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

Chapter 265

265~ The Empress Who Lies?~

"Fei, give up. You can't escape anymore."

She could drain away the magic power the Empress used to construct her spells, and Chen Ze's skills should be enough to subdue an Empress without magical means, so this time the advantage was hers!

"The one who can't escape is you, Mo."

"Huh?"

What kind of joke was this? Right now, she was Mo, who possessed the ability to manipulate magic power. She was no longer that useless princess!

Although she couldn't freely use this magic power to construct spells, and her body couldn't store magic power either, she could interrupt others' spellcasting!

In other words, she was a jammer! She could prevent enemies from using magic!

"Then shall Mo try again?"

The Empress once more gathered magic power in her hand, constructing a magic circle.

Try it she would!

The Little Princess also raised her hand again, attempting to manipulate all the magic power to fly over to her side.

But very quickly, she realized something was wrong. No matter how much she tried to absorb it, she couldn't pull the magic power from the Empress's hand over to her. It was as if it had been fixed in place by something!

"Hmm? Is Mo not continuing?"

The Empress manipulated her magic power, constructing several more spells that orbited around her body. As if taunting her, she even pushed an already-constructed magic circle right in front of her face.

"Ugh..."

Her face flushed red from the effort, but the magic circle remained completely unmoved.

What on earth was going on!?

She didn't understand.

"So Mo, are you ready to accept the punishment for losing?"

The Little Princess's defeat punishment!

As she spoke, the magic circle floating before the Little Princess extended vines that bound the Little Princess up.

"So you see, Mo, you're still so careless."

The Empress pinched the Little Princess's cheek, then turned and aimed the magic circle in her hand at Chen Ze.

"Fei! Stop! You can't kill him!"

"Oh? Does Mo already have someone she cares about?"

"That's not it... If you kill him here, you'll be wanted. Give it up. The people of this world are far from being as weak as you think."

Hearing this, the Empress dispelled her magic and used magic to weave a chair, sitting in front of the Little Princess with a curious expression.

"Then tell me, Mo, what is this world like?"

"Science! The large-scale destructive weapons here are enough to erase even a top-tier Great Archmage. Give it up, Fei."

"Hoh?"

The Empress's interest was immediately piqued.

Could a world without magic power like this also erase a Great Archmage?

Compared to the two of them, Chen Ze was completely bewildered.

What Great Archmage? What magic? Were they really people from Earth!? And weren't they supposed to be overseas Chinese returnees? What the hell were they even talking about now!?

He could no longer understand what the two were saying.

And magic actually existed?

"Keep talking. I'm listening~"

The Empress somehow produced a pot of black tea and sipped it slowly while waiting for the Little Princess's answer.

"Fei, I think you should go see modern warfare."

"I've seen it. It's nothing special."

It wasn't even as powerful as one of her high-tier advanced spells.

"What about hydrogen bombs?"

"They're about equal to one of my Super-Grade spells, that's all."

Although she herself couldn't continuously release multiple Super-Grade spells in a short time, the amount of magic power required for Super-Grade spells could only be possessed by Great Archmages; it was far beyond what an Archmage could release.

However, there was also a problem: the casting time was too long. Although it was a spell that could destroy an entire nation with a single shot, the chanting time required a full two quarters of an hour, which was half an hour.

Moreover, generally speaking, the entire continent had already reached a kind of unspoken agreement: mages of Archmage rank or above were not allowed to enter the battlefield. The Eastern Region chaos was actually the Eighteen Alliance Nations attempting to break the balance of Great Archmage numbers in the Eastern Region, and they were directly sanctioned by Scarlet Phoenix Nation deploying Great Archmage-level combat power.

In reality, under the combined forces of Scarlet Phoenix Nation and Glaze Nation, plus the addition of flintlock muskets, a product that didn't belong to this era, the Eighteen Nations alliance's defeat was already a foregone conclusion. Deploying Great Archmage-level combat power only accelerated the collapse of the Eighteen Alliance Nations.

In the world she originally came from, she was the pinnacle of combat power, and it was the same here!

Defensive magic didn't require consuming too much magic power. She only needed to condense a ring of magical barriers that absolutely could not be broken through except by magic, and then all modern weapons would still be unable to do anything to her.

It was just that she was currently too weak, and this world had no such thing as magic power, so she needed to use magic to convert the energy here into magic power for use.

But no matter how weak she was, she still had the level of a quasi-Great Archmage. As long as she had magic power, it would be impossible to kill her.

Furthermore, she knew very clearly what the essence of this world was... At most, it was just a dream created by the Little Princess that she wanted to deeply understand.

However, the world where Mo originally existed could actually develop civilization to the point where mortal bodies could rival a Great Archmage? That truly surprised her.

Judging by the stockpile of those large-scale destructive weapons, it would be enough to exhaust a Great Archmage to death.

How dangerous.

"Then, then you still can't kill her!"

The Little Princess puffed out her cheeks.

She still wanted to live properly! She had just returned to this world and touched everything she had been longing for. She didn't want to leave again...

Although the otherworld also had many things she cared about...

Thinking of this, she paused for a moment, then raised her head and asked:

"Fei, do you have a way to go back?"

"No."

Only if one of them died in the dream, experiencing true death, or if the entire dream was destroyed, could they get out.

Of course, there were also many methods of destruction. For example, directly destroying the source of the dream, which was the Little Princess's dream origin. Slightly damaging this part of the memory would allow them to get out directly. Or they could destroy the entire world in the dream, and that would also allow them to get out.

She had no intention of destroying this dream. She planned to wait until she had seen enough and thoroughly understood the Little Princess before ending her own life.

In any case, this dream was originally derived from memories belonging to the Little Princess combined with her Super-Grade magic. She wouldn't destroy her own masterpiece.

Moreover, this dream still had great use for her.

"Hasn't Mo ever wondered why I suddenly recovered my memories?"

Mo: "..."

Now that she mentioned it, she really hadn't thought about it at all.

"Why?"

"Because everything before was an act?"

"Ah?"

Everything before was an act?

The Little Princess fell silent for a while.

Honestly, she had never doubted the Empress before. That terrified appearance was absolutely impossible to fake. Even if an Oscar-winning actor came, they couldn't perform it, that genuine fear etched into her bones.

Fear experienced through memories, restored by recalling past terror, versus fear genuinely produced by being frightened, these two things she could still distinguish.

Then there was only one possibility left. The Empress was lying!!!