Chapter 58 The Crumbling Empire
"Since everyone has things to do, let's end this gathering here." Yue Heng stood up first to put an end to the meeting, then turned and left.
He is different from other clones. Now only his consciousness has awakened, while his main body is still asleep.
So we must quickly wake up in reality.
After Yue Heng left, all the clones also got up and left.
Late at night, in the Huayan Mirror Palace,
Mandola sat beside a crystal bed, quietly looking at the figure sleeping on the bed.
It doesn't take much to guess who the fairy is that can make the current Prime Minister of the Empire so obsessed.
It was Yue Heng, the king of the fairyland.
"Teacher, when will you wake up? I have developed the empire very well and have lived up to your expectations."
"The resources in the national treasury are now very abundant. Not only are they enough to distribute resources to all the immortals, but they can also be traded with other countries."
"The weapons I ordered from the Forging Fairy have all arrived. She is truly an excellent forging master. I have successfully persuaded her to become the Chief Forging Master of the Empire. I am really happy about that."
"The village chief is still the same as always, strolling around the laurel forest with a smile on his face every day. Those elves who can't even plant laurel seeds are most afraid of seeing him."
"By the way, teacher, you must teach that guy Abdu a lesson when you wake up. Ever since the chief built him a flying boat, he has been sailing around the fairyland every day, saying that he is continuing to look for the remaining compatriots, but in fact he just wants to go out and play by himself."
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Mandola chattered on and on, telling Yue Heng about the development and changes of the empire while he was sleeping.
Two strands of hair rested on her cheeks like feathers. Her voice was soft and soothing, and when she came to something ambiguous, she would stop and explain it carefully.
At this moment, she looked nothing like the decisive prime minister of the empire, but seemed to be the young fairy studying with her teacher.
Ever since her teacher fell asleep, she would often sit by Yue Heng's bed and tell him about recent events, from mid-month to late-month, until she was tired.
Mandola didn't care whether anyone answered her or not, she just always wanted to say something, but in this huge palace, she was probably the only one who would listen to her, the teacher.
Although Abdu held the same position as himself, he had a simple and honest personality and was not good at management.
Although the village chief is experienced, he has lived in a different space for many years and his vision is not broad enough.
As for Duan Lingyi, she was obsessed with forging and didn't care about any issues other than that.
The only person in the entire empire who could give her help and guidance was her teacher’s old friend, the sorcerer Zhou Yin.
But he still belongs to the group of ordinary fairies after all, and he cannot openly provide help to the empire.
He has done so much for the empire, and we cannot cause him any more trouble just for our own selfish desires.
In this case, only the sleeping Yue Heng could listen to her.
"And my sister..."
Mandola suddenly mentioned Xin Ling, with obvious pain in her eyes.
"She broke up with me completely these past two days. She said that I was destroying the balance of the fairyland and that I was a dictator. She also gathered a group of fairies to form an alliance to resist me. Even the royal princess Luo Li joined..."
After saying that, she sighed deeply.
At the moment of the breakup, Mandola couldn't tell whether she was feeling pain or relief, but she was always more sad than happy.
The breakup with her sister and the responsibilities as prime minister made her so stressed that she had to complain to Yue Hen almost every day.
But she could never retreat, because she was the leader of all the dark night fairies.
She couldn't show any sign of weakness. If she became vulnerable, what would the people below think?
'If even the Prime Minister thinks it's not possible, can we really succeed?'
"Sure enough, we, the Dark Night Fairies, are born to be at the bottom of the social ladder."
"How could this happen? We have come this far with great difficulty."
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It is difficult to build people's confidence because they have been trampled underfoot for too long.
It takes thousands of years to build the backbone of a group, but only a moment to break it.
Ever since the defeat in the great war a thousand years ago, the Dark Night Fairy tribe has inevitably slid into the abyss.
The empire was like a hand that firmly grasped the hope of the ethnic group at this critical moment and prevented the downward trend.
It can be said that the empire is the totem belief in the heart of the Dark Night Fairy.
This is good, but also bad, because Mandola knows that this kind of belief cannot withstand failure. Once it fails, the spirit will be dissipated, and it will be difficult to get it back.
The current empire seems powerful, but in fact it is crumbling.
So she could only act more cautiously, for fear of disappointing her teacher's expectations.
This was the first time in her life that she was recognized, and she would never allow herself to fail.
She was so exhausted both physically and mentally that she could only sit beside Yue Heng's bed and mutter to herself to pass the time.
As long as she sits next to the teacher, she will have the feeling that the teacher is still awake and giving her earnest instructions.
"Teacher, my sister has been entangled with many ordinary fairies recently. Even the royal princess has stood on her side."
"There are still many fairies and elves rushing to Floating Cloud Tower. What should I do?"
Mandola likes to ask her teacher what she should do at the end of her soliloquy.
At this time, her imaginary teacher would open his eyes and tell her how to deal with it.
Today will be no exception.
Yue Heng opened his eyes and looked at Mandola, who looked tired.
He did not answer the question immediately, but said softly: "You did a great job. I am really impressed by you."
"Really?" Mandola couldn't help but redden her eyes.
During the time when the teacher was asleep, she felt confused and encountered setbacks, but she never cried because she knew crying would not solve the problem.
But there is always a moment when you can't hold back your tears.
To her, all the praises from the fairies of the night could not compare to a compliment from her teacher.
Mandola actually couldn't tell what kind of feelings she had for Yue Heng. Family affection? Love? Respect? Maybe all of them.
But no matter what, Yue Heng holds too important a place in her heart, so important that she would be moved by any words from him.
It was clearly just an ordinary compliment, but she couldn't help but have tears in her eyes, even though she knew that the person in front of her was just an illusion.
But after waiting for a long time, the shadow in front of him did not disappear as usual, but actually sat up from the bed.
Then he stroked her head as if comforting a child.
"Don't cry, your face won't be pretty if it's covered with tears. Have a candy."
Yue Heng produced a piece of pink candy like a magic trick and stuffed it into Mandola's hand without saying a word.
Feeling the real temperature above her head and the tangible touch on her hands, Mandola fell into a daze, but was soon filled with ecstasy.
"Teacher, you're awake!"
Mandola rushed forward and hugged Yue Heng, holding his face and looking at it again and again, from his eyebrows to his mouth, from his ears to his nose.
She was so afraid that this was just another dream she had created because she missed him too much.
"It's not a dream, I'm really awake."
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