The Kingdom of Xiuenzhelai is a coastal country located on the southeast side of the Far South Continent.
Unlike the inland Skare, the Kingdom of Xiuenzhelai has extremely rich coastline resources, so it is also a country that started out as a fishing country.
The country's national emblem is a ferocious finless shark, and the country's name itself means white sail.
After a year, Nancy returned to the royal city of her country.
The atmosphere in the royal city was as solemn as Nancy had expected. Nancy walked on the streets of the royal city and looked around.
She did not see the flags of the Far South Empire or the Principality of Leslota around the royal city, which made her feel a little relieved.
This means that during this year...the Far South Empire did not occupy her country.
Nancy returned to the palace smoothly along the route she remembered. After revealing her identity, the soldiers escorted her into the hall where the king was.
In the hall, Nancy finally met her father, Maurice III, the current ruler of the Kingdom of Xiuenzhelai.
"Nancy! It's really the blessing of God that you really came back safely!"
When Morris III saw his daughter appear in front of him safe and sound, he was so excited that he walked forward and gently hugged his daughter.
The king of the Kingdom of Xiuenzhelai is different from Scarlett. He is an infatuated man who has only married one queen in his life, who is the mother of Nancy and her other three brothers.
Unfortunately, the queen died after giving birth to Nancy, so Nancy has been the jewel of Maurice III... or the entire Kingdom of Xiuenzhelai since birth.
If the situation on the front line had not been tense during the war with the Far South Empire a year ago, Maurice III would not have sent his daughter to Skare as an envoy.
When the blood crystal beast plague broke out in Skary, Morris III repeatedly withdrew troops from the front line to Skary to look for Nancy. Unfortunately, the blood crystal beast plague turned Skary into a dangerous hunting ground. The blood crystal beasts were hunters and humans were prey.
"Father, where is the coalition force of the Far South Empire and the Principality of Leslota?"
Nancy immediately asked about the battle situation on the front line without having time to reminisce about the past. She remembered that when she left a year ago, the coastal cities of the Xiuenzhelai Kingdom were attacked by a fleet from the far south.
"They withdrew their troops half a year ago." Maurice III said a development that Nancy had not expected. "The Principality of Leslota was no match for us without the help of Far South, so we repelled their army."
"The Far South withdrew its troops? Why?"
Nancy did not show any joy. If she remembered correctly, the battle situation on the front line was that the Far South coalition forces had an absolute advantage. They should have won the war, but they chose to withdraw
"Blood crystal beast." Morris said in a deep voice the word that had frightened him for almost a year. "The Far South Empire's wanton aggression was finally punished by the gods. According to the intelligence collected by our spies, blood crystal beasts began to wreak havoc in the southern wilderness of the Far South Empire half a year ago."
"Those monsters again?"
Nancy's body tensed up when she heard this word. During the year in Scarlett, she was also a victim of the blood crystal beast.
The soldiers who followed her to Scarre a year ago were all killed by the blood crystal beast. Only Nancy and the old butler survived thanks to a little luck and status.
The year in Scarlett seemed like a nightmare to Nancy, but the nightmare ended with a nice dream.
"What's the current situation of the Far South Empire?" Nancy immediately asked her father.
She is very conflicted now. If the Far South Empire had always been under the disaster of blood crystal beasts, then Xiu Enzhe would have been able to get rid of the shadow of war. But the blood crystal beasts devoured the Far South Empire... Then what this country will face is not as simple as the shadow of "war".
The entire Far South continent will become a hell on earth. The soldiers of Far South can at least communicate with each other, but those blood crystal beasts are monsters that feed on humans.
"The latest intelligence the spies told me is that they have established a defense line in the southern wilderness and are still fighting the Blood Crystal Army." Morris III said.
"Did you hold on?" Nancy breathed a sigh of relief again when she heard this.
"Nancy, you should not sympathize with your enemies. God has a reason for punishing them like this." Morris III seized this opportunity to educate his daughter.
"The Blood Crystal Beasts are not a punishment from God at all! They are pure disaster!"
Nancy spoke out to refute her father. In her opinion, her father was good in every way except that he believed too much in things like gods and luck.
This also leads to the fact that there are at least five religions from all over the world in the Kingdom of Xiuenzhelai. Fortunately, these religions are in a state of open and secret struggles among themselves, so their influence in this country is not as great as those in countries with a single religion.
"I know that the blood crystal beast disaster of Skarre left a very deep shadow on you, but you must be a miracle to survive..."
"Father! I have something I must tell you."
Nancy interrupted what Maurice III was saying and walked quickly into the palace hall.
"What's going on? Is it the news that Scarre's blood crystal beast disappeared? Maybe they survived the test of God..."
Morris III only recently learned that Scarre's blood crystal beast had become extinct. When he was about to send people to look for Nancy, Nancy came back by herself.
So Morris III thinks today is definitely a day worth celebrating!
"The blood crystal beasts didn't disappear! They were destroyed!"
Nancy placed her hands on the long table in the center of the palace. On the table was a huge map of the Far South Continent. The border of Scarre on the map had become pitifully small, almost one-fifth of what it was a year ago.
"Eliminate? Impossible!"
Before Maurice III could speak, a knight in the palace shouted in surprise.
Nancy glanced at the knight. If she remembered correctly, he should be Kanser, the first knight of Scarre. Nancy was no longer in the mood to guess why this Prince Kanser appeared here.
"Can father let everyone leave? I have something I must discuss with you."
Nancy put the backpack she was carrying on the table. The old butler who followed Nancy into the hall also put his huge backpack on the table at Nancy's signal.
"Everyone please leave, and Mr. Kanser please calm down."
Morris III followed Nancy's advice and decided that he really needed to ask his daughter what had happened to Scarlett in the past year.
Kanser wanted to ask something, but the soldiers around him stopped him. After making a gesture for him to leave, he clenched his fist and had no choice but to leave the hall with the other ministers.
"Nancy, you said the blood crystal beasts were destroyed... What happened?" Morris III asked his daughter after confirming that everyone had left the hall. "The blood crystal beast disaster in Skarre was so serious that no one could stop it unless the gods took action personally."
"What if it was really God who stopped it?" Nancy recalled the fire and explosion she saw in the Royal City of Scare that night. If she was also a loyal believer, she would probably think that it was a power that only God could do.
"You saw the real god?" Morris III asked excitedly after hearing this answer, "Which god saved you? The God of Fire, or the God of Thunder? Or the God of Souls? Did that god give you any gift?"
"Gift? Indeed there is." In Nancy's eyes, the concept of God is 'omniscient and omnipotent' and 'absolutely invincible'.
Those people certainly fit the trait, being able to seal the influence of humanity onto a piece of paper and remove the curse from their own eyes with just two lenses.
But Nancy understood that they were human beings like herself, not gods... They did it all with their own wisdom!
"Father, if there is a chance now that allows you to touch the things in the Pope's scriptures that only gods can do, are you willing to try it?" Nancy asked.
"Pontifical scriptures? Which religion?" Maurice III believed in many gods. He believed in almost all gods and was quite devout.
"In the seventh chapter of the Soul God's tome 'Elegy of Life', the God heals the pain of a man with a broken arm and reconnects his broken arm." Nancy recounted the stories that Morris III had read to her when she was a child. "In the third section of the sixth chapter of the Forging God's tome 'Steel of Fire', the steel that was given life by the Forging God turned into a giant ship that sailed on the sea, and the flames roaring from its mouth burned the enemy to ashes."
"You...you have been blessed by so many gods?" Morris III obviously misunderstood what Nancy meant.
"The group of people I met were not gods, but they possessed many abilities that were only found in legends or possessed by gods." Nancy said in a low voice.