"Haysttt... In the past, I always desire for my daughter to grow up fast. But now, I can't help myself desiring for her to stay as a child. This is maybe the reason why every father is against their daughter's marrying because they would start caring about their significant other more than their very own parents." Queen Maria said, but what her feeling right now was obviously the otherwise, specifically she's happy for Princess Elaine, "Since you are already a grown-up. You're no longer a girl, but an official woman. Even to the point that you dare treat me, your own mother, like this just to persuade me for this alliance. Then, I would accept it! Let's form this alliance!"

Leo and the others were immediately delighted after hearing that Queen Maria would accept being their ally. Even Olivia was smiling sweetly because of this.

"However,"

Though everyone soon after turned serious as soon as they heard the word 'However'. In their case right now, using the word 'However' simply means a condition. And since it has a condition for Queen Maria to accept this alliance, they obviously need to treat it seriously. No matter how much Princess Elaine says that they need to form an alliance with the Mischievous Lion organization, it was pretty obvious to see that Mischievous Lion organization needs them more.

"Just like how Princess Elaine married Prince Ethan, one of the soon-to-be princes of Mischievous Lion organization would also need to marry one of the Blue Fin Kingdom's princesses." Queen Maria sat on her chair once again before moving the queen piece to check Olivia's king piece, "Check! You also understand this, Queen Olivia?"

Ever since Queen Maria meet Olivia, she had always been addressing the latter with her name Olivia only. But right now, she now addresses her with the word 'Queen', implying that she's treating Olivia with the same status as her.

"I, of course, understand this," Queen Olivia nodded her head with a smile before she used her side's queen piece to defend her king piece from Queen Maria's queen piece, "But unfortunately, I don't have any child yet, hence I don't have anyone to offer to you."

Queen Maria then used her rook piece to check Queen Olivia's king piece, "Check! But I heard you have 3 beloved disciplines, which should be the soon-to-be prince once you conquer the Silver Kingdom, right?"

"Yes, they would indeed be the soon-to-be prince once I conquer the Silver Kingdom. But, I'm only their Master, so I can't decide what kind of life they should live nor choose a woman that they should marry. It's their life, so it's their choice. The only thing I do as their Master is to teach them what to do and not to do, but the choice would still remain entirely up to them whether they would follow my suggestion or not." Queen Olivia used her bishop piece to defend herself from Queen Maria's rook.

Seeing that she can no longer check Queen Olivia's king piece due to the tight defense, Queen Maria then began setting up a new strategy to chip off Olivia's defense on the board, "That's indeed so unfortunate. But, the Blue Fin Kingdom can't just trust someone who doesn't have any ties with us, right?"

"Of course, as that is the common thing needed to have a good political relationship." Queen Olivia moved her horse to check Queen Maria's king piece. "So how about one of your princesses marries one of my 24 Elders."

Hearing this, Queen Maria's forehead furrowed, but she still remained calm, "Although they have high potentials, as I've heard all 24 of them has a cultivation ranging from 9 Star to 1st Galaxy-"

"1st Galaxy to 2nd Galaxy," Queen Olivia corrected. Ever since the start of the war, she immediately handed plentiful of resources to the 24 Elders, hence helping them breakthrough to another realm or level.

"Oh, then 1st Galaxy to 2nd Galaxy, but still they are not members of your soon-to-be royal family, right? At best, they would be your Royal Magical Knights or Ministers." Queen Maria then moved her king piece to the side, "So, I, unfortunately, can't accept them."

"Why? Do you look down on the position of Royal Magical Knights or Ministers? Although they would have such a position, their cultivation is not something to look down upon on by anyone. So, even if other Merlfolks heard of you allowing this marriage, they would understand that it's the princesses themselves who insist to marry a powerful knight as a hero or a smart scholar." Queen Olivia moved her rook to check Queen Maria's queen piece.

"It's not that I look down on them. In fact, I don't have any problem with Royal Magical Knights and Ministers. But, we are talking about my daughters here. So, they deserve a status and richest as well." Queen Maria moved her queen piece to check Queen Olivia's horse piece.

The Blue Fin Kingdom was actually a matriarchal territory with no harem, which is unlike the territories where their rulers can have one Queen or King and multiple concubines. In such kind of territory, there exist two types of royalty for them, the main bloodline which would obviously be the Queen's offspring, and the branch bloodline, or otherwise more known as sacrificial offspring, would be the concubine's offspring. The main bloodline would of course be marrying the main bloodline of other royal families, while the branch bloodline would be marrying fellow branch bloodline or worst Royal Magical Knights or Ministers. Those main bloodlines would be marrying to expand the territory, while the branch bloodline would be marrying to form an alliance.

However, since Blue Fin Kingdom was not like that, hence they don't have any branch bloodline but only the main bloodline. Hence, such kind of marriage as having one of their princesses to marry Royal Magical Knights or Ministers is absolutely not allowed. And although this wasn't to expand a territory either, this was still something close to that as the Silver Kingdom once successfully conquered by the Mischievous Lion organization would become an ally the same way as to how Princess Elaine had described they would be, specifically they would not hesitate to climb a mountain of swords or swim an ocean of fire.

Hearing this, Queen Olivia nodded her head in understanding. She didn't move any piece anymore, implying the stop of the game, and instead looked at Queen Maria's eyes, "So, which of my three disciples would you want one of your princesses to be married to. But, you should heed into consideration that if they want a harem, then don't blame me for not giving you any face."

"I heard that the moment you become Queen of Silver Kingdom you will be giving the President position of Mischievous Lion organization to one of your three disciples, specifically the most capable one, am I right?" Queen Maria said.

"And...?"

At the side, Leo, who was remaining silent, all this time suddenly began sweating.

"So, amongst the three who is the most capable." Queen Maria asked.

Hearing this, Leo subconsciously took a step back to hide behind Charlotte. However, this small act of his alone was unfortunately not able to escape from Queen Maria's eyes.

"Oh, so it's him." Queen Maria turned to look at Leo.

Leo really can't help gritting his teeth. After trouble having not followed after him for dozens of days or so, it finally decided to knock on his door once again. This time, it was again bringing him something comparable to Cassandra and Elizabeth.

When he finally only has Cassandra and Elizabeth by his side, since Veronica and Angel were busy on something and he is obviously still ignorant of how exactly Ash and Charlotte feel about him, trouble seemingly thought that it seems like his life was missing something, to be more specific, a troublesome woman, hence it decided to give him one to patch up one of their absence. No, it wasn't even to patch up, since this would actually be permanent.

"You meant Leo?" Queen Olivia dubiously asked, "You obviously don't know this, but let me inform you. Based on the information I have received, Leo already has 6 women interested in marrying him. So, most likely in the future, he would be having a harem. And in my opinion, it would not just be any ordinary harem as all of those women would definitely desire to be the main wife. Therefore, I suggest you choose George or Charles as the two of them are a hundred percent single."

What Queen Olivia specifically meant about the 6 women was obviously Cassandra, Elizabeth, Veronica, Angel, and Ash. As for the sixth, it was pretty much Charlotte.

Cassandra and Elizabeth quickly took each of Leo's hands to express their stand on this matter.

Unbeknownst to everyone, Charlotte who was in front of Leo silently moved her hand to touch her Six Headed Snake Twin Daggers on her waist.

"Oh, I didn't expect you to have such a lecherous guy as your disciple..." Queen Maria said, but it was so obvious in her eyes that she doesn't mind about it.

"It's not that Leo is a lecherous person, but those women seem to be attracted to his charm." Queen Olivia explained, "And this kind of charm is something that even I'm really curious to know what is it exactly about."

"I can see what you meant..." Queen Maria nodded in agreement with Queen Olivia's assumption. No one might be able to notice this, but with her 9th Galaxy Mage level of cultivation, she can actually see with her own eyes that the three woman's Fate, specifically Cassandra, Elizabeth, and Charlotte, were actually connected to Leo's, specifically a red string. It wasn't only that, there was also three more other Fate that she could faintly feel were connected to Leo's as well, implying that they are far from him right this moment. It was really surprising to see this since amongst all of the people she had seen in her entire life, either of Human, Merlfolks, or any other Foreign races, would actually only have one person Fated to each other. And shockingly, Leo actually has six women Fated to him. What's even more surprising was, she can also feel that this is not the end of Leo's red string of Fate's yet. Their is more, and all of it seems to be connected to something inside of Leo.

"Don't worry, George and Charles are both 8 Star Mage while still being 20 years old. So, their potential in becoming a powerful Mage is high. You will definitely not be losing if you choose them." Queen Olivia said.

But, contrary to everyone's thoughts, Queen Maria shook her head as she said, "I'm really grateful for your suggestion, really, but..."

Hearing that line alone, Leo really wanted to quickly run away far from this place. If only this discussion wasn't important and that he respected whatever his Master Olivia would choose for him, he would have highly likely run away already.

"But, I would still want one of my princesses to marry him. As for who, I'll look for her when I return back to Blue Fin Kingdom." Queen Maria said.

With only Queen Olivia and Queen Maria noticing, another faint red string of Fate immediately formed from Leo to someone else's right after Queen Maria decided on her choice.

"This is interesting..." Queen Olivia and Queen Maria thought at the same time.