The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns: An OP Xianxia Returnee LitRPG

Chapter 219: The Queen And The Almighty General

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The Queen of America, wife of the King, Lord Caesar, glanced at the huge battle going on outside through her Spiritual Eyes, piercing through all physical matter as she controlled the huge Castle Golem, formed through her own Magic as a way to surprise their invaders and fight back with everything she had without risking her life directly. The only way her husband would have ever allowed her to join the battle.

“Things are only getting worse! And why are there so many soldiers laughing?”

As she sighed while glancing at the scene, she quickly felt a slight headache and quickly moved her vision away from that battle, towards her foes right in front of her—or, well, in front of the castle-shaped Golem she was controlling.

By using her powerful Magic that allowed her to grow Spiritual Wood and control it at will, she wrapped this wood around the entire castle and merged the wood with the castle’s Magical Runes that made the castle itself a fortress against invasions.

With her Spiritual Wood Roots, she was able to infuse Spirit Energy directly into the Castle, making it become “possessed” by the Spiritual Energy she possessed, which was immense.

Spiritual Energy was somewhat “alive” and was what constituted Spirits themselves, so technically, through a combination of her knowledge, her magic, and her alchemy, she synthesized this energy into the castle, turning it into a golem.

The core was provided by her daughter, who had somehow found a huge Mana Core from a monster she had hunted somewhere, without even telling her father and her mother about that.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Magic explosions bombarded the Castle Golem, as the Elven Queen gritted her teeth, focusing her Spiritual Energies and her Mana into the core, infusing them and controlling them.

The entire golem was like a puppet to her, and her energies took the shape of threads that controlled every movement, synchronized to her own senses.

This level of control and magical abilities wouldn’t have been possible without training below Bing Xue’s teachings; the Ki flowing through her entire body, the core within her chest, and her enhanced physical strength were all helping her unleash more magic without getting exhausted.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

“Where are they… There!”

Her eyes glowed bright gold as she channeled her powers, swinging the castle golem’s fist and smashing the nearby group of magicians with immense force and an unexpected range and speed.

CLAAASH!

Three out of the five magicians were torn to shreds by the impact force alone, while two others had already prepared barriers, barely managing to survive as they fell to the water below.

SPLASH!

"Before, I would have never considered doing this… Haahh… But this is what must be done to protect my new home,” she sighed. “For my husband… And more importantly for my daughter.”

As the two surviving magicians gasped in disbelief after seeing the scene, they quickly flew farther away, believing that they were within a range the castle golem couldn’t reach.

Above the skies, several other magicians joined them, their magic circles being conjured and fired at the same time, as a rain of elemental spells, mostly of fireballs and beams of light, hit the castle golem.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

“Ah…! The castle’s being bombarded from so far away…!” she muttered, shocked. “No, there must be a way I could get to them... But this body can’t fly; it’s simply too heavy to carry even with all my Mana included. So what else can I do… There’s nobody in the castle except me; I have to simply fight and survive for now.”

There was nobody else in the castle but her; this was all part of the plan her daughter had come out with, one she wanted to trust, and that it ended working, surprisingly!

“My dear Cecil was able to predict this from happening…” she thought. “She knows the future, or at least a part of it. I’ll trust her judgment, just like we did before.”

It all started when Cecil told them that Claudius, one of her father’s brothers, and her uncle were coming to invade Earth within the next few days.

They had first not believed her but also found it weird she knew about Claudius when her father had never spoken about him before.

But over time, as Cecil began to mysteriously gather special items, and as she explained to them what she knew and what was going to happen…

Her parents decided to trust her.

“She isn’t a Regressor like Seth…” her mother thought, gritting her teeth as she rapidly began infusing more energy into her golem’s arms. “But she knows parts of the future that Regressor didn’t… Could they both know certain things based on their perspectives?”

Indeed, the Regressor had warned everyone about an invasion from the Tower’s higher floors, but this wasn’t the invasion he had talked about, as that one came from a much higher floor, and it was led by powerful Divine Beasts.

“Whatever the case, I must hold on! The castle cannot fall…!”

Although at the surface, Elphiette seemed rather shy, silent, and a bit meek, the elven woman had a stronger willpower than most people imagined by her surface appearance and her calm, silent personality.

She was someone driven by emotions more than any of her other siblings, and her heart was also known as the biggest of her family, someone that grew attached to the people of Earth very quickly, finding them endearing and rapidly growing the desire to protect them.

“{Yggdrasil’s Divine Spirit Wood}!”

As she activated the spell, the castle golem’s arms began to move, suddenly stretching out of nowhere, growing as huge as several hundreds of meters, reaching the skies where the magicians were within a second!

“W-Wait a second!”

“Stop that thing!”

“Destroy it!”

“Run!”

Half of them tried to escape while the rest unleashed thunderbolts and giant fireballs at the incoming stretched wooden arms, which continued stretching and growing longer!

CRAAASH!

While enduring the spells launched at them, the arms smashed the magicians, breaking through their barriers with an explosion of spiritual energy and ki that erupted out of them upon hitting their targets.

BOOOM!

An explosion consumed the magicians, as over half of them perished instantly, with barely three alive, deciding to quickly regroup with other soldiers and attack the golem together.

“T-That’s…! He killed them all?!”

“What sort of golem is that?”

“I sense Spiritual Magic, the one that the Elves wield! So the Queen of this country is truly inside?”

As they realized the culprit behind it, the castle golem’s arms rapidly retracted back where they came from, but then the torso of the castle golem transformed.

“I won’t let you call for reinforcements!”

“{Divine Element Shape Forge}!”

The Queen’s eyes combined her Alchemy, a combination of both the Alchemy-type Magic she learned back home and Bing Xue’s Murim Alchemy, her Ki, her Mana, and her Spiritual Energies, and molded the shape of the castle golem’s torso.

FLUOSH!

Bricks and wood unified together into a giant cannon, pointing at the magicians flying away, who seemed unable to use teleportation magic, making things simpler for her.

“{Yggdrasil’s Divine Spiritual Cannon}!”

She infused her energies into the cannon, which were amplified by the Magic Core her daughter had provided to become the “core” of the golem that the castle had become.

And then, as green, golden, and white light gathered within the cannon, she fired a powerful beam against the magicians.

“N-No!”

“W-Wait!”

“Run!”

BOOOMMM!!!

However, they were unable to run, the beam catching them within its burning energies as their bodies instantly disintegrated within the bright spiritual light.

The beam rapidly moved down, beginning to destroy the enemy’s armies; dozens of soldiers were impacted directly. The weakest of them disintegrated, while the toughest of them survived, covered with burns and at death’s door.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

As the beam moved around the battlefield, all the soldiers trying to break into the castle began running away from its range, but many ended up becoming victims of its deadly laser rays; the more it moved, the more explosions it spread.

Until eventually, the area surrounding the Castle had become a burned crater, over a hundred soldiers having perished in that battle, with several magicians gone as well.

“T-That was…!”

“I cannot believe it…”

“To think that thing is so strong!”

“We have to stop it!”

The soldiers that served Claudius were left speechless, glancing at the scene in disbelief. Right now, Claudius and his general were fighting Caesar, so they couldn’t simply ask for him to take care of it!

“Indeed, Caesar had prepared quite the powerful golem,” nodded one of the many generals, stepping into the scene.

A muscular man with short white hair and blue eyes, with a short mustache of the same color of hair too, wearing golden armor and a long red cape.

He held with his muscular arms a huge hammer; he was well known around the army as someone who disliked using “tiny weapons”.

“G-General Gaius!”

“He’s here!”

“The King’s Hammer has arrived!”

The soldiers cheered in unison as they saw him step out from the turbulent battlefield behind them; his giant golden hammer, decorated with several colorful jewels, was already covered with the blood and gusts of many soldiers he had crushed to death.

“This seems to be the perfect job for me, I suppose. A squadron of fifty, follow me. Bring me ten mages!” Gaius roared. “HURRY!”

“Y-YES!”

The soldiers rapidly gathered around him after hearing his orders. Fifty strong soldiers and ten magicians, the Aura Claudius shared with them had weakened severely, so they were unable to fly now, but the magicians could make them float.

“Use Float on the soldiers,” Gaius said. “I can fly on my own.”

“Yes, General Gaius!”

The ten magicians quickly conjured their spells, encompassing every soldier with spiraling gusts of wind that helped them fly and float around at will.

It takes a lot of training to be able to fight while flying, though, but all these soldiers had trained for many years and were quite experienced.

“This Spell is a Buff-type Spell, it should last for an hour for everyone here! But please be careful; once the spell is deactivated, you may risk dying if you fall from a very high altitude…” The High Magician within the team talked.

“There’s no problem with that! My men can survive any fall; they’re tough; they simply can’t fly because they’re useless at magic!” Gaius sighed. “Anyways, no time to waste here! Let’s crush that golem!”

“OOOOHHH!”

The soldiers roared in unison, flying into the skies behind Gaius. Elphiette sensed a powerful presence approaching, all while she was fighting small droves of soldiers that attacked her legs by crushing them or punching them away.

Despite how small they were compared to the castle golem, they survived the battering really well, taking several blows to fully kill them, showing how powerful these soldiers were.

“Their levels must be really high…! But that group approaching, who are they?!”

Elphiette panicked the moment she saw them suddenly beginning to move really, really quickly.

FLASH!

To the point they released shockwaves as they moved through the sky, the man leading them, incredibly huge and muscular, raised his massive hammer.

And by infusing it with his Mana Aura, the hammer’s jewels glowed, encompassing the weapon with rainbow light.

And she saw him smiling viciously.

“HEH!”

He spun in midair, charging force within his body, and then the hammer reached her castle golem.

“I have to defend!”

Her golem was too huge to evade; she quickly transformed the golem’s arms, combining them into a huge shield.

The hammer struck it down a second after she finished doing that.

BOOOMMM!!!

It wasn’t just a strike; it was like an explosion.

The attack from the hammer blew up the shield in an instant, sending ripples through space and impacting the golem with a powerful shockwave.

The entire gigantic being fell to the water beneath, splashing over it, as several cracks spread through its torso, both arms gone completely…

“Aaah… Ugh…!”

Elphiette had fallen unconscious for a moment, opening her eyes again to realize the ceiling had fallen over her; she would’ve died if she hadn’t cultivated a physique beforehand.

“T-This is… Agh!”

However, her physique only helped her survive; one of her legs was broken, and her hands were far away from the Magic Core, which had gained a few cracks.

“I-Incredible!”

“General Gaius is truly the King’s hammer!”

“He’s… invincible!”

The soldiers praised Gaius as the man laughed.

“Gahahaha! I guess it was indeed just stone and wood, huh? Nothing too hard to deal with then! Let’s wrap this up quickly, boys! We’ve got to—Hm?”

His relaxed face quickly changed, becoming more serious as he noticed a small silhouette appear in front of him, gasping for air, her face furious.

“Your opponent is me! Leave mother alone!”

It was Princess Cecil.

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