"How is it, have all those weapons arrived?"
In the inn, through mental communication established by [Mind Control], Elashia was communicating with a northern lord of the Elasia Empire.
"Your Majesty, that fool didn't hesitate at all. After just two days, he immediately sent over all their city-state's weapons."
Elashia smiled.
This was really too fast.
Although the distance between Elasia and Yage City wasn't far—just over a hundred kilometers—delivering so many weapons within two days showed that Stephen really had some skills.
Previously, Elashia had been somewhat worried that war would cause casualties among Yage City's people, so she found a way to directly disarm Yage City.
Since Yage City was now completely disarmed, Elashia had no concerns whatsoever.
After ending communication with that lord, Elashia took out the Iron Empire communicator and immediately sent a communication request to Candice.
Candice, who was handling government affairs, immediately accepted the communication upon seeing Elashia's request.
"Your Majesty, what are your orders?"
Elashia revealed a smile of having everything under control, that mysterious and confident smile even reminded Candice of her Imperial Sister far away in the Iron Empire.
"Candice, write me a letter to send to Yage City's supreme leader."
Candice nodded.
"Alright, what kind of letter should I write?"
The smile in Elashia's eyes grew stronger.
"A declaration of war."
......
In Yage City's tribunal, Stephen was frowning as he held the dossiers in his hand.
According to Yage City's regulations, citizens convicted by the citizen jury would be transferred to the consul, who would decide the specific punishment.
"No, if this person has already committed a crime, why keep them around?"
Stephen muttered to himself, marking "death penalty" under every guilty dossier.
Stephen smiled.
This made things much simpler.
This approach would not only make citizens cheer for the severe punishment of crime, but also greatly reduce his own workload.
After finishing the trial, Stephen returned to his villa and summoned a subordinate, asking:
"When can Chris's execution be held?"
The subordinate smiled obsequiously and answered:
"Next week at the earliest."
Stephen nodded and said:
"Remember to give the warden some extra money. Make sure he torments Chris as much as possible in prison. I want her to meet her end in the most wretched state possible."
Yage City's executions were public, and having Chris die in the most unsightly manner would better consolidate Stephen's position.
"Yes!"
The subordinate left with Stephen's orders.
......
"Hello... please... give me some water to drink..."
Chris pleaded with the jailer at the cell door in a hoarse voice.
If other Yage City citizens were here, they would surely be shocked by Chris's transformation.
She was prostrate on the ground, not even having the strength left to stand up.
In the three days since arriving at this prison, never mind eating—she hadn't even had a sip of water.
No matter how strong she was, she couldn't withstand this kind of torment...
The jailer completely ignored her, and after hearing her request, only shook his head and walked away.
The warden had instructed them to use every possible means to torment the woman before them, showing no mercy, or they would lose their jobs.
Before long, another jailer approached Chris's cell door with a lewd smile, holding a small cup of water in his hand.
Looking at the severely dehydrated Chris, he smiled lewdly and pointed to the water in his hand.
"Have some fun with me, and this cup of water is yours. How about it?"
Although Chris was almost desperate enough to lose her sanity at the sight of the water, she still shook her head with difficulty.
"A scholar can be killed... but not humiliated..."
Seeing her reaction, the jailer immediately threw the water cup to the ground in anger.
The cup hit the ground with a "clang," and the water inside spilled everywhere.
"Damn it, do you still think you have the right to refuse!"
He directly took out his keys to open Chris's cell door, undid his belt, and was about to pull down his pants right in front of her.
"Don't even... think about it..."
Chris shakily stood up and assumed a fighting stance.
She knew she might not escape today, but she still habitually required herself to fight until the very last moment.
"Sigh..."
But at that moment, a sigh came from behind the jailer.
Immediately after, the jailer suddenly stopped his actions and stood at attention.
Just as Chris was feeling bewildered, a pink-haired girl appeared from behind the jailer, looking at her with extremely pained eyes.
"Elashia..."
Seeing Elashia, Chris immediately collapsed to the ground as if all her strength had been drained.
Elashia was truly heartbroken at this moment.
After all, this was the world of an adult game.
In the game, if "Elashia" didn't intervene, this CG would inevitably be triggered.
When Elashia saw this scene while playing the game, she was immediately enraged.
Of course, her fists were enraged.
Such a just consul being defiled by such a beast in such a place filled her with unprecedented anger.
At that time, she simply wanted to transmigrate directly into the game to change all of this.
However, now she had indeed transmigrated.
So she absolutely couldn't let such a thing happen before her eyes!
After using [Mind Control] to control that jailer, Elashia immediately gave him the first and last command—go to the warden's house and beat him up severely!
The jailer left the cell, leaving only Elashia and Chris there.
[System Task Issued]
The system releasing a task at this time didn't surprise Elashia at all.
As the ancients said, man is iron, rice is steel.
Even Chris, whose will was as hard as steel, was now at her most vulnerable after three days without food or water.
[Task One: Take out the water and food you brought, and threaten Chris—"If you agree to leave with me now, I'll give them all to you~" Task Reward: Earth-Shaking (Spell)]
[Task Two: Give Chris all the food and water you brought—"Eat quickly, I can get you more after you finish." Task Reward: Arcane Shield (Spell)]
[Task Three: Only give Chris a small amount of food and water—"Eat this for now, we'll chat while I give you more food and water." Task Reward: Warrior level increases by one]
"I choose task three."
Elashia looked at the three tasks and chose task three without even thinking.
Task one was absolutely disgusting, directly eliminated.
Task two looked quite good, but the task reward reminded Elashia—when people are extremely hungry, suddenly consuming too much food can be life-threatening.
Elashia took out a very small water cup from her bag and ordered a jailer outside who was already under her control to bring water in.
Taking the water jug from the jailer's hands, she poured a little into the cup, and Elashia brought the water cup to Chris's eyes.
"Slap!"
However, Chris, whose voice was already hoarse from thirst, slapped Elashia's hand away.
But Elashia, whose hand was slapped away by Chris, was actually delighted.
From Chris's reaction, the recruitment operation could proceed to its final step...