Yes, Madam Prime Minister

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The royalists were actually very radical. They wanted to restore the glory of the thousand-year-old empire and to support the king to become emperor. Naturally, they wanted to become a royal guard with a strong imperial flavor, not just not imperial enough, right? In this process, of course, a great purge would also be carried out.

The Republicans are somewhere in the middle; although they want the king to abdicate and for a democratic republic, they don't expect bloodshed.

“When we go to the south, where the royalists are gathered, it goes without saying that the first people we will suppress are these people.”

Ronan said.

"Damn it, they want to be part of the Imperial Guard? This isn't just any ordinary rebel group; we have to crack down on them!"

Ronan had no idea that someone would block his way before he even crossed the river.

Ryan and Lisa, who were originally going to the south to oversee the battle, came over immediately after noticing something was wrong and stopped Ronan and his group.

At this moment, the old headmaster Erwin, who had been hanging behind and pretending to chase after them, had no choice but to come over and, together with Ryan and Lisa, block Ronan and his group from the front and back.

“These two people…” Liz was about to tell Ronan about Ryan and Lisa when Ronan reached out and interrupted her.

Immediately afterwards, Ronan said to the three of them, "No need to say more, the three of you go and deal with the old man in the back, and Madam Zhao and I will handle the two in front."

Louise wanted to speak, but in the end she didn't. She turned around, and the three of them joined together, facing the old headmaster, Erwin.

Erwin knew that the three combined were stronger than him in terms of raw power, but he didn't feel threatened at all. He only needed to remain undefeated and hold his own against these three young people, which was very easy for him. After all, holding his own against others was his specialty.

“I never imagined that the legendary figure was still alive and had been hiding in Vienna all this time.” Ryan recognized Ronan. After all, he had seen many portraits of Ronan back in France. While other people’s portraits might be beautified, they might not be memorable. Ronan’s portraits, however, were as realistic as possible and were unforgettable.

“How lucky.” Lisa, who was usually calm, unexpectedly showed an excited expression. From some fragments of historical records, it could be inferred that Ronan had mastered some secrets.

If she can defeat and subdue it, then she will also have a chance to obtain these secrets.

This will definitely propel their careers to new heights.

Ronan smiled. "I didn't expect that after more than a hundred years, there would be so many people who know me. But judging from your expressions, you all seem particularly confident that you can win me over."

As the shock subsided, Ryan calmed down and replied to Ronan, "All I can say is that times have changed."

“Indeed, times have changed.” Ronan spread his hands and admitted, “However, I’d like to correct one of your mistakes. I wasn’t hiding inside the city; I came in from the outside.” With that, Ronan’s figure vanished, transforming into a layer of translucent amber-gold armor covering Madam Zhao, along with floating swords swirling around her.

This is not a fusion. A true fusion is when the combined strength of two individuals surpasses their combined strength. This is merely Ronan becoming equipment and assisting Madam Zhao.

Ronan equipped Madam Zhao, while Ryan and Lisa merged and became ghosts.

"Then let us test the truth of your words." Before the words were even finished, Ryan and Lisa had already flown in from afar, closing in on Madam Zhao.

The next instant, space and time around them froze.

The combined ghostly form of Ryan and Lisa resembled a quantum ghost that had been observed and collapsed, becoming a pseudo-entity and being fixed in place.

They couldn't move, but Madam Zhao could. Not only could she move, but in her ghostly form, she could also control the floating swords corrupted and assimilated by her power, shooting out sword beams like floating cannons.

A sword beam capable of striking the soul, which would be pure damage to ordinary superhumans, would have little power against ghosts. Ronan had already tested this on Madam Zhao. However, Ryan and Lisa were not complete ghosts now; they had collapsed and were frozen in time.

Dozens of sword beams stopped in front of the merged ghost. The sharp tips of these sword beams were no more than a finger joint away from its eyes, nose, throat, shoulders, elbows, heart, kidneys, abdomen, thighs, knees and other parts of the body.

"Time begins to flow." Madam Zhao, covered in amber-gold armor, snapped her fingers.

*Linlinlinlin*, dozens of sword beams pierced through the combined ghost.

The next instant, a burst of blood exploded in the air, spraying blood in all directions. The merged Ryan and Lisa plummeted vertically, landing on the river and creating a wave.

At this moment, the two had returned to their ghostly state. The wounds were gone, and their bodies were normal again. They could perform any movement as if they had not been injured. However, in reality, they had indeed suffered the damage just now.

“We did come in from the outside,” Madam Zhao said. “Give up the resistance. It’s wrong to drag so many people down with you for some ideal.”

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Madam Zhao's voice was clear and gentle, and she was offering advice with the best of intentions. However, in this situation, her voice and words sounded incredibly sarcastic and infuriating, even more so than that nonsensical nun's marriage.

“Idiot woman, shut up.” Lisa said in a rare emotional outburst, “You think you’ve won? You think that just because you’ve become a ghost, no one can do anything to you? Ridiculous.”

In the blink of an eye, a bunch of floating cannons suddenly appeared behind the combined ghost.

They provided the Austrian army with weapons specifically designed to counter the Ghosts, and of course, they also had even more powerful weapons designed to counter the Ghosts.

Madam Zhao's time stop is indeed terrifying, but its range is too small, and she herself is not fast enough; she can simply create distance.

“You didn’t finish us off with that last move, you don’t have a second chance,” Ryan cursed arrogantly.

Chapter 1244 Stalemate? You have your trump card, I have Phase Two

The distance had increased, but it wasn't as perfect as expected. A situation where one could hit the other while the other couldn't hit them was impossible. The reason was that Ronan, now equipped with gear, could carry Lady Zhao by flying; Lady Zhao's speed wasn't her speed, but Ronan's. The situation had unknowingly turned into a direct firefight.

Although Madam Zhao could not stop time again to merge Ryan and Lisa, her ghostly power directly affected the flying sword beams, and once they hit, they could still cause effective damage.

Ryan and Lisa's floating cannons are very powerful against ghosts, but their penetration is not that strong, as a significant portion of their power is blocked by that layer of armor.

The battle between the two sides became a zero-sum game of damage exchange.

However, Ronan's magic power and vitality are undoubtedly greater than when the two of them merged. Furthermore, the two of them suffered severe injuries during the initial time stop, and their return to normal also consumed a large amount of magic power.

In this situation where it comes down to attrition, their defeat is only a matter of time.

They both agreed that they couldn't let this drag on, but the plan had already reached this point, and they couldn't simply withdraw and escape. If they didn't deal with Ronan and the woman before them, all their years of effort would be in vain. "Have you played your trump card?" Ryan asked.

At this time, many extraordinary individuals had arrived from afar. Apart from a few powerful and wealthy people, they were all of high rank, including some of the highest-ranking people in Austria.

They had been keeping an eye on this direction all along. To the average person, the battle between Madam Ronan Zhao and Ryan Lisa seemed like a small-scale affair, without even a gust of wind or a ripple in the river, and without any explosions. But to top-tier mages, the magical fluctuations were terrifying, making them dare not approach at all.

Ryan hesitated to reveal his hand because it had a very bad image.

Once they leave, they'll be in big trouble.

"Win first, then we'll talk," Lisa replied in her mind.

Their trump card was the refined ghost.

They have been in Austria for some years and have long targeted a group of artificial superhumans with simple social relationships. Several days ago, the person that Lavana and her group encountered, Buck, was actually taken away by Lisa and then refined into a "supplement".

These "supplements" primarily replenish lost magic and vitality, and secondarily slightly enhance the strength of magic.

Using something like this under the watchful eyes of so many people is bound to leave a trace, which will undoubtedly have a negative impact on subsequent plans and require a great deal of effort to rebuild the image.

However, given the current situation, it's no longer the time to consider the future.

How can we talk about the future if we can't solve the Ronan problem?

The floating cannons opened fire fiercely, forcibly suppressing Madam Zhao, who was being implanted by Ronan, preventing her from getting close.

At the same time, the front ends of two groups of six floating cannons closed to form a sharp cone, instantly piercing into the backs of the two merged individuals, as if injected by a giant needle. Golden runes that alternated between light and dark appeared on the bodies of the two merged individuals, and the muscles of their bodies swelled and contracted and writhed with the changes in the light and dark of the runes.

Mana recovery, health recovery, physical enhancement, magical enhancement.

At this moment, the two are even stronger than when they were in their prime and uninjured state.

"Drugs?" Ronan didn't understand what was going on at first.

“No, they injected something into their bodies, the main component of which should be ghosts,” Mrs. Zhao said. Compared to Ronan, she, being a ghost herself, could see it clearly.

"They're here," Ronan reminded him.

He had barely given the warning when a violent barrage of rays struck.

It's essentially the same attack, only now the density and intensity are greater than before.

Even with Ronan's all-around floating shield, the damage Madam Zhao suffered in this short period of time was almost equal to the total damage she sustained in the previous stalemate over several minutes.

Actually, such damage wasn't much, and it wasn't considered serious for Madam Zhao.

However, such an attack is very painful. For Ronan, who is a veteran of many battles, the pain will not have any effect on him. But for Madam Zhao, who has little combat experience, the pain will have a great impact. People who are not used to pain will not be able to maintain their consciousness in pain. This will directly reduce their calculation ability, and the reduced calculation ability will affect their ability to control precisely.

Long-range air combat continues.

Although the opposing side had the advantage, they still dared not get close. After all, Madam Zhao's time-stop move was too effective against them. If they were caught off guard and attacked, it would be a devastating blow.

"Don't rush, just wait it out with them," Lisa communicated with Ryan. "He's not the main force, that woman won't last long."

"Understood," Ryan replied, feeling much better than before.

As the two said, after they injected the tonics, Madam Zhao could no longer outlast them. She and Ronan were not truly united; Ronan could not freely transfer his magic to her, nor could he give her a powerful physical body.

“Let’s change its form,” Ronan said to Madam Zhao.

“But…” Madam Zhao hesitated for a moment.

"Don't worry, I've got everything covered. The other side is just a kid with powerful weapons." Ronan was full of confidence, and his confidence was not unfounded. After a brief exchange of blows, he could tell that his opponent was not a seasoned veteran.

The so-called second form is that Ronan is a human, and Madam Zhao becomes equipment.

Of course she has this ability. In the end, she stopped being human a long time ago. Being human is just a shell for her. Strictly speaking, she is a combination of a human, a zombie, and a robot. A few days ago, she even gained the ability to become a ghost.

The massive array of shields were seamlessly joined together, forming a tortoise shell formation that enveloped Madam Zhao and Ronan.

When the tortoise shell was cracked and shattered, and the two reappeared, Ronan had already transformed back into a human, and Madam Zhao had become a sword in his hand.

Ryan couldn't help but burst into laughter at Ronan, "Hahaha, that's it?"

You can't see or touch us anymore.

He was telling the truth: once Madam Zhao was transformed into equipment, Ronan, who was not a ghost, could not sense her.

In Ryan's view, the sword that Ronan held, which was actually the transformed form of Lady Zhao, could hurt them, but since they couldn't see it or touch it, how could they fight it?

Ronan twirled his sword, removed his shield and armor, and even put one hand behind his back. "Someone as skilled as me can easily beat you kids who've never fought before, even if you're blind and unable to touch me, even if your five senses are stripped away, I can still utterly dominate you."

“Arrogant and conceited,” Lisa growled.

Immediately, the two dispersed and fired their floating cannons to prevent Ronan from determining their location based on the trajectories, while simultaneously rushing towards Ronan to close in.

Madam Zhao is now simply a weapon; even if she can still stop time, it doesn't matter.

Even when combined, their normal movement is supersonic, but their stopping range is only about 100 meters. If you don't time it perfectly, you can't stop them at all. At this moment, Ronan was still standing motionless in the air, like an idiot wooden stake. "Idiot," Ronan cursed inwardly.

He didn't need Madam Zhao's time-stop ability at all to fight these two.

Chapter 1245 Audience, Come and Ambush, Come and Deceive!

The Silverwing Pegasus Black Knight, formed by the fusion of Lavana, Louise, and Liz, was still fighting against Erwin, the former principal of the Imperial University, a seventh-tier warrior. The battle was quite intense, with the aftershocks causing the river to churn, the winds to rise, and the waves to crash against the shore. However, both sides were actually playing a tacit game and were not putting in any real effort.

Meanwhile, Ronan's battle has entered a new phase.

At this moment, a group of people led by King Antoine III and his brother Philip, along with several generals, arrived at the scene. In addition, a group of high-ranking nobles and officials, led by the king's uncle and prime minister Conrad, also arrived. Together with the group of high-ranking superhumans who were mainly academic elites and business consultants who arrived first, almost all the key figures in Austria's military, political, and economic fields were gathered.

They can be described as different interest groups, but at the same time, they are intertwined and have an inseparable and complex relationship.

At this moment, they were watching the battle through a mage's magic that projected images remotely.

"Won't that masked man and his accomplices lose?" Chancellor Conrad asked, his tone revealing neither concern that the masked man would not win nor a secret hope that he would lose.

Many people believe that the prime minister is a staunch supporter of the king and naturally does not want the masked man to fail. However, some people also believe that the king has gone too far. Conrad, as the king's uncle, naturally supports him, but he is also the prime minister and the head of the civil service.

"We can't lose," a general asserted.

What he was really thinking was "we can't lose." The masked man and his gang were the key to the ghost-like power. If they were gone, it would be uncertain whether the war could be started. If the war couldn't be started, how could these soldiers, who had been living in a stifled country, be liberated?

A magician looked at the screen and said, "It's hard to say; both sides are very confident."

Of course, he wanted the masked man and his gang to die. After all, if it weren't for the masked man, the king wouldn't suddenly have a nightmare and cause trouble, and there wouldn't be those artificial superhumans who rebelled because of their ghost-like abilities.

Among the crowd, there were also some magicians who, although they were also stakeholders, had forgotten to leave and were focused on the battle itself.

"I'm curious about who this suddenly appearing expert is."

"Oh, I think we should discuss what the masked man and his accomplice injected, and how it allowed them to instantly recover. Shouldn't we be looking at how he dealt with the ghost-like ability?" "Ha, you're too late. He wasn't alone; his female companion was also a ghost."

"However, he himself is not a ghost, and his companion has already turned into a sword."

"The masked man keeps blinking and teleporting around the other party. What is he doing?" "Testing the waters, and also interfering with the other party's prediction."

Lisa remained extremely cautious. Even though Ronan stood like a wooden stake, she didn't rush at him directly. Instead, she rapidly flashed around the space centered on Ronan. Neither she nor Ryan had a pre-determined which direction to attack from. Ronan, who was already unable to detect their presence, was now unable to even predict their movements.

The combined two figures became completely ethereal, transparent, and invisible. The next second, blood blossomed on Ronan's chest.

The next second, the combined two entities appeared in the air dozens of meters away from Ronan, blood blooming from their chests as they vomited a mouthful of blood.

"How is this possible?" The two were shocked, not understanding how Ronan had managed to cut them.

Ronan's injuries were instantly repaired through ultra-fast regeneration. Looking into the distance, he said, "Surprised? There's nothing to be surprised about. The moment you made contact with me, I stabbed myself with this sword, and that's how I stabbed you too."

As they regenerated, blood gushed out. They couldn't believe Ronan's words. "Impossible. Our attacks barely cause any pain at the moment. By the time you feel the pain, we're already dozens of meters away from you."

How could I wait until I felt it before reacting? You guys attack!

The instant it struck me, my body and soul changed, responding to the abnormal magical fluctuations. I locked the pull spell onto myself; the moment my magical energy fluctuated abnormally, my body moved on its own. I didn't need to wait for sensation to react—zero delay. "Uh, judging from your behavior..."

It seems they don't know much about traction techniques.

This is simply one application of traction techniques.