Chapter 1 Suren's Observation

Suren watched the confrontation in front of the Frederick Palace from the attic, his eyes flashing with thought.

He now understood that the person responsible for the disastrous situation in Luen was Empress Charlotte.

Master Pierre’s assessment was accurate; she was just an old woman greedy for power.

No, and quite vicious!

In fact, the decline of the royal family was preordained from the very beginning when the empire chose the aristocratic collective power system.

When conquering the world, Bonaparte I enfeoffed a large number of meritorious officials as nobles.

But as time passed, the nobles' control over their fiefs grew stronger, and they gradually formed behemoths.

Duchies, marquisates, earldoms... They claimed to be loyal to the Bonaparte royal family, but in reality, the lords were the greatest power holders in their respective territories.

The relationship between the royal family and the great nobles was like a carriage: the royal family was the carriage, the nobles were the horses, sharing both honor and disgrace.

When the horses became stronger and out of the coachman's control, it was already dangerous.

But these horses were the biggest driving force behind the empire's operation, and a wreck would kill everyone. They couldn't be touched.

After generations, the nobles' loyalty to the royal family had also faded.

Empress Charlotte's usurpation was a backlash against the royal family by the power of the nobility.

In fact, the Bonaparte royal family's withdrawal from the stage after the "Brumaire Coup" was already a good outcome.

A republican Luen might have allowed the empire to be reborn.

But the old woman couldn't let go of the intoxicating power.

Unable to rely on the forces within the empire, she could only hope for external forces.

But no one expected her to choose two of the most vicious methods.

One was to sign a guardianship contract with an evil god to regain the throne;

The other was to cede territory and sell out the country, allowing the Mafa Empire, as an enemy, to interfere in Luen's internal affairs.

She had great ambitions. If the plan succeeded, although it would cause endless troubles for Luen, Charlotte's imperial power would be consolidated. She might also take the opportunity to eliminate the aristocratic collective power hidden dangers that plagued the country and regain all power into the hands of the royal family.

Compared to having no apple, some people would rather enjoy a rotten apple alone than let others share it.

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On the palace square.

The great councilors Lance, Raphael, and the participating nobles turned pale upon hearing these top-secret intelligence reports that were still unknown to outsiders.

Most people didn't expect Empress Charlotte to sell out her country and her subjects!

This battle had to be fought.

They couldn't entrust their fate to an outer god.

Moreover, the nobles could gain greater power if the royal family collapsed.

Master Pierre's attitude was already clear when he finished his last sentence: the alchemical civilization couldn't fall into the hands of a theocratic monarch!

The atmosphere in the huge square instantly turned solemn.

Suren watched, also feeling respect for the old man.

The old man was prepared to die today.

Mr. Mirror beside him remained silent.

Seeing that a fight was about to break out, Suren still asked, "Senior Sister, what should we do now?"

Mr. Mirror shook his head.

She looked up at the red moon in the sky, her gaze solemn as she replied, "The outer god hasn't descended yet."

Hearing this, Suren understood that the outer god's failure to descend was the biggest uncertainty.

He didn't know how long Master Pierre could last in his current state. If the top combat power was exhausted in entanglement with these people from the royal family, no one could stop the outer god when it truly descended.

But this also showed that the outer god's situation wasn't very good either.

In fact, from Empress Charlotte's perspective, the most perfect plan would have been for the royal family to remain silent and let the zombie tide consume the private soldiers of the opposing great nobles.

But now, she was arranging for people to assassinate Master Pierre and exposing the "Godly Contract"...

At the cost of ruining her own reputation and that of the Bonaparte royal family, the purpose was only one.

That was to share the firepower for the outer god, delay time, and deplete Master Pierre's combat power.

In other words, everything the opposition did was useful. Whether it was the previous blocking of the [Scarlet Potion] launch or Suren and Yekaterina's plot against the sorcerer, it had a great impact on the outer god.

Hearing Mr. Mirror's words, Suren also noticed the traces of scarlet moonlight and murmured, "It's really troublesome that this outer god isn't showing its face."

Currently, the nobles' top combat power was concentrated in the North City, and the zombie tide hadn't been effectively contained. Except for the Dawn Organization's cleanup of some monsters in the Lighthouse District, almost all the civilian areas in Luen's South City had fallen, and super terrifying mutated monsters were forming.

The infection continued to spread on a large scale.

Unless the outer god descended and was killed, there was no hope of stopping it.

Moreover, there was another problem that many people ignored, and that was that the blood moon in the sky was absorbing the fear, despair, madness, and a series of negative emotions from tens of millions of people in Luen, and it was becoming more and more bizarre.

Suren glanced at his senior sister.

Her expression was still calm, probably because she had some arrangements.

However, at this moment, an accident occurred!

...

On the square outside the palace, the two sides confronted each other.

Although the conversation between Master Pierre and Empress Charlotte was full of gunpowder, it seemed to lack someone to light the fuse.

No one on either side dared to act rashly, and the atmosphere was quiet and extremely strange.

However, what no one expected was that no living person dared to move, but the corpse of Quinn Andrew, the eighth-order court enshrinement "Poison Sect" on the ground, suddenly moved!

The corpse quickly withered, as if corroded by some mysterious force.

Suren in the attic watched this scene, his pupils shrinking suddenly: "Corpse Poison Curse?"

He had previously stripped the memory of "Undead Sorcerer" Las Pajing and learned too much knowledge in the field of high-level curses.

Now, looking at this vision, he immediately recognized it as a curse technique in which the caster used his own corpse as a medium.

But at the same time, he shouted in his heart: Not good!

The dead "Poison Sect" Quinn had prepared for his death long ago, and as long as Master Pierre killed him, he would inevitably be hit a second time.

Sure enough!

When no one understood what was happening, Master Pierre's expression suddenly changed, and he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of black blood with a "噗".

The black blood splashed on the white stone and emitted a "滋滋" black smoke, instantly corroding a hole.

Moreover, what was strange was that the black blood was contagious, and a small hole turned into a deep pit several meters in diameter in the blink of an eye.

What a terrifying poison!

Suren frowned when he saw this scene.

How could the curse cast by an eighth-order professional with his life be ordinary?

A growing sense of unease surged into his heart: Master Pierre is in danger!

Unsurprisingly, the crisis followed.

It was the moment when Master Pierre spat out a mouthful of black blood and his breath was not smooth.

A figure seized the opportunity and rushed out of the palace like lightning.

Behind the figure, accompanied by the huge shock wave of the magic energy boiler, it directly collapsed a palace arrow tower.

The speed was like teleportation,

Extremely fast!

There were also layers of afterimages!

"A Mafa mechanical armor?"

Suren's left eye keenly captured the optically cloaked guy, and the name identified was [General-Class Dark Night Hunter Armor].

A top-level armor comparable to an eighth-order professional!

Another general, the Mafa Intelligence Agency's Four-Star General "Iron-Blooded Rose" Nicole Nara Jomari!

It turned out that Mafa had sent two top generals of the general level this time?

Seeing this scene, Suren's eyes didn't have time to be shocked. At the same time, "Steel Behemoth" Burton Christ, guarding the empress, suddenly raised his external mechanical arm forward, and a black light cannon was launched silently.

Suren's eyes narrowed, and he recognized it: "[General-Class Behemoth Magic Energy Armor], Magic Energy Annihilation Cannon!"

Machines have no emotional fluctuations or air lock, so the armor's attack intentions can avoid most professional's perception methods, making it perfect for sneak attacks!

Although low-level armor behavior is highly predictable, this shortcoming of top-level armor has been almost compensated for by ingenious design.

Almost no one reacted to the sneak attacks of these two general armors.

An eighth-order corpse and two general armors shot at the same time, and Suren had a hard time imagining who could block such an attack!

In an instant, time seemed to slow down several times.

The black light emitted by the magic energy annihilation cannon hit Master Pierre first, causing a large hole to be blasted out of the blue-gold cold flame on his body surface in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, the hunter armor's "Magic Light Killing Fist", wrapped in spatial ripples, had already arrived closely.

"Boom!"

Upon contact, the huge shock wave of the annihilation cannon ejected an exaggerated energy wave, which spread out like ripples.

The dark night armor punched Master Pierre in the chest, and there was another "咚" sound, like a mountain collapsing and the earth cracking.

Master Pierre, who had already been seriously injured, couldn't avoid it. He was hit in the chest and couldn't help but spit out another mouthful of black blood.

The force was so great that the old man also took a step back, exerting his strength to unload the force and stomping his feet, and then he stood firm.

The entire ground trembled with it.

Breaking the body-protecting domain and launching a fatal attack, it was obviously premeditated!

...

"It's done!"

Looking at this exquisite assassination coordination, Empress Charlotte's face showed anticipation.

The expressions under the goggles of the two Mafa generals were also full of joy.

This ninth-order is going to die, and the overall situation is set tonight!

The sneak attack was only for a moment. By the time the people on the opposition side reacted, Master Pierre had already been assassinated.

The faces of the military and several great councilor families' eighth-order professionals changed drastically. Just as they were about to rush up to help, suddenly...

An accident happened again!

"Hehe hehe... Mechanical armor?"

In the huge Frederick Palace square, a cold sneer filled with undisguised contempt rang out.

Just listening to that laughter, people could hear a world-beholding, domineering, and invincible aura.

In everyone's eyes, it was clearly still the thin old man, but at this moment, looking at him, a terrifying aura rose from his body, like a giant, requiring everyone to look up to him.

"Not good!"

The rejoicing expressions on the faces of the two Mafa generals hadn't dissipated, and they were suddenly suppressed by this aura, and their eyes instantly showed horror.

The blue-gold cold flame on Master Pierre's body, which had almost collapsed from the annihilation cannon, suddenly flourished, burning flames more than ten meters high.

The flame condensed and rapidly turned into a flame giant wearing a crown.

Not an elemental phantom, but a real entity!

A flame entity like a god!

In the distance, Suren saw the flame giant and shouted sharply in his heart: "Wu Shi · Flame Emperor! How can there be such a terrifying energy fluctuation?!"

As the founder of Luen's military intelligence agency, it was not surprising to know the [Wu Shi] secret technique, but the terror of this ultimate form completely exceeded Suren's understanding.

It was not just the art, but also the understanding of some high-level laws.

Master Pierre stood there coldly, making people feel as if he had stopped still with this world.

It was like the stars in the sky, it should have been in that position.

If it doesn't move, no human power can make it move!

At this moment, the one who felt the most pressure was the Mafa general who was wearing the [General-Class Dark Night Hunter Armor] and launched a close sneak attack!

Her punch just now, after accumulating power, would seriously injure an eighth-order professional even if they didn't die.

She wanted to take advantage of the situation to pursue the attack and add a killing move. But she was horrified to find that her mechanical arm that threw the punch was firmly pinched by an old hand, and she couldn't move at all!

In an instant, an unprecedented death crisis pierced Jomari's confidence like needles.

This top-level armor, which the Mafa Empire regarded as a treasure, did not provide her with any sense of security at this moment.

The general's eyes widened in shock, but her combat instinct made her rapidly urge the armor's magic energy power boiler, wanting to get away.

"突", "突", "突"... The pressure of the boiler had reached its limit.

But she was even more horrified to find that even if the boiler was running at overload, she still had no sign of breaking free!

She never understood that in the comparison of strength, she, a mechanical warrior, had not won against a flesh and blood professional?

Jomari was shocked: "What a terrifying power this is!"

Master Pierre was as steady as Mount Tai, tearing the fighter armor with one hand, like pulling a pheasant flapping its wings and trying to fly out of his hand. He sneered and said, "It's been decades since I've used force, have you Mafa forgotten the fear of being dominated by me?"

At this moment, Pierre had none of the gentle and refined manner he had before, but rather a god of war-like unparalleled domineering, and said in a deep voice: "I'm just old, not dead yet!"

How could Jomari not have heard of the name "Flame War God"?

Back then, on the battlefield of the two great empires, this one had killed so much blood that any general would avoid his edge.

It was just that when Pierre became famous, she was just a small soldier, and the two were not people of the same era at all.

Not only her, but seeing this incredible scene, the huge square was silent, and everyone was shocked.

Master Pierre had hardly appeared in public in the past ten years, and the younger generation of Luen had almost forgotten this ninth-order master.

But he didn't expect that he still had such terrifying combat power!

...

In the distant attic, Mr. Mirror looked at Master Pierre's growing aura and murmured, "Great Sage realm..."

Ninth-order, Great Sage.

Suren listened thoughtfully.

He also knew that there were too many things in front of him that were beyond his understanding.

At this time, Mr. Mirror said again: "The rule that Master Pierre controls is 'war'. Think about it carefully, the destination of this rule is also 'death'."

As soon as these words came out, she seemed to have cast some kind of art, and a mysterious force was copied into the attic room, making Suren feel much clearer in his head at once.

With the added perception power of the [Profane Crown], Suren's left eye flashed, and when he looked at Master Pierre again, it was already different.

Clearly he was independent, but it was as if thousands of troops and horses were standing behind him!

The sense of oppression of the approaching army directly hit his head, like facing countless spear tips, death if he moved.

Suren's breathing stagnated in an instant, and he felt cold sweat on his back without realizing it.

But under this high pressure, his senses became clearer and clearer.

...

It was in this flash of lightning and flint that Master Pierre roared, as if some monster was about to burst out of his body, and the robe on his body shattered suddenly.

Looking again, the originally skinny body had actually swelled up visibly to the naked eye. The muscles were knotted and bulging, and it was as if there were steel bars swimming under the skin, and the whole person swelled a large circle visibly to the naked eye.

The muscles cast like steel were shiny and gave people a very strong visual impact!

Seeing this, Suren guessed what was going on: "Master Pierre also fused the [Isaac Giant Power] implants!"

Thinking about it again, it was not surprising that the Isaac Alchemy Manuscript had always been in the hands of the Luen royal family, and it was not surprising that the leader of the Luen Military Intelligence Agency would fuse this implant.

Moreover, seeing Pierre's bare-handed grasp of the general armor, Suren also guessed that the rank of this implant was definitely not low.

No wonder there was such exaggerated power.

"Humph!"

Master Pierre snorted coldly.

He grabbed the left arm of Jomari's mechanical arm with one hand, and punched it out with lightning speed with the other hand.

The fist wrapped in Wu Shi cold flame scorched and distorted the space, and hit the armor plate of the dark night armor.

"咚!"

"咚!"

"咚!"

"..."

The shadows of the fists were like rain, and the magic runes on the surface of the general armor seemed to be melted.

A general-level armor comparable to an eighth-order combat power was like a child at the mercy of this old man, without the slightest power to fight back.

Another Mafa general, "Steel Behemoth" Burton, saw this, and the boiler under his feet spewed flames, and the whole person rushed over, wanting to save his companion.

Master Pierre glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, his eyes full of disdain.

This glance was the contempt of the strongest alchemist in this world for all enemies.

He changed his move with lightning speed, and with a violent pull, a crisp sound of metal tearing resounded throughout the square.

Seeing this scene, everyone was stunned!

He actually tore off the mechanical arm of the mechanical armor alive!

All the bystanders were dumbfounded.

"General-level" mechanical armor...

In anyone's cognition, this was almost absolute defense armor.

To deal with them, it was best to use various mysterious arts.

But now.

Master Pierre gave everyone a vivid lesson.

He used an extremely rough method to tear apart a general-level mechanical armor with his bare hands!

Before, everyone thought it was incredible that Master Pierre caught the armor with one hand, but now, it was even more shocking.

But at the same time, everyone was inexplicably excited!

This was the absolute dominance of traditional professionals in the field of top combat power!

Machines were certainly good, but at the top of the pyramid, their combat power was obviously still a big step behind traditional professionals!

Suren had the Eye of Omniscience, but he saw something else. Master Pierre's Wu Shi flame was not just an external manifestation of spiritual energy burning, but also an implant.

He thought to himself: "[Void Cold Flame], this golden blue flame is also a special space law flame!"

Space laws were naturally the nemesis of mechanical armor.

Although the top armor had space stabilization equipment defense, the dense void punches just now shattered that layer of defense with a special frequency, and the flame burned off the magic energy coating, directly breaking the defense.

Master Pierre used to be active on the battlefield of the two great empires and had rich experience in dealing with mechanical armor.

Moreover, his advancement route and implant selection were obviously aimed at the ability of the armor.

With the martial arts skills of tearing off the mechanical arm just now, it was obviously a high-level skill specifically aimed at the shortcomings of the mechanical joint connection.

This was how he destroyed an armor with one blow.

...

"So strong... Is this the combat power of a top alchemist?"

Suren watched and was inexplicably shocked in his heart.

In Master Pierre, he saw a domineering aura of "I am invincible in this world".

Just this aura, no one could suppress.

However, Suren was also a little worried in his heart.

Master Pierre's lifespan was approaching, and he was also poisoned. The stronger he was now, the shorter the time he could last.

The enemy must also know this. Now, several offerings from the royal family have also joined forces to entangle him.

It seemed that Empress Charlotte clearly wanted to use these people to consume Pierre. Even if she couldn't exhaust him to death, severely injuring him would give her a better chance of winning when the outer god descended.

Although it turned into a melee in the blink of an eye, and the opposition alliance seemed to have a great advantage, Suren was still not optimistic in his heart.

The Frederick Palace now had all its defense restrictions open, and there were tens of thousands of royal knights. It couldn't be broken for a while.

But if the outer god didn't descend for a long time, and they continued to consume like this, the odds of winning for the opposition would become more and more slim.

And even if Mr. Mirror participated in the battle in the current situation, it wouldn't change anything.

The two of them watched the battle in the attic, silently.

The solemn atmosphere had never dissipated.

However, just as this thought flashed through Suren's mind, suddenly his auricle moved slightly.

"呼~"

A sharp whistling sound pierced into his ears.

At first, it was very weak, and it was difficult to distinguish in the dense sound of battle explosions.

But that whistling sound continued and became louder and louder.

Listening carefully, it was not difficult to find something abnormal.

Mr. Mirror had obviously discovered it in advance, she raised her eyebrows slightly and looked at the sky.

Suren also looked over.

It seemed that something was hidden in the bloody mist above Luen.

Suddenly, he thought of something, and his eyes lit up: "Meteor!"

How similar was this scene to the battle in Moros City-State?

The Agapanon Temple was wiped off the map by a falling meteorite.

"Yekaterina has taken action!"

Seeing this, Suren understood.

Meteorite attacks were not very threatening to high-level professionals, because the huge movement from the sky could not be concealed at all.

As long as they were not directly hit, there was almost no danger to their lives.

But it was perfect for dealing with those fixed targets.

For example, palaces!

The Frederick Palace had the strongest defense restrictions in the world, without exception!

Suren had gone inside and seen those restrictions before, and estimated that even if eighth- or ninth-order professionals attacked for days and nights, they might not be able to break through them.

Empress Charlotte was also relying on the super strong defense of the palace, so she hid inside and restrained the people from the opposition.

However, how could the energy erupted from a falling meteor be compared with human power?

This was much more exaggerated than the power of tens of thousands of tons of explosives!

Suren could see the falling meteor, and the people in the fierce battle could naturally find it.

Even if there was a thick fog, after hearing the whistling sound, the high-level professionals also discovered something. They looked up at the sky, one by one surprised and delighted.

No one knew that Yekaterina had this strength, and they probably thought that a certain expert from Dawn was performing an art.

But it didn't matter who did it!

As long as they could break through the palace, the situation would immediately open up!

Several families quickly called their men and horses to stay away from the palace.

Suren listened to the whistling wind in his ears, squinted his eyes, and watched with interest, not panicking at all.

He had teleportation, even if the meteorite fell in front of him, it would be too late to escape now.

What's more, there was also Mr. Mirror beside him.

...

Obviously, even if a meteorite fell from the sky, the Luen royal family could not be completely without countermeasures.

Listening to the sound of the meteorite falling getting louder and louder, the defensive shield that lit up above the palace suddenly lit up with a dazzling blue light.

Extremely complex alchemical arrays lit up, and the light converged into a beam of magic energy cannon, which was fired towards the sky. 大风小说

Buildings could not be moved, but the trajectory of the meteorite aimed at it could also be predicted.

"Boom!"

In an instant, it hit accurately.

A burst of explosions suddenly came from the sky, and a huge fireball was blasted open thousands of meters above Luen.

The meteorite was blown away!

In an instant, tens of thousands of small stones fell into Luen, "Boom", "Boom", "Boom" like countless shells landing, and the major manors in North City were affected by the meteorite rain.

Even the manor where Suren and Mr. Mirror were located was hit by one.

A fist-sized meteorite blasted out a large hole several meters away not far from the attic, and black flames were emitting.

However, Suren was not very surprised to see the meteor destroyed.

From his understanding of Yekaterina during these days of getting along, since she chose to take action, there must be a follow-up.

There was no need for him to worry. Suren identified the alchemical array on the palace just now with his left eye, and pondered in his heart: "This shot must have consumed a hundred top-level energy cores. The Bonaparte royal family is really rich. I don't know how many rounds that magic energy cannon can last."

Sure enough.

Not long after this explosion sounded, a whistling sound came from the sky again.

And this time, without the fog, everyone clearly watched a fireball falling rapidly in the dark night sky.

Immediately afterwards, the second magic energy cannon in the palace was activated again, and the meteor was shattered again.

Then, there was the third meteor...

The fourth one...

The fifth one...

In the night sky, infinitely brilliant colors exploded.

Even war seemed to be full of poetry.

This was a poem writing the tragedy of war.

That night, the people of Luen witnessed the meteorite fireworks that they had never seen in their lives.

The brilliance of blood and fire.

It seemed to be a farewell fireworks for the alchemy master whose life was coming to an end...

Suren looked at the sky, his eyes deep.

Although he knew that Yekaterina must have consumed a lot to perform this exaggerated art, compared to that, the consumption of the palace's defense restrictions was at least ten thousand times smaller.

He had always felt that the astrologer was a very Bug profession.

This hand of [Meteorite Fall] was purely rogue. 100 units of energy attracted a star, and the following was a free fall, n*100 units of energy explosion after infinite acceleration...

Compared to the consumption of ordinary alchemy, the damage caused by this art was amplified countless times.

Finally, when the sixth meteor was shattered, and the debris almost didn't collapse the attic, the palace defense enchantment obviously couldn't support it.

The interval between those high-burst magic energy cannon shots became longer and longer, and they didn't have time to intercept the seventh meteor.

"咚!"

A loud noise.

The meteor slammed into the palace's energy defense shield.

Although it didn't explode, the energy shield was obviously dimmed a lot!

And this time it was like the whole of Luen was earthquake, the ground was shaking.

Buildings collapsed in pieces, and cracks opened everywhere on the ground.

...

The attic was completely collapsed by the vibration shock wave, and Suren and Mr. Mirror teleported to the open space.

They looked at the "starlight" that lit up again in the sky, and the tightly frowned brows finally relaxed a little.

It was estimated that the next meteor would probably blow up the palace.

Suren also saw the panic on Empress Charlotte's face in the distance. He originally wanted to watch how this old woman would deal with the eighth meteor.

Suddenly, a ghost lady floated out of the rune black umbrella.

When Suren was curious about why she came out, Pestoya said with a little excitement, "Sister, Mr. Suren, I have discovered the aura of that outer god!"

Suren's expression froze: "Ah?"

Pestoya continued: "It's underground! At the moment of the explosion just now, I felt a disaster aura overflowing. It's the outer god who cursed you outside Rodin City before!"

Suren's eyes lit up when he heard this.

These words made him see an important turning point in the battle.

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