Chapter 152: There’s a lot of Mothers Out Here
The day started to permeate, however, the people of Urduja could still hear the sobbing of the queendom''s namesake, much to the warmth of their hearts and worry in their minds. Aoi, however, is not worried about her spouse, in the first ce she is Urduja''s therapist so she can always talk her out of depression, thus she is now being the proxy queen of Urduja, in the underground basement of the royal pce, she was left alone in the morgue of the ck ops division of Urdujan military.
On the big metallic table is the corpse of Yamato Mamorite, the little sister of Mizukuni Mamorite.
_She just has to fight against someone who has an abstract set of skills like me when her unique skill makes her capable of cutting anything that has a physical, solid form._
To say that Yamato has a lot more chances against Urduja than against Aoi would not be an understatement. That is, of course, if Urduja did not dodge her attacks. Aoi did not think of it further. She looked at the living and undead, Midori and Khearsenbelle, in front of her and then asked.
"Do you think Sophia can turn her into an undead?"
Aoi has long since deduced that Sophia can turn corpses into undeads, an evidence of such an ability is Khearsenbelle being able to walk and talk with her right now, also the fact that she asks for the tomb of the previous kings of Gjarhorn makes that a solid fact too.
That is what Aoi was thinking as Khearsenbelle replied.
"Of course, she can... is what I want to say, but I was only able to apany Lady Sophia in a battle, and all I did at that time was throw a dagger every time the body of Hebi Tsukaiza appeared, so I don''t know."
As Khearsenbelle answered truthfully, she pulled out a paper with a simple pentagram and then waved it a little.
"I can go and ask the actingmander though, apparently his words are considered the words of Lady Sophia, we will let him decide whether or not to ept it or not."
Aoi nodded at that, she looked at Midori, but thetter just nodded, she knew that she didn''t have power over the actions of Khearsenbelle, so she opted to be silent in the whole conversation, she was sure that Aoi didn''t want to left her behind so she looked at her to "confirm" the undead''s actions.
_The truth is I''m just here to officially receive my first orders._
Seeing that Midori agreed, Aoi seconded her affirmation of Khearsenbelle''s action, thetter immediately injected mana into the paper causing it to glow and unceremoniously, the paper caused a rip in the 4th dimension and sucked Khearsenbelle who yelped, it seems like the paper doesn''t have that feature in its prototype stage.
"She''s really innovative, even more than Urduja."
Aoi cannot help butment, Midori agreed nodding.
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"Oof...!"
Khearsenbelle grunted as she almost nted her face to the ground, it was a good thing that she is a trained warrior, so she was able to catch her toppled self-using her hand and flip her body upside down tond on her feet again, [Guide] who is ordering the main battlefield while also deciphering the sealing magic circle of the resurrection sequence of the undead and is trying to get a visual of the "artificial hero prospect crystal" and make a magic circle that will seal the mana it radiates looked at Khearsenbelle who just made some acro bullshit, his spider face is annoyed.
Khearsenbelle casually bowed at him and nced at Luna, the leader of the revolutionary army of the dark elves, she had a sullen face full of tiredness.
_Poor one, she must have realized the mistake of making My Lady enter her territory without a neutralizing force on her side._
While Khearsenbelle mulled about the future fate of Indio, [Guide] cut off her "sorrow" for thend as he said.
"What do you want?"
Khearsenbelle immediately snapped herself from her stupor and then said.@@novelbin@@
"Lady Aoi has a corpse that will help a lot in the future war against Valentine and was asking if Lady Sophia can make her into an undead."
[Guide] squinted her eyes, not because the ability that was once being hidden by Sophia was discovered (that''s already redundant considering she is the queen of undeads), but because of the question, normally an undead will not doubt Sophia.
_This corpse seems to be very strong if even an undead will need a confirmation of Sophia''s abilities._
[Guide] was immediately interested, and because as it was said before, his words are the words of Sophia, he agreed without hesitation, before that, hemanded all his soldiers to maintain the tactic they have been employing and for the generals to adjust on the spot.
"Let''s go."
Khearsenbelle nodded at that and then brought out a paper with a pentagram once more, she then grabbed [Guide] by the buttocks and then let her and the spider be sucked by the vortex that is not supposed to exist in the 4th space summoned by Sophia.
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After a while, the two appeared in front of Aoi, this time, Khearsenbelle was able tond properly, Aoi knew that the actingmander (based on the things she had read on the mind of the spider) was quite busy, so she did not beat around the bush.
"This is the corpse of the second inmand of the army that was sent by Mizukuni Mamorite to interfere in our invasion, she is a hero who can cut anything that exists in solid form, quite the inflexible ability if you consider the conceptual powers of some people, but with goodmanding, I think she can be a valuable asset in the impending war against Valentine."
[Guide] nodded at this, he then made a cursory look at the corpse and then nodded.
"Sophia should be able to turn her into an undead considering the upgrades in her unique skill due to her new title as the queen of undeads, I''ll take it."
After saying such, [Guide] jumped towards the head of Yamato, he then said: "Don''t mind if I do." before opening his mouth wide, so wide it was that it is even wider than his whole body that is just as big as a person''s palm, he then started to swallow the corpse whole much to the disgust of the threedies, but [Guide] paid them no mind and even made a "phew" sound as if satisfied on what he just did.
After that, he said to the Admirals of the navy that a new fighting force hade their way before a spider in the mothership vomited a very slimy corpse.
"That should do it."
[Guide] said, which made Aoi kind of awkward, yet she did not show it in her face and interjected.
"Do you need help in the war against the elves?"
At that, [Guide] wanted to say yes, however, he replied.
"No, as much as I want to, I know that all of your forces are busy sweeping any possible rebellion all over Gjarhorn, not to mention your leader is not in the mood to ept any request of assistance, so I have to decline."
Aoi nodded at that, for such is the truth, theirmander-general, AKA Urduja is still in her throne room, locked up, maybe the therapy session between her and Aoi will only happen at night, or even tomorrow, but she is still ready to bypass the chain ofmand if it''s an emergency, but as it turns out, themander of the ally thinks that everything is under his control, so she did not insist any further, she just watched as the spider puked out a slimy paper with a pentagram and then was sucked into the 4th dimension, leaving a soggy piece of paper.
_He sure is busy._
The threedies in the roommented.
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Soon, [Guide] was spat out of the 4th dimension.
_Now back to reality._
Again, he, alongside his soldiers fought off the humans and elves vigorously and before they knew it, it was once again nighttime with nothing on their side but losses, though temporary ones and a magic circle that was just half deciphered even though he already have the whole day yesterday to do so.
[Guide] cannot help but sigh, being amander and strategist at the same time is hard even though he canonically has the same mental capacity as Sophia, that is most likely because he is only a very highly functional AI as of the moment and is not yet as flexible as a human in terms of creativity.
Plus the fact that all of the mages developed by Sophia in the academies in her whole queendom are military-based, they don''t even have a magic librarian in their libraries, but then again, Kamatayan has a very good strategic position and is one reach away from Valentine.
_This work will need another two days at most... at that time, the generals of the other side will probably get an order from their actingmander to attack the other generals because further replenishment of their forces using the forces inside Tydings and Stardust will not only take time but will thin out the defense of their cities which in turn will give us a chance to attack them from behind._
_Well, the good thing is that they did not know that we do not have a general that can lead an attack like that, Luna can, but all of the cities are fortified with magic barriers at the same level as the one we have in the whole queendom, so either Sophia or I have to lead it... We can punch through them through those disposable fourth-dimension papers... but we are limited in the production of such papers and it''s not militarily avable yet..._
[Guide] has a lot of things to consider, which will be solved if he cracks even one of the two main aces of the army they are fighting, but he is not as creative as a human.
[Guide] knows that at this moment, the best thing he can do is to consult a human.
"Hello, Eleanor? Can I ask you something?"
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The war between undeads and elves was still in a stalement, however, the gods who were anticipating its result slightly diverted their attention to it as they weed another member of their "family", a beam of light suddenly engulfed a chair, and soon a man covered in light appeared the opposite seat of Siginarugan.
"I got my attempt."
Sinag, the neer said, rather grumpy that he failed.
"Indeed, the attempt to destroy, or even shake the time loop using the expertise of the ancient cmity Urduja failed, the invasion of Gjarhorn transpired as usual."
Siginarugan, unlike the three solemn gods beside him, cannot help but snicker.
"Which only leaves my attempt, actually, I did not order Sophia anything, so it is her attempt."
Siginarugan''s words caused some displeasure to the usually yful Sinag, as it was said by Paraluman before, this is theirst attempt to destroy the time loop, if not, not only their world be in peril, but their mother, and ultimately, her universe will be destroyed due to the energy being siphoned just to keep the time loop together, even Paraluman herself cannot help but wonder why is the god of the undead so confident of his adoptive child, however, of course, Siginarugan did not care about that.
"And that''s why I am here, mother."
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Nighttime, Elven-human camp.
Ady in her mid-30s is walking slouch-backed in the periphery of the camp that was made to retreat due to the fight between Tydings IV and Eleanor, her hair is long, so long it was that all of the ones in the back reached her ankles while the ones that serve as forelocks drapes cked into the ground, seemingly blocking her jet ck eyes from viewing from the front, however, thedy seems to not care, instead, she was currently shouting to find a person, or several, to be exact.
"MY CHILDREN! MY CHILDREN! I TOLD YOU NOT TO STAY TOO LATE AT NIGHT! NOW, THE DINNER IS GETTING COLD!"
All knights in the vicinity, upon hearing the call of the woman instinctively moved away, they still watched her, after all, she was their general Sisa, the strongest in fact, but this time, like any others, there was no trace of strength in her eyes, in those eyes that have no speck of white, there is only worry blended with never-ending madness.
Sisa shouted, shouted, and shouted some more, bing more jittery as she did so, tears even started to flow out of her eyes when she realized that even after half an hour of calling for her children, they seemed to not be able to hear her.
"Ah... ah... my... my children... why are you hiding from me...!"
Sisa shouted, clutching her head, shifting her gaze from the front, to back, and then to the side, and then to the front again in a repeated, but random motion, yet none of her knights helped her, as if the call for her children did not reach their ears at all.
"Help me... Help me... my... my children... my children are gone...!"
Sisa started to look for someone, anyone from trees to trees, yet her knights avoided her skillfully, or rather they should be, for as she was continuously searching for her children who would probably never answer her call, she bumped into something metallic, she spun like a top, there Sisa saw a knight, shorter than her.
"U-uhm..."
The knight could not help but stammer, yet Sisa seemed to not even care about such a vocal tick, the estranged mother immediately grabbed the hands of the knight, and then with desperate, somewhat insane hope on her face, questioned.
"Do you... do you know where my children are?"