Chapter 128

Chapter 128: Organization

Riding in the carriage under the cover of night, Dorothy and Vania journeyed back from the mountains to Igewent, finally arriving at a junction on the outskirts of the city where they had to part ways.

Vania bid farewell to Dorothy, saying she would return to the hotel arranged by the local church in Igewent. Before she left, Dorothy called her back, urging her to divide the spoils first. Vania, upon hearing this, became flustered.

“Ms. Dorothy, please choose your words carefully! We are here on a noble mission of salvation, approved by the Lord! How can you use such a lowly term as ‘dividing the spoils’ like a thief?” Vania adjusted her glasses and seriously warned Dorothy, who could only smile and apologize in response.

“Ah, sorry! I was just joking. No need to take it so seriously. So, let’s not call it dividing the spoils; let’s share our achievements instead.”

“Achievements… um… can I really have some?”

After correcting Dorothy’s wording, Vania began to contemplate the suggestion made by Dorothy. To be honest, this caught her off guard. Usually, when she participated in archaeological recovery work, any findings were simply handed over to her superiors, and she never thought about keeping anything herself. Even the results of her studies on scrolls sometimes ended up belonging to others.

In this operation, Vania had also viewed the seemingly closer Dorothy as her superior, and the main goal had always been to save the children who were possibly at risk from a cult. At the start, she hadn’t intended to take anything for herself. The idea of “sharing achievements” had never crossed her mind.

“Of course! After all, you’ve put in quite a bit of effort. I’m a fair person; everyone should get their share. Let’s take our time to divide it up,” Dorothy stated frankly, while Vania still appeared a bit hesitant.

“Um… uh… Ms. Dorothy, my original intention was to follow the will of the Lord to save those children. Asking for something in return seems a bit wrong, doesn’t it? Shouldn’t we prepare a sacrificial ceremony to offer these things to Her?”

As a believer in the Holy Mother, Vania, influenced by stories of selfless saints from the scriptures of the Radiant Church since childhood, felt that noble acts should be selfless. Asking for a reward after performing a noble deed seemed to tarnish the original sincerity of her intent.

“Oh come on, what’s wrong with that? Hard work deserves rewards; it’s only fair. We’re all mere mortals—don’t hold yourself to such high spiritual standards; it’s exhausting. There are some things here that you deserve, and you don’t need to sacrifice them. The Holy Mother surely appreciates how hard we worked tonight and would support us using these items as rewards.”

Dorothy cheerfully said, leaving Vania momentarily stunned. It struck her as incredible that this young girl would utter such words as a believer.

Finally, after Dorothy’s persuasion, Vania reluctantly agreed to accept the spoils.

Next, Dorothy opened her bag, revealing the spoils she had collected, and together with the somewhat dazed Vania, they began sharing.

Based on the spoils, Dorothy took the larger share while Vania took a smaller portion. Dorothy allocated nearly one-third, over 400 pounds, to Vania, and there were several bl**d-Eating Sigils and a few other sigils. From the spirituality storage items, she received two silver coins of “Shadow,” and Dorothy also gave her one of the two Secret Transmissions, saying they could exchange and look at the other later.

Lastly, there were three Extraordinary Items: a staff, a candle, and a bracelet. Although Dorothy was unsure of their uses, she could passively identify their spirituality types through Identification Technique. The staff had a “Cup” property, the candle had a “Shadow” property, and the bracelet possessed both “Shadow” and “Enlightenment” properties.

Just by looking at their attributes, Dorothy could roughly guess the functions of the items, especially the bracelet with “Shadow” and “Enlightenment,” which was clearly an item used by the mentor for reverse divination. This item wasn’t needed for Dorothy, who had a system, so she directly gave it to Vania.

After dividing the items, Vania suddenly recalled that many of these items were considered prohibited by the church, and she couldn’t take them back with her. It would be dangerous, as they could be detected by the Radiance Lamp within the church. She quickly needed to return to Tivyán, and carrying these items would be risky.

In response to Vania’s concerns, Dorothy proposed helping her send the items to Tivyán, as long as Vania provided a safe delivery address.

Afterward, Vania wrote down an address on the spot. After bidding farewell to each other, Dorothy drove the carriage home. After parking and settling the zombie puppets, Dorothy returned to Nanyang Flower Road, carrying her bag. As she walked to her door while holding the lamp, she noticed an envelope placed at her doorstep.

Opening it, Dorothy discovered it was a letter from Gregor, informing her that he had to work late tonight and wouldn’t need her to wait for him. He had already eaten and gone to bed early. Igewent had a very quick and efficient local postal service, so when Gregor suddenly had to work overtime, he would write back to inform Dorothy. It seemed the An Yin Bureau had a dedicated interface connecting the post office with the telegraph office, making it very convenient to send letters. Dorothy had received such letters more than once.

‘Thinking about it, it’s impossible for them not to be working late tonight… this situation is unprecedented. However, since the letter has come, it means the An Yin Bureau has successfully dealt with the mutated Viscount Field. Gregor should be fine now…’

Looking at the letter in her hand, Dorothy sighed in relief. After entering her home and quickly reaching her room, she locked the door, turned on the desk lamp, and sat heavily in the chair, letting out a long breath.

Finally, after sitting in the chair for quite some time and recovering her breath, Dorothy began to review the successes of the day. First, she placed her belongings from the bag on the desk and started calculating her recent resource losses and gains.

First was the money. After a successful haul from Buck’s house, she had 335 pounds. After spending 170 pounds on several rounds of sigil identifications and inquiring about the Beast Transformation, and then spending 50 pounds on a landmark sigil and inquiries about scent elimination, she was left with 115 pounds.

This time at the Field residence, she hurriedly collected 1209 pounds in cash, from which she gave 403 pounds to Vania, leaving herself with 806 pounds. Adding the previous 115 pounds, Dorothy’s total cash now amounted to 921 pounds.

‘The viscount’s family is certainly different; just grabbing a bit yields so much. This can be considered as a reward for eliminating their family’s enemies. The original Viscount Field would surely understand my actions if he were in heaven. He might even aregive me more!’

Gazing at the significant amount of nearly a thousand pounds in cash in her hands, Dorothy couldn’t help but smile. For the first time since her transmigration, she had so much money to her name.

Next was spirituality. Dorothy had not experienced any major depletion of spirituality recently, just a slight usage of “Cup” to activate the bl**d-Eating at the Field residence. Now, the zombie puppet ring had just reached the control limit of five and needed 2 points of “Cup” for charging. Previously, Dorothy had received 2 “Cup” and 1 “Enlightenment” from the complete version of “Lamb’s Song,” so ultimately she had only expended 1 point of “Cup,” and after a bit of reading, she would be able to replenish it.

Then there was “Enlightenment,” which was the spirituality Dorothy had used the most. The precise manipulation of the zombie puppet ring, the increase of the zombie puppet limit, and divination—all required “Enlightenment.” Originally, Dorothy’s 5-point blue bar of “Enlightenment” had been depleted, and she had ultimately had to draw out 2 points from her experience bar to use, offsetting the 1 point of “Enlightenment” she had gained from “Lamb’s Song.” Thus, Dorothy ended up exhausting 1 point of “Enlightenment” that was originally experience value.

In addition, the other spiritual aspects remained unchanged, so Dorothy’s current spirituality status was as follows:

11 points of “Cup,” 1 point of “Stone,” 2 points of “Shadow,” 1 point of “Silence,” and 7 points of “Enlightenment,” of which 5 points were from the blue bar and were already empty, requiring some time to recover.