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

Chapter 327

327~ Problems and Concealment~

"Father the King..."

With no time for sentimentality, after using divine power to block the attack, she walked straight before her Father the King, not stopping her steps no matter what attacks she faced.

"Princess, are you hesitating?"

"Mm..."

To say she wasn't hesitating would be a lie. This was her Father the King. To make her harden her heart and stab the dagger into her Father the King's thigh, she still found it very embarrassing.

The closer she got to her cheap Father the King, the more reservations grew in her heart, and the less she wanted to personally act...

But, she truly had no other choice in the current situation.

As she approached, Gong directly transferred to another location. With no alternative, she could only try using divine power to force her cheap Father the King into a corner.

"Who exactly are you!?"

"Sigh..."

Standing in place and hesitating for a while, she still swung her blade and stabbed the dagger into her cheap Father the King's thigh, temporarily making him lose mobility, then covered his body with divine power to isolate magic power.

After finishing all this, Cecilia finally returned from her spectator state and walked to the Little Princess's side.

"Very good, this is what a princess should be like."

Gently stroking a few times to comfort her, she then began detecting inch by inch any place on Gong's body that might have been cursed, finally narrowing the range to the neck area.

Attached to the spine?

That made sense... In human body structure, the spine at the neck had a large number of nerves. Placing a curse there was quite reasonable. If it were her, she'd also place it there.

The only somewhat troublesome thing was that this curse was a bit difficult to remove. The curse insect was tightly attached to the spine at the neck...

Speaking of which, how long had witchcraft disappeared? Ever since magic, something far stronger than witchcraft, came into being, those who went to learn witchcraft had decreased considerably. Even before she came to this otherworld, witchcraft had already been lost to history.

She hadn't expected that even now, there were still people who knew witchcraft, this ancient-era product.

Facts also proved that although magic was indeed far stronger than witchcraft, there wasn't any magic specifically researched to counter witchcraft. Including this curse insect, she was also seeing the actual thing for the first time.

As for how this Maid Xiao Xi knew this was curse magic from witchcraft was unknown. She was now also quite suspicious of Maid Xiao Xi's identity, but in order not to alert the enemy, she couldn't reveal any expression.

Casually knocking Gong unconscious, Cecilia squatted on the side and began researching.

"Princess Mo, can you give me some time?"

She needed time to research how to make this curse insect loosen its grip, so she could separate this curse insect from the spine. She feared that forcing it might accidentally turn Gong into a cripple.

This was Princess Mo's Father the King, a close relative. How could she possibly dare act recklessly? If something went wrong, her troubles would be huge!

Not to mention the Little Princess had a deity's backing behind her, just the Empress's side holding her accountable would be enough to make her pack up and leave. The pile of research results at her little cabin would probably also be confiscated.

"Mm..."

The Little Princess nodded to indicate she could.

Thus, Cecilia felt at ease. As long as the Little Princess allowed it, it was fine. She was just afraid the Little Princess wouldn't allow it right now.

"Princess..."

"I'm fine. Rather, you should go do what you need to do. I need to calm down."

Being attacked with magic by her cheap Father the King and being angrily cursed as a witch... she truly had some difficulty accepting this blow. But right now, in all of Glaze Nation, only she could take charge of the overall situation. She couldn't casually be defeated.

"Cecilia, apply a layer of Disguise Magic on me."

She had to go take charge of the overall situation. Such a huge commotion in the Glaze Royal Palace, it was impossible for outsiders not to have seen or heard it. She had to appear to explain, to put the citizens' hearts at ease.

After being covered with a layer of Disguise Magic to hide the cat ears and cat tail, the Little Princess wore her jade pendant and walked to the table, preparing to draft an announcement in her Father the King's name to send out, explaining the violent explosion sounds in the Glaze Royal Palace.

"Princess, brush and ink."

Maid Xiao Xi quickly ground the ink and placed it on the Little Princess's table, then took out the number one brush she usually liked to use most.

"Mm."

Dipping it in ink a few times, she rapidly wrote the announcement on it. After confirming there were no problems, she handed it to Maid Xiao Xi to distribute.

"Cough cough cough..."

Coughing lightly a few times, she covered her chest and felt a wave of stuffiness. There was also an itch at her cat ears. This was probably the backlash from using divine power arriving.

"Princess..."

"I'm fine. It'll pass after a while."

Ah... if she'd known earlier, she should have just handed it to Cecilia to resolve. Unfortunately, divine power had already been used. Spilled water couldn't be collected back. She could only accept her fate and hope this divine power backlash wouldn't bring her more severe effects, such as growing some strange organs or something.

Growing a pair of cat ears and cat tail was already enough to make her annoyed and troubled. That hentai Empress still teased her daily with her cat ears and cat tail.

Even treating these two as her weakness and sensitive spots, kneading them at will... truly detestable!

Leaning on the chair and resting with her eyes closed for a while, she heard Cecilia calling her.

"Princess Mo, I roughly know how to pull out this curse insect, but I need you to help a little."

"Mm."

The Little Princess walked to Cecilia's side and squatted down. Although her body itself was already somewhat unable to handle it, for her cheap Father the King, she still decisively asked what help she needed to provide.

"I need to use Princess Mo's divine power. I discovered this curse insect is very sensitive to divine power, and among those present who possess divine power, there's only Princess Mo."

Hearing this, she sighed, hoping the backlash brought by divine power wouldn't intensify too absurdly.

She should also implement the things in that notebook soon, to offset the divine power backlash!

"What do I need to do?"

"I need you to release divine power to lure this curse insect..."

Cecilia roughly explained the principle.

This curse insect was raised on divine power, so it was naturally particularly picky about food.

Therefore, placing it on Gong's body required feeding it divine power once every period to ensure this curse insect wouldn't kill the host because it was too hungry.

Thus, divine power could lure this curse insect to leave Gong's spine, allowing her to catch this curse insect without harming the spine.

As for how she discovered it... this was very simple. When she tried to feed it magic power, this curse insect spat it out. Her magic power was condensed essence. The magic power quality of every Great Archmage was far beyond what Archmage level could compare to. Otherwise, why say that between Archmage and Great Archmage was the greatest watershed?

For it to even disdain her magic power, only divine power's quality could still surpass a Great Archmage's magic power.

"Then what do I need to do?"

Without more nonsense, the Little Princess directly asked.

"You only need to condense divine power at your fingertip and approach Princess Mo's Father the King's neck area, but don't get too close. When I tell your hand to go back a bit, you just pull back the distance a bit more."

She didn't believe this kind of thing that relied almost entirely on instinct to survive could resist food's temptation!

When this curse insect loosened its grip to forage, that would be when this curse insect was pulled out.

"Alright."

The Little Princess completely followed instructions, gathering divine power at her fingertip and beginning to entice. Cecilia observed the curse insect's every move.

At first, there was no reaction. But after roughly a while, when the curse insect discovered its food wasn't being sent into its mouth like usual, it finally couldn't help but begin wriggling, as if urging the Little Princess to quickly feed it.

After another while, discovering the food had never been delivered to its mouth, the curse insect completely couldn't sit still anymore. It began getting restless, gradually showing signs of loosening its grip, seemingly already planning to actively go eat the food.

"...Right now, Princess Mo, move back a bit!"

The Little Princess very obediently pulled her finger back some distance from her cheap Father the King's neck. Then Cecilia immediately conjured an ice blade in her hand out of thin air, cut through the skin and partial muscle, then used magic power to pull the curse insect forcefully backward. Before the curse insect could react, she pulled it out of Gong's body.

"Success!"

Healing Gong's wound, Cecilia picked up the curse insect from the ground and carefully observed it.

"Hoh... the overall structure is quite similar to magic constructs."

Just like magic pigeons conjured by magic, the structure was very similar. But because it was witchcraft, there were also many small differences. And these differences created completely different functions from magic constructs.

"Then, Princess Mo, please allow me to take this curse insect back for research, may I?"

As one of the first witchcraft techniques she'd truly witnessed, she was very interested in this curse insect.

If she could research it thoroughly, perhaps it would be the birth of another very practical magic.

"Mm, if you want to take it, then take it. As long as Father the King is fine."

Letting her cheap Father the King's head rest on her lap, the Little Princess finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This way, her cheap Father the King, freed from the curse insect's interference, could properly recognize her, right?

Gently stroking the wrinkles on her cheap Father the King's face, the Little Princess only then had Cecilia move her Father the King to the bedroom to rest.

Of course, placing him in her bedroom. She wasn't at ease letting her cheap Father the King rest alone in a room.

"By the way, don't you think your maid is a bit strange?"

Cecilia suddenly asked.

"A bit."

Even Maid "Xiao Xi" doubted the authenticity of this real-world Maid Xiao Xi. Adding Cecilia's question, she increasingly began suspecting whether this was a conspiracy.

"Then do you need me to thoroughly examine her from head to toe?"

"Not for now. Let's observe first."

The Little Princess shook her head.

Before there was conclusive evidence, she didn't want to directly expose it. She also feared alerting the enemy...

Besides this, she also didn't hope that Maid Xiao Xi, who'd accompanied her for so long, truly had concealed things from her.

If Xiao Xi truly had concealed some very serious problems and attempted to harm her close relatives, even if it was Xiao Xi whom she trusted most, she absolutely couldn't escape punishment!