Yes, Madam Prime Minister

Upon seeing himself on the ground, Ronan could easily guess what his current situation was.

"What do we do now?" Dinia asked Ronan.

“Let’s catch up and see,” Ronan replied.

Soon, the two blocked Venaya's way again.

Vena looked at Ronan and Dinia. "Is it necessary? Since you're not interested in joining me, I don't think you have any reason to stop me."

“First, I am very interested in some things about the Haidi people. Second, as a kingdom official, I cannot allow such a dangerous person as you to move freely outside. Third, and most importantly, I do not believe you will let us go so easily, after all, we already know of your existence.”

Ronan gave his reasons.

“The stuff is still down there, go get it if you’re interested. As for danger, do I look like the kind of person who would wantonly cause destruction or kill people?” Venaya retorted with a rhetorical question. “As for the last point, I’m not worried about you spreading things about me. In fact, I look forward to you spreading the word about my existence. After all, in any era, it’s too difficult for an unknown person to start from scratch.”

Ronan disagreed with the first point because he wanted to keep the Haidi people's things for himself, and who could guarantee that the man wouldn't come back to take his fruits after he left? He disagreed even more with the second point. This man from over a thousand years ago certainly wouldn't cause destruction or kill people indiscriminately, but if he were allowed to leave like this, he would definitely build up his power after becoming familiar with this era and start an unprecedented war.

If he were to start building his power in Venaya, once he succeeded, the region where Ronan was located would be the first to be affected.

Ronan still disagreed on the last point. In his view, Venaya's strategy would be to make others think he was Venaya through certain actions, but he would not admit it.

Because people like to elevate a dead person to a divine status, but they absolutely will not allow the dead person on that divine status to come back to life and step down to rule them.

Just like when Dinia returned in triumph, she was rumored to be the reincarnation of the Holy Spirit, and then she was kicked out of the mage corps and dismissed from all public office. Even though the king tried his best to protect her, he could only let her be the princess's private tutor.

"I like a stable order, and you will disrupt the current order."

Ronan said.

“That’s only because you’re an official. What you really crave is power. Follow me, and you’ll have power too,” Venaya said. “Fine, I’m tired. Since reasoning won’t work, I’ll have to use force to make you submit.”

Dinia explained Venaya's abilities to Ronan, who was standing next to her, "This guy is dual-elemental. In addition to summoning spirits, he is also an elemental mage, a four-elemental mage. However, since he left the cave, he should have lost his power support. He can no longer ignore damage as before. Also, his summoned spirits are quite damaged. If he summons them again in a short time, they will not pose much of a threat to you."

As long as the original body remains, the summoned spirit can be restored, but this takes time.

“I really underestimated you.” Venaya sighed after hearing Dinia’s words. “It seems I gave you some wrong impression just now.”

After leaving the underground cave, he no longer possessed that near-infinite regenerative ability, and his summoned spirit was indeed quite damaged. However, did he ever use his true strength in the underground cave? No.

The main reason Minerva was damaged was because he did not give her a real battle command or allow her to use her special abilities, so as not to let her interfere with Dinia's spellcasting and destroy the entire sealing system rooted in the ground. Otherwise, how could a summoned spirit of her level be damaged like that in such a short time?

He himself was completely passive throughout the entire process, never intending to fight the two to the death. His goal was to escape, not to fight.

But now it seems that battle is inevitable.

"Fusion summon."

Venaya used the signature spell of a summoning mage, merging with the summoned spirit.

Thunderclouds suddenly appeared in the sky, obscuring the moonlight, and lightning struck continuously within a hundred meters.

As the lightning dissipated, a giant over twenty meters tall appeared, wearing an old imperial-style mane and feathered helmet. His eyes had no whites or pupils, only shimmering white-gold lightning. His golden ringed armor was covered with a layer of soft, iridescent blue light. He held a large black shield in his left hand and a flaming sword in his right.

This is his strongest form after he acquired a new body, learned elemental magic, fused with summoned spirits, and gained all four elements.

Dinia sprouted red tentacles from its back and bound Ronan to its back. In the blink of an eye, endless mushrooms enveloped the two of them, and a red giant rose from the ground.

The next instant, a red giant over twenty meters tall appeared opposite the Armored Sword and Shield Giant.

"Come."

Venaya attacked Dinia.

"superior."

Dinia went straight to meet him.

The battle began, and instantly, the surroundings resembled an apocalyptic catastrophe. The wind and waves raged, the earth cracked, and trees fell one by one. Every strike stirred up towering dust.

The Armored Titan's Flame Sword severed the Red Titan's arm, but the arm regenerated rapidly. It punched the Armored Titan in the chest, but it was like punching the surface of the sea, only causing a ripple. The Armored Titan was not only not injured, but it didn't even lose any strength.

From the front, the Armored Titan's eyes were wide open, and two beams of lightning pierced through the Red Titan.

The red giant extended its long legs, which transformed into claws that grabbed the armored giant's calf. With a sweeping blow, it knocked the armored giant to the ground. The moment the armored giant fell, it triggered an earthquake, raising dust several meters high.

The Red Titan overpowered the Armored Titan and began a frenzied barrage of blows to its head. Each violent strike shook the earth, causing the ground to crack into countless massive, tortoise-shell-shaped clods.

The armored giant, who had already been punched a hundred times in an instant, used a horizontal shield bash to send the red giant flying. He stood up and sprinted forward. Before the red giant even hit the ground, he swung his flaming sword, and in an instant, a huge charred wound appeared on the red giant's abdomen.

The red giant ripped off the charred part along with the surrounding tissue and threw it aside. The mere sight of this charred piece of tissue hitting the ground sent up a cloud of dust several meters high, snapping and crushing a grove of trees.

Both are evenly matched in strength, but in terms of speed, skill, and agility, the Red Titan is far superior to the Armored Titan, and the latter lacks regenerative abilities.

However, the Red Giant's attack power was too weak to inflict any damage on the Armored Giant.

Chapter 143: I lost, precisely because of this piece of trash in my brain.

Dinah remained calm inside the Red Giant's body, as her offensive capabilities had always been her weakness, and she had anticipated this situation.

“Give it to me,” Dinia said to Ronan behind her.

Ronan instantly understood what Dinia meant: "My magic can't hold up."

“I will continuously supply you with magic,” Dinia said.

The next instant, the red giant held a longsword and a huge round shield.

Seeing this change, Vinaya, one of the Armored Titans, smiled excitedly. "Interesting, very interesting. There's even such magic."

He could tell that the magical aura emanating from the sword and shield was completely different from that of the red giant, so it was obvious that the sword and shield were that man's magic.

The two of them joined forces to cast a spell, and once again he witnessed something he had never heard of before.

"Hold on tight," Dinia whispered to Ronan.

Sword and shield against sword and shield.

Both the Red Titan and the Armored Titan moved with even greater ferocity than before, their speed no less than that of their own bodies. In an instant, their figures became indistinguishable on the land, with only a huge red ball and a huge gold ball constantly colliding, separating, colliding again, and separating again.

The golden shield, the flaming sword, and the gigantic magic sword and shield clashed repeatedly, creating turbulent magical energy, scattering earth, rocks, and flames like a meteor shower. In an instant, countless lives were ravaged, the cracked earth was shattered into pieces by the meteor shower, and the forests and grasslands were transformed into a sea of ​​fire.

At the Church of Sibylla, a kilometer away from the battle zone, a group of priests, awakened by the collapse of the church walls, were watching the sudden and fierce battle from the top of the church's bell tower. In their hearts, they did not want to believe that this was a battle; they hoped that it was just an inexplicable natural disaster, divine punishment.

However, they were all magicians and could sense magical fluctuations coming from afar.

It's simply unimaginable what kind of powerful mages were fighting to cause such a catastrophe-like scene.

I have no idea why such powerful mages would engage in battle here.

In this area, located at the border of Wright City to the north and Dok City to the south, there were only a few farms and a group of farmers outside their church.

Soon, some bold farmers living near the church also came over, staring in disbelief at the spectacular explosion in the distance.

At this point, both Dinia and Venaya had already abandoned their shields.

One of them was used to using area-of-effect magic to clear the field, while the other mainly relied on summoned spirits. Neither of them had systematically learned sword and shield skills. In such an intense battle, holding a shield in one hand would be a burden, so they simply abandoned it, gripped their swords with both hands, and didn't bother with any techniques, just hacking away.

No, "slashing" is not enough to describe it; both of them were directly attacking with their swords, as if they were using hammers instead of swords.

Another violent clash ensued. The armored giant's armor remained intact, but blood oozed from the gaps between the armor plates. The red giant also had dozens of charred scars on its body, which Dinia tore off along with the scars and threw aside.

"I don't believe you can regenerate indefinitely; you're almost at your limit."

Venaya's voice came through the Armored Giant.

"You're badly injured too, aren't you?"

Dinia replied.

Previously, she was unable to inflict any real damage on her opponent, but Ronan's sword had a piercing effect, allowing her to strike directly through defenses.

"With your magical prowess, you should know very well that you have already lost."

"Vinaa said."

His injuries were not minor, but they were much less severe than Dinya's.

Dinya could suddenly twist and extend her arms at incredible angles to stab and wound him with her sword, but that was the only way she could hurt him. He had gradually become accustomed to her attacks, and in the same amount of time, Dinya was able to hit him less and less.

And Dinia still can't dodge his flames and lightning. The reason is simple: the red giant is too big a target, and the red giant's defense is far inferior to his.

Even if you have regenerative abilities, doesn't regeneration consume mana?

"Of course, you can still submit to me now, but given your performance, the conditions have changed. You have to be my woman. I don't mind that you were used by that young man."

"Vinaa said."

Dinia didn't respond to the other person, but instead asked Ronan, "I'll send you out first. Don't worry, I have enough power to get you far away from here."

As he spoke, the Red Giant swung his immense strength, deflecting the Armored Titan's sword strike.

Venaya will not stop attacking just because she admires Dinia.

"Ha, it's always the leaders who run away and the subordinates who cover them, never the other way around," Ronan chuckled.

At this moment, he was holding Dinia tightly, his hands around her waist, his hips pressing against her buttocks.

“This guy is right, we can’t beat him in this form. You run away first, and I’ll deal with him,” Dinia said. “I’m confident I can take him down.”

"What are the odds?" Ronan asked.

“Fifty percent,” Dinia replied. As she spoke, Dinia twisted her body to dodge the lightning, but the red giant’s shoulder was still struck by the lightning, and a piece of her shoulder was torn off.

“Let’s forget about it then. That old lecher has his eye on you,” Ronan said. “As a subordinate, I can’t let my boss take that kind of risk.”

"What kind of nonsense are you spouting now? What kind of garbage is in your head?" Dinia angrily questioned, swinging her arm to deliver a solid elbow strike to Ronan.

“Perhaps it’s because I’m a bit of a nutcase that things have taken a turn for the better,” Ronan said, releasing one hand and pointing ahead. “Look down ahead.”

As Dinia lowered her head, she was momentarily distracted, and the red giant was pierced through the head by the flaming sword. Fortunately, the two of them were located inside the red giant's spine, so as long as the sword didn't reach that point, Dinia only suffered some pain and lost some magic power.

As she looked down, Dinia saw something—the Book of Destiny, but not hers; it belonged to Ronan.

This surprised her, because Ronan had only recently become a third-tier cultivator, and his magic power was barely above the passing grade. His magic power could not possibly reach the minimum standard for the fourth tier. Without sufficient magic power, the Book of Destiny could not be opened.

"After your magic was transferred to me, a portion of it became mine, and it raised the upper limit of magic power. I think this might be because I also turned into a mushroom person."

Ronan said.

Dinia was puzzled, but it seemed to be the only explanation. She had replenished the mana of many people, but only by feeding them mushrooms. This was the first time she had ever experienced someone so tightly bound to her, and she didn't want it to happen again. In this short battle alone, Ronan had captured her at least twenty times and attacked her ten times.

"Be true to your true self, and the blessing of desire will descend upon the things you desire."

"Be true to yourself, and the harsh reality will take hold of your heart."

These are the two choices facing Ronan.

Ronan understood the meaning behind both, but Dinia was slightly puzzled.

Chapter 144 Choice, Another Defeat, Give Your Body to Me

Outside, the headless red giant blocked her with a horizontal sword strike, determined to cut her in two. The gaping hole was wide open, and the armored giant delivered a powerful kick to her abdomen. Instantly, the red giant slid backward, dragging two deep trenches in the already plowed earth before finally regaining her footing.

Ronan spoke up, "I'm going to choose the path of staying true to myself."

"Be true to yourself, and the blessing of desire will descend upon the object of desire." This means following Ronan's own inner desire for challenge and for someone else, and fighting this old relic to the bitter end. If he chooses this option, his magic will be enhanced in defense after it advances, but this defense will be used on others.

Being true to oneself and being realistically embodied in one's heart means being realistic, prioritizing escape and survival; choosing this option will enhance the offensive capabilities of one's sword.

In a different scenario, Ronan would choose the latter, because increasing one's own attack is not as good as increasing someone else's defense.

But at this moment, Ronan was determined to choose the former.

Dinia didn't speak. She understood what it meant, but the phrase "things of desire" sounded a bit strange, and she had a feeling that something odd might happen.

Ronan made his choice, and instantly, he advanced to become a fourth-tier mage. At the same time, detailed information about magic was directly injected into his consciousness.

"Relax, don't resist."

Ronan said to Dinia.

The next instant, Ronan unleashed his magic.

Ronan emitted a beam of light that scanned Dinia from top to bottom, then vanished from the spot, transforming into scattered, cold, piano-black armor pieces in mid-air: helmet, breastplate, arm guards, gauntlets, skirt, knee pads, and boots.

Then the parts further disintegrated, and then Dinia was put on. Finally, they were reassembled and fitted together. As soon as the armor carrying powerful magic approached, Dinia's coat, dress, and even shoes instantly shattered and scattered. Even the upper part of her bra was torn into pieces. Only the flesh-colored pantyhose, which was a magical creation, and the underwear inside the pantyhose remained intact.

The waistband of the pantyhose is slightly darker.

The perfectly rounded, upturned buttocks stretched the slightly thick flesh-colored pantyhose to an almost completely transparent state. With the wetness, they became even more translucent, making the white panties underneath look like they were covered with a layer of light gauze. The wet panties had sunk into the middle between the two halves, forming a deep slit that outlined the peach shape even more clearly.

The pantyhose on her plump thighs were less transparent, revealing her amazing waist and legs.

The next second, the armor formed from Ronan's own power adhered to Dinia's body, bringing not the coldness of metal armor, but rather a warmth close to human body temperature.

It was this temperature that sent a shiver down Dinia's spine; she felt as if Ronan had completely penetrated her.

At the same time, the red giant also donned his armor on the outside.