Chapter 174 The Fate of Men—Truly Unpredictable (1/2)

Just as Ying was exchanging looks with 03 across the room, Joshua looked interested in observing the Divine Armament girl that seemed to have completed advancing higher into a new tier.

Judging only from her appearance, it was natural that there were no changes at all. Regardless of her height or her body figure, Ying still looked exactly the same as before. It seemed that the changes only applied internally.

Joshua's eyes could directly see the flow of the energy. Meanwhile, the flow of energy in Ying's body was no longer shielded from him ever since Ying had formed the pact with him. He could easily see through it.

”It seems that output of your core has obviously increased. The flowing route of your energy seemed to have a structure to supercharge your magic power now. You can unleash much more outburst of your power in a brief period of time now…”

Analysing the approximate magic path within the body of Ying, Joshua could not help but to applaud and praise those alchemists who designed these Divine Armament four hundred years ago. Although he completely could not understand deeper into the layers of the routing structure in the Divine Armament, he could still see that the humanoid body of Ying had already attained the pinnacle of Silver tier. She might even break through into the realm of Gold tier really soon.

The psionic body of a Divine Armament had no need to consume food. The body would only need to absorb ionized energy to keep functioning, to have the ability to heal themselves, to grow back limbs that were being cut of… All kinds of special abilities were blessed in this little body, and she could even grow stronger along with every battle she took part in, along with every enemy she killed. After all, the Divine Armament could really be deemed as the best masterpiece alchemy had ever achieved in history.

However, the main body of the Divine Armament was after all, still a weapon. The human form was only designed for the purpose of convenience in term of bringing along and in term of communication. Her strength was not really important. If Joshua would really want to know what new capabilities or skills that Ying had attained from crossing into a new higher Tier, he would really need to find a chance and let her transform into her weapon form over for a battle.

”Ying, how do you feel after you've advanced into a new tier?”

Upon lifting his head up and looked at his own Divine Armament in her eyes, Joshua was looking forward to asking for Ying's opinion. He was not really proficient in alchemy. And sometimes, it would be better to ask his own Divine Armament about it.

However, the silver-haired girl was obviously absent-minded at the moment. She had been staring at the bluish-violet piece of runic core that Ling was holding in his both hands. After that, she only blinked and reacted to the situation.

”This… I feel pretty good… Master, who is this?”

So what does it mean by feeling good then… Joshua furrowed his brows. However, after putting some deeper thoughts about it, he suddenly noticed that it was actually pointless to ask Ying about it. She had no knowledge of alchemy to begin with. So how could she actually be able to describe all sorts of changes that had happened in her own body?

Looking obliquely at the projection of 03 that was floating in front of the bed like a ghost, Joshua took a moment to think. After that, he spoke slowly, ”This is… a new home decoration I brought back to decorate our home?”

”Ying, 03?”

Just as Joshua continued to deal with his own affairs in his own territory, the Empire, back at the Holy City of the Triplet Mountain, in the Morlaix Palace.

The weather in the Central Empire was already very warm at that time. Most of the pedestrians on the streets had taken off their sweaters and jackets. Instead, they were wearing only their single long sleeves. After sending his apprentices back to the Royal Academy, Nostradamus did not stop for a rest at all. He went to the palace straight away. Once again, he found the Emperor who was dealing with serious business at the current moment.

With the good relationship the old mage had with the Emperor and the old mage's status, he need to have to give prior notice in order to enter the palace. The guards along the way did not stop him from walking in of course. In a short while, he saw the man who held the highest power over the entire Empire in his study room.

Upon pushing the door of the study room opened, Nostradamus saw a man with dark gold hair that went past his shoulders. That man was sitting in an armchair in the study room. He was looking at an ancient book with a bright silver cover. In the meantime, there was also a little boy sitting on his lap. The boy had the same hair color as the Emperor, dark gold, with a pair of blue eyes.

”Oh, the Seventh Prince is here as well today.”

The old mage frowned. Then he brushed his white beard and spoke in surprise, ”This is really rare.”

”This little man said that he wanted to see how I handle official matters…” In front of his own children, the Emperor of the Empire did not reveal the dignity of a legendary warrior. He laid down his ancient books and turned his head over to look at the old mage, ”My teacher, you must have taken care of things back in the north. That is why you came.”

”That's right. The three of them have come back from the other world. They seemed to have looked for the dimensional rift themselves. When I activated the rift, they had already returned in a flash.”

He waved and summoned a chair out of thin air. Then the old mage sat down on the chair with a top pad made from lambskin. He gave some thoughts about it for a while and said, ”Israel, there is something worth spending attention on. I think it's worth for me to bring it up.”

Even his teacher, a Supreme-tier mage would treat the matter carefully. So it seemed that, as an Emperor of the entire Empire should not oversee that matter as well. So Israel asked out of his own curiosity, ”What is it?”

Nostradamus roughly told Israel about the experience of Joshua and the others back in the other world.

The entire study room instantly descended into silence.

”Supreme Aragami… even with the support of the others, it would still not easy to slay one… It seems that the Radcliffe has indeed understood the meaning of 'Supreme'. Meanwhile, the turbulence caused by the dimensional rifts in the north has disappeared, the line of defense that connects the Inner Sea of Starfall and the Lost Sea will become stronger and much more stable.”

Israel muttered to himself. The other world on the other side of the dimensional rift was no longer a threat. It was a huge change to the strategic deployment of the entire Empire as well. Israel was still brushing the hair of his child gently with his hand. The Seventh Prince that seemed very young was attempting to move his father's hand away. After a brief moment, the Emperor opened his mouth again to speak, ”It seems that the Evil God that invaded the other world has left the world on its own to perish. Looking at the distance between that other world and Mycroft, and also the Chaos forces that emerged at the far South, it is very likely that everything that has been happening is related to the very same Evil God. The Kaos family is also investigating matters regarding this as well.”