"In that case, your situation is very dangerous."
After understanding the whole story, Ask sighed: "First of all, the Kingdom of Aragon-Castia hopes to defeat the undead alone and continue to retain all the interests of the Wizard Stone Mine."
"Secondly, if they cannot win the war, they will sell you out and make peace with the undead."
"For half-elves, the former brings no benefits, while the latter is equivalent to the destruction of the nation and the race. So you want to bring in more foreign aid to break the deadlock. However, bringing in foreign aid is equivalent to dividing the Aragon royal family's share of the mineral veins."
"So they will definitely do their best to prevent you from releasing the information. Even more so, if they find out that the information has been released..."
"They claim that they will directly inform the Kingdom of the Dead of the intelligence." Queen Maya snorted coldly, "The reason is that once the news is made public, if the Church launches a Christian crusade across the continent, the Kingdom of the Dead will have absolutely no chance of winning. Before being forced to retreat, they may launch a final counterattack against the Kingdom of Aragon-Castia to gain bargaining chips for peace talks with the Church."
"The Aragonese royal family claimed that if they leaked the news to the undead, the undead would immediately turn their forces to Lusitania, occupy the mines as quickly as possible, and conduct destructive mining in order to make up for the losses after the defeat as much as possible."
"Is this the threat they made to you?" Ask asked. "I think it's just bluffing."
"Of course it's just bluffing." Queen Maya shook her head. "If the Vatican knew who was tipping off the undead, the Aragonese royal family would be doomed, let alone us. Being deprived of their legal status would be the best outcome."
"But even though you and I are certain of this, some diehard half-elves are frightened. They firmly believe in the threat posed by the House of Aragon, or rather, they are unwilling to take even the slightest risk and only want to hide in the Lusitania Forest and wait for the outcome of the war outside."
"If you can't convince someone, you can only deal with the person who needs to be convinced," said Ask.
"Yes, it's up to you to deal with them." Queen Maya nodded.
The cell became quiet again.
"By the way, the people in your team seem to be quite strong. The list I gave you yesterday has been mostly killed today." Maya said with a smile, "How did you train them?"
"Train him carefully." Ask said perfunctorily.
"So love is really what motivates us to become stronger?" Maya suddenly had an idea.
"Nonsense." Ask said, covering his face. "We don't have workplace romances."
"So you're holding them back from confessing your feelings?" Maya started gossiping, grinning, "Hey, tell me. There's no one else here anyway... Which girl do you like the most right now? Is it Mi'er?"
Ask: …
"Hey! Could it be that succubus lady?" Maya pretended to scream, "No way? Can you really handle her? She's an insatiable succubus!"
Ask couldn't stand it anymore and decided to use the method of changing the subject again:
"I heard from Mi'er that you, Shirley, Derek, and Rasul are close friends who grew up together? Didn't any feelings develop between you?"