46. War (8)
46. War (8)
Seeing the audience chamber with my own two eyes, it was truly big and beautiful.
'Huh... look at this?'
And inside that audience chamber, a completely different scene was unfolding compared to the outside.
Just looking at the audience chamber, it was simply a party.
Beautiful and sweet music was flowing from a tool that looked like a record player, and on the left wall of the audience chamber, countless foods were laid out like a buffet, with humans grabbing food and drinks while chatting.
And a human who looked exactly like the Lord was also chatting leisurely among those humans.
Well, maybe not leisurely, but they were chatting with a somewhat serious face.
The knights, adventurers, guards, and citizens outside were fighting desperately to survive, running away, and protecting the city, but inside the audience chamber, it was as if a party was being held on a festival day.
It was as if this place was absolutely safe. As if there were no problems at all if you were here.
It just looked full of the will to command, be comfortable, and stay here until the work was finished.
If I were truly human and held the position of The Saint, I would have been furious the moment I entered here. Even I, as the Queen now, am slightly dumbfounded, so if Gwen had seen this scene, she probably would have drawn her sword.
But actually, this is a good situation for me right now. With humans like these, the possibility of what I'm thinking being realized is very high.
Just like the priest who died by my hand, the gazes looking at me right now aren't just kind ones.
Desire, greed, lust, etc.—countless gazes are directed at me. They are staring at me in a way that is unpleasant just from the gaze alone, so I thought about whether I should just unleash my children here.
I am curious about how those expressions would change if creatures appeared and turned this place, which is safer than anywhere else, into hell in the middle of a party, but to create a better future than that, I just bowed and greeted them.
Even in the motion of bowing, I intentionally made my large breasts dynamic as I bent over.
Being a man, I know this well.
Whether a man likes breasts or not, once they bounce significantly, his gaze is bound to go there automatically.
"Ah, The Saint-nim has arrived?"
A greasy-looking noble approached me and greeted me greasily.
He was blabbering something, but I let it all go in one ear and out the other.
The human in front of me right now was clearly a useless human. No Mana, no Holy Power.
Judging by the fact that he came to greet me before the other nobles in front of me, I know he has a somewhat high position, but I don't like him.
What I want right now is a human with a high position, like that Lord, or even slightly below, who can be heavily involved in this city.
The nobles who approached me guided me to a seat so I could sit down, and I was slightly disappointed by their chattering next to me.
The Lord's Personal Guard intentionally let me in here. So I thought I would be talking to the Lord, but that wasn't really the case either.
The Lord wasn't paying much attention to me, other than a slight nod when I first entered.
I don't understand why they let me in here.
Or perhaps that man approaching me ordered the Personal Guard?
The nobles who were hovering around me trying to do something to me retreated in an instant the moment that man approached.
Perhaps, excluding the Lord, that man is likely the highest-ranking human here.
Or maybe he's even higher than the Lord?
He looks to be around his 50s, with neat slicked-back hair, and the clothes he's wearing look quite luxurious.
If you look at him without thinking, he just looks like a high-ranking noble, but the atmosphere he exudes and the faint scent of a human female coming from him... and it's not just the scent of a woman, it's the scent of female sexual fluids.
Just by looking at him, he seems like exactly the kind of person who would be the owner of that auction house I investigated.
"Nice to meet you. I am—"
As I zoned out for a moment at his words, where he was explaining this and that about himself, perhaps it was a noble's way of greeting.
"You seem very tired, so it would be good to relax while having a drink."
The man handed me the glass he was holding in his hand.
It was a situation where anyone could tell what would happen the moment they drank the liquid in this glass.
I didn't miss the fact that the men who had been panting over me until now flinched as soon as they saw the glass the man handed over.
Showing that reaction means they've seen this scene a few times and know exactly what this action means.
They're really ruining the image of men.
Mason, who had been protecting me and my children until just a moment ago, was a real man's man.
If a male character with this personality appeared in a game, he was the kind of man I would try to pull with saved-up currency, even if I didn't spend real money.
But every man who has entered here and approached me is a lump of disgust.
Especially this man closest to me right now—it's enough to make me want to vomit.
I think I could kidnap Mason to the human farm, collect his semen separately, and produce delicious humans through Mason's genes, but the men approaching me right now seem like they would only produce tasteless humans.
Actually, since they are humans and have the superior blood of nobles, their genes are accustomed to Mana, so it's impossible for them to be tasteless, but I don't want to farm humans that have the genes of these kinds of people for my children.
Should I call it the stance of a parent who opposes feeding their children junk food?
I think it's natural to want to feed my children food that is both delicious and healthy.
Anyway, since this whole thing is ultimately to provide quality food for my children, I reluctantly pretended to drink the glass the man gave me.
==
"Oops."
As Lea sat there, staggering and unable to steady her body, the man gently wrapped his hand around Lea's shoulder and caught her.
"Our Saint-nim seems to be in a very bad state. I will guide you to a room. Everyone is okay with that, right?"
No one answered the man's words, but the man nonchalantly supported Lea and made her stand up.
In the process, the man's hand headed toward Lea's breasts, but no one said anything to him.
The man who entered the small room prepared in the corner of the audience chamber made it so that noise wouldn't leak out, just like a priest, and the moment he turned around to have relations with Lea, who was lying on the bed...
"...!"
"Nice to meet you, Albert-nim."
It was not Lea the Saint, but Lea the Queen who greeted the man.
The man tried to slink backward to escape, but.
Thud!
The Mimic Creature that had been clinging to Lea's body stretched its body out and stuck to the door.
"Wh-what is your identity!"
In a situation that was proceeding exactly like with the priest, Lea just sighed, reached out her hand, and opened her mouth.
"By any chance, don't you want to live eternally?"
==
"What on earth is this..."
The Knights Order, adventurers, and guards, who were preparing for battle again as Heriis, whom they thought had died while trying to return to the castle where the Lord was, revived, were momentarily bewildered by the situation unfolding right now.
Suddenly, all the Ners started to run away.
However, it didn't take long for them to realize why the Ners were running away.
"Everyone, cut the spider webs!!!"
The Ners climbing the castle walls were all tightly wrapping something up with spider webs.
Anyone could tell what this was. That what was tightly wrapped in those spider webs was a human.
Lea, who had no intention of destroying this city from the beginning, had told the Ners to eat humans, but only adults, and to kidnap one human she would cherish and eat, and female humans to use for the human farm.
The Ners, who had completely devastated the entire eastern district of Medherun City, began to retreat.
The Knights Order, who had been too focused on Heriis, ultimately failed to notice what the Ners had been doing.
In the end, the Ners were retreating after filling their stomachs and finishing their tasks, and the Padix Kingdom Knight Commander tried to save the citizens being kidnapped, but it wasn't easy.
The Knight Commander, who had fully grasped the creature called Ners through this fight, was the first to inform his subordinates about the Ners: do not approach them, and fight from a distance.
That's how disadvantageous it is to fight Ners in close combat.
They are creatures that are tricky to deal with just because of the existence of Acidic Blood.
There was no visible way to stop such Ners as they kidnapped citizens and climbed over the castle walls to escape.
If they attacked the Ners to stop them, Acidic Blood would flow out and kill the citizens, and if they attacked only the spider webs, the webs were strong and thin, making them hard to target.
Furthermore, the fact that the Ners knew the concept of hostages was also significant.
In such a situation, because of Heriis, who was interfering by getting up even after losing his head, they couldn't save the thousands of citizens being kidnapped by thousands of Ners.