"Thanks for coming."
The queen welcomed Kyoya and his party personally upon their arrival. She was not in the gorgeous dress, but full armor set that unfortunately hid her ample bosom. Still, the queen's happiness was written on her face and it alone worked like magnesium that pulled everyone's eyes.
Those orange eyes' attention was thoroughly on the husband, though.
"This battle will be a good end to this floor."
It wasn't only about the achievement needed to go up, but Kyoya also would probably see the guardian family, so the whole floor adventure was already bountiful. Then, there were a lot of valuable experiences including the meeting with the queen.
Thanks to the queen, the husband learned about the destructive power of twintails that could make even such a mature person like her seem younger.
"I see. But you still have to tell me about 'the sauna' on the peak."
"Yes, I will explain everything about my project here. Besides, I want to give you means to control the steam and stuff here."
"I look forward to it."
Yue laughed completely oblivious that the husband's system was slowly making its way towards her. He not only planned to give her the means to control the sauna, but to also grow up more in strength here.
The queen surely will turn stronger with the system's quests and abilities! Her Lord Feniks also called Kyoya a friend already, so there weren't any obstacles to make the queen a player.
But more than that, Kyoya also would have a reason to meet her frequently in the future.
After this small talk, Kyoya got introduced to the rest of Yuyu Kingdom's forces. There were the heads of noble families and their descendants mostly. However, Yue also took the royal family's head guard, so it was truly the strongest force gathered here.
All of them greeted Kyoya normally with smiles on their faces. Was it because of the husband's short talk with the queen? There was also that, but the fact that the queen reached out for him first meant a lot.
Some rumors about Kyoya having deep roots in the Grooma Kingdom spread in their circle due to Rosa, but it wasn't anything significant! It just made the husband seem more unique, but it was nothing compared to his real identity.
Not like men could understand the husband's charm.
"We will meet everyone in the invader's basement."
"That's obvious. When do we strike?"
"In three hours."
There was already an appointed time to strike!
Other kingdoms and their forces were waiting and moving towards those entrances even at this moment! Everyone will strike at the same time as the invaders surely are aware that their hidden entrances got exposed.
There might be some obstacles in the way, but there was also a chance that all of them decided to just pursue their goals as fast as possible.
As the time ticked, Kyoya looked around.
He was looking at the tents and nobles preparing everything for the impending… Kyoya was stacked and ready too, but he would like to check on everything as well. Nonetheless, he found it hard to summon his house and just scoured his inventory while using the game system to talk with his party members.
Exposing his house's ability would be the worst right now as it was also the great defense fortress!
The husband prepared up the house well with the wood gathered from this floor.
It was an orange autumn fortress right now!
"It's time… Everyone, forward!"
The queen's shout began the journey up below.
The ice entrance spread upon her voice as she exactly knew where it was. In her hand, Yue held the red flame sword that sent its slash towards it. The whole entrance began to melt and expose more of Yuyu Kingdom's soil.
Nonetheless, no one was here to look at the entrance melting.
Kyoya and his party entered the entrance, following the kingdom's forces. There were around sixteen of them including the husband's party.
However, the entrance was so narrow that Kyoya found it suspicious.
"It seems like the invaders did know about us and prepared some stuff…"
It was so cramped that Kyoya could feel Xaya and Xiaoxiao from both sides. It was the worst environment for the latter as Xiaoxiao's spear would just get struck upon her trying to slash with it.
Only a few thrusts would be possible!
Because of that, Xiaoxiao decided to excuse herself and watch their backs.
Akaro nodded as she didn't need to say much. Her cat ears then trembled as some energy fluctuations got noticed by her senses. She looked around, but nothing could be seen! Then, the ice around them jumped a little.
"Ah, from behind!"
"Xiaoxiao!"
Boom!
It was a rather cliche trap, but the huge ice ball appeared from behind. It rolled heavily on the tight corridor and strongly hit Xiaoxiao's spear that was certainly the weakest weapon here! The spear began to scream with flames against the ice ball's attrition, then Kyoya sent the flame cards to help his woman!
His card extracted the Yuyu Kingdom's immortal concept that belonged to their Lord, so Yue's forces were shocked to see Kyoya using their concept like that. The immortal flames were small, but ready to stick to the ball with their never dying flames.
"Don't use too much power, Kyoya! We don't want the whole corridor to fall onto us!"
"I know!"
A cliche trap ended up wasting fifteen minutes with its huge form.
Not everyone could lend a hand to stop it due to the tight corridor and the fear of the whole place crumbling also lingered behind everyone's heart. It wouldn't be life-threatening, but surely deadly if invaders decided to strike everyone one by one!
However, it didn't seem like invaders were keen on protecting their entrances, so the party could continue their path.
Following nothing, but the darkness with coldness trying to invade their bodies, Kyoya and Yuyu Kingdom's forces found a few more traps ahead.
Those traps were using the ice sculpting concept that stopped them many times. Each trap cost them roughly fifteen minutes, so it was a bother.
And when the things seemed to finally end, Kyoya's eyes went wide!
"Fuck! They couldn't be more obvious!"