Chapter 359: Chapter 122: Prepare for Battle! Alliance Military Competition_2
After all, the only thing Ke Lian has been busy with recently is the Alliance Military Competition.
Having been demoted from the main seat to a guest seat, the head of a certain family, Lian, perceived Du Xixi’s sneaky observation. While turning his head to smile at Du Xixi, his hands didn’t stop as he picked up her favorite dishes for her, seemingly unaware of the curiosity in Du Xixi’s eyes.
Du Xixi withdrew her gaze and began to eat. Anyway, Ke Lian would soon tell them about it, and her curiosity and wild guesses wouldn’t matter much.
After a relaxed dinner, everyone sat back on the sofa. On one side, the two children were enjoying their bottles, while on the other, 2569 diligently cleared the table and dishes.
"Ah Lan, what do you want to talk about?" Ke Xing patted his stomach. Being able to enjoy such delicious food every day made him feel decades younger. Though eating too much was quite burdensome for his digestive system.
Timely retrieving some digestant tablets from the medicine box under the coffee table and handing them over to Ke Xing, Ke Lian said naturally, "It’s about the Alliance Military Competition... Xixi has to participate too."
"Me?" Du Xixi had imagined many things about the Alliance Military Competition, mostly about battle after battle, where real skills would be shown on the field, and perhaps she would merely sit in the stands as a spectator.
But at this moment, Ke Lian actually said she had to be involved? Involved in what? As a referee, or a contestant? Looking down at her pale hands, so pale that even the veins were visible, Du Xixi felt she at least wouldn’t be a contestant.
An all-star known weakling, if she were to participate in the Alliance Military Competition, would it be to make Blue Star Empire lose its first-place honor?
"Yes. The Alliance Military Competition has newly established a civilian contest." Ke Lian put his arm around Du Xixi’s shoulders, pulling her into his embrace. "Although I’m in charge of this year’s Alliance Military Competition, representatives from other empires also participated in the discussions... The Four Great Empires have gathered quite a few people."
The Alliance Military Competition isn’t controlled by anyone from any empire. Generally speaking, as long as it doesn’t concern the interests of various empires, decisions are usually passed through joint voting by several representatives.
With Ke Lian’s words, Du Xixi and the others understood that Du Xixi’s involvement in this Alliance Military Competition was inextricably linked to the Four Great Empires.
What civilian contest? It was just an expanded range of contestants that were originally restricted to each empire’s Military Department, using this excuse to drag Du Xixi in.
Du Xixi’s spiritual power is very strong, almost everyone in the all-star knew she possesses Spiritual Talent, and her 3S is the king in the realm of spiritual power, but as strong as her spiritual power is, her physical strength is equally weak.
Initially, the first impression most people had of Du Xixi, aside from being the Empire Marshal’s Wife of the Blue Star Empire, was that she was "weak and sickly." Even when people first remembered her, it was because she got spotted in the military hospital.
"It seems the Four Great Empires are really determined to go against our Blue Star Empire." Du Xixi pursed her lips after a long pause, softly uttering, "They even set their sights on me; they sure think highly of me."
This time’s Alliance Military Competition, the Four Great Empires were hell-bent on making the Blue Star Empire lose its first-place position, and someone like Du Xixi, a "hindrance," was undoubtedly their best pawn.
This was akin to a flock of cranes mingled with a non-flying yellow chicken, not only unsightly but also lowering the overall strength.
"Civilian contest, are they going to force Xixi to participate?" Ke Xing pointed out the main issue, his face carrying a hint of cold mockery. The Four Great Empires truly deserved their reputation as the major forces in interstellar space, with an impressive ability to rally other empires against Du Xixi.
A princess of a powerful empire, who gave them the courage to offend in this way? Wasn’t the precedent set by the Morri Empire and the Chengsta Empire enough to serve as a warning?
"Three hundred and sixty-two representatives, three hundred and eleven agreed for the Blue Star Empire’s Empress to partake in the civilian contest, to demonstrate the Blue Star Empire’s exemplary conduct." Ke Lian twirled a strand of Du Xixi’s long hair with his fingertips, his expression relatively relaxed yet unable to mask the underlying sarcasm, "Faced with benefits, they naturally disregard everything else."
"Benefits? The Four Great Empires are being turned upside down by Brother and the others, the Zao Mu Empire is almost collapsing, what benefits can they possibly offer?" Du Xixi reclined in Ke Lian’s embrace, at home, she felt no need for decorum, her ears already catching the slightly quickened heartbeat of Ke Lian, "Aligning with our Blue Star Empire should grant them more benefits."