Gravis went to the Mountain of Pride and stood before the Empress. "I'm ready to go," he said.
The Empress nodded. Then, she turned to the Grand Elder, who stood right beside her. "I'll leave everything up to you," she said.
The Grand Elder sighed. "I knew that this time would come, but I'm still not looking forward to it. This will be a pain."
"This was our deal," the Empress said coldly.
The Grand Elder sighed again. "I know, and I will keep my word. You've helped me for centuries. I guess now it's my time to help you."
Gravis thought that the Grand Elder was making a big deal out of nothing. He only had to watch over the Empire for a little more than 50 years.
"Let's go," the Empress said as she turned to Gravis.
Then, for the first time, the Empress rose from her throne. Gravis had never seen the Empress leave her throne before. It even felt weird for Gravis to see her floating.
Gravis also started floating, and then they flew towards the north. The Empress' tail was over ten meters long, and it gracefully moved around in the air behind her. Even while flying, she had an aura of royalty to her.
"Empress, why did the Grand Elder react like this? It's only a little more than 50 years," he said.
"I'm not your Empress anymore," she said.
taken aback. "What?
I have known each other ever since we were Kings and our personalities
Elder's name,' Gravis thought, but he didn't interrupt
first one of us that manages to become an Emperor will create an Empire. The other one will
most of the administrative tasks and lead the Empire while the Grand Elder would mainly concentrate on their own power. Yet, as soon as one of us manages to
the first one that managed to become
long term. I've expected that he would understand a level three Law faster than me. Even back then, he had known more Laws
power to ascend but not being able to would feel worse than being an Emperor and not having the means to ascend. Because of all these
seems like
time, Azure was openly showing frustration without hiding it behind a mask of royalty. Yet, Gravis liked it more when Azure acted
you mean
huffed as she threw a side-eye at Gravis.
Gravis asked with
to profit immensely. There is a high chance that I will
Styr will probably only be the Emperor of the Icy Pride Empire for not even a century. It feels like I've been
bit. "So, I shouldn't have appeared?"
huffed again. "You know what I mean,"
around and stretched her arms and tail in a display of relaxation. Gravis was not used to her
path of power," she said with a relaxed voice. "This entire burden of being an Empress is finally gone. Now, I can relax and fully
can't imagine how stressful it was to always keep up this royal mask," she said in exasperation. "Always acting this coldly and uptight all the time. It's way too boring. You think I wanted to stay on this throne for such a long
answer as Azure kept venting her frustrations
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