After Defeat, the Empress’s Negotiating Chip Turns Out to Be Me

Chapter 104

104~ Time Isolation~

"Eh?"

Different from what she imagined, after the Empress tossed her onto the bed, she turned and left.

Could it be like before, going to prepare to add to the gameplay?

She believed these past two days she hadn't stepped on the Empress's landmines. So why would things still develop into this situation?

Before leaving, the Empress cast magic on the small wooden cabin. It definitely couldn't be opened from inside, so she could only wait here boredly. When bored, she looked at things inside this small wooden cabin.

She noticed there was also a bookshelf here. The books on it had undergone the Empress's magic baptism, no different from brand new.

She curiously took one down, rubbing the book cover with her fingertip.

A Certain Magical Index...

She continued taking down other books to look at. They were all books related to magic, especially the one she initially took. That was something resisted across the entire continent!

Forbidden Magic. As the name implied, magic forbidden from use across the entire continent. Such as the vast majority of necromancy-type magic as well as magic involving time rule types. One was magic prohibited by almost everyone due to humanitarianism. The other was prohibited because it would cause time isolation in the region where it was located.

What the Empress just used was absolutely magic involving time rule types. This room had also been isolated by time...

To put it plainly, this small wooden cabin was an independent space not interfered with by outside time. The time flow rate might be the same as outside, might also be infinitely fast or infinitely slow. It might even have the phenomenon of time reversal. Without human manipulation, just like Schrödinger's cat, it belonged to a superposition of multiple states.

At least this was her understanding. Most things in magic books she only half-understood. She'd never actually used magic. Her understanding of magic also mostly came from what was recorded in books and fragments she'd seen herself.

So this time isolation effect was also roughly just her guess. The true effect still required personally experiencing it, or having someone describe it to her in very great detail before she could know the general idea.

Flipping through several pages of that A Certain Magical Index, she discovered this book truly was just an index. Aside from the names of various forbidden magic books, it didn't record any other useful information.

The books on the bookshelf also didn't appear in A Certain Magical Index. They were just some relatively conventional magic? Probably...

In any case, at least not that kind of Forbidden Magic.

Just as she was flipping through enthusiastically, the small wooden cabin's door sounded several times. Looking over, unsurprisingly, it was the Empress returning. Moreover, in her hands she was still holding... food?

Only then did she remember she hadn't eaten breakfast yet.

"Eat."

"...Where did this bread and milk come from?"

"Of course I went to get them."

If nothing unexpected happened, this bread and milk were very likely stored nearby previously. The Empress used magic involving time rules again to reverse time...

But using this kind of magic repeatedly like this, wouldn't it create some burden?

She stole a glance at the Empress, discovering the Empress's complexion was rosy. She looked completely fine, as if she hadn't borne the side effects of using magic involving time rules at all.

Any magic involving world rules, logically speaking, the more powerful it was, the stronger the side effects produced when using it. Yet not only was the Empress like nothing happened, she could even repeatedly use it!

"Why isn't Mo eating? Eat. Don't go hungry."

The Empress almost poked the bread onto the little Princess's face before she reacted. She hurriedly took the Empress's bread and started gnawing on it in big bites. After eating a few bites of bread, she'd pick up the milk and drink a mouthful.

She didn't know if the Empress had put some computer components in here. She only knew if she didn't hurry and finish this breakfast, it would probably be the Empress "helping" her eat it.

"No need to eat so urgently. No one is competing with Mo."

The Empress said, one hand pressing on the little Princess's head gently stroking.

After eating, the little Princess lightly rubbed her stomach.

She was full from eating, but what to do next? Since the Empress would pull her over here, she definitely wanted to do something to her.

"Is Mo looking forward to it?"

The Empress once again revealed a brilliant smile, making her shudder.

"Alright, time should be about right."

The Empress embraced her in her arms, but didn't remove the clothing on her body. Instead, carrying her in a princess carry position, she used magic to open the door and walked out with her.

This place is...

Different from before coming, the surroundings had already become a grassland. There were no longer tall trees forming a forest, nor could she see magnificent city walls in the direction they came from. There was only an endless prairie and a small village standing upon it.

"This is what Scarlet City initially looked like."

What Scarlet City initially looked like?

So the Empress brought her here to let her see this?

The little Princess thought about it, feeling things wouldn't be this simple.

"So what do you want to do bringing me here?"

Being able to continuously use magic involving time rules without even a bit of burden was already absurd enough. As a result, with this move, the Empress actually brought her back to when Scarlet City hadn't even been established as a capital yet!?

This was the Scarlet Radiance Nation period from hundreds of years ago!!! Really getting more and more absurd!

This also made her inevitably ponder, if she wanted to escape from the Empress's hands, was it truly possible to escape?

"Does Mo want to go look around?"

"Gulp~"

The little Princess swallowed. Deep in her heart was a strong desire, urging her to agree to the Empress.

If this was truly what Scarlet City looked like before the capital was established, then she was quite interested. If she could search for traces of other transmigrators or crossers here, then this trip wouldn't be in vain!

"Then let's look around."

"Then let's look around together."

The Empress had no intention of putting her down. By the looks of it, she planned to keep holding her while wandering.

Although no one here recognized her and the Empress, no matter what, being seen by others in this undignified appearance was too embarrassing!

...

"..."

Xuan's eyes snapped open. Sensing what the little Princess outside was seeing and hearing, she fell into thought...

Could humans truly achieve this degree? Freely shuttle between various time nodes?

No, this should be fake. It wasn't truly using time rules to return to hundreds of years ago, but rather the result of "Time Isolation." This entire area was affected by the "Time Isolation" effect and divided into two different time layers. That small cabin was the "door" that could shuttle between the two time layers.

Somewhat interesting. Exactly what scale of time rules could cover such a large area? If the Empress hadn't brought the little Princess to another time layer, she might not even know...

But she dared affirm this absolutely wasn't something a human could achieve. Rules on this scale could only possibly be achieved by deities!

At least she believed if she herself wanted to achieve this degree, she'd have to bleed heavily at least once to accomplish it.