says that perhaps Nashas saw a future that even she couldn’t understand back then.】

【Because that was the last divine power contained in her two eyes.】

“…”

Instead of answering, Jin closed her eyes.

If there was a slight sense of kinship with Rute, there was a sense of debt toward Nashas.

“I really had no intention of doing any Holy Maiden duties.”

I have no loyalty to the Eternal God, but Nashas is different.

For my freedom, make choices for myself.

Nashas Dallan, what a truly annoying person.

I had planned to live with Ordel for the rest of my life after the war ended, but that’s all ruined now.

Jin let out a deep sigh.

* * *

The expedition to the Southern Desert was decided quickly.

I thought the nobles might resist the order to provide troops, but surprisingly.

After attending the noble council and returning to the separate palace, I was amazed by Rute’s explanation.

“Before we could flip the table, the Princess, no, His Highness the Crown Prince flipped it first.”

As expected, Bizra is extraordinary.

With this, all the nobles must have realized.

That Bizra has no intention of pursuing moderate politics.

Moreover, since she even possesses the Blessed Eyes, there was nothing good about getting on her bad side.

Therefore, everyone reluctantly provided soldiers without exception, crying while eating mustard.

“But we have to wage war against demons, not people. Moreover, most of them will have poison, so having too many ordinary soldiers would actually cause more damage.”

Rute nodded at my words.

“That’s why we decided to dispatch mainly mages and knights. Nobles without outstanding knight orders were assigned to rear supply duties.”

“That’s fortunate.”

The most frightening thing about war with demons is precisely that we can’t know how much fighting power they have.

At least we have Jin, who remembers all her past lives, so we can predict the scale to some extent.

‘But the past life and reality have changed a lot, so I can’t rely only on that.’

The final battle where Jin died saving Rute.

But in reality, that wasn’t the last one.

Because the moment Feliks and Idella got married, the demons that had been hiding appeared again and ravaged the Empire.

Surely there are more demons hiding than Jin remembers.

“Rute, is that thing ready?”

When I asked casually, Rute grinned and nodded.

“Of course. It’s all ready.”

“That’s not something that could be finished so quickly. Just how many mages did you work to death?”

At my words, Rute shrugged lightly.

“Mages are as crazy about research as alchemists. Working all night is nothing to them.”

“You don’t do that kind of thing.”

Far from staying up all night researching, you come looking for me every night with a bottle, asking me to drink with you.

“Of course. How can you compare a genius like me to ordinary mages?”

Rute sighed deeply as if asking how I could do such a thing.

Honestly, I couldn’t deny that he was a genius, but since I’m mediocre, he looked incredibly annoying.

“I can see you cursing me with your eyes.”

Rute poked my forehead with his finger.

“Oh, by the way, Mother and Father won’t be participating in this war.”

As I was slapping away his annoying hand, I tilted my head at Rute’s words.

“That’s surprising. I thought both Trisha and Mikhail were determined to get revenge, so I assumed they’d rush out excitedly.”

Both Trisha, who’s burning with vengeance, and Mikhail, who looks normal but is actually the most abnormal.

They’re not people who would refuse war.

“Instead, I promised to rampage enough for both of them. We won’t lack fighting power, so don’t worry.”

“Nothing bad happened to them, right?”

When I asked worriedly, Rute smiled and shook his head.

“Not at all. It’s not a health problem either. I’ll tell you after the war ends. It’s not something you need to worry about.”

Then wouldn’t it be okay to tell me now?

I was curious, but I didn’t pry further.

Seeing Rute’s peaceful expression, it really seems like nothing serious.

There must be a reason he can’t tell me right now.

“House of Sieri will deploy all forces except those two to this war. Both the knight order and mage corps are overflowing with enthusiasm.”

“Enthusiasm? Why?”

A sense of duty would be understandable, but war isn’t enjoyable, so how can they be overflowing with enthusiasm?

“I told them that the reason for my foul temper was because I was suffering from demon poison.”

Rute answered with a bright smile.

He told them that?

“When I said that my personality naturally had to become bad because my body hurt so much, everyone said they wouldn’t let it slide and that they’d kill the demons with their own hands.”

“…”

So right now, Rute has shifted the blame for his bad temper onto the demons.

How absurd.

It’s not because of illness but his naturally born personality.

“…Good job.”

But since it wouldn’t work on Rute anyway, I just nodded.

I just felt sorry for Sieri’s knight order and mage corps who would suffer under Rute for life.

* * *

The Empire was greatly stirred these past few days.

Continued demon attacks, Crown Prince Feliks’ treason, and the Imperial announcement to depose Feliks and appoint Princess Bizra as the new Crown Prince in less than a day.

So many things were happening that people couldn’t keep their wits about them, and when the Imperial Palace even declared war against demons, people were greatly agitated.

The anxiety about whether they could actually fight demons and win was only momentary.

“If we win this war, demons will never appear in the Empire again!”

A rumor of unknown origin began spreading throughout the Empire.

People’s anxiety soon turned to hope, and hope turned to fervent desire for victory in the war.

It was natural that the Imperial Palace prepared the largest-scale departure ceremony.

On the day of the departure ceremony.

People stood on both sides of the road with excited faces, holding flowers and flags.

Soon the main gate opened, and as soon as they saw the lined-up soldiers, people burst into cheers.

“The new Crown Prince!”

“Long live His Highness the Crown Prince!”

“Long live the Karnuss Empire!”

The person at the vanguard of the departure ceremony procession was none other than Bizra Voljia Karnuss, who had been appointed as the new Crown Prince.

Bizra, with her long hair tied high in a single knot and mounted on a massive white horse, was completely different from the princess people had imagined until now.

She who was once called the tragic princess had cast aside such a title, standing before the people of the Empire with a more dignified bearing than anyone else.

Her sharp gaze overflowed with such intimidating presence that it made people instinctively bow their heads whenever their eyes met.

Despite suddenly becoming Crown Prince, her unwavering gaze greatly increased the people’s trust in their new future leader.

This was precisely why the House of Karnuss and the Three Temples had placed Bizra at the forefront.

“Look, it’s the Sun God’s Main Temple!”

The people who had been staring blankly at Bizra all turned their heads at someone’s shout.

What appeared next after Crown Prince Bizra were none other than the Holy Maidens and Holy Figures of the Three Temples.

Among them, the flag symbolizing the Sun God was positioned at the very front.

This was as good as meaning that the Sun God’s Main Temple had taken the lead.

“Huh? But I heard the Holy Maiden of the Sun God was blonde?”

The people who had been cheering for the Sun God’s Main Temple, which had shown outstanding performance at the Harvest Festival, soon became puzzled.

The one known as the Holy Maiden was supposedly a gentle-looking woman with blonde hair and golden eyes.

But the person riding a massive black horse that contrasted with Bizra had striking pink hair, not blonde.

A woman who boasted a presence that didn’t fall short of the newly appointed Crown Prince Bizra—no, one that was even more outstanding.

Flutter.

With each step the horse took forward, the golden cloak emblazoned with the Sun God’s crest fluttered.

In the Sun God’s Main Temple, only one person could wear the golden cloak—the Holy Maiden alone.

In other words, that person was the true Holy Maiden of the Sun God.

“That person is the Holy Maiden of the Sun God…”

Why the Holy Maiden had suddenly changed, or who exactly that person was, didn’t matter.

Everyone could only accept the overwhelming presence she emanated, as if she embodied the sun itself.

The people captured her image in their eyes for a very long time.

She was truly the perfect messenger of god.

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