Yes, Madam Prime Minister

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Dinia remained calm. She had known for a long time that Ronan was unusual, and it was almost certain that Ronan had a connection with "God," but she still hadn't pressed him for details.

Elena and Faith had both witnessed it, while Ashley had only heard about it before, but now she had finally seen it with her own eyes.

Astrid was the most surprised by this. She had heard her mother, Elena, and godmother, Agustina, say that Ronan was an extraordinary being in this world, but she didn't believe it at the time. Wasn't her father just an old bureaucrat with decent magical skills? In terms of being special, he might not be as special as her mother.

Now, she completely believes it.

The vortex stopped absorbing magic power after a short time; it hadn't absorbed much power at all during the entire process.

“This is like giving you an ID card; you can go in now,” Kate Peter said. “Puppet Nun, send a puppet in to scout the situation.”

Out of caution, Kate had Faith send a puppet in to scout ahead.

Without asking whether the puppet could enter, Faith released a puppet doll that was only 1.5 meters tall, slender, with delicate features, and was both male and female. Dinia then raised her hand, and a clump of bacteria parasitized the puppet doll.

The puppet doll inhabited by the fungus entered the vortex and began to explore.

Not long after, the puppet returned, completely unharmed.

This basically confirms that there are no traps or mechanisms near the entrance.

Immediately afterward, Dinia added, "There are no obvious living things." She had allowed the bacteria to inhabit the site precisely to investigate this.

There were no traps, and no living creatures were visible.

Seeing that the vortex was starting to shrink inward, Ronan called out, "Let's go." He then took the lead and entered the vortex.

Others followed.

Passing through the vortex, the group arrived in another space. Looking back, they saw a huge, closed stone door behind them. Perhaps, if Ronan hadn't been there, the door would have been located further inside, requiring them to pass through various obstacles and open this stone door to reach their current location.

The previously melted pyramid-shaped "key" reappeared intact on the ground.

They put the pyramid key back in their backpacks and moved forward. It was dark and damp around them, with a flickering firelight. It seemed to be a cave, with all sorts of strange rocks protruding from the surrounding walls. Fortunately, the space was spacious, so they didn't have to worry about bumping into sharp stones. The ground was uneven and slippery, with puddles every few steps. Apart from the stone door at the back, there were no other signs of human intervention.

The group continued their journey through the cave, but found nothing unusual. They didn't see any animals or any signs of human intervention. Their only discovery was that they were generally moving upwards.

After traveling for about half an hour, Ronan and his group finally saw signs of human intervention. Ahead lay a large, five- or six-meter-wide crater, with two chains running through it. This must have been an iron suspension bridge, but the bridge deck was gone, leaving only the rusted iron chains.

Ronan was too lazy to summon his levitation shield. For this short distance, he simply took a few steps back, took a running start, and jumped across.

The same applies to others.

Dinia and Kate simply jumped over there on the spot.

Only Faith swung across using a rope; her muscles were rather stiff, and she wasn't very good at jumping.

After crossing the broken suspension bridge, Ronan and his group continued onward. Soon, they began to feel a gentle breeze and faint lights, which meant that the exit was not far away.

After walking a few steps, the traces of artificial excavation began to increase, but these traces raised doubts because they were very primitive. They had none of the high-tech feel of the Haidi Man ruins or the ancient civilization feel of the Egyptian pyramids. They looked like they were built by ancient people with half-baked tools, very rough.

As they moved forward, the points of light in their line of sight began to expand, clearly indicating that the exit was just around the corner. At that moment, Dinia suddenly stopped. "There are people outside, alive."

The others didn't say anything, but became more vigilant and continued forward.

Upon exiting the cave, the group found themselves on a cliff. Not far away, on the edge of the cliff, sat a withered, hunched old man. If one did not look at his eyes, which were almost completely obscured by his drooping white hair but still shone brightly, one would almost think he was just a dried-up corpse.

The sky was gray and the distance was shrouded in mist, but even in such poor visibility, the outline of an enormous tree that seemed to support the heavens and the earth could still be seen. However, this giant tree seemed to have no leaves and was completely dead. Moreover, its shape and outline were somewhat stiff, and it did not look like a tree that had grown naturally.

"How fortunate I am to see another traveler before the end of my life," the old man murmured.

However, none of the group could understand what he was saying, including Ronan.

The old man wasn't surprised; he simply waved to Ronan and his group.

Ronan and his group could understand the gestures, so they went over and greeted the old man. The old man also couldn't understand Ronan's language, but he understood the meaning and nodded.

Then, the old man took out a map of unknown material, looked around at Ronan and his group, and handed the map to Dinia, who was not standing at the front.

Dinia was momentarily surprised, but still took the map.

Chapter 661 Defeat, Teasing, and Monsters

Dinia unfolds the map.

Judging from the map, if the scale is not too far off, this place is extremely large, definitely exceeding the "modern city" where the gardener Tyre's "botanical garden" was located. As for the underground space under the Egyptian pyramids, it cannot be compared at all. Only the alternate dimension of the New World can be barely compared, but the alternate dimension of the New World is actually just a tower in the middle. The rest of the space outside the tower is a void space with nothing worth exploring. In reality, the ruins of the New World are actually the smallest.

But this place is different. According to the map, it looks like a large city-state with various different areas. If this were the feudal era of the Western Continent, such a large area could be considered a country.

More importantly, there are still living people here, such as this old man in front of me who looks like he's about to die, but is actually sharp-witted and quick-thinking.

Back then, in the place where Gardener Tyre lived, there were also living things, but those things could no longer be considered living people.

“Perhaps we should go back and bring the others up,” Ronan said.

Exploring this place will obviously take a long time, much longer than expected. We can't keep Ambrina and the others waiting down here forever.

Moreover, it seems that at least the place we are in right now is safe.

“Yes, but it seems we can’t go back the way we came,” Dinia agreed, but also expressed her doubts.

After they came in, the key was still there, but the barrier that had been there before they came in was gone, so it didn't look like the kind of barrier that could be opened by simply inserting the key into the ground.

"Perhaps this old man knows the way back," Faith said.

"I don't care," Kate Peter said seemingly lazily, but his eyes kept glancing at the silhouette of the giant tree in the distance through the mist.

Elena had nothing to say; she was currently in the support role.

Astrid stepped forward confidently and said, "I'll tell him that communication doesn't necessarily require language."

Ronan simply smiled and gestured, indicating that it was time for him to begin his performance.

Half an hour later, Astrid, with her golden hair, got angry. She just couldn't understand how this old man could not understand her meaning with her excellent body language and superb facial expressions, and could only make random gestures.

That doesn't make sense, that's impossible.

"This old man is suspicious. He definitely has dementia. Let me give him a major memory restoration spell!" Astrid shouted, raising her hand and a spiraling fireball appeared in her palm, rapidly expanding as it spun.

Ronan pressed Astrid's hand down, "Alright, Lily, stop fooling around." Although Astrid wasn't someone who acted without restraint, this old man might not be.

At this moment, Faith stepped forward and said, "Let me do it. I have experience communicating with deaf and mute people. After all, I am also a nun."

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Elena asked casually.

Faith forced a smile, a smile that didn't reach her eyes. "You didn't ask, did you? Besides, I can't let your daughter not have a chance to shine, can I, Elena?"

She was originally a nun who seemed serious and old-fashioned, but actually had a sharp tongue and liked to tease people. Having known Elena for so many years, she spoke without any restraint.

Elena deliberately feigned an exaggerated look of worry, "Don't mess with her, she has a terrible temper, and if she starts a fight with you, I won't be able to stop her."

Faith smiled. "Really? I thought that girl who froze at the sight of a dead person was a kind and well-behaved girl."

This immediately enraged Astrid. Ronan grabbed his daughter and turned to Faith, saying, "Get down to business, stop talking nonsense."

Astrid was still struggling, but Faith shrugged, turned around, and got down to business.

Compared to Astrid, Faith was indeed more experienced and skilled. Although it only required physical gestures, she quickly conveyed her meaning to the old man. After a brief exchange, Faith completed the task in less than ten minutes.

Turning around, Faith relayed the information she had received: "To go back, we must first return to where we came from, then open the stone door, enter the stone door, and proceed all the way to the true starting point, finally using the key."

Having already traversed the area once and confirmed there were no hidden dangers, Ronan and his group quickly flew back to their starting point using the floating shields.

"Did he say how to open the door?" Ronan asked.

What makes this massive stone gate special is that it seems to have nothing special about it at all.

“Pull,” Faith said.

Ronan scanned the stone door from all sides and found that it had no handles or anything like that. Pushing it was easy, but pulling it was difficult to exert force.

“I’ll do it.” Astrid volunteered. She hadn’t forgotten her earlier humiliation and was determined to get her revenge.

Having said that, Astrid stood in the middle of the crack in the door, one hand on her side, and cast a spell. Her hands instantly turned into mud hands, eroding and fusing with the stone door. "Moon's Guidance." Then, Moon's Guidance was activated, along with a powerful suction force.

Now, her hands are the doorknobs.

Astrid gradually retreated, her muddy hands stretching out, until the massive stone door was slowly pulled open.

The stone gate swung open, Astrid released her grip, the mud receded, and her hands returned to normal. She then swept her hair back with her hands, saying, "Phew, that's easy, that's easy."

"Beautiful, Lily," Ronan praised. His daughter was indeed exceptionally talented in magic; she was truly remarkable.

"It's nothing, it's nothing." Astrid appeared humble but was secretly pleased. She had always been like this since she was a child. She seemed aloof and looked down on most people, and she hardly associated with any peers other than Ina and Zhao Yingqi. In reality, she wanted others to recognize her and loved to show off. Otherwise, she wouldn't have made sure that many people witnessed every fight she challenged.

"You're such a brat," Elena teased her daughter.

Dinia didn't get involved in the farce; her attention was entirely focused on the stone gate. Inside the stone gate wasn't another connected cave, but an unimaginably vast sea of ​​sand. Under the night sky, the silvery sand sea looked exactly like the celestial realm she and Ronan had reached.

She had a deep impression of the Celestial Realm because it was there that she and Ronan became immortal beings.

"Let's go," Dinia whispered, her face returning to its usual serious and cold expression.

As the group stepped into the sea of ​​sand, a massive skeleton, as large as a mountain, soon came into view. It was hard to imagine what kind of enormous creature it must have been in life. Ronan recognized the remains of the creature as a whale, but one that was much larger than a whale. The skeleton was estimated to be over 300 meters long, with the highest point of the towering spine possibly reaching 30 to 40 meters. This creature was ten times larger than the largest whale in his previous timeline.

In a daze, Ronan remembered a question he had thought about when he first transmigrated: why is it that in a magical world there are no other intelligent races, or even those awe-inspiring magical beasts?

Now, it seems there is.

Just then, a mournful whistle came from the distant sky, attracting everyone's attention.

The monsters were over there, a huge white unidentified creature, and a large group of black creatures.

Chapter 662 White Sand, Giant Whale, Existence in Memory

At that moment, in the air, a group of ferocious-looking strange fish surrounded two white whales, one large and one small.

A massive beluga whale, thirty to forty meters long, hovered motionless. Blood, more than ten meters long, flowed from its upper mouth to its lower abdomen, staining half of its white body red. The beluga whale breathed heavily and laboredly, its half-closed eyes revealing weakness, yet also exuding ferocity.

Beside it, a much smaller beluga whale, about five or six meters long, kept swaying back and forth, emitting sharp cries to warn its surrounding enemies.

Surrounding the two beluga whales, one large and one small, was a large group of flying fish monsters, smaller than the smaller beluga whale, no more than three meters long, all black, with heads that looked like sharks but with a pair of wings. They were not intimidated by the smaller beluga whale, but they did not intend to attack it. They were eager to try, but maintained a safe distance from the larger beluga whale, keeping their eyes fixed on the larger beluga whale's extremely threatening tail, ready to dodge its dying attack at any moment, and also ready to attack as a group the moment the larger beluga whale lost its ability to fight back, so that they could eat as much as they could before the male beluga whale arrived.

The group of people, separated by several hundred meters, watched from afar. Just as Ronan was about to say something, Astrid transformed into a bolt of lightning and charged towards the large group of monsters. The monsters seemed to have never seen a mage before. Seeing a beam of light rushing towards them, they simply dodged, showing no alarm or intention of dispersing.

They are the predators of this small world, how could they possibly give up such a rare feast for such a tiny creature?

But the next second, they were shocked.

This tiny creature suddenly unleashed a burst of fire, the explosive flames expanding dozens of meters in the blink of an eye, instantly turning its dozen or so companions into charred remains, their blackened corpses then plummeting vertically from the sky.

Faced with an unknown threat, this large group of flying black sharks did not hesitate to flee.

Astrid did not pursue the flying black shark. Instead, she smiled and muttered, "It's alright, it's alright," as she approached the little beluga whale. But what greeted her was not a friendly gesture, but a terrified and fierce scream.

Astrid spread her arms wide in a harmless gesture, saying, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I won't hurt you." As she spoke, she moved forward little by little.

However, the little white whale immediately shrank under the big white whale. At the same time, a rough layer of white fur on the big white whale's body was lifted up, and a large number of small white swordfish, only a dozen centimeters long and seemingly like mosquitoes compared to the huge white whale, shot out, and in the blink of an eye, a wave of white arrows attacked Astrid.

Astrid simply raised her hand, creating a massive wall of water that blocked the barrage of white arrows, but without harming the inexplicable creatures.

The small white swordfish quickly fled and returned to their original habitat.

Astrid took a few steps back and continued to explain, "I really meant no harm, understand?"

The beluga whale slowly lowered its raised tail. As its life was about to end, it could no longer deliver a powerful tail strike. At the same time, it vaguely sensed Astrid's kindness.

Just as Astrid was about to try to get closer again, the great white whale suddenly started moving slowly, swimming towards the enormous skeleton mountain in the white sand on the ground. The frightened little white whale quickly followed.

Meanwhile, on the ground, Caterpillar was talking to others.

Before the arrival of otherworldly beings and these artificial intelligences in this world, there were no monsters. Magic was a system of unconventional power applied solely to humans, and at that time, there was only ritual magic, which consisted of summoning and elemental magic.

After they arrived, they first learned magic, then began exploring the world. Their actions in the celestial realm involved fine-tuning the system created by the Creator God, bringing Heavenly Oath Magic and Destiny Magic to this world. Subsequently, they planned to create other magical creatures, initially just small experiments. The monsters in the world today, such as the Flame-Patterned Rust Iron Sea Spider that creates those special magical black stockings, evolved from these small experiments. After these experiments, they prepared to build a system starting with plants. However, just as they began, several otherworldly beings returned, and the passage was subsequently sealed.

These artificial intelligences remained in this world. They each had their own plans and went their separate ways, except for the gardener, Tyr, who tried to continue the plan while protecting the seed garden.

Unfortunately, she failed and died at the hands of Ronan and Dinia many years ago.

"I never expected she would actually create a monster," Kate Peter exclaimed.

“Who is she?” Ronan asked.

Kate Pierre stared blankly ahead at the white sand, her gaze seemingly piercing through time, returning to the past. She murmured, "'Human' Lavini, she always liked to nag about being human, so that's the nickname she got. She was a bit neurotic, but quite adorable. It's just that she was such a cheerful person..." Kate wanted to say, how could someone as cheerful as Lavini have created such a somber place? The world on the other side of the cave was shrouded in shadows and mist, like a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Could it be that Lavini was also dead, like that fool from the New World, killed by her own creation?

Before he could finish speaking, a loud bang was heard.

Looking over there, a sandstorm was already sweeping in all directions from the Skeleton Mountain, clearly caused by the crash of a giant beluga whale.

During the sandstorm, Astrid used the Moon Tide to shield herself from the swirling sand, while the little beluga whale desperately tried to get closer to her mother, but was unable to approach due to the sandstorm.

As the dust settled, the little beluga whale, covered in white sand, shook itself off and rushed toward its mother, who was lying motionless in the sandpit, calling out incessantly in an attempt to wake her.

Just then, Ronan and his group arrived. "Lily, are you alright?"

“I’m fine,” Astrid replied, turning her gaze to her mother, Elena, and Dinia.

Elena shook her head, indicating that she was powerless to help; her magic only worked on people.