Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest - Chapter 1666: Meeting Queen Khione
Chapter 1666: Meeting Queen Khione
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There were all kind of other Spirit Golems and Magical things moving here and there, and a lot of furniture and clothes… and pillows.
As we entered and stopped walking, looking around in awe, I noticed something, a little person moving from within her bed.
“Hmm… Um…”
She slowly sat down in the bed and Chloe helped her wake up, using cold water to wash her face and then clean it.
“I’m sorry for taking a while, her Majesty the Queen of Frostheim is here.”
She walked towards us while the queen was carried in her arms, cradled like a sleepy baby.
This isn’t what I expected…
When I heard she was a Fairy Queen, I really imagined a tall, beautiful, and slender ice fairy queen!
But this is…
She’s too cute.
“Hello heroes… thank you for coming… um… are you tired? Please sit down… Chloe, I can fly on my own, let me go…”
“My apologies.”
Chloe quickly let go of her, as she floated in midair, her beautiful wings were huge, larger than her own body, glowing with blue and white colors, generating some sort of aurora borealis around her.
She carried a white and blue pillow and was still wearing her pajamas, which was clear blue with white stars, she had long blue hair, clear white skin, and silver eyes.
“I apologize… for not introducing myself. Um, I am the Queen of Frostheim, you can simply call me Lady Khione… I’ve heard quite a lot of you… thank you for helping us…”
She was a bit shy while talking, she definitely was an introvert that wasn’t quite experienced with talking with a lot of people.
She waved her little hand, as several chairs made of ice walked towards us, assembling around a huge table she also brought along.
“Sit down, let’s… um, have some tea? What… would you like to eat?” she asked.
“Anything is fine!” I said.
“I would like something warm…” Mark muttered.
“Cookies?” Jenny asked.
“Do you have cupcakes?” Elena asked.
I guess everyone had similar thoughts as I did, as they also made weird faces when they saw her, but they were trying to make her relax by just playing along.
“A-Ah… I’ll try… Chloe?”
“Of course, young lady.”
Chloe nodded, walking away and then returning with lots of hot chocolate, cookies, biscuits, butter, jam, cupcakes, and donuts.
“Please… eat.”
She was also a little awkward, she didn’t know how to properly invite people to eat by her side…
“T-Thanks!”
We quickly nodded at one another as we tried to just be friendly, drinking the hot chocolate, it was deliciously chocolatey, warm, and sweet.
The cookies came in various shapes, some decorated with colorful little fruits, they were also really good and buttery.
The biscuits were nice, especially with the butter and jam
Cupcakes and donuts were also excellent, just recently baked.
“I see that the people of this city enjoy delicious food like this, I’m relieved,” I said.
“Why?” the queen asked while tilting her head, drinking some hot chocolate.
“A-Ah… I mean, it makes me happy so I can find it and also… eat it,” I muttered.
“I see…” the queen nodded, as we noticed there was a little crown of blue steel above her head decorated by three sapphires. “I’m… I’m glad you enjoyed the meal.”
We looked at one another again.
Yep, she’s really having difficulties talking.
Why did she even invite us if she was going to suffer like this?
“I apologize on behalf of the queen, she might be a little shy before strangers, especially a large amount.
“E-Eh?”
Khione blushed, her white skin becoming as red as a tomato as she looked at Chloe.
“C-Chloe… don’t say that! You’re embarrassing me in front of my guests…”
“But young lady, you’re making them a little uncomfortable.”
“W-What? But I’m trying to show them hospitality…”
“Yes perhaps but it’s coming out a little awkward.”
“No way… I’m trying my best… I-I wanted to practice…”
Aw she’s so cute, poor girl, she’s so ancient and yet so shy.
Maybe fairies do also age slower mentally, alongside their bodies.
If she’s the oldest sibling and yet she remains almost child-like…
It does prove further that theory of mine.
“Ahem!”
As I interrupted their little talk, the two looked back at me.
“Don’t worry, your majesty, we loved your hospitality, right guys?” I asked.
They nodded at my words.
“Yeah, it was nice, thank you,” Mark said.
“The food is good,” Elena said.
“Thanks for the hot chocolate, I really needed, its cold in here,” Jenny said, giving her a thumbs up.
“You’re cute!” Gabriel said.
“Oh… I’m glad… Cute?” the queen tilted her head. “Ah, so it’s true… that presence I felt, an Angel… no, Archangel? But why… small?”
“I’m not small, I’m growing up!” Gabriel said, furrowing his eyebrows.
“Anyway, young lady… I believe we should go back to the topic on why they’re here,” Chloe said.
“Right…” the queen nodded. “I wanted to thank you on behalf of all the people of Frostheim for your help, the Ice Trolls were really a challenging bunch, especially because they appeared out of nowhere attacking us, and they seemed stronger than previous iterations.”
“Yeah, they had some dark corruption within them, we tried to look for any suspicious crystals, but we couldn’t find anything,” I said. “So that camp was only one of many, perhaps…”
“Corruption Crystal? Oh, the new information…” the queen nodded, eating a little cookie. “I see… So it is just as I feared. I had foreseen a glimpse of a future where this city… was destroyed by them.”
“By the Ice Trolls?!” Jenny asked. “Wait, you could see that and didn’t tell your people?”
“…I couldn’t, they would panic,” Khione said. “I cannot afford to easily reveal everything I see. sometimes, the things I see never really become reality… these glimpses that my Divine Foresight show me are possibilities, no future is set in stone, it never is… This is why it is our greatest weapon against this secret invasion into our realm.”
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