'That damned Respon! he was a puppet, a real puppet in the hands of his harem!' I cursed inwardly my useless fiance and contender to the throne for his incompetence. "What is my role in that? I have no power in the council," I said, as I didn't understand his aning at all.
"I know you have no saying in the supre council matters, my lady, but you must know that the first direction known to the army about the incoming forces is the different ga worlds here."
His words really startled , as I never saw this coming. "Isn't the esteed guardian already aware of this news?" I suddenly asked.
"Not yet," Bruce shook his head, before adding, "and even if he knew, he wouldn't be able to order the army around, or put any kind of pressure to our supre council. The status of the esteed guardian and our supre council is almost equal, making the relations between the two sohow tight and nervous all the ti."
I suddenly understood the reason behind the sudden peace treaty! I clenched my two fists, as for my enemies, this entire ga was already a lost cause, and sacrificing it for the sake of giving the delusion of peace was the right and smartest move to make.
"That's quite bad," I muttered, as my face was so grim right now. "Indeed it is, and that's why I have urgent advice for my lady," Bruce said, and his tone wasn't that dejected at all, making realize sothing.
He warned with the intention of giving advice, and that ant he had a way out of this predicant. "Tell what I should do and I won't hesitate to do it."
"The only way to secure the ga is to find a way to force the supre council's hands to follow your orders. There are so ways that I know, but your master and the esteed guardian might know of many more ways to do it," he started his solution with this logical introduction. I just nodded, and motioned to him to continue.
"The first way is the simplest ever, and that by you winning the race to the throne, however it's not a realistic one. Though I don't know the exact date of these enemies' arrival, I believe you have not enough ti to win this long and hard race.
So, there is another way I recomnd, which is regarding the grand achievent of the ga. you need to make the guardian issue the most sacred quest ever in the ga, and you need to fulfill it before the arrival of the enemy.
Though this quest is famous for being impossible, it didn't require much ti like the other solution," he spoke, explained his two options, and stopped. I sensed there is another option he didn't say, and so I asked:
"what is the third option I currently have?"
"It's for you to kill him," he vaguely said, with a very low tone, however I realized to whom he was referring to by his words. I was taken aback, as I never thought about doing this.
However just thinking about the logic behind this option made realize how simple and effective it was. If Respon was gone, then his nasty hideous harem would lose everything, all the enemies sched to do would be pointless, and the road to the throne would be opened and clear to .
Despite that appealing, I didn't agree on it, or even refuse, as I simply remained silent, while looking towards sowhere else. This reaction of mine was caught by Bruce, and he didn't open this topic with again.
If all routes were blocked, and I was about to lose everything, then I would prefer to kill that useless clown instead of losing everything, my life included.
As there was nothing else to say, I looked at everyone standing here as I said:
"You wait for here, I will go inside for an hour or more then co back to you."
"My princess, please wait," the leader of my kingdom's dark witch small army stopped as he added, "I have a ssage from your father."
I suddenly felt so warmth inside when I heard the word father. I just nodded, while trying to control my conflicted emotions right now.
"He is wishing you success, and informs you of his readiness to support you at any ti you might need his help."
I just glanced at Erick, the leader of the dark witch army, as I asked:
"Is that all?"
"Yes, my princess."
I sighed, as my father wouldn't change, not here, not there. I turned and entered the mansion again, and this ti I found Lady Nada was writing sothing, busy in it that she didn't notice my presence except after reaching the middle of the damaged hall.
"Oh, have you forgotten sothing?" she asked, while only raising her head once, then returned to look in concentration towards the pile of papers in front of her.
"I know what happened, or yet to happen, and made my enemies quite restless and asking for peace in such a way," I opened my mouth, and told her the brief of things I learnt from Bruce. The more I spoke, the more dark her face beca. As I finished, she stood up, said nothing as she waved her hand to , gesturing to to follow her, and then we entered the room of the heart stone of this town.
She then took out her precious stone, the ergency way to call the guardian, as she muttered:
"I knew sothing was fishy about this, but I thought it was just being pessimistic as my nature."
I didn't comnt, as I felt she was lanting herself for not being doubtful. I knew she ant good for , but right now things were really dangerous, and the guardian must be inford with everything.
The next mont of the cloud ca out and the guardian's boat appeared in the room.
"Why are you keep calling so often lately?" he asked once he appeared in the room. I sensed his impatience, but this ti I was so sure he would be really appreciating what we were going to do.
"There is a grave danger this ti, a very deadly one, and it's coming straight towards the ga," Lady Nada started her words with this strong opening.
"Danger? What deadly danger are you talking about? Everything is peaceful here and the empire didn't inform about any approaching enemy!"
He was still unaware of what was coming to him, and it seed he was depending on the empire, to serve as an early alarming source for any future threats.
"The empire has betrayed you!" I suddenly spoke up, as his trust in the empire made feel disgust for him. "They ca to you asking for a peace treaty here and didn't inform you about the incoming threat," I added.
"Who said that?!" the guardian bellowed with extre rage. "The army knows about it, the supre council knows about it, the emperor, the crown prince, and all the nobles know about it!" I instantly replied, and my words ca to make him silent.
"Tell everything you know!" he asked, with calmness that was so intimidating.
I started to narrate what Bruce had told , and the more I spoke up, the colder the environnt was here.
"I see, so those bastards are coming again to attack us? And this ti the imperial traitors are thinking only about their gains? Great, really great," he replied with a very cold tone, before adding:
"Agatha, I want you to do sothing for ."
"Anything," I instantly replied, without any hesitation.
"There is another way to force the hands of the empire, or at least its army," the guardian said, before explaining further, "the army responds only to three beings, the emperor, the supre council, and a missionary."
"A missionary?" I asked, while Lady Nada hurried to say:
"You don't an?!!!"
I saw the shock in her eyes, while the guardian replied:
"It's the only way, the fastest way. I can help her through this way, but I can't guarantee any of the other two ways," he said, before adding, "even if you killed Respon, the supre council will select another one, the next in throne line succession, and this person will be much worse than Respon. leave Respon alone for now, and let's think about how to make you reach the missionary rank."
I knew nothing about missionary rank, but I felt his words made quite sense. "Tell , esteed guardian, what should I do, and I will do it!"
"Sigh," he sighed, a sigh that made realize how hard the missionary rank was, "this rank requires so impossible requirents, and gladly our goddess of luck stands by our side, as two of these requirents are already fulfilled by you."
He then paused before adding, "a missionary rank ant you are a chosen one from heavens, and that rank isn't so easy to acquire. Throughout our long history, only less than ten managed to acquire it.
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