Demi-human Girls Completion Manual Chapter 1674 - 122: Palace_2

At this point in the conversation, the remaining cautions between the two clan leaders were hard to speak out. They exchanged a glance and could only apologize to Valentina, indicating their lack of intention.

Valentina merely glanced at Baline, who sat nearby like a mountain. The anger from Elizabeth’s insult finally simmered down, gradually retreating.

"No, I should be the one to apologize... It was my fault for acting without fully understanding Nali’s situation. I initially thought a secret entry, given Elizabeth is just a human, wouldn’t..."

Soon, Valentina shared the general events with the few clan leaders present. Including her reasons for going, using some "Phoenix Secret Technique" to disguise her appearance (actually, it was Master Tao’s Life Chaos Power, which Valentina didn’t reveal specifically), and everything that happened along the way.

"In the end, she didn’t choose to come back with you... well, apart from that, it sounds like there must be some mystery about that Empress Elizabeth. Even the phoenix wielding the Phoenix King Sword couldn’t be her match."

Baline stroked his chin, wisely bypassing their marital affairs, selectively analyzing the key points.

Though Valentina hadn’t disclosed the specific details of what Elizabeth did in front of her at the time, the clan leaders present vaguely sensed a little "green" on their Lord Phoenix’s head, which wasn’t surprising, given how angry she looked when she first returned...

Upon hearing Baline’s words, Valentina furrowed her brow, carefully recalling the scene at the time.

Apart from the persistent, replaying image in her mind of Elizabeth kissing Fisher, she soon realized that whenever Elizabeth’s strange ability activated, her eyes would undergo changes.

She blinked, thoughtfully saying,

"It’s the eyes... Elizabeth’s eyes are unusual. Most of the eerie feeling she emanates comes from her eyes and that golden sword. The power of her eyes is strong, but her physical strength probably isn’t as good as mine, just stronger than the average human. Otherwise, Fisher, with the body strength of an ordinary person at the time, couldn’t have pushed her away, and she clearly couldn’t catch up with us when I took Fisher away."

"Is it possible that just relying on a pair of eyes? A pair of relics, they can rival the phoenix’s bloodline? Is this..."

Clan Chief Dal murmured in disbelief, the incredulity evident in his words, while Baline simply chuckled and said,

"Looking at it this way, Valentina’s trip wasn’t completely fruitless. My clan hasn’t been able to infiltrate Nali to gather intelligence for years, and Valentina, on this visit, directly obtained key intelligence about the Empress of the Golden Palace. It seems our clan’s intelligence-gathering capabilities aren’t as good as yours... However, the cost is a bit significant, her husband remained in Nali."

Bringing this up again filled Valentina with fury, especially considering Fisher voluntarily stayed in Nali in the end!!

What does this mean?

Why, at such a time, after she already did such a thing to you, you choose not your wife but that old woman, her predecessor?

Could it be he truly thinks that old woman is better than me?

No, no, no, this is impossible, it must be, as he said, he stayed to save his teacher’s granddaughter and Emhardt, so...

In any case, Fisher absolutely couldn’t have stayed in Nali because of Elizabeth, absolutely!

"..."

At last, after speaking, Valentina took a deep breath, trying her best to calm herself down. Slowly, she stood up before the clan leaders and solemnly said,

"Everyone, I was wrong this time, it was impulsive. Indeed, my thoughts of my husband were too overwhelming, which led to my actions, because I knew you wouldn’t agree to confront Nali now, skipping over the Northern Realm’s Sardinia Female Country and Turand Family to interfere with Nali’s internal affairs... However, after this, I will immediately start dealing with the matters of the Sardinia Female Country and the Turand Family."

"Yes, it’s good Miss Valentina understands. But I also need to correct their clan leaders on one issue—you probably still harbor illusions about Nali, even though they intervened in our Northern Realm affairs first, still thinking of maintaining mutual respect with them and the Western Continent. Now, they not only increasingly meddle in Northern Realm issues, but the phoenix’s husband also remained there, an outright insult to the Wutong Tree. I still hope you reconsider your future relationship with Nali, especially since you must not forget, we hold a legitimate bloodline of their Golden Palace."

Baline’s words were clear enough, and as the Clan Leader of the Slime family among the Six Clans, he had resolutely stood with Valentina in these matters, feeling distinctly different from the descendants of the other Six Clans.

Valentina greatly appreciated this point, so she also knew her upcoming actions needed to be patient and rational.

She had already lost the previous confrontation with Elizabeth, which was due to negligence and impulsiveness, and now she must avoid making the same mistakes again.

From the perspective of the Wutong Tree, Nali has already become the largest obstacle on their path to restoring Northern Realm’s status; and on a personal level, Valentina had to snatch Fisher back from Elizabeth’s hands.