Chapter 141: Even if that Person is Myself
The scene of the seat of power being used as the new throne room of a recently built country is truly marvelous, yet the two people in the room do not feel that way. The Queen of Urduja, with the same name, has a face full of frowns. No, really. If she had 10 faces within her main face, then all of them would have been frowning, too.
"She... she said that?"
When Urduja heard the details of the conversation between Myra and Sophia, she was angry. Not only did Myra conceal this fact from her, but Sophia also blocked her from hearing everything within her castle if the owner did not permit it, ultimately because of what Sophia had said.
She still wanted Myra dead.
The frown on her face caused the fear from the first meeting of her and Myra to relapse, such fear crept up the face of the latter, yet she did not back down as she nodded her head, causing more annoyance to appear out of the hero's face.
"And why didn't you say it to me? I could have coaxed her to at least talk to you as a daughter to her mother!"
Every word Urduja said was louder than the last, causing her last word to sound like a sonorous shout from an enraged warrior, Myra flinched because of such an accidental display of power from her beloved as beads of sweat started to drop from her forehead, and yet she still did not take a step back and replied, though her voice is shaking.
"But we already did...! She called me... she called me "mother"...!"
Urduja once again sighed in exasperation as she stared at the face of her lover, full of joy, not a bitter one but genuine.
"BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT SHE MEANT!"
This time, Urduja could not stop her anger anymore, she shouted, she shouted so hard that not only the palace, but the whole queendom heard of her words, the whole throne room or perhaps, the whole palace shook as the glass windows cracked and some dust were strewn over above the concrete ceiling of the supposed to be an integral palace.
Myra looked at Urduja, closing her eyes, feeling that she might get hit by a slap or a fist, yet still, she used all of what her meager strength could give her to stand her ground, yet she still backed away for two steps, seeing this, Urduja realized that she have gotten too far, her hands that crushed the armrest of her throne loosened.
"How... how many times do I have to tell you... you cannot strive as a better person... as a better mother if you're dead?"
Myra could hear the sorrow in the voice of Urduja, causing the tears from her eyes to fall, she slowly looked towards the throne.
"I know... I know... but... that is the only redemption I can have, maybe you cannot relate to it, maybe you find the idea foreign... after all... after all, you are not a horrible person like me... see, you even helped me finding Sophia, and did your best to make us reconcile..."
As Myra spoke, her eyes were glued to that of her lover, and there she could see it, she could see the increasing pain beyond the supposed uncrying eye of Urduja.
_No... even you... I..._
Myra stopped speaking, for she could not believe it, she knew she was not a good person, but at least she was so sure that she would never hurt her greatest benefactor, yet here she was, looking at Urduja, for the first time in her life clench her teeth, to stop tears from flowing out of her eyes.
Disappointed.
Myra was disappointed in herself, she could not even say sorry, for she was afraid that the tears of the one she thought was the strongest would fall because of her.
"I... of course I can understand... after all... when I was..."
Urduja cannot form a proper sentence, struggling between remembering her putrid past and the one person she doesn't want to spiral down the path of suicide.
"You know what, do everything you want, get out."
When Urduja said such words, Myra did not even respond, she slowly turned around and walked away from the throne.
In her mind is sadness but also determination.
When you love a person, you will want to make them happy.
And by making them happy, it is only natural that you will remove anything and anyone that wanted them to shed tears away from their life.
Even if that person is yourself.
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After Myra got out of the throne room, Aoi Dodomeki, who erased her presence looked at Urduja, her eyes were still closed, but on her face an evident worry can be seen.
"Urduja..."
She was about to use her mind skills to pacify the emotions of Urduja, yet she was denied with a raise of a hand, Aoi immediately made her hand, that is already faintly glowing with rainbow-colored light retreat, she dared not to say anything, but she still has that look of worry on her face.
Not only is she the main wife of Urduja, she is also her secretary, and her therapist if you must, thus she knows the weight Urduja was lifting from her past, the hero of the sun just wanted Myra to not spiral down the path of self-destruction because of guilt, this aspect, the latter cannot understand, however Aoi cannot "open" her eyes at such behavior, for as a mind reader, she has witnessed in close details what kind of guilt does a mother who abandoned her child is going through.
Aoi sighed, and as she did, Urduja looked at her, her eyes were now dried, and no ounce of moisture could be seen as if she was not just grieving the certain death of one of her beloved, she then said.
"Start the invasion of Gjallarhorn."
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Meanwhile, as Urduja, Aoi and the entirety of the Queendom of Urduja started to prepare, the two kings leading the Stardust-Tydings in front of the soon-to-start 2nd Elven Undead War are in a platform made out of expensive gold and ornamented with red and gold colors, the king of Stardust, Aerendil is wearing a robe, green in color and has some plants, also golden in color as it's complimentary design whilst the king of Tydings, the one to embrace the said name the 4th time, King Tydings IV is wearing a red armor, in front of it were claw marks design while in his back strapped his trusty longsword.
The two of them represented the greatest powers of the alliance, all the soldiers will never believe in defeat as long as these two are together, for in their eyes, no mortal on the planet can match their might, and today, these two people have decided to declare war on an unfortunate soul, an unfortunate soul that was given a lot of chances through peaceful protests.
As the solemn atmosphere prevailed, the King of Stardust, Aerendil broke the silence.
"People of the two great nations, today is the end of our patience towards the disrespect of the undeads! Today we will be making their young leader realize just how experience is valuable more than any kind of genius in the world! We shall not receive any more slur from her for we will force her to reply to us in humility through crushing defeat!"
As Aerendil said that, the whole crowd of humans and elves roared, they roared angrily as if a beast have just taken their keg of honey, that is to be expected because even before this day, the whole army was given propaganda against Sophia, saying things like she has attempted to rape this mage and slept with the wife of that general while also citing the complete silence as replies to Aerendil's diplomatic protest, it invoked the anger of some fidel people and some who are wishing for a blissful harem life.
Well of course, the latter is in the minority as they were given proper discipline training.
The two kings are satisfied by the result of their riling up, Tydings IV did not even need to say anything and just silently smirked as he watched such wide-scale manipulation, well of course, they didn't know, that a silver-haired person is currently watching amid the army.
_I'll admit it, the mage and the wife of the general they mentioned are really beautiful, I should visit them if there is still time._
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Gjallarhorn Kingdom, Royal Palace.
The advisor to the king looked at his monarch with worry, for Roselle was currently in horrible shape, also because they were about to repeat a mistake that caused them the position of their absolute power.
"My Lord, please reconsider this, our roads and patrol camps are already littered with samurais! Not only that, Mizukuni has stated that thousands of his samurais back in Leviticus will provide "backups"! We have to make them retreat somehow before the Sophia incident repeats itself!"
Roselle looked at his adviser, and with a sigh, he replied.
"I know... I know, but he said that he just wants to fight Urduja and doesn't have any desire to push for the ownership of our land, I am sure that he is no-"
The adviser finally cannot take it anymore, he have heard enough of such excuses, so he shouted.
"IF YOU ALWAYS SAY THEY PROMISE THIS AND THAT, YOU WILL SOUND LIKE A VIRGIN TRUSTING THE LOVE OF A WHORE! WAKE UP TO REALITY! LOOK AT URDUJA, SOPHIA! THEY ARE STRONG, ILLOGICALLY SO! AND THE MOMENT THEY BECAME LEADERS, THEY BECAME LIONS, DROOLING FROM THE SIGHT OF OUR ASS! DO YOU THINK MIZUKUNI, THE OVERLORD OF LEVITICUS WILL NOT BE THE SAME!?"
Roselle was not fazed, or he is, but he already resigned to the fate of his nation, for the moment he took the crown, or perhaps, the moment when the pantheon of the god of the sun lost interest in the royal family of Gjallarhorn, they have lost all hopes in becoming the strongest nation in the world and is destined to be raw dogged by three super strong individuals without even a fight, thinking of such, the once mighty king sighed in resignation.
"You need not to rub that to my face, but what can I do? I cannot raise a military force that is stronger than me, because I am at the threshold of strength in this kingdom after Urduja left, and guess what, a random former general of mine that is a child of hers is stronger than me, say, if you lose that kind of strength overnight, what can you do? You always talk about facing reality, but I am facing it, we are sandwiched between three typhoons, and one typoon is temporarily friendly to us, so I will cling to it for now and after that? I don't know, no, we don't know, that is our reality."
The adviser stood slack jawed as such a calm reply, it is calmness stemming not from confidence, but resignation, one can say that it is from a King's pride, to not cry in front of a helpless situation, he cannot say anything, for what did his king have said is true, there is nothing Gjallarhorn can do.
"... Will we... really give up just like that?"
The adviser asked, but Roselle did not answer the question and just breathed a deep one before looking up at the cieling of his throne room.
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As the samurais and knights go about their patrol together, trying to form temporary bonds, they did not even notice a masked lady with an overcoat draping over her body, she is silently shuttling through the outskirts of the royal city in order to find a certain set of tombs instructed to her by her queen, Kampay knew that it will be a tedious task , but she did not mind, after all, everything she is doing is for her queen, Sophia Demiurge.
"I just hope that I am competent enough to find it after the 2nd Elven-Undead war, if not I hope... ahem, I might get punished by Lady Sophia."
Kampay continued her search, as if she did not just leaked out some of her unpermitted desires.
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The whole world started to stare intently at the gunpowder keg situation of the Genesis continent, eyeing if there is an opportunity to intervene, but the arrival of two ancient calamities and the fear of the emerging superpower that is Sophia Demiurge and her Queendom of Kamatayan made them rethink or consolidate their plan, in the midst of this, the Mayari Empire is ready to provide assistance to Kamatayan if they ever need it, specially looking at Apolaki aggressively as if they were mortal enemies, which is, they are.
But, in all of this, one lady is calmly looking at her hand with a set of intricate tattoo depicting words identifiable as Baybayin by Sophia from the top of her middle finger to her elbow, she nodded at it in satisfaction, finally her last "self-upgrading" is finished, and is it did so, a voice suddenly rang on her head.
"Eleanor, we need to talk."
That is what Sophia said.