[Azure Kingdom, Sky Castle]

Upon hearing Asagi's words of being the sole person to infiltrate the enemy's border, both Pope Michael and Queen Celestia were actually stunned silent as both of them stared wide eyed in shock towards Asagi

On the other hand some people also expresses their objection towards such a reckless plan which included Michael, Gabriel, Ariel, Anna, and Lloyd, who is regarded as people close to her

"Are you out of your mind!!!" Asked Gabriel

"Your majesty! This is not a funny joke! If you think that making a joke of this through your words is funny, then I say it is not!" Added Michael with a grim expression

"Your majesty!!!" Called out by Ariel as she was currently thinking up of words to react to such a situation

"Asagi oneesama!" Called out by both Lloyd and Anna out of worry

Seeing that everyone were sharing both their shock and objection at the current time, Asagi the simply smiled as she explained her way out of the situation

"There is a saying in my hometown that if you want to do something right, then you would have to do the deed yourself... even though I don't know where such words originated from, I atleast know that such a wording is appropriate to apply to our current situation"

"....."

"Plus the emperor of Amid Empire himself would naturally not expect that the sole leader of his enemy would actually try to infiltrate his empire himself, thus giving us the element of surprise and catching him off guard" added Asagi

In that reason both Queen Celestia and Pope Michael thought of it for awhile as they looked at each other contemplating on their own ideas, on the other hand the three Archangels then banded up together as they showed their objection towards Asagi's suggestion

"Still no matter how you put the situation, the suggestion that you had suggested is completely reckless! You could even endanger your life! Much less the fate of the whole kingdom" objected Michael

"Your majesty! I've fought and had observed this surface dwellers with my own very eyes and I can say is that they are a crafty type of creatures, no matter what we do to hinder them or smite them from above, i believe that they would eventually find a way to get through with it... such creatures are literally a troublesome opponent, the scariest type of opponent one can have is a crafty and cunning type of creatures" added Gabriel

"Your majesty! Please reconsider! If you are caught then not only are you endangering our kingdom, you would also endanger the lives of the people living within our territory! We just started expanding our economy, we can't have something that would literally be an obstacle for our prosperity" said Ariel

Hearing their ply, Asagi then sighed for a bit as he gave out her own reply

"You may think that the plan is reckless, you may also think that you've observed them enough, and you may think that I'm risking everything that may very well lead to our kingdom's demise, but I've known humans far longer than any of you combined, and even before I became you Queen, I've been just an only solo player on my whole life, I survived harsh mission, dangerous monsters, and even strenuous quest, thus I'm more qualified to scale them for myself" said Asagi seemingly pointing out the times when she spent her vacation on doing quest when her character was just a game character on some online game

With that everyone then became silent for a moment as Asagi then continued

"I can assure you! The emperor won't know what hit them"

With that everyone once again looked at each other in worry as they begun weighing their options

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[Amid Empire]

The very next day in the height of noon, Amid Empire's Emperor then suddenly took a break from his daily work of commanding his troops from his throne and by meaning of break he literally left the sole comfort of his castle and went out towards the populace in the capital disguising himself as a traveler in clothe

With one sole retainer with him as his companion, he then started walking through the streets of the market as he observed his people with his very own eyes

While observing through the crowd of people that were working and doing their daily routine in the capital, Emperor Amos then called out to his retainer with a gesture of hand and said

"Isn't it kinda refreshing from taking a break from all those arduous work?"

"I think it is... but your majesty! You yourself said that we shouldn't waste our time on enjoying ourselves and instead think of a way to expand our territory to the continent, so why are you doing this? Your words and action are both contradicting each other?"

"Contradicting? Nonsense! I merely acting a break which is well deserved of my work, my break and your enjoyment are two different things... a break only lasted for a few hours while an enjoyment lasted for a full day, the reason why I stopped you lot from enjoying yourself from that momentary victory against our enemies is because you imbeciles would literally spend a whole day doing nothing in comparison to my short break"

"!!!"

In that instant the retainer was then speechless upon facing Emperor's Amos words as he then quietly followed him on the streets

But as if Emperor Amos hadn't had enough, he then continued on giving out his thoughts

"I think I've done enough to actually lead my men through this battle to the point that we achieve some small victories on the battlefield, after all im just merely giving out orders from the bode of my walls while my men do all the hardwork"

"Yes you've done enough your majesty! Without your ideas and creation, we wouldn't have gone this far"

"Indeed! I'm merely guiding you to the correct path that this war shall take! But everything has an end, im no immortal myself but a mortal being with an average lifespan for a human, thus I can only guide you with this remaining time I have left in this world... if there's is an Alpha, there will always be an omega, the beginning and the end"

"Your completely right your majesty! But with your deeds this day... it will naturally be imbedded throughout history and your family lineage would naturally benefit from it"

"Lineage? History? I see... so those people that will become my descendant one day would ride on my coattails because of my deeds... such incompetent fools, but I could not do anything about it since it is already imbedded on the human nature to be greedy... but putting that aside do you think I've been a good Emperor?" Asked Emperor Amos as he observed the children playing their games on the street

"Good emperor? I think your being too polite your majesty! I think your one of the best throughout history!" Praised by his retainer

"Is that so? Then do you know the difference between a Great Emperor from a Best Emperor?"

"Uh..."

For a moment his retainer was suddenly speechless from that question posed, as Emperor Amos simply smiled as he said

"The only reason I'm doing this is for my own safety! I've seen things you haven't seen to the point that they felt almost real, it just give me shivers down my spine just thinking about it, in the end I'm just using my own people to do the things which should be done by me... now tell me if I'm one of the best emperor that you've known throughout history, then how can you tolerate me using my own people just for the sake of my own safety and not for the whole populace? Isn't that a but only selfishness?"

At that the retainer was once again stunned silent as it started to ponder on his thoughts while looking out towards the emperor himself, After awhile of silence he then replied

"Even if you say that everything that you've done till now is nothing but from an intent of pure selfishness then there's nothing we can do, what's important is how the people saw you at the current moment, and you will only find your answer when everything is over and history has been made"

With that Emperor Amos sighed under his breath as he muttered

"History... a branch of knowledge dealing with past events, a continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc., usually written as a chronological account, the record of past events and times, especially in connection with the human race... so my answer would only be known when my era is over eh... looks like there's something ill have to look into the future"

With that Emperor Amos then proceeded further into the streets as he goes and talked towards some children and asked about what type of game they are playing, naturally the retainer took notice of his action as he too observed the children

In the end it was told that the children were playing a type of board game wherein pieces were usually made out of clay, in the end it is regarded as almost similar to checkers of modern times on earth but also quite different from it due to its structure, nevertheless the rules were the same

Afterwards Emperor Amos watched the children play their games for a bit before standing up and taking his leave with his retainer, following that he then proceeded to the market on the capital as he observed every vendor in the direction he passes

Often times he saw some problems within his current system and at times he saw some things he doesn't like at all regarding the behavior of the people in the market area, nevertheless he need to keep a low profile to further observe the true nature of his people

Finally he then arrived at the gates of his own capital city as he observed the horizon wherein he saw some villages from afar and begun talking once more to his retainer

"Horizon... apparent line that separates the surface of a celestial body from its sky when viewed from the perspective of an observer on or near the surface of the relevant body, This line divides all viewing directions based on whether it intersects the relevant body's surface or not... In theory of course the true horizon is actually a theoretical line, which can only be observed to any degree of accuracy when it lies along a relatively smooth surface such as that of this world's oceans. At many locations, this line is obscured by terrain, and on it can also be obscured by life forms such as trees and/or human constructs such as buildings. The resulting intersection of such obstructions with the sky is called the visible horizon, when looking at a sea from a shore, the part of the sea closest to the horizon is called the offing"

Upon hearing that the retainer was once more speechless from the profound knowledge of the emperor that he almost tried to ask for its meaning, but Emperor Amos simply smiled at his as he concluded that his retainer doesn't understand anything that he had said at all

With that Emperor Amos then planned to leave the site as he then passes by three cloaked figure, seemingly one male and two females, nevertheless such occurrence hadn't been noticed by both parties ever since that day

In Actual fact the three people that had just bypasses the Emperor in disguise himself is none other than Asagi, Ariel, and Darius himself which has been obligated and assigned to infiltrate the Empire with Asagi as her own guard when trouble arises

As they bypassed each other Asagi then walked calmly among the crowd as the three of them then disappeared in the sea of people on the market of the empire's capital, thus moving to the next chapter of the story

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