“Please wait outside for a bit, give me ten minutes to get ready.”
“Alright.” The messenger didn’t make things difficult for Chen Xing.
She left the prepared clothes behind and went out to wait.
“Master, are you going alone?”
“Yeah, don’t worry, the Queen’s not as strong as me.”
“Master, don’t forget our ultimate goal.
As beautiful as she is, don’t get too attached.”
Little Dragon Girl wasn’t doubting her master’s strength, she just wanted to remind her not to go overboard.
The Queen hadn’t even become Chen Xing’s dark offspring yet, and Little Dragon Girl was already getting jealous.
“I know.” Chen Xing nodded, then turned to Freya.
“Freya, I need your help.”
“What do you want me to do, Master?”
“I need your light magic.”
Chen Xing knew what she was about to face—the Queen would drain her.
Chen Xing planned to use this chance to inject her own darkness into the Queen’s body.
But dark energy was too obvious, so Chen Xing needed to use light magic to balance it out, so no one would notice.
Once the Queen had drained enough power, the dark magic would start to take effect inside her.
Even though Kairan didn’t think this alone would corrupt the Queen, at least it would pave the way for what came next.
After all, any method of corruption had to start by injecting darkness into the Queen’s body.
To keep the Queen from noticing, Freya would just have to put up with it for now.
“I… don’t mind.” What could Freya say? Refuse? Did she even have that option? Chen Xing was overwhelmingly powerful—she could force Freya to do whatever she wanted, even if Freya said no.
“Alright, then come into my body first.
When I need it, I’ll draw the light magic from you.”
As she finished speaking, a tail with a mouth appeared behind Chen Xing.
The end opened wide, big enough for a person, pitch black inside with not a hint of light.
Freya was all too familiar with this thing.
The moment she saw it, her body tensed up instinctively, and she couldn’t help but swallow.
“Freya, once I take all the light magic from you, you’ll be swallowed by darkness.
When that happens, hold on to yourself, okay? Even if your body gets taken over by darkness, keep your mind intact! I don’t want the Saintess of the gods to fall just like that.”
Right now, the light and darkness inside Freya were in a delicate balance, canceling each other out, which was why she couldn’t use magic.
If the light magic was taken away, Freya would go dark—but that was just her body.
Who knew how long her mind could last in the darkness?
“Okay.” Freya nodded.
Honestly, for a moment, she even thought falling into darkness might not be so bad.
At least it wouldn’t hurt like this.
“But don’t worry, I’ll help you keep the balance afterward.
If you end up like Little Dragon Girl, that’d be no fun.”
With that, the black tail behind Chen Xing dropped down and bit Freya.
Just like when Cell swallowed Android 18 in Dragon Ball, Freya was slowly eaten by Chen Xing’s tail.
This time, she didn’t struggle, just let herself be swallowed.
Her whole body was sucked in, and you could clearly see the shape of a person being pulled into Chen Xing’s body through the tail.
Finally, Freya was completely inside, traveling along the tail into Chen Xing’s lower back.
Freya was a bit big for Chen Xing, so her belly swelled up visibly, looking like she was ten months pregnant.
But as Chen Xing absorbed her, her belly quickly flattened out and went back to normal.
“Stay put in there, okay~” Chen Xing patted her stomach.
Honestly, she really liked the feeling of swallowing someone into her belly.
If her body’s dark space was empty, she felt a little lonely.
“Master, master, eat me too!” Seeing Freya get swallowed, Little Dragon Girl was instantly jealous.
With that eager look in her eyes, Chen Xing felt bad about leaving her behind.
“Fine, but we need to set some ground rules.
While you’re in my body, no messing around, no touching, no licking, got it?!” Chen Xing looked serious.
She didn’t want to be fighting the Queen and have someone inside her acting up and distracting her.
“Got it, got it.
Master, you’re doing something important, I won’t bother you.
So, please…”
“Yeah, yeah, I can’t say no to you.” Chen Xing sighed helplessly, then, under Little Dragon Girl’s expectant gaze, used her tail to swallow her and send her into her belly.
There was actually an easier way—Chen Xing could just rip open her belly and let Little Dragon Girl crawl in, but that was too bloody and not classy at all.
“Now there are three people in my body.
You guys can play cards or something.”
Chen Xing joked.
Now she had Little Dragon Girl, Freya, and the princess’s soul inside her.
Add one more and they could play mahjong.
After all that, Chen Xing left behind two puddles of black liquid, shaping them into Freya and Little Dragon Girl to keep up appearances and avoid suspicion.
“Please come with me.”
The messenger hadn’t noticed anything strange in the room.
She led Chen Xing outside and helped her into a carriage.
Everything was done so low-key.
Chen Xing thought the Queen’s marriage selection would be a big deal, but there wasn’t even a procession.
No sense of occasion at all.
“Wait, now that I’ve been chosen, does that mean I’m the Queen’s consort? No, wait, I’m the main wife, so I should be the Queen, right?”
Chen Xing hadn’t expected this.
She used to not even have a girlfriend, and now she was about to get married—become a royal consort, no less.
Thinking about it, she actually felt a little excited.
“Will there be a grand wedding? What kind of wedding dress will I wear?” Chen Xing was still looking forward to it, but reality was about to slap her in the face.
“Your Majesty, according to tradition, we should hold a grand and solemn wedding to show off our Snow Empire…”
“No need, it’s a waste of time.”
The Queen cut off the official.
She needed efficiency now, and a wedding would take forever.
There were so many ancestral rules, it could take days from start to finish.
She just wanted to get to the bridal chamber and have kids.
Everything else could wait.
“Your Majesty, if there’s no wedding, we still need to do the pre-bridal ceremony and purify the Queen Consort.
It won’t take long.”
Purification meant washing away any filth, making sure the other person was clean, and checking for diseases—that was the main point.
“Fine.”
The Queen didn’t care if the other person was clean or not, but the body still needed to be checked.
It was about the health of future children, making sure there were no hereditary diseases.
“Alright, I’ll take care of it right away.”
While they were talking, Chen Xing had already been brought into the palace.
The grand ceremony she imagined was nowhere to be seen.
Everyone in the palace moved like machines, just following their programming.
The place was filled with a cold atmosphere, and it totally killed Chen Xing’s mood.
