Chapter 667: Athena's Quest Part 3

Chapter 667: Athena's Quest Part 3

Pov Athena:

We arrived in less than 3 days in the capital of the Black Empire, from the information we have this must be the place where Queen Melissa is hiding and Gregory Roux has already discovered this.

Our target must not be here yet, from the letter we found it will still take 1 day to arrive at least.

Entering this city was much easier, I borrowed a letter of introduction from Lilian before coming, this was to meet the people of the Empire to seek information if possible, but this time I need their help.

With this letter that bears the 7 horns mark on the flag of the Black Empire, the normal soldiers did not recognize it, but their commander was surprised to see the symbol and let us in, actually guided us personally to the second floor of a restaurant.

"I want your best fruit plate, I'm not a meat fan." (I)

"Should you eat in that kind of situation?" (Angela)

"We must not fear them, besides, poisons from this continent will be useless against us." (I)

When we reach the second floor we go to a VIP room where a middle aged waiter appears to take our order while the commander of the gate guards leaves.

"Athena is right, they have no reason to do anything against us and even if they did it would be useless." (Darius)

"The best thing for us is to show that we are not a threat, we are here to do something that will help them, even if it's another reason it doesn't change the fact that it will help all of them." (I)

"I'm curious to know how much of your words are true, I would also like to know where you got that letter."

A woman appears to appear out of nowhere as if she's been transferred here using space movement magic, but the truth is she was using magic to hide in this room before we even entered here.

"My name is Melissa, I am the Queen of this Empire." (Queen Melissa)

"I already knew, nice to meet you, your majesty." (I)

She had long straight black hair, golden eyes, snow white skin, and 4 Horns, 2 of these Horns are on the side of her head and the other 2 are on the corners of her forehead, the 4 Horns seem to form some sort of crown, I can't see her wings and tail, but she probably has the common ability to hide these parts of her body.

"How is she?" (Queen Melissa)

"As always, striving to serve the Blood Goddess alongside the High Priestess, furthermore she asked me to tell you which students of hers are with her now." (I)

"I already knew that when they left with their families it could only be to be by her side." (Queen Melissa)

She smiles as she talks about Lilian, but soon her gaze turns serious as she looks at me.

"I take it you are my aunt's companion, right?" (Queen Melissa)

"Yes, we serve the same High Priestess of Blood, plus we live in the same city." (I)

"(Unfortunately I can't reveal more than that, I hope it's enough for her to agree to cooperate in our mission.)" (I)

"Did you say something about some kind of mission, what is this about?" (Queen Melissa)

I spend the next few minutes explaining our mission to kill Gregory Roux, in exchange for their cooperation I'll pass on important information about their troops.

"Just killing him is useless, otherwise I would have killed him a long time ago." (Queen Melissa)

"I've waited a long time, even before I was crowned Queen of the Black Empire." (Queen Melissa)

"I've waited for this idiot to try to take the throne all this time, it gave him plenty of opportunities he refused to take advantage of, unfortunately, I was caught off guard when he finally made his move this time." (Queen Melissa)

"Did you want him to cause a civil war?" (I)

"No, I never thought he would have spread his influence so much across the Empire without being noticed, I'm glad that Monster Wave gave him the conditions to advance his plans, probably he wanted to wait until the turn of the year for the next Annual Monster Wave." (Queen Melissa)

"But even if it was on a larger scale than expected, the result was still something good when they're all dead." (Queen Melissa)

"You mean..." (I)

"This whole uprising helped me find all the conspirators hiding in the Empire or at least most of them, thanks to Gregory Roux I can now openly attack to cleanse these plagues that corrupt this great Empire." (Queen Melissa)