59 – Black Blood – 4
“Christine.”
“Speak, my God.”
“Didn’t anyone see it when you were soaking in the lake?”
“If such a human existed, I would have offered it to God right there. Please stop worrying about it.”
When the black blood monster appeared and how it died, Christine explained to me as we moved to the carriage.
As usual, Christine explained that she was about to perform a purification ceremony after the ‘Gongyang’, when it suddenly appeared, attacked Christine, and then fell into a lake that turned into holy water and melted away.
So it was obvious what the highest quality holy water the Jupiter Sanghoe had discovered would be.
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Just in case, I wondered if Christine was washing in the lake and sold it, but luckily it didn’t seem to be that bad of a business.
If that was the case, I would start by killing all the people involved in the upper ranks.
By the way, there were real lunatics back in the day who sold water that pretty and good-looking women washed and related things.
There were real perverts who liked it for what they were going to use it for. I don’t know right now, but maybe one or two will come up if I look for them.
Of course, I have no desire to look for it. Would you say I’m crazy
“It’s a lake made up of the highest quality holy water… I don’t know who discovered it, but I don’t think it’s at the level of holding a piece firmly, right?”
“Even if you beat everything else and sell holy water, three generations can play and eat.
“On the premise that other religious people don’t fuck.”
“Ah, can’t they go to a lake that’s stuck in a forest like this? It doesn’t matter how conscienceless they are.”
“The biggest money line is cut off for them, so why not?
“Is there any problem anyway? People who can’t afford top-notch stuff like that will go to church.”
“It’s okay to pour water on it and classify it, you idiot. Don’t the people in the business think of that?”
“ah.”
As the soldier, who was in high spirits by taking two extra gold coins for each person for ignoring the checkpoint once, shouted loudly, the adventurers who were escorting us were excitedly talking about the holy water lake found in the forest.
The reason why even a party made up of A-class adventurers who claim to fly was showing such frivolous behavior was a huge amount of information to understand.
If the black-blooded monster melts away without being able to resist properly, then its efficacy is the highest in most churches and far surpasses those sold.
Because production requires God’s blessing, the opportunity to separately sell holy water, which was virtually monopolized by some religions, is no different from blessing rolling in through the vine.
It was strange to not pay attention.
If there is only one problem, it is that there is a fact that I must confirm in the top-notch holy water producing area.
‘Even if I try to buy it with money, it won’t work.’
If the business was successful, he would be able to earn money in platinum coins rather than gold coins, but would a stranger who appeared out of nowhere know what to do and give him permission to investigate the area?
If you verbally refuse, it’s kind of nice, and it’s good if you don’t try to drive out with a knife thinking that spies or nobles from other stores who smelled the money are trying to put a spoon on you.
Of course, there is no problem that cannot be solved with more money, so it might be possible if you hand over all the gold coins in the bag.
Charlotte will never care how I spend this money, but rather, she’s the kind of person who will bring me a bag with platinum coins next time, saying that it’s not enough.
“But I hate that.”
“I don’t know what you don’t like, but if God does, so am I.”
As soon as I arrived, Christine, who was seated sullenly at the strict order not to kneel on the floor, affirmed my words.
Then he looked at me blankly, so he smiled a little and stroked my hair.
Although I had to dodge the teeth a couple of times in the middle.
“Do you know what I was thinking when I said that?”
“The will expressed by my god is an oracle, a doctrine, and a truth, so how can I doubt it?”
“……Well, yes. It’s done.”
Christine was still Christine.
It was an incredibly valuable place, and the merchants must have put a lot of effort into paving the road, so the carriage didn’t rattle anymore.
As if that one inspection was the last, everything went smoothly after that. Just as they said, it wasn’t long before the carriage stopped after about five more minutes, and adventurers holding torches politely knocked on the carriage door.
“Employer, we have arrived.”
“Okay. Let’s get out.”
I winked lightly, grabbed my bag and sword, and stood up. Christine followed closely behind.
The door opened just as I was about to leave, and adventurers holding torches stood side by side.
The place where the carriage stopped was completely in the forest. At least the flat road was completely cut off in front of it, and there were only trees and grass all around.
I thought it was going to be a little more noisy, since I did a lot of inspections with the lord’s seal at the forefront.
“Why is that?”
“It’s nothing special, it’s emptyer than expected.”
At my words, one of the adventurers nodded.
“Well, that’s right. I thought it would be a bit busy.”
“Since it’s night, I could have left a few guards behind and went to bed. Don’t you know it’s more inefficient to have them work until night in a forest like this?”
“Hey, it’s nothing else, it’s the highest-class Holy Beast, but isn’t that kind of inefficiency enough to bear?”
Then, leaving the adventurers arguing among themselves, they handed the heavy bag of gold coins to the coachman who politely took off his hat and held it in front of his chest.
Instead of counting the amount in front of his eyes, he put on his belt right away, as if he knew how to be polite like a coachman hired at an expensive price.
“Thank you for your hard work. Thanks to you, I came here comfortably.”
“Are you sure you’re okay?”
“What?”
“It means that you two are alone in a forest like this. Wouldn’t it be better to have an escort with you?”
The coachman seemed to be bothered by the fact that he had to leave the two of us here.
I’m not sure if that’s a concern about losing a good customer or a human-to-human concern, but he was quite a man of character.
“You don’t have to worry. It’s strong enough. And, I already have an escort.”
The coachman glanced at Christine and bowed his head respectfully, as if he would not doubt my words.
“Then I understand. Please be careful.”
“You too. Back here at sunrise three days later, remember?”
“Of course. You’ve already paid the advance, but there’s no way I’ll forget it.”
This combination of a coachman and a party of A-class adventurers will probably see us here again in three days.
Until then, we’ll have to try to figure out whether we’ll finish all the work involved and wait for the remaining time, or if we can’t finish it and arrive on time.
When the wagon and the adventurer party left, only Christine and I were left alone.
Now there must be nothing to be afraid of, I immediately took out a wooden stick with a small mana stone on the end from my bag. It was about the same length as a standard torch rod.
When I lightly rubbed the mana stone with my hand, light burst out. It was a light brighter than most torches. It’s nothing special, it’s one of Charlotte’s inventions.
Even if Christine or Serena don’t have these things, they can do their activities on their own, so they were thoroughly made for me.
“How much longer do we have to go from here?”
“I can get there in ten minutes, my God.”
“Your standards? My standards?”
“I am speaking from my own experience.”
“So you’re saying it took over an hour?”
If it’s 10 minutes by Christine’s standards, it’s at least 1 hour and 30 minutes by my standards.
Christine wouldn’t walk carefully to avoid slipping on tree roots or whimpering through waist-high bushes.
“It’s better to go as quickly as possible—?!”
In the midst of contemplating whether to really tell Christine to carry me on her back, a loud bang echoed and cut me off.
It was the direction Christine was. Wanting something, I turned my head, saw the trees falling over me with the sound of twisting inside, and shut my mouth.
With a single stomp, the ground dug deep and the surrounding bushes flew left and right, and several trees split from the root collapsed helplessly.
As the ground rippled, Christine picked up the roots of the trees that had protruded upward with her hip and tossed them into the distance.
“I will serve you, my God.”
