The Mythical Path of a Princess from a Destroyed Kingdom

“Your Majesty,” thankfully someone came to the rescue of these audacious fellows. An older official bowed to Maginus, “there are rumors in the city that you have been driven out of the Prime Material Plane by a group of legends. It’s so good to see that you are alright.”

"Really? I'm actually quite curious. Why do you think someone can drive away a god like me? Could it be that you secretly hope I die sooner?"

Magnis tilted her head, and the others lowered their heads even further, trembling. Finally, an elderly minister steered the conversation back on track, preventing further embarrassment for the others:

"Your Majesty, we are just a little worried about the state of the country, not that we wish for your death. It's just that some people are too emotionally agitated, please forgive us."

“Alright,” Maginus said, reclining in her chair and waving for everyone to leave if there was nothing else to do. “Don’t get so easily alarmed by rumors. Do you all still think I have something to do with the Queen of Julan?”

I have to say, given how lecherous you are.

Seeing that Maginus was unharmed and even able to joke, everyone felt relieved but also regretful. They apologized to her and left the palace. Maginus got up, stretched, stared at a corner of the palace, raised her hand and gently pinched, and the hidden assassin instantly turned into blood flowing into her body.

Back in the bedroom, Maginos, who had been sitting upright on the bed, suddenly lost her focus and turned back into a motionless doll.

Inside the temple, the many priests who controlled the avatar of Maginus opened their eyes. Many of them looked surprised. Controlling Her Majesty the Queen's body was not particularly difficult for them, at least they did not experience the feeling of having their soul energy drained as Maginus had described.

"Don't get cocky," Melu scoffed. "Right now, you're just using the goddess's body for everyday activities. You'll realize you're wrong when you take it out into battle."

Then she looked at Mira and said, "But in this way, we won't need so many people to provide soul energy to control the avatars left behind in daily life. A few people can stay in the church to deal with it. Who would want to stay?"

Seeing that everyone had raised their hands, the two decision-makers decided to treat everyone equally, giving everyone a chance to provide energy for Maginus.

"And more importantly, Beren, Ronata... you guys stay here. From now on, you'll only have one daily task: to work with me continuously until we make contact with the Goddess."

"Yes, we will try our best."

After giving instructions to her companions, Mira left the church and returned to the palace. She hurried to Queen Lenya's bedroom, only to find that she was not there.

Upon entering the study, Lenia, who usually complains about being tired after doing even a little work, is now diligently completing tasks that originally belonged to Maginus, as well as her own.

"Your Highness the Queen."

"Mira, any news about Maggie?"

"Not yet. Melu and the others are already trying to make contact. Next, we really need you and me to handle the national issues. Please do your best."

"Maggie probably anticipated this possibility when she asked me to handle state affairs. Don't worry, I'm already very skilled at it. Please take good care of me in the days to come."

Lenia looked up, her face showing loneliness at Maginus's disappearance, but not nervousness. After all, she had experienced much more tense situations before, and she had cried her heart out during the Maginus Blood Lake incident.

Now Maginus is simply caught up in the "Blood Lake Incident" once again, and this time, in addition, a priest is able to provide real-time updates on her condition.

If a god dies, the first to sense it will be the god's priests. They will be unable to perform divine magic and will completely lose the abilities bestowed upon them by the god, unless they can switch their faith to another god.

As long as Mira and the others can still use divine magic, Maginus will not die. This is equivalent to having a compass, which is much easier for Lenya to tolerate than it was during the Blood Lake period when it was difficult to determine whether Maginus was dead or alive.

It seems Her Majesty the Queen doesn't need her comfort.

Seeing this, Mira's worries about the country lessened considerably. In short, she no longer needed to handle government affairs alone, which was perfect. In fact, if she could, she would also like to kneel before the statue to try and contact the goddess.

Unfortunately, her job title is head maid. Maginus indicated that she must help govern the country and cannot simply be an ordinary maid for the time being. Mira will have to work harder and endure more hardship. It is unknown when the administrative plan of Nesery will be fully completed.

"I hope His Majesty will return soon."

"Yes, I hope Your Majesty can return soon. Let's not talk about these things. You should handle the matters concerning war, criminals, and the law. I really don't know what to do."

The delicate Lenia did not handle these matters that required a ruthless heart herself. She knew she was not cut out for it, so she simply avoided touching or looking at them, numbing herself by pretending not to know.

Mira knew that having the kind-hearted Queen do these things might ultimately be worse than not doing them at all. She took a large pile of documents, had the other maids bring over a table, and the two of them worked together.

During her work, with Maginus absent, Mira frequently looked up and drifted off into thought, feeling anxious and uneasy.

Your Majesty, Your Majesty, how are you?

Chapter 664 The Magic-Free Dimension

In the wilderness, the massive energy impact obliterated all the surrounding trees and plants, leaving a crater nearly a hundred meters deep on the plain.

Maginus was kneeling on one knee, barely breathing and looking like he was about to die. His armor was riddled with holes, and the violent explosion had exposed many bones and internal organs. He was still undergoing repairs.

However, due to her divinity, she had difficulty controlling her body for the time being. Curious creatures that approached the loud noise were instantly killed, their life force uncontrollable and absorbed into her body.

The dimensional spider on its head trembled, opened its mouth, and gathered all its energy to form a restriction, intending to imprint it on Maginus's body so that she would be unable to find her way home "in the short term".

This is arguably the most crucial step. Without this divinely empowered spell, Maginus could have completely relocated to the original plane within minutes through communication with the priest, and then returned to the continent of Knoil from the other world.

Just as the spider lowered its head to pierce her head with its pincers, its own body went out of control first. The small amount of life force that the spider had previously inhaled was already taking effect in its body, constantly destroying its physical structure.

The dimensional spider, trembling violently, forcefully suppressed the life force rising within its body, but its claws ultimately pierced Maginus's head first.

Divinity flowed, and a special incantation resembling a spider web formed on her back. But before it could fully take shape, the dimensional spider's body exploded. Half of her divinity completed half of the incantation, while the other half joined the battlefield of divine struggle.

With her energy contained, Maginus endured the pain in her soul and body, restraining the various divine entities that constantly wanted to break through her body. She used her own divinity to envelop the external divine entities within a circle, causing and accelerating their attacks on each other.

By forcibly stabilizing her divinity, the rampaging energy finally subsided, and Maginus was able to catch her breath, clenching her fists to guide her life force to heal her open wounds.

"Damn it, where the hell have I been thrown into?"

Steaming from her body, Maginus climbed out of the pit and looked around. She twisted her neck uncomfortably and closed her eyes, trying to connect with her little priests.

She couldn't connect, she couldn't connect at all. It wasn't just the distance between the two worlds; the spiderweb seal above her head had also sealed off all her abilities and spells related to space.

Fortunately, she was careful and fed her life force to the spider, which then exploded and killed it while it was forming the seal. Otherwise, if the spell were to take shape, she would probably need more time to break the seal before she could return to Knoil.

Through various attempts with energy and abilities, and by connecting with Connoir, Maginus, certain that she could not return in her current state, began to examine her inner self.

The divinities are currently mixed together and attacking each other, creating a chaotic battle within the mental dream world. She herself has been somewhat affected, but fortunately, it's not a big problem. All she needs to do is trap these divinities and let them fight each other. Maginus can completely absorb the unclaimed divinity generated by their collisions.

The fastest she could absorb all the divinity would be two years later. This was the largest amount of divinity she had ever absorbed, and its proportion was not much different from the existing divinity, which is why she almost couldn't suppress it. Fortunately, they did not come from the same god, otherwise it would have been fatal.

Maginos had a premonition that if she absorbed all that she could, her own divinity would increase by more than four-fifths.

There's also the seal, or rather the curse, planted by the strange spider. This thing was created by the divine power of trickery, and Maginus needs to break it little by little. The time it takes to completely break it will be longer than the time it takes to absorb the divine power, at least two and a half years. The two things can be done at the same time.

Two and a half years...

Maginus relaxed his brow, then suddenly clutched his heart. Black liquid, corroded by divinity, flowed from his heart, which was then repaired once more.

There are still seven years before the great chaos begins. Moreover, the chaos of the saints begins with the arrival of the first god, and other gods will appear one after another. Therefore, it will not erupt all at once, but will actually take a long time.

In short, it will only take two and a half years. If the goal is simply to contact Connoir and control the activities of his avatars there, the longest possible time is no more than six months.

"There's still plenty of time, so don't worry too much."

To reassure herself, Maginus suppressed her worry for the Netherworlds and finally turned to survey her surroundings. She raised her hand to try and mobilize her magic, then froze.

She fell into the magic-free zone.

The magic-free zone, as the name suggests, is a region without magic. It's unclear whether this planet or the entire material plane lacks magic. If the entire plane is without magic, then she'll have to find a way to leave as soon as possible.

Fortunately, she is a god, or even if she is not a god, she is a legendary mage, so converting other energies into magic is a piece of cake for her.

Even high-level spellcasters can convert magic power through various means.

"Now we need to see if there is a civilization here, what species created the civilization, and how advanced the civilization is. Phew... it would be best if we could already use electricity."

The pain continued to inflict on Maginot, causing her to abandon her original plan to release magic and life force to explore the surrounding environment. Instead, she decided to conserve enough life force and magic to absorb some divinity and resolve some of the seals first.

"Witch, just surrender obediently and drop your wand!"

"Damn it, you foolish paladins! We are on the right path, and electricity is a much more durable and reliable energy source!"

After walking through the wilderness for about ten minutes, Maginus saw figures and heard an unknown language. He immediately used his life force to convert into magic and cast the spell of "Language Proficiency," successfully understanding the language they were speaking.

Upon reaching the top of the hill, two groups of humans were on the other side of the slope. Unlike the humans of the continent of Kenoyel, they had a vertical pupil between their eyebrows, but otherwise they were no different from humans.

A group of people were dressed in heavy armor, with huge, steaming iron boxes hanging on their backs. According to Maginus's observations, those mechanical boxes could provide tremendous power to the heavy armor.

The person wearing the armor cannot activate the armor on their own; the power comes entirely from the iron box, and the energy source is steam kinetic energy.

The other group was dressed more simply, and they also carried a box on their backs, but it was smaller. They held something that looked like a musket in their hands. What burst out of the musket was not bullets, but electricity, and the source of the electricity was also the box.

The technological development of this magic-free planet is completely different from some of the magic-free planets that Maginus has visited. It has also developed two very different energy sources: steam energy and electrical energy.

Chapter 665 Steam and Electricity

Every world has different rules, and Maginos, as a god, was used to it and did not find it strange that two ways of using energy had been developed.

She was very happy; the electrical energy here seemed to be developing well. Compared to steam energy, the conversion rate of electrical energy into magic was higher for Maginus.

Before the two sides began to fight, Maginus jumped down from the hillside. The sudden appearance of the woman caused everyone to turn their weapons around. Maginus dusted herself off and snapped her fingers to cast the Detect Good and Evil spell.

A dazzling light shone, and the sight of the two opposing factions made her frown.

Both sides are predominantly from the good camp, with some from the evil camp, but their leanings are very minor.

Both sides are kind, which only makes Maginus feel troubled. Why can't a group of evil people come along so that she can kill all the evil people and then gain the trust of the good people on the other side?

"Who are you!?" "Who are you!?"

The leaders of both sides spoke in unison. Maginus opened his mouth to explain, but then covered his mouth and coughed, spitting out a large amount of blood. His expression immediately turned impatient.

Forget it, I'm too lazy to talk about it. Let's just show our strength, defeat the steam faction, and forcibly take the electric faction to work for us.

Wiping the blood off her hands, she glanced at the Steampunk, and her figure vanished from everyone's sight in an instant. When she reappeared, she was already in front of the leading knight commander.

To everyone's utter astonishment, Maginus lightly kicked the armor a hundred meters away, then kicked them all away one by one.

After dealing with the Steam faction, Maginus approached the Electric faction and said with a smile, "Gentlemen, I've helped you deal with your pursuers, so please take me to your sanctuary. I need your help with something, is that alright?"

Although she was smiling, everyone could sense the unquestionable tone in Maginus's voice.

And what's with her strength? She kicked a steam knight with her bare hands—they'd only ever seen that in picture books.

Swallowing hard, the girl who had spoken to the knight earlier, the leader of the Electricity Faction, realized what was happening and humbly replied, suppressing her surprise, "Of course, no problem, my benefactor. Please follow me."

In short, let's first ask this woman, who looks like she just went through a major battle, to take refuge in a safe place. Being able to kick over a steam-powered armored vehicle, even the weakest one, means she's definitely not an ordinary person.

Moreover, she appears to be seriously injured. If she has this much strength even when seriously injured, wouldn't she be even stronger after she fully recovers?

Force is the only way to get by. Maginus pressed her neck, and her back suddenly throbbed. The members of the Electricity Faction who saw this rubbed their eyes and found that there was nothing wrong with the beautiful woman's back. They began to suspect that they might be having hysteria.

"Sir, where are you from? Oh, by the way, my name is Merlin. Please take care of me."

Traveling across the plains, the reddish-brown-haired girl, as the leader, inquired about Maginus's origins. She glanced at the girl before her, and considering the group's limited knowledge, she pointed to the sky:

"I came down from the sky."

"The sky? Isn't the outside world the universe?"

“You already have a concept of the universe.” Maginus looked up at the sky. This prime material plane was not a flat, celestial type; like her original plane, it belonged to the universe type.

"Yes, I come from the universe. You can regard me as a god, the goddess of death."

Maginus explained to the crowd nonchalantly. Hearing her compare herself to a god, the reddish-brown-haired girl fell silent, but others immediately whispered:

"Sir, you can say this to us, but please don't say it to the Electrical Association."

"What, you don't believe in gods?"

"If you don't believe it, all the churches were discredited more than a hundred years ago. After all, no one believes in something that doesn't exist, right?"

"Right."

Through conversations with the people, Maginus gradually came to the conclusion that the society on this planet was a mixture of steam and electrical ages, and that, for various reasons, they had largely abandoned the belief in so-called "gods."

The concept of God as a subjective entity was abolished; however, issues of class and nation led to the emergence of new sects on this planet, worshipping not God but energy. The Steam Cult was the greatest of these sects.

Due to the influence of a certain special mineral, steam did not completely disappear from the stage, but instead gave rise to many different uses, thus giving rise to the steam cult.

The people here, much like the druids who believe in nature and some priests who believe in the world itself, worship steam.

Because it is only faith energy itself, and because this plane does not have magic or other special energies, it cannot produce gods, cannot give steam substantial consciousness, and cannot obtain divine magic.

The fact that electricity, as an emerging energy source, is being targeted is purely due to interests. Steam cults, and even countries that use steam, for various reasons, do not want any new energy breakthroughs to occur in the world.

As a result, driven by various interests, people who use electricity have been labeled as witches and wizards. More than a decade has passed since electricity was discovered and invented, and its development remains very slow.

Having learned the general background story from the leader, Maginus was not interested in what was happening on the planet, but rather in what level the electrical systems had advanced to.

Whether she generates electricity through hand-cranked machinery or by burning fire and boiling water will determine whether she can obtain a larger amount of magic power to suppress and restore her body.

For Maginus, eating could replenish some of his life force, but it was too slow; a ton of food would probably only restore a tiny bit of energy.

They hurried across the plains and entered a forest. After passing through a disguised cave entrance, Maginus was invited into the cave by Merlin. The huge cave was dry and clean, and different rooms had been dug out inside.

What caught Maginos's attention most was a huge handle and the machine connected to it. If her knowledge was correct, it was a generator that converted mechanical energy into electrical energy.

A group of people are now working together to turn the handle, and electric arcs are flashing on the wires. Something resembling a battery is stored at the generator's outlet, but it is all very crude.

Having found the source, Maginos disappeared again, her hand already reaching for the power line.

"Wait, lH Luqiu? Geng Lianying snatched it? That's dangerous!"

Merlin glared and shouted, but it was too late to stop Maginus. As she placed her hands on the generator, all the electricity was drawn in and converted into magic, changing the surrounding environment.

Everyone was shocked to see Maginus drawing electricity, followed by awe.