Chapter 296 – Episode 229 – An Uneasy Alliance?

*All characters appearing are adults.
*This is a fictional story that is nothing but fiction. Never follow

[The resistance fighters have been safely transported to the island, Your Highness.]

The full moon has risen today.
Even though the sky was polluted with purple magic, the full moon did not lose its light.
Even the fiercely fought sea was calm as if nothing had happened.
The palace of Cardi Kingdom was also quiet.

In the king’s chambers in the palace, a woman was sitting on her chair.
She sat in her chair and listened to her report through her crystal ball.
I robbed it while fighting the demons, so I thought it would be of great help.

Queen Novia deeply lamented the fact that it has been a long time since the demons commercialized equipment they could not create.

“What about the damage?”

[No. With the help of the goddesses, everyone got out safely.]

“I’m so glad you did.”

The queen’s long orange hair, which should always be well-groomed, was scattered like her mad bitch.
Originally, her hair should have been combed finely with a comb, but Novia had no intention of doing that.
The shoulder straps of her black dress she was wearing also came down, revealing a glimpse of her breasts, but she had no intention of fixing it.

How can you care about your appearance when things seem like dogs?
It’s been quite a while since Novia lived like this.
Even if she perishes, even if the remaining servants earnestly ask her to preserve her dignity, Novia listens with one ear and only listens with one ear.

“Keep vigilant, don’t let the filthy demons come into our land.”

[I understand, Your Highness.]

With those words, communication ended.
The glowing crystal ball became quiet as if a mouse had died.

“Whoa…”

Placing her orb on her table, Novia picked up her bottle again.
She tilted her head back and drank the whole bottle, as if her manners were to give it to her dog.
With a gurgling sound, he drank all the contents inside her.
After drinking, Novia picked up another bottle.

This is the tenth bottle.
Empty bottles of alcohol are rolling around on the floor.
Although he drinks a lot, he drinks too much.
Knowing this, Novia didn’t want to stop.

Because if she stopped, she would have nightmares.

“Aren’t you drinking too much today?”

A sudden voice.
Why do I hear voices when no one has entered the room?
She could have been frightened, but her queen’s expression was calm.
Only slightly frowned upon her.
As she drank her bottle, she set it down on her table, and Nobia turned her head towards where her voice was heard.

“Never mind, Thetis. Isn’t it a matter for the goddesses to care about what a little creature like me does?”

A woman in silver armor stood against the wall.
Straight hair that covers the entire back.
It is half blue and half dyed in several colors.
White, brown, black, green.
The ends of her hair had turned slightly purple.
No one knows why her hair changed color like this.

“Never mind. Aren’t you being too careless?”

Thetis, a goddess with red eyes reminiscent of rubies, approached the queen.
The goddess behind her chair where the queen sits,

“How could I ignore the woman I had a relationship with?”

She hugged
With both of her hands, she grabbed her Novia’s breasts and squeezed them.
It was a rude act, but Novia did not protest.

The difference in status is several light years, so how can you protest?
Even the queen was just a small ant in front of the goddess.

“It’s meant to be, then why didn’t you help us from the beginning? If I had helped, this wouldn’t have happened…”
“Whoa, our Novia, you’re angry.”
“My kingdom is on the verge of ruin, doesn’t it look angry?”
“You’re still winning.”
“Win? Are you saying this is winning?”

Novia was so overpowered that she couldn’t speak.
Are you saying this knowing who is in charge now?
For an instant, her blue eyes shimmered with resentment towards her goddess.

“It’s just that we’ve recaptured a few islands at most. It’s just a matter of letting dozens of resistance fighters into the island. They are still strong and we are still weak.”

With the help of the goddesses, the Kingdom of Cardi was able to catch a clue to counterattack.
We succeeded in counterattacking them, and were able to prevent the resistance forces in the Roaster Territory from disappearing.
Compared to the days when we had a losing streak, it was at a better level.
However, I couldn’t help but be happy.
Like Novia said, they are still strong.
It is protected by a barrier, but there is no guarantee how long it will be protected.

“So don’t talk like you won everything.”
“Yeah, I got it. Be careful in the future.”
“If you had supported me properly, this wouldn’t have happened…”

Novia met Thetis when she was young.
Novia, who thought there was no other goddess than Minerva, was surprised by the appearance of another goddess.

‘She has the qualities to become a great soldier. I’ll make you king.’

You are the lumber to be king.
Goddess Thetis will put you on the throne.
As the duke of Thetis, Novia became the formal successor, and she was able to sit on her throne after her father.

If she hadn’t been invaded by the demons, Novia might have become a good army as Thetis prophesied.

“Why didn’t you show up until this point? Why did you tell me not to come and surrender now?”
“…”
“Thanks to that, I was completely taken by the Demon King. Not just me, but all the people who live here. If things go wrong, we will all be enslaved.”

A large fleet of Sirens invaded the Kingdom of Cardi.
Novia also assembled her grand fleet to respond to her.

I never thought the demons would develop a navy.
Novia guessed that she would be raising her navy to invade the kingdom, but she never imagined it would come with a large army.
She believed, though, that she would be no match for her in his Grand Fleet.
In terms of experience, they are more advanced.

She thought so,

‘What? Fleet destroyed? Isn’t the report wrong?’

In the first engagement, the Grand Fleet of Cardi Kingdom was annihilated.
Most of the ships were eaten by fish, and only a few survived.
Novia was shocked by the news that her main power was extinguished overnight.

After that it was a nightmare itself.

-Your Highness, it is said that the defense line has collapsed. They’ve already come this far…

-Your Highness, the demons turn our soldiers into monsters…

-Your Highness, they say that all the ships have been captured. Prisoners have already…

The defense line was broken.
Islands were captured.
Those who were captured were converted into sirens.
The remaining fleet was eventually annihilated.
Nobia’s face was always filled with despair at the news of defeat that came in every day.
She wanted the news of victory to come at least once, at least once, but that never happened.

‘Tell them to go away. Throw away an idiot like me and find a way to live.’

As the war situation deteriorated, the number of people fleeing increased.
Not only the people, but also soldiers and loyalists began to flee.
Novia didn’t catch them.
What’s the point of holding them when they can’t even give her hope?
She couldn’t hold out her hand, even if she wanted to hold it.

‘Bring me a drink. I can’t stand it like this. Bring me a drink!’

She lost everything
The fleet, the people, the servants, and the pride.
How did it end up like this?
She wasn’t what she wanted.
Why did it become like this?
Where did you go wrong?
The depressed queen eventually fell into alcoholism.

Angry too angry
To say that you can’t properly rule a country and have to witness destruction.
How could this be?
I am so angry, and I resent the reality that I can’t do anything even when I am angry.
Novia drank her wrath and sorrow, trying to make her forget it all.

Even if she drank, her anger and sadness only became clearer, but she never disappeared.

“Let’s talk. Why did you come out of nowhere and shout that we must fight to the end?”

Eventually pushed to the island where her capital was located, Novia prepared for her surrender.
I can’t let the blood of innocent people be shed.
If Thetis hadn’t come, Cardi Kingdom would have been transformed into a breeding ground.

“Didn’t I tell you that I can see sprouts? You said you were pushing me? But, what is this like, huh? Did you push me to see me ruined like this?”

Novia, slightly drunk, challenged her goddess.
Seeing Novia like that, Thetis shook her head.

“It is not.”
“If not, why didn’t you show up until this point?”
“I didn’t expect it.”
“You didn’t expect it?”

Thetis nodded his head.

“We didn’t expect them to advance like lightning.”

Thetis’ reason for pushing Novia to be her queen is simple.
To serve as a new focal point.
Minerva tried to use her hero to fight against Eris, the demon king, but Thetis thought it was too much.

He put up a hero, but wasn’t he defeated in the end?
Wouldn’t it be obvious that he would be defeated again even if he brought up a new hero?
In particular, I heard that this demon king is a dangerous guy who surpasses his predecessors.
If he defeats a hero like Leviathan,
What would you do if you tried to take over the earthly realm and take over the heavenly realm as well?

So he has to make a new focal point.
Thetis chose Novia as the focal point.
She secretly descended to her land and helped Novia grow into a great man of her own.

But Thetis was also complacent.

“I didn’t expect them to act fast.”
“I didn’t know… She was told by the goddess’s mother that she was good at intelligence, but she didn’t do any of these things, did she? Why didn’t I do the most important thing?”
“…”
“You weren’t interested, were you?”
“Sorry, I have nothing to say.”

The demons will invade again, but it will take time.
Even if they invade, they won’t be able to get to the point where they’re one step closer to engulfing the surface world like before.
The Dice Kingdom was also preparing its own way.
The Kingdom of Cardi also has a large fleet, so it won’t be easily defeated.

So it will be fine even if you come later.
Thetis was too complacent.

“I didn’t know those demons could be that strong.”
“Did the goddesses get killed because they didn’t know that? Losing the entire placenta of your troops?”
“…”
“How arrogant you are. They are better than us.”

It was stronger than I imagined.
It was faster than expected.
Thetis didn’t expect them to launch an invasion like that.
I could never have imagined that Minerva would first storm the ancestral capital.
In less than two years, he did not know how to destroy the kingdom of Dyce and drive the kingdom of Cardi to the brink of destruction.
None of the goddesses, including Thetis, expected that her sister, Minerva, would eventually lose her strength and soul, and eventually become a servant of the demon king.

In order to reverse the situation, the heavenly world mobilized all available forces and launched an invasion,
It ended in a miserable failure.
He set out to prevent the destruction of the heavenly world, but instead, he ended up hastening its destruction.

Why did he try to rely on the goddesses who behaved so pathetically?
Can I trust these bastards and abandon the fight to the death?
Novia still felt skeptical about whether she was right in refusing to surrender.

“I’m sorry.”
“If you’re sorry, make sure the operation succeeds. Because there is no other way for our kingdom to survive.”

If we keep going like this, the owner of this world will change to demons.
Humans, angels and goddesses will all bow down to them.
I will live as their livestock for the rest of my life.

It’s not just this world.
Their demonic powers will extend to other worlds as well.
I’m sure they won’t be left alone once they know there’s another world out there.

So Thetis, his mother and her remaining sisters chose.
A last resort to purify this land.
Everything will disappear, but it will be better than this world being taken over by demons.

“Just in case, the barrier won’t suddenly break, right?”
“There is no such thing. As long as we don’t fall, the barrier won’t break. So don’t worry.”
“I can’t believe it.”
“… Minerva believes so well, why can’t we?”

Thetis looked disappointed, but Novia just smiled.

“Believe? The subject of trying to wipe out me and this kingdom together?”
“…”
“I am not stupid either. Did you think I wouldn’t know that you guys were going to clean us all up?”

It was an isolated situation, but Novia somehow tried to figure out her external circumstances.
She dispatched spies and tried to figure out the trends of her demons.
Her spies risked their lives to gather information, and through that information Novia came to know.

The target of the goddesses’ attack is not the demons.
Both humans and angels are included.
It intends to turn the entire surface world into a wasteland where life does not exist.

She found out about it, how could she trust it?

“I will never trust you. Now and in the future.”

Nobia’s expression was full of disbelief.

“Even if this operation succeeds, stop expecting to become one of your followers.”
“…”
“Haa, even if we hold hands, why do we get involved with these guys…”

Unreliable.
However, in order to get out of the set ending, he has no choice but to hold her hand.
Novia sincerely prayed that these goddesses would not betray her.

“I see.”

Thetis removed her hands from Novia’s breasts.
Her freed hand caught Novia’s face.
After fixing her gaze on herself,

“But know this.”
“Hueup?”

She pursed her lips.

“Huuuuu…”

A sweet sound escapes between the lips.
They lick every nook and cranny of each other’s mouth.
The goddess and queen skillfully flicked each other’s tongues.
It’s a relationship I don’t believe in, but this was sincere.

“I have no intention of abandoning you no matter what.”

Thetis parted her lips and answered with a flushed face.

“Even if this kingdom perishes.”
“…”

How far should I believe?
Novia didn’t hate the act of kissing Thetis, but that and trust were separate issues.

Even if this plan succeeds, what will happen to this country and to himself?
Wouldn’t it be that I’m being toyed with by them for the rest of my life?
Like the numerous people who became the playthings of the demons.

Novia was afraid that she would end up like that too, but at the same time she wanted this plan to succeed.

If you don’t succeed, the only way left is destruction.

“Now I must go.”

Thetis rose from her seat.

“Are you going to the roster?”
“Yes, I received a report that the hero had arrived. I have to go and sort it out.”
“Don’t be fooled. I don’t want you and I to turn into puppies.”
“Don’t worry.”

Thetis smiled reassuringly.

“Because I’ve never seen a future like that.”

That smile looked so awkward.