Yes, Madam Prime Minister

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“Your dad is right, you’re better than your mom now,” Elena added.

Astrid relaxed a lot and pouted, "Isn't it expected that I'm better than you? You're just a support."

On the other side, Falek was also stunned. She thought that the combat power that Dinia showed during the last counter-ambush of Sultan was at least 60 or 70% of her strength. Now it seems that it was less than 30%.

Faith leaned closer. "That's far from enough. Her strongest state is when she merges with Ronan, which is stronger than even a seventh-tier being. By the way, that snake-man also has a demonic body, right?"

Falek nodded slightly. "Yes, and similar to you."

Upon hearing this, Faith was thrilled; that was top-notch material!

Just then, Ashley walked over and said to Falek, "Stop looking around, come and make breakfast."

"Uh," Falek said, stammering.

"What do you mean, 'uh'? Do you think you're still the Queen Mother? You're a maid now," Ashley scolded, grabbing Falek and pulling him into the spaceship.

“No, I just think you…” Falek explained. She was just surprised at how quickly Ashley had changed roles. Just a few minutes ago, she was a peerless assassin who silently infiltrated the Serpent and chopped off one of its heads with a black circular slash. Now, she had seamlessly transitioned back to the role of a maid cooking breakfast.

“Tch, too much talk,” Ashley said. She was used to it. Back when Isabel was still a princess, she was like this. In front of outsiders, she was a reckless and dim-witted princess maid; in front of others, she was a diligent but somewhat clumsy maid; and in secret, she was a ruthless assassin.

After finishing his business of killing people in the middle of the night, he would come back and help the princess get dressed and wash up; that was just his normal daily routine.

In this respect, Isabelle and Ronan are a perfect match; they both use people to the point of exhaustion as long as they're not killed.

On Ambrina's side, she, Isabel, and Zhao Yingqi were all watching the battle through binoculars.

Zhao Yingqi was deeply shocked to witness this level of combat for the first time. Her abilities were completely useless against people at this level. Not only could her attack power not break through their defenses, but she couldn't even move them while they stood there. She couldn't even dodge, because when she activated her range, the opponent was still within the range a moment before she did, but by the time she activated it, the opponent might have already moved away from her range. At her speed, ten seconds wouldn't be enough for her to retreat to a safe distance.

She is still too weak.

Meanwhile, Alice, feeling that she was still too weak, was also being strengthened with the help of her sister, Grand.

Although the two sisters disliked each other since childhood, they would never deliberately sabotage each other when it came to serious matters.

At first, when the giant serpent appeared to hunt the white whale, the monsters floating in the air had already scattered and fled. However, some monsters that had long buried themselves in the white sand did not escape. They even took the opportunity to prey on some of the panicked monsters that fled. But after the battle between Dinia and the snake people began, the aftershocks of their battle continued to bombard the ground. The monsters under the surrounding white sand dared not stay any longer and broke out of the sand to flee frantically. This gave Alice the opportunity to shoot them.

However, even though Alice's shooting speed was already very fast and her accuracy was very good, she still couldn't kill all the fleeing monsters at the same time. Only when Grand came over could she help block them and drive the monsters to concentrate in one direction so that she could shoot them down.

"You're taking them down one by one with one shot, that's so inefficient." Golan's hands were sharp, but her mouth was full of sarcasm. "You're useless. You can't handle the weaklings, and you can't deal with the ones that aren't weaklings. You're really too good for yourselves."

Alice kept firing, taking down enemies one after another. "Heh, you're only a fourth-tier now. Once I'm fourth-tier, I'll test my skills on you."

"Oh dear, oh dear, I'm so scared!" Golan said in an exaggeratedly frightened tone. As a fourth-tier cultivator, she could already transform into an elemental being and was not afraid of being shot at all.

"If you get beaten up, don't cry and run to tattle like you did when you were a kid," Alice teased.

"Alice, you..." Grand was furious. Back then, she was young and couldn't beat Alice, who was older than her, so she went to Ronan. That was her dark history. "Heh, by the time you're at level four, I'll already be at level five. I'll still crush you."

"Heh, now that I have free time, I can even have a child with that Ronan guy. I'm a summoner, so the child I have will most likely be a mage. Do you dare to have one? If you give birth to one, it will most likely just be an ordinary person. Our genius lady, I'm afraid you can't accept that, can you?" Alice said another scathing remark.

Golan laughed back, "Laughing? Can't I wait until my talent has matured and the technology is ready before I can be born?"

The two sisters resumed their usual bickering.

In the distance, the battle between Dinia and the snake people continues.

The snake-man gradually weakened and realized that it was no longer possible for it to defeat Dinia.

Realizing this, it did not hesitate to self-destruct.

As the massive shockwave blasted Dinia apart, it also transformed into countless small snakes that scattered in all directions.

"It's that trick again." Dinia gritted her teeth. Last time, that scholar Ahmed slipped away from her in the same way.

"So all you can do is self-destruct?" Dinia exploded with a bang, sending countless mushroom darts flying after the small snake that had darted through the air.

Unlike the scholar before, the snake-man has parasitic bacteria inside his body. After it explodes, each of the smaller snakes contains the bacteria. Dinia disperses himself and can automatically track and lock onto each one without needing to consciously operate.

Faced with this situation, the snake-man had no choice but to reveal his true form, otherwise, given the speed of the small snakes, he would not be able to escape at all. One of the small snakes transformed into its true form, and Dinia regenerated herself on a mushroom dart behind it in the very first instant.

Just when Dinia thought the snake-man was about to fight back desperately, the snake-man stopped, knelt down, and raised its hands, saying, "I surrender, spare my life." It didn't want to die when it was forced into a corner. Having lived for so long, it didn't want to die even more than before.

“It’s too late,” Dinia said.

She didn't want to get past the snake-man, and even if she did, it was too late. The fungus had been parasitizing her for too long, and the snake-man had been continuously activating its magic. Now, its body had been hollowed out by the fungus, but it hadn't yet escaped its state of extreme excitement and couldn't feel it.

Just then, the snake-man suddenly collapsed to the ground in agony, curling into a ball.

Chapter 669 Transforming Puppets, just spouting nonsense, their existence is for destruction.

It is said to be hollowed out, but it is not the kind of hollowed-out creature that is just a layer of skin. This is because the snake-man was originally a solid, abnormal creature without any bones or internal organs. Or rather, it was a living cluster of consciousness and a demonic entity. It was the original template for all other creatures in this space and the most "perfect" form.

The bacterial colony of Dinia simply carved out a cavity inside itself and filled it with its own through continuous engulfment and proliferation.

The snake-man was now in a near-death state, curled up on the ground in agony. The main reason was not the "injury" caused by the loss of his body, because strictly speaking, it was not an injury. All parts of his body were the same, so losing a piece was no big deal. It was the invading fungi of Dinia that interfered with the operation of his consciousness system. Losing a piece of one's own body and gaining a piece of someone else's body would not affect the magic base, but for the snake-man, it would. This change brought him damage and pain that went straight to his soul.

This pain did not last long.

Because it died, from the extreme weakness and collapse of its demonic foundation.

Faith was the first to arrive and used her magic on the dead snake-man, preparing to transform the material into a puppet.

"Your magic works on this kind of thing too?" Dinia asked.

As Faith cast the spell, she replied, "I was quite surprised; it went exceptionally smoothly."

Her magic targets the recently deceased, constructing a simple magical foundation on the foundation of the collapsing and dissipating magical body, serving as an operating system. At the same time, it uses the deceased's body as a basis to reshape the body's vitality and create new hardware.

She manipulates the puppet with threads, not by pulling or manipulating its body, but by transmitting commands to its magical core, making it act according to those commands.

"Unfortunately, its magic base no longer exists. Although this makes the conversion easier, its magical abilities will be unusable after the conversion," Fisse said regretfully. Usually, when she converts other dead mages, the lower-level spells of the converted mages are still usable.

She still craved the deathly black aura of the snake people, but unfortunately, it was gone.

After the transformation, it becomes a blank slate, except that its physical strength far exceeds that of any of its previous puppets. If used as a meat shield, it can withstand the vast majority of magic in the world.

Dinia reached out and grabbed the pair of scimitars lying in the sand. As she examined the scimitars, she noticed that Faith was staring intently at her.

"You want those curved blades?" Dinia asked.

"If Your Majesty is willing to give it to me, my family is willing to serve Your Majesty for generations." Shameless words come out of Faith's mouth without hesitation.

Dinia just smiled. "It no longer has the ability to bind the black aura of decay, nor does it have that magic-breaking ability. All that's left is its sharpness."

“That’s enough. It’s perfectly fine as a conventional weapon,” Faith said.

"By the way, do you have children?" Dinia finally asked Faith, addressing her earlier shameless question.

“No, and it’s impossible, but you know, it’s easier to discipline someone who isn’t your own child, right, Your Holiness?” Faith said. “There are many teachers in this world who can teach a lot of people well, but very few who can teach their own children well. That’s what I admire about Mr. Ronan.”

"When has he ever taught his children?" Dinia tried to laugh but couldn't. Although she had never paid much attention to Ronan's education of his children, she knew a little about it. Ronan simply didn't have time to educate his children, and the mothers of his children were: Ambrina, who was always forgetting about her children; Elena, who couldn't control them; and Agustina, who didn't care about her son at all.

What kind of family education is this?

Faith explained, "As for teaching by example, Lucien II is good enough, at least better than our King of Weyland." Speaking of the King of Weyland, she was furious. The King of Weyland had a lot of say in religious affairs, so the blame for not making her a bishop should naturally be placed on that damned king's head.

At this moment, Ronan and others also arrived.

"How is it?" Ronan asked Dinia.

"It's strong, but also weak, and its duration is too short," Dinia commented. "If this snake-man had studied magic and didn't merge with you, I wouldn't have been able to defeat it."

“That’s his own fault for not being ambitious,” Astrid suddenly interjected.

"Hmm?" Ronan asked, puzzled.

Astrid explained, "This snake-man said that it had seen other magicians, so it can only blame itself for not trying to learn from them."

After she finished speaking, Faith's puppet transformation was completed. The transformation of the snake people was much faster than the normal transformation.

"Alright, alright, everyone must be hungry, let's go get something to eat," Ambrina called out. She wasn't very interested in snake people or fighting; she just wanted everyone to start eating together.

Just as Ronan was about to respond, he noticed Alice. "Hey, Alice, you've advanced."

"Oh, I didn't expect Mr. Ronan to notice me," Alice said sarcastically.

Ronan smiled, walked over, reached out and took off Alice's large, round, gold-rimmed glasses. Then he pinched her pale, delicate cheek, which was not very fleshy. Alice's eyes widened in surprise. She never expected Ronan to do such a teasing thing to her in front of so many people. "My little Alice still loves me, doesn't she?"

"Get out!" Alice was both ashamed and angry, and kicked Ronan in the shin.

Taking advantage of the situation, Gelan stepped forward and said, "Hehe, deep down, I also consider you my father and lover. Of course I'll be unhappy if I feel neglected."

Upon hearing this, Alice was filled with extreme shame and anger. "I'll kill you!"

Golan slipped away extremely fast, and Alice raised her gun and started firing, clearly intending to blow her sister Golan's head off.

Beside her, after a moment of surprise, Falek couldn't help but laugh, a rather silly laugh. It was truly hard to imagine that such a group of politicians could get along like family, but it was the truth, and now she had entered this special family.

Perhaps her past misfortunes were for the sake of her present good fortune.

As Faith watched the two sisters chasing and playing, a wave of emotion washed over her. She too had once had sisters, but the past was gone forever.

On the other side, Astrid walked over to the bodies of the beluga whales and silently mourned.

Elena and Agustina followed.

Just then, Astrid suddenly heard the roar of a beluga whale. At first, she couldn't believe it and thought it was a hallucination, but when she looked up, she really saw a beluga whale.

Those big guys are back.

In fact, the beluga whales had already turned back when they saw the giant two-headed sea serpent fall from afar. However, they dared not approach because of the sandstorm caused by the battle between Dinia and the snake people. Only now that everything has settled down did they dare to come closer.

Kate Pelle watched the beluga whales from afar. If the snake-man hadn't restrained himself, these lovely creatures would have been gone long ago. It was hard not to think that this was a deliberate attempt to wipe everything out of the place.

Chapter 670 Funeral, High-Rank, Is the Monster Human?

The only three adult beluga whales, along with seven juvenile beluga whales and four still-infant beluga whales, dragged together a dozen or so dead beluga whales, including the leader, and circled around the pile of corpses, emitting mournful howls.

They are holding a funeral.

They were supposed to carry these dead beluga whales to Skeleton Mountain, but now, with so many juveniles and teenagers, they simply couldn't move them. Even if they could, they wouldn't have the strength to drive away the scavenging predators that would inevitably come along the way.

After the funeral, the three adults forcibly carried away the four cubs who were reluctant to leave, while the seven teenagers followed after them after a moment of silence.

The dead are dead, and the living must live on.

“Let’s go, Lily, we should go too,” Agustina said to Astrid.

Elena put a hand on her daughter's shoulder. "They'll be fine, don't worry."

Behind them, Kate Pelle remained silent. She didn't step forward to reveal the truth—that this space and all its inhabitants were on the verge of extinction. She could see that Astrid, who had grown during this journey, accepted the situation but still felt a touch of sadness. She saw no need to add fuel to the fire.

And so the little incident came to an end.

Afterwards, Ronan and his group arrived at the cave entrance in their spaceship, then shrunk the spaceship and carried it into the cave, proceeding forward.

This time, everyone went through the cave to the cliff outside, where the old man was still sitting.

Looking out from the cliff, the sky was still gray, and the distance was vast. Scattered buildings could be vaguely seen under the gray fog, but the most conspicuous thing was still the giant tree that was far away but looked huge, supporting the sky and the earth.

Upon seeing Ronan and his group, the old man raised his head and said, “Go, perhaps you can end this nightmare, but remember, dreams are more real than reality, travelers.”

No one could understand the old man's words; they could only tell that he seemed to be giving some kind of warning.

All I could do was politely nod in response to the elderly person.

Instead of going directly down the cliff, the group walked down the hillside next to it.

Soon, the group sensed a living creature in the grass beside the mountain path ahead. It was a hunched dwarf-like thing with a grayish-green body that was difficult to spot because it was hidden in the grass.

Ronan and his group did not launch an attack, but the monsters suddenly attacked after they got closer. The monsters' legs were like frogs, with amazing jumping ability, and they jumped to their faces in an instant. The fingers on their forearms were covered with dark and sharp claws.

With a swing of her hammer, Dinia shattered the head of a frog-legged, clawed dwarf. But at the moment of death, the monster's claws suddenly exploded, scattering like a bomb filled with shredded iron. Dinia reacted swiftly, spreading her mycelial net to block the fragments. Although the fragments were blocked, they still corroded the mycelial net to some extent.

Ronan swung his sword straight at them, piercing their chests. He held his shield horizontally to block the splattering black blood and the exploding claw fragments. Alice casually shot one of them away with a single shot, but failed to kill him.

This Claw Dwarf's physical strength actually surpassed that of most creatures in that space, and was even above that of a first-tier mage. Alice couldn't even take it down with a single ordinary shot.

Alice shot it away, and Grand followed up with a fiery explosion to kill it. Its claws seemed to explode as well, but they were far away and didn't affect Ronan at all.

They encountered these monsters several more times along the way, and the group attacked without hesitation, annihilating them all without giving them a chance to get close.

These frog-legged, clawed dwarfs were nothing to Ronan and his group. They were physically strong but lacked magic. However, they were not weak. If they went to a village of ordinary humans, they could easily wipe out the village if they couldn't organize enough people together. In fact, if they were careless, they could be seriously injured by the corrosive claw fragments.

And in this place, they are probably the most insignificant monsters.

“Once we’re down the mountain, find an open space to deploy the spaceship. Don’t rush into exploration,” Ronan said.

These seemingly insignificant monsters instilled a sense of crisis in Ronan, not because of their strength, but because of their unexpected and bizarre attacks. He, Dinia, and Kate, who were strong enough, would definitely be fine, as would Agustina, Elena, Faith, and Ashley. But the others might not be so sure.

The mountain road winds downhill, and the further down you go, the denser and more lush the vegetation becomes. At first, it was all rocks, not a single blade of grass in sight, but now, as you approach the foot of the mountain, it is covered in grass and trees everywhere.

At the same time, there were more living creatures, but these creatures were just like the frog-legged, clawed dwarfs we had seen at the beginning. They were not only unafraid of life, but also full of aggression, and many of them were stronger than those dwarfs.

After annihilating another wave of attacking monsters, Alice suddenly spoke up, "I have something to say."

The group stopped, and Alice continued, "I didn't kill any of the frog-legged claw dwarves in the first wave. In the second wave, I killed one, but I didn't feel any improvement. I thought maybe the improvement was too small to feel. In the third wave, I still didn't feel anything. Just now, in the last wave, I felt something after I shot one of them, but I didn't feel anything for the others."