Magus: Rise of the Darkness Empress

As her punishment, Elise was made to wait with the horses while Weiss and Peria went to check the actual location of the treasure spot. The map was very simple in make and it looked that the creator of the map had created it for his own use and not to leave it behind for the future generation.

Upon reaching the location mentioned in it, Weiss found a small wooden cabin. And even though the cabin was small, it was filled to the brim with money and valuables. It looked like the owner of this treasure spot was a hoarder.

But this discovery came with a problem. The location of the cabin was very troublesome, so taking these treasures away would be extremely hard. And as they were definitely Heavy, carrying them around would also burden the horses a lot.

So Weiss and Peria started of think about what to do with so much things. Now Weiss was not really worried about any financial trouble as selling just one of the medicine made from the materials of the Earth Overturning Great monster would be enough to earn more money that what was present here.

But still, not taking away the money that was right before them would leave a bad taste in anyone’s mouth. So after thinking about various matters, Weiss came up with a course of action.

There was a currency that was even higher than gold in value. They were called the holy coins. One holy coin was equivalent to 100 Gold coins and one large holy coin was equivalent to 1000 gold coins.

So if converted all the money here to large holy coins, the she would need to carry only 3 or 4 of them, which would be perfectly fine. That was why she decided to convert all the gold coins here to holy coins.

As for where she could make it happen, only a large church or temple would have the ability to do business with her. So Weiss decided to make her detour a little longer and visit a city called Urus which was located not too far from here and was a large city with a sizable temple present there.

The churches and temples were the religious places of worship and the relegion that had managed to spread here was the religion that worshipped a being called the Celestal Maiden.

After learning about the existence of the magus, Weiss had becane a little interested in learning about the churches and the beings they worshiped.

And after looking a little bit into it, Weiss had found several things that had made her to speculate that these powerful divine beings like the Celestial Maiden and God of Divine Fire were most probably very much real.

As for how strong they were, Weiss had no idea. Currently she was basically a frog at the bottom of the well. So it was impossible for her to judge even the strength of a grand knight, let along a divine beings.

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So with their strength, Weiss and Peria managed to bring all the golds and valuables back to the horses. Then they placed all the wealth not only on the horses’ back but also on their own back. Then they started traveling to the city of Urus on their foot.

As the ladies were capable of running while matching the speed of the horses, they did not slow down even when they were travelling on foot. So in two days of time, they managed to reach the gates of the city.

With their high stamina as high level knights, Weiss and Elise were feeling perfectly fine even after running continuosly for such a long time. But Peria was still just a peak knight apprentice, so she was extremely tired after this ordeal.

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So after entering the city, first the ladies booked an inn and made Peria to rest there. After that they left with the horses and went toward the Celestal Church.

In almost every city, the most spectacular looking building always was the mansion of the city’s lord. But that was actually not the case here.

The city lords mansion here was a tall castle with five stories, so it was definitely a grand structure. But it’s magnificence failed to dazzle anyone because just a little bit away from this castle, there was something that was even more spectacular. So much so that the castle of the lord looked ordinary beside it.

That was the Grand Temple of the Celestial Maiden. It was made with pure white stones without a single blemish. Just one brick of this structure costed so much money that it would be enough for a man to live decades by selling just one brick.

Other than the colour white, the second most prominent colour of the temple was golden. And it was not just golden paint but real gold that was used to decorate this place.

Something this extravagant should look lame but that was absolutely not the case here. This whole building gave off an undeniable sense of beauty and sacredness.

Even someone as expressionless as Weiss could not help but open her mouth slightly in surprise after seeing the temple for the first time. She had read about how the Celestial Maiden’s temples were all super extravagant but the real deal was way more spectacular than what Weiss had imagined.

This single temple alone costed a sum of money that could make most of the nobles of the Brightshine kingdom to go bankrupt. This was just a pure demonstration of how wealthy the temple actually was.

This was also the reason why the Celestal Maiden’s faith was so famous. The priests and priestesses of this faith never asked the believer for money or tried to extort them of anything. The main doctrine of this faith was to believe in the Celestial Maiden and to always be on the side of the ”Order”.

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While thinking about these things regarding the Celestial Temple, Weiss and Elise entered the main building.

Even though it was not Elise’s first time visiting a temple of the Celestial Maiden, still she was feeling very surprised and overwhelmed.

As Weiss was looking around everything, suddenly she noticed a person and her eyes widened in surprise.

This person was the one who had sold count Falgur those magical items. The count had left behind a detailed description of this person’s looks and the person whom Weiss was seeing perfectly matched that description.

Weiss was planning to search for his whereabouts after she was done exploring the ruins. But she had never expected to find him here, in the temple of the Celestial Maiden.

So with a lot of excitement, nervousness and anticipation in her heart, Weiss started to approch the man.