December 31, 528, New Yuan calendar.

The Shine Empire, the Imperial Province, the capital of Shinetsk, and the Saint Vanya Parliament Building.

The imperial capital of Zhnetsk was extremely cold in December, especially this year, when factories in most cities in the empire were forced to shut down due to the extremely frequent "waves of unintentional people".

The streets of the imperial capital with a temperate continental climate have long been covered with snow. Even on the banks of the Rumin River, the river water with larger heat capacity has not adjusted too low as in previous years. Instead, it has formed a thick ice layer like silver-white armor, causing the empire's "Odyssey", "Dawn", "Chekavsk" and "Mamous" warships were forced to block the port, waiting for the arrival of spring and the time when the ice melted.

Originally, near the tall, majestic and magnificent parliament building, there were white apricot blossoms with red glows, and cornflowers blooming from time to time on the lawn, but their glorious seasons passed and were all withered. Even the "Demon Wind Plums" transported from thousands of miles south of the Fire Empire more than a hundred years ago died of the cold temperature, leaving behind bare branches like demonic claws.

It is around 5 pm. According to the regulations of the imperial capital, there is no war period. No matter which department or organization of the empire, they must stop working at this moment and return to houses or underground residences wrapped in lead shells.

Due to the big explosion in the capital Sogra after the disappearance of the dome more than a year ago, the sky of the empire's empire has been filled with gray clouds covered with poisons for more than a year.

Whenever there are heavy rain or sudden snow, in addition to mutated plants, mutants, losers and "unintentional people", normal humans, even if they have gained immunity to the "unintentional people virus", as long as they are exposed to rain and snow, they will fall into madness in an instant and become monsters that have lost their minds.

As the empire's ability to control various strongholds suddenly declined, industrial capabilities and organizational strength collapsed rapidly, and there was no ability to build a building like the Socrates dome to resist the gray "Cloud of Change".

The current empire is like an old man in his twilight years, and can only wail in the twilight years of storm, lamenting the difficulty of reconstruction of [order] and the ease of decline.

Dong, Dong, Dong, Dong...

The bells of the Church of Saint Gervane in the Sunnetsk hit seventeen times, indicating the arrival of the hour of get off work. As various civilians and military personnel in the parliament drove away quickly, the streets of Leto, closest to the parliament building, were empty in a few minutes. In less than half an hour, Sunnetsk became lifeless and dead like an abandoned city that was lost to "unintentional people" and the lost.

da, da, da, da, da, da...

The crisp, rhythmic high-heeled shoes extend all the way from the main entrance hall of the parliament building to the end of the staircase on the negative floor, and then ends at the end of the corridor that gradually fades, like a deep green forest covered with strange thorns.

A woman with a plump figure and graceful figure as if she had a standard curved figure in an artist's painting appeared in front of the "Secret Reading Archives".

After stopping, he sorted out the slightly compact military green empire female army uniforms and handed the "Capital Military Member Certificate" to the fully armed guards slightly tired.

With the heavy "creaking" sound, she walked into the door alone.

Sitting upright on the leather sofa, the woman waited for a few minutes, and another man in an army uniform appeared in front of her as promised.

He had black hair, a high nose bridge, blue eyes, and very upright facial features, but his face was covered with tiny wounds.

As soon as he entered the door, the man immediately bowed halfway and apologized in a gentle tone:

"Ms. Melinar, no, I should call you General Melinar. I'm sorry to let you wait for me as a small figure in Dark Star 1."

"That report..." Merinaer ignored the slightly hypocritical man in front of him and held his chin on his own:

"I'm not sure how to improve the last two small parts. It's just that, Kaiya, you are the younger brother of Kiuxki, and you have led the Storm Legion to participate in the unbeaten "Silent Arrival" campaign. You should know more details."

"Of course, Ms. Melinar." The man named Kaia nodded:

"Except for not seeing the death of His Highness Evante, the Crown Prince of the Burialist, I have basically participated in the rest of the battles. It's a pity that my brother is too obsessed with power. In order to become the chief marshal of the Empire who holds real power, he deliberately concealed my identity. He even feared my strength and talent, and had not let the senior officials of the empire know my name for more than ten years. So, it was not until last month that I was able to enter the Empire Strategic Group under the appreciation of His Majesty Reka II, who had just succeeded to the throne."

"It's a pity that you are, General Melinar, during your 'three years of sleeping', you had an unforgettable love with the bastard prince, but he did not fulfill his promise and marry you to become the empire queen. Just because you were a lost person, you were not transferred to the capital until you hope that the church would openly join the empire, and you were transferred to the capital as deputy director of the strategic team."

"Kaiya." Melinar made a low voice unique to mature women, and said unhappy:

"Exposing people's scars is an unfriendly behavior. If you want to taste my little baby Seye's 'Dragon Flame', you can continue the topic just now."

"By the way, talking about Seye... the 'major' who hatched it, [The Fraudster] How is Dylan's whereabouts? I heard that in order to find his mechanical body, Luo Nai, he escaped from the magic cover of the fortress alone and went to the yellow sand in the center of the silent highland. It has been more than a year since the imperial army has almost flattened the silent highland. Haven't he found him yet?"

"Sorry, General Melinar, until yesterday we tried to send a squad into the quiet highlands, and the telegram they sent this morning was as usual, but nothing was found. As for the mechanical body, it was reported that he had gone south to the ruins of the old Kofu City and met his master Bud, and then in the ruins of Migov town, people had seen it in Chekavsk and Zhuolin."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "But I heard from the consuls of the two big cities that people who have seen that look do not think he has the feeling of a mechanical body, but rather looks like a living human, so they are not sure of the true identity of that man. General Melinar, do you believe that there will be anecdotes about a mechanical body becoming a human?"

"Of course I believe it." Merinal nodded slightly and said:

"After the arrival of the New Yuan, all myths and legends of the past are gradually confirmed. Even the god "The Daughter of the Mechanical Yuan" in the information has said that he has seen His scattered body. However, if you find Luo Nai, you should be able to find Dylan unless he has been submerged in the endless yellow sand and meet the Lord."

"General Melinar, then again, in the last two paragraphs of the Battle of the Silent Highlands you made, I think the most difficult one should be the death of Ivant and my brother Kauksky. At that time, the landing points of all the Aerospace Army were a distance from Ivant and the others. It was not until the 'Fire of Heaven' fell that they knew what happened near the Lake of Silent." Kaiya became a little disappointed when he saw Melinar's expression, and hurriedly turned the topic to the right track.

"Yes, the people close to them were basically engulfed without flames, turned into coke, and no one in the distance saw the scene. However, Ivant's direct Aerospace Army Guard said that His Highness the Crown Prince originally wanted to take advantage of the end of the war and rush into the yellow sand to find the "Daughter of Mechanical Yuan". After all, a middle-grade Simen of the Hope Church noticed the abnormal movement of the magic source power in the center of the highland the day before Ivant was killed, so he hurriedly reported it to me, and I told him again."

"It's a pity that my memory had not been fully restored at that time, otherwise I should have gone with Evante." Merinal sighed, turned his head aside, and subconsciously looked at the gray snow on the courtyard road of the parliament building outside the heavy glass.

"The lost life can never be saved. After all, our sigh is to make up for the regrets in our hearts. However, Miss Melinar, we should look forward. Although I have no good feelings for Evante himself, I admire his courage to reconstruct [order] at an inappropriate time." Kaia comforted:

"He mobilized only 50,000 troops and more than 5,000 soldiers of the Sogra regiment who almost rebelled, and eliminated two of the three major churches of the Lost in the Empire, and forced the Hope Church to surrender. This is a feat that no imperial monarch has ever done. His "Old Science and Technology Research Group" is still working to interpret the technology left by Cruzder. Although we have been defeated, relying on the "electromagnetic pulse rifle" and the "Cruzder Aerospace Army", at least we have defended the basic plate and will not completely collapse."

"Isn't it? He died in battle for only two months, and the capital held a grand funeral for him. Even on January 7 this year, Reka I, who died on Christmas Day, dragged his sick body to attend the ceremony and buried him in the underground of the Church of Saint Gervane, sleeping among the monarchs of all generations. Although I joked that he was the "burner", the official title was the "builder", which is considered to be acknowledging his achievements."

"It's a pity that Reka II, who succeeded to the throne last year, was just a 12-year-old child. His father had been killed by Aaron long ago and had been living in panic and had not received much orthodox education. I heard that he not only could not recognize many Japanese words, but he could not even use guns. This made his army-born teacher very troubled."

"Kaiah." Melinar came back to his senses and interrupted Kaiah's story. "You said, would the 'Diary of the Chosener' be created by the demon? In fact, the Chosener has never written any information. Our study of the diary is nothing but falling into His trap, thus slowly destroying their Rurik family, destroying the Sunnese Empire, and ultimately destroying everyone?"

"Maybe." Kaia sighed:

"In order to find the so-called god's 'Daughter of Mechanism', the Imperial Crown Prince Evante, his teacher Aaron, you hope that the church's Ato, the imperial scientist John and his student Shamon, the main cardinal of the three major churches, the blood wind, the mysterious sound, the snow mu, and the "concentration of the wishes", George, the senior Socrates, the leader of the "Lone Wolf Society" Pusef, my brother Kaiwusky, and the 30,000 imperial [warriors] all paid the price of life. It is not an exaggeration to say that the diary is the product of the demon. Perhaps, if the choicer is the devil himself?"

"We have never known that god, and there is not much information about His history. Several forces believed in these absurd information for their own desires, especially Sogra, in order to create the so-called environment, and that 'park'. Therefore, human beings are stupid creatures, and the lost and psychics who are of the same origin as them can never get rid of the shackles of desire. By the way..." Kaia said, taking out a printed information from his arms and handed it to Melinar, and continued:

"The day Evant died was very chaotic. Many of the information we can investigate now comes from the oral statements of the [warrior] and the loser who were nearby at that time. The general situation is that in order to ensure that he was not humiliated by the possibility of being captured by the loser, or was forced to issue a retreat order. Therefore, he used two imitated sequential monsters, "Spiritual Shadow Pendant". Once he was hurt, the sequential monsters he carried would send a blue signal to the one stored in the 'control room' and request support. Once the red signal was transmitted, it would indicate that Evant was dead, and the 'Heavenly Punishment Fire' carried on the silence airship would attack the location where the signal was transmitted, completely destroying the enemy."

"But it seems that the 'Fire of Heaven' is also a temporary imitation and its power is limited. So, when other aerospace troops arrived near the Lake of Silent, in addition to seeing a burning animal and plant area, which almost evaporated cleanly, the Ivant's 'Time Wheel Watch', there was only a pile of charcoal left. You know, the sequential monster 'Time Wheel Watch' is an exclusive property of the royal family. Wherever it is, it means where Ivant is."

"What you said... and this information is written in detail, Kaia." Melinar carefully placed the information on the oak table beside him, and his face finally improved a little. Then, she looked at Kaia calmly with her purple eyes and continued:

"I would rather believe that the 'Daughter of Mechanism' has existed and was killed by someone, so it turned into a scattered piece of machinery. Because, I have seen a powerful man from the Klein family with "divine nature", whose name is Brett, can compete with the stronger 'crazy body' as a human being.

There is a young man named Wright Socra around him, hoping that the church has been investigating him and has been trying to cooperate with him. After all, he has extraordinary power beyond everything, the 'red magic power', and is a profession of the [orderer]. You should know that because of road barriers and temporary inspections, Socra's emblem has never been transported to the quiet highlands, and the yellow sand retreats, which means that the divine realm is opened. Only he, or those who control him, can enter the temple of gods behind the stone gate."

"By the way, Kaia. After the Socra explosion last year, didn't you catch former Prime Minister Hawley? Did he explain any information about Wright? I remember he was a member of the Socra Guards." Merinal asked.

"That fat guy..." Kaia recalled for a few seconds, sneered twice, and said:

"We got mad after being arrested. We were covered in dirty every day, like a wild boar rolling in the mud. We kept interrogating him, but we didn't say anything useful except saying "The God of Pramini will destroy me." I just died last month. I heard that it was because of panic that caused adrenaline rush and cardiopulmonary failure. Commonly known as "I was scared to death."

"I'm even more curious about his death, 'Pramini'. If I remember correctly, that word should mean 'fire' in Cruise German. You also know that the Sunnese Empire and the Cruise Empire culture are of the same origin, but we are more deeply influenced by Pusius and Putoya, and many ancient words related to the north have been no longer used."

"When it comes to flames, I feel that either he was scared crazy by the big explosion, or there were gods rebuking him in the dark. Cruzard history once recorded a god related to flames, which seemed to be called the 'Lord of Eternal Red'."

"I remember that history, too." Kaia said with interest:

"The north poet Gurgi also said that in the Second Age, a 'god brings flames' appeared in the Cruzd Empire.' The trees in the land where He passed turned red, and the ice in the extremely cold realm was melted. He was a gathering of all flames, and it was rumored that He could control the power of the sun.'"

"So, I think 'Plamini' is the synonym for that god. Kaia, can we still contact the people in the north now?" asked Melinar.

"It's hard." Kaia shook her head, "The 'Waves of Unintentional' is becoming more and more frequent. I don't expect that we will be able to get out of any stronghold in the future. Moreover, the situation in the north will only be worse than that of us. However, I promise you that you will try to send the 'Warriors' to break through the 'Warriors' blockade and strive to rebuild contact with the north."

"You have to worry, Kaia," said Melinar, bowing slightly to express his gratitude.

Then, she pulled open the wooden chair and continued to perfect her report based on the information provided by Kaia in front of the oak table.

It was busy until late at night that Melinar rubbed his dry eyes and was about to get up and leave.

Just as she was about to open the heavy iron door, Kaia, who had been waiting for several hours, was about to leave with her suddenly said:

"Miss Merinal, have you heard of the strange things that happened in the quiet highlands on the day His Highness Evante's death?"

"That's strange... strange?" Merina asked curiously.

"I heard that late that night, the Aerospace Army stationed in a nearby camp and dealing with the aftermath had heard the roar of wild beasts. A few of them were brave enough to go to the lake that was almost dry to check the situation. What do you think they saw?"

"What?"

"A monster with red eyes, wings, and covered with red light crawled out of the water. Only a few seconds later a chaotic light flashed, and the monster disappeared. I heard from the people of your hope church that it might be the messenger of the 'head of the dragon clan'."

"Dragon Clan... Head of the Head? I remember Seye showed his power, and it was indeed mainly based on flames." Merinal whispered:

"Is it possible that 'Plamini', the future chapter of this story, is about to begin?"

As she said that, she casually tore the information that Kaia printed for her and put it into a wastebasket.

With falling debris and heavy sounds of door closing, the lights on the bottom floor of the Parliament Building gradually went out.

The entire Shnetsk finally fell into the long, dark night again.
Chapter completed!