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

Chapter 227

227~ The Empress Arrives Late~

"Clank clank~"

The corpse not far away seemed to have the momentum to come back to life again. She couldn't care about so much anymore. Gripping the dagger and dragging her wounded body, she walked once more before the First Prince whom she'd already killed for the second time, planning to deliver a finishing blow.

Raising the dagger high, she fiercely stabbed toward the First Prince's chest. But she suddenly discovered that just as the dagger was about to pierce the heart again, her arm was grabbed by an invisible hand. The dagger could no longer advance even a fraction.

If she just let go directly, the dagger definitely couldn't pierce through, so...

She switched to holding the dagger in her other hand, but the result was the same. Both hands were fixed in mid-air, unable to move. She could only watch helplessly as the wounds on the First Prince's body gradually healed.

"Your Highness Mo?"

Apparently discovering the little Princess's abnormality, the little loli maid Xiyan temporarily stopped the treatment in her hands and instead looked toward the little Princess's side.

"Xiyan! Help me stab the dagger into his heart!"

"Oh oh!"

Receiving the new order, the little loli maid Xiyan no longer continued treating her own wounds. She immediately rushed to the little Princess's front, took the dagger from the little Princess's hand, and prepared to stab down.

"Mm..."

"Xiyan?"

"That... Your Highness Mo, I can't move anymore!"

"..."

The little Princess fell into thought.

Both of them couldn't move. They could only watch helplessly as the First Prince's body gradually repaired, gradually recovered vitality. This was perhaps a deity's handiwork, right? Being able to control both of them without even being present.

The key was that the Divine Force in her body could no longer be mobilized a second time. Coming one more time, her body truly might not be able to withstand it and would directly collapse!

She didn't dare to bet whether her body could mobilize Divine Force one more time, but she was also unwilling to just watch helplessly as the First Prince recovered.

Xiao Bai! Where on earth did Xiao Bai go!?

Damn it...

If the Empress were present at this time, perhaps she could reverse everything?

No, no, why was she thinking of the Empress again?

She shook the Empress out of her mind and continued trying to break free from this invisible hand gripping her wrist.

No use... still no use! She simply couldn't break free!

At least before she mobilized Divine Force to resist, she absolutely couldn't break free! Even Xiyan, using almost all of her magic power, couldn't break free. The two of them were fixed like this, kneeling on the ground like prisoners.

Perhaps this was the end...

She truly had no way at all. Xuan had already fallen into slumber. Xiao Bai also didn't know where she'd flown off to. The Empress also wasn't by her side...

…

"Mo?"

"Mm!?"

Fei?

Faintly hearing the Empress's calling voice, she once thought she was having a hallucination?

"Your Majesty!!"

A hand covered the little Princess's head and rubbed once, somewhat dotingly smoothing her hair for her.

"Mo, I've come."

After being stunned for a few seconds, the little Princess hurriedly shook her head.

No, no, now wasn't the time to space out!

"Fei! Quickly resolve him!"

"Understood."

Condensing magic power in her hand, in order not to harm the little Princess and Xiyan on both sides, she even specifically compressed the magic power to the extreme. She aimed her finger at the First Prince's head, planning to directly pierce through along with the ground.

Although she didn't know why the little Princess and Xiyan were both fixed in place in a strange posture, she guessed it definitely couldn't be separated from the First Prince on the ground.

The urgent matter was to first resolve that one on the ground...

"...Tch, you think this degree can restrain me? Utterly boring!"

Casually breaking free from the invisible force gripping her wrist, the Empress released the magic power compressed at her fingertip toward the First Prince's head. The compressed magic power instantly pierced through the entire skull.

Now she knew why the little Princess and Xiyan were maintaining this posture. It was because of these invisible "hands," right?

Although she didn't know what exactly these invisible "hands" were, she had absolutely no problem using magic power to break free from the restraints.

She didn't know why, but whether it was this barrier that isolated everyone outside, or these other things inside, not one could trap her. It was simply like a max-level player farming a high-level dungeon. The map had all the difficulty it should have, but she was just superior. These "small monsters" hitting her was like scratching an itch, while she only needed to be slightly serious to scatter them all.

After helping the little Princess and Xiyan break free from the restraints of these invisible "hands," the Empress picked up the little Princess.

"Is Mo alright?"

The little Princess shook her head.

Of course she was fine... aside from the backlash from using Divine Force.

She didn't know how the Divine Force would ultimately backlash on her this time either. She'd have to wait a few days to know the result.

Last time, the recoverable effect of the backlash was that she had no strength for quite a while and was accompanied by pain throughout her entire body. This time, might she permanently only be able to be a vase?

She didn't know, and she didn't care. What she should care about now was Xiyan, as well as Xiao Bai's side, and Glaze Nation's interior!

"Fei, first treat Xiyan! Her hand is almost severed!"

The Empress's brow furrowed slightly, but not long after, it smoothed out again.

After all, Xiyan had almost risked her life for the little Princess. Being worried was appropriate.

What she was angry about wasn't that Xiyan hadn't protected her adequately, but that the little Princess was still thinking of others while injured herself.

"Alright."

Listening to the little Princess's words, after first treating Xiyan's arm, the rest could be left for Xiyan to handle herself. The remainder wouldn't cost Xiyan much magic power either.

Afterward, she turned around again, preparing to start treating the injuries on the little Princess's body.

However, after she tried using healing magic to treat her and discovered the effect was minimal, she gave up. For now, she took out some bandages from the little Princess's Magic Space Ring to wrap them up.

"So, can you tell me what happened here? Why isn't Xiao Bai by Mo's side? Tell me now."

"Your Majesty, that..."

"Shut up. I want Mo to say it personally!"

Whether she was frightened by the Empress or not, the little loli maid Xiyan actually froze in place for a moment, then silently closed her mouth.

"Mm, it's like this..."

The little Princess told the Empress everything that happened after she entered Glaze City in complete detail. Right now, it was the Empress who'd come to save her. Although she hated the Empress very much, she could still distinguish occasions, what time to make a fuss and what time not to.

"Is that so?"

After hearing the little Princess's account, she could roughly guess.

Xiao Bai had perhaps already been lured away from the start of entering the city, personally lured away by a deity, which led to her encountering danger here while Xiao Bai couldn't rush over.

The problem was, where had Xiao Bai gone now?

"Let's leave here first."

The Empress picked up the little Princess and called to Xiyan, preparing to first find a relatively safe place. As for the First Prince's corpse, just let it rot here.

After she'd confirmed again and again, the First Prince's corpse no longer showed signs of recovering. He should be as dead as dead could be.