Overlord Empress - Chapter 104 SERAFINA EMBERDANE

Serafina Emberdane is from Amazon World, belonging to Amazon race. Amazon race is a all women race, with matriarchal society rather than patriarchal society. Here only women reigns supreme, while men are restricted to the hard life of labour.

Even though most of them are women, the Amazon race is a very strong fighting race. With the brutal training they undergo from childhood, they can easily hold themselves against men when comparing physical strength.

When the women of Amazon race gave birth, the female child is declared as the successor and trained in the family arts. If it is a male child, then he will be cared for till he reaches adulthood and sent out to of the family with enough resources to forge his own path. If he proves talented while growing up, then he will be trained to work as soldier for the race.

While the women reaches adulthood, they can choose their partner from these talented soldiers or from foreigners visiting their world. But they are 4 strict rules to be followed when selecting their partner.

One, they should never force any man to marry them against their wishes.Two, the man whom they chose, should be stronger than themselves. Three, they should not hold any personal grudge against the man, in case they reject to marry them. Four, before selecting their partner, they should not have any physical relations with any other man. But In case of divorce and you want to remarry again, then you have to bath under the waterfall of cleansing and take permission from the elders.

Just because it is a haven of women, many men thought it as a paradise and tried to take over the world. But they all ended up in an unknown graves. As they only encourage relations with Strong cultivators, they have very powerful allies throughout all the worlds. So, with the passage of time, very few dare to have negative thoughts towards the Amazon race.

Serafina Emberdane is the current ruler of Amazons. She is what you call rose with thorns. She is the most gifted of all Amazons in the past trillion years. Given her talent and hard work, it didn’t take long for her to reach the sovereign ruler level. But because she spent all of her life pursuing the heights of cultivation, she never once thought about her marriage. But when she thought about it once, it already became late.

Over time, she liked numerous cultivators and few others also showed interest in her. But as per the Amazon rules, they turned out to be weaker than her. So she started looking for an ideal husband among other sovereign rulers.

When it comes to strength only one sovereign ruler stands above her, but he was already married and vowed to never take any more wives than his beloved wife. She found the 2 elven sovereigns too effeminate, so she ignored them. Hrungnir was strong, but his character is vile and he is not to her liking.

So over years, her frustration started to build up. She would always pick fights with her fellow rulers to vent her anger. If it was anyone other than these rulers, they will end up dying in seconds after fighting against her. So she always picked fights with the other rulers. Given her overwhelming strength, it is more like one sided bashing than an actual fight.

Soon she left a dark shadow of herself in other minds. she will beat you up if you refuse her request to fight, she will beat you up if she finds you eyesore, she will beat you up if you talk back to her, she will pulverize you, if you show any signs of ignoring her, she may end up killing you, if you show any signs of running away from her.

Every decade she would appear before them punctually to treat them as punching bags.There wasn’t a single day they prayed for a hero to rescue them from this mad woman. She was especially severe against the 2 elven sovereign rulers, as she found them a bit beautiful than her, even though they are both men. She was no doubt a world class beauty, but a beauty with thorns.

Just like other rulers, she also learnt about Rasia core from her spies and decided to visit Monster world personally to breathe some fresh air and find some lively targets to punch, if they block her way. In other words, she is completely bored and need something to keep herself entertained.

Just like others, she was also interested in this Empress Ichika, who was able to anger the old man from Boda family. But this doesn’t concern her, she will enjoy her time here and leave with the Rasia core after enjoying the fights between all the hopeful idiots.

But it all changed in few minutes, when she saw the Uchiha family step out from the palace. Her heart started to beat out like it is going to explode any second, while blood rushed to her face, turning it beet red, the reason being Emperor Manu.

She saw many men in her life, but she never found someone like Emperor Manu. Eyes are said to be gateways to one’s soul,but she never saw anyone with such beautiful eyes, But sadly they are completely devoid of any emotion, like she is staring into a deep abyss.She can feel pure disdain towards the world from these eyes like they are hiding immense power.

At first she thought it was her imagination and she found a good candidate. But sadly her hopes died down, when she realized she was on higher state world. How strong can someone from a higher state world be? At most Peak paragon level. So going by the Amazon rules, she can’t marry someone weaker than her.

But when Manu used a single attack to take care of all the representatives, for a second she felt like he is stronger than her. There is no doubt in her mind that this man is incredibly strong, but the only question is whether he is stronger than her? The only way to find out is to directly fight against him once.

After Ichika finished giving her warning, she found her interesting as she is also hit first and talk later type. This is definitely the right family for her, even if the man is weaker than her, there is always time to become stronger. So she approached by laughing loudly as if her long waiting has come to an end.

Ichika was also shocked to see Serafina, as she can tell she is also one of the rulers. But as she didn’t sense ill intent from her, she didn’t attack her.

Serafina ignored Ichika and the others and approached Manu who is also staring at her directly.

“What is your name?”- Serafina

“….”- Manu

Serafina waited for a few seconds waiting for Manu’s response, but it felt like eternity for her. Only then did she realize her mistake and did something, which made the 3 elves faint from shock.

“Sorry. It is rude to ask others for their name, without introducing oneself first. My name is Serafina Emberdane from Amazon world”- Serafina

The 3 elves never expected to hear the word ‘sorry’ from Serafina mouth in their lifetime. But as a woman, Phelorna could understand Serafina thoughts to some extent.

“Brothers. It looks like she fell in love with that man. Before the outcome of the battle, she want to leave a good impression of her, in case it turns out this man is stronger than her.”- Phelorna

“….”- Both Tarron and Orrian.

From the beginning they were only thinking to escape from Serafina, but when they heard Phelorna, they can’t help but turn towards her, as if they are looking at a sage. If Phelorna was right by any chance, then probably they will have the chance to escape the fate of being her punching bags.

It is the same with other representatives too as they are now looking at Manu as if looking at a savior. If they can bring this good news back, it is similar to retrieving Rasia core.

Ichika was also shocked by the obedient behaviour of Serafina, but they say it is rude to hit a smiling face.

“Manu”- Manu

“Manu. It means first of all in ancient language. Are you married or if you did, is your wife still alive?”-Serafina

Huh? Just what is she getting at? Ichika may be smart, but she is completely clueless when it comes to matters of the heart. But the rest of the Uchiha who actually know about the avatars started to look between Serafina, Manu and Ichika as they clearly know Manu is Ichika. Mikoto even went a step further and started to cry inwardly. She knew Ichika didn’t show any signs of marrying someone so far, so she thought Ichika hates men. But now seeing Serafina making her move, her only thoughts were, may be Ichika is fated to end up with a woman.

If Ichika were to know these thoughts, she would either kill herself or wished she never started this drama. But who can change the fate, once it is on a flow.  But keeping up with their initial story, Manu answered he is a widower, who lost his wife eons ago.

After listening to Manu, Serafina eyes sparkled like diamonds for 2 reasons. One, it is common among men to remarry once they lost their spouse, but Manu still remained a widower even after a long time. This only showed he still loves his wife even in her death and not a womanizer like other men. Two, since he is single now, she has opportunities to make him her’s, if she showed her sincerity. But all of these will only follow after he defeats her.

Then much to the horror of Ichika, Serafina started to reveal her identity and her goal of approaching Manu. She wants to fight a one on one against Manu, to see if he is her fated one.

Ichika could only blankly stare at Serafina, because she could clearly sense the seriousness and sincerity in Serafina words. But how could she let Manu marry her, it will be similar to her marrying Serafina. At the same time she can’t refuse, as the whole world is watching them. If she took a step back, all her hard work will go to drain. She also can’t reveal the secret about Manu, that he is only a avatar to make her back up,  because it will expose the vulnerability of the Uchiha family.

It only means she has to lose to her. But how could she lose to her while using Manu, who is the avatar of her teacher. If Manu is lost, it is similar to her teachers defeat. Running out of options, she looked towards her family members for help.

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Author’s Note: First chapter of the day. Hope you liked this chapter. As for me I really enjoyed writing it. I hope I gave enough justice for the background of an Amazon. You all may ask, why don’t Ichika just refuse Serafina, as the Amazon laws forbid from forcing someone? The answer is simple, Ichika doesn’t about this rule and she is in an awkward position at the moment. There will be another chapter, but it will be released close to midnight, that is 3 hours after the server reset. I am taking my family out for dinner, so it will be pretty late before I release the next chapter. Enjoy the read and please keep voting. One more chapter, we will start the second and short Event arc of this volume.