CH.348 eting the Queen
With a few more days passed, the ti had co for to et with the Queen. For that, I dressed in my suit, made sure I had my gift ready, I also had one for Princess Nevelle, just in case she would be present as well, and then I moved myself down to the Sawyer manor.
When Cressida first told about the eting with the Queen, she offered for to use a Sawyer family carriage, but I refused as I do have one of my own. Sure mine was a bit out there, but it would work. But I did need a driver, so I brought Magie to be my driver.
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But yeah. I brought Magie to be my driver and for that, I made her so different clothes, so she would look more like a coach-lady. And with both of us ready to go, I teleported us down to the Sawyer manor’s yard. There I took my carriage out of Storage, Magie took the driver’s seat, I entered the back and then we were off.
The carriage ride took a bit of ti, but it wasn’t that bad. I can always just pull up either Pack Opener or Dungeon Founder’s item developer if I want to waste so ti. This ti, I opened the item developer and worked on a custom rebreather that would be easier to talk with, though I didn’t finish it in the ti I had. I should probably be doing this in the Factory anyway, because there I can make the item for free, so I can test out how it feels to hold in my mouth. Maybe I should instead just make a full face-mask, instead of a small thing you hold in your mouth? Like those masks they had in that Avatar movie. Then add a microphone to it, so that you can speak to people without the mask muffling your speech. That might be for the best.
At the gate to the Queen’s mansion, we were stopped and checked by the guards, but it was just them confirming that I had an invite to enter, so it didn’t take long. Admittedly, I still feel like the security in this country is way too loose. For soone with a rare skill, it would be extrely easy to just get into a place where they shouldn’t be and just assassinate soone.
After we got inside the manor grounds and pulled up to the front entrance, Magie stopped the carriage and ca to open the door for . After I was out, she closed it and I ordered Magie to stay with the carriage. Usually I’d just take it into Storage, but since Magie is here, I can just leave it with her.
From there, I was guided inside by a butler and after he took to a parlor room, I was asked to wait there. The room was actually surprisingly minimalistic for a Queen’s manor. I was actually expecting a lot more. I an, everything here seed high quality, but it looked quite basic. I suppose this Queen likes things on the simple, and in a way, that makes what is here unique. Most nobles go for extravagance, so minimalistic is really different.
Before the Queen joined , or was I going to be taken to the Queen, I was brought so tea and snacks. I quickly took just a bit of the tea and one of the cookies into Storage to analyze them, but they were all good, so I was happy to eat them. What do you an I’m suspicious? It is just so I’ll know what kind of cookies they were and so that I could tell the type of tea. I wasn’t testing them for poison or anything like that. My mind isn’t on assassinations just because I think this country makes them way too easy.
After a bit of ti, the butler returned and asked to co with him. He took to a different room, where three people were waiting for .
One of them was soone I knew, but I wasn’t acquainted with. It was the red-headed Princess, Nevelle. She was dressed in a sowhat casual looking gown and was sitting next to whom I assu is the Queen. … but sothing about Nevelle seed off. Compared to how I’ve seen her with HoBase caras, her hair seed off. I feel like it was a bit longer than that. It was still long, reaching almost to her mid-back. But when I saw her from HoBase, it reached her lower back, so it was shorter now.
The third person in the room, I’ll get to the Queen in a second, was a female guard. She wore light armor, and had a sword on her hip, so she seed ready to defend the Queen.
As for the Queen herself. Well again I assu, but she matches the description I got from Cressida, so it should be her. She had quite long turquoise hair, light gray eyes and a scar running down her face, right next to her right eye. I’m actually quite surprised that a Queen would have a scar like that, but what do I know? She was wearing a silvery white dress, which looked simple, but I quickly realized it was nothing but simple. Because it was an armored dress. Armored dresses are sothing I actually played with in the Dungeon Founder item developer, because I wanted to make Ria a real combat maid’s armored maid uniform, but that was easier said than done. Even with the developer, I struggled to make one that I liked, but the Queen was wearing one. I wonder who made it?
The Queen also had … interesting hair accessories. They looked almost like small skulls. Sothing that would look perfectly normal on a necromancer, but on a Queen, not so much.
After taking that all in for just a few seconds, I quickly took a knee and greeted the Queen.
“Your Majesty, it is a pleasure. Your Highness as well. I am pleased that you two have given this opportunity. Honorary Baron Brian Wood, at your service.” I greeted the two. I had been taught how to greet Royalty during the etiquette lessons at the Sawyer manor, but I still feel like I did sothing wrong. Hopefully I didn’t make a major screw up.
“Raise your head.” The Queen ordered, and I followed the order. “... so this is the Brian I’ve heard so much about. For soone with as many accomplishnts as you have, you really don’t look battle hardened.”
“I apologize for not living up to your expectations.” I quickly said.
“That wasn’t to degrade you. It is respectable that you have accomplished what you have, while keeping your body clean.” The Queen said. “Not like all of us can do so.” She added, while softly touching the scar on her face with her left hand.
Actually, thinking about the scar. An evolution removes any scar from your body, at least from what I can tell. It removed the blemishes Lua had on her body. Sure she didn’t have any major scars, but I feel like scars should heal after an evolution. So has the Queen never evolved? Or is that scar sothing she got after evolving? Well, not my problem to solve, and the only way I know to fix it is by leveling her up and forcing an evolution.
As our discussion started, the Queen asked to sit down. She then introduced herself, and her na is Nelliel. Quite similar to Nevelle and Nel, so I’m suspicious. Again.
After that, we talked a bit about this and that, mainly focusing on the TinaWood dungeon. That led to a good situation where I was able to present my gift to the Queen.
“My Queen, I would like to give you so items originating from the TinaWood dungeon, as well as my personal collection. Would you accept them?”
“So you bought sothing. Of course. Please feel free to bring them out.”
What I had prepared for her was sothing I was all too familiar with. A magic fanny pack filled with a few items. I an, they just are a good way to carry things. And I had one for Princess Nevelle as well.
Inside of them were rolls of fabrics from TinaWood. Denim, cotton and tricot. But just that wasn’t going to be all, as after the bodyguard had emptied both of the fanny packs, I took out the next thing. I had to be a bit more careful with this, as what I was giving them now was an actual weapon. So I called the bodyguard over, and gave the two daggers to her first, and had her hand them to the Queen and the Princess.
The Queen was the first to reveal the shining blue blade inside, and I then got to explain what it actually was.
“They are daggers made of the claws of the Ursa Major Alice and I defeated near Oroco city. They are capable of cutting through almost anything, including things like magic barriers. I hope you like them.” I inford them on the capability of the daggers.
The Ursa claws were really quite sothing. Because of their high affinity towards Space Magic, with the help of Cosmo Queen, I was able to make the daggers that could literally cut through space. Of course that is kind of aningless, as the space will just quickly repair itself, but anything that would happen to have been in that space won’t be so lucky. And yes, that included most magics. I say most, because things like Cosmo Queen’s Dinsional Magic could actually hold up against the dagger, but you really needed sothing extrely powerful to stop that blade. That made the sheaths a pain to make, until we figured out that so of the Ursa Major’s entrails could actually hold up against it, so we used those as the inner lining of the sheath. I wanted to use sothing from the Ursa Major for the outside of the sheath as well, but it didn’t end up working out, so instead they had so hydra leather from the six-headed hydra I beat when conquering HoBase. I lost a lot of that hydra’s corpse, but the heads were relatively intact, so I could collect hydra leather from them.
“These are … quite the pair of blades.” The Queen eventually said. “Are you certain you wish to give us sothing like this?”
“Yes. And yes, I know they are sothing, but at the sa ti, I made them, and I can still make more, so it is no problem.” I told them. I an, I could even make a few swords with the sa capabilities as these daggers have, before I run out of Ursa claws.
“You… you made these?” The Queen asked.
“Yes. Not all alone, mind you, but I did help and I was the one that commissioned the other people who worked on them.” I lied. In truth, it was all and my monsters, which ans all by most people’s standards. But saying it that way sounds more believable. At least I think so.
“... I see. Thank you.”
“I actually have one more thing.” I said, as I brought out three braided bracelets.
In truth, these three were an instant resurrection item made by installing Rope of Life into the bracelets. The bracelets themselves were made from behemoth hair that I took off of Alice’s behemoth. Don’t worry, I asked for permission. That hair was then made into a thin braided rope, before it was turned into braided bracelets. Then just install Rope of Life into that, and you have yourself an item that will automatically resurrect its wearer if they reach 0 HP, as well as healing them for 800 HP. But they would break after activating once.
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