I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 226

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Since we would be fighting in the hot desert, this war would be led by Duke Esranda Cali of the Southern Region, who had long fought against monsters.

“The weather itself isn’t much of a problem. Knights and mages can maintain their body temperature to some extent.”

The main forces of the war had gathered in the conference room of Count Kali’s Estate.

The Holy Maidens and Holy Sage from the three Grand Temples including myself, the four dukes representing the nobility, and Bizra.

We all focused on Cali’s words.

“But the desert sand is different. Fighting in sand where your feet sink will drain your stamina much faster than you’d think.”

That’s why Count Kali also lures monsters toward areas with solid ground when fighting them.

“But for mages to cast flight magic on all the knights…”

“The mana consumption would be too great. That method seems difficult.”

Bizra immediately shook her head.

Only knights and mages would participate in this war.

So there was no room to waste mages on flight magic.

To begin with, there were fewer mages than knights.

We also needed mages to cast protective barriers in the rear under Bizra’s command, so we had to devise another method.

“There’s no need to think about it so complicatedly.”

Everyone looked at me at my words.

“Do you have some other method?”

At Bizra’s question, I nodded vigorously.

“If the problem is soft sand where feet sink, we just need to harden that sand.”

“That’s not as easy as it sounds…”

Bizra, who had been sighing, suddenly closed her mouth and glanced somewhere.

It wasn’t just Bizra.

“Ah.”

“Right, that method.”

“Yes, certainly.”

Rute, Cali, and even Duke Aster of the Eastern Region.

They all nodded.

“That’s a good method.”

Jin, my eternal ally, was the same.

Dominic and Duke Aria, who received the gazes, hardened their faces.

“…So you want us to use our abilities to harden the sand?”

“Yes!”

At Duke Aria’s question, I smiled brightly and nodded.

“Carmen and Dominic can thoroughly wet the sand with their abilities, then Duke Aria can freeze it! If we leave just a bit of sand on the surface, it won’t be too slippery either.”

“How is that a simple method!”

Duke Aria angrily slammed the table.

“The Southern desert is the largest on the continent. How can we harden that vast desert with just the three of us!”

“We only need to freeze the battlefield where combat will take place.”

How could we freeze the entire desert?

I had no intention of demanding that much.

“You’re the Empire’s greatest ice-type mage, so I thought that much would be possible. Can’t you do it?”

“…”

If he couldn’t do it, he should just say so, but Duke Aria didn’t answer and just clenched his fists while trembling.

Even a phone vibration wouldn’t shake like that.

“Well, you are getting on in years, so it might be quite difficult. Then let’s assign more ice-type mages to help.”

“The Aria Ducal House’s magic corps has quite a few ice-type mages, so let’s have them all work together.”

Rute smiled brightly and supported my opinion.

Count Cali and Duke Aster were the same.

“The South has more fire-type mages than ice-type. Good luck, Duke Aria.”

“Your bones must ache from old age, so be careful not to hurt yourself. I’ll cheer you on.”

Duke Aria gulped down his tea.

That’s hot tea, but being an ice mage, it probably doesn’t affect him.

“It will be quite taxing for the three of you, but please do your best for victory.”

At my words, Dominic let out a deep sigh but didn’t object.

Even he must think there’s no better method than this.

“And in this war, everyone will be supplied with Sun God-blessed potions.”

I took out a pouch from my chest and placed it on the conference room table.

“Wait.”

Not only Carmen, who had been slouching throughout the meeting, but even Dominic, who had been sighing heavily, straightened up.

Both of them stared intently at the pouch I had taken out.

“This is…”

As expected of a Holy Maiden and Holy Sage, they recognized it immediately.

“These are supreme-grade potions.”

At my words, Carmen immediately took out a potion from the pouch.

Her hands trembled.

High-purity golden liquid swirled inside the bottle.

“How on earth did you make this?”

Carmen looked back at me in a daze.

Being a Holy Maiden, she would have immediately recognized it. The mighty divine power dwelling within.

A power that the Sea God’s divine force could never match.

“Our alchemists worked hard.”

Right after the last party of the Harvest Festival ended.

The potion-making team trio, led by Lana Priestess, came to find me.

‘Finally! We found the perfect mixing ratio of Amin grass and Lindal flowers!’

Zenrik, whose dark circles had reached down to his chin, shouted as soon as he saw me.

I was naturally amazed by his persistence in finally finding that damn mixing ratio.

‘How much is the ratio? It goes down to ten decimal places – shall I tell you everything?’

When I heard those words, the phrase “crazy pervert” rose to my throat, but I barely swallowed it.

Somehow even Lana and Wolfgang looked terrible. Just how much had they suffered under Zenrik?

Anyway, thanks to that, the potions could now achieve high-grade effects without me having to bestow blessings on them.

But stronger potions were needed for war, so I infused the potions with holy power.

This high-purity golden potion was the result.

“Currently, we have completed 10,000 bottles of supreme-grade potions. After that, high-grade potions will be supplied.”

Since I had to stand at the front lines in this war, I couldn’t just stay focused on making potions.

So both the potion-making team and I worked hard to make plenty before the war started.

“And one more thing.”

I placed another pouch in front of the people who had lost their words looking at the potions.

“Holy Stones!”

This time too, Carmen and Dominic reacted first.

Jin, who had already been briefed on all the plans, just watched the situation with an excited expression.

“The Imperial Palace paid a high price for the Holy Stones. Feel free to use them as much as you want.”

Just as mages replenish with magic stones when their mana is insufficient, priests can also replenish with Holy Stones.

Above all, divine power is the natural enemy of monsters.

“Just carrying Holy Stones will increase your defense.”

Or like Rute, you could embed Holy Stones in your sword.

“The most important things in war are equipment and money. Since we have both, it’ll be much easier.”

Bizra nodded vigorously.

Since it was the special situation of wartime and we made bulk purchases, they did give us quite a discount, but Holy Stones are fundamentally expensive, so the Imperial Palace had to pay a considerable amount.

However, Bizra didn’t regret it at all.

Of course. Money is only useful if you’re alive to spend it.

“Large quantities of potions and Holy Stones. This should definitely be manageable.”

Carly nodded her head with satisfaction.

Oh my, she seems to be misunderstanding something.

“There’s more.”

The potions and Holy Stones weren’t the end of it.

I threw another pouch.

Thud!

This time both Carly and Duke Aria rose from their seats.

“Don’t tell me, are those mana stones?”

“Yes. Mana stones ranging from high-grade to supreme-grade.”

I smiled and pointed to Rute sitting beside me.

“You didn’t forget that the person who owns the largest mana stone mine on the continent is our ally, did you?”

“Hah.”

Count Kali let out a sigh like a lament and slumped back into his seat.

She stared blankly at the smiling Rute.

“To think that miser would release so many high-quality mana stones like this.”

“What choice do I have? When our Holy Maiden tells me to hand them over, I have to hand them over.”

Rute shrugged his shoulders.

He’s really good at lying. He was the one who brought all the mana stones to show me as if he’d been waiting for it the moment war was decided.

“Supreme-grade potions, Holy Stones, and even mana stones. You’re really going all out with the supply offensive.”

Bizra, who hadn’t known about the mana stones, let out a hollow laugh.

“As Your Majesty said, war is about equipment and money.”

Me with power and Rute with money.

When the two of us joined hands, there was nothing we couldn’t do.

“The equipment is perfect. But there’s one thing I’m worried about.”

Then Duke Aster, who was neither a mage nor a priest and had been watching like it was a fire across the river, spoke up.

“With such thorough preparations, don’t you think the monsters might avoid us and attack the capital instead?”

It was a reasonable concern.

The monsters have no intelligence, but Feliks who leads them is someone who learned imperial studies from birth.

Moreover, having mastered the cunning of ‘Evil’, he could easily avoid us and seize the capital.

Since most of our forces are gathered here.

However.

“That won’t happen.”

Feliks will absolutely not avoid us.

“Their ultimate goal is continental conquest, but to achieve that, they must accomplish one thing without fail. If they fail at that, they can never conquer the continent.”

“What’s that?”

“My death.”

I placed my hand on my chest.

Everyone’s eyes widened.

“The death of the Holy Maiden of the Sun God. Furthermore, the death of the Sun God.”

“…”

“The reason I’ve been hiding my true identity as the real Holy Maiden was precisely to avoid their surveillance network.”

But now Feliks has realized my identity, and he and ‘Evil’ will target me.

“So as long as I’m here, they will never avoid us.”

If they don’t kill me, the Sun God’s power won’t be broken either.

That was exactly why I had boldly prepared for war.

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〖They’ve come.〗

At the divine voice heard from the void, the monsterized Feliks raised his head.

Yes, he could feel it too.

〖The damned Daughter of Light is in my land.〗

In the desert, in this place filled with the aura of death, the Daughter of Light had appeared.

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