Yes, Madam Prime Minister

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Elena won't dwell on the past, nor will she care about Ronan's broken promise, but Ronan himself does care.

Immediately, the corpse turned into red dust and vanished, leaving only a red crystal.

Ronan picked up the crystal, didn't linger, turned back to call Zhao Yingqi, and the two continued on their way.

Soon, the two reached the mountaintop and proceeded along the relatively gentle ridge. Eagles, goats, and wild boars, all with metal parasites bursting from their bodies, were more ferocious and swift in their attacks than the humans before them, but their attack methods were much more monotonous. Ronan didn't even need to worry about them. Zhao Yingqi, whose speed and strength were inferior to these mutated animals, could deal with them without using magic, simply by using his sword.

"How did it go?" Zhao Yingqi asked Ronan expectantly after taking care of a few more wild beasts.

"Impressive, Yingqi. These things are no match for you at all," Ronan praised.

Zhao Yingqi simply smiled, feeling quite pleased with himself, but not on the surface. He said humbly, "Actually, I'm not weak."

“Of course,” Ronan said.

As they continued on, the weather gradually became hotter, and the number of wild animals decreased. In fact, they went for long periods without seeing a single one. Zhao Yingqi was somewhat unhappy about this, as she had finally managed to show off a little.

"The big one goes ahead, you stay here." Ronan said, and went off alone.

Chapter 676 Simultaneous Two-Player Conquest in Progress, May You Bring Me Trouble, Village

Just as Ronan was preparing to deal with "Agustina", at the same time and in the same place, the "real" world completely overlapped and completely separated.

"You're asking for death!" It was Dinia who uttered this violent and fierce voice.

At this moment, she was pressing a lava dragon eagle, nearly a hundred times her size, against the mountain ridge. The enormous lava dragon eagle, covered in fiery feathers, was unable to move. Dinia's one hand transformed into thousands of tentacled hands, like the underground roots of a tree, tightly locking its head. Her other hand was aimed at the top of its head, punching it again and again, each punch carrying an extremely violent magical impact. The mountain ridge was cracked by the huge impact.

Standing at a distance, Faith and Ashley felt as if the entire mountain trembled with every punch Dinia threw.

"Is she really that violent?" Ashley asked Faith.

Although they had known each other for many years and had met many times, Ashley had never partnered with Dinia, nor had they fought together many times. To be honest, Dinia's current state was very different from how she fought the snake-man before. When fighting the snake-man, Dinia did not change her expression even when she lost her hands and feet, and she did not have much emotional fluctuation when she killed the snake-man.

But now, I don't know how deep the grudge is.

The last time Ashley saw such a brutal scene was back when she was a street urchin. One of her underlings was getting revenge on the thug who raped his sister. He hooked the guy's balls with an iron hook, then grabbed a stick and beat him on the head until his brain was turned to mush.

Dinia now looked like she was about to smash the beast's brain into mush.

“Well, from what I’ve seen, she rarely gets this angry in battle,” Faith said. In her experience, Dinia is almost expressionless in battle, doesn’t talk much, and you can’t tell what emotions she has. Whether she’s blasting someone to smithereens or being chopped into pieces herself, she acts as if she’s just eating bread because she’s hungry.

Ashley said with a rather wicked sense of humor, "It seems that this winged reptile, with its flying and burrowing, has really angered our gentle and kind Prime Minister."

"Poor fellow, his biggest mistake was wasting Her Majesty the Saintess's time."

Faith added a comment.

These monsters have been a nuisance all the way. Take the two guarding the city at the beginning, for example. They weren't particularly strong, but they coordinated perfectly. They were strong in both melee and ranged combat. The key was that if you killed one, the one killed would revive in a very short time as long as the other was still alive. You had to kill both of them at the same time. However, the two of them never stood next to each other. Instead, they were always a great distance apart.

If it weren't for Dinia's teleportation ability, these two would have taken a long time to recover, because Faith and Ashley's damage output isn't very high. They were brought along because their survivability is the strongest.

Ronan's enemy was actually much weaker than Dinia's, and since it was someone he knew, it was even weaker. However, Dinia could use her magic freely and wasn't afraid of taking damage, while Ronan had to conserve his magic and couldn't just take attacks head-on. In reality, the difficulty of the two of them was about the same.

After that, we took a detour.

Subsequently, the one at the foot of the mountain, unable to avoid the attack, directly confronted it head-on and was killed by Dinia with a single blow.

After going up the mountain, the annoying things started again: various ambushes, poisoning, slowing effects, and encirclements. These weren't strong for Dinia, but even for someone like her who could use magic at will, killing them took a long time.

This lava dragon eagle was huge, yet it would fly in the sky one moment and dive into the lava pool the next, never coming up to fight head-on. It was also very durable, which finally enraged Dinia.

Previously, through her spatial magic, Ambrina had informed Ronan that his body was gradually showing some abnormalities. Golden-red patterns were beginning to appear on his skin. Zhao Yingqi also had some, but very few and very subtle. On the contrary, Ronan, who was stronger than Zhao Yingqi in every aspect, was in a much more serious condition.

With a deafening boom, the Lava Dragon Eagle collapsed completely.

Dinia turned around, her eerie crimson eyes looking at Faith and Ashley. "Let's go, next stop."

Dinah reached the summit point before Ronan and resolved the situation first. At this moment, Ronan was still entangled with "Agustina" and had not yet reached the second stage.

"Damn, there's a lava pool at the top of this mountain," Ronan couldn't help but curse.

Agustina is a pure fire elemental mage, tier 5. Once her domain is activated, it overlaps with the lava pool environment, making Agustina omnipresent and omnipotent within its range. Ronan, on the other hand, is a melee mage with top-tier all attributes but lacking area-of-effect skills.

Half an hour later.

The flames on Agustina's body went out, the lava stopped flowing and quickly turned into black ash. In the blink of an eye, the black ash slid off and scattered, revealing a humanoid monster wrapped in obsidian. The obsidian man stepped on the lava pool and walked step by step toward the shore, with each step causing a piece of obsidian to fall off his body.

Finally, Agustina herself appeared, without the one-eyed patch she wore most of the time, and her clothing was not the androgynous or military style she usually wore, but rather the standard attire of a noble lady of this era: a gorgeous dress with a bustier, cinched waist, and a large cake skirt, and even her hair was styled in a ball gown updo.

"Have you ever thought about me?" she asked.

Agustina wouldn't ask that question. She's someone who appears lazy and rough on the outside, but is actually sensitive and delicate on the inside. Perhaps it's due to the ups and downs she experienced in her youth, but she never makes people feel troubled.

But Ronan wanted her to ask that question, wanted her to make things difficult for him.

A few minutes later, Ronan dealt with her.

They went back to call Zhao Yingqi over, and Ronan and Zhao Yingqi set off again. According to the map, their next destination was the waterfall in the north.

"I hope it's not Ms. Dinia," Zhao Yingqi prayed.

“It doesn’t matter if it is her or not. The fake her shouldn’t be able to use the original power.” Ronan said calmly. “A Didi who can’t use the original power is just a big-breasted, brainless, low-educated idiot.”

Zhao Yingqi was starting to believe it. "Really?"

"The first half of the sentence is true, and I hope the second half is true too," Ronan said with a wry smile.

When Dinia's rank was low, her magic itself was actually very weak; she just had a lot of magic power. However, she was always among the top three in the orphanage.

To this day, most people are not in a position to force her to use technology.

This doesn't mean she didn't have it.

But Ronan didn't know exactly how far things had gone.

Halfway there, sensing something alive ahead, Ronan stopped to rest again. His battle with "Agustina" had drained his magic, physical strength, and mental energy; in his current state, he couldn't even guarantee he could instantly kill those small fry monsters.

Needless to say, the "minor fish" ahead are likely to be stronger than the previous ones.

After resting for a quarter of an hour, Ronan moved forward and entered the area of ​​a small mountain village with Zhao Yingqi. At first glance, the place was very lively. Rows of old but not dilapidated wooden houses were everywhere. Some villagers sat at the entrance of the village chatting, some were chopping wood, some were carrying water, and some were climbing trees to pick fruit. It was a completely different scene from the rest of the dream world shrouded in red moonlight.

But upon closer inspection, all the villagers were actually puppets.

Chapter 677 As expected of you, the dream crashed, Didi in another battle mode.

After passing the Puppet Village and dealing with Faith, we took care of Kate Pierre at the waterfall, and then dealt with Isabel and Ashley in the eastern forest.

Back in the city, Ronan, who had lost his right hand, went to the temple with Zhao Yingqi, along with the crystal and a woman whose face was only partially shown.

After opening the temple gates, Ronan, guided by the woman, deciphered a series of mechanisms and successfully opened another door to the temple. Through this door, Ronan was able to pass through the blockade and enter the city area.

After that, we proceeded in a straight line, avoiding everything we could, but there were still some things we couldn't avoid no matter what we did.

The monsters they encountered, which were neither human nor ghost, were a level stronger than the monsters they had encountered outside the city. Moreover, these creatures appeared more suddenly in the city, making it more difficult for Ronan to maneuver. In addition, his right hand had not fully regenerated, leaving him with only one hand. Compared to how he had previously slashed through the minions with ease, this was much more strenuous.

Fortunately, the woman who only showed her face was not weak; she was definitely at the level of a fourth-tier mage and could help hold them back. Zhao Yingqi, who had hardly consumed any resources along the way, could also provide fire support, allowing Ronan to focus on dealing with a few particularly powerful monsters.

After fighting all the way, Ronan's right hand finally grew back. This world was strange, but the magic was unusually abundant, which also greatly increased Ronan's regenerative abilities.

The three of them were not far from the central square under the big tree. The person who only showed his face stopped and Ronan called Zhao Yingqi to stop. He went forward alone.

The ground was cracked in many places, and weeds had grown in some areas. In the center of the wide, desolate square, covered with dust and sand, a gust of wind would stir up a cloud of dust. Beneath the rusty, blood-stained execution platform, Ambrina stood, facing Ronan.

At that moment, Ronan stopped. He wasn't thinking about whether Ambrina would be difficult to deal with; he was thinking about what Ambrina would say after being killed once and entering the second phase.

"Dad, don't you love me anymore? Why don't you come to me? Am I worthless?" This was Golan's question.

"Why did you kill my father? Why implicate my friends? Why protect the real villains? Why?" This was Alice's question.

“We can never go back to that simple, happy, and warm family, right?” That’s Elena.

"Have you ever thought about me?" This is Agustina.

Starting with Faith, it's no longer a question, but an exclamation.

"Trust is a rare thing." These are Faith's words.

"Perhaps I really can't be human." - Kate Piper.

"The pain is not in missing out on the past, but in realizing that it is impossible to have it in the future either." This quote comes from Isabelle.

"I thought I could be different from the woman who gave birth to me, but in the end, it seems there's no difference."

Will Ambrina question or sigh?

Five minutes later, Ronan, whose skin was cracked and bleeding, with blood flowing from his eyes, nostrils and mouth, and whose magic was running rampant, supported himself with his longsword to stay upright. Opposite him, "Ambrina" finally staggered and fell to the ground.

Her magic was far too troublesome for a mage. While inflicting damage on her, the mage himself would suffer several times the damage. If Ronan hadn't been a sixth-rank mage, but two ranks higher than her, and possessed a small amount of original power, along with the dual enhancement of his mind and body, he would have definitely fallen before Ambrina.

At this moment, Ronan gazed intently at "Ambrina," who was about to come back to life.

In fact, after dealing with Elena and Agustina, Ronan had some guesses about what the others would say. After resolving the first phase, he had a desire to verify the answers.

Ronan is now especially looking forward to Ambrina's "answer".

He was very curious about what "Ambrina" would say, because he really couldn't guess what she would say.

Ronan felt that he had so much to say about his wife of so many years, but at the same time he felt that Ambrina had never cared about these things. It wasn't that she didn't think about them like others, but that she simply didn't care and had never thought about them.

"Ambrina" stood up again. Her body, which was much prettier, taller, and slimmer than her original form, cracked open. The next moment, her original form gradually appeared. Just when Ronan thought she was about to speak, suddenly, this body turned into a pool of blood. Then, the thick liquid dried up in the blink of an eye, turning into red dust that dissipated in the wind.

In her second phase, she died without leaving a single word or making any further moves.

"Ha ha ha ha."

Ronan stared at the scene for a moment, then laughed. His laughter held a mixture of surprise, helplessness, relief, and a hint of mockery. He mocked himself, and he mocked this world of the Red Moon.

He thought he had a lot, but in fact he had nothing.

"As expected of you, Anli, you don't even plan to do your job as the 'inner demon' properly."

Ronan said.

As he spoke, the gloom that had been gathering in his heart after the defeat of one inner demon after another was suddenly swept away.

Upon closer examination, these monsters are neither projections nor inner demons, but merely pointless tricks.

If it really is an inner demon, why would Ambrina have nothing to say?

This is really possible.

However, this one doesn't exist.

The result was that the nightmare completely crashed the system.

Nightmare probably didn't anticipate this, did it?

Having dealt with "Ambrina," Ronan continued onward.

Finally, Ronan arrived at the base of the tree, and as he had expected, Dinia had been waiting there for a long time.

However, at this moment, his mindset was completely different from the beginning and during the process. He was not in a hurry, nor did he have any expectations. He simply regarded this as a strange but interesting dream.

"Come on, Didi, let me see what level you are without the power of the original seed."

Ronan wielded two swords and walked step by step toward Dinia.

Dinia, dragging his warhammer with one hand, walked step by step toward Ronan.

Just when Ronan thought they hadn't entered combat range yet, Dinia's warhammer was rapidly enlarging in his pupils.

It wasn't the warhammer that was thrown; rather, Dinia's hand transformed into a whip, and the long-handled warhammer, combined with her arm, resembled a meteor hammer.

Ronan blocked with one sword, then slashed horizontally with the other, intending to sever Dinia's flexible arm.

The sword that slays demons struck Dinia's arm, but failed to sever it, or even create a gash.

Dinia's arms are made entirely of tough and deformable bacteria, with a strong defensive membrane attached to the outer surface.

However, even so, Ronan's piercing magic damage still completely ignored the defensive membrane.

Moreover, this move was just a feint. At the same instant, Dinia flew over. Ronan had been waiting for this moment. The sword that had just blocked the warhammer slid directly and then shot out a sword beam at Dinia, aiming straight for her brow.

However, a hole was ripped open in Dinia's forehead, and the sword's edge pierced right through it.

At the same time, the strands of hair spread out, grew, extended, and transformed into countless red lines that attacked Ronan from the air, instantly blocking all angles of evasion.

Chapter 678 Reaction, Creativity, A Dream of That Year

Under Dinia's onslaught, Ronan completely abandoned the use of shields and armor. His flail-like whip attacks were agile and unpredictable, coming from any angle and easily dodging shields. His hair attacks were unstoppable, slipping through gaps in the armor's joints.

Now, Ronan's defense can only rely on a completely covered magical defense membrane.

As for Dinia, her body is almost unharmed because even without the original power, she can still regenerate, although the efficiency of regeneration is reduced and she cannot regenerate indefinitely. When faced with slashes, the areas that are slashed are entangled and blocked by mycelium, dissipating the force layer by layer. Ronan's maximum strength can only create a wound, unable to sever her body. When faced with stabs, they directly create holes, forcing Ronan to miss.

Of course, this doesn't mean Ronan can't harm Dinia. The piercing magic attacks are still constantly eroding her body and the magic system of her magic base, but it's like scraping.

Just when Ronan thought the battle had reached a stalemate and would continue like this indefinitely, with Dinia eventually running out of steam first.