Yes, Madam Prime Minister

“That’s enough,” Dinia replied.

She understood Ronan's meaning: deal with Gardener Tyr within two minutes, then turn back to heal Ronan.

If Gardener Tyr dies, Ronan won't be used by her if he's saved.

"You think you can chop me down with just an axe?" Gardener Tyr asked with a smile. She had been chopped down by Dinia before.

As soon as he finished speaking, the gardener Tyr, with only his head and left hand remaining, flew off the pedestal at an incredible speed, hovering high in the air, looking down at Dinia.

Her speed was faster than the security guards, and even faster than Dinia was now.

"One minute and forty-seven seconds left." Gardener Tyr began counting down.

"One point forty-six."

With a whoosh, Dinia threw her giant axe, which flew at great speed toward the gardener Tyr in the air. Unfortunately for Tyr, he easily dodged it, and with a loud bang, the axe blade plunged deep into the ceiling, shattering a section of the ceiling. Fragments flew everywhere, but Tyr was unharmed.

"One minute and forty-five seconds," Gardener Tyr continued, casually announcing the time.

She's not human; she said that Dinia's conclusion that she couldn't hit her with that axe was based on precise calculations and simulations.

"Goodbye," Dinia said lightly.

As soon as the words were spoken, cracks appeared everywhere in the huge cabin: the floor, walls, and ceiling. Countless mushrooms sprouted from these cracks, and in the blink of an eye, the white floor, walls, and ceiling were covered with mushrooms, almost completely covered in red.

Gardener Tyr's pupils trembled. How could this be? It's impossible to cast spells within a magic-suppressing area.

“Miss Gardener, it’s obvious you don’t understand magicians. Magicians’ battles often begin before the battle even starts.”

Dinia said.

Even before entering the cabin on the ninth floor, she had already cast a spell, causing the tough mushroom to shrink and burrow into the gaps in the pipes to lie in ambush.

Having been hindered so many times by various methods of magic suppression and magic immunity, how could she possibly be completely unprepared?

Soon, these mushrooms twisted themselves into a spiral-shaped drill, which shot out of the crack like a cannonball and hurtled towards the gardener Tyr in the air.

Tyr kept flying and dodging, and she could no longer announce the time in the same light and airy tone as before.

But she was still silently counting down the time in her mind.

The mindset is completely different now. Before, it was a countdown to victory; now it's a struggle to survive, every second counts.

After dodging the initial barrage of fire, the density of the mushroom drill missiles began to decrease.

Although the gardener, Tyr, was scratched and had several cuts on his face, none of them were fatal.

She was still fully focused on avoiding the attack, but the initial tension had completely disappeared.

Ultimately, the magic Dinia is currently casting is pre-cast and will gradually weaken and diminish over time until it is exhausted.

No problem, absolutely no problem. According to the algorithm, if this continues, she will at most lose another hand.

Tyr told himself that the algorithm couldn't be wrong.

Just then, Dinia suddenly stepped on a giant mushroom that sprouted from the ground and sprang up like a spring. At the same time, Tyr was also forced back to the position where the axe had been by a storm of mushroom bullets.

As Dinia flew into the air, she grabbed the axe handle, pulled it down, and then swung it forcefully in mid-air, slashing at Tyr.

Tyr blocked with his left hand, but it was cut off.

As expected!

With only one minute left, the thief's descendant was out of options.

Just then, a giant mushroom burst out of the ceiling and spat out a long sword.

The next second, Dinia threw away the axe, caught the sword, raised her arms high, and used the force of her fall to chop down fiercely.

Cut in two.

As Dinia landed, the gardener Tyr's head, split in two, also hit the ground, bouncing a few times before rolling and coming to a stop, his amber pupils completely unfocused.

In an instant, a storm of mushroom bullets swept in, completely shredding the head that had been split in two.

Gardener Thiel, dead.

In one minute, Dinia finished off the gardener, Tyr.

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Suffocation, Destruction, Escape

In the distance, Ronan, who was sitting on the ground and barely able to speak, gave Dinia a thumbs up and managed to squeeze out a single word, "Beautiful."

“You are important too,” Dinia replied. “Stop talking.”

In fact, Ronan had already conjured the longsword by spell long ago and had her turn it into a mushroom to hide it. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to kill the gardener, Tyr.

Just then, bang! A section of the floorboards suddenly cracked open.

Dinia instantly used her fastest speed, exerting all her strength. Her thigh muscles swelled up and burst through her tight boots and trousers, revealing a small patch of skin covered by flesh-colored pantyhose. Under the scattered lights, it shimmered with a champagne-like color.

In the next instant, Dinia pounced on Ronan, pinning him down and holding him tightly, preparing to use her back to block Tyr's final blow before he died.

However, after a while, there was no further sound, and it seemed to be a false alarm.

Dinia released Caironan and slowly got up.

“I almost suffocated from your weight, ma’am,” Ronan said with a laugh.

It's really too big.

Dinia paused for a second before reacting, "Disgusting!" Whoosh, a slap came flying through the air, but the hand ultimately stopped beside Ronan's ear without touching him.

Furious, Dinia lightly kicked Ronan, saying, "Don't say such vulgar things to me."

“Yes, ma’am,” Ronan assured him.

Dinia quickly went over to get the injection and gave Ronan the injection. Then she put the bracelet on Ronan's wrist, cut open her own arm with the axe blade, and fed Ronan her blood.

She didn't bandage it, because she could heal such a wound in a few breaths. Dinia used to think it was due to her magic, but now it seemed that might not be the case.

"What is that thing?" Dinia asked, looking at the cylindrical pillar in the distance.

Immediately after Tyr died, the floor cracked open and a circular pillar rose up, just like before. On it was a strange jar, about twenty centimeters tall, entirely white, with a cube-shaped body but rounded edges and a round lid.

Ronan stood up and looked over. He didn't know what the big white jar was, but he recognized the words displayed on the pillar.

"Please take these seeds with you."

These words were likely the last words of the gardener, Tyre.

He regarded this AI robot as an enemy from beginning to end, and the robot probably felt the same way. But such a last word is somewhat poignant.

With a sigh, Ronan answered Dinia, "There are seeds in the jar."

Dinia nodded and then asked, "Are you still planning to find the basic teaching materials for the Haidi people?"

“Never mind,” Ronan said.

"How are you feeling?" Dinia asked again.

“No problem at all,” Ronan said. “I even feel that my own magic has increased a lot.” As he spoke, Ronan walked to the cylindrical pillar and picked up the white square jar.

He couldn't understand it, nor did he intend to open it; he figured only the priests of the Seapipes probably knew how to make it.

"Ma'am, could you hold this for me?" Ronan tossed the white jar to Dinia.

Ronan then walked to the pile of wreckage left by the white humanoid's self-destruction, bent down and picked up two black one-handed swords with handguards. His maid Elena happened to be a freak who used two swords, so he could give them to her.

Just then, with a sudden bang, the pedestal where Gardener Tyr had been standing exploded, scattering fragments everywhere. Ronan immediately raised his shield to block the flying debris.

It's fortunate that the magic-suppressing field was lifted after Tyr's death, allowing Ronan to cast spells freely; otherwise, he might have suffered two more wounds.

After the pedestal exploded, another box appeared. This box was very small, about the size of a jewelry box.

Ronan picked it up, opened it, and found it was an anklet, made of fine gold and silver woven cord with a very small black bead.

This thing definitely shouldn't be given away as a gift casually.

Beside her, Dinia urged impatiently, "Stop dawdling. This doll is dead, and those blocks on the ground could go out of control or stop moving at any moment. If we don't leave now, those Seapiper priests on the first floor will probably become corpses."

"Let's go." Ronan casually stuffed the small box into his pocket.

No sooner had she finished speaking than the ground began to shake violently, and huge cracks suddenly appeared in the walls, floor, and ceiling. This could not possibly have been caused by Dinia's previous mushroom magic, as her magic had not damaged the building's load-bearing structure.

This is the pyramidal tower, mostly underground, disintegrating on its own.

Ronan immediately started running.

Dinia also realized the problem and quickly ran towards the cabin door.

The door opened automatically, and the two rushed out, heading upwards until they reached the "elevator." They went up to the eighth basement level and met up with Argustina and the other seven mage musketeers.

The shaking of the entire floor became even more intense; if there had been a staircase, Ronan would have definitely taken it.

The problem is that this dilapidated tower only has an elevator; once you go inside, you're immediately on the first floor.

The group finally arrived safely on the first floor, but the situation there was far from optimistic. The door made of magic stone had been broken open by the black monster.

Scattered among them were many cubes, some intact, some broken. Several of the Heidi priests had fallen and were no longer breathing. The remaining few were barely able to stand, and the old man Treka lay on the ground, on the verge of death.

Besides, there were many black monster corpses lying haphazardly on the ground, and dozens more black monsters were still alive, but they were listless and wandering around without making any moves.

"Lord Ronan, what has happened?" a middle-aged Seapipe priest asked. Just a short while ago, the monster broke through the gate, and other cubes followed in. There was no cover in the hall, and a three-way battle had begun.

They were able to maneuver between the two sides, but suddenly all the blocks fell, leaving only the black monster. Just when they thought they were doomed, the black monster stopped moving.

The entire hall then began to shake.

"There's no time to explain. Miss Serrano, hold these two swords for me. I'll carry the old man on my back. Don't worry about the dead ones. Carry the others who are still alive on your backs and run!"

Ronan shouted urgently.

At this moment, the entire area where the botanical garden is located began to tremble. After the group ran out of the botanical garden, the situation outside was even worse. For some unknown reason, fires had broken out all around, the ground began to crack, and the entire sky was covered by dark clouds that kept sinking down as if they were going to press down on the ground.

Faced with this situation, the group had no choice but to keep running.

When the group entered the city, the city, which had been abandoned for who knows how many years, had been turned into a sea of ​​fire. Many houses had collapsed, and some places were impassable. Dinia had to use magic to create a mushroom bridge in mid-air for people to cross.

After running for who knows how long, we finally arrived at the factory area where we started.

By this time, all the Haidi people had left, leaving only a few priests who were there to meet them.

Chapter Forty: Benefits, Meetings, and Aftermath

Teleportation from the outside only takes you to the underground cave. To enter, you need a key, but to leave, you only need a resonance stone to teleport directly to the Sea Flute Ruins on the outskirts of White Star City.

The priests who stayed here were there to activate the teleportation once the others arrived.

"Activate the teleportation, quick, this place is about to explode!" Ronan shouted.

At this moment, the dark clouds had completely pressed down overhead, as if you could reach out and touch them. Gale-force winds, earthquakes, and raging fires were all raging wildly. Looking back, the trees had long been uprooted and were dancing wildly in the wind. The entire earth had been shattered into pieces, with deep abysses and ravines everywhere. High-rise buildings collapsed one after another, raising clouds of debris and dust in the sea of ​​fire.

The most shocking thing was that the sky cracked like a broken mirror, giving the feeling that the entire space was about to shatter at any moment.

In fact, when they saw Ronan and his group arrive, several priests who had been anxiously waiting had already initiated the teleportation.

The next moment, Ronan and his group opened their eyes again and found themselves in the ruins on the outskirts of White Star City.

Taking a deep breath of fresh air, Ronan's tense nerves finally relaxed.

These three days were truly fraught with twists and turns, and we almost lost our lives.

It started as a smuggling case, but things became increasingly complicated as time went on, eventually involving a civilization that had already disappeared in another time and space.

However, for Ronan and his men alone, this trip was a profitable one.

On the ninth underground level, he injected himself with an enhancement potion, and now his physique and magic power have both improved. There was no actual measurement, but Ronan estimated that it had improved by more than 20%. His physique was already strong among mages of the same level, and now he estimated that there would be few mages of the second tier with a stronger physique than him.

His magical energy was relatively low; it should now be at a medium level.

As for the bracelet, also known as the armor, it's unclear at the moment.

On the ninth floor, Ronan also obtained a white jar containing seeds of high-yield crops, as well as a leg chain with completely unknown information. The leg chain requires further research, but the white jar will definitely prove very useful later on.

In addition, Ronan's "Sword of Honesty" and "Shield of Loyalty" have also been greatly enhanced.

Throughout this journey, Ronan has been both a strategist and an assistant, working tirelessly and diligently to remain loyal to his superior, Dinia.

Naturally, the physical sharpness and magical piercing attack power of the "Sword of Sincerity" have increased significantly.

The "Shield of Loyalty" itself has also been enhanced in defense, and its energy to resist dispelling magic has been replenished by a significant amount, directly increasing by twenty units. Considering the losses, it can be considered a small profit.

Ronan's many "Yes, ma'am"s along the way were not in vain.

In a sense, Dinya's new boss is actually quite appealing.

Just then, Ronan was jolted awake and realized that his maid Elena had hugged him and was crying.