Chapter 94: “Exchanging Venom, No Manners Observed”
Rare wasn’t sure if the nobles would be inside the castle. However, even nobles wouldn’t stay in the capital for no reason. If they lived here, then they should have some sort of work they needed to do here. Normally speaking, that would be running the kingdom, especially now during a crisis; it would be natural to assume they were probably all crammed together in some kind of centralized location. It was possible for some of them to hole up in their mansions, but those ones would be easy to spot by checking how tight their defenses were, so she could go around finding them later.
The castle gate was shut tight, but in a flash, Deas diced it up into tiny pieces and it crumbled apart. It didn’t matter if those doors were made out of wood or any other material; while it looked rather solid, it was nowhere as sturdy as a treant.
<I must say, Your Majesty…>
“What is it?”
<You have taken yet another step toward divinity.>
Ah, that’s right; her followers hadn’t yet seen her after learning all those skills.
“It’s pretty awesome, isn’t it? I have to admit I quite like the look.”
<Is there something the matter with your eyes? You have had them closed since earlier.>
“Hehehe. It’s because I can still sense what’s going on around me even with my eyes closed now. I only need to open them in times of need.”