The girl with white hair and red eyes is serious about revenge

"Ah...it still hurts...why are you so hard...oooo..."

Aoi closed her eyes and rested for a while. When she recovered a little, she turned around and looked at Perlis with a smile:

"Sorry, didn't scare you?"

How could she not be scared...Perlis stared blankly at the side of Aoi's head that was hit by the giant sword of the [Angel], her eyes almost drilling a hole there.

Perlis had felt the force of the Angel's sword, and she could never imagine that she could survive by taking that blow with her head.

And now, Aoi, who was knocked away by the giant sword, is standing in front of Perlis, and is just shouting "It hurts"?

Could it be that she was actually dead and this was just an afterimage or something?

Perlis thought about it and decided to practice to gain true knowledge, so she poked Aoi's chest with her hand.

——The bouncy and soft thing is an objective solid.

It's alive... Perlis lowered her head and thought, ignoring the panic that Aoi showed at that moment, and the series of nonsense remarks that followed.

The physical strength of [Red Devil] is really terrifying... She was hit on the head by a giant sword weighing hundreds of pounds and fell off a cliff, but she could still climb up almost intact. Even if she was hit by the Tower of Babel... No, she would still be reduced to ashes...

While Perlis was thinking, she suddenly heard a painful inhalation.

She and Aoi glanced up at the same time and saw Ye Lina slowly waking up from behind the iron bars.

"Damn it... I actually..."

Ye Lina rubbed her head, then looked up and saw Perlis and Aoi standing at the door of the cell.

Anger suddenly bloomed in her cold eyes, and she stared at Aoi intently, as if she wanted to spit out flames and burn her.

And Aoi obviously knew this [Iron Guard]. She leaned over the iron railing and looked at Yelena with her brown eyes:

"Long time no see, Miss Angel."

"Get lost," Ye Lina gritted her teeth and said, "Wait until I get out of here..."

Do the two of them have a grudge? Perlis looked at Ye Lina's ferocious face when she glared at Aoi, and seemed to have thought of something.

Oh, by the way... at the Monarch Mansion, this [Angel] seemed to have mentioned Aoi's name when fighting with Perlis:

"I still remember them...you know?"

"...[Red Devil] and [Eye of Horus]..."

Come to think of it, Perlis did have some impression of that incident: Aoi and Lian had once been to Loton during a hunt for a Federation defector, and the end result was that they recovered the data disk carried by the defector and killed an [Iron Alliance Guard].

That Iron Guard seemed to be Yelena's younger brother.

Perlis vaguely remembered the name of the Federation defector: Angela Stro. With the help of the Angel, she fled to Wanren Mountain and was protected by the Iron Lord Mikhail Irenforno.

Wait...Stro...?

When she thought of this last name, Perlis's eyes narrowed and she took a breath:

That Federation defector had the same last name as the instigator of the Charon War, Aleph Stro, the Rock!

What is her relationship with Aleph? Husband and wife? Brother and sister? Sister and brother? Or father and daughter?

Could it be that the reason why Aleph started the Charon Rebellion was actually because the Iron Lord manipulated Angela Stello and caused a series of chain reactions?

And now, the Iron Lord has gained enough public opinion and support to launch the Dela War - an all-out war against the Federation.

"..."

After just a brief thought, Perlis felt a chill all over her body, and the huge monster under the water gradually became clear.

Whatever Angela Stello brought to the Iron Lord, it was one of the triggers for the current series of events.

While thinking, Perlis turned her attention back to Aoi and Yelina, just in time to hear Aoi say:

"Do you know what that thing Angela Stello stole from the Commonwealth and brought to the Iron Lord?"

Aoi's tone became unusually serious, and the smile that always lingered between her brows had now completely disappeared, leaving only an almost cold indifference.

"I don't care," Yelena glared back, "She was fed up with the Tower's hegemony and decided to flee, that's all, what she brought to Thebit—"

"What you bring is hegemony?" Aoi interrupted Ye Lina, still looking expressionless.

Hearing this, Ye Lina froze for a few seconds, her eyes blank.

Then, her eyes were once again filled with anger, and she gritted her teeth and said:

"Nonsense, what the Iron Lord is launching is a liberation, a revolution!"

"really?"

Aoi stood up slowly and looked down at Ye Lina behind the iron railings. The spark-like substance flowing in her eyes glowed faintly in the darkness.

"Do you really know what Angela stole from the Federation?"

"I said, I don't know and I don't care," Ye Lina shook her head angrily, "I only know..."

"No, you know nothing. You are just a loyal dog that surrenders to hegemony, using armor and lies to cover up your incompetence and compromise with the trend of history."

Aoi shook her head. She glanced at Perlis who was watching silently beside her and took a deep breath.

Ye Lina's eyes were filled with anger, but also with a bit of doubt. She didn't say anything else, just stared at Aoi, as if waiting for an answer.

In response to this, Aoi took a moment to calm down, then took a deep breath, and stared at Ye Lina with her brown eyes.

Then, she spoke softly:

"Researcher Angela Stro stole the design drawings of the Babel Prism from the Federation."

......

Clouds - Over the Autumn Plains

"boom--"

Six azure light circles bloomed in the sky, pulling more than ten shuttles to the top of the golden field.

"A-253 has entered the designated airspace, and the factor energy folding status is normal."

"..."

Inside the shuttle, dozens of beings wearing heavy black armor stood up and twisted the redstone modules on their wrists almost at the same time, and red factor shields appeared around them.

This is a team of [Silent], with about ten people, each equipped with a [High Entropy Redstone].

After the Federal "Pioneer-class" Ocean Royal fell from the sky, the battlefield of Qiuzhiyuan was divided into three sections based on its crash site.

At this moment, all the areas of Autumn Plains north of the wreckage of the giant ship have been captured by the Thebite's legions, which puts the personnel who have not yet retreated from the giant ship in great danger - Thebite's Third Legion has surrounded the central part of Autumn Plains and may advance at any time.

In response to this siege, the Academy dispatched a team of Silent Ones to conduct an assassination operation, which was divided into multiple phases and directions, all with the goal of assassinating the leader of Thebite.

——【Iron Lord】Mikhail Irenfono.

"..."

"[Steel Breaking Operation] Phase 1 has begun. The target area has been locked and we are ready to deploy."

The hatch opened, and the [Silent One] wearing heavy black armor overlooked the golden field from the clouds, and saw the densely packed tents not far away at a glance.

That was the headquarters of the Thebith Third Legion and also their destination at the moment.

Mikhail Irenfono was there, and if he could be killed, the war would end.

"..."

A [Silent One] calmly walked to the edge of the hatch and observed the entire camp through a telescope.

He planned to use the family emblem to locate the Iron Lord, and then use a blitzkrieg to kill him.

——The clouds in which the shuttle flies are much higher than the height that the Thebite Steel Airship can reach, which also means that their actions will not be discovered so quickly in a short period of time.

The Thebits obviously did not have the means to attack the shuttle from this height, which meant that by the time they reacted, the Iron Lord had already fallen.

Each [Silent One] possesses half the power of the [Blade of Babel]. As long as they can accurately land it on the head of the [Iron Lord], that being, no matter how powerful, scheming, or courageous he is, will not have any chance of survival.

"..."

The Silent One searched quickly, and soon he caught a glimpse of the logo symbolizing the Wanren Mountain among a series of battle flags, and then he saw the largest tent.

But at this moment, the view in the telescope was stained with a faint red light, forcing the [Silent One] to shift his sight and look towards the source of the red light——

——He saw a sun.

The next second, he felt his vision being submerged by an increasingly intense red light, and his body disintegrated and collapsed.

"boom--"

A red beam of light that tore through the sky swept through the clouds, instantly destroying six shuttles carrying the Silent Ones.

When the halo faded, tattered debris mixed with molten iron fell from the sky, it was a rain of steel.

"..."

On the autumn field, the layers of scales on the [Frontier]'s body opened, and streams of white gas spurted out from the gaps.

At this moment, at the core of this mechanical giant that was as tall and terrifying as a mountain, a red prism gradually cooled down, and the overflowing red electric arcs continued to shrink and condense in the center of the prism.

That is the Babel Prism.

"......"

In the cockpit of the Prototype-X "Frontier", the Iron Lord Mikhail Irenfono slowly stood up, his sculpture-like face staring coldly at the six flames in the sky.

He twisted the double-edged broadaxe in the center of the cockpit, and the red light suddenly subsided, and the blue halo on the scales of [Frontier] once again returned.

"[Babel Prism] is in good condition and ready for the next launch at any time."

It was Angela Stroh's voice, and she sounded reluctant, clearly still upset by the outburst in the tent.

But the Iron Lord didn't care, just like Wanren Mountain never cared:

"Third Legion, march."

After a brief command, Mikhail Irenfono sat back in the driver's seat and steered the Frontier towards the front line.

Behind him, waves of steel rolled over the field, crushing the grass.

That is the trend of steel, the trend of the times.

...END...

4) Gaze from the Abyss

After two days of anchoring and replenishing supplies at Xilin Island, the "Blue Reef" once again set sail for the vast ocean, heading for Donglin Island, the capital of the Dila Empire.

After explaining the situation to Furukawa Wataru, Ye Lina was handed over to the full control of the crew of the "Blue Reef" and was prepared to be transferred directly to the shogunate for disposal in Donglin Island.

After all, she was an Iron Guardian, and Dela and Thebite were at war.

After learning about this, the "artist" Hitaro Mama volunteered to lead a series of interrogations of Yelena. He claimed that all the prisoners who fell into his hands would tell the truth.

But he failed. No matter how he tortured her, Ye Lina said nothing, like a rock on a mountain.

"She must be of too low a rank and doesn't know anything." This was the conclusion drawn by Hitaro Mama.

"..."

Perlis tried to guess the reason why Yelena appeared here: she was an [Iron Guard] directly controlled by Venia Irenforno. Based on the habit of that stinky young master, he was probably eager to make a contribution, so he sent this [Angel] lady who could fly quickly across the sea to assassinate Aoi, a [Blade of the Tower of Babel].

Ye Lina herself has a blood feud with Aoi, so she will naturally go all out, and she is a good candidate for assassination both morally and logically.

Little did they know that the gap in strength was so huge, it was really a bad move.

Unless... Yelena's real purpose is not to assassinate [Blade of Babel].

"..."

Perlis didn't dwell on this matter. To her, Yelina was just a shadow of the trip to Wanren Mountain, and she had long been accustomed to walking alone in the shadow.

She gradually focused her attention on her current goal: to seize the [Dark Emblem] from the [King of the Islands] and obtain the key to the Black Island.

As for the war between Thebeth and Dylla, that was their business, and Perlis just wanted to stay away from it.

......

On an early morning at sea, Perlis put down her steaming cup of tea, rubbed her hands, and walked out of her cabin.

Last night, during dinner, Perlis asked Aoi about some legends on the sea, hoping to find some clues about Imhotaros.

After all, this is the most marginal area of ​​the Ademir continent. The farther away from the center of human civilization, the more diverse and rich similar ghost stories are. In the past, Perlis would never believe these things. After all, she has never seen anything close to the word "ghost story" in the true sense. She thinks it is all made up to deceive children.