Steel steam and flame

Partial silence fell here for half a minute, and the surrounding gunshots and explosions became more numerous after that.

On the street that was hit with a deep dent, the base of the collapsed street lamp occasionally flashed a string of sparks and quickly disappeared. Lowell's body, which was nearly three meters high, lay silently on the edge of the street. No one came here to calculate how much time had passed until a very small sound came. Not long after, a team of five people came from the alleyway. He jumped out, looked around in confusion, and finally gathered around the body that had unknowingly been covered with light green blood.

Without breaking the silence here, the five people only communicated through their eyes. Two of them left first, and the remaining three barely covered Lowell's body with two body bags, briefly cleaned up the blood stains on the ground, and then left with the body.

The battle in the distance is coming to an end at the same time, but only a few people know the outcome. Whether one party retreated or a certain party was annihilated to the point where it could not organize its last strength to resist, there is bound to be no answer in a short time.

This area originally looked deserted compared to other parts of the city, and the night quickly took effect, returning the place to what it looked like shortly after nightfall. It was not a dead state, but it did have a tendency to get that way.

After the entire area was completely quiet, it was already late at night, and then people who merged into the darkness began to run around, collecting necessary information and traces, sorting out what happened, and what the final result was. ending. But the time seemed to pass very quickly that night, so that many people felt that the sky turned white and gray only for a short while, and it soon reached early morning.

Order seems to have never been lost here. Under the weak sunshine in the morning, the city is just like yesterday, with a weak upward vitality.

,,,,,,

It was still the residential area where we met that night, still in the green space like a small park. Zero looked away from Sicia and looked towards the direction of the sun hidden behind the clouds. His eyes were wide open and his pupils shrank regardless of the intensity of the light.

"Coordinating and integrating the power of small countries sounds difficult to achieve, and there will definitely be various obstacles in the process of action. Among the four forces in the empire, there are many members of big families who treat small countries as their back gardens. Most of the successors will focus on the interior of the empire and gather their own supporters and forces as quickly as possible, but they will allocate a little energy and occasionally visit the small countries."

"It's like a back garden. When you are tired, go for a walk to relieve the stress on your body. Small countries do have this attribute. They are not as good as the three giant countries in all aspects. The level of the surgeons is also the same. They can keep up. It has always been a minority. However, the reason why they become like the back garden is not because the total power is not enough." Sicia continued, but the control at the moment was taken over by Cassia.

Zero retracted his gaze and looked at the sun: "There are too many small countries, so they are too scattered." Seeing Sisia nodding, he fell into thinking. After a while, he asked, "Do you want to give it to the queen?" Garden' to add some intensity?"

"I prefer to call it 'screening', which can be achieved through actions at present. Some of the obstacles at the branches can be cleared away without having to clear them all. After the situation changes, their nature can also change from obstacles to Help. The only thing that can stop the forward momentum will come from the three giant countries.”

"I won't be the one to coordinate and integrate the small countries. I don't have the strength, rights, or reputation. If I want to accumulate them, especially the latter two, they all require the accumulation of time. In order to cope with the special era that is coming in the future, I only need to I can choose to use something that already exists. It is a coincidence that I happen to have a cooperative relationship with a big force that can coordinate and integrate many small countries. So thinking about it for a moment, what I need to do is actually not That’s a lot.”

"However, due to my current state, it is very difficult to make a good start for this plan, and it will be even more difficult to deal with the troublesome obstacles in the future. It will take some time, and you can You know, the effect of me staying in the dark for a long time is far better than me being exposed."

"And you and I are both in the transitional period towards the fourth stage. Paying attention to your own evolutionary path will also take away some of your attention later. Taking advantage of this period, making a rough framework can also allow us to smoothly communicate with you in the future. Connect it."

"I agree with your plan. If it can be implemented step by step, it can act as a check and balance." After thinking about it, No. 0 said, "I will provide you with as much help as possible."

In the end, he agreed. After weighing many things, Zero still wanted to maintain the unilateral helping relationship that had only started for a few days and turn it into a cooperation.

"I should be able to learn a lot of knowledge from it, some things that cannot be expressed in detail in books. However, I don't know how long I can stay in the small country. What impact will the death of the two monsters of the Flame Alliance have? It's still It’s impossible to predict, after all, the news hasn’t fully spread yet.”

"In addition, I think that in addition to the forces of the three giant countries, the arrival of people from the Theocracy and the Nature Association should also cause huge deviations in your plan later. Several groups of people have officially arrived in the Later Phase Continent. Although there are currently no major scope of operations, but it is an established fact that we will encounter them in the future.”

"For these people, it will be very inconvenient for me to move because of the cooperation between my father Torvillest and the Holy Emperor Hall and other forces. You need to know this in advance."

Cassia immediately shook Sisia's head: "When this situation occurs, I am already a alone person operating in the dark, so there is no need to worry about this aspect. The current difficult period will be in the next few Within a month. As long as we can get through it smoothly and complete the basic framework, the rest will seem natural."

"After that, I will be here waiting for the person you mentioned to contact me." No. 0 replied solemnly and solemnly, "Finally, I also hope that your journey in the past few months will go well. You can have a quiet time with me. There is probably no one else I can talk to besides you."

"There are monsters like us in the Theocracy and the Nature Association. It is said that they are the successors to the power of the Knight King class."

"I know, but they will never be willing to sit down and talk like you." Zero sighed, with helplessness on his face, "Compared with the upcoming six Red Stars, I am actually looking forward to the Three-Phase Continental Conference after the Red Stars are over. What does it look like?”

"There will definitely be a long period of peace, I think."