Chapter 143 – Day 20 – What Happened in Regensburg
“Priestess Grace. Are you okay?”
“Ah… Thank you. Ceres, the soldiers are busy… Puha, it’s hard to drink a glass of water.”
Grace, who was praying with her hands together, hurriedly took the water Ceres handed her and drank it. Sweat rained down on her forehead on her, but it was strangely frozen and hardened near her eyebrows on her. It was a little funny, but she didn’t even have time to wipe the sweat.
If the princess saw this, she would say, ‘It smells quite dirty! Grace!’, She might have joked. The cross erected behind her back was still shining gold.
Even if Grace didn’t pray continuously, the protective shield would be maintained to some extent. Even when she saw a huge boulder flying from afar, Grace held his hands her and did not pray hastily.
“Is it true that there was an uproar in the castle? The warriors guarding the walls were extremely agitated.”
“Yes, it’s true. Since the princess hastily entered the castle, I don’t think anything big will happen.”
“It’s fortunate … The princess is really, really strong in one of her powers. Wouldn’t she win even if she arm-wrestled with that frozen ogre over there?”
Ceres laughed bitterly when Grace pointed her finger at the really frozen ogre. Anyway, to that extent…
Ceres didn’t bother to say anything, but it must have been a joke anyway, so Grace gulp-drank enough water to empty the wooden cup and gave it back to Ceres.
“By the way, there are a lot of warriors who have gone to the castle wall where the queen is. Could you tell me that they have to come back soon? Ceres?”
It was a request full of smiles. It was to the point where a normal person could feel the strange power that he could never refuse. But Ceres shook his head.
“That seems difficult. High Priestess Grace.”
“Ah… Really, Ceres. Are you mad at me for not conceding last time?”
“Yes? No. I’m not stupid enough to react emotionally to a situation like this…”
“I was joking. It’s getting really cold all of a sudden… I need to get some blankets for me and my sisters. Putting them on your thighs will be just fine, right?”
Grace coughs awkwardly and gets up slowly. She hung a holy water on her waist and a golden cross, and when she saw that her shield her was in good condition, she started walking toward the queen.
“There is a limit to the shield we create with divine power. It is difficult for us to protect Orcs who enter the castle walls using siege towers or ladders.”
Grace calmly explained why soldiers were needed to fill the walls and arrived at the wall where the queen was. Grace groaned and covered her body with her hands as she shuddered and her body shivered from the unpleasant cold.
“This… What is this… What makes it so cold?”
“…”
Ceres said nothing about whether she knew anything. Grace is a little taken away and she looks where the queen is.
“Oh my God! Goddess, my God..!”
Grace covered her mouth her with her hand. Her eyes saw the pale-skinned, eerie chill emanating from the queen, stretching out her hands her to absorb the life force of her warriors.
“This… Oh my! What the hell…! Who! Who to Gregorio’s queen!”
“High Priestess!”
Ceres hastily pulls Grace’s arm her. Her Grace’s body was pulled behind her, and she gulped at the sight of a huge ice formation in front of her own nose. Everywhere this ice was made it was clear that the Queen had made it, and Grace raised her brow and reached out her hand.
Warm light radiates out and the ice melts and disappears. Grace thought this was enough and took a step forward.
“Queen of Gregorio! Stop what you’re doing right now!! Now..! What the hell! How many soldiers’ lives..!!”
As Grace moves forward, soldiers whose armor has turned to ice, block the path with spears and shields. Their eyes had turned eerily red, and their dried flesh made them look like mummies.
When I glanced at the bottom of the wall, I wondered if all the maidens in the village had been captured, or if the maidens had fallen among the remaining sacrifices, most of the corpses that could be seen were warriors with their upper bodies exposed.
Grace pushed back her soldiers and tried to add a word to Gregorian’s queen, but he couldn’t. The soldiers who had turned into mummies did not move at all, and even at this moment, for Gregorio! I saw soldiers walking from afar to sacrifice their lives while saying the same obvious words.
The queen’s red jewel was shining eerily even at this moment, and the queen, having recovered her sufficient magic power, reached out and fired her ice spear at her, destroying her last siege tower. Wouldn’t the end of the black waves of different races end here?
As she was relieved, Grace looked up at the sky. A loud bird’s cry is heard, and the flapping of wings is heard.
“Oh my God… Goddess… Please bless Gregorio with victory…”
Grace realized that it was not the time for her to speak to the Queen. It was a harpy that filled the sky. It was an eerie xenomorph with the body of a human woman and the wings and legs of a bird.
It was the first time Grace had heard that there were so many of them. This was nonsense. Orcs and goblins were even clinging to the harpies’ sharp claws.
“To the key!”
A goblin falls from the sky and lands on the wall. He was all holding a crappy spear, but Grace froze as he remembered his horribly murdered sisters her.
“…Grace! Please step back!”
Ceres hurriedly held out his palm to the goblin, and small flames erupted and roasted the goblin.
Terrible screams were heard, but Ceres didn’t blink an eye, and Grace saw it and opened her mouth with an eyebrow furrow.
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“Damn it… They say words are seeds…”
The princess broke into a cold sweat at the sight of orcs and goblins riding harpies from the sky. It happened the moment the bugs that came out of the well were defeated thanks to the help of the imperial people living on the first floor.
Suddenly popped out of the sky! And fell goblins and orcs. Behind the princess, who had cut off her harpy her, who was threatening herself with her eerie cry, with her single blade, the people were trembling in amazement.
They were determined not to give up.
“Princess…! Are you feeling well? You’re protecting us! You’re doing ridiculous things!”
“That’s right! Princess! You should go up to the second floor like other nobles!”
“It’s okay, don’t worry. I’m not hurt in the slightest…! How can I abandon you like the other nobles?”
The princess said so, but she couldn’t point it out.
As long as there were not one or two left, and the goblins and orcs being dropped with the harpies, there seemed to be no safe place for the weaponless Imperials.
“May I dare to say something, old man?”
“Don’t worry, tell me. The princess’s ears are always open.”
“There’s a blacksmith’s shop nearby, so if the princess allows it, we can arm ourselves. Also, if we sit-in at this inn, we’ll be able to hold out for quite a while.”
As the old man said, spears, swords, bows and arrows were scattered around in the forge, and the inn was quite large, but there were no special entrances except for a huge door, so it seemed suitable for a sit-in.
“But, aren’t you all young or old or female?”
“Gregorian women learn to protect themselves from childhood.”
“That’s right, Princess. If we can arm ourselves, we can deal with one or two goblins.”
The women nod. Looking at their bodies, they were different from the women wearing armor and fighting on top of the castle walls. However, it seems that he is not lying about learning how to use weapons.
One woman hurriedly drew one of her swords her from her shelf and brandished it lightly in front of her princess to give her faith her. She was very steady in her stance of taking down and stabbing.
“The princess needs to go to the large bath.”
“A large public bath?”
“Since her ascension her to the throne, our queen has risked the lives of countless warriors and maidens to protect her her Ragensburg her. Incense.”
“Are you saying that you genuinely accept such things?”
The old man shook his head from side to side. The ladies in the back, the woman with the baby in her arms, and the little kid all shook their heads.
“We don’t like it either. Princess. But… The number of different races attacking Ragensburg is always increasing.”
“How terrible things happen outside this castle…”
At the sound of their voices, the princess sighed. It is unavoidable. I thought it would be a good thing if one person sacrificed to save tens of thousands of people. The princess silently looked at the huge castle gate and her queen who was guarding it.
The harpies and other tribes that were dropped from the sky were relentlessly aiming for the walls and gates. The appearance of the castle walls in a blizzard was absolutely normal, but it was obvious what the people inside the castle, and ordinary citizens of the empire, would think of the queen.
“Is that why you want Hestia to become queen again?”
“You’ve already heard the story… Princess.”
The old man nods his head.
“Gregorio is a land that warriors have shed blood and sweat since ancient times. Counts and barons’ territories have been taken away and new lands have been created many times, but it is Jina who uses magic, saying that nothing can be taken away. It’s just the queen.”
“However, even if Hestia becomes the queen… Wouldn’t someone get hurt and someone shed blood? What will the army of the different races become stronger?”
“Heh heh, Princess. You speak like a child. When the sun rises, there is also a time when it sets. Do you think that Ragensburg has never been captured?”
The old man’s words made the princess a little embarrassed.
“That… What are you talking about? I’ve never heard of Ragensburg and Gregorio almost perishing from an attack by a different race!”
“Look at Regensburg. How many layers of walls do you see? Can’t you see the high stairs? It’s good to block enemies who couldn’t stop on the 1st floor on the 2nd floor, and when the 2nd floor falls, retreat to the 3rd floor to stop the different races. Can’t you see it?”
“However, if the first floor fell, many people of the Empire would not be slaughtered.”
“Queen Zinaida said there was no need to run away, so originally the people of Ragensburg took refuge in the highest place of the castle when a foreign tribe invaded, and escaped by the side road there and fled to the mountains.”
The princess looked at the end of the castle without a word. She was no old man’s bullshit. Certainly, Ragensburg looked like it had been carved out of the edge of a huge mountain. It wouldn’t be strange to say that there is a secret road or cave that leads to the mountain.
“Do you think then that Zinaida Gregorio’s method is wrong?”
“Heh heh, you’re asking this old man who isn’t even a noble…”
He turned on his cane and pointed the women to the smithy. They all nodded and took up weapons or armor and began to dress those weaker than themselves.
“Gregorio’s women and men are warriors born to fight. To die as living sacrifices without even fighting…”
The old man didn’t finish his speech, but he clicked his tongue and headed into his inn. Seeing that, the princess swallowed her saliva and moved her legs her.
The destination was, of course, the large public bath. The princess’s head her was still complicated. Was she really right to crown her queen? Could it be that she has a reason why she keeps trying to write?
Various thoughts tormented her princess’s mind her, but her thoughts her were quickly sorted out. She could feel the fishy smell stinging her nose her. Right in front of the large communal bath, I could see several fallen and bleeding soldiers.
There was no need to check whether they were alive or dead. The amount of blood that flowed from his body was so great that it was strange to be alive.
‘This…! Did the Orcs already come this far…!’
All the soldiers guarding the large public bath were killed. It’s rather strange not to think of orcs and goblins. The princess went into her large bath while kicking her tongue in her.
“It’s cleaner than I thought… There’s nothing messy about the Orcs coming…”
Muttering, the princess goes inside her. It was getting strangely dark around her as she entered, but there were small torches so it didn’t matter to her vision of her. After passing through a space that looked like a dressing room, the princess entered a space that smelled like water.
“Shit…”
The moment she took a step, her vision her darkened. Snap her fingers her! There was a clicking sound and she could feel the smell of water tickling her nose and the smell of lewd flesh tickling her lower legs her in a strange way.
It’s too dark. As the princess entered this space from a place where nothing could be seen, she recalled the landscape she had seen faintly and moved her legs quietly and cautiously.
I could hear her clicking along with the princess’s steps to her, but also from a completely different direction with a completely different beat.
There is someone. The strange smell and sound that stimulates the nose from earlier proves this fact.
“Ah… Who are you there?”
“Oh my God…You’re the princess…”
“Ah, princess… You’re here. You’re finally here.”
The voices of sweet women sound faintly. The princess was a little embarrassed, but she moved forward little by little, feeling the water rising up to her thighs.
“I can’t see you! I can’t see you! Where are you all? Let’s go to the exit! But don’t worry, I don’t intend to send you to Gregorio’s queen! Go downstairs and join me. ..”
As the princess spoke her words of her, she shut her mouth in surprise. Her damp hands her, approaching from behind her, began to peel off her own armor her.
“Muh, what! Do you know what you’re doing! Taking off your armor during a war…!”
“Ah, princess… But it smells like blood. How about wearing clean armor?”
“We will wash the blood-stained armor clean.”
“Princess, there’s a warm bath here. Why don’t you wash yourself a little?”
A sweet voice is heard. The princess was so bothered by these strangely tempting voices that she turned her body away. I move my legs thinking that the distant beam of light is the only way out of this public bath.
The princess’s steps were slow but surely moving forward. The sound of her splashing water came in, and something on her feet touched the soles of the princess’ feet her.
“Ah, ha…! Ah, the princess…! Where are you stepping on right now?”
“Now, wait… Mi… I’m sorry!! Ah, I can’t see anything…!”
“Ah… The princess is a pervert… You did all these things during the war…”
I hear her sweet snort her. What touched the princess’ feet was the female vagina. She didn’t even have to check it a few times, and it was hard to think of anything about her other than the feeling of being trampled on by the soles of her feet in her.
“The Princess… Please hold our hands. It’s too dark here, even if I want to go out with the Princess, I can’t go outside.”
“Y-Yeah… I thought so… Stupid. Now…! You too, hold each other’s hand with your left hand and your right hand! I will guide you… !”
The princess, speaking briskly, carefully held the hands of the women who were strangely clinging to her body, and at that moment, she realized that something was wrong.
