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

Chapter 170

170~ Testing~

The Abundance Order absolutely couldn't possibly just let her go so easily, unless that Deity of Abundance Midilayo suddenly had a great surge of kindness and released her.

After receiving the Magic Space Ring, she checked whether any internal items were missing or if anything extra had been added.

Although the Empress had long ago set up magic so that only she and the Empress could access and store things, after all, Midilayo was a deity. There was no guarantee they could directly bypass this layer of magic.

"Your Highness?"

"It's fine. Let's eat breakfast first."

Confirmed—the Magic Space Ring had absolutely not been tampered with. It could be safely worn and used.

In any case, after inspecting it all around, she hadn't discovered any abnormalities. Even if there were abnormalities hidden away, she couldn't possibly know about them.

And since that was the case, she'd directly treat it as if nothing had been tampered with inside.

If the Deity of Abundance Midilayo truly did tamper with it inside, she had no solution for it either. She could only have Xuan, who was also a deity, conduct an inspection.

After eating breakfast, she again tried various methods to awaken Xuan, but they all sank without a trace, not stirring up the slightest ripple.

"Your Highness, Your Highness! That Bishop sent someone to find you again!"

"Find me?"

Could there be anything so early in the morning right after finishing breakfast?

If not to test her reaction, she couldn't think of what other matters Elysia could have to call her over.

After thinking it over briefly, she changed into a new outfit, put on stockings, wore her somewhat worn small leather boots, and brought the two little maids together to the church's great hall.

"Lady Saint."

Elysia bowed slightly toward her.

"Mm? Calling me over so early in the morning—do you have time to explain to me the origins of this marriage contract?"

Matters regarding the marriage contract still concerned her somewhat. However, she couldn't possibly acknowledge this marriage contract. She was just curious why the Deity of Abundance Midilayo would create this damn marriage.

When the time came, if Midilayo didn't plan to let her go, at the very least she'd harshly disgust Them with words.

"That's not it. Please forgive me for not being able to free myself much during this recent period. Finding you today is to have someone take you to familiarize yourself with the environment here."

"Familiarize with the environment?"

The Little Princess faintly understood Midilayo's attitude from Elysia's words.

Did they want her to stay here all along?

As expected, the Abundance Order, which could be listed as a heretical cult, absolutely wasn't anything good.

If Midias King Darvien wanted to forcibly confine her, then the Abundance Order wanted to keep her here using soft confinement methods.

"I don't think that's necessary. I'm preparing to leave."

"Leave...? Lady Saint, where are you going? Are you dissatisfied with us here? Whatever requirements you have, you can speak freely. I will do my utmost to satisfy all your requests..."

Watching Elysia's appearance faintly approaching madness, the Little Princess interrupted her words.

"I said I want to leave here. I'm preparing to head to the next country."

"Lady Saint... we cannot be without you... Could you stay?"

"I don't belong here. You know this."

"......"

After the conversation reached this point, Elysia no longer continued trying to dissuade her. Although the expression on her face was still as usual, it had taken on a layer of cold gloom.

Feeling it was about right, the Little Princess added another line:

"Forget it. Let's familiarize with the environment first. I should still be here for a while before I leave."

......

"Please look, Lady Saint. This here is where we obtain the great Deity of Abundance's power."

The place this young lady pointed to was a statue standing in the center of the hall.

Unlike the hall where Elysia was before, this was the Abundance Order's true great hall. Two Abundance Order members were devoutly kneeling before the statue, praying to the divine statue for power.

"So the power of all members in the order comes from here?"

"Not entirely. For example, Lord Bishop's strength was continuously accumulated by herself."

In other words, the vast majority of members in the order had power sourced from this statue, distributed to them by Midilayo.

However, she had to say—why, when they clearly had a deity, that is, what the world viewed as an Evil God backing them up, would they still be in such a miserable state?

She felt it was probably because of the Abundance Order's split, right?

First, the first point was why would Midias's king actually believe in the Deity of Abundance Midilayo?

Clearly believing in the same deity, yet both wanting to eliminate each other. It was obviously because of the split!

Next was the name. The name "Midias Empire" overlapped two characters with Midilayo. If resisting the Deity of Abundance, they absolutely wouldn't let their own nation's name have repeated characters with the Deity of Abundance's name, let alone both starting with "Midi."

Things were truly becoming more and more interesting. All this evidence proved that the Midias Empire absolutely had an extremely deep relationship with the Deity of Abundance Midilayo.

However, she didn't plan to stick a foot in. If she stepped into this muddy water, it wouldn't be so easy to extricate herself. Of course, she couldn't possibly go do such a dangerous thing.

Right now she only thought about one thing: slip away! Run as far as possible, quickly leave this country.

"Lady Saint?"

The young lady's body tilted slightly forward, awakening the Little Princess who was deep in thought.

"Mm mm? What is it?"

"I saw you were somewhat distracted, so I couldn't help calling you. Um, did I interrupt your train of thought?"

The bigger reason was probably that girls had no resistance whatsoever to cute things, right? Especially someone like the Little Princess.

"Oh, that's fine. I was just thinking about some small matters. If interrupted, then interrupted. Better not to dwell on it."

In any case, dwelling on it had no benefits. It would just increase worries.

Better to directly not think about it at all. When the time came, just pat her bottom and leave, and be done with it. No need to worry about anything.

At least, that was her plan.

She already basically knew the order's attitude toward her. Especially Elysia's and Midilayo's attitudes—she'd thoroughly figured them all out. After figuring out the attitudes, how to leave here also had a general direction.

After sending away the young lady who was taking her to familiarize with the environment, the Little Princess beckoned to Maid Xiao Xi with her finger.

"Xiao Xi, come here for a moment. Xiyan, you wait there for a bit first."

After being alone with Xiao Xi, the Little Princess issued a command.

"Xiao Xi, I want you to search throughout the entire order for usable vehicles. Don't attract anyone's attention. Just use looking for something I lost as an excuse to search."

"Your Highness, you want to...?"

In an instant, she understood her Princess's intentions.

"You're planning to..."

"Shh—"

The Little Princess used her index finger to block her mouth.

"Just know this kind of thing in your heart."