Blood Holy Scripture: True Ancestor Charlotte de Castel
Chapter 163: -1- Blood Believers (2-in-1)_2

Chapter 163: -1- Blood Believers (2-in-1)_2

Over the past year, she had diligently trained day after day, and her true strength had further increased, mastering the various Talent Magic inherited from the Bloodline.

Unfortunately, after successfully taking control of the New Moon Diocese, the newly appointed Diocesan Grand Priest of the Holy Royal Court shifted his attention to the Evil God incident in Bold City and restarted the investigation.

Frankly speaking, Charlotte herself wasn’t very afraid of the investigation.

But she was no longer alone.

Not long after the High Priest had prayed to her last year, she had received prayers from Werewolves.

With a tentative attitude, Charlotte accepted the prayers of the Werewolves and successfully established a peculiar connection with them.

At that thought, Charlotte delved into her consciousness and reactivated the Blood Holy Scripture.

A crimson radiance spread in her mind, and she once again saw the illusory crimson stars forming the Star Sea of the "Blood Summon."

However, the Star Sea was now markedly different from when Charlotte first saw it.

That difference was the appearance of nearly two hundred crimson-gold stars around Charlotte, in the center of the Star Sea.

These represented the stars of the Werewolves and also represented Charlotte’s Believers.

Yes, Believers.

Charlotte, immersed in her consciousness, looked at her personal panel in the Chapter of Origin of the Blood Holy Scripture.

Behind Blood Favored, a new section had appeared—

[**Blood Believers: 179 (Werewolves)**]

Yes, Charlotte now had Believers.

Half a year ago, after accepting the prayers of the Werewolves, it was like an aircraft carrier regaining signal contact with its lost jets, establishing a peculiar connection with these Werewolves.

Like Sebastian, who was Blood Favored, she could project her gaze through the stars representing these Werewolves onto their bodies and hear their prayers.

However, she couldn’t bestow her power upon them, nor could she summon them to her side as she did with Sebastian.

Furthermore, Charlotte did not gain power of faith from these Believers, as if she were a deity in fantasy novels, even though they indeed worshiped the True Ancestor.

Initially, Charlotte thought this was because she was not a real True Ancestor.

But seeing the thorny rose Holy Emblem used in the Werewolf prayers, she overturned that idea—especially since... the thorny rose was directed towards her.

This was intriguing...

Through this, Charlotte conjectured that deities fostering Believers was not to gain power from their faith.

Perhaps, there might not even be such a thing as power of faith in this world.

So, what was the purpose of a deity spreading their teachings?

Charlotte was quite curious.

Over the past half year, she had been secretly researching the mystery between Believers and deities, but unfortunately, she had not figured out anything definitive.

She guessed either the power of the Blood Holy Scripture was not enough and her true strength too low, or she had missed some key points...

One notable thing, however, was that when she bestowed Divine Grace Blessing on these Blood Believers, the efficiency of her use of Blood Divine Power was much higher and lasted much longer compared to blessing ordinary entities.

This even made Charlotte wonder if continually blessing them could forcibly create an existence similar to Clergy among the Believers?

Priest? High Priest?

Of course, this was only Charlotte’s speculation.

She was now severely lacking in Divine Power.

She didn’t have enough Divine Power to experiment.

In the past half year, the only stable source of Divine Power she could find was, incredibly, shearing the Divine Lord Haral!

By absorbing the power from large Divine Skill Rituals, she accumulated Divine Power bit by bit...

It was absurd!

Half a year had passed, and her Divine Power value had only recovered by 3 points, totaling 27.8!

To accumulate Divine Power, she had even refrained from performing new Blood Summons.

Moreover, the Werewolves; over one hundred Blood Believers, could not offer her any Divine Power!

But one thing was certain—after gaining these Blood Believers, she could obviously feel that her connection with the Blood Holy Scripture seemed to deepen, and even practicing the Talent Magic of the Bloodline and researching the path of Bloodline Resonance became easier.

This was indeed a breakthrough for research, but unfortunately, Charlotte wasn’t sure if this change was indeed related to the Believers.

There were no obvious benefits, so Charlotte lacked significant motivation to preach.

Moreover, she dared not recklessly spread her teachings in Bold City, a stronghold of belief within the Holy Royal Court.

Thus, these werewolf believers were simply "kept" within the Rose Association.

Not to mention, as Blood Believers, they could guarantee loyalty, couldn’t they?

However, just because Charlotte didn’t feel the impulse to preach for the time being didn’t mean the werewolves didn’t.

In such circumstances, the Dark Night Church was formed.

Although it was still nascent and not proactively established by Charlotte, it did indeed naturally arise in the subterranean world of Bold and won the fervent support of the werewolves...

Charlotte could guess with her bottom dollar that Sebastian had a hand in this.

Nevertheless, since Sebastian was willing to covertly help her establish a church, she was pleased to see it succeed.

Regardless of the deity’s purpose in preaching, almost every deity would spread faith.

This demonstrates that faith and believers play a crucial role in the growth of deities.

Even if Charlotte was currently unclear about the deities’ goals, it didn’t prevent her from being prepared for future contingencies.

Therefore, upon discovering that the Holy Royal Court was aware of the Dark Night Church’s existence, she contacted Luf, the leader of the werewolves, and transmitted an "Oracle" instructing them to set off northward as soon as possible.

It was also her way of scouting ahead, as the Castel Domain was in the Northern Land.

With that thought, Charlotte slowly withdrew from her consciousness.

At the same time, Sherry, who had just taken up her role as Chief Maid and Charlotte’s personal maid, arrived in the reception room.

Seeing Sherry, Charlotte smiled slightly,

"Is everyone almost here?"

Sherry bowed slightly, her face still expressionless but her voice carried a trace of life:

"Yes, the guests have almost all arrived. Would you like to go to the banquet hall now?"

Charlotte didn’t answer directly, but instead asked,

"About the matter I asked you to consider earlier, how are you doing with it?"

Hearing this, Sherry’s expressionless beautiful face lowered slightly, hesitating.

Charlotte didn’t press, smiling she said,

"Don’t feel pressured; even if you don’t become one of my Favored, you can still continue working by my side."

"However, if you wish to follow me always, then drink that bottle of blood."

Sherry was silent for a moment before nodding gently.

The blood Charlotte referred to was naturally what was needed to become one of her Blood Favored.

It was her own blood, containing a trace of the Bloodline power necessary for becoming Blood Favored.

After recovering more than twenty fragments of the Holy Scripture, Charlotte had gained three additional spots for Favored, and as her personal maid, she hoped to make Sherry one of her Favored as well.

It would make her future actions more convenient.

Of course, if Sherry were unwilling, Charlotte wouldn’t force her.

But in that case, she would need to find a more suitable personal maid, and the proposal to drink the Favored’s blood would be erased from Sherry’s related memories...

Memory alteration... that was a Talent Magic of the Bloodline, a capability under the Domination Magic System of the Spirit Path.

The High Priest of the Blood Demon Sect had once used Domination Technique to alter Lotti’s memories.

And having seized fragments of the Blood Demon Sect’s Holy Scripture, Charlotte had also acquired this inheritance known as "Memory Control."

The number of Bloodline magics she now possessed was substantial, making her a qualified member of the Bloodline.

Rising from her seat, Charlotte adjusted her dress.

Today marked one year and three days since she had crossed into this world.

It also happened to be the sixteenth birthday of this body, the day of her coming-of-age celebration and officially inheriting the title of Countess Castel...

Today, Castel Manor was gathering quite a number of nobles from the Duchy!

"Let’s go, let’s meet our guests."

Wearing the Castel family crest on her chest, Charlotte said with a smile.

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