"Beheading or hanging are both acceptable."
Artoria answered very calmly.
"As long as we are careful not to touch the military aristocracy at the beginning, there will be no problems. The key is to alleviate the resentment of the lower classes and regain their trust."
"Huh? Isn't that a bit too extreme?"
Bronya opened her mouth slightly. This should warrant at least a hundred people being sentenced to death, right?
Seeing her innocent face, Artoria shook her head, without any disdain in her eyes, and simply said calmly.
"You can investigate their actions first. Then you won't have any psychological burden. You should even be careful not to kill too many people at once for the sake of stability."
Her weathered tone clearly spoke from experience.
"...Would that be possible?"
Bronya remained somewhat skeptical.
She believed that even if those families were corrupt, they wouldn't commit such a heinous crime.
If one ignores justice and kills people at will, how is one any different from those monsters from the Rift Realm?
"so serious?"
Even Seele was somewhat surprised by Artoria's answer.
She knew that Artoria had extensive experience in governing a country, but she never imagined that the seemingly simple suppression of power that Artoria and Su Mo spoke of was actually so bloody.
Seeing her daughter's innocent face, Cocolia, who was being carried by Seele, sighed.
“Miss Saber is right. Belloberg is already riddled with problems. As the Grand Guardian who personally issued the order to isolate the upper and lower levels, all the misfortunes in the lower district are directly related to me. I have no room for excuses on this point; it is entirely my responsibility as the leader.”
"So, I'm not trying to defend myself here, but just to explain the situation in Belloborg. The production of Earth Essence is related to the countdown to the city's demise. Did you think that the quarantine order was initiated by me alone?"
When it comes to pricing unique minerals, the power struggles behind the scenes are something even the Great Guardians might not be able to suppress.
Despite still being in the midst of a cold wave, instead of actively mining 5.6-level minerals, they allowed the upper and lower layers to remain isolated from each other, causing the price of mineral marrow to skyrocket.
Could this unnatural phenomenon really be caused so easily by a single order from the Great Guardian?
"...Mother, you mean?!"
Bronya stared in astonishment, and even Seele seemed a little incredulous.
"To obstruct the mining of the Earth Essence in the cold wave is tantamount to suicide. You mean those nobles are willing to risk their lives for money?"
Seele couldn't believe there could be such a stupid person in the world.
"That's not true."
Cocolia shook her head, her tone sarcastic.
“They still care about their lives. Even if the Beloborg is destroyed, the heating on their estate can continue for decades.”
"If they impeach me, the Great Guardian, when the cold wave engulfs Beloborg, those families could probably easily turn Beloborg into their own manor!"
"..."
"..."
Seele and Bronya fell completely silent.
If Cocolia hadn't said it herself, they would never have imagined that humans could scheme against each other to such an extent in the face of disaster.
“If that’s the case, I understand what Miss Saber means.”
Bronya clenched her fists, clearly having made up her mind.
If these parasites really want to destroy Belloberg along with her, she will certainly eliminate them first without hesitation.
“Eliminating them is not a permanent solution… I suddenly understand Saber’s choice.”
Seele looked thoughtful.
Clearly, she had also found a way to deal with those termites.
However, to try out his plan, he first needs to meet Su Mo.
168. Type III permanent mechanisms, Type II stellar particles
"I heard you left with Lord Su Mo. Since you and Miss Saber are both here, then Lord Su Mo must be here too?"
Seeing that the group had quieted down, March 7th asked this question.
"Yes, yes! Where is Father? And you wouldn't happen to be Father's third mistress, would you?"
Xing also asked curiously.
"?"
Upon hearing Xing's lewd words, Seele's eyes widened.
Lord Su Mo actually has such a big daughter? And what does "stepmother" mean?
With a "smack," March 7th patted Xing's head.
"Haha, don't mind her! Xing has a bit of a problem with her head and often talks nonsense, please don't take it to heart... But speaking of which, do you really have no relationship with Lord Su Mo?"
After explaining a couple of things on March 7th, he asked a question in a seemingly casual tone.
"of course not."
Seele immediately shook her head.
"I owe Lord Su Mo a great debt of gratitude; currently, it's primarily a debt relationship. As for other relationships, there aren't any yet..."
As she spoke, she muttered something under her breath.
"At least not yet."
"Hmm? What do you mean by 'temporarily'?"
March 7th's eyes widened, and she instinctively tensed up.
"Cough cough!"
Seele avoided the probing gazes of herself, Bronya, and Star, and carried Cocolia away in the direction behind her.
"Lord Su Mo is right behind us, and it seems he's discussing something with Miss Black Tower. Let's go over there now."
"Hey! Miss Seele! You still haven't made it clear what you mean by 'at least there's no 23 right now'!"
Seele's figure moved as fast as a rabbit, and March 7th immediately gave chase, seemingly intending to get to the bottom of things.
Seeing Xing cheer and shout "Daddy!" before galloping off into the distance, with Bronya chasing after Seele's retreating figure, Dan Heng shook his head speechlessly and trailed behind the rest of the group.
Before long, after traversing the deserted snow path, the group quickly found Su Mo's location.
Without Seele leading the way or Artoria activating her Master Radar, the sound of their conversation was already impossible to conceal in the tranquil snowfield.
"The basic structural model of the star core has been analyzed, but I haven't figured out the internal core structure yet. It actually has the characteristics of both a material body and an energy body. What kind of magical substance is this?"
The doll-like girl, Black Tower, handed the experimental results she had just obtained to Su Mo, and then looked curiously at Su Mo's records.
As a star nucleus capable of adapting to various frequencies of destiny energy, it can be described as an aggregate of primordial imaginary energy. The basic material units it is composed of are even more mysterious than its physical model.
At least, in her previous research, she had not been able to truly unravel the secrets of the star's core.
Even now that she has the model, she only knows what the internal structure of the star's core looks like, but she doesn't know what the substance that makes up the star's core is.
If Su Mo wants to mass-produce star cores, no matter what method he uses, he must know the basic material units that make up star cores.
Judging from his appearance, it seems he had solved the problem from the very beginning?
"Star particles".
Facing the Black Tower, Su Mo revealed the results of his research without any concealment.
This is the result of exploring the properties of the star's core that day.
"To be precise, it is the second type of stellar particle. This particle has a triple structure, being a matter, an energy, and a stellar body."
"Astral Body?"
Hearing Su Mo say this, Black Tower showed a very interested expression.
This was something she had never heard of before; she always seemed to find something of interest in Su Mo.
"It is a spiritual structure used to regulate the operation of imaginary energy, existing between a pure information body and an energy body, and is responsible for the expression and transmission of concepts."
Su Mo gave a brief introduction.
For the Black Tower, that is enough.
"That sounds a lot like memory matter! I've done some research on that!"
As a renowned genius in the galaxy, she had also dealt with the Flowing Light Memory Court, thus mastering the use of memory bubbles and the encapsulation technology of light cones.
Hearing Su Mo say this, she felt that the memory essence was very similar to the stellar body that Su Mo mentioned. The principle of the memory bubble is to express pure information memory through the memory essence, and the light cone can directly weave memories into a specific energy circulation cycle, thus using it as a weapon.
"Upon closer reflection, the characteristics of the star core structure do indeed seem very similar to memory matter. Could this thing be related to the memory star god Fu Li?"
"Black Tower asked curiously."
Although she didn't know why the God of Destruction would chase after the Star Core, her previous research with Su Mo had completely ruled out the possibility that the Star Core was a creation of the God of Destruction.
Rather than saying that the star core is the cancer of all worlds, it is more accurate to say that it is the energy itself that has been abused. The star core itself does not have a destructive nature. The reason why it causes disasters every time is purely due to the shadow of human nature.
"No, it shouldn't be related."
Su Mo shook his head.
"Star particles are just a conventional structure for expressing information concepts. Like energy bodies and matter bodies, they are the basic structure of the universe and have nothing to do with star gods."
"As for the memory matter you mentioned, I've seen it a few times in your office. Judging from the conclusions, it does indeed belong to the category of stellar particles, but it should be classified as a third type of stellar particle."
At this point, Su Mo opened his palm, and a blank memory bubble appeared in his hand.
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