This necromancer is going to seduce the beautiful girls who are already dead.

Leona suddenly gave the order, and upon hearing it, "East Wind" instantly split open from the middle, with a bunch of parts protruding from the inside and clicking as they were pieced together on the outside. Before Flora could react, the horse was already adorned with two cannons and had a single horn growing from its head, the tip of which was a blue magic crystal.

"How about that! After it transforms, the two cannons on its left and right can fire magic bullets that automatically track enemies, and the horn on its forehead can fire super-powerful magic beams! And it uses only ABC magic, so it doesn't cost a penny! Isn't it cool! I can also make it transform into flight mode and burrowing mode! Do you want to see it!"

Flora stared, her mouth slightly agape, completely mesmerized.

Leona made so many demands of the Abyss, it's amazing that the Abyss had so much patience and magic to create a magical pet of this caliber.

Chapter 83 The Queen of Adult Products in the Eastern Empire

The journey from the Western Empire to the Eastern Empire was quite long. After the Western Empire separated from the Minian Empire, a province in its southeastern part, through the covert machinations of the Eastern Empire, broke away from the Empress's control, declared independence, and renamed itself the Kingdom of Tammy. This province was located precisely at the border between the Eastern and Western Empires, separating the two previously adjacent empires.

This was advantageous to the Eastern Empire. The Kingdom of Tami contained several excellent harbors, where most cargo ships traveling from the east to the west of the continent would transit. Under the protection of the Eastern Empire, the Kingdom of Tami would pay two-thirds of its annual revenue to the Eastern Empire, making the Eastern Empire very wealthy.

This is less favorable for travelers by land. A traveler wishing to travel from the Western Empire's capital to the Eastern Empire must first traverse half of the Western Empire's territory, then pass through the border between the Kingdom of Ossi and the Western Empire—a region recently devastated by war and still in turmoil, where merchants typically hire mercenaries as bodyguards before daring to cross. Next, they must pass through the Kingdom of Tami, and finally undergo inspection by the Eastern Empire to confirm they are not Western Empire spies before being allowed entry. This journey totals nearly three thousand kilometers and is quite expensive. Of course, if one of the travelers is a high-ranking mage, that's a different story.

However, the only high-level mage in the team is currently fast asleep on horseback, so Leona and Flora have no choice but to continue on horseback.

That being said, the scenery along the way from the Western Empire to the Eastern Empire was delightful, and the climate became increasingly warm as they traveled south, making it perfect for the two noble-born young women to enjoy at their leisure. However, the two of them were not in a hurry, since they were already undead. As long as the Abyss agreed, they could even "live" until the seas dried up and the rocks crumbled, so there was no question of wasting time.

And so, an amusing scene unfolded on the journey: a tall, well-groomed steed was being ridden by a short, silver-haired young lady, with a young mage fast asleep behind him, and at the very back sat a graceful blonde girl. They looked like a group of noble young masters and ladies on an outing, yet there wasn't a single piece of luggage or attendant in sight.

Leona paid no attention to the suspicious looks from other travelers on the road. All she had to do was avoid the Holy Knights of the Church and prevent them from recognizing Flora's face, who were under orders. As for what others thought, let them think what they will.

"Flora, what kind of person do you think this genius alchemist that the Abyss is planning to dig out will be?" Leona suddenly turned around and asked.

Flora thought for a moment and said, "You mean Miss Rebecca? She seems like a very strong person, maybe a bit like the Abyss in some ways."

Needless to say, Abyss had already told Leona and Flora in their dream that his next target was Rebecca. Even if they had to sort out their own memories, they would basically be able to pinpoint Abyss's next target.

Rebecca Vepera, a genius alchemist and mechanic from the Eastern Empire, was a household name on the continent at the time. She was famous not only for her exceptional potion-making and mechanical talents, but also for her immense wealth.

Rebecca displayed astonishing talent from a young age. When she was three years old, she was home alone and concocted a potion. After drinking it, she almost poisoned herself. Before the poison spread throughout her body, she concocted another potion and saved herself. People were amazed when they learned of this, and Rebecca's reputation as an alchemical prodigy spread from then on.

At the tender age of fifteen, Rebecca had already monopolized the adult product market across the continent by inventing several highly effective, side-effect-free aphrodisiac potions, coupled with a variety of sex toys suitable for different races. She also invented numerous practical potions with sleep-inducing, analgesic, and energizing properties, which were sold in the mid-to-high-end markets throughout the continent and widely welcomed by the wealthy. Furthermore, her invented alchemical solvents were highly sought after by alchemists due to their exceptional stability. These achievements propelled her to the top of the Eastern Empire's wealth rankings.

Even today, the sleeping potions produced in her factory are still widely used by nobles for health and wellness. Drinking a cup of hot black tea with a few drops of the sleeping potion before bed and sleeping soundly until dawn has always been a favorite lifestyle among the nobility. As for the adult products she invented, they are still a national commodity that everyone in dark elf society owns.

Three hundred years ago, her ancestor transformed the old alchemy of the continent—which involved randomly throwing herbs into a cauldron to see if gold could be extracted—into a new discipline capable of producing practical potions, ushering in a new era for alchemy. Two hundred years later, Rebecca revitalized the alchemy created by her ancestors, generating a continuous stream of wealth. Unfortunately, her inventions were primarily used in the luxury goods industry. It is said that she possessed thousands of practical mechanical blueprints and dozens of advanced medical potion recipes, but she never published them or produced them. After her death, these blueprints and recipes were burned by her assistant, leaving not even a single fragment.

This Miss Rebecca is shrouded in many mysteries—although she is known as the "Queen of Adult Products in the Mainland," she never interacts with men. Not to mention having a boyfriend, even when having necessary business conversations with men, she must wear thick gloves and a mask with air-filtering function. Therefore, people who later do business with her will send female representatives, or simply avoid meeting with her and communicate with her assistant instead.

When she was seventeen, her assistant suddenly announced that Rebecca had died in an experimental accident. Immediately afterward, in accordance with her will, the assistant quickly divided her business into several parts and sold them to several wealthy merchants in the Eastern Empire. Some of the money earned from the sale was converted into gold and hidden away, while the rest was invested in an alchemical research institution to train alchemists specializing in agriculture.

Thanks to the alchemists trained by this institution, the Eastern Empire's grain production has increased by thirty percent, and people in the northern part of the continent can now enjoy a variety of vegetables and fruits during the winter.

But the sudden death of this genius still left many regrets. To this day, people do not know what kind of experiment she was conducting that cost her her life, nor do they know why she did not make public her inventions that were enough to shake the world and usher in a new era.

Perhaps these mysteries will only be truly revealed after the Abyss finds her grave and awakens her.

Just as the two girls were wondering with great interest what kind of person Rebecca was, a man in tattered clothes walked towards them. He looked like he used to wear very expensive clothes, but now those gorgeous garments had become strips of cloth hanging on his body. He also had a goatee that was half burned off on his chin, making him look very disheveled.

"Where are you three going?" The man seemed to be in a very bad mood.

“We’re going to the Eastern Empire? What for? To beg? We don’t have any money,” Leona replied immediately.

"What's the point of going any further? If you go any south, you'll reach the vicinity of the Empire's new territory, which is full of Ossi bandits. They don't kill or sleep with women, but they'll rob anything they see. They stole a whole caravan of tea that I brought back from the Elven kingdoms, and all my bodyguards ran away. I advise you not to go any further. They're definitely eyeing that horse you're riding like crazy!"

Chapter 84 The Restoration Army

"Oh, I thought it was something serious. They're just bandits, nothing to be afraid of." Leona spurred her horse on with her legs (which couldn't reach the horse's belly), "Let's go, east wind! A glorious female knight won't back down because of mere bandits!"

Leona, as if sensing something amiss, immediately straightened her back, raised her hooves high, and strode forward with light, measured steps.

The robbed merchant rolled his eyes and shook his head: "Damn it, these hypocritical nobles will come up with any trick. A little girl who hasn't even grown her hair yet can be knighted. Whose brainless young lady is this?"

The voice was very soft, and normally no one would have heard it, but Leona was the world's number one aura warrior. Her hearing had long been honed by aura into super hearing. Upon hearing this, she immediately glared at him: "What's wrong? Did you eat my bread before you grew hair? Believe me or not, I'll beat you up?"

As she spoke, she lifted Abyss, who was lying on the horse's back, as if to smash it down on the merchant, who shrank back and ran away.

Leona and Flora are naturally not afraid of any bandits. Leona's combat strength is beyond question, and Flora can even use her repentance spell to transform bandits into moral exemplars, and guarantee that they will not go astray again for two hundred years.

And so, the two girls, standing at the pinnacle of the world's fighting power, walked forward without fear, even though they had already seen several unlucky merchants along the way who had been robbed clean and were walking back dejectedly.

……

The shortest route from the capital of the Western Empire to the Eastern Empire passes through the newly acquired territory of the Western Empire—a large area of ​​land recently seized from the Kingdom of Ossi, and the region that merchants refer to as the turbulent area.

Many people from the Kingdom of Ossi were forcibly changed their nationality to become citizens of the Western Empire, naturally harboring resentment. They were unwilling to cooperate with the Western Empire's rule, and some even became bandits, hiding in the mountains. The officials of the Western Empire, of course, could not simply kill these unruly people; if they were to take action against innocent people now, the banditry problem here would truly be impossible to eradicate in the future.

Therefore, the Western Empire could only rely on mandatory education and some minor reforms to try to assimilate these unruly Ossi people culturally over one or two generations. As for the current bandit problem, it only sent out the necessary troops to escort some large caravans. Some small merchants were unwilling to spend a lot of money to hire a large number of guards, and instead only recruited three or five small fry to protect their goods. They were usually the targets of these local bandits.

Rumors circulated that these bandits weren't just ordinary robbers, but a force that plundered the wealth of the Western Empire, with the vast majority of their loot going to support the "Restoration Army" of the Kingdom of Ossi. The reasoning was that they possessed far greater discipline than ordinary bandits and never killed indiscriminately; as long as you remained obedient and didn't resist, or simply fled, they wouldn't lay a hand on you. This group of bandits, who only stole and didn't kill, successfully reduced the Western Empire's desire to suppress them.

Leona and Flora frequently encountered merchants on their way back, from whom they learned a little about the "Restoration Army" of the Kingdom of Ossi.

A few years ago, the Kingdom of Ossi was invaded by the Western Empire. At that time, the old king of Ossi decided to fight to the death. This move naturally won the cheers of the people. However, it was clear to everyone that Ossi, which was only one-sixth the size of the Western Empire's territory, was practically courting death when facing the Western Empire's well-equipped troops. Therefore, there were many voices of opposition in Ossi's court and among the people.

The old king's resistance lasted less than a month before the leader of the surrender faction in the Kingdom of Ossi—the old king's son, a prince of Ossi—stepped forward. One night, he led a troop of elite troops to storm his own command post, captured the old king, and forced him to abdicate prematurely. After ascending the throne, he decisively signed a treaty ceding territory with the Western Empire. Although this treaty forced the Kingdom of Ossi to cede a large portion of its vital territory located on a major transportation route, a humiliating loss of sovereignty, it successfully ended the war.

The old king not only had this one son, but he also had a daughter. The princess of the Kingdom of Ossi was a staunch fighter for the death. After the new king usurped the throne and signed the treaty that brought shame to the royal family, she immediately declared that she was severing all ties with her brother.

The new king, of course, could not allow such a person to remain under his nose, and quickly pronounced the princess guilty of treason and sent men to arrest her.

However, the princess was not a naive little girl. After announcing her severance of ties with her brother, she had anticipated this day. Before the arrival of the new king's soldiers, she had already escaped the capital with the help of many supporters and successfully crossed the new border. In the lost territory of the Kingdom of Ossi, she formed an army called the "Restoration Army," which meant that she would take back the Kingdom of Ossi from the fake king who had usurped the country.

However, this army is shrouded in mystery, existing only in the legends of merchants along the route, and has never actually launched an attack. Rumors circulate that after the princess formed this army, she began having strange dreams that kept her awake all night, making it impossible for her to command troops. Some speculate that the new king of the Kingdom of Ossi hired some dark sorcerers, but this vague explanation still couldn't satisfy Leona's curiosity.

"Dark magicians? Why do you always blame all sorts of strange things on dark magicians?" Leona looked at the two pitiful dwarf merchants sitting by the roadside with dissatisfaction.

“Oh, beautiful lady, these are just things we’ve heard.” One of the dwarves spread out his large, thick hand. “Some people also say that the princess is long dead, and the current leader of the Restoration Army is the princess’s handmaid.”

“Some people say the princess was just having a wet dream and didn’t actually dream of anything strange,” another dwarf added.

"You guys are all unreliable," Leona said disdainfully.

“We are being incredibly sincere,” the first dwarf chuckled. “We wouldn’t dare boast at all about being able to chat with two such beautiful ladies; every word we say is pure gold.”

"Tch, what a lecherous dwarf. Even after being robbed of everything, he still doesn't forget to say sweet nothings to girls."

As Leona was speaking, her ears suddenly twitched.

She analyzed the situation carefully, then immediately looked up alertly and said to the two dwarves who had just told her the story, "You two, hide now! A group of people is approaching this way, and they seem to be armed. They might be bandits!"

Chapter 85 Can it really be this big?

The two dwarves had already been robbed once, and once bitten, twice shy. Hearing Leona's words, they were so frightened that they took off running on their short legs, but dared not run directly back, so they hid behind Dongfeng, trembling. This little girl on horseback seemed to have some skill; perhaps she could hold off a few robbers.

Leona and Flora were also on high alert. They weren't worried about themselves, but it would be bad if the bandits hurt Abyss, who was still fast asleep and couldn't protect herself with magic.

Leona and her companions were now in the southern part of the Western Empire, where the climate was humid and warm. Unlike the desolate northern part of the Empire, the roadsides were lined with lush trees. With a rustling sound, a bald man holding a meteor hammer and wearing patchwork armor led a horse out.

He saw Leona and Flora sitting on horseback, paused for a moment, and then asked, "Are the bandits gone?"

"What robbers? What are you talking about?" Leona frowned and looked around, but didn't see any robbers. She only heard more people approaching behind the man, along with the sound of footsteps, wheels, and horses' breathing.

“We are a caravan. We spotted bandits around here and hid in the nearby woods,” the mercenary-looking man said to Leona. “Now that the bandits are gone, we should continue on our way.”

Leona looked at the man suspiciously. There was nothing suspicious about what he said. It was perfectly normal for a caravan to avoid bandits. But the location from which the man came out was really strange. What kind of caravan would go into the woods? Didn't they know that the roads in the woods were particularly difficult for carriages? If they were discovered by bandits, they wouldn't be able to escape.

The man gestured behind him, beckoning his men to come closer: "Come on, there are no more bandits on the road, let's set off quickly!"

At the man's call, the others gradually emerged from the woods.

Leading the way was a two-horse carriage, followed by many cargo wagons pulled by pack animals. Also emerging were about thirty mercenaries dressed similarly to men, riding on simply armored mixed-breed horses, carrying various weapons, and wearing all sorts of armor. At first glance, they looked like a ragtag army, but the fighting power of more than thirty mercenaries was enough to make any bandits who wanted to rob them think twice.

The caravan headed directly southeast. Leona stared at the mercenaries following the caravan for a moment, then suddenly asked loudly, "Hey, merchants, where are you headed?"

Flora smiled without saying a word. Like Leona, she noticed the oddity of this caravan. Mercenaries were an unstable profession with extremely high risks, so most mercenaries were ordinary people who had learned a little martial arts, or some low-level rogue mages. Even retired soldiers were rare—at least retired soldiers received a retirement pension, and unless they gambled it all away, there was no need for them to engage in such a dangerous and dangerous business. However, this mercenary group seemed different. Although they tried their best to appear untrained and lazy, their posture and gait revealed that they were not only trained, but elite. If they encountered thirty or fifty bandits blocking their way, they could probably wipe them out in five minutes, neatly arranging the corpses and perhaps even helping with the burial.

If Flora were to make the decision alone, she would definitely let it go. She's not one to cause trouble, and since she knows nothing about the intentions of these regular troops, she won't interfere.

But Leona is different. If you pique her interest and curiosity, don't even think about running away until she's satisfied.

The caravan stopped at the command of the people inside the carriages. Soon, a fat middle-aged man stepped out of the carriages. He was wearing a tight-fitting outfit with embroidery and some silk decorations, which was favored by wealthy merchants of the Western Empire. He smiled broadly at Leona and said, "Your Excellency, we are on our way to the Eastern Empire to import some high-grade potions and spices."

"My sister and I are weak women who can't even kill a chicken. We're taking our brother, who has suffered a mental breakdown, to the Eastern Empire for medical treatment. Can we come with you?" Leona didn't stand on ceremony and casually made up a couple of lies.

"Ah, this..." The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment.

At this moment, a young woman leaned out of the carriage window and said, "Father, let them come with us. We can't just leave them on this dangerous road. I also want some travel companions my own age!"

The woman was in her early twenties, with a head of chestnut-brown curly hair and freckles on her face. Her beautiful, light blue eyes calmly observed Leona and Flora. The middle-aged man, referred to as their father, seemed to listen to his daughter. He immediately smiled at Leona, saying, "I'm so sorry, I was rude just now. Since you two ladies have a need, as fellow travelers, we shouldn't leave you on a dangerous journey. Why don't you two take this gentleman into the carriage and chat with my daughter? Your mounts can stay with the caravan; our grooms will take care of them."

Leona nodded in satisfaction: "Thank you for your generosity. We won't stand on ceremony then."

She put one arm around Abyss's waist, lifted her up in her arms, then dismounted and landed steadily on the ground. She then offered her hand for Flora to hold, helping her down from the horse.

"Go on, Dongfeng, follow behind us." Leona patted Dongfeng's front leg, and Dongfeng immediately twitched its ears and obediently walked to the middle of the group.

The middle-aged man's eyes narrowed almost imperceptibly: Leona had displayed considerable strength when she casually lifted the Abyss. Although it was not a problem for an ordinary aura warrior to lift a thin boy, this little girl, who was only about 1.4 meters tall, could lift the Abyss so easily without even bothering to use any strength-generating techniques. This indicated that her body had been thoroughly tempered by aura and that she must have been practicing aura for a long time.

"Too weak to even kill a chicken?" The middle-aged man didn't believe it, but he had already agreed, so he had no choice but to accept it.

At the young woman's invitation, Leona and Flora led Abyss onto the carriage at the front of the procession.

Leona was delighted. She wasn't in a hurry to know what the caravan was planning to do; she was only interested in their purpose. Now, being able to ride in a carriage befitting her ladylike status made her very satisfied, which overshadowed her curiosity about these fake merchants.

The carriage was quite spacious, the kind favored by the Western Empire, seating six people. Abyss was placed between Leona and Flora, and naturally lay down, resting his head on Flora's shoulder, fast asleep. It seemed the middle-aged man had no intention of getting in; he had just led a horse from the procession, mounted it, and followed beside the carriage.

Leona glanced at Flora, only to find her staring intently at the young woman's chest sitting opposite her.

Flora's expression was quite rare, and Leona glanced at her curiously as well.

"My God, can it really be that big?"

Chapter 86 Flora's Awareness