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When we arrived at the castle, we walked unimpeded directly to the throne room. The servants and guards in the castle now all knew who I was, so even without Adel at my side, I could still pass by them without a problem.

The guard at the door to her throne room quickly opened it and announced our arrival. "Princess Adel, Princess Cyrilia, and Miss Sophie have arrived!"

We walked through the door to see many more knights than usual in the room, as well as many nobles. "Adel. Faith, I heard you were successful in finding your father."

"Yes, thankfully. But this is not why we have arrived." I said as I stepped forward and bowed slightly to show my respect. Adel and Sophie did the same. "I am here to have you moved to my estate for safety."

"Thank the gods you are here, Princess Cyrilia. Please talk some sense into His Majesty!" A noble cried out. I turned to look at him feeling a bit confused. "What happened?"

"We thought the same thing. I am sure you are here because you have spoken to the Dean. We can only rely on you to protect the royal family. Only you have the capabilities. But His Majesty is being too stubborn! We asked him to talk to you about it, but he rejected it!" The noble looked very much worried about the king, which gave me a good feeling about him.

"You! You traitor! Who rules this kingdom, her or me!?" The king yelled out.

"It would be best if it was her, but she doesn't want it!" The noble retorted while the other nobles all nodded their heads.

"Oi! You're going to give him ideas!" I quickly shouted out to stop this train of events.

"Tch!" I could have sworn I heard someone click their tongue. I looked up at the King, who was now looking out the window as if the clouds were absolutely amazing, but sadly, there were no damn clouds! 𝚒n𝚗r𝗲𝒂𝗱. c𝑜𝓶

"You old fox! Listen here, stop trying to trap me!" I yelled while stomping my feet.

"Haha!" Adel burst out laughing. I ignored her and tried to bring things back on track. "Anyway! I am here to bring you to my estate. It is the safest place now that things have turned out like this. And I am not taking no for an answer. I do not care if I have to use dragon speak or even put you to sleep while I princess carry you out of here. You are going to my house one way or another."

"Faith, if I do recall, I am the king here." The king looked at me with firm eyes. I rolled mine as I replied: "Then act like one! Plus, I am stronger than you. What can you do to me?"

"Fine, I will go! But spare me the princess carry." The king replied with a furrowed brow. Whether he was happy or not didn't matter. This was something that had to be done.

"This is not only just for you. Every one of you nobles and your families will be settling into my estate in ten days' time. I will be creating new places for you all to stay. We can not have those who manage the kingdom either turn traitor or be killed while things are up in the air on what is going on. But be warned, if you have ill intentions and you pass through my barrier, you will die." The last part I said coldly because I wanted these people to understand that this was a do or die moment. If they refused, they would be deemed traitors as well. If they agreed, they would be brought to my estate to be protected. I could only hope that the people still at the king's side were still good people.

"What happens if we refuse to go to your estate?" One of the noble men asked. This was a normal question, so I did not think of him as someone who was a traitor or not, so I have no issues answering this question. In fact, I was happy he asked such a question because it meant that I could instill more fear into these people.

"You and your family will all be wiped out just like during the trial. No blood relatives above a certain age will be allowed to live, and those too young to have anything to do with anything as long as they are clean will have their memory wiped and will work for one of my companies." I looked at everyone there, but not a single person averted their eyes from me. "I will say this now. Right now, we are in dangerous times. Civil war could break out at any moment if the Prime Minister decides to make a move. We do not know if he has built up a massive army or not. We do not know what he has planned or who his backer is. Just know that we need to be ready for anything, and anyone not complying with orders at this time will be deemed a traitor.

"I hate doing things this way. It is a tyrant's path of action, but we have no other path we can take. We must first try to protect our citizens. After I settle things here, I will be putting a barrier up around the capital. With Little Bell's help, I will be able to pinpoint every town and city in the kingdom and stick a barrier around them as well. I will do my utmost to protect the citizens of this kingdom. But let me tell you, I do not have time to play games. I still need to take classes at the academy after all." I still wanted to continue my daily life. If civil war were to break out, I could be sure the citizens of the towns, villages, and cities were all protected. A barrier will be put around each of them. But this will only keep those from the outside from harming anyone. If they leave and try to come back, they will be checked if they have ill intentions towards the kingdom. If they do, they will die. But I have a feeling that we will not be attacked from within the population of the kingdom. But outside it from the neighboring kingdoms.

After a long day, I finally got home. I asked Diablo to use his magic to create a new building for the nobles. They were not too happy with the simple apartments, but they had no choice but to deal with it.

All of the royals were also here in another building that was much fancier. Adel had planned to give her father her room, but he rejected it and said he would make due with an apartment style residence. This did not stop Adel and Sophie from moving into my room, though. Which I was fine with. I am quite used to sleeping with these two anyway.

I do wonder if my future will change now that I have decided to date these two. Would I still be lonely with only Grace at my side in the future? Or will I have little Adels and Sophie's running around? As for Diablo and Iena…. Well, I am not sure how I feel about them. I did not mind kissing either of them, but I did not have any feelings that remotely resembled love towards either of them. So while I did say they were part of the relationship, it is only for now while I try to work out my own feelings. 𝑖𝗻𝗻𝑟e𝒶𝗱. 𝒄𝑜𝑚

It was a long day with many things happening. Some of the nobles have huge families! The buildings we made are almost like skyscrapers to the point that I had to extend the original barrier I set up to be much taller. I even had to long distance cast more barriers around the city and towns in the kingdom.

But now, after much hard work, I can finally relax. I was currently in my bathroom in the large bath sitting back, soaking in the hot water. Next to me, leaning their heads on my shoulders, were Sophie and Adel. Each interlocking their fingers with mine. "It's strange I will be fifteen soon, and I feel like I just turned fourteen the other day."

"We have been busy, and diving into the dungeon took a lot longer than we had expected," Adel said as she played with my fingers.

"Mmm… You will soon be an adult as well, which means we can get married and have many foxkin!" Sophie, who has been much more forward as of late, said with a big grin.

"Sophie, we are all girls. We can't have babies as of yet." I replied, causing her to look at me with a blank expression. I do wonder if Sophie knows how babies are made but probably not from the way she is looking at me.

"What? Don't we just need to do a deep kiss to make a baby?" Sophie asked, causing me to wish I had a third hand so I could hold my head.

"Ummm… Ask Adel. She will explain it to you later." I was not going to try to explain this to her. I leave it to you, Adel, my sacrifice!

"Faith!" Adel cried out. I looked up at the ceiling of the bath, not daring to make eye contact with her, but I soon felt a sharp pinch in my side: "Ouch!"

"Humph!" Adel snorted as she leaned over and whispered into Sophie's ear. Sophie's face blushed as she suddenly cried out: "Then how can we start a family!?"

"We will figure something out if we ever get to that point. Right now, we are only dating." I said as I raised my hand that she was holding and poked her forehead. "You shouldn't get too far ahead of yourself just yet. First of all, we are on the brink of civil war if the Prime Minister decides to make a move. We should worry about bettering ourselves and making new spells just in case."

"Oh…. Mmm… Sorry." Sophie lowered her head, her ears dropping to the side. I know she was depressed, but this was just how it was.

"Faith is right. We have all the time in the world. We need to work on leveling up after this crisis is over. We need larger mana pools so we can live as long as Faith does. We do not want to have her feel regret for being with us if we die of old age." Adel seemed to understand some of my worries. I guess I should have guessed this since she has been watching me this entire time.

After our bath, Adel and I both fluffed Sophie's fluffy tail since it was so soft and fluffy. But on this night, since it was our first time alone after we started dating, both Adel and Sophie took turns giving me a deep kiss. It was my first time ever kissing anyone like that, and to be honest, I liked it. We did not go any further than that, but we did end up kissing a few times before we finally decided to sleep.

I never thought I would be in a relationship. I was very much against it from the start due to probably living forever because of my infinite mana. But now that I was in one, I did not mind it. Both girls have been at my side for years. They have always put me first before everything, and I hope one day I can truly return their feelings with my entire heart. I just wish I knew what true love was. Because even now, while these two girls cuddled up next to me with content smiles on their faces, I still did not know if I loved them or not.

But one thing I do know is that I do not wish to make them sad. So I will do my best to try to figure out where my heart lies no matter what. I just wish things would stop cropping up and allow me more time to really figure out my own feelings.

Sadly things never seem to go the way I want…. Because the next day, while having breakfast with everyone, a loud explosion was heard across the entire kingdom. At the same time, the teleport array in my house went off, and my brother's voice could be heard from the other room. "Faith!"

"Faith, where are you? You need to heal, Mother!" Hearing my brother's panicked voice, I rushed into the teleporter room to see my mother's body half burnt and that she was missing a leg. My eyes went wide seeing such a scene. My father was also in serious condition as well. I ran over and quickly began using rewind on the both of them. "What the hell happened!?"

"We don't know. We were suddenly attacked with a strange spell that ignored the barrier that you set up. It destroyed the entire village. We only survived long enough to get out due to the barrier you put around the village and house that slowed the spell. But everyone else…." My brother's lip trembled. He held my nephew in one of his arms, while Rachel stood there shivering in the other.

I waved my hand, erasing the teleportation runic inscription on the floor so no one else could make use of it. If they could ignore the barriers to the point that it only slowed the attack down, then there is a mage with great power out there. "There… they should be okay now…." I said as I looked at the leg that reappeared on my mother. Her wounds and my father's wounds also were fully restored but they were still passed out. Luckily they would wake up soon.

"Little Bell!" I called out.

"Yes?" Little Bell appeared in front of me, rubbing her eyes.

"Can you tell me the status of the cities and towns in the kingdom? Have any of them been attacked?" I asked. If I could get a grasp of the extent of the damage, I could figure out the next plan of action.

"Only your village was attacked, but there is a massive army entering the Kingdom with strange machines on carts being pulled by monsters. They are coming in from the Norian Kingdom." Little Bell replied, causing me to bite my lip. Strange machines? Did they actually find them in a dungeon, or was this something else?

"Alright…. Annie, can you get some of the maids to prepare Adel's and Sophi's old rooms for my family?" I asked. I had no time to spare because a meeting needed to be held right away.

"Yes, Boss!" Annie quickly ran off.

"Brother, you will be led to a room in a bit to settle everyone down. If Mother and Father wake up, tell them to stay put." I said before standing up and turning around. I looked at the King, who nodded at me and quickly left the room.

In a newly built meeting room, myself, everyone on my team, The king and the nobles of the court, along with the generals of the army, were all sitting around a long table. I was standing at the head of it as I waved my hand, revealing the destruction of my home village. "This is what is left of my home, Cyrilia Village."

Gasps filled the room. Even I couldn't help but grit my teeth. Only my family was able to get out. Everyone who was kind to me was now dead. I was already doing my best to hold my anger in. My ancient will was begging to come out, but I repressed her. But this did not mean I did not plan to avenge everyone who died for no reason. So many kind people…. Auntie Finna, who used to give me cookies…. They will all be avenged.

"As you can see, the village was attacked, and now a massive army has entered our kingdom from the Norian Kingdom. They have strange mounted weapons which I believe were used to attack my home village. But on top of a massive army of soldiers…." I switched the view. The magic I was using was a combination of my detection magic and illusion magic which allowed everyone to see what I was seeing.

"The army is not just humans or demi humans but also monsters. They number in the hundreds of millions, maybe even a billion. Our world is big and vast, and the number of people living in any kingdom can be hundreds of millions to tens of billions, depending on the kingdom. So it is not strange to see this, but the force they built is something we will need to face head on. While watching our backs since we do not know if any other kingdom will attack in union with them. General Briggs…." I called out one of the generals.

"Can you secure our rear borders with your men?" I asked. 𝒊𝐧𝑛r𝑒𝗮𝐝. 𝐜𝑜𝑚

"Princess Cyrilia, you can count on me and my men to hold the line." General Briggs replied with a salute. One may ask why I was the one giving the orders, and that is because the King pushed all the responsibility onto me.

"I thank you. I will have part of Mr. Blob's subordinates join you as well. Keep one at your side at all times to give me updates since they can send me the information through my mana link." This was basically an army of slimes that numbered in the hundreds of thousands. While they may seem weak, they were actually all over level one hundred now.

"That would be a big help." General Briggs replied with a funny expression, but well, whatever, he will understand their worth when the time comes.

"General Hanson, you will take the north, and General Harris, you will take the south. You will each get a part of Mr. Blob's subordinates, and as I said to General Brigg, keep one on you at all times so you can relay messages back and forth." After appointing the generals to their locations, I looked at the king and said: "I will go to the front lines with the rest of our forces."

"Are you going to be able to handle it?" The king asked as he gave me a deep look.

"We are fighting the unknown. How am I supposed to know if I can handle it? All I know is I need to do what I can to protect the kingdom I have come to love. Protect the people who only wish to live out their lives in peace. The one behind this attack was probably the Prime Minister and the nobles who followed him. Even if I must destroy the entire Norian Kingdom, I will drag that bastard out from under his rug and cut off his head. If it isn't him, then I will find out who is and still do the same."

"Just be careful. I know Adel will be going with you, so I hope you can try to protect her. I know it is asking a lot because the battlefield has many unforeseen events, but I still hope for not only her but you as well to return alive." I could understand where the king was coming from. His only daughter was going off to battle. Even if I tried to keep Adel from going, she would still sneak out.

But I do have one thing to say about this. "I will protect her no matter what, even if it means going against the gods themselves and bringing her back from the dead." Adel and I still have not tested it, but I am pretty sure rewind can do just that. I would snatch Adel back from the dead even if it meant going against the gods doing so.

"I will hold you to that…." The King replied while closing his eyes and continuing: "This kingdom will once again be under your protection. I wish you luck and hope we can reduce casualties as much as possible. "

"We can only hope…." Yes, we can only hope.

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I set up a one hundred layer spinning barrier around the capital. Now knowing the enemy has a weapon that can ignore my barriers, I do hope I can reduce its power at the very least. I wish I had more time to come up with a different spell that could be used to ward it off, but at this time, I do not have any time to waste. I had just finished creating a massive teleport runic inscription that was going to begin transporting troops to the front lines.

This war was going to be unlike any war this continent had ever seen. The number of people that were involved was no small number. Sadly though, we were outnumbered by a lot. And I mean a lot. Diablo and Iena were being left in the capital to protect it. Over ten million soldiers were stationed around the Spirits' domain. We have sixty percent of our forces stationed in different directions of the kingdom, all so we do not leave any side open.

This means an army of a little under a hundred million would be facing an army that was hundreds of millions to maybe even a billion large. Such an army is unthinkable. It seems fake, but if you include all the monsters they have that outnumber the number of humans and demi humans in their group, then it really becomes believable. No country on Earth during my past life could have such an army. The size and scale of such a battle is something one could only see in fantasy stories.

And right now, I was currently flying at top speed, making my way to the front line to create a teleportation circle to allow our small army to arrive quickly. I was about a hundred miles away from the actual enemy army. I had to make sure our front line could dig in before they fully arrived. While I felt bad for the people that were about to suffer in the towns and cities in their path, there was nothing I could do about it.

Right now, some had to be sacrificed. I could only hope that they could hide and stay safe until we could push the enemy back. It pains me to think that many will suffer, but there is no other choice. i𝙣𝒏r𝚎𝑎𝙙. 𝒄૦m

I worked quickly and created a large teleportation magic circle in the ground and quickly used it to return to the others. Only then did we start moving our military to our front lines. No one wasted time. An underground camp was quickly created by those good in earth magic, and trenches were being dug as all. Magic was quite handy in times of war. Things were almost fully set up in just under two hours. From the time of the initial attack until now, it has been a total of five hours.

I turned and looked up at the uniformly standing groups of soldiers and sighed because they were all waiting for me to make a motivational speech. In such a war that we were about to run head first into, a speech would be needed. "I will say this now. I can't promise that you will all make it back. But we will do our damnedest to push the enemy back out of our country and make them pay. So this way, if you do die, your lives and the effort you all put in will not be in vain. We are the Kingdom of Gravos! A place where people of all races can come and live with our discrimination! We hold ideals that many hate, but it is those same ideals that have allowed us to unite under one banner. Let's show these Norian bastards or whoever they are that our Gravos Kingdom is not a place they can just walk into and do as they please!"

A loud roar filled the air, but I raised my hand to quiet them down. "We are currently dealing with an unknown weapon or spell. It can pass right through the barriers I myself have created. My own parents almost fell victim to this weapon or spell. Whatever it is, we will still need to march forth into the unknown. So, please… Keep on your toes. Stay alive and keep fighting. I will be there on the front lines leading the way. I will not retreat until I am dead. Let's begin our death march!"

Another loud roar filled the air. Death march. This is the right term for it because we are walking into the unknown. We do not know what lies ahead of us. But we do know that we will be fighting for our lives and for the people who can only hope and pray that we will succeed. I hope that whoever the enemy is this time that they are not as powerful as Azengrade. Or that it is not him behind it all. But I do know one thing. I will take out all my enemies to the very last one of them this time around. I have already steeled myself to an understanding that the Norian Kingdom can be no more.

"Watch your heads! We got incoming!" The war had already started. I still do not know who was the one who started this whole thing, but when I find them, I will definitely kill them.

There are three things that I have realized about this current battle. First is that barriers are basically useless against the enemy's strange weapons. Second, they have a group of mages who are creating mutli layered barriers around the weapons, which is keeping long ranged attacks from hitting the weapons. Third is that we can stop the attacks from the weapons if we use fire magic on them and blow up whatever is benign shot at us before it reaches us. I have a squad of fire mages whose only duty is to stop any of those new weapons from harming our people.

But besides these few things, I still have not determined what they are using for ammo or if it is some kind of mana infused cannon. It could be anything at this rate. We currently can't get close enough to do anything. I really want to move forward myself, but I have to command this army. They are all counting on me to give them proper directions.

"Another volley! Barriers up!" I yelled out. "Melee, focus on monsters and foot soldiers! Mages, keep barriers up and ignore the enemy mages! Just keep the spinning barriers up that I taught you all!" One good thing about this army is that our mages are very capable. I only taught two people how to do the spinning barrier that I created, and each one of them is now able to cast it, and it is all we need to protect our people. In other words, we can ignore the enemy mages' attacks making our advancement easier.

We have only gained a few miles of ground, but that is still a few miles when we are already this outnumbered. I have not been slacking, either. I have about one hundred grand falls smashing into the barriers they are keeping up around the strange weapons. If things work out, I will be able to keep their barrier mages busy long enough to wipe out the rest of their army. Because along with the grand falls, I have a barrage of fireballs and gates of faithylon raining down on the enemy as well.

One thing I am happy about is that I do not see anyone with lines on their faces. But I have made sure of one thing. Both Adel and Sophie are at my side. If I am correct, according to my dreams, this is the war that Sophie….

"Faith, are you going to be okay? You are using a lot of magic, and on top of that, you have tethered the entire army supplying them with your mana." Sally asked. Sally, Sei, and Grace were on defensive duty to protect Adel and me. This was not my choice but theirs. They refused to listen to any orders besides protecting us.

"Mana is the last thing I need to worry about running out of. Just pay attention to any stray attacks coming our way. Grace, you keep everyone healed. You can spam your aoe heals as much as you wish." I gave out orders to Sally and Grace while Sei looked at me expectantly. I grinned and whispered: "You could always use that special skill of yours to you know…. Entice the entire …."

"No! Not happening!" Sei blushed and quickly shook her head back and forth, causing me to chuckle.

I shrugged and continued monitoring the situation. I had multiple water screens hovering in front of me, and one of them caught my eye, causing me to frown. "Steven's side is being overrun by high level monsters. Those monsters are not from our world either." I bit my lip as I watched Steven fighting with everything he had. He was cutting them down with no issue, but the others were just normal humans and demi humans so they were having trouble holding their ground. 𝗶𝚗𝘯re𝐚d. 𝑐𝗼𝙢

"Squad 132, form five man cells to fight the monsters. Do not fight them one on one. Those are dungeon monsters that they must have dragged out of whatever dungeon they entered, so they will be a bit stronger than normal monsters, but they will go down easy if you work together." I relayed my message through the slimes that were spread out over the battlefield. By using them as a speaker in a way, I am able to relay orders without issue. This was a result of Mr. Blob's evolving after he ate quite a few of the enemy monsters. It was quite the nice timing, too, since it made things much easier than using our normal connection.

"Squad 345, you are moving too far forward! Keep a steady line. Take cover, do not fight directly unless you have to. The days of running down the line are over. Fight smart and not stupid. Rushing in will only get you killed." I gave out this order before looking out over the battlefield once more. I took a deep breath and looked at the girls. "I am sending you all to the back line. I need to try to end this quickly. While giving orders is easy to do, we can not allow our enemy to gain an understanding of our tactics."

"We want to rush into the enemy line and leave us here doing nothing!?" Adel shouted at me, but what can I say? I would do more good right now on the front line than sitting in the back.

"Adel, I know you want to fight beside me, but right now, we can not do that. Sophie as well. I need you two girls to just behave for me and stay put and protect Grace. She is what is keeping our forces alive!" My words seemed to have made them reluctant, but they still nodded their heads without saying anything. "Then please protect Grace. I am moving out. Keep an eye on the mirages. If you see anything strange, contact me through the slime. You girls are my ears and eyes on the battlefield while I am fighting."

"You can leave it to us!" Adel replied with a salute. I could see that she was still mad, but unfortunately, I could not allow her to move any further on the battlefield.

My main priorities were to keep those close to me safe as well as my men. If she moved any closer to the front line, they would prioritize her safety over their own and might end up getting themselves killed. The last thing I want is for them to sacrifice themselves for someone else when they could have been able to move out of the way because she would become the number one target on their enemy side to break morale. Nothing says killing a princess of the enemy kingdom to drop the enemy's morale and boost their own.

I flew through the sky while keeping my massive attacks going. My current goal was the back line. While we could keep these strange weapons at bay, I still needed to take them out once and for all so we could do a major push, and to do that, someone needed to go to the back line and create havoc.

I stayed clear of the main part of the battlefield and landed on the side near the first weapon. This weapon was quite amazing. It looked like a futuristic ballistic weapon, and I could feel a strong source of mana as well as another type of energy mixed within. what that energy source was, I did not know, but I did know one thing…. I licked my lips as I looked at the weapons. "These will become mine!"

I don't think the enemy will mind If I steal some of these weapons from them, right? I mean not steal, just borrow indefinitely. At any rate, what is the best way to keep an enemy from firing a fancy weapon at you? Borrow it and test it out yourself!

I made my way the long way around towards where the enemy was surrounding the large weapon. They had about a hundred guards surrounding it, along with fifty mages casting barriers around the weapon and holding off the grand fall that was bearing down on it. I thought for a moment before snickering as I yelled out in dragon speak: "Dance!" At the same time, I dispelled the barrier they had created and cast my own to block my grand fall. I still had a use for it, so I was not going to let it crash into my main prize. i𝐧𝓃𝒓𝒆𝑎𝙙. 𝘤𝘰𝚖

I charged forward and touched the weapon causing it to disappear before flashing away and releasing my barrier. The soldiers that had been dancing could only keep dancing as my grand fall fell on top of them.

My eyes were now set on the next weapon. There were a lot of them, and I planned to take all five. I continued forward using the same method as before. With each grand fall hitting the ground, the cheers from my men filled the area, causing an obvious disturbance in the enemy's front line. No one was able to tell what was going on. I raced across the battlefield as if I was on some kind of one hundred meter dash, and I was doing my best to get first place. But instead, I was just busy stealing weapons of mass destruction.

With each weapon and each grand fall that fell, I felt our victory coming at hand. But even though I did try not to jinx myself about a total victory coming our way, a strange sound could be heard coming straight at me.

<strong>*Boooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*</strong>

Myself as well as the weapon I was about to pocket, the ten grand falls that were in the process of being held back by the barriers, and all the people that were guarding the weapons were blown to bits. Well, I was just flung through the air, but I can say that the weapon that just hit me was not the same as the weapons I just stole. "What the hell was that!?"

I crawled up from the dirt and mud, as well as what looked to be bits of flesh and body parts, to see a huge crater in the ground where I once stood. I shook my body off of what I could before flying into the air. I squinted my eyes and focused on the direction I was shot at from and off in the horizon, there looked to be a large cannon similar to what I had just been stealing but on a much larger scale. "Hmmm… Do you really think that will stop me?"

I sneered as I turned towards the enemy forces. I was currently in the back line, which means I can cut the back line off and destroy them all in one go now. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath as I waved my hand. "Earth wall!" I created a massive earth wall the entire length of the battle that reached up towards the clouds. The enemy began to panic as I slowly began to merge fire and lighting together. I have gotten the current progress of this spell down to a two minute cast time, which so far is my limit.

But this time, I was not creating two tiny little balls of each element but massive balls that were a hundred times the size of my own body. I slowly began to fuse the two spells together, and in a matter of seconds, I had a massive lightning flame that looked like it was ready to explode at any moment. With such a large battlefield, I had no choice but to use such a spell.

"Child of Dragons…. I can not allow you to cast that…." An old voice entered my head. It was a very familiar voice. One I have heard before. The spell in my hand began to diminish, causing me to frown.

"Why not!?" I shouted out but got no answer. "I will need to visit the spirit domain once this is all over. Anyway, Let's just do it this way. Since I now have a wall blocking my men, I can use dragon speak in a wide area."

"Stop!" My voice echoed across the sky. Every enemy soldier and monster stopped in their tracks. "Kill yourselves….."

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Every person below me in the entire length of the battlefield on my side of the wall suddenly collapsed to the ground. Some used magic to blow themselves up, some just used a knife or sword to slice their own throats, and the monsters seemed to have all snapped their own necks. "More effective than I thought it would be. I was scared that if used in such a wide area that my own people would end up killing themselves but now that it is tested and foolproof, only I need to go out to the battlefield in the future. That Earth Wall made a for a good soundproofing material."

I once more heard something being fired off in the distance, causing me to turn around. As I did, I saw a huge beam of light heading right at me. I waved my hand, sending out a massive fireball which collided with the beam of light, causing a huge explosion that almost knocked me out of the air but still sent me flying back into the earth wall I created. At the same time, I heard two more shots being fired, heading directly at me.

Waving my hand, I sent out another two fireballs out causing the same thing to happen, but this time I was embedded into the wall. Repeated shots could be heard off in the distance as I tried to pull myself out from the wall. But these shots were fast, too fast for me to be able to unstick myself as they smashed into me, exploding on contact. My earth wall began to crumble as another five shots were heard in the distance. "Damn it! Let me breathe!"

They were firing that large cannon like a damn machine gun! I quickly smashed the wall behind me and waved my hand, creating thousands of fireballs and sending them flying towards the cannon thing. For some reason, I felt like the final boss of some really bad RPG! I mean, who makes the final boss as cute as me!?

Loud explosions were going off in front of me. I turned and fixed the wall that was damaged from earlier before flying forwards while keeping a steady barrage of fireballs on the enemy in front of me. I had a feeling something was off, so my detection magic was on full blast. I was ready for anything. Anything that moved had a fireball sent flying at it and would explode. I didn't even care if it was a fly because, on a battlefield with so many unknowns, I did not know what to expect.

The dreams I have had up until this point are all different from the current events to a point. In my dreams, the war that happened did not have these kinds of weapons. So dungeons might not have existed at that time. Unless maybe I had changed things just enough to change the future that should have been. Or maybe I was seeing a future of another me in a parallel universe.

For all I know, the current weapons could have existed, but since the war was supposed to start at a later time, things changed greatly. But none of that matters now because I just ran into an army even bigger than the last. "What the hell is with this kingdom!? Where do you get all these soldiers!?"

With my detection magic beyond the massive cannon that was still firing at me and only me was another massive army. It was like the first wave was to draw me out. If they really did, then it is because they fear me and were using the first wave as a means to check my abilities.

If this was the case, I royally screwed up! How am I supposed to deal with a situation where the enemy has seen my tricks and can now adapt? If they saw me using dragon speak and now insulating their men with soundproofing magic, I can not kill an entire army in a single command. They seem to understand the strength of Grand fall as well since their barriers around the weapons I stole held up well.

Dragon speak's only weakness was that it needed to be heard, so if they couldn't hear anything, then it would be useless. "Now what!?" I halted my advance and waved my hand, creating a massive rain of grand falls before continuing my advance. I decided it would be best to let the massive army in the back, that I know they are there. Even if it does nothing, it will at least keep them busy long enough for me to figure out what to do with this massive cannon. They seem to be firing at me no matter which way I go and only seem to have a single one of these weapons. If I can get close enough, I can steal it. I really do not want to give up such a nice defensive weapon. 𝙞n𝐧𝚛e𝚊𝑑. 𝗰o𝐦

If it can be replicated, we can outfit our borders with them and really secure the kingdom. As long as no one actually fires them by accident, things will be fine, which would mean needing some kind of safety lock and also a theft lock, so people like me don't show up and steal them all.

I flew in circles around the cannon and realized that they would not fire in the direction that pointed inland. Which meant…. "Looks like if I land on the east side of it, I can make it stop firing, but then I am sure to be attacked. So maybe a sleep spell to get in quickly and then get out? Or should I charge forward and attack the next wave of soldiers after I take the weapon?"

"I should probably charge towards the enemy line. If such an army also makes its way into the Gravos Kingdom, more lives will be lost. But if they have defenses in place to counter me, then I guess the best solution is to go full dragon mode. But I still wonder why I can't use fusion magic. This would be the perfect time to use it. While I do wish to use it, since the leader of the spirits stopped me from using it before, my guess is that it would have serious consequences. What consequences, I do not know. Ahhh!" I scratched my head and landed softly on the ground. "One thing at a time, weapon first."

Yes, the weapon first. I had so much to do but was only one person. I do wonder why I take on so much responsibility. Why do I always see it as my responsibility to handle what is to come? But at the same time, I do not trust others to handle an issue that might just harm those I love.

But I guess after coming this far, I shouldn't really question my own instincts. I do love the kingdom I live in. So wanting to protect it is natural. While it is not my responsibility to do so, I still will take it upon myself to protect it. I do not wish for the people of this kingdom to die. I do not wish to see any of them suffer. And now that I am in the enemy's territory over the border into the Norian kingdom, I can only think of one thing. Destroy the enemy at the roots. Do not let those in power cause problems for my kingdom anymore. Take control of the land that has caused so much pain and suffering and killed those I cared about.

The people of Cyrilia Village did not deserve to die. They were all innocents, but the people of this kingdom or whoever it was that instigated them had actually attacked my home, the place my family worked so hard to build up. I will never let that slide. So I guess this makes this war pretty personal now that I think about it.

I wonder if this is how people felt during times of war back on Earth. The lives of their loved ones dying at the hands of an invading army. Cities and towns destroyed as the people suffered at the hands of the enemy. Lives snuffed out for no reason, even though they played no part in anything.

I do not see any of this as a means of fighting an enemy. Any military that attacks unarmed civilians are nothing more than murders. This was why I had no problem ordering millions of soldiers to kill themselves. I had already seen what they were doing to the citizens of my kingdom. There were no innocents in that army.

As I stand in the air looking at the massive cannon that is pointed at me but not firing, I couldn't help but smile. They dared not fire in the direction their military was coming from. Yet they do nothing about the massive grand falls falling on top of their main forces. With a mana barrier surrounding me, I slowly flew over to the massive canon. And the closer I got to it, the bigger it got. It was as tall as a castle and just as wide. It was massive. And the amount of mana and strange power it took to power the thing was also enormous.

I landed in front of the massive ten thousand man force that was guarding the weapon and slowly walked towards it. On this day, this weapon will become mine. Then I will replicate it and station them at every border of my kingdom to keep those with ideas from even thinking of invading ever again.

"Demon Princess, I suggest you put your hands up!!" An old man on the back of a scaled horse yelled out as he rode towards me. I guess they think I am here to surrender. Did they think their weapon scared me into submission? Well, whatever the case, I will just let them believe what they want for now.

But something really bothers me. What is this demon princess crap? Well, I guess it is actually not all that wrong since I am also part demon, and I am officially a princess as well but still! Everyone keeps coming up with names for me! And none of them are any good!

"It's good to see you are willing to surrender." The old man on the scaled horse said as he arrived in front of me with a sword pointing right at me.

I tilted my head, looking at him in confusion as I asked: "What makes you think I came here to surrender?" 𝙞𝓃𝙣r𝘦а𝘥. Co𝙢

"Why else would you willingly land and walk towards a massive army of fifteen thousand? If you are not here to surrender, then what are you here…. Not good! Fall back!" The old man was quick. He was not as dumb as many would think. But sadly, he did not get far before his head caught on fire, and he fell off his scaled horse. Which I kindly climbed onto the back of and, before charging forward. I made sure to kindly repay the old man by kingly setting his men on fire as well.

"Stop here! She killed the general!" Wait, that was a general? Did he think he was going to gain all the glory for himself by riding out alone to meet me? Just how much of an idiot is he? But one thing I did notice was that not all these people are in the same military. It looks like the army this time is not only just a mix of monsters and soldiers but different kingdom soldiers as well.

Since this is the case, it seems more than one kingdom needs to be taken care of. It looks like I have a big job ahead of me, but that works out just fine. I rode over and grabbed one of the men not in a Norian army uniform and asked: "What Kingdom are you from!?"

"I won tell…."

"I said, what kingdom are you from!?" This time I used dragon speak, he had no spells blocking sound, so this meant he would be vulnerable to it. His eyes dulled as he slowly spoke: "The Kingdom of Gesland."

"How many kingdoms are involved in this war? Who instigated this?" I asked. Instead of interrogating them all one at a time, I can get this man to spit it out for me.

"The Kingdom of Geseland, The Norian Kingdom, The Kingdom of Retolne, and the Kingdom of Hearth. I do not know who instigated this. Only captains and above would know." The man replied before I burnt him to ash.

From the information I got, it explained two things to me. First, the kingdoms the man told me about were all north of the Norian Kingdom. They were like city states instead of a massive kingdoms, but they still had billions of people in each kingdom. And they had been conquered by the Norian Kingdom a long time ago. This was where they were getting their human forces from. As for the monsters, the Kingdom of Hearth is mainly a beast tamer kingdom. Their culture is heavily oriented around beast taming. This was probably how they were able to capture monsters. But the level of the monsters was also pretty high, which means many of these people probably have system stones.

This much I had already expected, but still, I would have hoped to have gotten a bit higher in level before others began to catch up. I do wonder, though, what dungeons they entered to get these monsters. There are even cyclopses mixed in as well as werewolves. Anyway, none of that matters. I just need to figure out one thing.

I grabbed the person nearest to me and used dragon speak on him: "Where is your captain?"

"Next to me…." The dulled eyes soldier replied, causing the man next to him's eyes to grow wide. "You damn traitor!"

I turned to look at the other man who was turning to run away but quickly grabbed him with a wind spell and forced him to face me before using dragon speak on him as well. "Why have you all invaded the Gravos Kingdom!?"

"Pholin Sergi promised half the kingdom to the Norain King in exchange for their help. He is currently in the Norian Kingdom's capital, Norsen. He planned it all out so that he could kill the King of gravos and his family. But he seemed warier of you: Demon Princess Cyrilia. Our orders were to draw you to the front line while a small force invaded the capital." The captain's eyes went dull. I sneered and lit the captain on fire as well. I looked at all the soldiers who were just dumbly staring at me, not daring to go near me, and snorted. 𝘪n𝐧𝓻eа𝒅. 𝘤o𝘮

"You people are fools!" I yelled out and then used dragon speak once more. "Kill yourselves!" I sat on my scaled horse as the ten thousand or so soldiers all collapsed around me. They blindly followed that damn idiot Prime Minister, and he dared to attack my family first!? "Hehe…. I will slaughter them all…." I could feel the blood lust welling up inside me. My ancient will was trying to surface, but I was still keeping it at bay. But I did not mind borrowing a stand of it to handle the situation in front of me. "Don't get ahead of yourself. You are part of me, and I am the one in control." I muttered to myself. I still haven't forgotten what the ancient will said about me. But I will not let it get to me. I am me and only me. If the ancient will wants to come out, it will be on my terms.

With the forces around me dead, I walked right up to the cannon and stored it away. I turned to look at the barriers blocking my grand falls and sneered. I set my scaled horse free as I rose up into the air. And looked out towards the capital of the Norian Kingdom. "Diablo, can you hear me?"

"I can, Master." Diablo's voice rang out in my head.

"There is a small force headed your way. I want you to destroy it and behead every man in the force. Then bring the heads to me. I wish to bring a present to the man in charge." I was mad, very mad. My parents almost lost their lives. My brother, my nephew, and my sister in law as well. They all could have died. Auntie Finna lost her life along with the other villagers all because of me. I will bring that bastard back to Cyrillia Village and use his blood to send off those who died for no reason.

My thoughts may be disgusting. My thoughts may be violent. They may even sound like the thoughts of a mad person, but I do not care. As of this moment and time, those who dared to harm those and the places I care about will vanish from this world after they are drained of every drop of blood in their body.

"Yes, Master…." Diablo replied. He did not question my orders. He would always bow and do as I asked.

"Mm… Thanks, Diablo…. I will now destroy our enemies." I said as I waved my hand once more, creating a massive fireball in one hand and a massive lightning ball in another. I was no longer on the Gravos kingdom's land so I should be able to use this attack now. But just as I was about to combine the two forces, Little Bella suddenly appeared and pulled my hand back. "Little Bell?"

"You can't! It's bad!" Little Bell looked up at me with pleading eyes. I sighed and got rid of the spell. I wanted to ask why once more, but now was not the time. "Then I will refrain from using it."

"Mmm! Faith is good!" Little Bell flew up and kissed my cheek before disappearing back inside my body. I still have no idea why they stopped me, but they don't seem to want to see me using fusion magic on a large scale, I guess….

It's not like I will need it. I will just do things in an even easier way. Let's see if they can block my dragon speak. I flew towards the massive army that was doing its best to keep the grand falls from falling to the ground and stopped when I was halfway there. "Let's play a small trick, shall we?"

I sent my detection magic out all over the enemies' four kingdoms. Once I spotted my target, I turned towards the border between the Gravos Kingdom and the Norian Kingdom and waved my hand, creating a massive wall of stone and metal. It rose up three miles into the sky, casting a massive shadow on the lands below. But I did not stop there. It was not just the boarded between my country and this one but every border that surrounded the entire four kingdoms borders based on the maps I remembered. After which, I pleased a massive rotating barrier that covered the skies of the four kingdoms. "Since you want to harm me, I will make sure you can not escape!"

The walls I created were just for show, while the real show stopper is the barrier. This barrier not only reflects spells used against it back at its attacker, but it also makes the attacks homing attacks. These attacks only reflect back at those within the barrier. On the outside, they just get spun away. But there is another thing that this barrier does. If someone tries to touch it, they will not only be shredded to pieces, but they will feel the pain tenfold as they do.

I am being quite vicious, but I do not care. The current situation does not allow for niceties. Everyone in these lands can be considered my enemy. And because my detection magic is now locked on to him, I can see that Mr. Prime Minister is not having a good time at all. He is currently yelling at the king of Norian. Oh? It seems he is being arrested. This makes things easier on me. I bet the king of Norian wants to use him as a bargaining chip to be let off but sadly for him, his entire family has already been marked for dead by me. While I will keep to my normal rules of extermination, I will be wiping out the military, nobles, and royal families of all four kingdoms.

"Hehehe…." I bit the tip of my finger, drawing blood. Just thinking about it was starting to make me excited….

I took a deep breath as I felt the pain in my finger. The taste of iron filled my mouth. "Even just a little bit of the ancient will is able to corrupt my mind. But it's fine. A little craziness is what I need right now."

I flew off to the Norian Kingdom's capital. I was not here to kill civilians, only the nobles and military officials who okayed this war. I wasn't planning to harm any innocents, but this did not mean I was not going to have an easy time picking who is who. I would need to gather them all in one place and use dragon speak on them. But to be sure it works, I will need to do it in another way. Since soul magic is unaffected by normal magic, I can use my soul to cast dragon speak on the nobles. This will allow me to truly know who is evil and who is good.

My travel time took five days. The Norian Kingdom was much bigger than the Gravos kingdom due to its continuous expansion. When I arrived at the capital, I found myself being welcomed by a group of knights on flying monsters. The lead knight flew in front of me and bowed his head: "Princess Cyrilia. His Majesty is waiting for you at the palace."

"Oh? Not going to call me Demon Princess Cyrilia? Or any of the other names you have for me?" I asked in a mocking tone. The Knight's eyebrow twitched, but he kept himself composed.

"Of crouse not, such names are…." The knight stopped speaking when a figure suddenly appeared next to me with a large bloody sack.

"Diablo. You took care of it?" I asked with a smile.

"Master, there were four teams altogether, adding up to over one hundred heads," Diablo replied. He looked at me and looked slightly shocked at first, but I guess that is the given with how my eyes were wide with excitement. The smell of blood was really making my blood boil. This was what I had to deal with when dealing with the ancient will. If I want to be more imposing and clear my mind of kindness, I need to use it, but even this little sliver of it is enough to cause issues. "Master you…."

"I will have to have you take a look another time, Diablo. For now, return to the capital just in case anything serious happens. And…. Thank you." I replied with a smile. Although I think it might have been a bit of a crazed smile. There was nothing I could do at this time, though. Diablo nodded and disappeared. I took a deep breath before returning my gaze to the knight in front of me.

"Now then, shall we make our way to your king?" I asked, still smiling, but the knight now had a look of fear on his face. I guess my bloodlust was quite strong at this time. "You all call me the Demon Princess now, do you not? Would you like to join the men in this bag, or will you bring me to your king like you said you would?"

"Ahem… Please, this way…." The knight cleared his throat, and motioned for me to follow him. I nodded and allowed him to lead the way. The supposed men who were probably supposed to be my guard escorts were not flying at quite the distance away from me. My guess is that they want to be able to fly at any second in case I go crazy. Maybe the ancient will is not so bad after all. No! It is not something I should use lightly.

I took a deep breath and tried to clear my mind. I must never let my thoughts control me. This is what it wants.

When we arrived at the so called palace, which was nothing but a castle in my eyes, we walked right to the throne room unimpeded. On a throne sitting high above the rest of the room, was a young man who looked to be in his late twenties. He was muscular and burly and wore armor instead of kingly robes, as many kings wear. "So you are Demon Princess Cyrilia. I am the King of the Norian Kingdom, King Greth. I wish to make a deal with you."

"Oh? A deal? What kind of deal can you make with me when you attacked and destroyed my home village? Killing my loved ones? Are you okay in the head? You want to make a deal with me!? I think you need to understand something right now, Mr. King. In this kingdom, including your three vassal states, you are all my hostages. The only one making deals is me, and only I am to be asking questions so…." I took a step forward and appeared right in front of the king and grabbed him by the scruff of his neck, and tossed him to the bottom of the stairs leading to the throne. "In this place here and now, I am the only one who makes all decisions. My word is like god's words."

I turned and sat on the throne and looked down at the king, who was struggling to get up. "You are the ones who dared to invade my homeland and kill my kingdom's people and those close to me. You started this. Now I will make you and all those involved pay." 𝘪𝚗𝓃𝘳ℯ𝒂d. c૦𝓂