209: Problems?
209: Problems?
Thankfully, everything came to a peaceful end. Well, somewhat.The queen’s curse or seal was reduced by a good bit after getting a good ass fuck. Elara wanted me to continue after that, which I would have happily done, but after five more times, I told her…
“There might be a need for some more observations.”
“Hmm…”
Elara mulled it over for some minutes, while the queen lay there, panting like she was trying to gather all the oxygen reserves she could because she wouldn’t get any later.
Oh, and with a gaping asshole too.
Hehe.
It was safe to say her asshole had been permanently stretched to my shape now. Well, those were just porn things. In reality, no hole could ever take a certain shape.
Just like how a wound heals, the human body also comes back to its original form over time. Sure, some pussies lose their sensitivity because they are subjected to too extreme stimulations, but those are only rare cases, and plenty of drugs are involved in that case, such as for pornstars.
Anyway, the queen was used to my cock somewhat now, but that didn’t mean I could just fuck her whenever I wanted to.
Freeuse didn’t literally mean freeuse. She was a royal, one step above noble ladies. Touching her without her permission wouldn’t end with just me being beheaded. They would make sure to find any blood relation of mine, no matter how thin, and execute them too.
This far was courtesy of Elara. Going any further without her or Elizabeth’s permission would be like sealing my own fate.
I’d rather not.
Anyway, just how weak a curse was it?
[Target’s potential has been thwarted by a seal placed on the target]
[Redirecting the user’s energy to bypass the seal]
[Bypass successful]
[Seal efficiency reduced by 79%]
When I did the same with Rayla, there was only around a 5% drop, yet her seal weakened by so much in just one turn.
Thankfully, it wasn’t fully gone, so there was still a chance to get some of her. Hopefully, have her hooked on sex or on the power-up to increase her power. Well, with the difference in our strengths, the chances were slim that she would have any advantage from one or two rounds of sex. Maybe a hundred would be required to increase her mana by just ten percent.
Not that I would mind.
Anyway, another fortunate thing, only for me, was that Elara failed to pick up any mana signatures from the dark mana she managed to get from the queen.
The dark mana had too complex a structure for her to understand. I could, but there was no way I was doing it. The longer that dark mage or necromancer or whoever he was remained hidden, the longer I could shag the queen.
And then finally…
“There would be an expedition in a month. We will be accompanying the queen to guard her while she tests her new prowess on the battlefield.”
Elara said as we traveled back in the same luxurious, high-end carriage.
“Understood, my lady,” I replied.
What else could I do anyway?
It was better for me, so I didn’t even think of doing anything else.
You see, just because the queen awakened didn’t mean the problems were at an end. They weren’t.
There were too many confusing events that had happened so far that it was difficult for me to come to a conclusion.
Let us start from the beginning.
From Redford, I gained the information that there was something happening to the queen. She was sick or something, and the rumors about her being stressed or frustrated were being fabricated. Possibly by her faction.
Redford belonged to the king’s faction, so he was against the queen. He didn’t speak too highly of her, but he did say that the queen was far better in terms of talent than the king, and that was a complex the king had never gotten over.
Now, officially, these two factions were fighting for ‘noble supremacy and all lives are equal.’ But the reality was simply this. The king didn’t like that there was someone else in power besides him, so he was doing everything in his power to get rid of that person.
And it wasn’t the queen. It was someone he was targeting through the queen.
The muscular GILF before me.
It was also seen at the banquet. Even among the king’s forces, there were those who admired Elara and were under the impression that the queen was their only enemy, not Elara.
And that was one matter.
Then there was Carlson’s matter. Now, officially, from what Zara had told me at the beginning, they belonged to the queen’s faction and that they were fighting for the well-being of all existence in nature, mainly commoners.
I didn’t buy it then, and certainly not now. But I was now sure that it was just an excuse. An excuse drafted by Carlson. From the outside, he was on the queen’s side, but he was anything but on her side.
Just like how the king was trying to get rid of a power stronger than him, maybe Carlson was doing the same. Or maybe he was doing something else under the guise of being the queen’s supporter.
I was certain he had something to do with the sewer rat incident, but it was an independent action that the queen certainly didn’t know about.
There were still some puzzle pieces that didn’t fit. And that was just one problem at the moment.
Aside from the kingdom’s political problems, in my life, there were three more problems.
One was my quest, but I guess it could be thrown in the same category as the kingdom’s politics.
The second was my bloodline. Well, bloodlines now, and they were a sufficient headache for me at the moment.
The third and the last was to stop someone. I had no idea who it was, but whoever they were, they were trying to make dicks, and that was something I couldn’t allow to happen. No matter what.
And then, extending from that last problem, there was this.
“This is Fiona. She will be accompanying us to the castle.” Elara told us while getting in the carriage, as she introduced a female knight, while I stared at her with wide eyes, but only for a moment, so as not to give anything away.
But inside, I was shocked.
Like, really shocked.
Remember that quest…
[An unwanted woman]
[Rank B]
[Description: In life, there come things that are full of beautiful thorns
The same goes for a beauty that has no use for the user
Would it not be better to facilitate the growth of the user through such beauty then?]
[Task: Kill Alena Monroe]
[Reward: 1.5 EXP]
[Punishment: ???]
[Duration: One week]
[Status: Complete]
At the time, I didn’t understand why the system wanted me to kill this woman. Not to mention, why it was a primary quest with an unknown punishment. Nor did I understand what it meant by her having no use for me.
I didn’t understand the last part even now, or maybe all of it, but…
‘How the hell…?’
Did she have a twin?
But she was too identical to be called a twin. It was like they were carbon copies.
The same cold look in her eyes that came as a threat, not a turn-on. The same classic knight uniform, just with a different crest, which made it a little difficult to gauge her womanly features.
Even her name was…
“Fiona Monroe. I shall be accompanying you.” She said, gently bowing to Valeria and me, as in her eyes, we were the attendants of the most powerful woman in the kingdom.
Even if the previous version of her was harsh to commoners, or maybe to people in general, this one wasn’t exactly brain-dead and knew how to read the situation.
But did that make things any better?
Hell naw!
I was still screaming inside for some answers. But the system was staying silent this time.
Was it because she hadn’t irked me the wrong way? Or was there another reason? Like the system knew that killing her right now wouldn’t be easy, given the circumstances.
And that one phrase from the system from last time. That was still bugging me.
A beauty of no use to me?
What the hell did that mean?
Fuck.
My head hurts.
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