Netori: Stealing The Hero's Party!

Chapter 451 Opportunity Smiles Creepily

The conversation between the siblings, Elana and the party was over. The queen required time to think everything through, to plan their next move, and in the meantime, Raven and the others were invited to stay inside the mansion. Refusing for the sake of security, Raven led his group to the nearest edge of the island from the queen's home; and upon getting there, his eye began to work and to a degree, everyone's magic returned as well.

Left to their own, the group was still struggling to comprehend everything that had happened. From the quarrel between the three gods to the essential imprisonment of the Djinn queen. Not to mention the Aran forces and their upcoming fight against them alongside Elana's siblings.

"So much effort and all we've got is possibly three more demi-humans fighting alongside us?" Slipping beside Raven on a log while everyone was gathered around the campfire, Maria couldn't help but feel that they'd gotten nowhere closer to defeating those fleets of ships.

"Using Arche is still an option..." Amedith suggested, even though in his eyes it was clear that not even he wanted to rely on the queen of Arachne.

"I would agree but," Moving her hand on top of her lover's Liliyana squeezed it tight. "She's gonna be an easy big target for the cannons from afar and if the witch hunter can shoot from a distance, who knows how much more devastating power that rifle of hers can unleash on us all?"

"We can use traps," Erika chimed in, moving a finger in the air as if writing a rune.

"That and uhm–" Taking a deep breath while roasting a fish on the fire, Regalia glanced across the many faces gathered around the campfire. "I can probably sink a few ships, although I doubt I would be able to do much after that without an army."

Looking around for someone to say something, the wolf-girl held hope that the party could still squeeze an army out of the queen so she could lead them into battle. Being a general who'd sailed for most of her life, she was more capable of winning in a group–a massive group at that, than by herself; especially if her enemies were in the plural.

"Hmm? Why are you looking at me?" A bit confused, Maria grimaced.

"Don't you know something about that too?"

Rolling her eyes and jerking her hands forward, the queen scoffed.

"I was the queen, not the recruitment officer! I don't know," shrugging her shoulders, she shook her head and looked away.

"Why are you freaking?" Asked Raven, noticing the obvious tenseness in Erika's behavior.

Looking at her man, she wanted to just speak out loud and tell them what she'd just remembered. The book, the key, the possible explanations of how they were found by the church. Erika already knew about the elves, but the other two? Being boys she had ignored them at that time as most orphans that were taken in were boys as well.

'I don't want to get their hopes up for no reason if the ledger's not there...' Experience tales with empire

She thought to herself, struggling to keep herself from shouting just exactly what she was thinking about.

"N-nothing...It's nothing, I think I confused myself with something that's all," her response, although far from convincing, had Raven step back allowing the priestess to calm down on her own. However, with the thought of that diary plaguing her mind, she couldn't help but want to teleport back to Athenia that very night, and that too alone while everyone else was already asleep, even Raven.