Blood Holy Scripture: True Ancestor Charlotte de Castel

"It will take only three days, just three days! I have already secretly instructed many Blood Servants to spread the news of your return. With this mental preparation, combined with the Queen's final oracle, Harcos... will once again become your loyal subject from the bottom of their heart."

"Please believe that everyone... will accept it, after all, it is also the Queen's final command."

Watching the Great Prophet Margo's restrained manner, Charlotte shook her head:

"You don't need to be nervous. Just as you told Sofia, I am not that evil, chaotic True Ancestor you remember, so... you don't have to worry about angering me."

"Although you used the reason that I had regained my sanity to convince the clan, in my view... it's not entirely wrong in some sense."

As she said this, Charlotte touched her chin, then suddenly changed the subject:

"However... there is something I'm actually quite curious about."

She looked towards the Great Prophet Margo, and her gaze suddenly deepened. Under the surge of divine power, a glimmer of light flickered within her crimson pupils:

"Do you... really think there are two True Ancestors?"

The Great Prophet Margo was slightly taken aback.

Her gaze was a bit vacant, and almost subconsciously, she said:

"Of course, I... I just wanted to use that method to convince the clan."

Silence...

The brilliance in Charlotte's eyes faded away, and the Great Prophet's gaze also returned to normal.

She didn't realize that she had been influenced by divine power just moments before, but continued:

"Additionally... the clan loss report has also been prepared, please take a look."

With that, she respectfully presented the parchment scroll.

Charlotte casually took it.

Although through "peeping" she had more or less become aware of the situation, when she saw the loss of one hundred and twenty million gold tana, she couldn't help but feel a twinge in her stomach.

One hundred and twenty million!

Not twelve million!

This was a huge sum! An absolute fortune!

In the Mireya Continent, it was comparable to the Falling Star Kingdom's financial income over ten years!

And then... it was gone!

Charlotte felt some regret.

She wondered if she should have taken action earlier, or if she should not have allowed that "monster" to appear at all.

After all, now that Harcos had submitted to her, Harcos's wealth could also be indirectly considered a resource she could mobilize!

The Bloodline society was already steeped in strict hierarchy, and the greatest wealth of the Bloodline Clans was mostly held in the hands of the upper echelons of ruling organizations like the Elder Council or the Queen's Palace.

Having subdued Harcos, she had become the owner of the Queen's Palace.

Rounded up, it was as if she had thrown away 1.2 billion just for the sake of showing off!

Not to mention, had she gotten her hands on this 1.2 billion, it would have more than sufficed as startup capital for integrating the Falling Star Kingdom and the development of the magic-guided industry!

Seeing Charlotte fall silent, the Great Prophet Margo cleared her throat and respectfully said:

"True Ancestor, we're fortunate, at least. Although many Arrays and buildings were destroyed, the overall losses are not severe, totaling one hundred and twenty million gold tana, if converted into Mireya currency."

"This is all thanks to you. If you hadn't taken action in time, the clan's losses would have been more than just this."

Charlotte: ...?

She took a deep breath and, subconsciously sitting up straight, said:

"Only... only that much?"

The Great Prophet hesitated for a moment, then nodded:

"Yes, only that much. Of course... that is excluding the prohibitions left behind by the Queen."

"However, for you, prohibitions... probably aren't important anymore, right?"

Charlotte fell silent.

She suddenly realized a problem.

Indeed, due to the bloodline's rampage and mutation, Harcos internally had declined even more absurdly than the Nais Clan.

But the reasons for the two clans' weakening were fundamentally different.

The Nais Clan had been dragged down by the Star Moon War. In order to support the Falling Star Royal Family in winning the Star Moon War, the Nais Clan had spent a lot of money fighting against the New Moon Kingdom or, to be more precise, against the Holy Royal Court-backed New Moon Royal Family.

Later, after the Nais Clan was defeated and their behind-the-scenes Blood Court was overthrown by a coalition of the Falling Star Nobles and the Holy Royal Court, they were directly driven out of the power center of Falling Star, and much of their property was also seized by the Church and the Nobles.

That is to say... the Nais Clan's overall strength had declined, and they had almost completely lost their family fortune.

But the Harcos Clan was different.

The Harcos Clan had always lived in seclusion in a different space, entirely refraining from participating in the conflicts of the continent, and actually retained the immense wealth they had accumulated during their peak years.

They were weakened, but it was an internal weakening.

Furthermore, the fall of those High Tier Bloodline led to the confiscation of their own wealth, which gradually concentrated in the Queen's Palace of the Harcos Clan, and as time went by… although the strength of the Harcos Clan had been reduced to one-tenth of what it once was, the wealth... likely had not decreased much.

What's more, the Queen's Palace, serving as the administrative center, was likely even more wealthy than when the entire clan had first migrated!

Hiss...

Charlotte subconsciously straightened her body.

"Your Excellency Margo, how much money can the Queen's Palace mobilize now?" she asked, calming her emotions.

The Great Prophet Margo pondered for a moment, then replied:

"Your Majesty True Ancestor, if we set aside the costs for rebuilding the Holy Land and settling the awakened kin, and convert it into the universal currency, it should be close to 1.4 billion gold tanas."

"Of course, nearly half of that is in priceless transcendent resources, which are not really suitable to be measured in money, and... there are also some transcendent items that can hardly be valued with money."

Charlotte: ...

Grass, a plant.

Sensing Charlotte's silence, the Great Prophet felt like she had grasped something.

She thought for a moment, then asked with respect and caution:

"Your Majesty True Ancestor, might you... be in need of money?"

Charlotte felt somewhat uncomfortable.

Although, as the Lord of Castel, she could be considered wealthy, there were indeed bigger players in the world.

Compared with an ancient power like the Harcos Clan, which had amassed wealth for nearly two thousand years, Castel Domain, with only a few hundred years of history and a mere earldom, was inconsequential.

Not even Falling Star Kingdom could compare!

Of course, this excluded Divine Artifacts and High Tier Magic-guided Devices.

For powerful forces like the Harcos Clan and the Nais Clan, money was but an external possession; what truly bolstered a clan's power were priceless Divine Artifacts.

But for her secular role in the world, this astonishing fortune... was just right.

Taking a deep breath, Charlotte spoke candidly:

"Yes, I do indeed need some funds."

"You know, my other identity is that of the Queen of Falling Star. In the current situation, the Bloodline can only operate in the shadows; what we can rely on publicly must come from secular powers in the human world."

"You should also be aware that I am planning to establish my own Faith... and whether for the purposes of spreading the Faith or for strengthening our influence in the secular world, substantial expenses are required."

Hearing Charlotte's words, the Great Prophet Margo nodded:

"I understand. I will make the arrangements to provide the necessary funding for your activities on the Mireya Continent..."

How considerate!

Charlotte's mood instantly brightened.

"However..."

The Great Prophet Margo hesitated, then continued:

"Regarding the Faceless Divine Statue and the cursed pages you require, we have not found them."

"Our clan indeed collected many cursed pages in the past, as well as three complete Faceless Divine Statues, but those items... inherently have the power of Gods and were offered up as sacrifices during the God Ascension ritual."

"After the failure of the ritual, all offerings vanished along with the complete fall of Your Majesty the Queen..."

"I think... perhaps they have been destroyed along with Your Majesty's downfall."

After hearing the Great Prophet's words, Charlotte shook her head slightly. She glanced at the crimson-colored book in her hands and smiled:

"Things with Divine Power are not so easily destroyed."

"There's no need for you to continue searching, I already know where they have gone."

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