Yes, Madam Prime Minister

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Secondly, the leader of the purple-clad men coveted the crystal skull skeleton, which was closely connected to the woman in the painting, the one Flagg described as someone who was trying to use the tower to reach the divine realm and achieve immortality.

It is very likely that immortality will be achieved here, which will require not only soul transfer magic but also a crystal skull skeleton.

Flagg has no skeleton, while Ronan does. Obviously, does Flagg have the strength to fight Ronan?

There is another possibility: this tower may not be able to reach the so-called divine realm, nor can it achieve immortality. Flagg's decades of research were just a waste of time trying to climb a ladder to heaven.

Why do you say that?

The Seres's inscription on the wall outside the first floor of the tower, "I bestow upon it the name Eternal Night Palace," is essentially a "I was here" sign. The person came, left, and still had the audacity to leave a message, showing they didn't take this place seriously at all.

"Don't worry, our situation is definitely better than his."

Ronan said to Dinia.

He was certain of this; otherwise, why would he have listened to Flagg finish speaking? He would have already teamed up with Dinia and started fighting.

Soon after, a bright white light burst forth, engulfing the entire top floor.

The next instant, Flag, Ronan, and Dinia lost consciousness.

After a while, Elena went to the middle and triggered the "elevator," then erased all traces and went to the top floor with Agustina.

On the top floor, they saw the salt-corroded body of an old man lying motionless on the ground. Even the slightest breeze could blow the body away and turn it into dust in the air.

On the other side were Dinia and Ronan, both lying on the ground. Their bodies showed no abnormalities, but they were unconscious and could not be woken up no matter how they were called.

"Let's wait. I believe the commander and he will return," Agustina said.

Elena clenched her fist and looked at Ronan, who seemed to be in a deep sleep. "Young Master will definitely be fine."

The two of them stayed there, guarding Dinia and Ronan, for a very long time, until they heard footsteps approaching.

“They’re here. It must be that useless count and his butler,” Agustina remarked.

"Kill." Elena drew her twin swords from behind her back.

“Agreed.” Agustina agreed and removed her blindfold.

Henry and his butler Duden saw that Dinia and Ronan were in a vegetative state, and without a doubt, they would kill them. So, they decided to kill them first.

Just as Henry and Duden emerged from the stairwell, a burst of flames slammed into their faces. However, Henry was prepared and dodged with a spatial displacement, while the old butler Duden blocked the attack.

Adhering to the fighting principle of picking on the weak, Elena directly used Moon Pull to pull Henry over, followed by Agustina's fireball hitting his face.

The old butler is stronger than Agustina and Elena, but his right course of action now is not to rescue Henry, because rescuing Henry would only lead to him being exhausted and fighting against two people at once.

However, the old butler Duden still chose the wrong approach. He blocked Elena's sword, grabbed the slightly injured Henry with one arm, and began to fight the two of them.

Chapter 273 School Uniforms, Lies, and the Person We Were Waiting For Has Arrived

Dinia's mind was a bit confused. She remembered that a sudden burst of white light engulfed her, and she lost consciousness in the white light. When she regained consciousness, her consciousness was very blurry.

She vaguely saw Ronan's shadow, like a black shadow projected onto a white wall, a flat surface. She couldn't be mistaken; it was definitely Ronan. In the blink of an eye, she saw another shadow, hunched over, which must have been Flagg's shadow. Then Flagg's shadow shattered as if it had been sliced ​​dozens of times.

Is this dead?

Dinya suddenly became worried about Ronan. Just as she was thinking about Ronan and abruptly turned her gaze toward Ronan's shadow, she didn't see Ronan's shadow, but instead saw her own.

Suddenly, the shadow seemed to come alive and turned to look at her.

In that instant, Dinia lost consciousness again.

When she woke up again, she was standing here, and the architecture here was somewhat similar to that of the city she had passed through before going to the gardener Tyre's botanical garden.

If she wasn't mistaken, this must be a school, because the boys and girls were all wearing the same uniforms and looked to be in their teens.

Dinia herself was also wearing a uniform: a white shirt, though it didn't fit her well, the buttons looked like they might pop off at any moment, a maroon knitted cardigan vest, and a red and black plaid skirt that only the Willand barbarians would wear. To be honest, the skirt was a bit short, just reaching her knees, and she wore thick black stockings that were slightly sheer. She couldn't understand her shoes; she had never worn shoes with such soft soles before.

However, what really puzzled Dinia was that no one around her was staring at her. She considered herself to be one of the "strange" people. There were people with platinum hair like her in the Western Continent, but white hair and red eyes were really rare. But the men and women here all had black hair and black eyes, and their appearances were definitely not those of people from the Western Continent.

Just then, a hand landed on her shoulder.

Dinia turned around and saw that it was indeed Ronan.

Ronan was also wearing a uniform, with the upper body basically the same as hers, but the lower body was trousers, and the shoes were a pair he had never seen before.

"Where is this place?" Dinia asked Ronan.

“How would I know?” Ronan retorted.

He was lying, of course. He knew this place very well; it was his alma mater.

This high school is the Third Middle School of Qianshui County, Three Gorges City, the best high school in Qianshui County. Local civil servants, middle-income earners, and some wealthy people's children, as long as they can't get into the best schools in the city, basically all study here. This high school is a key school, with a college entrance examination pass rate of nearly 50%.

It was also the only high school in the county that had adopted Western-style uniforms early on. When Ronan was a sophomore before his transmigration, the school uniforms were already like this. Of course, these uniforms weren't worn every day; they were usually only worn on Mondays and for major events. Nobody wore them on other days.

The current timeline is the second year after his graduation, that is, 2012.

He and Dinia seemed to blend in automatically, so no one found their presence strange.

"What do we do now?" Dinia asked, only to find Ronan's eyes fixed on her legs. "Can't you be serious for once?"

Ronan made a stop gesture. "Watch it for a little while longer, let me remember this image."

I may never see Dinya in her middle school uniform again. Wearing an ill-fitting white shirt, a knee-length red and black plaid skirt, matte velvet black pantyhose, and narrow canvas shoes, Dinya looked exactly like an overdeveloped high school girl. This image is deeply imprinted in my mind.

"Is that enough?" Dinia asked impatiently.

“Alright,” Ronan replied. “What we need to do now is wait. Assuming Flag is right, the android in that giant painting should have arrived in this world a long time ago. The students here won’t find our presence strange, but they will definitely notice us two intruders and come looking for us.”

“Let’s go get something to eat,” Ronan said.

"Huh?" Dinia asked in surprise.

"Didn't you see everyone walking out? And look at the midday sun, it's lunchtime and school's over." With that, Ronan started walking out.

Ronan led Dinia away from the school and to a noodle shop outside.

Ronan told the cashier, "Two large bowls of zha jiang mian (noodles with soybean paste), less soup, no chili."

The shopkeeper gave Ronan a paper ticket and a plastic sign, and Ronan and Dinya found an empty seat and sat down.

"You can speak the language of the people here?" Dinia asked in a low voice.

Ronan smiled. "You can do it too? Why don't you try?"

Dinia nodded slightly. "I see, automatic translation."

She had no idea that Ronan could actually speak the language of this place.

Before long, the noodles with minced meat sauce were served, along with two small bowls of bone broth sprinkled with scallions. This noodle shop is one of the few in the county that still maintains the old tradition of serving bone broth. Other shops have switched to soy milk or boiled water with a few strands of seaweed floating in it. As for those top-ranked noodle shops in the city, which will be visited by various food bloggers in a few years, they don't offer soup at all.

The noodles with minced meat sauce are fragrant, but they are very oily. For Ronan, without soup, he would definitely be too greasy to eat any more in the end.

Dinya imitated Ronan, stirring the noodles with chopsticks to coat them with the sauce. It was her first time using chopsticks, but thanks to her exceptional control and learning ability, she managed it quite well. Then, following Ronan's example, she added a spoonful of stir-fried, fragrant pickled vegetables to the noodles.

The bowl of noodles was quickly finished. The two wiped their mouths with tissues. After Ronan paid the bill, he had just stepped out of the noodle shop when a brown-haired woman walked towards him.

The woman's expression was cold, even somewhat disgusted. Ronan and Dinia recognized her as the woman in the painting.

“Come with me,” the woman said.

Ronan and Dinia followed her into a small alley and arrived at an old dormitory building built in the 1990s.

Soon, the woman led them to a place Ronan was familiar with.

This is a console game store hidden in a residential building. When he was in high school, he would have one less class on weekends to do a big cleaning. Each class would have a group in charge, and the others would be free to do whatever they wanted. He liked to come to this store with his classmates to play soccer games.

Upon entering the shop, the woman seemed to cast a spell, making herself and Ronan unnoticed by anyone inside. She then walked straight to a wall, entered it, and disappeared.

Ronan and Dinia stopped for a moment, then followed her into the same wall and disappeared.

Passing through the wall, they entered a different world. Ronan and his companion arrived in an infinitely desolate land. The sky was dark, and the ground was an endless expanse of white sand. Although the moon was not visible, it seemed as if moonlight illuminated every inch of the land.

After walking for a long time, the woman led Ronan and his companion to a ruin. From the broken walls, it could be seen that this place must have once been a magnificent and enormous palace complex built of white stone.

Chapter 274 Strange, Questions and Answers, Hold On

As they went deeper, Ronan and Dinia saw more men and women in the painting, about a dozen in total.

The two walked past them, and everyone stopped what they were doing, their eyes following them until they were completely out of sight.

It feels a little strange.

After walking for a while, the silent woman led them into a relatively well-preserved stone house, then stood quietly to one side. At this moment, Ronan and Dinia faced a sitting woman. She looked young like the others, but her eyes revealed a sense of vicissitude.

The woman, who seemed to be the leader, said, "I will answer whatever I can."

Her voice was slow and low, like an old woman's, but without any of the nagging of an old woman. Instead, it was very direct, without any greetings, self-introductions, or sighs of regret.

"Where were we just now?" Ronan asked the first question.

“A fragment of spacetime from the god who created this world.” The female leader said, taking out something that looked like a shard of glass. “This is it. You entered through that tower, but you didn’t come here. Instead, you went into a fragment of spacetime from the creator god. This is something I can’t explain.”

Ronan didn't say anything, but he didn't find it unbelievable.

Simply put, a guess he had made long ago has come true: the person who created the world he traveled to was indeed a reckless Chinese man. However, Ronan never imagined that this person was also his classmate. Of course, according to the otherworldly beings, he was not human; he was an anti-logic.

Ronan Ronan himself may or may not be a member of the anti-logic group.

So it's actually quite reasonable that he dragged Dinia into the spacetime fragment of the "Creator God".

"And where is this world we live in now?" Dinia asked.

“The surface of the divine realm,” the female leader replied. “To be precise, this is the surface where all magic in your world is relayed. In your familiar language, this is the part responsible for ritual magic. Above that is the Heavenly Oath, and above that is Destiny.”

“Your world originally only had ritual magic, but after our creator’s master made some changes to this place, the Heavenly Oath and Destiny appeared.”

After hearing this, Dinia frowned. She could understand each word individually, but she couldn't understand the meaning when they were put together.

Ronan didn't quite understand either, only saying that he roughly grasped the meaning.

This basically means that this place was originally created by the creator god, a place where people could use magic. However, initially, only ritual magic, that is, elemental magic and summoning, could be practiced. It seems that this creator god did not put much effort into creating the world, not even bothering to make a proper map, nor did he consider creating any strange races.

Ronan strongly suspects that this "god" may have created the world that Dinia and the others lived in unconsciously. He never paid attention to or interfered with the world from beginning to end. He may not even be aware that he can create the world. After all, for the "anti-logic race," anything is possible.

Later, aliens from a destroyed civilization discovered and came here. They wandered around and did some things, such as modifying the place where Ronan and Dinia were, which led to the birth of the two magics, Oath of Heaven and Fate.

Finally, for reasons unknown, they hurriedly left, leaving behind many "museums," which are also relics from another dimension, such as Gardener Tyr's botanical garden. Of course, the most important ones are Gardener Tyr and the Moon Goddess, these advanced artificial intelligence robots. Without their masters, these advanced AIs did a lot of things, such as creating humans.

There were the Heidi people, and there were also people represented by the woman standing in front of Ronan and Dinia at this moment.

"So, this isn't a place to achieve immortality? And there's no god here?" Ronan asked.

The female leader replied, "The 'false god' who created us once believed it to be, and we believed it to be too, until we killed her and came here, only to realize that there is no god here, nor is this a place to achieve immortality."

Good heavens, an artificial intelligence misled a group of androids, and the androids then misled Flagg.

Just as Ronan was about to ask the next question, the female leader suddenly spoke up, "However, you are already equivalent to immortals."

"Huh?" Ronan and Dinia were both shocked.

"By coming here through the tower, you have essentially learned the Soul Transfer Technique automatically. You have the Crystal Skull skeleton and the power of the 'Original Species.' These three things are enough to make you immortal and ageless, which can be called eternal life. Of course, it is only eternal life in a relative sense. Absolute eternal life does not exist."

The woman explained.

Ronan and Dinia were stunned for a long time before they came to their senses. Then, Ronan asked, "Did the last person who came here also achieve immortality?"

“No, he doesn’t have the power of the original species. However, he is practically immortal. Moreover, he is very strong, stronger than you all,” the female leader said. “This place was originally a palace. He turned it into ruins that cannot be repaired.”

"One last question, how do we get back?" Ronan suddenly asked.

The female leader hesitated for a moment, thinking that Ronan would continue to question the previous visitor.

Ronan smiled. "Dinia, combine."

From the very beginning, Ronan felt something was off. The painting depicted thirty-three couples, but here there were only a dozen or so. Also, when a group of people saw the two strangers arrive, they didn't say anything, they just stared.

More importantly, those people outside dispersed in an orderly manner during the Q&A session. What were they trying to do?

When Ronan heard the female leader mention the three elements of immortality and that he and Dinia were not as strong as the previous person, he realized one thing: the entire seemingly friendly exchange concealed a deeper purpose—to probe Ronan and Dinia's strength. If Ronan and Dinia were too strong, then they would continue their conversation.

Once they discover that they are not strong enough, this group of people who have been dreaming of immortality for thousands of years will immediately take action.

At this moment, Dinia maintained her normal form, while Ronan transformed into a full suit of armor and donned it.

The female leader, seated, blocked Dinia's charging punch, and the burst of magic power shattered the stone house.

After a cloud of flying stones and dust cleared, the female leader stood there, saying, "You have all sought your own deaths."

"You're this arrogant after taking one-tenth of our power in a punch?" said Armored Ronan.

“Half a percent,” Dinia corrected.

The female leader remained indifferent; the combination of Ronan and Dinia was beyond their imagination.

They may win again, but so what?