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Chapter 1156: CP8 Acts Again!
Nuclear World.
Shiki also received an order from the Command Department.
He was to bring some people from the 'Special Zone World' to the Titan World for execution.
Although Shiki found this order somewhat inexplicable, he vaguely guessed it was Lord Imu's intention.
So he immediately ordered the several thousand Imperial Army soldiers previously captured in Japan during the 'Ginza Incident' to be escorted to the Canberra Continent in the Titan World!
Although the Command Department only needed a few people, Shiki was not in a good mood at the moment, so he simply sent them all over to be executed.
It is worth mentioning that Bud and Ay's limbs had been successfully reborn with the help of a Biological Alchemist.
However, they could only restore their limbs; they couldn't make them as strong as before.
This would require Bud and Ay to spend time training themselves.
During this period, both of them could be said to have lost their combat ability.
Therefore, they had been sent back to the Titan World to recuperate.
At the same time, while Bud was in a coma, Shiki paid the military merit points needed for his limbs' recovery on his behalf.
However, Bud didn't know about this yet.
As for Ay, of course, his father would pay.
Familiar of Zero World.
As the Halkeginia Continent fragmented under the 'Windstone Catastrophe', the Albion Kingdom became the largest sky island and the only nation.
However, some people chose to leave, traveling by airship to several other smaller, stabilized sky islands to reside.
Emperor Wales supported this behavior.
There were simply too many people on the Albion sky island.
But he also promulgated a law prohibiting people on other sky islands from privately establishing duchies.
He stated that in the future, the nobility would only have territory and would no longer be granted states.
Among them, the nobles of the former Tristain Kingdom received more preferential treatment compared to nobles from other nations, due to Henrietta becoming the Empress.
The territories of the rebellious nobles from before were basically all bestowed upon them by Emperor Wales.
The Vallière Clan was like this.
Because the family head, Duke La Vallière, who is Louise's father, was previously a Duke of the Tristain Kingdom, he obtained a piece of territory with an area no less than his previous one.
It was located in Southgate City, south of the kingdom capital Londinium.
This is a valley city surrounded by mountains on three sides.
It has rich forestry resources and can be considered a good place.
And the Vallière Manor is located west of the city.
It's just that recently, this family's mood has been very heavy.
Even the servants in the manor didn't dare to breathe loudly when moving around.
But they didn't know what exactly had happened...
At this moment, in the family head's bedroom.
Duke La Vallière, Duchess Karina, and the second sister Cattreya were facing Louise and Hiraga Saito, their eyes meeting.
Both sides were enveloped in a dead silence.
Sage Mimochaza, Tabitha, Kirche, Mr. Hodorliu, and others around them were all waiting for the former's answer.
"Mother, Father, please say something! We must leave here immediately, and then go pick up Tabitha and the others' families!"
Louise anxiously grabbed her mother, urging her in a hurried voice.
"Louise!"
Duke La Vallière could no longer bear the rage in his heart, pointing at her nose and cursing loudly.
"You actually brought such a great disaster to the family! Only now are you thinking of taking us away? Why didn't you think of us before?"
"And now you want us to abandon the peerage, connections, and wealth accumulated over a dozen generations, and then go to a world where everything has to start from zero!"
Tears flowed from Louise's eyes upon hearing this, and she pursed her lips, unable to say anything in retort.
"Um... Uncle, Louise also did it to help a friend. And since things have come to this, for everyone's safety, let's go to the Falmart Continent first!"
Hiraga Saito tried to dissuade him with a headache.
Then Mr. Hodorliu also stepped forward, apologizing with a face full of guilt:
"I am very sorry, truly sorry. Louise did this to help me find Durga. I hope you won't blame her too much."
"I am willing to bear all the rage and guilt alone. After arriving at our world, I will also do my best to compensate for your family's losses and eternally protect your family's safety!"
Duke La Vallière became even angrier upon hearing this.
"So you are the culprit! You..."
But just as he was about to vent his rage and continue cursing, even preparing to take out his magic wand and cast magic on Hodoriyu.
Duchess Karina beside him coldly interrupted his words.
"Although what Louise did this time was indeed too much, Saito-san is right. Since things have come to this, we can only consider the next matters."
This mother of Louise is not an ordinary person.
She was the captain of the former Royal Guard's 'Human-Faced Scorpion-Lion Unit' in the Tristain Kingdom.
And she has the nickname 'Gale Karin', quite famous among various nations.
Her personality is strict, and she values discipline.
Her wind magic was once hailed as the strongest wind mage in history.
So once she gets serious, Duke La Vallière, as her husband, also has to back down.
"But Louise, Eleonore has already joined the World Government's Magic Association, and she has even gone to the world. Do you want to abandon your eldest sister?"
"Ah?!"
Louise was dumbfounded upon hearing this.
But Eleonore was previously the chairman researcher of the 'Hanlin Academy Council'.
She was researching in the 'Earth Department' how to use earth magic to create more beautiful Brimir statues.
So being invited by Joseph was reasonable.
"Ah, forget it, let's go. As for your eldest sister, we can only hope the World Government won't vent their anger..."
Duchess Karina shook her head helplessly and gave a bitter smile.
They couldn't just stay here and wait for death, could they?
Duke La Vallière's face was ashen, but he had already regained calmness and also realized there was no room for choice.
Unless he believed the World Government would spare them and only punish Louise alone.
But how could that be...
Louise also didn't know what to say. She could only cry while raising her magic wand and chanting the 'World Gate' spell.
Sage Mimochaza, Tabitha, Mr. Hodorliu, and others also let out a sigh of relief upon seeing this.
No one knew when the World Government people would come looking.
So every second delayed made people feel unease.
It's fine now, first deal with one family!
But when Louise finished saying the last syllable of the spell.
The white light that appeared out of thin air in front of her didn't turn into a circular mirror surface as usual.
Instead, it suddenly twisted, and then with a roar, an explosion occurred.
Fortunately, Sage Mimochaza reacted in time and blocked it with a magic barrier.
But this also startled everyone, and Louise herself was even more dumbfounded.
She didn't understand what was wrong with this.
Hadn't she already received the God of the Underworld's permission?
But the people inside the room didn't notice that around the Vallière Manor, eight light gates of different colors had appeared at some unknown time.
The light and shadow overhead the manor also looked a bit blurry...
"Captain, Louise's magic has failed!"
On the lawn inside the manor, the corpses of several guard soldiers lay in a pool of blood.
Not far away.
Green, dressed in a black suit, was wearing his Imperial Arms, 'Five-Sight Almighty', on his face.
While observing the situation inside the building, he reported to Mima Amatori beside him.
"Not bad, it seems 'Eight Gates Golden Lock' is useful."
Mima Amatori's corner of mouth curled up in satisfaction.
Immediately, she said softly to the Den Den Mushi in her palm, which was also wearing a small suit: "Begin the operation."
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
Meilard, Levi, Kuji Kurusu, Lubbock, and others who were already standing at various positions in the manor responded one after another.
In an instant, whistling sounds rose and fell one after another.
Every member of CP8 transformed into streaks of black afterimages, rushing at high speed into the luxurious mansion like a small castle!
(End of this chapter)
Nuclear World.
Shiki also received an order from the Command Department.
He was to bring some people from the 'Special Zone World' to the Titan World for execution.
Although Shiki found this order somewhat inexplicable, he vaguely guessed it was Lord Imu's intention.
So he immediately ordered the several thousand Imperial Army soldiers previously captured in Japan during the 'Ginza Incident' to be escorted to the Canberra Continent in the Titan World!
Although the Command Department only needed a few people, Shiki was not in a good mood at the moment, so he simply sent them all over to be executed.
It is worth mentioning that Bud and Ay's limbs had been successfully reborn with the help of a Biological Alchemist.
However, they could only restore their limbs; they couldn't make them as strong as before.
This would require Bud and Ay to spend time training themselves.
During this period, both of them could be said to have lost their combat ability.
Therefore, they had been sent back to the Titan World to recuperate.
At the same time, while Bud was in a coma, Shiki paid the military merit points needed for his limbs' recovery on his behalf.
However, Bud didn't know about this yet.
As for Ay, of course, his father would pay.
Familiar of Zero World.
As the Halkeginia Continent fragmented under the 'Windstone Catastrophe', the Albion Kingdom became the largest sky island and the only nation.
However, some people chose to leave, traveling by airship to several other smaller, stabilized sky islands to reside.
Emperor Wales supported this behavior.
There were simply too many people on the Albion sky island.
But he also promulgated a law prohibiting people on other sky islands from privately establishing duchies.
He stated that in the future, the nobility would only have territory and would no longer be granted states.
Among them, the nobles of the former Tristain Kingdom received more preferential treatment compared to nobles from other nations, due to Henrietta becoming the Empress.
The territories of the rebellious nobles from before were basically all bestowed upon them by Emperor Wales.
The Vallière Clan was like this.
Because the family head, Duke La Vallière, who is Louise's father, was previously a Duke of the Tristain Kingdom, he obtained a piece of territory with an area no less than his previous one.
It was located in Southgate City, south of the kingdom capital Londinium.
This is a valley city surrounded by mountains on three sides.
It has rich forestry resources and can be considered a good place.
And the Vallière Manor is located west of the city.
It's just that recently, this family's mood has been very heavy.
Even the servants in the manor didn't dare to breathe loudly when moving around.
But they didn't know what exactly had happened...
At this moment, in the family head's bedroom.
Duke La Vallière, Duchess Karina, and the second sister Cattreya were facing Louise and Hiraga Saito, their eyes meeting.
Both sides were enveloped in a dead silence.
Sage Mimochaza, Tabitha, Kirche, Mr. Hodorliu, and others around them were all waiting for the former's answer.
"Mother, Father, please say something! We must leave here immediately, and then go pick up Tabitha and the others' families!"
Louise anxiously grabbed her mother, urging her in a hurried voice.
"Louise!"
Duke La Vallière could no longer bear the rage in his heart, pointing at her nose and cursing loudly.
"You actually brought such a great disaster to the family! Only now are you thinking of taking us away? Why didn't you think of us before?"
"And now you want us to abandon the peerage, connections, and wealth accumulated over a dozen generations, and then go to a world where everything has to start from zero!"
Tears flowed from Louise's eyes upon hearing this, and she pursed her lips, unable to say anything in retort.
"Um... Uncle, Louise also did it to help a friend. And since things have come to this, for everyone's safety, let's go to the Falmart Continent first!"
Hiraga Saito tried to dissuade him with a headache.
Then Mr. Hodorliu also stepped forward, apologizing with a face full of guilt:
"I am very sorry, truly sorry. Louise did this to help me find Durga. I hope you won't blame her too much."
"I am willing to bear all the rage and guilt alone. After arriving at our world, I will also do my best to compensate for your family's losses and eternally protect your family's safety!"
Duke La Vallière became even angrier upon hearing this.
"So you are the culprit! You..."
But just as he was about to vent his rage and continue cursing, even preparing to take out his magic wand and cast magic on Hodoriyu.
Duchess Karina beside him coldly interrupted his words.
"Although what Louise did this time was indeed too much, Saito-san is right. Since things have come to this, we can only consider the next matters."
This mother of Louise is not an ordinary person.
She was the captain of the former Royal Guard's 'Human-Faced Scorpion-Lion Unit' in the Tristain Kingdom.
And she has the nickname 'Gale Karin', quite famous among various nations.
Her personality is strict, and she values discipline.
Her wind magic was once hailed as the strongest wind mage in history.
So once she gets serious, Duke La Vallière, as her husband, also has to back down.
"But Louise, Eleonore has already joined the World Government's Magic Association, and she has even gone to the world. Do you want to abandon your eldest sister?"
"Ah?!"
Louise was dumbfounded upon hearing this.
But Eleonore was previously the chairman researcher of the 'Hanlin Academy Council'.
She was researching in the 'Earth Department' how to use earth magic to create more beautiful Brimir statues.
So being invited by Joseph was reasonable.
"Ah, forget it, let's go. As for your eldest sister, we can only hope the World Government won't vent their anger..."
Duchess Karina shook her head helplessly and gave a bitter smile.
They couldn't just stay here and wait for death, could they?
Duke La Vallière's face was ashen, but he had already regained calmness and also realized there was no room for choice.
Unless he believed the World Government would spare them and only punish Louise alone.
But how could that be...
Louise also didn't know what to say. She could only cry while raising her magic wand and chanting the 'World Gate' spell.
Sage Mimochaza, Tabitha, Mr. Hodorliu, and others also let out a sigh of relief upon seeing this.
No one knew when the World Government people would come looking.
So every second delayed made people feel unease.
It's fine now, first deal with one family!
But when Louise finished saying the last syllable of the spell.
The white light that appeared out of thin air in front of her didn't turn into a circular mirror surface as usual.
Instead, it suddenly twisted, and then with a roar, an explosion occurred.
Fortunately, Sage Mimochaza reacted in time and blocked it with a magic barrier.
But this also startled everyone, and Louise herself was even more dumbfounded.
She didn't understand what was wrong with this.
Hadn't she already received the God of the Underworld's permission?
But the people inside the room didn't notice that around the Vallière Manor, eight light gates of different colors had appeared at some unknown time.
The light and shadow overhead the manor also looked a bit blurry...
"Captain, Louise's magic has failed!"
On the lawn inside the manor, the corpses of several guard soldiers lay in a pool of blood.
Not far away.
Green, dressed in a black suit, was wearing his Imperial Arms, 'Five-Sight Almighty', on his face.
While observing the situation inside the building, he reported to Mima Amatori beside him.
"Not bad, it seems 'Eight Gates Golden Lock' is useful."
Mima Amatori's corner of mouth curled up in satisfaction.
Immediately, she said softly to the Den Den Mushi in her palm, which was also wearing a small suit: "Begin the operation."
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
Meilard, Levi, Kuji Kurusu, Lubbock, and others who were already standing at various positions in the manor responded one after another.
In an instant, whistling sounds rose and fell one after another.
Every member of CP8 transformed into streaks of black afterimages, rushing at high speed into the luxurious mansion like a small castle!
(End of this chapter)
