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

Chapter 355

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"..."

The assassin directly left, and even left behind some gold coins for her, saying to consider it the cost for renovating this kitchen, leaving her momentarily unable to wrap her head around it.

This assassin... wasn't he a bit too frivolous?

But thinking that the other party originally seemed to have no intention of truly delivering a killing blow to her, she felt relieved.

Perhaps the other party originally had no plan to deliver a killing blow to her, which was why he kept repeatedly emphasizing he came to assassinate her.

"Lady He Yan! Lady He Yan!"

Not long after, someone suddenly knocked open the kitchen door, rushed into the kitchen and shouted.

"Lady He Yan... Eh!?"

The kitchen was a complete mess, with traces of magic destruction everywhere, leaving the maid who rushed over momentarily stunned in place.

"Lady He Yan!? What happened here!?"

It looked like He Yan had almost reached her limit. The magic power on her body was already very depleted from excessive overdraft.

"Here..."

She had just wanted to tell the maid everything that happened here, but quickly stopped and changed her words:

"Nothing. I just accidentally blew up the kitchen when I was testing magic."

"Ah? What magic were you testing, Lady He Yan?"

What magic could directly blow up the kitchen like this?

"Trying to use magic to stir-fry. I didn't control it well and it exploded."

She randomly made up a reason, planning to casually gloss over it.

As for what truly happened, she wanted to personally report it up to the Little Princess.

"Ah... is that so?"

"That's right."

She continued to fool around.

Anyway, this maid had no magic power and had no way to investigate clearly what exactly happened here.

That Vitogroo blew up the kitchen very uniformly. The craters she herself blasted out with magic were all covered over by Vitogroo's magic. It looked like it was truly just ordinary magic losing control and exploding, not like there had been combat. Even if specialized investigative mages came over, they would probably be confused for quite a while.

The entire kitchen was now a complete mess, but as long as time was spent properly renovating, it could be restored to its previous appearance. It was just slightly wasteful of time.

"Then Lady He Yan, do you need me to prepare a new set of clothes for you?"

He Yan's clothes on her body had also been blown tattered, but fortunately, the key areas were completely unexposed. At most, some unimportant areas were exposed.

"No need."

She needed to immediately go see the Little Princess right now, preferably taking these injuries on her body along.

Not long after, she found her Princess in the garden.

"Princess!"

She performed a salute to the Little Princess, then raised her head:

"Princess, I was assassinated..."

"Mm, I know."

The Little Princess propped up her chin. Her face didn't have the slightest bit of surprised expression. Very calmly, she continued looking at the book in her hand.

"Princess?"

"What is it?"

The Little Princess raised her head and asked.

"Princess, aren't you even a little shocked?"

She was assassinated!

"I know."

"You know!?"

As if hearing some news sufficient to shatter her worldview, He Yan widened her eyes and stared at her Princess.

"Mm, I know."

Cecilia had already told her about the matter. Just knowing that assassin wouldn't truly take Maid He Yan's life, she simply directly didn't intervene. It could also conveniently give Maid He Yan some practical combat experience.

"He didn't truly want to take your life, right?"

"Ah, this..."

He Yan was somewhat speechless. But since her Princess also knew she would definitely be fine and didn't intervene, perhaps thinking to let her improve combat ability along the way? She simply didn't think so much about it anymore.

"Then Princess, since you already knew, why casually let that assassin go?"

"Because that person is from Magic Tower."

In short, she couldn't afford to provoke them!

Not only did Cecilia not want to offend Magic Tower's people, even if Cecilia wanted to offend them, wanted this mage from Magic Tower to die within Glaze Nation's borders, if she knew the other party was from Magic Tower, she would also go stop Cecilia at the first moment.

There were only so many Great Archmages on the entire continent. Magic Tower's Chief Mage was one of them, also one of the combat power ceilings. Who would want to have nothing better to do than properly go offend a Great Archmage?

Anyway, she definitely couldn't possibly casually offend a Great Archmage. Even the Empress probably wouldn't want to offend other Great Archmages for no reason. At most, she would take this Magic Tower mage to demand an explanation or something?

However, according to the Empress's explosive temper, directly taking him out on the spot also wasn't impossible.

"Someone from Magic Tower?"

Maid He Yan seemed to understand why her Princess didn't keep that assassin behind...

Although very unwilling, she was clearly the one who was ambushed. But since the other party also didn't truly harm her and didn't truly intend to deliver a killing blow, whatever then?

At most, from now on, she would curse that Vitogroo in her heart every day.

"Then Princess, what are you doing now?"

"Reading. What, you can't see?"

The Little Princess waved the book in her hand, thinking surely she couldn't fail to see even this?

"Then Princess, is Xiao Bai alright?"

"It's fine. It's just that during the previous period, because no one fed it, it was really too hungry to stand it anymore, so it ran out by itself to find food. It shattered a few pieces of glass around the garden."

So Xiao Bai shattering the glass was just because it was hungry and came out looking for food? That's good...

At least it wasn't losing control and going around biting people or something...

"Eh? Xiao Bai wouldn't treat others as food?"

"Of course not. Xiao Bai doesn't eat people. It's very picky about food. Human flesh is too fatty, has lots of bones and little meat. It doesn't like eating it."

At least up until now, she had never seen Xiao Bai randomly eating people or randomly biting people. If it bit, it was when someone wanted to harm her. Xiao Bai stepped forward to protect her and tear apart the enemy.

"By the way, He Yan, how do you feel? After fighting with an Archmage-level person."

The Little Princess suddenly inquired.

Because she didn't need to worry about He Yan truly being harmed in combat, she felt He Yan should be able to benefit greatly from this battle?

This counted as a habitual way of thinking for her. Dueling with opponents stronger than herself, she could always learn many things from the other party. This was a principle she had summarized over two lifetimes.

To want oneself to become stronger and stronger, one only needed to find an opponent with considerably strong strength as an enemy or pursuit target.

After He Yan fought with an Archmage-level person, she should have some enlightenment or something?

She wasn't certain, but according to her own experience, there should be, right?

"He was very strong. Even putting his strength down to the same level as me, he was still very strong. Whether the speed of magic chanting or the intensity were far stronger than me."

This was probably experience the other party had gradually accumulated through who knows how many battles, how to shorten his own magic chanting time as much as possible and enhance magic destructiveness. But she was just a mage cultivated with resource inclination and hadn't experienced too much practical combat.

It could be said that compared to Magic Tower's mages, she was like a pampered and spoiled princess or something...

Of course, this was just a metaphor.