Steel steam and flame

"Thanks for the reminder." Adhering to his usual courtesy, Cassia thanked him.

Watching Hilary, who was waving her hands to show that she didn't need to be so polite, walk into the living room of the villa, Cassia took a deep breath and looked around. Under the heavy rain clouds or gloomy snow clouds, it was actually early spring, and the villa area should be showing vitality and excitement. But it exudes a bleak atmosphere of corruption.

There are more than 200 single-family villas of various sizes in this area, which is the choice of wealthy people in this area. This is indeed the case. Judging from the few limo cars left in the villas, their high prices indeed represent the status of the wealthy.

But now, there aren't many people around anymore. The wealthy people had left one after another a few months ago, using their connections and abilities to go to different coordinating countries or central cities in various small countries. The main reason why this place is unusually quiet is precisely because of this.

Occasionally, people would appear and wander on the intersecting roads in the villa area. In the evening and night, when it rains, they are most active. Unattended villas are their first targets, and everything in the house can be sold for a high price.

Cassia believes that soon, when heavy rains and snowstorms fill the sky together, these occasional people will become the norm. Suddenly, memories emerged. They were faces twisted in pain, originating from the refugees around Visayas Fortress. I thought I had forgotten it, but thinking about it brought back these memories.

The faces will be more distorted than those seen in the Empire. Cassia thought, that was still an empire under laws and rules. When the clouds above the head really come down, the ecology of the surgeon's circle collapses. For ordinary people, the only thing they can do is to pray to the so-called gods so that they can be protected by the goddess of luck and not suffer any danger. The impact of the war.

Gently exhaling the heat that was heated in the body after taking a deep breath, Cassia retracted her gaze and turned back to the living room of the villa.

"At eight o'clock in the evening, let's start training at the construction scrapyard ten kilometers away to the south."

"Do you have any tips on the preparations I need to make? On the way back, Miss Lisuman gave me some guidance on the use and control of the bioelectric induction field, and demonstrated the induction power that is often used in actual combat. Field method. I don’t know if this preparation is enough, because starting from the theoretical knowledge recorded during this period, I did not fully understand some of the records." In the living room, four people stood in a small circle around the communication machine. Cassia sincerely introduced her own situation and provided a basis for the three people's reference.

"There is no prompt. It's more about preparation than psychological preparation." Perkinz took the initiative to speak, "To put it another way you understand, just be prepared to be beaten. Now you have many abilities that have not been developed. , if you want to use them, you will almost certainly be facing a life-threatening situation. Therefore, in the recent period when some methods cannot be used freely, Miss Hilary Riley, who has made great progress, is enough to become a huge obstacle in your training. .”

"Don't worry. Your self-healing ability is excellent. Quick recovery is a huge advantage, especially when used in training. I'll run over there at eight o'clock in the evening, don't bring anything with me, just decide like that."

"I agree." Hilary, who was on the side with her arms folded across her chest, said with a smile on her face. "I haven't stretched my body for a long time. The work in the villa almost made me forget that I am still a surgeon."

"No objection, I will think of some good training methods." At this moment, Li Suman's expression was serious, as if she was thinking about something important, while Pekinz on the side made the final summary at the right time, "I'm going to the Far Sea United Nations. I just moved my body and rehearsed for the action."

",,," Cassia wanted to be polite, but the word "thank you" got stuck in her throat and failed to turn into a sound. This is not the time to say thank you, he thought. Because leaving aside Lisuman, who is Lisuman, he felt that Hilary Riley and Perkins were somewhat influenced by Lisuman.

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At the headquarters of the Holy See of the Theocracy, Stant finished talking to his adjutant in the corridor, then turned around and walked along the corridor to the end, knocking on the door there. A crisp sound echoed in a small area along the corridor. When the sound came from the door, Stant walked in and followed the stone steps diagonally downward behind the door.

It may be only a few hundred meters deep, or it may be more than thousands of meters deep. Every time he walked on the spiraling stone stairs, Stant would think about the same question. But even though I have been here nearly a thousand times in the past ten years, I still haven't gotten the answer.

It is precisely because of this that Stant feels something in his heart every time——

In most cases, he just lamented that the fragments of the ancient historical World Tree, which had been buried under hard rock for such a long time, could still have an impact on his own perception, to the point of being distorted and unable to explore the surrounding situation. , can only rely on sight to capture information;

Occasionally, he would be emotionally uplifted and excited by this. Becoming a second type of life is indeed not the end. And what I am doing now is to pursue the end and explore everything about gods or god-killers in history.

The basic physical strength is not affected on the spiral staircase. Stant often speeds up gradually while thinking, and reaches the end of the staircase, which is also a huge cavity under the ground.

This time it was the same as before. A few minutes later, Stant, who had not counted how many turns he had made, pushed open the stone door at the end of the stairs, took a few steps forward, and found himself in a huge cavity with only basic fluorescence.

The current Pope Nowisus is not far in front, more than ten meters away, holding a third of a trident, standing quietly like a stone sculpture, facing the front of the cavity. Under the fluorescent light, a large dark scene was revealed, which was a bunch of twisted brown tree roots, and a huge and charred fragment of the ancient historical world tree tightly entangled by this bunch of roots.

Perhaps Stant's arrival changed something. When he closed the stone door and walked towards Novi Sas, the charred World Tree fragments suddenly appeared like a long breath, and a dim red light suddenly appeared, and then slowly disappeared, returning to its original state. of peace.

The two of them were used to this, and didn't show any surprise at all. They regarded it as natural and normal.

"The last dispatched members of the Holy See and the three major knights have boarded the airship and set off, and the awakened popes will soon arrive in the Far Sea Commonwealth." Stant spoke at this time.

Nowisas looked back and said, "It has indeed reached the set time point, and we will pass it later."