Book 11: Chapter 12
Although we took a detour, we continued our steady advance to the palace of the North. The anthropoids’ army had basically been reduced to a useless group of low anthropoids. We hadn’t encountered any attacks from the tribes, themselves, either. I could still see some corpses hung up on the way to the palace. Perhaps the winged race really was carrying out their mission by killing their last opposition.
We passed towns, villages and cities, where I brought them under my control. Leah should’ve been assisting us from up ahead by convincing the citizens to not be hostile to us, making it seem as though we came to release them. We soon reached the palace of the North at the end. That was where everything would end.
The weapon I ordered at Troy City was on its way. It was the most important weapon for attacking the palace of the North and absolutely compulsory.
We were currently camped in the wild. We should reach the palace in less than a week’s time. Nobody could stop our advance now, so it was just a matter of time.
“Your Majesty, this is a letter from Troy City.”
I nodded. I stood up and slightly hastily took the letter. The heat stamp of the royal family on the letter told me it was a letter from Elizabeth and Nier. It was heart-warming to receive a letter from home at the time. I eagerly waved my hand to tell the messenger to leave, but he hesitated for a bit before reporting, “Your Majesty, the truth is, one more person came with me.”
“Who?! Don’t tell me it’s Nier! Nier!”
His answer startled me.
‘I feel that Nier really would come, given her personality. If it really was Nier, what would I do…? Am I supposed to just send her back…? Nier has been pregnant for at least four months, right…? How am I supposed to send her back like that…? It would be more dangerous to bring her along…’