Transmigrating from a zombie world to become the mecha kings wife
Chapter 574: Carolyn’s engagement___2.

Chapter 574: Carolyn’s engagement___2.

The empress sighed tiredly. Obviously she had a goal in mind that she had been hoping would be accomplished but Scarlet had no idea how it was related to them.

"Were you hoping to purchase the new mineral rights of the rare minerals from them?" Esong asked her.

She nodded. "I surely thought meeting Scarlet would excite them then I could slip in and seal the deal. Look at all the other nobles in the room dying to sniff her."

Scarlet made a face because she definitely didn’t want any nobles sniffing her. That was just too weird, no creepy, she thought.

"I don’t mean literal sniffing dear, you don’t have to make such a face." The empress told her.

Scarlet’s smile returned, a less honest one this time round since she was forcing herself to smile.

"Okay, maybe don’t smile." The empress told her.

Scarlet closed her mouth and moaned softly. For two hours, she had been smiling and her face was actually tired of it. She would much rather have been with Carolyn in the dressing area but she had been dragged out because she was a governor and she needed to mingle with other powerful people. The wealth of the guests in the room put together was enough to feed every citizen of the planet for more than a century without anyone needing to work.

"I am going to take a sitting break." Scarlet told Esong.

"Check on your sister." The empress told her. "Make sure that she is not having cold feet."

It was unknown if she was saying it as a joke or because she had heard a rumor. The empress was certainly not smiling when she said it.

"Who is making sure that Markay doesn’t get cold feet?" She responded.

"His friends." The empress responded.

Scarlet showed no reaction but in her mind, she wondered if that was a great idea. Folsom was not ready for marriage, Jacks was a loose canon sexually, Ian and Cedric were sheep that followed their leader. If Markey did get cold feet, none of them would stop him from calling the engagement quits.

"His father, the emperor is there as well. Don’t worry dear, we will not bring your family shame." The empress touched Scarlet’s arm and assured her.

Scarlet responded with a grateful nod and she touched the empress’s arm too. She squeezed it a little in a grateful gesture.

Both women smiled at each other and then Scarlet turned her back and walked away from her.

"Do you need me to speak to the Lobsters?" Esong asked the empress.

She in turn warned him with a stern look in her eyes. "Don’t play around like that. If someone were to hear you address them as such then it would intervene with my plans. It would also be a scandal. But no, don’t speak to them because they will be more impressed with your wife than you. In case you haven’t noticed dear nephew, your wife has more influence among the nobles than you do now. Until winter comes around anyway, then they will seek you out as if you are the god of life or safety. Is there a god of safety?"

Esong had no idea and he was about to say yes anyway because Scarlet had said there was a god for everything when the Lord Godiver, the third walked up to them.

"General Esong Wu, you are just the man I wanted to see." he said loudly.

The empress turned around with a quickness Esong did not foresee and she escaped. She had no interest in speaking to anyone from the Godiver house.

Scarlet in the meantime, found some peace and quiet inside of the closest kitchen on the floor of the ball room. She sat on the sparkling clean kitchen counter and got herself a coffee milkshake.

When she took a sip, her face changed and she stuck her tongue out with a look of puzzlement in her eyes. This was not coffee, it was banana.

"What the hell?" she said.

"I heard that coffee is not good for pregnant women." A voice said.

Carnelia, Lythia and Love appeared next to her. The one who said coffee was not good was the goddess of love. She had escaped the humans only to end up with non humans.

"Who needs peace when you can have deities?" Scarlet asked sarcastically.

"You have half human-half different species of people out there and we are the unwanted ones." Carnelia responded in an equally sarcastic voice.

She was referring to some of the guests from the other planets who were definitely alien. She was sure she had seen someone with a tail among the guests and a woman with tiger stripes on her face. All guests from the royal side of the family, guests of the prince.

The Su’s had only human guests. Scarlet looked at the three deities and amended that thought. Humans and gods. If it was a competition on who had the most abnormal guests, the Su’s were winning.

"Why are guys here?" she asked them.

"I came to bless the couple." Love announced.

She was all smiles and sunshine, way too happy and overdressed as if it was her wedding. She was wearing a white body hugging dress with lace at the top and bottom. A white crown of flowers was in her hair. She had probably been the center of attention wherever she had been standing.

"We came because we heard life angels were sniffing around." Carnelia told her.

Right, the life angels Severus had mentioned to her last night. Was Carnelia here to personally chase them away or convince her to allow the flock of harpies into her home and life?

"How do you intend to deal with them?" Scarlet asked her.

"I am going to burn some feathers baby." Carnelia hooted in excitement.

Scarlet scowled at the fire goddess and said, "Please don’t commit another arson in one of my cities. I cannot have the Blue star gain a reputation of being a fire prone planet. It’s not good for business."

"Can I burn them in the capital?" Carnelia asked.

It surprised Scarlet that a deity would listen to her opinion and actually respect it. Normally they just did as they wished. What had got into Carnelia? Not that it mattered as long as they were not creating trouble on her world.

"Sure, have fun." She replied.

Love gasped and grabbed Scarlet’s shoulders. "You would be okay with her burning life angels!! But we must all love each other. That is not the way..."

"Yeah, that’s not how love works. Loving your enemy is bullshit which will make you wake up one day with a knife in your back." Scarlet cut the goddess off and gently pushed her aside.

The life angels were not her friends and they were here with nefarious plans. The war had already started and pawns were being placed on boards. If someone cleared the board for her then who was she to complain?

Scarlet looked away from the deities and increased the volume on the television. Two very excited reporters were reporting live from outside the castle where Prince Markey and his entourage, including the emperor had arrived riding on the backs of elephants.