Gospel of Blood

“Extraordinary power originates from the Gods, and divine power is the highest form of extraordinary energy.”

In the world of Myria, this statement is a common understanding among many religious orders and extraordinary organizations regarding the origin of extraordinary power.

Divine power possesses incredible strength.

The Gods can use divine power to grant blessings to mortals, endowing them with extraordinary abilities.

Similarly, Gods can establish a faith network, absorbing the extraordinary power of their followers, which then coalesces into divine power.

For Gods, divine power is “blood”, divine power is “life”, and divine power is “everything”…

Since becoming a “God”, Charlotte has enjoyed the many benefits of divine power.

It can be said that her rapid growth is primarily due to her ability to manipulate the blood divine power through the Gospel of Blood, absorbing the laws and strength within the blood divine power.

Therefore, when Charlotte realized the changes in her divine power, she was greatly surprised.

However, although divine power is extremely strong and important, it can only be directly utilized by Gods.

For mortals, divine power is too overwhelming.

This level of energy far exceeds what mortals can bear, bringing not only power but also destruction.

Thus, when the Gods wish to enhance the strength of their followers, they never directly infuse divine power. Instead, they further “dilute” their divine power, breaking it down into extraordinary energy suitable for their followers to absorb, bestowing it in the form of “divine blessing.”

However, this bestowed “divine blessing” still belongs to the Gods and is not “compatible” with mundane power.

The Gods merely lend this “diluted” divine power to mortals, and they can reclaim the “divine blessing” at any time.

In mortal records, this bestowed “divine blessing” is referred to as “divine magic.”

As for divine blessing truly becoming the extraordinary bloodline of mortals, there is only one recorded instance in the major religious orders—That is when God’s Favored reproduces.

The God’s Favored cannot truly possess the power bestowed by the Gods.

But their offspring can.

Born from divine blessing, the offspring of God’s favored achieve a fusion of “divine magic” and “life” from birth, truly possessing “divine blessing.”

And they are the origin of extraordinary bloodlines.

In other words, Gods cannot directly enhance the extraordinary status of mortals by bestowing divine power.

What Gods can do is grant diluted extraordinary power to mortals, allowing them to indirectly use extraordinary power through the Gods’ power.

To “create” beings with genuine extraordinary power, Gods can only do so indirectly.

For example, by having God’s favored reproduce true extraordinary power, by descending themselves to procreate with mortals, passing down a bloodline with divine power, or directly creating offspring with their own bloodline.

But now, Charlotte’s divine power is different.

Crimson light spread across the Gospel of Blood, and the heavy tome opened by itself.

New pages gradually formed within the Gospel, and ancient, mysterious golden text slowly emerged—

『Gospel of Blood · Divine Chapter』

『I am one,』

『And I am many,』

『I am the beginning,』

『And I am the end.』

『Divine Chapter Ability Unlocked—』

『Bloodline Gift (Active)』

『Bloodline Gift: As the source of all bloodlines, blood divine power holds greater strength than other divine powers. The master of the Gospel can consume blood divine power to grant the target a bloodline gift, enhancing the target’s extraordinary status. During the bloodline gift, the strength of the enhancement is proportional to the amount of blood divine power consumed and the target’s soul strength.』 ꞦáΝŏᛒƐ𝙎

“Bloodline… Gift?”

Looking at the newly appeared ability in the Gospel of Blood, Charlotte fell into deep thought.

Undoubtedly, the new ability in the Gospel of Blood allowed Charlotte to bypass “divine blessing” and directly enhance the target’s extraordinary status through the bloodline.

When Charlotte enhanced the statuses of Sebastian and Astrid, she activated this ability.

What surprised Charlotte was that this Bloodline Gift ability was not strictly bound to the Gospel of Blood.

This is an inherent ability of blood divine power.

However, as a “Demigod”, Charlotte cannot utilize it well without the assistance of the Gospel of Blood.

Undoubtedly, this new ability is a powerful tool for Charlotte to develop her forces.

Enhancing extraordinary status with blood divine power… In other words, if Charlotte wishes, she could potentially pull together an army of extraordinary beings at any time.

Of course, this is an exaggeration.

Upon further research, Charlotte discovered the limitation of this ability—it consumes a lot of divine power.@@novelbin@@

Perhaps because it involves status enhancement.

Charlotte made a detailed comparison and found that enhancing a target’s extraordinary status through Bloodline Gift consumes more power than bestowing divine blessing. This consumption ratio exceeds three times.

Nevertheless, despite the high energy consumption, it is not without value.

Divine blessing is ultimately a blessing from the Gods, allowing followers to use power indirectly through the Gods’ extraordinary power.

Mortals cannot truly master divine power; the upper limit of divine blessing is at most a Legendary-level priest.

But Bloodline Gift is different.

Bloodline Gift acts on status, meaning if Charlotte possesses enough blood divine power, she could create Mythic-level beings.

Not only that, the extraordinary beings created using this ability, although consuming a lot of divine power, do not need to continuously rely on the Gods’ power to use their extraordinary abilities like clerics do.

In other words, there are no “maintenance costs.”

Additionally, this ability can be combined with the bloodline of the bloodborne.

Charlotte can already enhance the strength of bloodbornes by granting them blood power, but previously, her method was simply and crudely giving her blood to others.

Now it is different.

Charlotte does not need to draw her blood, she can directly use blood divine power.

This makes it possible to significantly enhance the overall strength of the bloodbornes, especially after subduing the Harcos Clan.

Of course, the consumption of blood divine power will certainly be considerable, but it is much simpler and safer than drawing her own blood.

This new ability also led Charlotte to some other thoughts.

“Being able to directly enhance the being’s status… Could it be that the origin of blood divine power is truly the power of creation?”

The Gospel of Blood holds great secrets, and this secret is likely related to the power of creation.

Now that blood divine power possesses such miraculous abilities, it is hard for Charlotte not to make some associations.

“Power of creation, the Creator God, and the creation myths of the elves… What is the connection between them? Is it related to the destruction of the old continent three thousand years ago, to Lilith’s madness and disappearance? Is it also related to the disappearance of Stargazer Casey and the fall of Rowena?”

“The two eerie stone doors deep within my consciousness, and the white mist behind those stone doors, are they also connected to the power of creation?”

Charlotte fell into deep thought.

She had a vague feeling that if she could understand the relationship between these things, she might unravel many of her questions, and perhaps even uncover what truly happened to Lilith and the Blood Princes.

“Perhaps, if I get the chance, I could follow in Lilith’s footsteps and explore the old continent.”

Charlotte murmured to herself.

But soon, she shook her head.

“No, the idea of going to the old continent should be put aside for now. If Lilith’s madness is truly related to the power of creation and the old continent, going there would be suicidal.”

“My most important task now is to continue to increase my strength. Only by enhancing my power can I handle the potential crises of the future.”

“The development of the Nightshade Cult is on the right track, but enhancing strength through the cult will take time. As a bloodborne, and practically the true Bloodborne Progenitor, to rapidly increase my power, aside from continuing to seek and merge with the Faceless Statues, I may need to consume the power of other mythic beings…”

“In the current era, the Gods of Myria are still asleep, and finding other myths is not easy. If I want to quickly enhance my power this way, the best method might be to leverage my ‘time travel.’”

“Travel back in time, and… seize the power of the Old Gods!”

Charlotte murmured to herself.

Seizing the power of the Old Gods had long been her idea.

In fact, if she hadn’t awakened too quickly during her last time travel, she would have devoured the God of Abomination and Deformity.

In the past, Charlotte was unsure about the relationship between history and reality, and whether absorbing other Gods’ power in the past would have any effect.

But now, she understands the secrets of history and reality and has a vague plan.

“History can be created. In various texts, I have never seen any description of the fate of the Old Gods of Myria. So… can I assume that when I travel back in time, this part of history is mine to write freely?”

“I can give it a try. If everything is as I suspect, perhaps… the past Myria can become my hunting ground to rapidly increase my strength and even ascend to become a true God!”

“Of course, this is based on the premise that this part of history no longer exists. When I return to Starfall this time, I might use all the resources available to me to thoroughly collect texts about that era’s history…”

“The Bloodborne is one of the oldest surviving races from the Mythic Era. If even the historical texts of the bloodbornes contain no relevant records, then it indicates that this part of history is likely truly blank.”

“And this… gives me an opportunity to intervene!”

…

After consolidating the faith of the Free Tribe Alliance and reclaiming the Faceless Statue from them, Charlotte planned to return to Starfall.

She had achieved her goals in the North, so there was no need to stay any longer.

However, before leaving, she issued a divine decree to Margo and Duke Robin to collect and organize all the Mythic Era materials recorded by Harcos and Nez Clans.

As for the Free Tribe Alliance… migration was necessary.

Charlotte had observed that the canyon where they lived was extremely harsh and seemed to be deteriorating over time.

Charlotte didn’t know if this was a sign of the Divinity Descent Day, with the monster tides becoming more frequent, but one thing was certain: in the two and a half years since her transmigration, the magic level of Myria had indeed been gradually increasing.

Charlotte speculated that this might be a precursor to the Gods’ awakening. After all, there is a theory that the Gods chose to sleep because the magic concentration of Myria had decreased to the point that it could no longer support the Gods’ activities.

Considering this, relocating the Free Tribe Alliance to a safer place was a better idea.

Charlotte had already decided on the migration destination: the northern coast of the Starfall Kingdom.

There, the land was vast and sparsely populated, with many areas still undeveloped, more than enough to accommodate the tens of thousands of northern residents.

Migrating tens of thousands of people is a massive project, considering the resources and ships required. Charlotte planned to entrust this task to the official authorities of the Starfall Kingdom.

As for the person in charge, it would be Duke Gale, one of the Legendaries of the Starfall Kingdom, who guards the northern coast.

Charlotte had her reasons for choosing him. While going through the Starfall files, she had come across several instances where the Duke had suggested to the royal family the relocation of the population from the central and southern regions to develop the north.

The tens of thousands of people from the Free Tribe Alliance could just fill this need.

After arranging everything, Charlotte returned to the Starfall Kingdom.

Accompanying her was the greatly enhanced Sebastian.

…

Meanwhile, thousands of kilometers away in the Coria Kingdom.

In a brightly lit palace, a black-haired girl praying before a statue slowly opened her eyes.

Behind her, a black-robed bloodborne knelt on one knee, his voice incredibly respectful.

“Your Holiness, we have confirmed the information.”

“The Crimson Blade Sebastian has indeed left the Crescent Kingdom and pledged allegiance to the new Queen of Starfall, becoming a follower of the Holy Court’s unofficial Saintess—Charlotte de Castell.”