The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 132: Queen of mages.

Unaware that she had a thief in her house, Sigrid was at the mage estate, looking at the very first magical runes

that would be used to transmit signals, working like cables on earth to transmit encoded signals.

Initially when she explained the idea to her brother, she thought it would take him months or a year to life such a

project off the ground but surprisingly, Elroy and his team had done it in two and a half months.

Her eyes lingers on the tall poles in which the runes had been imbued. They were symbols with arcane power,

each glowing with a shimmering light that pulsed like a heartbeat. The colors varied from white to ethereal blue,

gold and fiery red. Each color represented strength of the signal.

"We have created one hundred and ten so far and we are going to plant them all around the kingdom. They are

far from covering the entire kingdom of course, half of them are going to work in the capital city alone." Elowin

explained.

Sigrid nodded, her fingers touched the symbols of on the poles.

"The runes will travel along magical ley lines that are invisible to the naked eye. Mages will of course be able to

see them because we are responsible for maintaining them." He sighed.

She took her eyes from the wooden poles and looked at him. She was willing to solve any troubles that he had

because he had worked hard to fulfill her expectations.

"What troubles you brother?"

Elowin moved his finger around the room in which they were standing. It was very large room, the size of a hall

that could hold at least three hundred people. Ordinary humans were cutting runes into the poles but they were

slow. The finished poles were being activated by three mages that were imbuing magic into the runes.

"Look around Siggy, the number of mages is limited, it will take us at least a year to cover the entire kingdom.

Do not forget that we have other projects too like the magic phones you mentioned, radios, cars, percolators and

more because your list of ideas is very extensive.

All of these things need mages, alchemists, artificers, enchanters and craftsmen. We have a shortage of talented

people like that." His upper lip curled up in displeasure, marring his handsface. "Do you know who | blame

for this>"

"The king?" she said without hesitation.

He looked around, they were far enough from everyone to discuss openly so he nodded. "Not just him, the

former king, the one that cbefore him and the one before that one. | don’t even want to say their names

because my throat fills with bile every t| think about their unfair rules on women and magic.

Did you know that two out of every ten female children born a day are gifted with magic?"

"l do."

Elowin nearly gasped, his eyes widened a little and then he laughed. "I had forgotten that you looked into

women and the rules of magic in the kingdom. Obviously, you would be aware of this."

He played around with the ring on his thumb that she had given him, turning it with his other thumb slowly.

"I don’t just blthe current king for the shortage of mages, | bleveryone that has ever held a position of

power and decided to turn a blind eye to the unnatural stripping of magic from girls. | blevery high mage as

well, they should have fought harder to put an end to it many years ago.

We would have more than three thousand mages in the kingdom if they had just let nature take it’s true course."

He sat down and sighed. "Sometimes | wish that we had independence, a clear line between mages and royalty.

The royal family was the cause of trouble for mages after all."

Sigrid put her hand on his head to comfort him. Surprisingly, he put his hands around her waist and leaned his

head against the side of her waist.

"Sister, when you beca queen, | hope that you will change the rules and untangle the web which forces

mages to serve royalty. Change the laws which say that all mages must be knights, fighting in the royal army. We

are people too you know, we deserve to make a choice on what we want like ordinary citizens do."

The irony of his words was that ordinary citizens would give anything to be mages, while mages felt they were

being suffocated due to their abilities. Free will had been stripped from them and swords had been thrust in their

hands.

"Sister, you will not just be queen of the ordinary people, you will be the queen of mages. The first queen with

magic in two centuries at least. You have no idea how excited every mage is. You cannot let us down, we have

pinned our hopes on you."

She laughed and wiped non existent sweat from her eyebrows. Oh my! what a way to put pressure on me

brother."

"It is inevitable, fate decided to make you the next queen of Eldoria and then gave you magic after your

marriage was decided upon. Obviously, it was so you would fulfill this purpose and do great deeds."

Sigrid thought about the bank that had given her the special abilities she had.

"Fate had nothing to do with it." she mumbled.

Elowin dropped his hands and touched one of the many magic stones on his desk. All were used for research and

all were of different types.

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She exchanged a few more words with him and then left the hall. Many eager young mages and workers on the

mage estate pounced with smiles. They were drawn to her like cats to catnip.

"Do not makereveal my sword." Cosmos bellowed.

They scurried away, shooting him unappreciative glares. He was the stumbling block between them and the

opportunity to get sadvice on magic or take pictures with Sigrid.

His large size and magical ability made him scary, but most of all, his eyes that had unfathomable scary depths

frightened them the most. It was like looking into an abyss or hell.