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"What about Zenda, Alva and Emily?" Lydia understood why most of them didn't even want to come here.

"Well, you know why," Eva answered her question.

"They are going to regret this if this is our last day, I wanted to at least see him conscious for the last time," Tisha looked at them with sadness.

"I know we only knew each other for a small time but believe me, I will take good care of him and humans won't perish, I will do my best to protect your citizens," She remembered their plan and realised how flawed it was compared to Nikol's one but still after 'her' words, she didn't know what to do.

*Haha

"That's reassuring to hear, well, some of your elven warriors will also die in this battle so I won't blame you for abandoning us or anything like that, but I feel pity for you," Eva's words affected Tisha more than she expected.

"He's going to hate you, I don't think he will ever forgive you, he will blame all our deaths on you,"

"But as long as he survives, I will make my heart a stone," Tisha answered and got up from Nikol's bed to get dressed with her breast milk still leaking making a puddle beneath her.

"Let's go!" With her voice shivering, Eva got close to Nikol with Lydia. Even Lydia was shaking just like Eva.

They kissed his forehead with a loving look.

"We are sorry for leaving you behind, there are then thousand other girls that can replace us but there's only one Nikol, so we can't let you face the battle, especially after 'her' warning,"

Leaving those words behind, they got ready to leave but suddenly Nikol's mouth started moving shocking all of them.

They thought he was getting his senses back and that medicine Nym made for him using a special maneless plant was not effective, but they saw his other body parts were still like a rock.

Nym being the knowledge freak she is, even after finding a mana-less plant herb thanks to Tisha, she couldn't stop doing experiments on it, so she used Nikol's blood that she stored for experimental purposes to check but as soon as a dropped of that herb dropped on his blood, it reacted with it unlike normal herbs and prevented all the movements in those blood cells.

Normally one would need a microscope to carefully observe this but with Nym's barrier magic, she was clearly able to listen to those sounds after creating a barrier around the blood cell since she had complete authority inside the barrier.

She thought about revealing about this experiment to Nikol sooner or later but, with how busy they were she actually forgot about it until now.

"Eva, what did he say?" Seeing Eva notice his words, Lydia and Tisha both questioned her.

With a grim look, she looked at them uncomfortably.

"He said I hate you," Her words caused Tisha's whole face to go pale. She knew she will be the first one to face the consequence of this.

"Well, we have no choice but to move forward, don't look back,"

After looking at Nikol, Eva and Lydia left the room to join the group who are going to face the dark elves.

They called everyone along the hallway collecting Alva and Emily who were in their rooms. They didn't have their normal happy faces since they knew what they are doing is wrong.

"Mother, how's he?" Curious bout the current status, Emily questioned hoping to get a favourable answer but she knew nothing about this situation is favourable.

"This is the worst, I don't think we can go back to our old relationship anymore, but we will have to endure all of this for Nikol's sake," Eva said with a tough face.

While talking along the hallway, they entered the room where everyone inducing Zenda, Usha, Treiya and Nym gathered and waited for them to report about Nikol's condition.

As soon as they entered the room everyone looked at them with piercing looks expecting an answer.

"It's successful, he is paralysed for now until we give the antidote," Lydia quickly gave her report while simultaneously looking at everyone.

Even though the mission was successful none of them had happy faces.

"Did- he say something?" Usha questioned.

Eva looked at her with an annoyed look.

*Tsk

"Don't be spinless now, I'm sick of repeating the same thing, he will hate us, don't expect the same treatment after this, but we have to do this to protect him, just deploy the army," She shouted in anger to release her frustration.

She was pissed off by how fearful everyone is when it comes to this.

"We will attack according to the plan, Nym and some human girls will be given as hostages along with a few elves to bait them, in that time, we should surround them and wait for them to release our kids," Eva repeated the plan.

It was the same as Nikol's plan but the only difference was Nikol wasn't there in any of the events.

"Well, all of this is carried out assuming that they have hostages, if they don't just attack them, we don't have any way around this, just keep your distance and attack," Zenda also joined Eva, as she started to talk about possibilities.

"Nym's life is a top priority, she's the most important person after Nikol, so don't let anything happen to her, even if you have to sacrifice your life to protect her, do it,"

Their meeting came to an end as everyone started to proceed toward the gate to leave the kingdom.

"Going against our saviour, forming our own plans, Is this really the right decision?" Along the way, a random girl questioned Usha who had a rather pale face.

"Like hell, I know something like that, 'She' said us to do this to protect Nikol, even if I have to give my life, I will do this, it's just I'm sad that he will hate us, even if we return from the battle or not,"

***

Tisha didn't leave Nikol's room even for a moment, she kept patting his head looking at his opened eyes which looked lifeless because of the medicine.

"Who knew you had a weakness like that, when I bit your nape it felt really good, I wish I could have done that more romantically," She kept talking to herself.

More than half of the human army and the elven army left for this expedition. So only a few remained to protect the wall and for other purposes.

When it comes to the survival of the two races, they decided to solely depend on the wall. They had to believe that no one will be able to break that wall and harm them.

Even though some humans were not convinced about it, most of them knew if it was something by the goddess herself, it won't break no matter how dark elves try to harm it.

While thinking about all this suddenly Tisha heard Zenda's voice through a plant which acted like a communication tool between them.

"My queen, we are going to leave the gate, I hope you will take care of him," Zenda said with a sad voice.

Zenda didn't know that Tisha had sex with Nikol. They only agreed on letting her feed the pill to him because she volunteered when everyone else was hesitant to do it.

"Be careful, I'm waiting for your safe return, my child," Remembering Zenda is no different than other kids whom she fed when they were small, Tisha said with a slight smile.

"Haha, it's a little weird to be called like that, but I like it, mother," Zenda felt nostalgic about how they used to call Tisha mother, when they were small and how her real mother served Tisha.

Normally a high elf queen would live two generations of elves so it wasn't strange when Tisha was served by Zenda's mother. The childhood of high elves would only last 10 years and they learn everything about the kingdom and elves until they can officially be appointed as the next elven queen.

"Protect everyone, you're strong, but most of all protect yourself, I will be sad if something happened to you," Their last words before going to war were a little too depressing for both of them.

"I know, tell Nikol not to hate me, when he wakes up," With those last words, the communication between them ceased calming the whole room.

The army kept advancing through the forest in small groups, while most of the spies kept looking out for any information leak about their formation. They knew dark elves aren't fools to simply believe they will not resist.

"Ughh~"

While Tisha was thinking about the future of both humans and the elf race after a few hours of the army's departure, she suddenly heard a growling sound behind her which panicked her a little bit.

She quickly looked at the source of the sound only to see Nikol's eyes wide open looking at her like she was prey.

Tisha jumped back and was intimated by his piercing glare until she heard his next words, which sounded a little different from Nikol's usual voice.