Heaven, Earth, Me

Chapter 798: Country Swallowing.

After entering the fourth tower, Yasenia and company arrived at the usual teleporter and stepped on it. As always, they checked for intentions and jumped inside after feeling nothing out of place.

Once they reopened their eyes, they were inside a room with eight rock golems, each of them holding a strange paper with jade-like material.

However, unlike the ones prepared for battle in the first trial, these had a very humanoid shape, and some had faces resembling people. They were all around 2 meters tall, big but not excessively so.

Yasenia and the rest blinked a few times, unaware of what was happening. After all, having things that previously attacked them, like mad dogs roaming around her so suddenly, was quite a creepy situation.

All of them took out their weapons and prepared, just in case. But after three minutes, nobody attacked them.

The dragoness asked, confused. "Do you feel any bad feelings coming from them, Eira, Valeria?"

Both of them shook their heads, their postures relaxed.

Valeria added. "Not only are there no bad intentions in them, but they are really weak. A half-strength punch from Kali would blow them to smithereens. There is nothing to worry about, Yasenia."

Confused about the situation, the girls tried to expand their spiritual sense beyond the room they'd appeared in and realized that they couldn't.

Yasenia was surprised and tried again, using all her concentration to expand further. However, to her dismay, the walls were like unmovable mountains, blocking her spiritual sense from expanding further outside.

After one more minute of waiting, the doors opened, and they looked over. They saw a golem entering, wearing robes similar to the others' and holding a similar jade paper.

The girls focused on that paper and saw that there were even shelves with a few of those seemingly ordered by year and month. Andrea approached one of the shelves and looked at the documents closely. Of course, she didn't reach out to touch them yet.

Meanwhile, Cecile focused on expanding her spiritual sense through the open door. But even when the door opened to let one of the golems enter, the spiritual sense couldn't pass through, as if it was trapped.

Cecile told the others about her findings, making them think.

Kali asked. "How much time did it pass before the ninth golem entered?"Fôllôw new stories at wuxiahere.com

Yasenia answered. "Five minutes on the dot."

Andrea blinked. "You were counting?"

The dragoness titled her head. "Isn't it normal to count, just in case?"

Andrea smiled wryly. Then, she asked. "So, should we leave through the room?"

Yasenia shook her head. "I feel that this trial is very different from the rest. Let's wait. First of all, investigate the room. I'm counting to see if any more golems enter the room, and when they do."

The girls began moving around the room, and Yasenia decided to approach the main desk slowly. As she approached, she had a pondering expression that changed to one of wariness once she came close to it. After all, in quite a creepy way, six of the golems turned to look at her at once.

The action was entirely synchronous, so it was clear that she had triggered something.

Her mind spun as she tried to figure out what this trial was for. 'We've done strength, endurance, and agility. What's next? It can be many things' Yasenia looked at the golems, looking at her with a deep expression. 'They turned toward me when I approached the desk, right?'

Yasenia looked at the desk closely. 'But if we are speaking about the main attributes of one person, they should be strength, agility, endurance, and Intelligence?'

Yasenia felt that the way everything was set up was quite likely aimed toward that. The dragoness pondered. 'How do you want to test my intelligence? Documents, a desk that makes the golems react'

Five more minutes had passed, and the door opened once more to let the tenth golem enter. ' And periodical golems that arrive with some kind of document in their hands.'

Once that victory came through, Yasenia was sure that they would've gained a small advantage money-wise. Hence, she would use the war's results and announce them together with a lowering in taxes. Even if taxes result in just a little bit less than before, people would become very happy.

With people becoming motivated, the country would start running again. And if, in the middle, she managed to purge a few corrupt officials and give them to the people, her eligibility would soar through the roof, making people obey her much more honestly.

This way, slowly, she would control the entire country and make it fall into the palm of her hand to puppet it as she pleased.

Her face became cold and emotionless as she processed everything with zero emotional sympathy attached, seeing people as nothing but resources and numbers.

Her orders were swift, ruthless, and sometimes brutal. However, to the girls' surprise, it worked.

Not only did it work, but each of Yasenia's orders showed superb foresight and clarity, quickly dissecting the situation and moving everything in a more favorable direction.

Every 5 minutes, a new stone person would enter with a few documents telling them the overall situation.

Yasenia spoke in a flat tone. "Eira, I need a summary of the seventh town's people. Something is wrong there."

Eira answered. "Twenty seconds."

Yasenia continued without looking over. "Andrea, I want you to find me a document from year XXXXX, month XX about military provisions. If it can focus on the southern part of the country, it would be best."

Andrea nodded. "Understood, give me three minutes."

Yasenia continued without a second. "Kali, are the documents I asked for ready? We need a summary of the west town's finances quickly."

Kali stood up with a stack of jade papers and placed them on Yasenia's desk.

Yasenia took them and scanned them exceptionally quickly. "Cecile."

When hearing her name, Cecile processed a few documents and gave them to Yasenia.

It took eight hours to deal with everything. With a report equivalent to a month and arriving every five minutes, this amounted to around 12 years of conflict before Yasenia completely managed the situation with the girls' help and swallowed the enemy country under her control.

Managing an entire month's worth of problems every five minutes was an extreme challenge. Still, the dragoness proved to be highly talented in this regard.

The girls couldn't help but gulp. It was their first time seeing two countries battle from this point of view, and the way Yasenia handled things was highly ruthless.

Cecile stood up and snorted. "I never thought I would be filing papers in a trial."

Andrea burst into laughter. "Well, it's quite the thing, isn't it? However, it was too easy, no?"

Eira commented. "We have Young Miss."

Yasenia rolled her beautiful golden eyes. "You were the one helping the most. If I had to quantify your contribution, I would give you forty percent."

Eira looked at her Young Miss silently, but she didn't retort.

As they spoke with each other, a teleportation circle appeared in the middle of the room.

Yasenia gave the surroundings a last long look and then stepped into it with the rest.

Their bodies disappeared and arrived at the final floor.