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

Chapter 120

120~ Test~

"Alright, I understand."

The Maid Xiao Xi didn't continue pursuing the matter. Although their relationship far exceeded a normal master-servant relationship, even faintly surpassing the relationship between friends, after all the little Princess was her master. How could a maid not listen to her master's words?

Following the little Princess's request, she went and "redeemed" Nina and Ainomi, who had been bitterly waiting in place for a long while, bringing the two back. The Maid Xiao Xi immediately brought the two of them back to the palace.

"Princess Mo!"

Ainomi came within a hair's breadth of crying. She and Nina had waited at the White Wolf Adventurer Team's location for so long without seeing the little Princess come with Gold Coins to take them away. They'd almost thought the little Princess had used them up and then abandoned the two of them!

"How could that be?"

Did she look like that kind of ungrateful person?

"Princess, do we need to arrange lodgings for these two next?"

The Maid Xiao Xi asked.

"Of course we do! Otherwise, should we let people sleep on the streets?"

That's not entirely impossible...

The Maid Xiao Xi muttered in her heart.

"Alright, alright, quickly go arrange lodgings for them. I'll slowly explain everything to you properly in a bit."

She could sense that the Maid Xiao Xi seemed to have a trace of jealousy in there. She didn't know why, but she was even jealous over this kind of thing?

The little Princess just quietly sat here, waiting for the Maid Xiao Xi to finish arranging lodgings for the two and return. She'd promised to explain everything properly to Xiao Xi.

Before long, the Maid Xiao Xi had tossed this troublesome matter of arranging lodgings to other maids. After all, the little Princess hadn't specifically named that it absolutely had to be her who arranged things for the two. Then she quickly ran back to the garden.

"Your Highness, can you start explaining now?"

"Mm..."

The little Princess's hand holding the water trembled slightly. She genuinely hadn't expected the Maid Xiao Xi would return so quickly. She was still considering how to make this stinky Xiao Xi believe that what she said was true!

"Ahem... The matter has to start from when I was sleeping one time..."

The little Princess adopted an explanatory tone, beginning to pour out to the Maid Xiao Xi her encounters and opportunities over these past days...

It also couldn't really be called opportunities. At least what she'd learned from the little loli Xuan so far, the means to control magic power, seemed to have only come in handy once up until now. That was when she went from Scarlet Phoenix Nation's inner city to the outer city, when she'd used manipulated magic power to temporarily block the contract the Empress had set on her.

The contract was still on her body now, but because she was no longer within the specific range the Empress had designated, this contract was just like a decoration, just sitting there without any practical effect, unless she was sent back to Scarlet Phoenix Nation, or the Empress came before her to give her new orders...

However, this was generally impossible now. The Empress should still be inside Scarlet Phoenix Nation right now, right? Even if Red Leaf told the Empress she'd already left Scarlet Phoenix Nation and knew she'd returned to Glaze Nation, it was impossible to rush over immediately.

She didn't know why she so desperately craved freedom. Perhaps after seeing Ye Zixin that day, the desire at the bottom of her heart had been completely awakened?

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"So you just obtained the ability to manipulate magic power like this?"

"Mm, that's right."

The Maid Xiao Xi was slightly speechless. She very much suspected her Princess was pulling her leg, but looking at her Princess's completely serious expression, it didn't seem like she was joking either.

"Can you really manipulate magic power now?"

"I can, but the prerequisite is there has to be a sufficient amount of magic power."

The little Princess's heart leapt with joy. That this stinky Xiao Xi would ask this question meant she was beginning to gradually believe what she said was true!

The Maid Xiao Xi fell into contemplation. If this was true, then her Princess wouldn't be a sickly princess without the strength to truss a chicken...

As soon as she absorbed magic power, this magic power would immediately be absorbed by that "Evil God" inside her body who looked exactly the same as herself?

The Maid Xiao Xi immediately called someone over, preparing to test the truth of the little Princess's words. Of course, this was only done after obtaining the little Princess's agreement.

"Do we really have to try, Princess..."

The mage who'd been called over was still somewhat hesitant. His work wasn't finished yet, but then he'd been dragged over by the Maid Xiao Xi to do a test for Princess.

He didn't believe there could be anyone in this world who couldn't store magic power yet could manipulate magic power. That kind of thing was simply impossible!

Being unable to store magic power within the body, or only being able to store an extremely minute amount of magic power, meant this person had no talent for becoming a mage. Only by storing magic power within the body, and when the stored amount reached a certain quantity, could one possibly grow a specialized "organ" for storing magic power and become a mage.

Needless to say, mages could use the magic power stored in their bodies to cast various magics. This magic power was primarily stored in an organ called a "Magic Core," but this Magic Core was different from the Magic Cores on those high-level Magical Beasts. Although they shared the same name, there was a fundamental difference.

As for Princess, forget about a Magic Core, she couldn't even store the slightest bit of magic power. She was naturally born unable to become a mage, let alone manipulate magic power.

"As long as you properly accompany Princess in completing the test, naturally someone will help you complete your remaining work."

"Uh... Alright then."

Since the Maid Xiao Xi had said this much, he couldn't very well continue refusing.

It wasn't that he looked down on Princess, but the fact that Glaze Nation's First Princess couldn't store magic power was already widely known. According to common sense, it was indeed completely impossible to become a mage, much less be able to manipulate magic power!

"Then Princess, I'm starting?"

"Go ahead."

The little Princess waved her hand.

She completely didn't know magic and couldn't sense magic power herself, but she could use the contract the Empress had set on her to break through the limitation of being unable to sense magic power. Combined with being able to manipulate the flow of magic power, although she wasn't a mage, she could already interfere with magic power that ordinary people couldn't touch or sense.

"Just release support-type magic at me."

"Alright."

Even if you asked him to use attack-type magic, he wouldn't dare. Those who attempted to harm royal family members, not only would they themselves be sentenced to death, their family members would also be implicated!

Thus, under the Maid Xiao Xi's watchful gaze, the little Princess raised her hand, causing the magic released by this mage called over to cooperate with the test to become distorted. The magic that should have taken effect on the little Princess's body was instead applied to this mage's body in reverse, and because it was influenced by an external force, the support-type magic actually produced corrosion on a person.

He was frightened and hurriedly cut off his spellcasting. While shocked, he also felt lingering fear.

The magic he'd just released wasn't reflected back, but was forcibly bent back by an external force! It was the result of the magic power he released being forcibly bent back!

Princess could actually truly manipulate magic power!

PS/Author's Note: Announcing an important matter here...

Ahem... Everyone who's read this far should know about the content of those dozen or so chapters I published previously, right? Here I'll apologize for the poison point buried earlier. Most of the comments I've seen this past month have been negative comments because of that poison point...

So after deep consideration, I've decided to rewrite those dozen chapters, trying my best to remove that poison point from earlier, giving new readers who come later a good reading experience, and also providing an explanation to readers who've followed along until now...

This revision may take some time, because I won't abandon updates during the rewriting period, so the time needed will probably be until next month before you can see the rewritten chapters. Kitty will definitely put effort into removing the poison point from that section and seriously rewrite it from scratch...

So please stockholders wait a little while! Kitty will definitely seriously rewrite that plot section, properly removing the poison point buried earlier when my mind was in chaotic confusion for all you stockholders!