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

Chapter 315

315~ Evelina~

"Mo, what did you just do?"

"Nothing. I didn't do anything. I just kissed myself. What? Is there a problem?"

Is there a problem with kissing myself?

"No. Just somewhat curious."

As soon as she entered the door, she saw the Little Princess and her frozen future self. But after thinking about it, she couldn't come up with a reason. She purely assumed it might be that her future self's body had some problem after battling with the deity.

But to survive after battling a deity... This was really something she could brag about for a lifetime.

There had never been anyone in history who had fought with a deity. At most, in recent years, deities in various places gradually showed signs of awakening, making all nations aware that the era was about to change...

But during this period, the Scarlet Phoenix Nation chose to expand externally, even directly ruling an entire Eastern Region, as if completely not considering that divine intervention might cause expansion to fail.

But facts proved that deities fundamentally didn't care what happened in the regions and nations they were located in. Even if several Great Archmages fought on the battlefield until the sky darkened, those individual deities who had already awakened had absolutely no movements.

Perhaps the only one with some movement was the God of Abundance in the Western Region. But after being warned later, there were no other movements either.

"Let's go back."

"Mm."

Returning to this cabin, using magic to return to their own timeline, the Empress checked her magic power reserves. They were already insufficient.

Whether bringing people from other timelines to her own timeline or going to other timelines herself, both required enormous amounts of magic power. Moreover, jumping to other timelines, there was no way to do anything sufficient to change historical trends. So Great Archmages who could use Time Magic, this type of ultra-ancient magic, wouldn't casually jump timelines either. Time-consuming, laborious, and thankless.

"If it were Cecilia, perhaps she could influence it to a certain degree?"

After all, the vast majority of her magic was learned from Cecilia, including Time Magic and explosive Fourth-Order Magic like that.

And Time Magic was supposedly ultra-ancient magic left behind from the previous civilization... But this was already impossible to verify.

The situation across the entire continent was so chaotic, with constant warfare year-round. Which nation would have nothing better to do than run off to conduct archaeology on the previous civilization? Only Great Archmages like Cecilia who had nothing to do would go do this kind of thing no one was willing to do.

Although ever since establishing the current Scarlet Phoenix Nation, Cecilia had also almost never left her door again.

"Let's go. Let's go back."

The Empress picked up the Little Princess, slowly flying up using her remaining magic power.

Now that she knew what would happen in the future, even if, just as her future self said, she couldn't stop the enormous torrent of predetermined fate in the future, she still didn't want to just sit idle like this.

"Mo, have your Father the King allow the Scarlet Phoenix Nation's military to station troops within Glaze Nation's territory. If turmoil occurs, sufficient powerful military strength will be needed to suppress it, right?"

"Mm... I'll consider it."

She knew the Empress wanted to help her. But the problem was, what would Glaze Nation's citizens think? Although the current Glaze Nation already depended on the Scarlet Phoenix Nation to survive, the domestic citizens didn't seem to think so.

On the contrary, these citizens even thought it was because their Princess reached a cooperation with the Empress that she was married off far away...

In short, all sorts of strange speculations kept emerging in various forms, all sorts of praise for Glaze Nation itself...

"Then Mo should consider it carefully."

Having said this much, she had no intention of continuing to persuade. Because she really wasn't in a good position to persuade about this matter. It was like she was enticing the Little Princess to give her a backdoor, planning to conduct infiltration on Glaze Nation.

...

Returning to the Scarlet Imperial Palace, little loli maid Xiyan immediately walked to the Empress's side, leaned close to the Empress, and whispered a few words.

"Is what you're saying true?"

"Yes. This is Lady Ling's intention."

The Empress looked at the Little Princess with somewhat complicated eyes, then turned back to look at Xiyan.

"Approved. Bring the person up now."

"Yes!"

Before long, Xiyan led over a young lady who looked considerably older than the Little Princess, slightly mature, like a flower bud about to bloom.

"Your Majesty..."

"Rise."

The Empress put on a stern face, telling the young lady before her to stand, then took out a parchment.

The Little Princess behind recognized it. That was a contract! Extremely similar to the "servitude contract" she owed when she first came to the Scarlet Phoenix Nation!

Was this another princess abducted from somewhere? That was fine. If it really was like this, perhaps the Empress wouldn't need to keep tormenting her anymore. She would also have more time to rest.

Under the Empress's watch, after finishing signing the contract, the young lady walked before the Little Princess and half-knelt.

"Evelina is willing to serve Princess Mo for life!"

Evelina? Which nation's princess was this again?

"This is the daughter of the City Lord's Manor of Suxing City. From now on, she'll follow Mo, responsible for doing some odd jobs. No problem, right?"

The Empress inquired of the Little Princess.

Suxing City? Wasn't that the large city called "the Scarlet Phoenix Nation's last line of defense"? It was called a defensive fortress! Besides Scarlet City, it was the city with the highest defense coefficient.

As for why it was called the "last line of defense"? That was probably because if Suxing City was breached, then Scarlet City would be completely exposed, right?

Looking at the terrain within the Scarlet Phoenix Nation, Scarlet City was surrounded by mountains on three sides. The tunnels carved through the mountain bodies were also inconvenient for military advancement. The only side not surrounded by mountains still had Suxing City.

If one wanted to attack Scarlet City, the military would have to go through this side not surrounded by mountains. But going through this side, regardless of what route, one would definitely pass through Suxing City. And adding that Suxing City actually wasn't far from Scarlet City, once fighting started, one would have to face the military strength of two cities.

And Suxing City's military strength was second only to Scarlet City. That meant once an attack occurred, one would face 70% of the entire Scarlet Phoenix Nation's military strength.

It had to be said... the designer was still very clever, designing a checkpoint like Suxing City. But the problem was... up until now, this checkpoint hadn't played any role either. Absolutely no one had come to attack these two cities...

The Scarlet Phoenix Nation had become the continent's strongest nation. Where would there be anyone bold enough to dare directly attack Scarlet City? Not to mention there were other cities that would defend first before that.

Now, the daughter of the Suxing City Lord's Manor suddenly said she wanted to come under her command as an odd-job maid or something. She began to suspect what intentions that City Lord had?

Such a high-ranking and powerful figure actually arranged his daughter to come do odd jobs for her?

"Fei!"

"Mm? What? Is Mo dissatisfied?"

"No. I just want to ask, are you sure she's really here to do odd jobs..."

"Of course. If Mo doesn't want her, then she'll basically be homeless."

Then the Empress told the Little Princess about how the Suxing City Lord's Manor was exterminated, with only this one living person remaining in the entire manor...

After the Little Princess finished listening, her mouth was so wide open an egg could fit inside.

The meaning was... Ling, as the Empress's personal maid, used the Empress's name to completely exterminate the family, then sent over the only surviving spark to do odd jobs for her?

These buffs were maxed out! If this were placed in a novel, this would be the proper stance of a protagonist!