novelraw Chapter 239
Chapter 239
239~ The Hollowed-Out Granary~
"Father the King."
"Mo? Come sit."
Gong patted his side, signaling the little Princess to sit down.
"Mm."
"Does Mo want to chat with me?"
"Mm."
Besides that, there's nothing else she can do now. Might as well chat with her cheap Father the King.
"Tired?"
"Mm, tired."
Not just ordinarily tired. These past few days have nearly exhausted her completely!
"Let's not talk about that first. Father the King, do you know what background that person controlling you in the royal palace has?"
She wasn't clear, but Gong, as King of Glaze Nation, might not be in the same boat. She felt her cheap Father the King must know something.
"That... I don't really remember the specifics, but there are records in the Library/Archive Tower."
"Father the King, before that, I think it's necessary to ask you about my mother's true cause of death."
"Cause of death?"
Gong was stunned, not knowing why his precious daughter brought this up.
"Was my mother really driven to death back then? Or is there something else hidden? Or is she actually still alive?"
"Mo?"
"Father the King, I think if we can return to normal this time, it's time for an even deeper Great Purge of Glaze Nation."
"You mean there are still other forces within Glaze Nation?"
"Proxies. Messengers who act in the mortal realm on behalf of deities absolutely exist within Glaze Nation's territory."
The little Princess casually picked up a sheet of paper, took up a pen and sketched on it, drawing out the general structure of Glaze City in its entirety.
"When Glaze City was initially designed, I remember there was a super-large underground storage warehouse for storing grain to deal with droughts and floods, right?"
"Right."
For so many Alchemy Golems to appear out of nowhere, she didn't believe there was no place storing these Alchemy Golems. That scale, if it's not in the sewage system, then it can only be that super-large grain storage warehouse beneath Glaze City.
Although most of Glaze City's residents know where the grain storage warehouse is, they normally have no authority to approach it. Even soldiers can't approach. Only generals granted authority, or soldiers originally assigned to guard the grain storage warehouse can get close.
There's a built-in sensing Magic Array inside. If people enter or exit, it will be recorded. And the person in charge of the grain storage warehouse is a high-level administrator under the royal family.
After all this time without a word that anything happened, she has reason to suspect Glaze Nation's current political system's high-level administrators.
This is no longer simple corruption, but direct treason!
She doesn't know when exactly that proxy infiltrated Glaze Nation, nor how many there are, but she must eliminate all proxies within Glaze Nation's borders.
Relying on her own strength is of course not enough, but standing behind her is also the Empress...
Although she's somewhat unwilling, the one who can truly help her is indeed only the Empress.
"Mm... I understand. I'll go inspect. I'll send you a list of names then."
"No, I'll go personally."
The little Princess refused her cheap Father the King's suggestion.
It's not that she doesn't trust her cheap Father the King, but those Alchemy Golems are too realistic. Even the Empress and Cecilia couldn't distinguish them for a while. If her cheap Father the King went, there would most likely be no progress.
She's probably half a proxy herself. She can accurately distinguish Divine Power disguised as Magic Power and can quickly determine whether something's an Alchemy Golem. Having her personally go investigate would be foolproof.
"......"
Gong quietly looked at the little Princess, whose physique is much smaller than his own, acting like a little adult. If she hadn't experienced all this, she would most likely live carefree under his protection, right?
He really is a failed father.
"Alright, Mo, let's put these matters aside for now. You're tired. You should rest well."
His precious daughter has probably forgotten that the original purpose of coming to chat with him was just to relax a bit, right?
At least he could detect that his precious daughter initially wanted to chat to relax.
"Mmph..."
Her shoulder leaned on her cheap Father the King's arm, quietly nestling close.
This is the only family member in this world who truly thinks of her. Let her lean for a while...
......
"Cecilia, how is it?"
"Hard to say. These Alchemy Golems are like they can't be finished off. Your Majesty, where do you think these Alchemy Golems are coming from?"
She'd already tried gathering these Alchemy Golems together and then dealing with them all at once, but the result was that just after finishing one wave, another surged up from behind.
"Don't know."
No matter how diluted Divine Power is, it's still Divine Power. It's just diluted so thin that it can be countered by Magic Power, or even be inferior to Magic Power, but the divinity still exists. As long as divinity still exists, it's difficult to be searched out by normal mage detection methods.
"Then how about we just follow the direction these Alchemy Golems are surging from and kill our way through? What does Your Majesty think?"
"...That's the only way. Let's make it quick."
The Magic Power she has left isn't too much. If these endless Alchemy Golems can't be resolved quickly, it'll be troublesome.
"Let's go."
Taking out her Magic Wand, she began rapidly chanting incantations. After adding sufficient defensive magic to herself, the two began forcibly breaking through against the current.
"Your Majesty, over there underground!"
After searching in the air for quite a while, Cecilia was first to discover the clue and hurriedly reminded her.
After observing with Magic Power vision, confirming that underground in this area was a super-large granary, the Empress didn't hesitate to release magic aimed at the ground.
"Dancing fire spirits... shatter all obstacles before me!"
Inside the entire granary, there actually wasn't any grain!
After blasting open the entrance, just as the two of them predicted, inside the granary were all Alchemy Golems. The entire granary had long since become a storage room for Alchemy Golems!
"Absolute Zero!"
"Fall into eternal icy slumber, Eternal Frozen Coffin!"
......
"Captain! Captain! This is bad! Look over at the granary!"
Hearing this, the Military Police captain, who had just finished clearing out Alchemy Golems that came out of nowhere and attacked them indiscriminately, looked up.
"Holy... crap!"
This is the south! And it's summer. Where did this snow come from! And it's freaking a blizzard! And mixed in this snow is... huge coffins made of ice!?
"That's magic. Super-large scale magic! And there are two of them!"
The only mage in the Military Police recognized it. Magic at this Magic Power scale can only be released by Great Archmages!
"Super-large scale magic...?"
"Quick, go. Get as far away as possible. Try not to get caught up in this Magic Power wave!"
If he's not mistaken, this should be magic released by the Scarlet Phoenix Nation's Empress and Scarlet Phoenix Nation's Great Guardian!