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

Chapter 45

45~ Declaration of War~

"Your Highness, Your Highness~"

"Mm?"

"What's your relationship with Her Majesty?"

This question stumped the little Princess. She didn't know how to answer properly. After thinking for a moment, she opened her mouth somewhat hesitantly:

"I'm Fei's... mm, younger sister."

Right, as long as she said younger sister it was fine. Anyway, the news and speculation spread outside was also that she was the Empress's younger sister. As long as she went along with this point, they couldn't do anything about it.

"I see..."

Xiyan nodded thoughtfully, seemingly not particularly convinced.

Whether she believed it or not didn't matter. Anyway, that's what she said.

Before long, Ling also arrived at the bedchamber. Seeing the two squatting on the ground petting cats, she placed the crocodile body pillow the little Princess wanted before on the bed.

"Body pillow?"

The little Princess thought about it. This was the small request she made to the Empress before.

Speaking of which, after so long, she suddenly remembered what her original purpose for finding Qin Feng was. It was time to have Qin Feng manufacture some things. Get the things made early for convenience later.

Thus, she called for Qin Feng, because she needed some parts made to exact dimensions. She needed Qin Feng to watch as she drew the proportions and dimensions.

The proportion and dimension problem would be solved using a measuring ruler.

"Your Highness, allow me to presumptuously ask, what is this used for?"

"You'll know when the time comes."

The little Princess played the riddler, making Qin Feng's mindset somewhat explosive.

As a top-tier craftsman, she was really very curious what this thing was. Before, she felt the little Princess wouldn't create anything with too much practical use. Later, after gunpowder and flintlock muskets were manufactured, it completely changed her thinking.

Princess Mo was absolutely a top-tier master. This made her very curious what this thing Princess Mo designed this time was used for.

Under the three people's gazes, she sketched and revised. Ultimately it became a cube, each face divided into nine squares. The internal structure was even more exquisitely ingenious. The internal structure's design made each square on it able to rotate.

Then there was this box used for storage. The seemingly exaggerated design, each dimension was carefully designed by the little Princess according to proportions. Ultimately designed into this box composed of several parts. This definitely had another use! As expected of Princess Mo. Such a design had already reached a realm she completely couldn't understand!

"You'll know what it's used for when you make it."

Anyway, just that one sentence. She wanted Qin Feng to make it first, not keep asking questions all the time.

Qin Feng excitedly immediately ran out with the design drawings, looking so full of energy that people suspected whether she had taken some stimulant.

"So, Your Highness, what exactly is that thing?"

Xiyan couldn't help but ask. Afraid she couldn't get an answer, she deliberately squeezed out a cute expression.

"I already said you'll know when the time comes."

She was too lazy to explain, and also didn't know how to explain. Could she really say this little thing was just a toy? That would be a bit too degrading, right?

Seeing she couldn't get an answer, Xiyan could only give up. If the little Princess didn't want to say, she really had no way at all, just like hiding the relationship with the Empress before.

"Alright, alright, let me rest a bit."

She still had to go ask the Empress how the search for the name left behind in that room before was going.

"Your Highness is going to sleep again?"

"Mm."

Sleeping was undoubtedly one of the fastest methods to recover energy. Moreover, in her eyes, there was no problem that couldn't be solved by sleeping. At worst, she'd just sleep again. If that still didn't work, she'd directly call for reinforcements to solve it.

"Then Your Highness, can I sleep with you?"

Mo: "???"

You want to sleep with me? Are you sure? The Empress's bed, are you sure you dare lie on it?

"Xiyan!"

Ling patted the little loli maid's shoulder with a kind tone, signaling her not to go too far.

"Alright..."

True, even if the little Princess let her lie down, she wouldn't dare. This was Her Majesty's bed. She, a tiny little maid, wasn't qualified to lie on it.

"Then if there's nothing else, go out. I'm tired."

Still exhaustion from mental labor. Designing a small little toy could tire her out...

After the two moved out of the bedchamber, she finally breathed a big sigh of relief. This way, perhaps no one would see her losing composure, right?

Yes, she was still brooding over last night's dream...

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"Your Majesty? Are you alright?"

Xiao Xi knelt beside Gong and poured a cup of hot water to hand over.

"I'm fine. Just dreamed of some not very pleasant memories."

Gong rubbed his temples, recalling the scene at that time...

Glaze Nation's Third Prince died about five years ago, throat slit open by the little Princess's own hand, bled to death...

"Is that so?"

Maid Xiao Xi of course knew what the not very pleasant memories her Majesty referred to were, but she chose to remain silent.

Under those kinds of injuries, she could narrowly survive was completely because her life was tough. Plus the little Princess forcibly demanded mages infuse her with magic power to keep her breathing, then later found a Great Archmage to continuously use healing magic on her. That was how she barely preserved her life. This was probably the reason for her absolute loyalty to Princess.

"Xiao Xi, have you noticed any strangers appearing in the palace recently?"

"No, still only those few from before."

Not yet? Logically speaking, they should have come by now.

Gong decided to wait a bit longer.

"Then you continue paying attention. If you discover the palace suddenly has some strangers, tell me."

The little mice from the Eighteen Alliance Nations should be coming.

Of course, this was the little Princess's idea. Record the identity of every maid in the palace in advance and assign them a number, so that when infiltrated by enemy nations, they could quickly find out those mice's identities.

The distributed work badges were unique. The corners all had anti-counterfeiting measures. Especially that number actually had two types. The other was hidden in the corner of the work badge. Only by inputting magic power could one see the hidden number. This way, they could know to the maximum degree which mice secretly snuck into the palace to collect information everywhere.

"Your Majesty, is there really no problem on the Princess's side?"

She kept worrying whether not being by Princess's side would cause some problem...

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Very soon, the day for Scarlet Phoenix Nation to declare war on the Eighteen Alliance Nations arrived. After separately sending declarations of war to the eighteen nations, the Empress leisurely sat in front of the office desk, as if that declaration of war fundamentally wasn't written by her, completely not having even a tiny bit of urgency.

She had issued the declaration of war, but she wasn't in a rush to attack. Just as said before, Donglai Nation's downfall had already rung alarm bells for the remaining eighteen nations. They had already long ago prepared to meet the enemy. On the front lines, they even deployed large numbers of mages attempting to resist the cavalry forces equipped with flintlock muskets.

This wasn't anything in front of Scarlet Phoenix Nation's army. It could be said they could very easily break through the defense lines. It just needed some time. The problem was that when she sent troops to one nation, the other eighteen nations would come to reinforce. Although the quantity each nation reinforced wouldn't be too much, a full eighteen nations' armies added together had already reached considerable scale.