Getting up from the ground while clutching her butt, Elashia knew the plan could proceed to the next step.
Next, Chris would be directly convicted at the citizens' assembly trial for being late.
Yage City had two such regulations.
One was that after being convicted as consul, one could choose between "exile" and "death penalty" for execution.
And to avoid chaos in the city-state's administrative order after the consul stepped down, the other was that if the citizen who accused the consul was willing, the accuser would directly become the consul.
And Elashia knew very clearly—Chris would definitely choose "death penalty" between "exile" and "death penalty."
The reason was simple—people exiled from the city-state would lose their qualification as city-state citizens, which was a matter that touched Chris's bottom line.
But city-state citizens who were executed could still retain their posthumous city-state citizenship rights, so perhaps someone could vindicate her in the future.
Elashia sighed thinking about this.
Chris was originally an orphan, and it was this city-state that took her in and raised her.
When she was still young, she had decided to repay this city-state with her entire life and her very existence.
It was under the support of such conviction that she step by step rose from an ordinary soldier to the position of consul.
But it was also under such conviction that she chose to refuse Elashia's invitation, preferring to die in confusion rather than leave Yage City.
However, Elashia had prepared long ago—she would never allow Chris to die in confusion in this desert no matter what.
"Um... excuse me, we..."
A Bal City soldier weakly raised his hand and asked Elashia:
"We... what should we do?"
Oh no! Earlier her mind was completely filled with Chris's affairs, and she had just left them all hanging there!
Those poor soldiers had been watching Chris and Elashia's interaction in confusion the whole time!
And she had spoken those words to Chris in front of so many people as if no one else was there, and finally even embraced Chris in front of so many people...
Elashia's face reddened as she pointed at the soldiers:
"You... you didn't hear anything, you didn't see anything!"
The soldiers looked at each other and all nodded awkwardly.
Thinking about how to deal with these soldiers, Elashia said:
"How about this, I'm the Empress of the Elasia Empire. Since you can't go anywhere, come to Elasia to work for me."
After scanning these soldiers once with [Appraisal], Elashia used [Mind Control] to control several of the strongest fighters in the unit, making it foolproof.
"Do you have paper? The kind you can write on?"
Elashia took out a small seal from her body.
"I have some."
A soldier took out a somewhat yellowed piece of paper from his body.
Elashia took the paper, stamped it with her seal, and handed it to the soldier:
"When you get to Elasia, just give this directly to any lord in the northern territory, and he'll arrange for you to join the army directly."
Under the soldiers' gaze, Elashia folded the paper and handed it to a soldier she had controlled.
"The Northern Forest no longer has magical beasts now, so you can just cross the Northern Forest directly and come to Elasia."
Whether the soldiers believed it or not, this was the only path available now.