Fredrinn Firecrown: The Weakest Villain

Fredrinn had to spend some time chatting with the crown prince and the princess. It was already almost noon when he finally managed to extricate himself from their incessant conversation.

'Damn those pair of siblings! They really wasted three hours of my time talking about random gossip!' Fredrinn cursed in his mind.

With his present cultivation, he no longer had to eat food so he decisively skipped lunch and rejected the crown prince's offer to eat together.

Fredrinn gathered his most trusted subordinates and brought them to the hidden cave and instructed them to secretly mine the Valladium ore.

With the presence of more people, they finally mined all the Valladium ores within the cave in just three days.

"We're finally done! Good job, everyone! You guys will be prioritized when our new equipment is made." Fredrinn promised them.

Hearing this, everyone revealed looks of excitement, except for Cain and Nyx who remained calm.

"We should remove our traces here before we go back to the surface."

"Yes, sir!"

***

A few months went by since the mining of orichalcum began.

Winter has come and the temperature started dropping.

Snow began to fall and slowly piled up.

The miners and the soldiers wore their winter clothes to shield themselves from the cold.

Suddenly, a messenger arrived to deliver his monthly report about the situation on the frontline.

The person who received the letter was Prince Erevard.

"Erevard, what did it say?" Princess Danielle impatiently asked.

She was no longer wearing her armor. She wore a blue Hanfu cloak over her thick long-sleeved wool dress. Wrapped around her neck was a thick fur scarf for some added warmth.

Erevard, on the other hand, was dressed in a thick tang suit and a black fur overcoat. He was already a Void Tempering powerhouse so the cold didn't affect him much.

Erevard who was reading the letter widened his eyes as he muttered. "W-We… won. The enemy soldiers retreated and returned to the Blue Sky Kingdom. Commander Galleon succeeded and even killed the enemy commander in battle!"

"What?!" Princess Danielle snatched the letter from his hands.

"It's true…" Her eyes flashed with joy and disbelief.

They all thought that the Blue Sky Kingdom would continue the war in the next two years. No one would have expected that Commander Galleon would actually slay the enemy commander in battle.

"It looks like we can go home soon." Erevard smiled as he looked at the snow-covered plains underneath the mountain.

Princess Danielle nodded in agreement.

"That guy will be ecstatic if he hears this news." She chuckled as she thought about Fredrinn.

"Erevard, I'll go look for Fredrinn to tell him the good news." Without waiting for her older brother's response, she slipped away with nimble movements.

Looking at her leave so eagerly, Erevard shook his head with a wry smile. "She isn't even married to Fredrinn yet, but she is already acting like his wife."

Meanwhile, Fredrinn was drinking his hot coffee when he sensed a familiar aura coming towards him.

He put down his cup and sighed. He didn't even need to look to know who it was.

"Your Highness, you can't go in! General Fredrinn is still resting and he told us not to disturb him unless it's an emergency." Olivia's voice echoed from outside his tent.

"Why sort of lame excuse is that? Yesterday you said that he was sick, and the other day, you told me that he was meditating. Don't stop me Olivia, I have something important to tell him." The princess's reply came soon after.

Fredrinn rubbed his temples when he heard the conversation outside.

"Let her in." He reluctantly said.

A moment later, Princess Danielle entered the tent and glared at him with her arms crossed.

"Fredrinn, you even dare to stop me from entering your tent now. You've grown bolder." She gnashed her teeth in anger. She came here to deliver a piece of important news, but this guy actually told his subordinates to stop her.

"How could I do that? You're just overthinking things." Fredrinn responded with a dry laugh.

"Just you wait! The first thing I'll do once I return to the capital is tell my father, the king, to send you a marriage proposal."

Hearing this, Fredrinn's smile stiffened. He had already rejected her before, but if the king came to visit the estate to propose marriage, could he still reject it? He wouldn't dare.

Although the Firecrown Supreme Household had become more powerful, he wasn't arrogant enough to claim that they would be able to contend with the royal family.

The Starwind Royal Family had reigned supreme in the kingdom for centuries.

Offending them would only make the Firecrown Supreme Household miserable.

"Danielle, are you really serious about that?"

"Marriage isn't something that you should speak casually."

The princess covered her ears. "I have already heard that a dozen times from you in the last few months."

Fredrinn rubbed his eyes, took a deep breath, and sighed heavily.

"My future is fraught with danger. Getting involved with me would only make your life miserable. Are you ready to risk your life just to marry me?"

Princess Danielle was silent for a moment. His words echoed deeply in her heart.

She could sense the vulnerability in his tone as if he was shouldering a heavy responsibility.

Princess Danielle balled her hands as she bit her lip. "The moment I came here to join you in battle, I was prepared to risk my life just to stay close to you."

Her voice was filled with emotion as she uttered those words.

Fredrinn stared at her in shock. She sensed the deep longing and love in her eyes.

"At first, I only liked you because you were good-looking, but the more time I spent with you, the deeper I fell for you."

Fredrinn's heart trembled when he heard her sincere confession.

It was the first time he had seen her this serious and it made him waver.

'What's this? Why is my heart beating like this?'

Fredrinn realized in that instant that he might have already fallen for her.

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