Chapter 839: Spending To Gain

Chapter 839: Spending To Gain



The knight slowly opened his eyes, the painful ringing still booming in his ears. Trying to remember the last moments before he passed out, all he could get was the image of Tempo's face, looking at him with a large smile.

"What did happen?" He mumbled.

"Good, you're still alive." Tempo said. He was sitting beside the knight's bed. "I don't know what I would've done if you died."

The knight cried and rolled out of the bed terrified, "Now I remember. You're the titan's prince."

"That's right." Tempo smiled, "And I'm sorry for almost killing you."

"That isn't the problem, why are you here?" He looked around with a shocked face and could see other knights standing around the place, they were inside a large tent.

"I've told you, Uranus is my friend. Negotiations are currently ongoing to try and solve this peacefully." Tempo looked at the tent's door.

One of the knights standing guard approached. "As His Majesty Tempo said, negotiations are currently carried between the nobles, his majesty the King, and her majesty, Isdis of Ruris." "Drop the majesty part. You're a human." Tempo shook his head.

"We use that even for other kings and royalty, titans aren't excluded." The knight replied.

Another knight approached, "I hope things end up without many problems. We're sick of those meaningless wars."

In the kingdom's royal castle, the queen walked through the hallway as she returned from her bath accompanied by two maids. "What's taking Alex so long? Just a few cannons and those traitors would vanish in the fire." She growled.

"Your majesty, we're almost at your room." One of the maids said with a passive face. "His Majesty, Prince Larry, and Princess Alexia are waiting for you."

The queen smiled, "No use crying about it. It gives me time after all; I hope he stays there for a few more days. Work can wait." She looked back at the two maids, "You two are joining in."

"Of course; your majesty." They bowed, "Can we call two more of the maids as well?" One of them asked with her eyes closed.

"Of course, the more the merrier." The queen smiled, but that didn't last long.

Her room's door slowly opened and the maids jumped to stand before her.

"It's a shame; your son lost his head; a corrupt royal who wound up dead. He wore his gold like some kind of prise. Too many crimes; too many crimes." A large armored man walked out of her room drenched in blood, dragging Prince Larry's severed upper torso by the hair.

The queen fell on her knees shaking as the maids screamed their lungs off as they looked at Larry's blood and guts dripping on the ground.

"Praise the goddess, praise her holy name. Thanks to this fate, I'll never be the same. I've seen the royal's rot, and I wish I'd eaten soot." He dropped the corpse and pointed his sword at the queen.

"Wasn't it common that nobles are the problem in most kingdoms? They are usually the corrupt ones. How come it's our queen and crown heirs the ones fucking up? Literarily...like her, naked corpse still stuck to his lower half." The knight sighed with a disappointed face. "I reject the creed of murder at first, I wanted to just talk and see if our beautiful queen, valiant prince, and cute and loving princess could convince their hairy old dad the king to stop this mess...But..." He swung his sword to get rid of the blood.

"My sword slipped when I found them like this. Murder is indeed the way." He took a step forward, glaring at the queen with glowing golden eyes.

dead with fire and brimstone."

"Really?" She looked at him.

"Our holy symbol should be like this amulet. Why don't you become a priestess or at least a nun? You might find salvation in that." He then patted her head.

"You know I can't be a nun..." She was about to start crying when Pin showed up out of

nowhere.

"That's a nice idea. Pins love it, your necklace, a symbol of my...no, our goddess." She smiled with a giggle. "I welcome you, high priestess of murder." She then disappeared.

The maid looked at everyone, "What?" She still didn't fully comprehend what happened.

The knight stood, "Protect our priestess with your lives." He walked away.

"I'm a priestess now?" The maid looked at the two royal nights protecting her.

"Yep."

"Seems like it."

She stood, "So...what shall we do now?"

"I don't know."

"Try giving us a blessing. I've always dreamed of a beautiful nun-maid praying upon my

sorry head."

*****

Inside the meeting tent between the king and nobles, Eris was sitting at Isdis's right side as Merlin sat on her left side, the two's mission was guarding her. They didn't understand much of the political talk, so everyone decided that she had to take the lead.

The boring conversation kept going for a while with Eris failing to understand a single word, but she suddenly started feeling something strange. Since they entered this kingdom, she had been rapidly losing divine energy. For a while, she thought that she was losing her demi-god status, but now, her divine magic is coming back even stronger.

Gods spend divine magic and grant it to their followers to use, in exchange, when those followers pray, sacrifice, or enact the god's portfolio, the god gains power from that, usually more than what they spent.

She still didn't understand how her divine magic worked and didn't learn anything about it,

which made it extremely hard for her to notice what Pin was doing. She would've refused to let her build a cult, but Pin knew better than Eris. The first few weeks for a demi-god are the most important, newbie elimination is a common thing, and if she doesn't get her mistress powerful enough, she'll soon get killed and robbed of her power.

Pin sat inside Eris's soul, lifting two fingers up and looking at the world. "Mistress needs power. Pin shall grant that, I can't let my goddess fail." A tiny white feather coated in blood was growing on her back.