Yes, Madam Prime Minister

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As for Astrid, who was rapidly approaching, and Ronan and the others, who were several hundred meters away, they were as insignificant as insects.

Many beluga whales have already died, a situation they never imagined. According to generations of experience, this two-headed serpent only awakens once every ten years, and it awakens at the edge, moving towards the center while hunting. After eating its fill, it returns to the edge. In the third decade, it eats a lot, then stops sleeping and goes to a place to lay an egg, transferring all its remaining power to the egg. When the egg hatches, it reaches the end of its life.

But now, only five years have passed since the two-headed serpent last awoke.

Moreover, as soon as it woke up, it pounced directly on the central area occupied by these beluga whales.

The beluga whales continued to resist. As magical creatures, in addition to biting, ramming, whipping their tails, and shooting out the swordfish that parasitized under their fur, they could also release a series of magical shockwaves. However, these shockwaves could only hinder the two-headed serpent and were not enough to cause it sufficient damage.

Ultimately, the giant snake arrived too suddenly, catching them off guard. Their leader died in the first wave of combat, and without command, they were unable to leverage their collective strengths. After these successive losses, all they could do now was buy time for the young beluga whales and their calves.

"The Hand of Giants, the Sword of Judgment."

Astrid unleashed her magical secrets at maximum power, reaching Dynamax.

Water and earth coalesced into a giant arm. This move, originally only a one or two-meter-thick and ten-meter-long arm plus a hand, is now a tens-meter-thick and hundreds-meter-long arm. With a single stroke, the giant hand directly grabs the snake's neck.

At the same time, a lightning sword, more than 20 meters wide and 100 meters long, composed of thunder and fire, slashed horizontally.

Normally, this move involves grabbing a person and then cutting off the exposed part, slicing the person in half.

Now, Astrid is going to chop off the snake's head.

She hadn't expected that the enormous snake scales were not only incredibly strong, but also extremely resistant. She had anticipated that a single horizontal slash would sever the snake's head, but now, when she tried to strike, the sword couldn't even penetrate it.

But the lightning and fire of the Thunderfire Sword continued to clash, and for a moment, it was like a circular saw cutting through iron, with sparks flying everywhere. The sparks here were like a meteor shower, falling in all directions.

The giant serpent felt its scales being gradually cut open and struggled frantically. Astrid gritted her teeth and used all her strength to barely grasp it with her giant hand, but at the same time, her magic power was being rapidly depleted.

Chapter 666 The Profound Mysteries of Magic, Regeneration, Sacrifice

At this moment, the giant snake, whose neck was being held, swung its body and whipped its tail, and another snake head attacked.

Snakes aren't afraid of being choked, let alone a two-headed giant snake.

The other snake head did not open its mouth or spit venom. Instead, it emitted rays of aging from its enormous snake eyes. To the giant snake, these were rays, but to humans, they were two enormous black beams of light.

Astrid unleashed "Lunar Tide" to counteract the attack, a scene magnified thousands of times like two high-pressure water pipes spraying black liquid at a transparent spherical shield.

At the same time, Astrid did not relax her magic. Finally, the Thunderfire Sword broke through the snake scales. Instead of continuing to exert force to try to cut off the snake's head, she pulled back, cutting open a huge wound.

Instantly, blood spurted out, like blood rain, flying everywhere, and then flowing down like a waterfall.

Astrid only needed to dispel the spells on the Giant's Hand and the Sword of Judgment to inflict wounds.

Immediately, she sped off, rushing towards the giant snake, intending to treat the wound.

The giant two-headed sea serpent was also extremely annoyed. This little insect's attack was huge, but its body was too small and agile. It couldn't bite and inject venom like it did when attacking a beluga whale. It could only open its mouth and spew out poisonous mist.

This move was useless against Astrid. She could transform into an elemental form and was covered with a layer of magic-resistant armor, so she simply walked straight through the poisonous fog.

"Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, Crimson Lotus Fist!"

Passing through the poisonous fog and getting close to the wound she had just created, Astrid unleashed another massive magma fist, slamming it directly into the wound beneath the giant sea serpent's head, injecting magma into its body.

As magma poured into its body, the intense pain caused the two-headed sea serpent to writhe wildly. The monster, which was thousands of meters long, thrashed about, crashing into the ground and creating a gale that shook the entire earth. A sandstorm hundreds of meters high swept up in the surrounding area.

After a painful struggle, the two-headed sea serpent turned around. The head that had been the tail came up on top, while the head that was drooping halfway and about to break off became the tail.

Just when Astrid thought the problem was solved and all that was left was to repeat the process, the giant sea serpent suddenly lashed out with its tail, snapping off the severely injured head at the tail end. Instantly, blood flowed like a river.

Immediately afterwards, a mass of worm-like tender flesh surged from the severed head, rapidly reforming into a snake's head shape. In less than ten seconds, a new snake's head was generated.

This thing can actually regenerate.

Several hundred meters away, on Ronan's side.

“It can probably regenerate five more times,” Falek said. She wasn’t guessing; she was calculating it from the changes in the giant sea serpent’s tornado-shaped magical base.

The giant serpent was indeed killed by Astrid, but only once.

Close by, within the battle zone.

Astrid gasped for breath. She could only manage two more attacks from the Giant's Hand and the Sword of Judgment before running out of mana. Would two attacks be enough to completely kill the giant two-headed sea serpent? She didn't know; most likely not.

"I can't use this move anymore," Astrid thought to herself. She had to find a more effortless way.

However, the regenerated giant two-headed sea serpent wouldn't let Astrid stop there to think; the poisonous fog and the aging beams attacked again.

The sea serpent also realized that it couldn't easily deal with this troublesome insect. This insect was like a god, small but powerful. Even though it was far inferior to a god, it still had to take it seriously.

How to take this seriously? Of course, by not giving her a chance to get close, and by using poisonous fog and death rays to wear her down.

This time, it had to wake up because it sensed the environmental changes. It was much weaker than normal and could only regenerate six times instead of nine. Its abilities in all aspects were also weakened, and its food supply had not recovered to a sufficient amount. After it had a full meal, it probably wouldn't be able to do it again. However, it never thought about doing it again. It planned to break into that city.

The desert and the sky above the enormous city are isolated from each other in a special way, but underground they are a unified whole. Within this unified whole, there are many underground caves. In the past, it used to move through these caves to launch surprise attacks, and at the same time, it was underground that it was "reborn".

Just as the two-headed sea serpent was about to burrow part of its body into the burrow beneath the white sand, a group of beluga whales released shockwaves and charged over, braving the poisonous fog.

The beluga whales swarmed forward, recklessly biting the snake's neck, locking its head like the giant's hand had done before, restraining it and preventing it from moving freely. They were intelligent beings, and they not only understood that Astrid was helping them, but also knew that their current numbers were insufficient to cause any real harm to the sea snake. Therefore, they could only risk their lives to create an opportunity for Astrid.

Seeing this, Astrid raised the Sword of Judgment once more, no longer needing to use the Giant's Hand, thus reducing her energy consumption by half.

In the blink of an eye, Astrid killed the two-headed sea serpent once more.

But in the blink of an eye, most of the remaining beluga whales had died or been injured, leaving only a few.

This is the power of the two-headed sea serpent; if you can't subdue both heads at the same time, the other head becomes a threat.

Then, once again.

Astrid used her magic, which was only enough to kill the sea serpent once, to kill it twice. Now, the sea serpent has been killed three times, but at the cost of all the remaining adult male beluga whales dying.

Just as Astrid was about to make another move, the two-headed sea serpent decisively retreated. Seeking advantage and avoiding harm is an animal instinct. It had already died three times, and with its life force, it only had four lives left. It dared not risk its life against this insect again.

The sea serpent, no longer wanting the pile of food on the ground and fully prepared to escape, was completely out of Astrid's reach, and she could only watch helplessly as it fled.

Just then, a huge red crescent blade, tens of meters high, slashed through the sand sea and instantly severed one of the giant sea serpent's heads.

At the same time, a black circular slash suddenly spread out from the inside of the other neck of the sea serpent, severing its head.

The red slash naturally belongs to Dinia.

The black circular slash that expanded from the inside came from Ashley, who had already entered when Astrid first wounded the sea serpent.

Just then, the giant snake, whose two heads had been severed at the same time, did not regenerate. Instead, its thousand-meter-long body began to shrink and condense rapidly.

Astrid didn't know what was going on, but as a seasoned veteran, she knew very well that if the other party was casting a spell for a long time, she had to interrupt it. She was about to take the opportunity to make a move when Dinia stopped her, saying, "You can't interrupt it, and there's no need for you to."

The giant sea serpent, which was shrinking, was not as vulnerable as it appeared during the spellcasting animation of a magician. On the contrary, its physical and magical defenses were increasing exponentially as it shrank, and Astrid's magic could no longer harm it.

Dinia is still okay now, but she's not going to do that.

Chapter 667 I didn't mention you, restraint? Getting serious

The colossal body, stretching for thousands of meters, even in its coiled state, and even with such a wide view, still seemed endless, yet in that very moment, it was gone.

Instead, there was a snake-man, two meters tall, with a humanoid body, bulging muscles, and purplish-black skin that shimmered with a metallic matte sheen, and a thick neck and snake head.

"Outsider, you're really strong. You're stronger than that curly-haired guy and can even be compared to that bearded guy. You've forced me to become this insignificant and ugly little thing."

The giant two-headed sea serpent, transformed into a snake-man, could not only speak, but also used the old imperial language, and spoke in a very arrogant tone.

Dinia and Ashley, one a roughneck from an orphanage and the other a street gang leader, couldn't understand it. Only the academic genius Astrid could understand it, since many magic academies were still using textbooks in the old Imperial language.

The bearded man the snake mentioned was the prophet. In fact, this space has been around for thousands of years and has been visited by more than just the prophet. However, the prophet only awakens once every ten years and is active for only half a year each time. So far, the prophet has only seen the bearded man, a white man with curly short hair, and Dinia and a few others.

“Of course,” Astrid replied.

“I wasn’t talking about you,” the snake-man said, his eyes only on Dinia.

This is its true form, but maintaining it consumes a tremendous amount of energy. If it were to continue maintaining this form indefinitely, it would consume everything in this space and then die itself. Therefore, it usually appears in the form of a large snake. Even as a large snake, it spends most of its time in hibernation, only waking up occasionally to feed in order to maintain the ecological balance here.

As for the main body, the two worms, one with golden hair and the other with brown hair, were already rotten and decaying.

But this white fur still kept it on its toes.

“Take her away,” Dinia said to Ashley.

"Trying to leave?" The snake-man couldn't understand Dinia's words, but he understood her meaning. Without hesitation, he attacked. Astrid had been so arrogant just now, killing several of his lives. As the absolute king of this space, how could he tolerate her running away like this?

The snake-man moved, and Dinia moved too.

The next instant, a pair of white serpentine scimitars appeared in the snake-man's hands, colliding with the warhammer in Dinia's hand. The aftershock of the collision was like a missile hitting the ground, scattering the surrounding sand and dust around the two of them.

Ashley took the opportunity to leave with Astrid.

The snake-man's strength was even greater than Dinia's. He slashed Dinia vertically with one sword and then slashed horizontally with incredible speed. Dinia instinctively tried to block, but his left forearm was severed off at the root and sent flying into the air.

The fracture began to regenerate rapidly, but unlike before, a new life did not grow instantly. Instead, it grew very slowly because a decaying force was constantly corroding the fracture.

"I knew we were the same kind of people long ago, and these twin blades are precisely what counter this kind of power. Without Big Beard's fancy moves, you're just waiting to die." The snake-man's tone became even more arrogant.

Dinia couldn't understand its words, but she could see its smugness. She dodged back and said, "Idiot." Dinia then ripped her left hand off her shoulder, and a novice hand popped out instantly.

A wound keeps eroding and can't regenerate? Then make the wound disappear.

"Heh, how many more times can you regenerate like this?" The snake-man sneered. "However, I don't have time to waste here with you." It couldn't maintain this state for long.

The snake-man prepared to unleash a flurry of attacks as it approached, not believing that Dinia, covered in wounds, could still act as if it had just pulled her hand away.

Dinia no longer stood still to take the snake man's attack head-on, but instead unleashed a burst of red light.

The snake-man, wielding two swords, neither dodged nor evaded, charging head-on into the red light cannon. After shrinking and converging, its defense reached an extremely terrifying level; this red light cannon, weaker than the previous slash, could not cause it the slightest damage.

The next instant, just as the snake-man thought it was about to strike Dinia again, Dinia's figure vanished in an instant.

Throwing a mushroom dart and then instantly teleporting onto it is Dinia's basic technique. Of course, most mages are not qualified to let her use this basic skill; they usually can't even withstand a single red light cannon shot.

"Here." The snake-man's figure drew closer once more.

It is fast and sharp, surpassing any opponent Dinia has ever faced in terms of speed and perception.

The serpentine scimitar's cutting ability was extraordinary; Dinia's defensive membrane and physical resistance were completely unable to withstand its slashes.

In the next instant, the snake-man slashed five times, separating Dinia's head, limbs, and body.

"Now let's see how you regenerate!" the snake-man roared.

However, in the next instant, the separated Dinia crumbled into a cluster of red worm-like mushrooms, and a new Dinia sprouted from the sandy soil.

Just as the snake-man was about to launch another attack, its wrists and ankles were tightly bound by red chains that grew from the sand. Its movement was hindered, and it tried to break free with brute force. The next second, thousands of red roses appeared in its eyes. These were not roses, but shrunken but still powerful slashes.

The rose storm swept through, like countless iron shards impacting a steel plate. After it passed, the snake-man was covered in scratches, but not a single drop of blood was shed.

"That's all?" the snake-man provocatively asked.

“You have already lost,” Dinia said.

The snake-man couldn't understand French, but he could see that Dinia was in a victorious posture, and he was very disdainful.

But the next moment, it suddenly covered its eyes with both hands.

Dinia didn't expect the slash to work at all; she wanted the fungus to use the slash as cover to burrow into the snake-man's eye socket.

Dinia is more like a berserker most of the time, either swinging a sledgehammer or firing a cannon, but she is definitely a magician.

“Rookie,” Dinia said softly, with a hint of disdain.

A full-body, all-around defensive membrane is a fundamental skill for mages. Any first-tier mage possesses this skill. Without it, in a fight, your eyes, ears, nose, and mouth will all be vulnerable, allowing your opponent to use concentrated magic to penetrate and turn your brain into mush.

Unfortunately, the snake-man doesn't even know such basic skills.

This was already confirmed when Dinia fired its first red beam cannon at it.

The snake-man roared, "Aaaaah, die!" Ignoring the rampage of the fungus within his body, he charged at Dinia once more.

Its body structure is abnormal; the invading and parasitic bacteria do not cause much harm, but they frantically absorb its magic.

Dinia was also excited. She transformed her body into a berserk mushroom and devoured it, entering a berserk and accelerated Red Wolf mode. She was covered in dark red berserk armor and a wolf-head helmet. Her eyes shone with scarlet light like spotlights. She exhaled a breath that looked like a burst of red steam. With one hand outstretched, a two-meter-long crimson sword appeared in her hand.

In the blink of an eye, all that remained in everyone's sight was a point of light with a red tail and a point of light with a purplish-black tail, seemingly colliding in the sky and earth. A few seconds later, what they saw was a dense web of red and purplish-black lines intertwined.

Dinia and the snake people were too fast; so fast that if you looked at them, you wouldn't see them, but rather their trajectories.

At the center of their battle, it was as if hundreds or thousands of bombs were exploding continuously.

Chapter 668 There's not a drop of blood in the doping; spectator, you're already dead.

As the battle raged on, the snake-man grew increasingly impatient, unable to defeat Dinia, and was nearing its breaking point.

Dinia grew increasingly excited. Fighting such a powerful being was the driving force behind her destiny magic, even though her total magic power had already overflowed. She didn't need to rely on driving forces to increase her magic power and meet the advancement conditions like other destiny mages, because killing was simply another side of her personality.

Hundreds of meters away, Astrid was stunned, muttering, "This is a battle I cannot intervene in."

Nearby, Agustina slapped Astrid on the shoulder, "Don't compare yourself to the captain. She's in a state where there's not a drop of blood in her veins." Red Wolf Mode is about turning your entire body into berserk mushrooms and then constantly eating them, exceeding the physical limits of a mage.

“You’re already very strong, Lily,” Ronan said.