Blood Holy Scripture: True Ancestor Charlotte de Castel
Chapter 155: -143- Nervous Great Priest

Chapter 155: -143- Nervous Great Priest

Castel’s caravan stayed in Bold City for two days before leaving.

That evening, Baron Sharon didn’t raise the same question to Charlotte again, and it seemed that he then put the matter of offering land to the Church aside.

From the vague attitudes he exhibited, Charlotte speculated that he must have realized she had not signed a contract with the Church, and he likely understood she was merely leveraging the Church’s influence temporarily.

He did not ask again, and Charlotte would not explain.

No, she would not have explained even if he had asked, to avoid giving away any leverage.

That was good enough, as at least the Baron could take his stance back to his domain and reassure the vassals he had yet to meet.

Once the caravan departed, Castel Manor returned to its usual tranquility.

After receiving the money, the first thing Charlotte did was to send Casimodo to redeem all the collectibles she had sold.

She had still been concerned about this matter and had promised the old servant Casimodo, so naturally, she would not break her promise.

After this, Charlotte’s daily life resumed its usual routine.

Worship, exercise, reading...

Except for the fact that the content of her training included the newly acquired talent spells and her reading material included new information about her domain, and that she spent time daily researching methods to increase her divine power... it was not much different from before.

There was no helping it, as time went by, the death of the Great Knight gradually began to stir up, and the phenomena from the night of Charlotte’s True Ancestor Liberation were brought up again by people.

She had to keep a low profile.

Especially after a Transcendent determined that the phenomena that night were indeed an appearance by the Flame Demon...

Then things got lively.

Even with repeated reassurances from the Church, it was inevitable that people were curious about the entity that defeated the Flame Demon that night.

Some speculated it was a passing Legendary figure, others thought it was a Divine Envoy of the Church, and still others guessed it was an incarnation of the Divine Lord Haral, but at the same time, some speculated it was the mysterious Evil God...

Even worse, some linked these speculations, wondering if the Great Knight’s death from the Judgement Court might have been related to that night’s phenomena.

For a time, all kinds of opinions were rampant.

However, one theory had been confirmed by the Church.

That was that the phenomena that night was a conspiracy of the Blood Demon Sect, but had already been thwarted by the Church.

Meanwhile, along with the exposure of the Drunk Dream Saloon, the Duke Mansion began a cleansing and pursuit of the involved nobility families...

The reasoning for the cleansing was solid—participation in the evil and fallen Drunk Dream Saloon, collusion with the Blood Demon Sect!

This shifted people’s attention back to the noblemen.

No citizen disliked watching the troubles of noblemen, especially during such a "sweeping evil" type of Great Purge.

Suddenly, the reputation of the Bold family rose with the ongoing cleansing of the involved nobles, especially with the Duke’s son, Laino, leading the teams.

"Hehe, master, it seems the old Duke is paving the way for Lord Laino’s succession. This move is really clever—both curbing noble power, protecting the path for the new Duke, and increasing the new Duke’s authority..."

"I’m even beginning to suspect whether the old Duke knew about the Drunk Dream Saloon beforehand and had such plans."

While reading the Holy Code, Sebastian poured a cup of hot milk for Charlotte and chuckled.

Charlotte shook her head slightly:

"Let it be for now, regardless of the initial intentions, cleaning up these noble parasites is a good thing."

"But it’s not just about cleaning up parasites, my esteemed master, as per your orders, I secretly had the Rose Association track those nobles who were struck down, most of whom indeed participated in the Drunk Dream Saloon, but many were also innocents."

"Clearly, the old Duke is taking advantage of the cleansing of demon-involved nobles to suppress dissent."

Sebastian said,

"How are the nobles who were affected doing?"

Charlotte asked.

"Most of them actually aren’t clean either, but there are also some decent ones. They were only oppressed by the old Duke because they opposed Laino’s succession. The Rose Association helped as many of them escape as possible."

"Is the evidence still preserved?"

"Of course, all preserved."

"Very well. When the Holy Royal Court’s Assessment Team arrives, hand it over to Captain Kara along with the Great Priest’s documents,"

Charlotte said.

Meanwhile, after so many changes, the Holy Royal Court had not sent clergy to inspect right away.

Initially, Charlotte was somewhat puzzled.

She had prepared to face Legendary Clergy, yet days passed without any word.

Only through the Great Priest’s "intelligence" did Charlotte finally understand what had happened.

It turned out that shortly after she thwarted the Blood Demon Church’s plans, there was a change in leadership at the New Moon Diocese’s Diocesan Grand Priest.

Such transitions of power inevitably came with some chaos.

Moreover, although something had happened in Bold, it had been "successfully suppressed" by the Church, and the Great Priest kept sending signals to the higher-ups that nothing had happened here. So... they ended up not sending anyone down immediately.

However, not sending someone down immediately didn’t mean they weren’t going to send someone.

The anomaly in Bold was widely known and couldn’t be hidden.

After the newly appointed Diocesan Grand Priest gave his directives, the task of investigating the Blood Demon Church incident in Bold Duchy fell to the arriving Assessment Team of the Duchy.

The Assessment Team... was a group formed by Judgement Court knights and Church Priests to evaluate the candidates competing for the position of Chief Priest.

In other words, the Assessment Team was specifically targeting the Great Priest to evaluate if he was qualified to compete for the position of Chief Priest.

This was the last step before competing for the Chief Priest position. If everything went smoothly, and he passed the Main Priest Group’s vote, the Great Priest might realize his dream of becoming the Chief Priest.

The Great Priest was both happy and worried.

He was happy that, through his efforts and a bit of luck, the Holy Royal Court might not send a Legendary to investigate.

But he was worried because the investigation task had fallen on the Assessment Team, which would mean a stricter investigation of him.

Though he had tried his best to smooth things over, the Assessment Team shouldn’t have made things too difficult for him.

However, the additional task of investigating had disrupted his plans.

The assessment task was led by Church Priests, while the investigation task was led by the Judgement Court.

To balance power, the Diocese simply appointed a new head of assessment, an upright and very experienced Public Domain Chief Priest.

This person was also a Third Tier of Blazing Sun, even stronger than the Great Priest.

"Great Dark Night God, humble Linus seeks your protection, help me smoothly pass the assessment..."

Facing the altar, the Great Priest prayed respectfully.

After praying, he didn’t forget to take out various secret documents of the Church he had collected and recited them one by one in front of the altar.

There was no choice; the Dark Night God disdained the offerings of sacrifices (actually, he couldn’t). He could only convey information in this way.

After reciting the intelligence and seeing the flickering candlelight, the Great Priest felt somewhat more at ease.