Quadruple split.

Chapter 2589: Interlude: The Nightmare of the North
At a certain moment, the King of Sin thought of Lu Wei and Cordova who were far away in Tianzhu Mountain.

Although strictly speaking those two people are completely different from the combination of Merlin and Arthur, at certain subtle moments, they have a similar way of getting along.

Of course, this boring idea was soon thrown into the dusty corner of his mind, mixed with a large amount of complex, disordered and worthless information, and was labeled as "useless".

"Be quiet, Arthur."

The Sin King calmly interrupted the noise of the speaker, then turned to Merlin and said calmly: "So, how long will it take for the White King's body to be transformed?"

“It can be as short as one month or as long as more than one month.”

Merlin answered without hesitation, and casually summoned a screen filled with densely packed formulas and symbols, which only he could fully understand. Even Gahres could only understand less than 20% of them. Then he raised his hand and swiped a few times on the magic crystal board, turning the messy scribbles on the screen into two human-shaped structures that were grotesquely distorted inside, but with decent outlines.

By the way, only Gahres could barely understand the large amount of annotations around the two structures. The Sin King and Ji Xiaodao still couldn't understand them at all.

"To put it simply, it is..."

Merlin knew very well that the two illiterate people (?) probably couldn't understand what he was saying. He sighed silently and explained reluctantly, "Although Osiris only needs about half a month to debug because Farah Osis has legendary power, Arthur Bohe's synchronization rate with the Chaos Construct is slow due to his limited strength. No matter how optimistically we estimate this transformation, it will definitely not take less than a month."

Arthur's roar came from the speakers again: "Just because I'm weak doesn't mean you can turn me into a woman!"

"Shut up. You're wasting the nice name your father gave you."

Merlin frowned and said coldly, "You know nothing, Lion King of Great Britain."

Arthur was furious: "Why the hell should I understand that mad king!?"

"Hey……"

Ji Xiaodao gently touched the Sin King's shoulder and asked in a low voice, "I don't read many comics, but I have seen a lot of pictures of that female hero on the Internet. Is that work very famous?"

“That IP is not a comic book.”

The King of Sin said calmly.

"Anyway, Merlin seems to like that IP very much."

Ji Xiaodao glanced at Merlin who was bickering with Arthur (idiot, you don't understand what Saber is, you are not worthy of using a sword!/Merlin, you must have something dirty in your head, I'll open your head and check it later), and said dimly, "It's hard to imagine that guy would have such a side."

The King of Sin said nothing, but closed his eyes amid the chatter of the Chief Engineer and Chief Godkiller.

"But if you think about it, it might not be so strange."

Ji Xiaodao raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and said in a brisk tone: "After all, even a guy who usually doesn't even want to make an expression will occasionally be forced into a corner by a partner who is suspected to be a pervert... Oh no, it's by the window."

"I'm not a pervert!"

Arthur, whose radio seemed to be working well, was furious and shouted in a trembling voice: "It was old Merlin who did this!"

"Quiet."

The Sin King, who was getting increasingly impatient with the noise in front of him, opened his eyes and asked Merlin, "I need a mentally stable Arthur now, so is there a relatively normal body I can give him?"

"Have."

Merlin casually swiped the tablet, and immediately saw a strangely shaped slime monster appear on the screen in the air.

Arthur: "Merlin you--"

"It's likely that Xiao Wenqiu got the wrong storage module when he was playing with it. This is the final state of the experimental subject before it was processed yesterday. It's not your body."

Merlin interrupted Arthur impatiently, then raised his hand and swiped a few times on the magic crystal board, calling up an image with the same figure and appearance as Arthur Bohe, but without armor, but wearing an ordinary blue and gold robe. He said to the Sin King: "This is a spare body made of scraps. It has no problem with daily activities, but the core power is an enhanced version of the [Sin-Immersed Bullet]. The specifications are far inferior to the orthodox [Chaos Construct], and it is only at the peak of the high level."

Arthur: "Isn't this good? Old ghost, why didn't you give me this thing earlier?"

"I told you, this thing's specifications and performance are terrible, only at the peak of the high-end level. Its core isn't even a Chaos Construct."

"You still say you're not sick? Isn't the woman whose body you replaced me the same?!"

"It's different. The [Arthur Altria: Modern Clothes Version] you just had is a Chaos Construct. Its strength is the same as your previous body."

"What!?"

"You didn't notice anything different yourself, did you?"

"I thought you were the one who did something to me!"

"It has nothing to do with me. The reason you didn't notice it is that your synchronization rate with the Chaos Construct is too slow. Can't you learn from Osiris and become a Legendary before you die?"

"Don't talk like I'm willing to die!"

"Anyway, stop making trouble."

"I'm making trouble? You said I'm making trouble? With all the time you're saying I'm making trouble, can't you upgrade that backup body you just mentioned into a normal version?"

“There is no more material.”

"What!?"

“There is no more material.”

"I'm not deaf. What I mean is, why are there no more materials? Didn't you use Chaos Construct technology to make the female body?"

"more than."

"more than?"

"All versions of Altria use Chaos Construct technology."

“So…” “So there’s no material.”

"Merlin! I will find a chance to kill you!!!"

"Noisy."

Merlin frowned, then adjusted the volume of the speaker so that no matter how loud Arthur shouted at the top of his lungs, his voice would only be as loud as Yu Chen's when he first met a stranger.

Then, Ji Xiaodao looked at Merlin with a somewhat subtle expression and asked, "You should have just blown up Arthur's body, right? If you really used limited materials, isn't that a bit too wasteful?"

"It was only the connection that was burned. I installed a temporary subspace expansion device on it, and those parts were incorporated into the alien plane immediately after the explosion."

Merlin shook his head and said calmly, "As long as I extract the spatial code automatically generated by the central circuit within 72 hours, I can get the contents back."

Ji Xiaodao, who was just worried that the old man was being too wasteful, nodded slightly, and at the same time felt in his heart that the "power of knowledge" was indeed very important in the literal sense.

Then--

"Hi, I'm back, did you miss me?"

With a soft and pleasant laugh, a beautiful fox girl in a plain long dress and with a flaming red tail slowly walked over from not far away. She smiled in surprise and said, "Oh my, what day is today? Not only is Sister Jidao here, but even my dear boss is here, and... Tsk tsk, is this the future 'skin' of His Excellency [White King]? It seems that we are finally going to start calling each other sisters. The boss is so lucky."

After paying a graceful salute to the Sin King, Garven turned around and looked at the row of Altriat-type machines with a broad smile, marveling at them.

Arthur, who no longer had the energy to curse, said: "..."

The Sin King didn't react at all despite being teased: "..."

"Ugh."

Finally, Ji Xiaodao frowned slightly, glared at Gawen who was watching the fun and didn't mind getting involved, then began to take charge of the situation reluctantly. He asked Merlin who was already immersed in calculations to help Arthur find a proper spare body. Then, together with the Sin King and Gawen, they went to the "lounge" upstairs, which was rarely used and rarely had anything to do with scientific research, under the guidance of Gaheres.

"Wow! Brother Mo is here! And Sister Jidao and Sister Jiawen are here too!"

A few minutes later, Wen Qiu, who was playing with a doll in the lounge (a pink mini Barbie that Merlin made for Wen Qiu, which could use Vulcan cannons and small beam blades to fight each other), cheered and pounced on the Sin King, then climbed into the latter's arms like a cute little animal, and asked with a smile: "Brother Mo, did you see the surprise? Brother Arthur was made beautiful by Grandpa Merlin! Wen Qiu also wanted to be that beautiful, but Grandpa Merlin said no, wu, can Wen Qiu kill Grandpa Merlin?"

"…It's better not to."

The Sin King patted the girl's head, then leaned over and put her on the ground. He said in a calm tone that almost made Jiawen's mouth smile to the sky: "You continue to play, we can chat here."

"Oh, good!"

Although she likes to act like a spoiled child, she is always very obedient in front of Brother Mo. Wen Qiu nodded obediently, then ran to the pile of cushions by the window of the lounge to continue playing with her dolls.

"Uh, Mr. Mo."

Gaheres pursed his lips awkwardly and whispered, "Do you need me to take Wen Qiu to another room? If we disturb everyone..."

"No, she won't be happy about it."

The Sin King, who was sitting in the high-back chair by the fireplace, shook his head and said calmly, "Also, Master Merlin thinks highly of you, so stay and listen together."

Gajeres did not refuse, but nodded politely and said, "Okay."

"The boss really knows how to judge people."

Gavin smiled, walked to the wine cabinet she personally sponsored, and took out a bottle of expensive red wine that no one except Arthur and the Sin King could name, but the Sin King took a second look at it, and said cheerfully: "I believe that with Brother Gaherez's ability, it won't be long before he can stand on his own here."

Gaherez immediately waved his hands nervously and said repeatedly: "No, no, no, I am already very satisfied with just being able to help the instructor. I don't really understand the important things you guys are talking about, and I can't get a word in."

Gavin poured himself a small glass of the extremely high-end red wine [Saint Louise] produced in the Holy Land. He took a sip and raised the corners of his mouth slightly. His eyes narrowed into two beautiful crescents. "Why should we underestimate ourselves? As the saying goes, everyone has his own specialty. Each of us only needs to do what we are good at. Just like our boss, his biggest task is to try his best to rest for us."

Although he really didn't want to give Jiawen this face, Ji Xiaodao still turned his head slightly when he heard this, and the corners of his mouth curled up imperceptibly.

After that, Gawen continued to lead the conversation with a smile and chatted about random things until Merlin and Arthur, who had changed into a new body, walked in.

"Fuck..."

Arthur shuddered with lingering fear, and said to the Sin King who opened his eyes and looked at him, "If you had just told me that my body had been replaced instead of a blood flash, it wouldn't have been so troublesome."

"I didn't expect you to be so dumb that you didn't even notice your body had been replaced."

The Sin King replied to Arthur calmly, then nodded to Merlin, who was sitting opposite him and looking at the magic crystal board, and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

"Ah."

As the only person in the camp who could receive such courtesy from the Sin King, Merlin just responded without commenting, and then continued to immerse himself in the process of seeking the truth, studying those "ghost paintings" that no one could understand.

Garwen coughed after drinking the glass of Saint Louise, and turned to the crowd as the host of the meeting and said, "Well, everyone should know the situation. To put it simply, the Dream Kingdom showed a far greater enthusiasm than we expected, and launched an extremely fierce attack on the Griffin Dynasty. As of midnight yesterday, the Finn Line of Griffin's defense had been breached, and the garrisons of the three noble legions and the two support legions transferred from the rear were completely wiped out, with no one left alive."

Although Arthur already knew that Finn's defenses had been breached, he was totally unprepared for Griffin's losses to be so heavy. He was stunned for a moment and said in shock: "So cruel?!"

"Yes."

Garwen crossed his arms and said lazily, "After the defense line was breached, the chief of staff of the Dream Kingdom, Lamolock, simply gave up on cleaning up the battlefield. He didn't even let the troops stay on the half of the defense line that had been transferred to his hands. He ordered the pursuit of the remnants of the army that had just been defeated, which eventually led to the noble army, whose morale had already collapsed, fighting to the death."

Arthur nodded solemnly and continued, "And then?"

"And just as I said, the three noble legions and the two supporting legions were completely wiped out, leaving no one alive."

Garven shrugged and smiled, "Two hereditary earls, the heir of a hereditary baron, and an honorary marquis died in battle, and the Dream Theocracy's losses were only those cannon fodders that they forcibly "recruited" by some means. Of course... if these cannon fodders were also included in the losses, then the loss ratio of both sides would not be unacceptable."

"But the fact is..."

"In fact, the number of Griffin people who died in the battle was about the same as the five legions combined."

Chapter 2580: The End