The villain queen eavesdropped on my inner thoughts and won't let me lie down?

Halfway through extending her hand, she suddenly realized it was covered in cream. Her face flushed crimson, and she immediately retracted it.

Holt was a simp for beauty, a trait he had since his youth.

He watched the little empress's adorably foolish side, his smile full of doting affection, and took out a handkerchief from his pocket to help her wipe her hands.

But the little empress muttered a couple of words, and a magical light flashed over her hands, leaving them clean and spotless once more.

Holt's expression changed drastically, and he asked in shock, "Little Octavia, don't you feel the anti-magic field here?"

Even a legendary mage like him was reduced to a melee fighter in this salon.

How could this little girl, who had only been studying magic for half a year, ignore the anti-magic field and cast spells so casually?

"Anti-magic? No wonder I have to chant incantations to cast spells here!" the little princess exclaimed with a realization.

Holt's face fell.

Wasn't it common sense that a magic apprentice had to chant incantations to cast spells?

Octavia's talent was simply outrageous!

Enjoying Holt's rapidly changing expressions and twitching facial muscles, Roger couldn't help but laugh.

His Majesty, at such a young age, had already mastered the art of Versailles without a teacher.

But the fact that the Nightless Empress could cast spells in an anti-magic field even as a child was indeed terrifying.

In modern times, she would probably be a natural outlaw?

Next, Roger followed the little empress to a larger classroom.

A handsome and dashing young man, with features somewhat similar to the adult empress, was speaking passionately on the stage.

This should be the Crown Prince of the Green Vine Kingdom, who died in the Manny City Incident.

The Crown Prince was quite talented, explaining clearly and logically his plan to build a defense line called the "Nochima Line," hoping to gain the support of the mages.

After the explanation, the Crown Prince invited the mages to play the attacking side and conduct a tactical simulation of the magic sandbox.

Mages were the scholars of this world, and many were involved in the military field.

Moreover, the Law Salon didn't care about identity, only right and wrong, so even the Crown Prince wouldn't get any special treatment. Someone immediately went up to simulate a battle with him.

The sandbox was quite interesting, a bit like real-time strategy games from later generations, but with more things to consider.

And this Crown Prince was indeed skilled, successively blocking the attacks of more than a dozen mages.

Among them was a gray-haired professor who, relying on his Nochima Line, defended against enemies ten times his number.

Seeing that no one else was challenging him, the Crown Prince proudly declared, "As long as this defense line is built, with sufficient troops and mages, the Green Vine Empire will have eternal stability and never have to worry about being invaded!"

"Older brother, I think Green Vine will suffer sooner or later if we keep getting beaten!" Suddenly, a crisp voice rang out.

Everyone looked over and saw the little empress sitting on Holt's shoulders, and couldn't help but laugh.

The Crown Prince also smiled and asked, "Then what do you think the kingdom should do?"

The little empress said with a serious face, "Of course, kill all the enemies, and then we'll be safe!"

Roger's eyelids twitched. Good heavens, if the empress didn't have snow-white skin, he would have suspected that there was an orcish soul in this woman's body.

Was she this reckless since she was a child?

The Crown Prince shook his head with a smile and said, "Everyone can't even break through my Nochima Line, which means Green Vine doesn't have generals who are good at attacking. Let's still study defense."

"Older brother, I'll break your defense line!" The little empress's delicate face showed seriousness and eagerness to try, and she went to the opposite side of the Crown Prince.

Everyone helplessly watched this scene.

The little princess had only been studying magic for half a year and had not received any military education. How could she possibly beat the Crown Prince?

The Shelley family only cultivated one child in each generation to receive a comprehensive royal education in order to avoid sibling rivalry.

The others could just be content to be useless, learn some art they were interested in, and it wouldn't matter if they were useless.

But what happened next surprised everyone.

Although the little empress's attack didn't conform to any military textbook, she had a strange intuition.

Seizing opportunities to attack, attack, and attack again, she disrupted the Crown Prince's defense with unreasonable, crazy attacks.

The Nochima Line, which no dozen mages had broken through before, was forcibly breached.

"The Crown Prince is truly a loving older brother."

Many people showed knowing expressions, thinking that the older brother was making his younger sister happy and deliberately letting her win.

The Crown Prince was silent for a long time, then said seriously, "Little sister, can I play with you one more time?"

"Okay!" The little empress happily agreed.

She thought fighting was quite fun.

This time, the Crown Prince obviously became serious, defending meticulously.

But the little empress's offensive was continuous and relentless, the pressure was terrifying, and in the end, she still broke through his painstakingly researched defense line.

"I didn't expect my younger sister to be a natural general!"

The Crown Prince praised the little empress's talent and said seriously, "Little Octavia, do you want to be a general when you grow up, protect Green Vine, and expand its territory?"

The little empress tilted her head and thought for a moment, then shook her head and said matter-of-factly, "I don't want to! Second brother said the food at the border is not good, and there aren't as many snacks as in the capital."

Establishing merit and a career couldn't compare to a few snacks in the capital?

The Crown Prince looked helpless, but also found his younger sister very cute, and picked her up: "Okay, okay, you just stay in the City of Mysteries and enjoy life, and we'll take care of the dirty work..."

"Yeah, you're a good big brother!"

The little empress reached out and kissed the Crown Prince on the face.

A cheerful atmosphere filled the air, and unpredictable childlike innocence was always unexpectedly interesting...

In the laughter, the castle shook, and space cracked.

When Roger came to his senses, he was on a city wall, and not far away was the Nightless Empress.

She was now a different person.

The former gluttonous girl had now grown into a tall and slender young woman, wearing a black pointed wizard hat askew, gazing at the outside of the city wall.

At this time, she was already beautiful beyond description, with a face of sadness, despair, and stubbornness, making one feel pity.

Did the invincible blood mother also have such moments, looking like she needed help and comfort?

Roger stared at the empress in a daze for a long time before shifting his gaze to the outside of the city.

Outside the city, the war flags of the Waburga Kingdom fluttered, and the army was overwhelming, endless.

Several huge poles stood in front of the formation, with captured members of the Shelley royal family, the Nightless Empress's parents and brothers.

Roger frowned and found that this scene was different from what the Nightless Empress had described to him.

She said that she saw this scene while on a reconnaissance mission, and was captured by the Fourth Prince when she returned to the city...

Just as Roger was pondering the implications of this difference, suddenly the Crown Prince, who should have been dead on the flagpole, shed tears of blood from his eyes and accused:

"I regret it so much. If I hadn't been defeated by my little sister back then and suggested that my father build an invincible cavalry, instead of investing in the Nochima Line, the kingdom might not have been conquered..."

Shelley IV's leaky mouth also opened and closed, shouting, "The national power of the Green Vine Kingdom is declining, and building cavalry is a joke. I regret it so much, I hate it so much, I shouldn't have listened to Octavia's slander!"

The Queen struggled violently, trying to rush towards the city wall: "The princess who ruined the country, if I had known this, I shouldn't have given birth to a daughter like you!"

The Second Prince cried and said: "Little sister, if you had guarded the border, how could the kingdom have been wide open, and how could the Shelley family have fallen to this?"

With a whoosh.

The Fourth Prince floated behind the young Octavia, whispering: "Little sister, do you have to kill your own brother in order to survive..."

More royal family members and officials who died in Manny City, their souls all floated onto the city wall, attributing the sins of the broken Green Vine Kingdom to the little princess standing alone on the city wall.

They were frantically accusing her, saying that if she hadn't broken through the Crown Prince's painstakingly researched Nochima Line twice at the Law Salon, the kingdom might have had a different situation now!

Roger finally realized: "This is a heart demon, a vicious heart demon, that even plays the trick of suppressing before raising! So the Law Salon was a foreshadowing! Blood mother, don't believe these nonsense words! The national power of the Green Vine Kingdom is declining, and without fundamental changes, defeat is only a matter of time. Even the most solid defense line will fall one day. Your real family will not blame you. Don't blame yourself so much..."

Unfortunately, no matter how loudly he shouted, the Nightless Empress couldn't hear him at this moment.

As a ghost, Roger could only watch the beautiful girl on the city wall face the overwhelming accusations alone, her figure swaying, but still trying to stand firm, tears already accumulating in her eyes.

Biting her teeth, enduring the humiliation, and holding on stubbornly, what was even more uncomfortable was the regret and self-blame in her heart.

But even with her lips bitten bloody, wanting to jump off this city tower to accompany her family, she couldn't retreat.

If the last member of the royal family was lost as a banner of resistance, the Green Vine Kingdom would probably disintegrate instantly and be completely destroyed.

She was the sinner of the Green Vine Kingdom, and the last light of the Green Vine Kingdom!

If the fearless Nightless Empress was amazing, the little princess before the transformation was pitiful.

Roger had told her countless times in her ear that it wasn't her fault, but she couldn't hear him.

Roger also loudly retorted to those people, you don't work hard but blame a girl, but they ignored him.

He just wanted to tell the Nightless Empress that you would do better than everyone in the future, and establish such a glorious empire, but he couldn't even achieve this small wish.

No matter how radiant and invincible the Nightless Empress was, at this moment, Octavia Shelley was just a fragile girl who had lost her family, killed her brother, and was forced to shoulder the heavy responsibility of her country.

Listening to those accusing voices, Roger felt injustice for the Nightless Empress from the bottom of his heart for the first time.

She had nothing left, she had done ten thousand times more than her responsibility, but you still want her to live in pain for the rest of her life?

It was too cruel, it was too sad, it was too harsh.

It turned out that under the domineering invincibility of the Nightless Empress, there was a soul full of holes, unforgiven by her own family.

No, no, she shouldn't be like this!

Roger was loudly accusing something, but he was just a ghost in this world, an observer who could do nothing.

He could only watch the girl's eyes, which had been filled with light, be submerged by those slanders, and she was about to sink into the heart demon.

It turned out that from a little princess who only wanted to live a life of eating and waiting to die, to the empress who shouldered the empire, this road was not only accompanied by unparalleled talent and high-speed progress, but also by suffocating despair, regret, and loneliness.

She couldn't hear Roger defending her, she could only hear the accusations of her family and ministers coming from the wind.

She killed her parents and brothers.

She killed those loyal civil and military officials.

She killed the soldiers who were loyal to the Shelley family.

She killed the innocent people on this land.

You are wrong.

You are a sinner.

You will never be able to wash away these sins!

This is the heart demon, this is the vicious calculation of the Eris Worm!

It digs out the most beautiful time in your heart, and then tears it apart inch by inch, and also falsely accuses you of doing it yourself.

The more you do, the more wrong you are!

Such a heart demon is more terrifying than any monster, and even a firm-willed person like the Nightless Empress cannot escape it.

Or rather, the more determined she is, the tighter this heart demon will entangle her.

One of the most difficult monsters in the Astral World was strengthened by Xia Ti and eventually grew into the Nightless Empress's special killing weapon.

As a princess herself, and having faced the test of national destruction, Xia Ti understood Octavia very well.

Even if the eldest princess failed, and the little princess eventually turned the tide, Xia Ti still keenly captured the softest corners of the Nightless Empress's heart.

Before, at the Law Salon, the little empress ate contentedly, defeated her adult brother, and enjoyed the love of her family and ministers.

How proud she was then, how painful she is now.

She defeated her elder brother, but ruined her home and country...

The accusations of the dead souls echoed in the sky. In fact, those were just the thoughts that had always lingered in the Nightless Empress's heart, amplified and presented by the Eris Worm.

Since the night of the Manny City Incident, the Nightless Empress had always lived in guilt, believing that she was the real culprit who destroyed the Green Vine Kingdom.