ALL NOVEL chapter 21
21 – Saint Emilia’s Plan
The imperial palace of the Eritre Empire.
Unlike other palaces, the palace of the crown prince, located right next to the villa where the prince lives, was guarded by holy knights.
Priests to assist Emilia, her crown princess and her saintess, also resided there to assist her.
Originally, in order to maintain her position as a saint, there was a condition that she had to keep her virginity, so if she got married or became pregnant, she had to retire.
Even though Saint Emilia said she was retiring, she did not hand over her Saint’s staff, which is a symbol of her Saint and means power, to her next Saint.
The reason is that the next saintess is an apprentice saintess who is still young and has a lot to learn…
No priest working at the Great God Temple believed her words.
Everyone already knew very well that even if her next saintess was ready, she would not hand over her saintess’s staff, as she had grown accustomed to the sweet taste of power.
Her Maybe She is where she is now It was her staff that made her a saint…
I will try not to let it go.
How did Saint Emilia get to where she is today?
As a warrior party, I have been rolling around mountains, seas, deserts, swamps, jungles, and dungeons to the point where I haven’t been to for several years.
She was the one who never forgot her efforts to win the love of the warriors.
After she defeated the demon king, she abandoned her warrior and became the crown prince, steadily increasing her power until she was pointed at by people around her…
As something blocking her dream appeared, a new demon king appeared three years later, and everything was falling apart.
I can no longer join the warrior party…
But she couldn’t change the hero’s heart…
“Saintess, it is said that the warrior and his party passed through the northern elven forest and entered the Fjord Empire.”
Emilia, who was supervising all of her ministers at her own villa, could not hide her uncomfortable expression after receiving the report from the priest in charge of her administrative duties.
Currently, the Eritre Empire is literally at war…
Due to the continuous defeat by the Demon King’s army, the front line has already reached near the border,
In the meantime, all the nearby kingdoms that served as breakwaters for the demon king’s army coming from the central continent were all wiped out, so there was no country left to protect them.
The kingdom of Jeremiah, which had endured until the end, was already on the verge of being captured, and even the capital was captured.
The hero, who was his last hope, went not to this place in the west, but to the Fjord Empire located further north.
“The Fjord Empire… Why did you go there?”
“There is nothing particularly announced by the kingdom of Argen, but rumor has it that some people say that they went there to recruit Irene, the northern commander of the Fjord Empire, into the warrior party.”
“Irene…!?”
Emilia also remembered Irene.
I only met her once, but she was a woman who left a strong enough impression on her to be imprinted in her mind.
If this happens, there will be only one seat left in the warrior party that maintains the basic four-person system…
The second party member, a half-elf, and the third party member, Irene, had one thing they didn’t have…
That there is no one in charge of healing.
“That’s right… Irene was added as a party member…”
Emilia noticed that the corner of her mouth went up on her own, and if she was caught off guard, she almost unknowingly even sang her hum.
If you can re-enter the warrior party, you can use the hero to stop the Demon King’s army from approaching the Eritre Empire.
She is a retired saintess, but her reputation for joining the party of warriors and protecting the empire was certain to skyrocket.
Beyond the Crown Princess,
Empress…
When she went further, thinking of herself to be called the Empress, she didn’t even know that there was a priest reporting right in front of her, and her laugh jumped out.
“Wait…”
Emilia, who had been holding back her laughter for a long time, was contorting her face again due to the person she suddenly came up with…
Saint apprentice…
She’s still not an official saintess, she’s young, and she’s an apprentice saintess with no experience.
Emilia is of course not only the empress, but she can also keep the position of the crown princess…
And it was almost certain that this Eritre Empire would also be destroyed by the Demon King’s army.
“I can’t… I can’t do that…”
“What… Are you talking about? Saintess.”
“Where is High Priest Radbod?”
“I know you are in Daeshinjeon.”
“I guess I’ll have to ask him for help…”
Emilia came to her mind from the high priest who made her a saint and her own guardian, the high priest Rad Bode.
She was sure that if he did, she would prevent the current apprentice saint from entering the hero’s party.
“High Priest Radbod to the Imperial Palace… No. I must go myself!”
According to the etiquette of the imperial palace, originally, it is normal to visit the High Priest Radbod in the Great Hall located near the Imperial Palace,
Now Emilia didn’t have time to wait for him.
Because the hero might come to the ecliptic with Irene at some point to find the apprentice saint…
“That… Holy Lady…”
“Huh? Why? Anything else to report?”
“That’s…”
The priest tried to say something, but repeatedly closed his mouth again, and he couldn’t say anything hastily…
“Tell me. What else is going on?”
“Yes.. Actually.. His Highness the Crown Prince…”
“My boyfriend? Why is he?”
“The Lady of Count Lumina and the Crown Prince are enjoying tea time in the garden of the villa.”
“…..”
Emilia was just listening to the priest’s report with a calm face…
Since she already knew it, she didn’t know what to answer, so she was pondering it.
Crown Prince Chris’s cheating empire is so famous that there are no nobles who don’t know about it.
If the crown prince wasn’t working in broad daylight like this, it was a situation anyone could have guessed.
“Heh… Do whatever you want.”
“Yes?”
“If everything goes according to my plan, it will only be now…”
Currently, the prince’s affair is also affair,
Since the last time the hero refused to apply, the number of nobles insisting on the replacement of the crown prince or the remarriage of the crown prince has increased.
It was true that Emilia’s position had deteriorated that much.
However,
Even if there were such problems, she believed that if Emilia joined the warrior party again as a saint, everything would be resolved.
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Baltabar territory located at the southeast end of the Fjord Empire.
Located on the border of the desert, this place was like a small village for a territory because there was no country that bordered it, and no one crossed the desert.
Barracks were built out of nowhere in such a place, and soldiers in white uniforms began to be stationed there…
In the past, soldiers who guarded the territory were placed at each checkpoint to manage people passing through the territory.
“Aigoo~ It’s my fault~”
A soldier guarding the checkpoint sighed and hung his head.
“We should be napping in the barracks by now, but why do we have to come all the way to guard the checkpoint!”
“I mean.”
“The commander dispatched from the palace this time is a woman? I heard that she is also very beautiful.”
“What if you are beautiful? Haven’t you seen it before? The thing that makes even those handsome knights immobilized?”
The two soldiers at the checkpoint, where no one passes by, were talking to each other.
Dak Dak Dak Dak Dak Dak Dak
As usual, a suspicious wagon was slowly approaching in the current wartime situation.
Seeing that, the two soldiers stopped chatting and each raised a spear to block the wagon.
“I didn’t hear from you that a carriage was passing by today… Who is it? Identify yourself.”
“Hello, I am coming from the kingdom of Argen, and the warrior and his party members are riding in the carriage.”
“What?”
“The hero and party members are riding in the wagon. If you look here, isn’t the coat of arms of the kingdom of Argen drawn?”
Coachman Roman showed the soldiers the royal coat of arms of the Kingdom of Argen drawn on the side of the carriage and explained it, but…
“A warrior? Oops! You sound like a warrior. No. Why did the hero come to a place like this?”
“The real hero is riding! You agreed to meet Commander Irene here!”
“Look, if the human riding in that carriage is a hero, then I am a saint. Ha ha ha ha ha,”
The two soldiers listened to Roman’s words and were busy holding on to their stomachs and laughing.
At this, Roman beat his chest a few times to see if they were frustrated and talked to the warrior in the carriage through the small window.
“Looks like they are smuggling to other countries, but as of today, this place is controlled and you can’t pass through, so go the other way.”
As the soldiers continued to fail to believe that it was the warrior’s carriage, eventually the carriage door opened and the warriors Carlos and Lucia got down and approached the soldiers.
“My name is Kalos, the hero. I’m here to see Commander Irene, so please get out of the way.”
“Uh… Er.. Err… Yo… He imitates a hero…”
The two soldiers began to be taken aback by the unusual appearance of the hero Carlos.
Suddenly, I began to suspect that he might not be a real hero.
“Please get out of the way as I am tired from running a long way. Otherwise, I will force you in.”
“I… I… First of all, we also… Have to ask the lord…”
Puck!!!!
A soldier was about to ask the lord after telling the hero to wait.
A soldier who was blown away after being shocked by a suddenly appearing white object.
And before the other soldier who was with him could even turn his head to see who was responsible, he made eye contact with the culprit.
“Four… four… Commander!”
Her silver hair, her bangs on her head, a woman with her forehead visible, and her white uniform and blue cape, her bloody eyes, made even the remaining soldiers tremble in fear.
“Commander Irene?”
The hero shouted at the woman who was glaring at the guards,
She released her eyes, which contained her murderous intentions, and then came straight to the warrior and bowed politely with her courtesy.
“That Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Army, Irene Alsmeyer. It is an honor to meet you, the warrior.”