"Who? Who was speaking?!"
Even the deeply calculating Golden Princess was no different from an ordinary person in this regard.
The whisper that had suddenly sounded beside her ear echoed endlessly in her mind, filling her with terror as though it were a curse.
"Princess? Is something wrong?"
The maid on night duty called softly through the door.
"It's nothing. Do not disturb me."
"Yes, Your Highness."
A fine layer of sweat appeared on Princess Lana's pale forehead. With the moonlight illuminating the room, she opened the handwritten notebook again and murmured, "You... who are you, exactly?"
"Accept it, and you will fulfill every wish!"
For some reason, Princess Lana suddenly understood the meaning of the pictographs in the notebook.
"Gods only demand that you give. Churches only amass wealth. Indulgences are nothing more than psychological comfort. But to demons, everything you possess can be used for an equivalent exchange."
The original text was very long, with other languages mixed throughout. The handwriting was messy, and it was obvious that the notebook's owner had not been in a sound state of mind while writing it.
Still, Lana continued reading bit by bit: all kinds of magic circles, all sorts of demons, and how to make deals with demons.
The phrase "equivalent exchange" became deeply ingrained in Princess Lana's heart.
The Golden Princess of the Kingdom seemed possessed, spending the entire night immersed in that mysterious handwritten notebook.
Yet strangely, when morning came, Princess Lana looked radiant. She did not seem like someone who had gone without sleep all night; instead, she looked as though she had attained enlightenment through cultivation...
Lana summoned the adventurers of the Azure Rose adventurer team and asked them to help collect some monster blood. Naturally, the adventurer team readily agreed.
News that the Golden Princess