The villain daughter did all kinds of things

Around the same time, the returning Legion of Heroes also completed the battle, killing all the other black cats that had previously hunted and devoured them.

The battle was over. Judy, who had been completely wiped out, emerged victorious, simply because she gave Emerald a magical communication before using her final, desperate move.

"...I can no longer understand your power at all."

Looking at Emerald, who had landed beside her again, Judy smiled and shrugged, making no attempt to hide the relief in her eyes.

"It's nothing, just an advanced form of holy magic."

Amelie chuckled softly:

"Didn't we occasionally have visitors from other worlds temporarily stay in the Federation? Those saintesses or popes who serve the gods that they talked about can all do this kind of thing... And Judy, you also deserve credit for your timely help. People who have just died can be resurrected with magic, right?"

...Don't try to fool me! Of course I know about resurrection magic, but that requires the corpse to be intact and consumes a lot of energy. It's not as easy as you do. And were they really resurrected? Why does something feel off?

Judy, after all, was a veteran of many battles, and her intuition was extremely sharp.

Although she couldn't see any flaws, she still sensed that the soldiers resurrected as heroic spirits by Emerald seemed to be different from real living people.

...Never mind, as long as he comes back and continues to obey my orders, that's fine.

Judy quickly gave up on thinking about it too deeply. Anyway, she and Emerald were bound by interests, and even if this army was also under Emerald's magical control, it was still better than being wiped out.

"That's why I really enjoy working with you, senior. You're so smart."

Emery seemed to read Judy's mind, smiling as she gently patted Judy on the shoulder before speaking seriously:

"Now you should tell me what happened, senior? Who tricked you? Who has the audacity to scheme against you? Don't they know you're my good friend?"

Chapter 292 Portal Activated

“I don’t know who plotted against me… but that guy must be very powerful, at least he must have connections in the federal military, to be able to manipulate the intelligence department to report false military information.”

Judy gritted her teeth as she talked about being scammed this time:

“As you know, Emerald, our Federation Army’s Demon Tide Extermination Force is divided into two types: combat forces and intelligence forces. My unit is a combat force.”

"Although my combat units also have scouts and intelligence officers, they are only responsible for verifying the intelligence provided by the intelligence department before the battle and monitoring the demonic tide that has not yet fully formed."

"The real task of searching for traces of the demonic tide throughout the entire Federation, formulating operational plans for our combat troops, and evacuating residents in advance is handled by a specialized intelligence unit. That unit may be very weak in direct combat, but every intelligence officer in the team is an expert."

"This time, the intelligence from the intelligence unit was wrong... They told me that there was a level 4 demonic tide that was about to form here, and asked me to lead the troops to suppress it, so I came... After all, I have done this kind of mission many times, so I didn't think too much about it."

"I didn't expect there to be no demonic tide here at all. I had just brought my troops here and hadn't even had time to have my intelligence team verify the information when we were ambushed by that demonic race. We were caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties in the blink of an eye."

"I immediately wanted to request reinforcements, but my communication lines with the rear had been jammed... This is clearly an attempt to kill me."

"Luckily, Emery's private communications are reliable, managing to ignore this interference... So, it seems the products your Melson family sells to our military are at least a generation behind?"

Judy couldn't help but complain again at the end.

"Actually, it's not that bad. Only family members of higher status like myself can use the family's latest technology. Most family members don't actually use magical artifacts that are much more advanced than the ones we sell to you."

Emery simply chuckled and offered a word of comfort.

The ancestors of the Merson family took Judy's situation into consideration, which is why they insisted that the technology used by family members be at least one generation ahead.

When Emery first learned that Judy had been framed, she had suspected that it might have been done by the old folks in her family who didn't want Judy and Popeye to marry, but now that suspicion could be ruled out.

If a key member of the Melson family was truly involved, Judy would not have been able to even ask Emery for help; all her means of communication would have become ineffective after she stepped into the trap.

So who did it?

Emerald is currently at a loss and can only investigate through the most direct method:

“Since the intelligence unit tricked you, let’s go ask them for an explanation. I’ll go with you… I’ll make them tell the truth.”

Emery's tone was very confident.

Because if the living are unwilling to tell the truth, she can make the dead speak.

"Hehe, that's exactly what I've been waiting for you to say."

Judy was also itching for a fight, looking like she wanted to pick one on:

"Since I enlisted, I've been fighting against the demonic tides. I thought all the things I learned in interrogation class would be useless. Maybe this time I can put them to use!"

"..."

Emery simply glanced at Judy and said nothing more.

Putting yourself in her shoes, it's normal to want to vent when faced with someone who almost got you killed. Although Emery can obtain information without any torture, it's not unreasonable to let Judy vent first if she wants to.

To prevent Judy's intelligence unit from escaping, Judy handed over the task of troop regrouping and rest to her adjutant, while she and Emerald went directly to the intelligence unit to hold them accountable.

They barely wasted any time, but unexpectedly, they were still a step too late.

When they arrived at the location of the intelligence unit that had assigned Judy her combat mission, the place had been almost completely razed to the ground. All the facilities and personnel had vanished, leaving not even a single corpse or soul behind.

"...The guy who tricked you is really cautious."

Emerald briefly assessed the residual magic at the scene, then used a simple method of spiritual communication to connect with the surviving plants nearby, before letting out a soft sigh:

"According to the timeline, you hadn't even used magic communication to ask me for help when these guys were silenced... That guy never intended to leave any survivors in the first place."

"...Is that so?"

Judy stared wide-eyed in disbelief as well.

As someone in the military, Judy was even more aware of the capabilities of these people in the intelligence unit; their ability to escape and survive was exceptional.

With so many intelligence personnel, even if they were attacked by a powerful being in the fusion stage, some of them should have managed to survive, or at least send back intelligence or leave behind information.

But the truth is that nothing happened; hundreds of outstanding intelligence officers from an intelligence unit's base simply vanished.

"Could you do that now?"

Judy thought for a moment, then directly asked Emerald:

"To render the military's best intelligence agents incapable of doing anything, simply silence them all."

"can."

Emery's answer was without hesitation:

"Let alone me now, even I six months ago could... Senior Judy, you haven't entered the fusion stage yet, so you don't really understand the true power of this stage."

"Those professionally trained intelligence agents may indeed be very good, mastering all kinds of life-saving and information-passing skills."

"But for true powerhouses, there are two simple ways to do this."

"First, use a powerful enough attack to wipe out all the intelligence agents before they can react... That's the trace left at the scene."

"Secondly, we should first use a sufficiently strong magic barrier to isolate this place, so that no news can get out... Then it's a game of cat and mouse."

"So, to silence them like this, you don't need a powerful expert like yourself whom I can no longer understand, but rather any fusion-stage mage or grand magician would suffice?"

Judy nodded thoughtfully, crossing her arms.

“There are many suspects… To be honest, I’m about to break through to the Fusion stage, and I’ve accumulated enough military merits. If nothing unexpected happens, I should be able to become a brigadier general this year, but there are quite a few people eyeing this position as well.”

"If you die, who will benefit the most?"

Emery asked very directly.

"Of course, my three older brothers."

Judy shrugged, then shook her head:

"But it shouldn't be them. They're not that bold or ruthless. More importantly, they don't have the ability to find a powerful expert I don't know to take action."

The two continued their discussion, bringing up several second- or third-generation candidates who could compete with Judy, but these were merely guesses based on their motives and abilities, without any concrete clues.

With no other option, Judy had to follow procedure and report the matter.

The military leadership was furious. Regardless of who framed Judy, this action had crossed the line in the internal power struggle.

A special investigation team was quickly formed, and they began investigating the recent movements and personal income of the intelligence unit that had been silenced, hoping to find clues.

This is not something that can be accomplished in a short time; it will take at least a few days. Emery didn't linger, saying that she would keep an eye on the matter, and then left.

Taking advantage of this incident, Judy secured two months of leave for herself and her unit. She was going to go on a date with Bobo and seek solace in the adorable little Nanliang. Who knows, maybe when the two of them were having the most fun on their date, they would suddenly break through to a higher realm?

Emerald returned to her city of Locke, where Marcy told her that the fixed teleportation portal between the Allen Federation and the Upper Sakura Kingdom had been completed and was currently undergoing final testing, and was expected to be officially operational within a few days.

Upon returning to Locke City, Emerald first went to see the newly built pedestrian street. This street connects the fixed teleportation portal to Locke City and is about 1800 meters long. The land on both sides of the street is extremely valuable, and it will definitely become Locke City's largest commercial street in the future.

The shops on both sides of the pedestrian street have now been completed, and many of them have even started operating. Business is pretty good, with most customers being locals from Locke City who come to see the portal out of curiosity and also make a purchase.

The Zui Hong Lou branch, a collaboration between Amelie and Lian, has been fully completed. Its architectural style and interior decoration are basically a replica of the Zui Hong Lou in Sphinx. The staff has also been recruited, but it has not yet officially opened for business, as the staff are still undergoing training.

Among these employees were young women from Locke City, as well as working elves who came from the south of the Emerald Strait. Those hot-bodied and outgoing elves really had a unique charm when they put on oriental-style gauze dresses, ruqun, or cheongsams.

Anyway, on the night they returned to Locke City, Amelie had Marcy and Viliana change into palace dresses and cheongsams respectively, and they enjoyed themselves to the fullest.

A few days later, with the final adjustments completed, the large fixed portal was announced by the technical team to be officially put into use.

The portal is designed to resemble a pyramid, is primarily made of alloy, and has a base side length of 120 meters. It can simultaneously transport 1500 people and 100,000 tons of cargo, including personal belongings in the personnel's storage space.

According to data provided by the technical team, it takes about 6 minutes to complete a teleportation once it is activated. The material cost for each teleportation is about 5000 million Luns. The current plan is to activate it 8 times a day, once every 3 hours.

If the flow of people between the two countries is too large or too small, the activation frequency of this portal can be adjusted later.

The first official use of the portal can also be considered a test.

The Allen Federation has been using fixed teleportation portals for transportation for nearly 400 years. The technology is quite mature, and the people trust it. Once the technical team announced that the adjustments and tests were completed, they dared to buy tickets and use it directly.

But not in Shangying Kingdom. It's the first time they've used this teleportation technology there, so the nobles definitely wouldn't dare to ride it directly. They have to let others try it first. Anyway, the nobles aren't short of money; they'll just buy more tickets.

Therefore, the first round of activation of this teleportation portal involved a team of dozens of warriors from Shangying Kingdom, along with nearly a thousand slaves, who volunteered to participate in the test. After being teleported from Shangying Kingdom to the Allen Federation, they rested for about 10 minutes and then immediately teleported back to prove to the dignitaries the safety and comfort of the teleportation portal.

Seeing that all the samurai and slaves had returned without any ill effects, the nobles of Shangying Kingdom dared to use the portal to visit the Federation.

Meanwhile, in the Allen Federation, tourists who were very interested in the Sakura Kingdom were already impatient. They were all wealthy people, and many of them had already settled in Locke City in advance, just waiting to be the first to visit the Sakura Kingdom after the portal opened, to experience its various cultural customs, and to savor its local snacks and the taste of Sakura girls.

Of course, the number of tourists on both sides was also limited. This first teleportation in a true sense was also a historic moment in diplomacy between the two countries. Both sides sent official delegations. In addition to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, members of the royal family also accompanied the delegation from Shangying Kingdom.

The official diplomatic missions from both sides consisted of around 500 people each, while the number of tourists was limited to less than 800. Moreover, those who were selected as the first group of tourists were basically the wealthiest people in both countries.

Among the first group of tourists from the Allen Federation to visit Sakura Country, more than a third were pink-haired. They all had some degree of Melson blood and were relatives of Emery.

Among them was Emelite's other aunt, Frey Melson, who had married into the Lohid family at a young age and was Ark's aunt. She also brought her two children to visit.

Ark and Kerry, who had been saying they wanted to go to Sakura Kingdom, were also there this time. Emerald personally escorted them, Frey, and the two children into the portal.

As the magical light enveloped everyone inside the portal, in the blink of an eye, they all transformed into guests from the Kingdom of Shangying.

The first to emerge from the portal were, of course, the loyal royal samurai, followed by the officials of the Kingdom of Sakura with their attendants, then the princess surrounded by several shrine maidens from the Tengu Shrine, and finally the tourists who had paid to come and have fun.

Princess Rin Amamiya of the Kingdom of Sakura was coming; it had been arranged in advance.

After Emeryte left Shangying Kingdom, the sons of the nobility in Shangying Kingdom took action. Regardless of gender, as long as they were of the right age, they all pursued Rin Amamiya with fervor. She could even pull out love letters that had been placed in the toilet paper box beforehand when she went to the toilet at school.

Unable to bear it any longer, Rin Amamiya decided to use the excuse of representing the royal family on a visit to the Allen Federation to hide here for a while.

Of course, her suitors would not give up easily, and they all tried every means to sneak into the delegation. Those who could not sneak into the delegation bought tickets to be tourists.

When a princess from another country comes to visit, the Allen Federation naturally has a reception procedure in place. The government had already sent people to arrange a grand welcoming ceremony and a subsequent banquet.

However, the overseas visit was just an excuse for Rin Amamiya; she was actually there to seek refuge and had no desire for those formalities and social obligations.

Emerald originally intended to attend the government-arranged banquet as scheduled, but after seeing Rin Amamiya in person, she immediately understood her cousin's true thoughts. As a good older sister, she could not only undress people, but also understand their feelings.

So the extremely willful young lady makes her appearance once again.

Amidst the helpless smiles and stunned expressions of the officials from both delegations, Emerald first walked over and gave Rin Amamiya a generous hug, then left with the words, "Sister will take you to play," before carrying Rin away.

The officials from both sides who remained in place stared at each other for a while, but could only pretend that nothing had happened.

Anyway, everyone knows in their hearts that, apart from being a decorative princess and keeping a smile, Amamiya Rin is basically useless during these visits. Various cooperation plans and agreements need to be discussed by the officials, and Amamiya Rin's presence or absence doesn't really make a difference.

As for the interruption of the visit and welcoming process... well, let it be interrupted. If you're so capable, why don't you try reasoning with that capricious young lady?

Besides, the young lady and the princess are true cousins, so it's only natural for the older sister to take her younger sister, who has come from afar, to play. You can't win an argument with her, so let's just leave it at that.

The officials from both sides were in perfect harmony and soon resumed the diplomatic process. The samurai and shrine maidens responsible for the safety of Tengu Rin were not worried at all.

Just kidding. If the princess could still be in danger while she was with that young lady, then all of them, the guards, would be useless even if they were there.

The only people present who were furious and dissatisfied with the situation were Rin Amamiya's suitors who had come all the way from Sakura Country.

Why did they pursue Amamiya Rin so passionately before? It was because they were worried that Amamiya Rin would be kidnapped by foreigners like her mother.

However, now Emery has taken Rin Amamiya away right in front of them, and they can only watch helplessly... While feeling extremely humiliated, a strange and indescribable feeling of pleasure has also quietly sprouted in their hearts.

the other side.