Yes, Madam Prime Minister

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On the other side, the man was stabbed solidly by Ronan. Although it didn't seem to break through his armor, the piercing injury had actually caused internal damage.

After their figures clashed, magma and fire dragons surged from the ground and attacked from all sides, while countless thunderbirds resembling crows rushed towards Ronan.

Ronan fell, but before he hit the ground, the floating shield caught him, preventing him from falling.

On the shield, Ronan crouched, panting heavily. Resisting such an impact was extremely taxing.

On the other side, the man with the torn left cheek looked at Ronan as if he were a dead man, "Your magic power was never as good as mine, and your consumption was far greater than mine. You are already dead."

“Really?” Ronan stood up, looking as if he had regained his full strength.

“It’s no use trying to be tough.” The man with the torn left cheek launched another attack.

Ronan had no intention of wasting time with the magma dragon and the thunder crow, and charged straight at him.

Swords and axes, swords and shields—every clash of weapons was like two cannonballs exchanging fire. The ground beneath their feet shattered, lava rippled outwards, and even the direction of a lightning strike was deflected by the shockwave.

The man with the torn left cheek continued to suffer new wounds, and Ronan's magic was rapidly fading away.

Suddenly, the man with the torn left cheek threw away his water sword and thunder axe, unleashing a pure magical shockwave that sent Ronan flying. Under the immense pressure, Ronan coughed up a mouthful of blood.

When Ronan staggered to his feet, he found that the other person had completely changed.

A five-meter-tall giant with two sides, four arms, and four spears representing water, fire, earth, and wind.

Before Ronan could get a good look at it, the Thunder Spear was already at him. Just as it was about to reach Ronan, the Thunder Spear suddenly grew to a gigantic size. Ronan immediately dodged, but the Thunder Spear suddenly exploded, and Ronan was instantly paralyzed.

Before he could shake off the paralysis, the earth spears were already upon him, growing larger and exploding in an instant, trapping Ronan in a completely sealed earthen prison.

Water and fire spears followed immediately, and Ronan exploded along with the earthen prison.

Emerging from the explosion, Ronan's armor was tattered and he was in a terrible state. Before he could even prepare to retaliate, lightning spears came flying at him again.

"To be able to push me to this point, you are very strong among the fourth tier." Even with such a fierce and relentless offensive, the man with the torn left cheek still had the leisure to speak.

Under such relentless attacks, Ronan couldn't even dodge, let alone retaliate.

After several rounds of attacks, suddenly, a red shockwave blasted open the earthen prison before the water and fire could arrive.

“You’re the better one. I’m laying my cards on the table. I have another trick up my sleeve,” Ronan said, panting.

As he spoke, Dinia emerged from his body.

The man with the torn left cheek saw Dinia, with her unforgettable white hair and red eyes. There was no fear on his face. Instead, the centipede that had torn his left cheek twitched with excitement, and the surrounding lava began to surge violently, as if responding to him.

"Twelve years! I've waited twelve years for this day. I will never forget it, never forget this scar!" the man with the torn left cheek roared at Dinia.

Chapter 257 Instant Kill, Captured, and Murdered

Dinia pretended not to hear, and just looked at Ronan beside her, "Next time you play with fire, I'll wait until you're half dead before you come out." If Ronan hadn't held her back, she would have come out long ago.

Ronan gave an awkward laugh. "Aren't you going to say anything to him?"

"Can you remember every dish from a meal you had ten years ago? And get the hell out of here." With that, Dinia broke off one of her fingers, which grew back and transformed into her white, double-edged axe-like wand. "Remember when I said I had a chance against that old fogey Osiris last time?"

Before he could finish speaking, Ronan had already moved away at top speed.

"Eat your own food, share the sea!"

A person's magical power is very limited in an instant, but Dinia squeezes out more magical power than her own limit in the shortest time by parasitizing and devouring her own flesh and blood, and then adds this limit-breaking magical power to their wands.

As soon as he finished speaking, the magic wand came crashing down.

In an instant, the sky split in two, and the earth split in two.

The man whose left cheek was torn apart thought in his last moments that the world before his eyes was split in two. Before he even realized that his body had been split in two from head to torso, the magical shockwave from the slash had shattered his elemental body, leaving not even dust, only scattered magical energy.

The barrier shattered like broken glass, and a straight ravine, stretching for countless kilometers and seemingly endless even on this vast plain, was carved into the ground.

Even the clouds in the sky were parted in that instant.

Dinia's whole body shrank for two seconds before she returned to normal.

The man with the torn left cheek died, and his domain disappeared as well. However, the area within half a kilometer around him had become completely different from other places. The once lush grass had long since burned away, leaving only cracked land, like a dried-up riverbed after a drought. The lava was now just white ash in the cracks of the earth.

Ronan wasn't idle either. He glided rapidly using the floating shield, and with a flick of his spinning sword, he struck the mage who had been maintaining the barrier directly on the neck.

But the opponent was ultimately a Tier 3, and Ronan, a Tier 4, couldn't kill a Tier 3 in one hit, so he could only rush over to finish him off.

On the other side, Faith and another magician saw the man with the torn left cheek fall and immediately prepared to run away, but at that moment, countless threads released by Faith entangled him.

"You..." The other party was very surprised, because Faith had basically been running away and using some strange little gadgets to deal with him, but had not used such a move at all.

Faith covered her mouth with one hand and yawned, while manipulating the silk threads with the other. "I'm just here to watch the fun, so of course I won't do anything if I don't have to. But if I let you get away after the fun is over, I'll get my salary docked."

The opponent's body sprouted sharp blades, severing the thin threads, and then restarted.

Faith stamped her foot impatiently, "The Puppet Circus."

As he stomped his foot, seven coffins rose from the ground in the distance, and seven magical puppets burst out of the coffins, rushing towards the opponent from all directions.

The seven magical puppets can only unleash magic at the first level of their original form, but in terms of durability, they are definitely at the third level.

With his movements restricted by the seven magical puppets, and seeing that he had no chance of escaping, he decisively raised his hands and said, "I surrender."

At this moment, Ronan also dealt with the magician who had set up the barrier. The sword he wielded was not the same as the flying sword.

At the same time, Dinia came over, grabbed the surrendered magician, drained most of his magic power, and then forcibly turned him into a mushroom the size of a palm in a few minutes.

Ronan walked over. "Faith, go find Elena and the others. Dinia and I have some things to take care of."

Naturally, the goal was to kill Louis. Only a day and a night had passed since Louis led his army away from the main camp. He hadn't gone very far. The terrain here was mostly plains, and with more than a thousand men, he couldn't hide his tracks.

As Ronan set off, Elena had already successfully escaped. Noah, Elena's kinsman Amanda, and the withered old man Yang Ike had actually been following Ronan's group all along, and when Elena and Alice took action, they set off right behind them.

Noah's body has undergone countless modifications, and these modifications are still ongoing. Even acquaintances cannot sense his presence; they are completely unaware of him. On the other hand, the withered old man Yang Ike, who feels like ants crawling all over his body if he doesn't have sex at least once a day, possesses magic that shields him from perception. He's an old assassin. As for Amanda, she is indeed conspicuous, just like Elena, so she always follows her from a distance.

In terms of strategy, Louis's three advisors were no less capable than Ronan; they lost out in terms of sheer strength.

Louis's army failed to completely annihilate the "rabble" led by O and Chip; instead, it was thrown into chaos. His mages were unable to deal with Elena and Alice in a short time, and hundreds of musketeers were overwhelmed by a counter-offensive. Although the mages he brought were stronger than Ronan, the question was, was Ronan a single person? He was not.

At this moment, Ronan and Dinia were flying in the sky, rapidly approaching the location of Louis.

The next day, at night.

Inside the tent, just as Louis and his three advisors were plotting which tribal chief and sheriff's house to raid, Ronan and Dinia appeared before them.

"Don't make a sound," Ronan warned as he approached.

With Dinia in front, none of the three strategists dared to make a move.

“Louis Vése Freigo, you are suspected of tax evasion, amounting to a huge sum; you are suspected of instigating your subordinates to attack royal officials, a serious offense; you are suspected of colluding with foreign powers and assassinating high-ranking royal officials, which is tantamount to rebellion. Although you are a count, these charges combined are enough to keep you in jail for life.”

Ronan said.

By this time, Louis had recovered from the astonishment of seeing Ronan and Dinia. He knew he had completely failed. Instead of losing control of his emotions, he was unusually calm, so calm that it was unlike him.

"I can still go to jail?" Louis asked with a smile. He wasn't very perceptive about other things, but he was very clear about this kind of thing.

Ronan replied, "Unexpected things are bound to happen during the transport."

Ronan didn't want to lie to him; there was no way he could return to his homeland alive. The king had sent him and Dinia here to take his life.

Louis was trembling, but his expression remained calm. "When Ambrina was little, I would always pick her up from church school on weekends. Back then, chocolate had just become popular in the capital, and it was her favorite..."

“Excuse me, can we do something more meaningful?” Ronan interrupted him with an apology.

Louis gritted his teeth, "I'll give you all this treasure, and I'll provide you with evidence of Henry's crimes. In return, I'll take ten men with me, change my name, and consider me dead. Is that alright?"

"Do you know the man in purple?" Ronan asked.

Louis was taken aback. What, a man in purple?

Ronan could tell at a glance that Louis didn't know, so there was no need to waste time.

With a swish, Ronan beheaded Louis, and Dinah immediately killed Louis's three advisors. In the blink of an eye, four more corpses lay on the ground.

Dinia took out a mushroom, which was the same mushroom that another magician who had participated in the attack on Ronan had taken.

Chapter 258 is outrageous; it must be correct, reform requires using wicked people first.

Dinia turns the mushroom back into a human.

Before the magician could react, Dinia snapped his neck with one hand, and Ronan finished him off with two stabs.

Inside the tent, there was another corpse.

Ronan and Dinah then left quietly. Half an hour later, Ronan and Dinah appeared at the main gate between the two watchtowers at the front of the temporary camp. Ronan shouted that he had come with the governor to arrest Louis for questioning.

The guards at the gate instinctively raised their guns, but as soon as they did, they were paralyzed by the paralysis mushrooms. The soldiers on the watchtower were the same. Seeing this, a group of people rushed over and surrounded Ronan and Dinia from a distance. An officer hurriedly ran to Louis's tent to report the incident.

However, when he entered the tent, he only saw four three-bodied bodies. He recognized three of them, but did not know who the third one was.

Their Count, and the three most trusted lords, are dead just like that?

The officer who came in to deliver the message was stunned for a full half minute before he accepted this absurd and shocking fact.

Instead of shouting, he immediately went and called over the other officers.

This caused an uproar and panic among everyone.

They were already confused because Louis had promised to go to the front lines to suppress bandits, but instead he didn't go to the front lines at all. Instead, he recalled all the troops that were originally going to suppress bandits in the surrounding area, and then killed the chief and herdsman of a small tribe not far from the core area in the south, and confiscated their homes.

Moreover, judging from Louis's choice of campsite, it seems he intends to continue south, beyond which lies the cotton-growing region. However, the problem is that while the native bandits are wreaking havoc in the north of the territory, Louis is heading south. The officers are completely baffled by his intentions.

But if the Earl wants it this way, they have no choice but to obey.

But now that the Earl is dead, they have absolutely no idea what to do.

"Are you sure that the person who claims to be the governor is a white-haired woman?" asked the highest-ranking colonel here. He had previously been the leader of the thousand men in charge of monitoring Cardina City, and he had met Dinia and Ronan.

"Confirmed," replied the lieutenant officer who had come to report the discovery of the body.

“I suggest we invite them over,” the colonel said.

"Huh?" The lieutenant exclaimed in surprise.

The others were equally astonished.

"Just wait, whatever they say goes," the colonel instructed, while silently praying to God that he would survive.

A moment later, Ronan and Dinia were ushered in. Upon seeing Louis's body, Ronan displayed an extremely exaggerated expression of shock, which then turned into anger. He demanded, "What, what happened? Tell me, or none of you will live!"

The officers looked at the lieutenant who had first discovered the body. The lieutenant wanted to cry; he had no idea what had happened.

"I saw these four corpses as soon as I came in," the lieutenant said with a mournful face.

Ronan pointed at the magician and asked, "Who is this person?"

The lieutenant shook his head vigorously, "I don't know him."

Ronan immediately explained, "Judging from the scene, it seems to be one of the Earl's hidden men who, having obtained evidence of the Earl's crimes, wanted to use it to blackmail him. However, the Earl refused and even tried to kill him, resulting in a fight that ended in both of them dying together."

Seriously, how can you deduce all this from just looking at a scene? Could it get any more outrageous?

“That’s right, that’s how it is.” The colonel was the first to agree with Ronan. “This speculation makes perfect sense.” Even if Ronan said it was a mutual destruction, or even if he said that Louis and the other two committed suicide first and then killed this person, it would still be correct.

Anyone who dares to say Ronan is wrong, he'll shoot them dead.

The others quickly nodded in agreement. At that moment, they truly realized that this meant betrayal—or rather, betrayal.

"Sigh, the person is dead. This is a bit of a problem. I wonder if they can still be convicted," Ronan sighed.

"I know about the Count, bah, the traitor Louis," the colonel immediately said. "Sir, this Louis is a scoundrel. He tricked us into going south so he could collude with the Villars and use their power to usurp the throne. He's plotting treason and disloyal to His Majesty. Fortunately, you and the governor arrived in time, and we were able to wake up in time. That damned traitor!"

Shouting, the colonel grabbed his gun and fired a shot at Louis's body, then glared menacingly at the other officers.

The officers had no choice but to take turns firing. One person would fire a shot, and then another would take the gun and fire another shot.

And so, in this joyful atmosphere, the matter came to a close.

The reason for the comma is that Ronan is about to publicly announce Louis's crimes.

Respect for the dead? Haha, we don't have that custom in the Western Continent. Even if someone dies, they'll still be criticized and denounced.

A week later, news of Louis spread.

For most people, the charges against Louis—tax evasion, ordering his men to attack kingdom officials, plotting to assassinate the governor, and attempting to collude with the Villans to usurp the throne—were insignificant. What mattered to the public were that Louis used a pure gold toilet, that he had affairs with his men's mothers, that his boots were made from the skin of young boys, that he loved drinking tea mixed with menstrual blood, that he told the people they could eat cake if they had nothing to eat, that he hadn't bathed in over twenty years, and that he was ultimately killed for having affairs with his men's mothers, wives, and daughters.

Inside the governor's mansion, Dinia looked at the report and asked Ronan, "Can't you just give a proper account of his crimes?"

Ronan chuckled. “Otherwise, how would the news spread so quickly? This wretched colony doesn’t even have newspapers. It has to rely on taverns to spread the word. Who would listen to talk about taxes and the state in taverns? It has to be these absurd jokes to spread quickly. Besides, these jokes aren’t just something I wrote by myself; they’re a collection of the people’s wisdom.”

Dinia could only lie back; once again, she had to admit that Ronan was right.

"Judging by the time, Henry should know by now. We'll set off tomorrow and carry out a decapitation strike on him, then label him a traitor," Ronan said. "Then we'll abolish the two earls and bring them all under the governor's jurisdiction. Now, let's get down to business."

From the very beginning, Ronan never intended to come to the New World only to complete the tasks given by the king.