Chapter 1020
“How can this be? How can Xin be here?” I demanded, using Slave Communication to have Faeyna and Raissa ask the Tibults.
Ultimately, they didn’t know what I was talking about. None of them knew the full story about Xin. To Raissa, she was just a woman that sort of resembled the boss monster in the dungeon. She never interacted with Xin very much. As for everyone else, most had never even laid eyes on her or had heard about her existence. They vaguely knew that I had a dungeon which I had more or less tamed, but they didn’t know to what extent that I had control over it. They didn’t know about Xin, her monster clone, nor the soul I had fetched from the Twilight Dungeon.
As it turned out, the group with me were the group least familiar with the situation, and explaining it all to them now was far too difficult. All I could determine was that Xin was the Queen here. As the story went according to Faeyna’s summary of what Octin said, King Aberis had declared her and all Osterian’s outlaws, and she fled across the border with the last of the Osterians and became their leader. Since Aberis was too young and still forming, she was able to recover the last bits of Osteria, including the capital city which was originally in the south, and form a new country.
Not everyone agreed with King Aberis’s pro-human rhetoric, and so Ost Republic was formed counter to Aberis. Of course, not all blame could be put on the King. His people had been oppressed by demons, and the Osterians had joined them in doing it. Ultimately, the only Osterian ally he had murdered him, and led to the ultimate sacrifice of his wife. He had felt his actions were justifiable at the time. Thus, the two countries remained antagonistic to each other for roughly twenty years.
A few years ago, Queen Xin resigned from her position and gave it to the royal prince, who became King Greggar. This was all fine and good, except that I knew that Xin did not go to the Ost Republic. Halfway there, she was taken control of by Demon Lord Aberis, who turned back into Aberis. Once born, he tossed her into the Twilight Dungeon where she died, and then he regained his power, took control of Lord Reign, and then used him as a puppet for the last twenty years.
In other words, there were two stories, and they didn’t match up. Could it be that Xin was a dungeon clone? Did the Ost Republic make a fake Xin? She had a lot of sway with the people, so anyone who wanted to control the Osterians would have been smart to try to clone her in a dungeon. However, that kind of thing took time. My mind was still busy wondering when General Nova spoke up.
“A bride and groom shouldn’t see each other before the wedding!” He declared.
“Once my daughter heard of this fight, she had insisted on being present to see how it turns out.” Xin spoke in a voice that sounded familiar, but also strangely cold and aloof.
“I truly hope she doesn’t hope to intercede…” He spoke uncertainly.
“Rest assured, she will not involve herself as any more than a spectator.” Her mom spoke before giving the woman herself a sharp look. “And she will abide by the outcome, where ever it may fall.”
Alysia silently nodded, but her eyes shot to me, and even though she was at a distance I thought I could see some reluctance in there. I noticed she was distinctly staying quiet. It was clear by her entire body language she didn’t want this to happen.
“Then, let the battle begin!”
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