Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

Patricia’s team got to meet the Queen’s special Shadow Guards or whatever their name was, a group of Vampires that were serving her directly in the shadows, fighting foes and helping the entire Kingdom.

They were also revealed the truth behind the Queen, that she was actually a Vampire of the highest rank and nobility, whose powers were immense.

And perhaps that was one of the reasons she could go toe to toe against powerful Revived Demons.

More than anything, what shocked them were the existence of Vampires helping the Kingdom and not being evil, as rumors and tales about them said.

Although their Queen being a Vampire wasn’t as shocking as the Vampires themselves, perhaps because most people of Arcadia knew that Players could choose their Avatars to be any race.

This was one of the reasons why when it came to Players, discrimination towards a certain race was usually kept at a minimum, as they weren’t exactly born in this world to begin with and shouldn’t be involved into such things.

They also presented incredible powers and abilities that other normal members of the race they chose usually didn’t had either… They were also rather clueless about societal customs, history, and the like.

However, their Queen was much more different, rather than a Player she had always felt like another member of this world, she never “logs out” either, for some reason, and she married their King and even had a child, the current prince.

“Does that mean the prince is a Vampire?” Patricia wondered to herself, rubbing her chin. “Ah, well, it doesn’t matter either way! It’s not like this somehow turns them into evil people… The Queen and the Prince are the Queen and the Prince and that’s it!”

The girl didn’t want to turn these things into even more complicated thoughts, even less doubt her ruler that had been devoting herself to protecting their Kingdom this entire time. Even less now with the King gone.

“Well, here you are, let’s go inside.”

“Behave in front of the Queen.”

“Don’t talk back to her unless she allows you to speak.”

“Don’t look at her into the eyes either!”

The Vampires reprimanded the young knights, as the entire group made their way inside the castle’s hall, where they were greeted by the Queen, who was sitting over her throne next to a pile of documents and with a small wooden desk in front of the throne.

She had eyebags below her eyes, and she clearly looked exhausted, she had probably not even slept the entire time. Once she noticed them, she quickly placed the papers by her left side and drank some tea.

“Welcome, my little heroes. Thank you for helping us out by taking care of that threat.” She smiled radiantly, completely changing her exhausted expression and attitude with the Queen everyone knew. “My apologies for my current appearance and this… mountain of papers. I’ve been doing a lot of paperwork. Mostly contracts and other trading deals with nearby Nations and the Forest of Beginnings. I’ll be spending around half of the treasury’s savings on buying a lot of resources from other countries for our reconstruction… Also food.”

“I-It’s nothing, please don’t worry about it, your majesty,” Joustin said timidly. “It is an honor to be called before your presence.”

“Yes, that’s right Joustin,” nodded the Queen, the young magic knight was shocked and happy to learn she knew his name. “I received the news that you’ve been protecting the border and even defeated a powerful surviving Demonic Wizard, congratulations. That is an incredible merit by itself.”

“Ah! It is an honor to be praised, your majesty! Thank you so much!” Patricia said, kneeling in front of her as well and lowering her head.

“Yes, thank you for your praise, your majesty!” Heshmerie nodded as well, kneeling in front of the Queen.

“Thank you, your majesty,” Both Emerette and Juliette said at the same time.

“C-Calm down, please, please no need for so many formalities right now,” the Queen said, looking rather tired of them. “Right now I just wanted to congratulate you and offer you some rewards for your hard work. I know the Vampires were going to take care of it, but their numbers are rather limited, and I would rather have them working on something else than this, so I am truly grateful.”

“Rewards?!” The Magic Knights’ eyes shone brightly, every single one of them seemed happy by hearing the words. They seriously didn’t expect anything else than praise, which would’ve been enough for them.

“Yes! If you were non-nobles, I would’ve already given you honorary nobility titles,” said the Queen. “But all of you come from noble families so that’s not possible. So I thought about another gift. I will give each one of you 250.000 Gold, and also a weapon, armor, or accessory of your choice from our treasury. Come with me.”

“Oooh!”

The young knights were amazed, as the Vampires handed them over bags full of gold coins, it was so much they had never expected this quantity! Although among Players this sum wasn’t that big, inhabitants of this world didn’t make as much money as Players, most of them couldn’t earn money hunting monsters for example.

Therefore, earning money took more effort, and it was more valued among inhabitants… Also this was the reason why prices were higher in shops for Players, something the System called “Player Tax” due to them getting more Gold than the original inhabitants of the world.

Patricia and her group timidly followed the Queen, who walked across the castle, the knights glanced at many servants walking everywhere, with other soldiers moving all kind of things, rubble, wood, metal, weapons, everything, they were constantly cleaning and fixing the castle as quickly as possible.

Before reaching the treasury, however, they stopped at the large central hall of the castle, where a huge sanctuary of greenery had been formed, surrounding a huge green colored crystal that pierced the wooden and stone ceiling.

“This is…?” Patricia wondered. “Ah!”

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Patricia and her friends were shocked, realizing the presence of someone inside of this green colored crystal, overflowing with spiritual energy and mana.

“T-The King?!”

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