Chapter 817 – Day 94 – The Princess Receives a Promise From Scarlett.
Scarlett’s expression instantly became one of ecstasy as she was given a power that could not be described as a miracle.
‘Thank goodness Arisa made the bracelet very early…’
The princess swallowed her saliva and looked with worried eyes at the magic tool wrapped around Scarlett’s wrist, an object that could bear the blessings of the gods.
Unfortunately, even as a princess, she had never used it, so she did not know exactly what power she had and how to use it.
“Ah, you who have been blessed by all gods. I cannot control this sacredness that flows through my body.”
“Aren’t you a blessing? Don’t be preoccupied with your sense of omnipotence and use your power calmly.”
Nodding her head calmly, Scarlett stretched out her right arm and looked for a moment at her hand, which was wearing her bracelet.
“Blessed One of all gods, Beloved One. What are you doing so early in the morning?”
It was noisy from the morning, so it was impossible for people not to come.
At the appearance of the priest with scales growing on her skin, Scarlett smiled bewitchingly as if she had been waiting for this moment.
“Priest, come closer to me.”
“The One who has received the love of all gods…?”
The priest with a strange expression moved his feet very carefully.
In fact, it had to be that way. There was a strange commotion at the place where the remains of the old god were, so everyone hurried to find the princess naked and wearing a gown, and her scarlet body was naked.
Scarlett looked at the priest who walked cautiously for a while and carefully stretched out her arms.
“Oooh…”
The priest, who has finally noticed his bracelet emitting a mysterious color, opens his eyes wide and looks at Scarlett.
Scarlett, who couldn’t help but feel a little intoxicated by the respect she felt from that gaze, finally touched the priest’s cheek with her hand.
“I will grant this great blessing that flows through my body to you as well, priest.”
“Oh, oh, oh…”
“You are the one who has served all gods for a very long time. You are the one who has listened to my words and sacrificed your all for the great beings.”
“Ah… God.”
The priest slowly closed his wide-open eyes and let out a long, drawn-out breath.
“I will bless you.”
The moment Scarlett whispered in a low voice once more, a beautiful light emanated from the bracelet.
Surrounded by beautiful light, the priest’s bent waist straightened in an instant, and the scales covering his entire body changed into something even harder.
At the last moment, the tail, which had grown out of nowhere, stretched out long and gently touched the ground.
In the princess’s eyes, a being that could be seen as half human had completely transformed into a ‘different race’, but the priest who received Scarlett’s blessing felt differently.
Scarlett, who gave her blessing, looked different too.
“Ahh…! You who have received the love of all gods! The great blessings you have bestowed have made my body new!”
The priest shouted loudly in a voice filled with happiness, placed both hands on the ground, and touched his forehead several times to express his gratitude.
Scarlett, so absorbed in her sense of omnipotence that she had become a being capable of bestowing blessings, could not lower the corners of her mouth and looked at her princess with a smile.
“O blessed one of all gods. Thanks to your help, I was truly able to become a blessing.”
“You have finally become a being who can bestow the same blessing you had hoped for on those who have been praying for a long time.”
Scarlett’s body may be a little special, but she was not stronger than the princess.
The princess let out a long breath as she saw Scarlett not sweating at all or suffering even after using her power of blessing.
‘Luckily, Arisa and Amilias kept their promise. I am truly fortunate.’
After confirming that a magic tool capable of receiving the blessings of the old gods could indeed be made, there was only one thing the princess had to do next.
“Scarlett. Listen carefully.”
Scarlett placed her head on the ground and motioned for the grateful priest to step aside and looked at the princess.
“Speak, O One who has received the blessings of all gods.”
“You have now become a being who can bestow the blessings desired by the countless Pantheists who prayed with you.”
“Yes, I have truly become a blessing.”
The princess patted Scarlett’s waist and buttocks as she smiled softly.
“I am sorry to say this, but in the eyes of many pantheists, you will now be seen as one of the many gods enshrined in the pantheon.”
“… Huh? How can you be so blasphemous…”
“People are beings who have no choice but to believe in what they see and hear better.”
The princess took Scarlett’s hand and gently kissed the back of her hand.
“What is the old god you loved and believed in?”
“… God is…”
“I will not decide your mind as I please. However, just because you can bestow blessings and because you are revered as a god by the Pantheists…”
The princess deliberately did not say the next words.
Scarlett’s expression was very serious. She was thinking about something.
‘It’s a very cruel thing…’
The princess was planning to give this magic tool to Scarlett for free. Arisa may have gone crazy and freaked out, but it was the right thing to do.
The reason we were able to safely retrieve the remains of the old god was because of Scarlett’s help.
‘If Scarlett falls into a sense of omnipotence and considers herself a god and thinks of ruling over the Pantheists…’
It was the same story as another Emperor Jupiter being born.
That much had to be prevented. The Pantheists had different beliefs from the believers of the Church of Saint Mary, but that was all.
There was no need to be exploited by a being who thought of himself as a god or to receive blessings he did not wish for in a strange way just because he was a pantheist.
“Even if I am revered as a god, I have no intention of becoming a god.”
After much agonizing thought, Scarlett opened her mouth.
“I have become a being who is loved by all gods and who can bestow blessings.”
She carefully folded her hands together and prayed earnestly.
There was nothing in the place where she offered her prayers, only a golden cloth indicating that the remains of the old god had been laid there, but she prayed with the same sincerity as always.
“I met the One who received the blessings of all gods and became a being who could bestow blessings, but I am still only a small mortal.”
The princess nodded her head carefully.
“In the end, I just became a being who can answer the prayer I had longed for, and I am not a god. You are the one who has received the blessings of all gods.”
Scarlett, who said her words with a happy expression on her face, looked at her princess and gave a very small wink.
“Yes, we are blessed by God, but we are not God. Also…”
The words I was saying now were also words I was saying to myself.
“Even if we become gods, we only listen to what people want.”
Next to Scarlett, who offered her prayers with her sincere heart, the princess also knelt down and put her hands together and offered her prayers.
There was only one thing she wanted.
If she becomes a god, I hope she will not become a vicious and evil being.
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“Ah, thank you! Thank you! Great Blesser!”
The Manshinist, shedding tears, burst into tears even after being held in Scarlett’s wide open arms.
“There was such a situation.”
Hedone, who was watching Scarlett and the Pantheists from a distance, tucked her pure white hair behind her ear.
“From the perspective of the Pantheists, the blessings bestowed upon them by the great God have been washed away, so what they are today is a miserable sight, isn’t it?”
“That is so, Hedone. They have received the blessings of the old god who rested here, and have become something that can no longer be called ordinary ‘humans.'”
The princess nodded her head.
“Vampires, werewolves, lizardmen, birdmen… They are what people commonly call monsters, and they have mutated.”
“But they just received God’s blessing?”
“That’s right. As time passed and people married people and had babies, the pale skin of vampires, the fur of werewolves, and the scales of lizardmen gradually disappeared. From the perspective of the Pantheists, they must have felt only despair that their blessings had disappeared.”〈 Br〉
The princess nodded with her arms crossed and a proud expression on her face.
“Fortunately, Scarlett does not seem to have any intention of using the power of the magic tool beyond acting as a blessing.”
“He could use more power than that, but he doesn’t seem to care.”
“I think Scarlett would have felt that using such power itself was something blasphemous.”
“That’s why Scarlett said she never intended to become a god.”
The princess nodded and patted her Ceres’ buttocks.
“Arisa worked hard, but you also worked hard.”
“No. Princess, I am just happy to be of help.”
“Are you saying that you worked faithfully without expecting any reward?”
The princess snorted and kneaded Ceres’ buttocks, and Ceres, with a little blush on her cheeks, was just smiling.
“The remains of the old god are also being quickly gathered with the help of Asmo and her children.”
“Hmm, I guess it’s not common for us to have to rescue remains like this one?”
“Yes, that’s right. Ancient demon facilities originally have more underground entrances than underground entrances.”
Nodding her head, the princess dropped her hand from Ceres’ hip.
“Then—”
The moment when she was about to gather the remains of another god after gathering the information Asmo brought her.
A knife appeared right in front of the princess, cutting space at will. Suddenly! Suddenly! The sword that cut the air with the cross distorted the space, and a woman with bright red hair walked out from the gap in the dimension that had been forced open.
“It looks like my nephew is doing something interesting. Don’t you need your aunt’s help?”
“Hey, Aunt Elaine?!”
The woman who walked out of the dimensional gap as if it were only natural was Jupiter Holympia’s older sister.
She was Elaine Holimpia.
