Drake, brother.
Oh my god.
Seville covered his mouth. He didn't want Her Majesty Alyssa next to him to see his stupid look of failing to control his facial expression.
This secret is undoubtedly a bombshell that is enough to shock the entire Zerg race!
Fortunately, Her Majesty Alyssa didn't notice his gaffe at all. Her shock and confusion were no less than his.
"If Wolfe... is my father, then Drake is... my cousin?"
"Your Majesty Alyssa, if you want to become the royal consort, you must abandon your family name and become independent from the family. That guy is not your cousin." Gabriel said with a frown.
But she also knew that Wolfe never became the royal consort until his death. He didn't kneel before the meteorite stone in the underground palace and swear to renounce his family name and honor. He died as the head of the Black Armor family. According to the traditional system of inheritance of the Worm Mother, the Worm Mother's only relative is the royal consort. But now that the inheritance system has not been completed according to the procedures, who knows what that crazy Drake is thinking!
It would be fine if he just put himself in the position of an older brother, but I am afraid that he has determined that the Palace of Saint Hobelus needs to return the position of the king to their Black Armor family!
Who's left of the Heijia family? !
After hearing Gabriel's speculation, Alyssa's face turned pale. "Give him back the position of royal consort? Me, me? But, but he and I are relatives! People with the same surname cannot marry! According to the law, this is considered incest!"
"The Zerg Queen is an unrelated Zerg," Sewell explained to Alyssa. "The Zerg don't have laws and regulations to enforce ethical norms like humans do. Zerg rely on pheromones to mate. Zerg of the same bloodline have the same pheromones for courtship, just like two ears on the same head that never meet in their lifetimes. There's no way they'll mate."
"But the Zerg Queen...she can incorporate the mental anchors of all Zerg into her own spiritual world. She can also mate with the pheromones of all Zerg. So...from Drake's perspective, this isn't a problem at all."
Gabriel hugged the pale-faced Alyssa in his arms with a distressed look on his face. "Your Highness, this is just my speculation. Please don't worry too much. The order and rules of our Zerg race are not up to Drake to decide."
She swore to Alyssa, "I will never allow any insect to use your happiness as political bargaining chip."
The only message reminder sound that would sound in Gabriel's intelligent brain's do not disturb mode.
She opened her smart computer and sneered, "Drake's blood test results are out. He did use virgin honey, and a considerable amount."
Alyssa: “First honey?”
"It's a pseudo-placebo used to prevent agitation. Excessive use can cause hallucinations. It was strictly prohibited during Her Majesty Aimi's reign, but it has resurfaced since her death." Gabriel couldn't help but curse Drake, "What an idiot!"
Gabriel carried Alyssa to the large, comfortable sofa in the bedroom, knelt on one knee, looked up at Alyssa's eyes and said, "Your Highness Alyssa, I'm sorry that you have to face this upon returning to Saint Joseph's Palace. But——"
Gabriel's eyes were filled with a firm determination that had solidified into reality. "You have returned to Saint Hobel's Palace, to the center of power of the Zerg. You are now the de facto Zerg Queen, the Supreme of the Zerg."
"I'm explaining this to you so you can make a decision. Regarding Drake Black Armor, what do you think should be done with him?"
The Court of Resolutions gave a preliminary discussion result on how to deal with Drake Black Armor: remove Drake's elytra and claws, deprive him of his command position of the Third Legion, and exile him to a remote desolate planet.
Although this result did not directly execute Drake, depriving a bug of its means of attack and exiling it to a desolate planet where strange beasts roamed was basically the same as killing him.
Over the years, the Third Legion has been dissatisfied with the Palace of Saint Joseph and the Court of Resolution represented by the upper-class families. This ruling, in Gabriel's view, is fair enough, but it will undoubtedly become a fuse that ignites years of resentment.
Gabriel listed the possible reactions of the Third Legion to Alyssa one by one, and also gave the counterattacks that the Palace of Saint Joseph would make against these reactions. All of them were bloody and made Alyssa's back shiver.
Drake tore off the protective film woven with love that wrapped around the naive insect mother.
Alyssa looked at Gabriel, and her eyes, which used to be full of doting, were now intertwined with complex emotions, like an eagle that had to push its chick out to learn to fly.
She had only met that Drake once, without even seeing his face clearly, and then he told her that this bug who was rude to her and might have bad intentions towards her was the only bloodline left in the world of her father's family, and that killing him or not would cause a lot of trouble, so she had to make a decision.
Now she felt a little resentful towards the nanny who loved her so much, and she would rather not know these things.
Can a coward like her be a qualified insect queen?
"Your Highness," Sewell interrupted Alyssa's confusion and panic at the right moment. "Every Zerg Queen has her own political philosophy and style of doing things. You don't need to overthink it, and you don't need to compare yourself to any of them."
“You just have to ask yourself, what is the choice of your heart.”
choose?
"Your Highness, you saved Ryan and pardoned Vio and me. The Worm Mother's scepter is in your hands, so please don't worry. No matter what choice you make, our Knox family, as well as the Thorne family behind Lord Gabriel, will always be your solid backing."
Gabriel nodded vigorously. It was right to keep Sewell. The words that came out of his mouth were more pleasant to hear.
Alyssa lowered her head and thought for a long time, then said, “I need to meet Drake and ask him in person before making a decision.”
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Black ground beetles are terrestrial insects with a certain tolerance for humid environments. However, since they breathe through their abdominal spiracles, if they are immersed in water for a long time, their spiracles become blocked and they still experience a strong sense of suffocation. Furthermore, soaking in water damages the waxy layer on their body surface, allowing a large amount of water to enter their bodies, which can cause them to lose their ability to regulate body sensations.
Therefore, the water dungeon was an effective deterrent against terrestrial insects. Drake was tied to a stone pillar in the middle of the dungeon. Every ten minutes, the water would flood to his waist and then slowly drain. This cycle was undoubtedly a long and torturous process for Drake.
When Alyssa was carried by Ryan and walked into the dungeon, she saw Drake, who was suffering from torture and dying in the middle of the dungeon.
She frowned. Last night, Drake looked like a black demon, but now with Ryan as a comparison, she felt that this black beetle was not as tall as she had imagined.
She dismissed the guards and ordered Vio, who was accompanying her, to drain the water from the dungeon.
Vio quickly examined Drake, making sure he was unable to move and his hands and feet were tied tightly, before nodding to Her Majesty Alyssa.
Alyssa finally mustered up a little courage and took the initiative to ask to meet Drake, but when she saw him and saw his miserable appearance, she didn’t know what to say.
She tried to find any similarities between this black beetle and her own bloodline, but the contrast between them was like ice and fire, a chrysanthemum and a sword.
A hint of the sweet, lingering worm-mother pheromone in the air brought Drake's drowsy mind back to a state of consciousness. The cold water stuck his long, white hair to his eyes, obscuring his view of the worm-mother before him. He shook his head irritably, trying to shake it off, but a pair of delicate hands helped to smooth his hair out of his way.
The insect mother's small face, which was not even as big as his fist, was just an arm's length away from him.
Alyssa frowned, the corners of her mouth drooping slightly, her teeth clenched quietly. She was nervous, and her pheromones clearly showed it. But she tried to tell herself not to be afraid.
She could feel Ryan's muscles bulging as he held her. He was ready to tear Drake apart at any moment to protect her. She had backup.
Drake took two breaths of air with great effort, chuckled twice, and was the first to break the silence: "What's wrong with your foot... Is it broken? You can't walk... You have to be carried around by this big idiot... You've been abused by humans... I'll help you kill all the humans who abused you, how about that?"
Alyssa didn’t want to be led by his topic: “Why do you want to use virgin honey? You know it’s illegal.”
"Why shouldn't I? Without the Worm Mother's comfort, without this thing, we'd have degenerated into beasts." Drake's tone was full of sarcasm. "Thanks to this thing, we know that we can find peace without the Worm Mother."
"The Saint Hobel Palace's vigorous crackdown on this kind of thing is simply an attempt to maintain the existing system of the Worm Mother's supremacy. After all, their wealth and power are firmly tied to the Worm Mother."
Drake asked Alyssa, "Why do you want to be a worm mother? You've been raised by humans for so long, and you've adapted to being a worm mother so quickly? You guys in the Kairos family really all like to be raised by power..."
Gabriel raised his long hand and gave Drake a crisp slap in the face.
Drake stretched his face, his eyes fixed on Alyssa. "Come with me, how about it? These insects around you can only use some tedious rules and regulations to tell you how to be a insect mother, a insect mother they need! Come with me, I can give you the same power! No one can tell you what kind of king you should choose! No one can bully you! If humans abuse you, I will kill them all for you; if the upper families exclude you, I will overthrow the entire insect race for you—"
Drake became more and more excited as he spoke, his blood-red pupils abnormally condensed into needles. His eyes were like a mirror painted with mercury, filled with only Alyssa.
Suddenly, Drake's whole body stiffened, and a hint of coolness seemed to slide through his boiling brain. Looking down, he saw a thin, soft and elastic translucent tentacle resting on his left chest.
The other side of the tentacle was connected to Alyssa's right index finger.
Alyssa looked at him, her golden eyes filled with sadness: “You are not normal, Derek.”
"Your spiritual world is filled with something like red plasma."
"Can you still find your spiritual anchor? Do you still know what the Heijia family's spiritual world originally looked like?"
"You have been corrupted by the first honey."
Tears streamed down Alyssa's eyes. "You keep saying you want justice for me, but where were you when I first started having my feet bound? When I thought I had no one in this world, and was terrified of the unknown future, where were you? Why? It was Ryan who carried me through the rift in time and space, it was Vio who prepared the healing potion for my feet, it was Gabriel who worried about my thinness and coaxed me to eat, and it was Sewell who gradually built up my confidence and told me I could choose."
"You just want a worm queen built according to your ideas."
"I will forgive your sins of offending me, and I will help you rebuild a clean spiritual world. But I will not forgive your sin of abusing the virgin honey."
"You will be stripped of your command of the Third Legion and expelled from the gravitational field of Saint Joseph's Palace."
"If you can still remember the glory of the Black Armor family, perhaps one day you can stand before me again."
"elder brother."
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