Evil Dragon: The young dragon I picked up keeps planning on becoming an empress

Chapter 257: Chapter 180: He is not only the creditor of the Valkyrie, but also the friend of the Valkyrie….

Pope Victorio Dekker was the pontiff of the Valkyrie Temple, his hair and beard all white. Even in his advanced years, ordinary clerics standing before His Holiness had to look up when conversing with him.

With a height of two meters and twenty centimeters, in his youth, he was the strongest among the clerics of the Valkyrie Temple, without equal.

In his prime, His Holiness could knock out a Giant Dragon with a single punch. Nowadays, he cultivated himself and, when he was free, he liked to drink tea, read books, feed fish, and water plants…

Sometimes, when bored, he would sneak off from Sacred Mountain and head down to the human city at its foot to play cards and chat or play chess with the old men there.

For a while, the elders at the foot of Sacred Mountain liked to dance in the square, and sometimes His Holiness would join in. Over time… with his outstanding appearance and standard dance moves, he became the lead dancer.

Today, His Holiness was in a bad mood, for Holy Knight Steven brought him an utterly ridiculous piece of bad news.

The Valkyrie owed someone money…

If this message had come from any other clergy, His Holiness might have just laughed and gone to feed the fish.

But coming from Holy Knight Steven, His Holiness had to take it seriously.

“Setting aside whether our deity actually owes that human named Lance money, even if she doesn’t, you can at least scrounge up 132 Gold Coins to give to him. Then, go and apprehend King Andre who has made a pact with the Demon; he has taken the money… what reason do you have then to prevent capturing Andre?”

Unless he wants to be an enemy of our Valkyrie Temple.”

“I don’t have that much money on me,” Steven replied helplessly.

“Gather it from the knights of our temple then, and I’ll reimburse you when you return.”@@novelbin@@

“We gathered… but it wasn’t enough….”

“???”

Pope Victorio staggered backward, his eyes filled with disbelief. Were more than thirty Temple Knights really unable to scrape together 132 Gold Coins?

Serving the Martial God earned them no small salary. The fact that more than thirty knights couldn’t put together 132 Gold Coins… was preposterous.

“Can’t you carry some money with you when you leave the temple?”

Holy Knight Steven, with no other choice, said, “Your Holiness, even if I had money on me it wouldn’t have been of any use.”

“Why not?”

“We couldn’t beat him… Lance is stronger than me. With a lift of his right hand and a push down, our thirty temple knights were suppressed and after that… he even easily subdued a mid-level Demon.

Your Holiness, it might be best if we temporarily remove the bounty for Andre from our temple’s tasks. Right now, the most important thing is… we need to confirm with the Valkyrie whether our deity really owes Lance any money.

If our deity says she doesn’t, then when we see Lance, we can confront him boldly. If she does… that’s going to be troublesome…

Lance has said… that if our deity admits to owing him money… none of us are qualified to repay it for her. She has to pay him back herself… only then will he accept it.”

“???”

What an arrogant man.

However, if the Valkyrie does acknowledge owing Lance money…

That would complicate matters, as it isn’t just about not repaying debt…

It’s also about—friendship!

The Valkyrie borrowing money from a human means the relationship must be extremely good; otherwise, she wouldn’t have asked to borrow money.

Borrowing 132 Gold Coins from a stranger would likely lead one to be taken for a fool.

While one might obtain 132 Gold Coins through robbery, borrowing… is definitely out of the question.

The rogue Lance and the Valkyrie are friends…

In the future, wouldn’t that mean our Valkyrie Temple would have an additional ‘big shot’?

“Your Holiness, Lance has painted a portrait for the Valkyrie. He not only captured the Valkyrie’s essence, but the portrait… seems to have also received the Valkyrie’s approval…

The reason I have returned is to confirm this matter, not because I blindly believe Lance, but because I have personally interacted with Lance before and seen the portrait he painted of the Valkyrie…”

As a Holy Knight of the Valkyrie Temple, he wouldn’t naively trust someone nor would he be blindly arrogant. He would weigh everything cautiously, deducing and ensuring there were no issues before taking action.

Being a Holy Knight does not mean invincibility.

It also doesn’t mean they cannot make mistakes.

Being a bit more cautious could prevent major mistakes.

“There’s something like this? Why do I not know about it?”

“Perhaps Bishop Franco fears that if Your Holiness were to discover the portrait, You might request it be brought from the temple in Lionheart City of the Norton Kingdom… to Sacred Mountain.”

“Ah… could it really be necessary to communicate with the Valkyrie and inquire about the veracity of this?”

“Your Holiness… I think… it is best to verify it, otherwise when we encounter Lance in the future… I always feel uneasy in our exchanges, fearing he would casually say [Your Valkyrie owes me money]…”

“That makes sense. Who should ask? What about… letting Aurora communicate with the Valkyrie?”

“You are the pontiff… it is your decision to make….”

“….”

Pope Victorio felt uncomfortable. How did the previous pontiffs never encounter such preposterous incidents during their tenure?

He had been pontiff for less than a century and yet he now faced this situation.

This event would surely be recorded in the annals of the Valkyrie Temple.

He could already imagine how the history books would record it.

[One day, His Holiness Pope Victorio communicated with our deity to inquire whether she owed money to a human named Lance. Afterwards, Pope Victorio did so and so….]

Other temple pontiffs communicate with deities for the sake of the people, for the world and its inhabitants.

His communication with a deity… was to verify if the deity owed money….

Wouldn’t that be disdained by the deity?

Best to let the child Aurora do it, she’s innocent, kind, and cute; the Valkyrie wouldn’t get angry at a child…

“Tonight, let the child Aurora cast the Divine Art [Summon the Deity into Dreams]… see if she can invite a strand of the Valkyrie’s Divine Consciousness into her dreams.”

That afternoon, upon hearing the matter, Saint Orla of Valkyrie Temple found it so absurd, the idea that a deity could possibly owe a human money?

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