"----"
Under Roxie's greeting, a suffocating silence suddenly descended upon the pitch-black world of deathly energy.
The Queen Consort fell silent. Only after a long while did she speak faintly.
"Have you already guessed my identity?"
At those words, Roxie did not respond. Instead, her eyes flickered with a trace of bitterness.
There was no helping it.
"So you truly are Princess Leni."
Roxie finally confirmed it.
Before this, although Roxie and Shien had already made a preliminary guess about the Queen Consort's identity, a guess was ultimately just a guess.
Only at this moment, with the Queen Consort's acknowledgment, did that guess become reality.
Roxie had no choice but to accept the fact that her ancestor—the wife of Hero Mitra and the first Queen Consort of the Kingdom of Mithra—not only had survived for a thousand years, but had become the owner of the so-called Death Great Spirit Body, schemed against the Empire, humanity, and even the world itself, and ultimately, incredibly, become a Transcendent Class existence.
This ancestor had now become an enemy of the Kingdom, even an enemy of the Three Great Races. Not only did she aid the demon Danas in his evil deeds, but she had also desecrated two Heroes, turning them into undead and manipulating them at will.
The wife of a Hero had actually become an evil person who wielded forbidden magic.
It had to be said, that was deeply ironic.
Although Roxie had prepared herself mentally, she still bit her lip.
"Why?" Roxie asked in a low voice. "Why would someone like you fall to such a state?"
When those words left Roxie's mouth, what she received was the Queen Consort's sneer.
It was laughter that mocked others, mocked herself, and mocked both herself and the descendant before her.
"Someone like me?"