Nanomancer Reborn - I've Become A Snow Girl?

Arriving at the edge of Manila, Shiro immediately noticed a change in mana as a notification appeared on her interface.

[You have stepped into the Domain of Queen Aisha. As an enemy queen, you will experience the following effects while in this domain.]

-20% to all stats

-20% effectiveness to all Queen related spells

-20% system assistance

"Apparently the Queen is called Aisha. I wonder what kind of Queen she is." Shiro muttered as their title could give her a clue on what their strengths are.

For example, Limra was the vampiric queen so Shiro knew that she should probably be wary of her absorbing something from her body.

If she knew what Aisha was the queen of, it'll be a lot easier.

"Shall we investigate a little first and ask the residents about what's happening?" Nan Tian asked as Shiro nodded her head.

"Mn, since I don't need to kill all the Queens to win the new age, we might be able to get ourselves an ally." Shiro replied.

"Though it'll be rather tough with her pride. After all, she's the leader of a race and serving under someone might be a rather annoying thought for her. It's like if someone asked you to serve under them which I doubt you'd enjoy." Nan Tian shrugged.

"True. But if she doesn't like it slaughtering her is also an option." Shiro grinned as they exited the teleport shrine.

Currently, they were just outside of the city as a giant crystal could be seen floating in the centre of the city as it would pulse out with a mystic energy every so often.

With Shiro's perception, she could tell that this energy was supplying a barrier of sorts but there wasn't a barrier being erected around the city.

This could either mean that she didn't detect the barrier or that it was storing energy.

Both options were likely as Shiro snapped her fingers and made some nanobots in the air in front of her.

Controlling them to fly towards the crystal, Shiro and Nan Tian attempted to enter the city.

Glancing into the distance, they could see the sea as well as what seemed to be a ruin of sorts protruding out of the water surface.

"If you're wondering about that, it's a large scale dungeon. The loot is rather nice and each level of the dungeon has a different level limit. You can theoretically just stay in Manila and take your time to level up until you're level 200." Nan Tian explained as Shiro raised her eyebrow.

"What world is it even linked to then? Most dungeons are fixed at a level unless they mutate no?" Shiro asked curiously.

"No idea but there are quite a few scholars that are studying this dungeon specifically since cases like this are rather rare. I would say that we can probably try to meet one right now but with how things are, it might be a little difficult. Who knows, if Aisha is a tyrannical queen, she might kill all those that won't follow her lead." Nan Tian said as Shiro agreed with him since Limra was probably one of those people.

Remembering the hate filled faces of those who glared at her after she ruined their city, Shiro couldn't help but sigh.

Shaking her head, she dismissed the thoughts and walked towards the city.

Unlike the other cities they've been too, there weren't city walls or guards checking your ID before you can enter. You were allowed to go in and out whenever you wanted.

Of course, there are guards walking around patrolling to ensure public order so they still had to behave themselves.

Most of the guards here were around level 150 to 200. Shiro couldn't see anyone that was in the realm of tier 5 which is to be expected since this level was achieved by a small percent of people in the entire world.

Walking around the city, they couldn't spot anyone belonging to Queen Aisha so they decided to go to a bar for now to see if they could get any information such as rumours. After all, there was a good chance that people would talk about the big crystal in the sky and the Queen associated with it.

Making their way to one of the bigger bars that they could find, Shiro and Nan Tian sat down near the window while listening to their surroundings.

Most of the talks were about what they had been doing during the day, scheduling some parties as well as troubles in the family.

Surprisingly, no one mentioned the crystal at all.

Furrowing her brows, Shiro found this a little strange as she downed her cocktail and walked over to the bar counter.

"Excuse me." Shiro called out as a bartender glanced over.

"Yes? What can I get for you?" She asked respectfully.

"Ah I just got a question. Do you know what's up with the giant crystal in the sky?" Shiro asked with a smile as the bartender furrowed her brows and gestured for Shiro to lean in.

"Please don't mention anything about the crystal out in public." The bartender warned as Shiro raised her eyebrow.

Before she could say anything, the bartender only handed her the same cocktail she had ordered earlier.

Taking this as a sign that she didn't want to talk about this anymore, Shiro made her way back to Nan Tian.

"So did she say anything about it?" Nan Tian asked.

"Nope. Apparently, we shouldn't be talking about it in public." Shiro sighed and shook her head.

Just as she was about to take a sip of her cocktail, she felt something wrong as her instincts were telling her not to drink it.

Frowning slightly, she summoned some nanobots and analysed her drink.

After a second, she narrowed her eyes at the bartender as her drink had been spiked with a substance similar to aphrodisiac only the concentration was much higher.

Picking up her glass, she walked towards the bartender and narrowed her eyes.

"Would you happen to know what's in this glass?" Shiro asked with a smile.

However, the bartender did not panic as she only had a smile on her face.

"You have good instincts." She praised as Shiro narrowed her eyes and reached out towards her collar.

Grabbing her by the neck, Shiro threatened to pour the drink down the bartender's mouth.

"Why did you do this?" Shiro questioned with a frown.

"Hahaha! Do it please! Give me that drink if you don't want it!" The bartender had a crazed look in her eyes as her gaze didn't leave the cocktail.

Feeling disgusted, Shiro immediately let go of the woman and poured the cocktail away.

"Really, you shouldn't let go of your enemy so easily." The bartender shrugged as she quickly adjusted her clothes so that she looked proper once more.

"Who are you." Shiro narrowed her eyes.

"I'm just a bartender." The woman smiled.

"Bullshit." Shiro retorted as she summoned her sword.

Sighing softly, the bartender only shrugged.

"So aggressive. Fine, let me reintroduce myself then."

Wave her hand in front of her face, the woman's hair flickered as it changed into a silver blonde that reached her lower back. Her eyes were similar to Shiro's as they were also blood red.

Glancing at her title card, Shiro narrowed her eyes.

[Aisha – Queen of Trickery.]

"For a Queen of trickery, you sure are bad at your job." Shiro joked as Aisha shrugged her shoulder.

"Are you sure?" She asked with a smile as Shiro's body instantly heated up.

Widening her eyes, Shiro felt as though she had just lost all of her resistances as the alcohol started to act up in her system.

But what was strange was that she knew she wasn't drunk. It was a mental effect.

Furrowing her brows, Shiro stood her ground.

"Oh my, how surprising. Despite tricking your mind to believe it is super drunk, you can wrestle yourself out of it. Well… somewhat." Aisha clapped her hand as Shiro wanted to jump back slightly to make some distance.

But just as she attempted this, she felt her body move to the side and fall over which confused her since her movement had been completely jumbled. Quickly analysing her movements, Shiro barely stood up before the controls were messed up once more.

"You adapt rather fast too. You are quite fun, why don't you be my doll from now on?" Aisha asked with a smile as she was akin to a puppeteer with invisible strings.