The Queen Diancie's words not only failed to persuade her subjects, but made the atmosphere in the hall even more tense.
The Carbink led by the Diamond Minister were unwilling to see the queen they served burn away her essence to face the Darkest Day, wield divine artifacts that conflicted with her own power, and ultimately perish in body and soul.
Meanwhile, the Queen Diancie had even arranged her own affairs after death, already choosing a candidate for the next Queen Diancie.
All so she could personally slay the culprit responsible for the death of the previous Queen Diancie... her elder sister, and repay the debt owed to the two heroes who had rushed over in time and fought alongside the previous Queen Diancie.
The Queen Diancie did not know the details, for at the time, she had merely been an ordinary Carbink who admired her sister.
But she knew very clearly that without the aid of the Hero of the Sword and the Hero of the Shield, the Ore Kingdom would have been destroyed tens of thousands of years ago.
Whether it was to repay kindness or avenge a grievance, she had to step forward.
When she accepted the inheritance of the Sacred Diamond, she received a brief prophecy from her sister, the previous queen.
The prophecy had come from a Pokémon with the bearing of a king, riding a white horse that trod upon ice.
Before the Darkest Day descended, while the previous queen was still in power, that Pokémon had visited the Ore Kingdom and left behind the prophecy.
Much of what it said had been vague. It merely mentioned that tens of thousands of years later, perhaps a human carrying a Miracle Plate Fragment capable of allowing the Diancie clan to advance further would arrive in