The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress-Chapter 326: Plans to behead a serpent queen.

Lord Alexander squeezed his wife’s hand. He knew that she was itching for a chance to take revenge on Anita and every Nithercott that had been involved in the murder of her grandmother. When the chance had come, Akia had appeared, taking the empire by a storm and the Ridley’s retreated into the shadows before their moves could be detected.

Sigrid in the meantime was pondering on why Lady Isolde had called Anita a serpent. If it was anything like Romilda, the spider or Lord Benwick, the goat, then it was not good. It was now safe to say that if you were given an animal name on this content, you were bad.

"Perhaps she means it practically, maybe she turns into a snake." Cosmos suggested.

Sigrid looked at the Ridley couple. "You called her a serpent, what do you mean by that?"

Lady Isolde replied, "The nine hundred ninety nine potion baths, half of them contained the blood of a king Cobra, the largest and longest lived serpent which was hunted by the mages. My grandmother said that it was one thousand and ten years old. It was the god of a small mountain village which is now known as Takayama.

It was not captured just for the blood. It had hypnotic eyes and Anita ate them, absorbing their magic, creating her own hypnotic eyes.

She was injected with its venom, bit by bit until she became immune to all poisons and yet she can poison others with her saliva. Her aura also changed as she fed on its flesh for a year. She has an air of divinity, and sovereignty.

Moreover, she has the power to command lesser serpents. They say her home is a den of snakes, she lives with them and sleeps with them. People even claim that she has laid snake eggs and some call her the snake queen. Before she arrives, all of your homes should be protected with anti-snake powder, stones and wards.

Where we come from, all over Medoris, people have protected their houses from snake invasions out of fear. There is no proof of what I am telling you of course. I am only repeating what my grandmother said in her dream and what I heard from whispers."

"There is no smoke without fire." Sigrid mumbled.

What Cosmos had suggested and what Lady Isolde’s grandmother had told her were two things that somewhat aligned. She would rather believe than not believe.

Sigrid exhaled sharply. "It looks like the mage estate is going to have get busy immediately." She pushed her plate aside as the chair back. "I beg to be excused." She gestured for her brothers to stand. "Let’s go to the academy immediately." Turning to Lady Isolde she said politely, "If it is not too much trouble, might I invite you to join us. I need to know all the ingredients that were used in the nine hundred ninety nine baths if I am going to make a weapon that can kill a serpent queen."

"Ha!" Lady Iryne jumped. "I knew you would not allow any tiny serpents to crawl their way into our empire. If we are beheading the snake, I want to be the one to do it. Promise me Sigrid."

For the Ridley’s the conversation they were observing took a surprising turn. Nobody in Medoris dared to claim confidently that they would behead Anita. Why did Lady Iryne sound excited and so sure that it would be done?

Perhaps they were excited because they had not seen Anita in action. There was a reason why all the nobles fighting for the throne had not yet dared to take down the capital, it was because of the serpent queen that lived there.

Why else were they waiting to see if the Nithercott’s would try and claim the throne for themselves? They had the mages and a serpent queen. It guaranteed them at least a forty percent chance of victory.

"Of course mother, I will make sure that you are the one that beheads her." Sigrid tapped her mother on the shoulder.

Lady Iryne squealed. "I am going to go and choose the right outfit for the day. What do you think I should wear? What colors say, serpent slayer?"

"Try something in snake print." Lord Paxton suggested.

"Oooh, nice. Piss her off even more before separating her head from the rest of her body." Elowin and John slapped their hands together in an excited high five. "Can we keep her eyes or some of her. She ate a serpent that was over one thousand years old, drunk and bathed in its blood. It sounds to me like she herself can be used to brew certain potions."

"Are we making people potions now?" Mauve strolled into the room with Christie and a question on her puzzled lips.

"No we are making snake potions." Elowin replied.

"Can I come along?" East asked.

"Of course, everyone can come along when it is time to chop her up for parts." Sigrid replied with ease.

Due to the change in plans, breakfast ended early and most people dispersed to get changed or directly went into their carriages.

Lady Isolde had gone to get changed and her husband had gone with her. As she switched from a dress to a pleated yellow skirt, she raised the subject of the serpent queen.

"What do you think? Can Sigrid really kill Anita?"

Alexander was standing by the window which gave him a view of the part of the front courtyard. From there, he could see his sons laughing with the Thorin brothers. A friendship had formed between the men, which was great news for him.

He was a man thought deeply on the future. In the fight for the golden throne of Medoris, if he failed to win and died, his remaining family would seek refuge with the Thorin’s. It was one of the reasons why he had come to Eldoria to see the duke.

"Alex." Lady Isolde called him, adding sharpness to her tone. "You are absentminded my darling. I need you to focus on me.

Alexander walked away from the window, approaching her slowly. "I apologize, my mind wandered for a moment. What did you ask me?"

"Sigrid....between her and Anita, who do you think will win?"

Alexander thought back on the whispers about Anita and the strength of Akia. He knew one thing for sure, if Anita killed Sigrid and controlled Roland, then the battle for the golden throne was over. Additionally, the Nithercott sisters would reclaim the northern territories from him. Even worse, his wife’s revenge would never be fulfilled. Alexander shuddered when he thought of all those things.

"This is Sigrid’s territory. I have it on good authority that she is the greatest mage in Eldoria, it is another reason why we came here. We came to fan the flames so that she can help us take down the serpent queen and the divine messenger. She has to win." he whispered the last words. "She must win."