Chapter 66

Princess Alesia's activities continued, and after recovering from the fatigue of childbirth, she once again rode her horse to various places to bring rain and distribute water.

Since it takes too much time to travel by carriage, she rides her horse.

Marks is very worried about Alesia's health.

"Riding a horse must be tiring. I'll increase the number of water towers, so it would be better to use a carriage."

"I enjoy riding a horse. I can't usually do that. Besides, I don't want to be away from the children for too long. The time when they are babies is so short."

While Alesia is out, Marks frequently visits to see the infants' faces.

"Your mother is beautiful, strong, and wonderful. But she's a bit stubborn. That's also part of her charm. I hope she comes back soon. You and I will wait for her return together."

He ends up speaking his true feelings to the infants, not wanting Gil to hear.

......

Mikhail and Isabelle are distributing silk cloths that are said to be infused with Alesia's healing power. Isabelle is doing this in the capital, while Mikhail is doing it in places far from the capital.

Mikhail was amazed by the effectiveness of the silk cloths. He was convinced that the increased wealth of the national treasury was due to them.

Young scholars and engineers in Laminb learned the knowledge and technology of other countries through the silk cloths.

Many deep wells were dug in the wasteland. Clean water from rivers deep underground was drawn up, contributing to the expansion of farmland. The cost was covered by the silk cloths, and it seems that no country could give them up once they started using them.

Those who learned advanced medical knowledge in other countries spread out to various parts of the Kingdom of Laminb.

The twin children grew up healthily, and even though Emilia was only two years old, marriage proposals were pouring in from other countries. However, Marks and Alesia had no intention of marrying her off to another country.

Alesia understood the feelings of her parents, who had hidden her from power.

"I don't want my child to be used as a tool," she thought, hugging Emilia. She is protected by Marks, but the thought of what might happen if she were sent to a distant country made her heart ache.

One day.

"Ah!"

A scream from a maid echoed through the palace, and the guard knights rushed into the children's room.

"Huh?"

The knights froze at the entrance. Emilia was floating many small water balls around her and laughing, while Nigel was looking up at a large water ball floating near the ceiling, big enough to fit an adult.

"Hey, move the maid before the big one falls!"

"Yes, sir!"

To avoid startling the young princes, the knights walked with strained smiles and gently moved the maid, who seemed to have fainted, out from under the large water ball.

The three adults couldn't take their eyes off the large water ball. Just as they heaved a sigh of relief for getting the maid out from under it, Prince Nigel noticed his mother standing at the entrance and innocently lowered his arm to run to her.

"Ah!"

A pitiful cry echoed. Everyone thought the heavy water would fall, but it didn't.

Alesia, who immediately understood the situation, chanted "Water" and enveloped the children's water balls with her own water. With a graceful movement of her arm, she moved the large and small water balls to the terrace and let them fall.

Splash! Splash! Splash!

All the water balls fell on the terrace. The knight couldn't help but exhale "Phew" and bowed to Princess Alesia, saying, "Thank you." The maid also nodded and bowed.

"Ira, I'm sorry. I made you scared. I'll make sure to tell the children not to do this again. I wonder when they became able to create such a large water ball."

(In my previous life, I couldn't do this until I was four and could pronounce words accurately. Being able to control water without incantations is something to consider.)

Alesia, who was hugged by the two children, smiled with a troubled expression. Ira, the maid who almost became submerged under hundreds of kilograms of water, was still speechless.

After that, the two children caused all sorts of trouble. Since they can create water balls without incantations, no one could predict when water would appear. The maids and knights serving them became constantly alert to the water above their heads.

When Ethan was playing with the children and got drenched, it became a long-standing joke. Ethan, who had confessed to Chana but was rejected, is now close to a girl who works in the state-owned mulberry fields. Chana, with her fairy-like beauty, says:

"I still want to wait a while before getting married. Now that I'm feeling better, I want to experience many things to make up for the time I spent bedridden."

She spends her time weaving and broadening her horizons.

Alesia began to teach the children how to use water magic amidst her busy official duties.

After letting them create as much water as they want in the wasteland and tiring them out, she had them practice pouring water into a large bucket without spilling it. Once they could do that, she had them practice pouring water into buckets and cups. She taught and guided them to prevent them from becoming frustrated, using up all their magic power, and creating water indoors.

Even so, sometimes when the two children started fighting, small water balls would fly around the room. No one but Alesia could stop them, and Gil, who happened to see this, lamented, "What a waste!"

Because of this, the children were given the task of filling large buckets with water from a young age of three. They couldn't yet make rain fall evenly over a wide area, so they just needed to create water roughly.

But Emilia, who was good at fine magic control, started practicing making rain every day, mimicking her mother.

Nigel, driven by a competitive spirit, tried to make rain next to Emilia, creating a large water ball. Gil repeatedly said, "Here! You must practice pouring water into the barrels here," but it seemed that his request was not being taken seriously.

The plants in the courtyard where the twins played and fought were clearly growing well. The gardeners quickly realized that the water created by the princes contained something that made plants grow vigorously. So, when a plant was weak, they would pot it and place it in the courtyard where the water play took place.

The stable hands also noticed that the horses drank the water created by the twins and had better coats and didn't tire easily even after long runs. A quiet competition for the water in the barrels in the courtyard, placed by Gil, broke out between the gardeners and the stable hands every day.

Gil, noticing that the barrels were often empty recently, thought, "Hmm? The princes are no longer playing in the courtyard?" But the barrels were quickly moved and replaced with empty ones.