Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 771 Armies' Doubts

Katarina was very indifferent to the mechanical bomb, and showed no sign of remorse when she swung it around.

The Countess had also led an army, though it was only a force of a thousand men.

But the fact that she was able to rise from an ordinary knight to a captain-level figure naturally indicates that she possesses a certain degree of leadership.

Therefore, she could tell that this bomb must be a standard artifact of Qingfeng Territory.

It doesn't necessarily mean that the entire army will be equipped with it, but you must reach a certain level or a certain amount of merit points to apply for it.

Qingfeng Territory didn't really hide its combat lineup, and although Katarina was strong enough, she didn't seem like the type to work hard to earn merit points.

Therefore, we can lower the reward value for this bomb.

In other words, each of the squad leaders who oversee 50 people and professionals at level 10 or above should have one.

As long as there are ways and qualifications to obtain such things, no one would refuse them.

You can never have too much of a life-saving item.

Even if the Lord of Qingfeng Territory obtained a lot of mechanical fragments from his mother, after all this trouble, he probably won't be able to keep many.

The Countess glanced at Arms again... This time, he can finally break free from the curse of those prophecies, right?
Feeling his mother's burning gaze behind him, Armies couldn't help but take a deep breath.

This is really not just his wild imagination.

Throughout history and across the entire multiverse, situations like the Montes family's, where seemingly unrelated events occur in an unbelievable number of ways, are almost always the beginning of an event that causes distress for the entire world.

However, it ended quietly.

Almes himself knew some divination magic, so even if we included His Majesty Travis's situation in those known conditions, the result he calculated was far more terrifying than this.

That was a major event that would involve even the Lord of Storms and the Goddess of Night, so the Lord of Ice could never have gotten through it so easily...

The Goddess of Rain was not in the seemingly helpless state she is in now.

Her ubiquitous presence has caused harm to the world to varying degrees.

Including the Icefield Royal Family... Alex should be a living dead by now.

This was the best possible outcome that Armies calculated after eliminating Lori.

In even worse cases, even the sun god would be dragged down with them.

Of course, things are a little better now.

Although Hades and his family, who were sleeping in the River Styx, did not obtain enough death energy to awaken them due to the war that raged throughout the world, they ultimately took the path of awakening the will of the River Styx directly.

But this is a result that Armies had tried for a long time but could not achieve!

If I were to be chosen by the River Styx, what else would I need to consider?
The Styx River, which is immortal and indestructible, and breathes and shares the fate of the multiverse, allows Hades' family to no longer worry about being bound to a second Greek world.

If they were to go through it all again, even if they survived, Hades and his people would only have the path of becoming Aragami (wild gods) left to take.

Unfortunately, the will of the Styx is always cold and ruthless, and there is no way to communicate with it... at least he can't.

When Styx chooses its executor, it relies entirely on timing and randomness.

The opportune moment is when the Styx first opens up a world. A Styx tributary that has not been tainted by the aura of that world will encounter a Styx-type creature and be directly elevated to the level of a Grim Reaper... The Styx will only appear at the moment the passage opens and will disappear a few minutes later.

Who could be so accurate without any preparation?

It's not like this world. Everything was almost ready, just a little bit more, and the River Styx was about to surge in. But then the strange thing happened that the whole world was shut down again. Even if Armes tried to find Hades's soul bit by bit, he couldn't find it.

That was the real Hades, a being whose soul once bore the aura of the River Styx!
Randomness goes without saying; after all, the Styx Will is the most active old guy, and it's entirely possible that it might suddenly appear in some world because it's attracted by something.

But Almes didn't think that people of Greek descent were destined for such a thing, which was entirely based on luck.

Otherwise, Almes wouldn't have plunged headlong into this still very dangerous world.

However, although he couldn't articulate the reasoning behind it, he did understand the meaning of "If you don't stay by my side when the sun sets, who will I be when I rise again?"

Only by accompanying the world through its most difficult hurdle will they obtain citizenship issued by the will of the world.

Unlike Apollo and his family, who have citizenship... Mount Olympus in Paradise, but hold green cards... and AO invitations to work and settle in Toril, he and Persephone's family are going to change their citizenship directly.

Swearing allegiance to the new nation was something that had to be done.

Tests are inevitable.

But, who told them that when they joined the Paradise Mountain League at Mount Olympia, they felt something was off and didn't follow suit!

Undocumented immigrants are lucky if they can even find a place to be taken, let alone in this world where the bottom line is so high it could bring them to tears.

Almes was certainly pleased with the current situation of steadily moving towards the new world.

But for someone like him, the fact that he has no ideas at all and all his preparations have come to nothing still makes him extremely anxious.

His resolute decision to completely eliminate Hermes, the one belonging to Zeus, was also somewhat related to his fear of the unknown. Any sacrifice made by such a greedy person was inevitably a decision made only after repeated deliberation.

How could he not pay attention to Lowry, who caused all of this?
He would ponder over even the slightest thing that seemed off.

He still doubts the prophecy.

However, that prophecy might just be a glimpse of something.

For example, the mechanical artifact did make some noise, but it was unlucky and was directly defeated and even fused with by Lori, who had awakened the dragon bloodline first, without him even realizing it.

What happened was unknown even to Lori himself... Given that the boy is still fighting to the death with Earl Montes, if he really had feelings, there's no way he wouldn't have shown any emotion at all.

Lowry showed no signs of bitterness or resentment, nor did she seem to feel betrayed by people she trusted.

The betrayal and scheming of the artifact fragments—those things that have given hints and protection to the soul since childhood—and all the past tenderness were a deception... No matter how strong-willed a person is, they will have to go through a low point to get over such things.

Lowry's life trajectory is too distinct; she has never been out of the public eye for an extended period of time.

His emotions had basically all erupted during his childhood, and had remained stable ever since.

But this stability does not mean he is steady.

You can tell what kind of person he is just by looking at Katarina's unrestrained manner.

A steady person can't raise such a wolf.

Only in this way can all of this be explained... The prophecy foresaw the consequences of Lowry's failure.

Lori's dragon bloodline is also of a relatively high level, perhaps similar to that of a third-generation dragon god descendant like Luscania. Therefore, the prophecy could not have foreseen his current appearance.

That explains why a half-baked fortune teller like him still couldn't figure things out even after putting all the known conditions into the natal chart.

Almes glanced at Katharina, who was already squatting there counting the number of certain special crystals.

This guy was someone he hadn't anticipated at all.

However, this has nothing to do with the Gale Wolf itself.

This kind of creature shouldn't even be next door to him.

Then Armies said coldly, "Katarina, the number after 1200 is not 1300."

Is this statistical method exclusive to your Gale Wolves?

He quickly turned to Pearl, who was strolling around watching the commotion: "Pearl! Come help Katarina with the statistics."

Then he turned around and said seriously, "After you two match the numbers you calculated, stamp the paper, otherwise I won't accept it, Katarina!"

If you follow one thousand two hundred with one thousand two hundred, Armies can barely tolerate it and just give a slight reminder.

That's jumping by 100 at a time, who can stand it!
He wasn't the one who was going to take the lion's share.

Tsk~
Almes glanced at the Gale Wolf... Why isn't the one behind him stepping out to correct him now?
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Lowry wouldn't care about that.

He was carefully observing the resources in the treasure vault and comparing them with what he already possessed, while also trying to find any comparable items to prove the original owner's identity.

Judging from Armies's behavior, he must have expected this all along, and he immediately understood everything after going in... Otherwise, given his desire for control, which is no less than Travis's, he would never have had the mind to calculate Lowry's affairs.

Lowry only learned about the prophecy when Travis came to visit him.

He panicked for a second at first, but then he realized that the prophecy was meaningless from the start.

The reason this body is so special is entirely because of him.

Moreover, the mechanical soul found him first, and then chose his body.

However, he is more likely to choose the bloodline of the Gezhar family, since the direct descendants have definitely been in contact with the mechanical fragments, which would attract his attention more.

But who they will ultimately choose is truly an unknown.

After all, the baby's innate intelligence can only enter after the body has fully developed.

Lowry still remembers what happened back then.

There were actually several targets for the Mechanical Realm artifact.

He probably prefers the mother, Aragris, but doesn't really like Montes' bloodline... Of course, that's understandable.

Stripping him of his demonic bloodline wasn't too difficult for him, but it was still a bit troublesome.

However, for the other options, the child's natural talent doesn't seem to be quite good.

It was so hard to get it going... but the family wasn't really a good fit.

In the mind of the spirit of the artifact, he was choosing his future body; how could he allow himself to live such a pitiful life?

(End of this chapter)