I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 40

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All business of the Lumen Trading Guild proceeds under the permission of Duke Sieri.

Very occasionally there are matters decided at the vice-guild master level, but selling potions together with the Sun God’s Main Temple is no ordinary business.

Lute Sieri’s hand must have definitely touched this matter.

How could we not have known until now that Lute Sieri had made contact with the Sun God’s side!

“Carmen, what’s wrong?”

Just then, someone entered inside.

Unlike Carmen in her fancy dress, a man wearing proper holy robes.

Opposite to Carmen with dark blue hair and sky-blue eyes, he was Dominic Aria, the Holy Figure of the Temple of the Sea God and Carmen’s older brother.

“Those leech-like Sun God bastards are still alive.”

Carmen shouted venomously.

Dominic’s eyes widened greatly.

“…What did you say?”

“Not only have they started the potion business, but the one distributing it is the Lumen Trading Guild!”

Dominic’s face hardened coldly.

When his gentle impression hardened, he became much more fierce than Carmen.

Under the heavy pressure emanating from the strongest Holy Maiden and Holy Figure in the grand temple, the priest’s legs began trembling.

“That’s strange. According to the letter, they started selling two weeks ago. Why have we been unaware of this until now?”

Dominic, who received and read the crumpled letter from Carmen, asked the priest.

Though his voice was quiet, the aura he emanated was anything but quiet.

“We shouldn’t lack informants, so not knowing until now doesn’t make sense, does it?”

“H-Holy Figure, that is…”

“To think we’ve been entrusting important business to such an incompetent fool.”

“Holy Figure! I’m sorry!”

The High Priest, pale as a sheet, dropped to his knees with a thud.

However, he would not be given a second chance.

“Drag him away. Change the potion business manager today.”

At Carmen’s command, the waiting Holy Knights began dragging the High Priest away.

“Holy Figure! Holy Maiden! I was wrong! Give me a chance, just one more time…! Considering my efforts in growing the business until now…!”

Though he cried out desperately, Carmen and Dominic had already turned their backs.

As if they had long forgotten his existence.

Eventually, he was dragged away to some unknown place with his mouth gagged by the Holy Knights.

“Ha! This is really driving me crazy.”

In the room that had become quiet after everyone left.

Carmen ran her hands through her hair and slumped back onto the sofa.

“Really disgusting bastards.”

It’s been quite a while since we forgot about the Sun God, but who would have thought they’d crawl out without even dying!

“This was the perfect opportunity for the Sea God to become the sole main deity!”

This was precisely why they were hostile toward the Sun God.

The three main deities that had been worshipped on the continent since long ago.

However, as time passed, the status of the three main deities began to change drastically.

The Sun God, who had the best momentum among the three main deities, suddenly began to decline rapidly one day.

People who had even forgotten the Sun God’s existence naturally began seeking the Sea God more, and thus, opposite to the Sun God, the Sea God’s status only continued to rise.

To the point where the Sea God eventually stood tall as the continent’s supreme deity.

Another deity among the three main deities had no interest in expanding influence, so if just a little more time had passed, the Sea God would have become the sole main deity.

But at this crucial time, news came that those damned Sun God bastards, far from perishing, had crawled back to the surface!

“And they dare to do the potion business? How did those bastards who were supposedly poor and on the verge of ruin manage this? And how did they get Duke Sieri!”

Lute Sieri is a capricious person.

When he, who had never believed in any god, came to the Temple of the Sea God, we thought he was finally going to become a believer, but didn’t he suddenly leave with a sneer?

But why the hell is he joining hands with those damned Sun God bastards and even doing business! What exactly do we lack compared to them!

“What should we do?”

Carmen looked at Dominic with an anxious face.

Since Dominic had a much calmer disposition than her, perhaps he might come up with a decent plan.

“…Hasn’t our deity given any revelation?”

Dominic, who had been quietly contemplating, asked.

Carmen let out an “Ah!” exclamation.

“Right.”

The Sea God often sends divine words, that is, revelations, when major events occur at the grand temple.

However, until they belatedly learned of this fact, he had not conveyed any words.

“He didn’t even look at me at all.”

“I haven’t felt the deity’s presence for quite some time either.”

The Sea God’s silence, who would always come when something happened even if not frequently, meant one thing.

“It means the Sun God’s Main Temple’s revival isn’t significant enough.”

It was quite plausible.

The siblings who served him closest knew best how greedy the Sea God was.

“So let’s leave them alone for now. Anyway, if Duke Sieri is helping with the business, we can’t interfere either.”

Though it was infuriating, it was the right thing to say.

Even though the Temple of the Sea God was the strongest among temples, it wasn’t yet at a level to confront the House of Sieri.

Especially since the Duke’s house had good relations with the Imperial Palace.

Interfering with the Duke’s business was impossible as it could make the entire Empire an enemy.

However.

“Instead, we need to understand the situation to some extent, so let’s send an informant to the Sun God’s Main Temple.”

Directly touching Lute Sieri would be difficult, but the Sun God’s Main Temple doesn’t matter, does it?

“Good. I like it.”

Carmen smiled with satisfaction at Dominic’s decision.

If she had to just sit and watch without doing anything, she would have died of frustration, so it was really fortunate that wasn’t the case.

Carmen pulled up the corners of her mouth thinking of the informant the grand temple had carefully cultivated.

She was very much looking forward to the information he would bring from the Sun God’s Main Temple.

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Kyaaak!

I quickly covered my mouth at the scream that burst out without my knowing.

I glanced around cautiously, but fortunately no one frowned at my scream.

Thanks to the others with me already being half out of their minds.

“Uh, uh uh… Huh? Gasp…”

“…Is this, is this really true?”

In place of Seth, who couldn’t string words together, Airic asked me.

I removed the hand covering my mouth and nodded.

“Yes, it’s real. This is our potion sales report!”

So what we were looking at together with our heads together was none other than the potion sales report sent by Jun Rudmin, vice-guild master of the Lumen Trading Guild.

At the news that all five hundred bottles made as prototypes had been sold in just ten days, we couldn’t hide our screams.

And there were even reservation inquiries pouring in.

Thanks to the sharp Jun Rudmin collecting reservation fees, sales beyond imagination fell into our hands.

I hadn’t even anticipated that we’d hit such a jackpot right from the start.

“The start is so good it’s almost scary.”

“H-h-how is this possible?”

Seth’s speech finally returned only after drinking cold water repeatedly.

I told him about the frequent price increases of alchemy potions.

“So in other words, we timed it well. Honestly, if there’s a potion with better effects at a similar price, of course they’d buy ours, right?”

Our potions are about intermediate grade. To be honest, the price is slightly high compared to their capabilities.

But ours are potions infused with divine power.

Since divine power potions that only nobles used became available for commoners to purchase, it was natural for buying desire to be stirred.

“Holy Maiden, how on earth did you know about this?”

Seth asked me with sparkling eyes.

I’d like to say it’s all because I’m a genius… but this wasn’t my achievement.

“It’s thanks to Monica. Monica did the current market research.”

Monica, who had conducted the research, had screamed that now was the perfect timing, that we absolutely had to proceed right now.

The reason we ground down the potion making team and healing shuttles for mass production was all because of that.

Thanks to that, the potion business established itself very well.

“Moreover, the reputation of the Lumen Trading Guild also played a part.”

If the Lumen Trading Guild hadn’t handled distribution, we’d still be anxiously biting our nails, unable to sell all our potions.

Thanks to them, people bought up everything without any resistance, even though Sun God potions must have seemed very unfamiliar.

Indeed, including Rute in the business was a very wise choice.

“From now on, the potion making team and the priests in charge of divine power will have to work hard.”

I smiled as I looked at Airic. Seth let out a groan as he looked at Airic with pity.

There’s one reason we’re acting like this.

“Hang in there, High Priest.”

Because one of the healing shuttles who infuses divine power into potions is none other than Airic.

True to being the representative shuttle, he was grinding himself down more enthusiastically than anyone else.

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