"We can discuss these matters later. I believe that regaining the mansion is much more important than the identity of an old man."
Ah, yes, the battle to retake the mansion isn't over yet.
I don't know what's going on with Perlis.
"Then we'll talk about it later," Pace said, clearing his throat and regaining his capable look, "Vance?"
"Yes!" Vans responded.
"You organize a few people to stay here and provide bandages and medical assistance to the wounded."
"Wait!" Vans was a little panicked when he heard that he had to stay. "I can still fight! I'm wearing a giant armor, I..."
"Because you can still fight, I need you to stay here to protect the wounded," Pace said calmly, "If the enemy has reinforcements, I hope you will live up to the name of Monark, understand?"
"what..."
While Vans was hesitating, Pace rushed forward and put his hands on his shoulders:
"I know you want to be a hero, but think about Lianna," Pace whispered, his eyes fixed on Vans, "These guys are important people, protect them, okay?"
"I see."
Vans's hesitant look gradually became firm. He nodded and then trotted away.
"Everyone else," Pace turned to the remaining guys who could still fight, "Follow me, to the first floor."
"Understood!" "Okay!"
Pace looked at the old butler, who nodded slightly in approval. Then, Pace pushed open the door of the wine cellar and led the group to the first floor.
......
5) The one who abandons, the one who is abandoned (Part 10)
Walking up the circular cellar stairs, Pace kept thinking about that question.
What will the battlefield look like after she sweeps it?
Pace recalled the battle at the Saint-Jial Hotel. The square was littered with the bodies of investigators, and the ground was soaked with blood. The white-haired girl, holding a sharp blade, stood silently among the corpses.
After experiencing a dogfight like a real Shura field, Pess finally realized how difficult it was to remain absolutely calm in the face of splattered blood, which made Perlis's image gradually become somewhat mysterious in Pess's mind. She was younger than Pess, but from her calm demeanor during the battle, it seemed that she had experienced battles far beyond what Pess could imagine.
Why would a little girl become the Blade of Babel?
As he was lost in thought, Pace gradually came to the end of the stairs. The familiar wooden door was right in front of him. Pace remembered that when he was a child, he often sneaked into the wine cellar through this door, and then secretly got some wine to take out and drink with Vans.
What would he see after he opened the door? Was it the same as the battle at the Saint-Germain Hotel, with blood all over the lobby? And corpses in every corner of the lobby?
Pace took a deep breath and opened the door, nervously preparing to face the bloody scene in front of him.
However, to Pace's surprise, there was no blood or corpse in the hall.
"Wha...what?"
Several soldiers with their limbs wrapped in gauze were leaning against the wall on one side of the hall, curled up. Most of them had their eyes closed quietly, looking unconscious.
She...didn't kill them?
Pace's eyes swept across the hall, and then he saw a table moved to the corner of the room. Beside the messy table, a soldier who looked like a teenager was bandaging the wound of an old soldier.
No! She had clearly rejected her previous childish and rude request, how could it be possible...
Is there something else going on? If these soldiers can still bandage her here, could it be that she has been killed by these soldiers...
Hearing the noise at the door of the wine cellar, the boy stood up quickly:
"Don't shoot! We surrender!"
Thom raised his hands and looked at Pace with a complicated expression.
Pace signaled to the men behind him to put down their weapons, but he still held the gun.
"who are you?"
Pace slowly approached Thom.
"Thom Nikolov," Thom replied, "belongs to the [Infinite Steel Legion]..."
"I know you're from the Legion, I mean... tell me what's going on here?"
Pace's chest was shrouded in an inexplicable panic. He hesitated for a moment, then changed his words:
"That girl with white hair, how is she?"
Pace stared at Tom. He was very afraid to hear that answer, afraid that Perlis had met with an accident.
Hearing "white-haired girl", Thom lowered his head slightly, his eyes avoided, and when he spoke, his voice became a little low:
"After defeating us, she went to the second floor and asked me to bandage the wounded, saying it was... a strange request from some idiot...?"
Thom smiled helplessly, not noticing Pace's momentary stunned expression, and spoke to himself:
"You are from the Monarch family, right? She has defeated me. Although I hope you can show mercy, but... we are at your mercy."
"Useless traitor." The old soldier next to him spat viciously at the ground, but Tom ignored him.
Pace stared blankly at Tom, who looked ready to die, and then he looked at the group of injured soldiers leaning against the wall.
Then, without any warning, Pace covered his face and laughed softly:
“Hehehe…Hehehe…”
I really didn't expect that Perlis, who was full of great power, ended the battle without killing anyone. On the contrary, I, who was full of righteousness and morality and considered myself kind, was covered in blood in that cellar and only barely survived.
Kindness has always been the privilege of the strong. In comparison, the "kindness" demanded by the weak is nothing more than a kind of self-righteous moral kidnapping.
It was because a weak person like him took advantage of a strong person like Perlis that he was able to successfully take back the family mansion.
He accused Perlis of "bringing the internal strife of the Federation to Thebes", but what about him? Didn't Pace Monarch involve a little girl who was seeking revenge for her father in the struggle of his own family?
“Hehehe…hahahaha…”
Pace laughed dryly a few times, but under Tom's intense gaze, the smile on Pace's face quickly disappeared. He raised his head and spoke:
"Old man, take five of your brothers with you and escort them to the cellar. After they are all bandaged, lock them up in the dungeon as hostages."
"Understood, young master."
"I still have some things to do, take care of Vans."
"what...."
The old butler looked at Pace meaningfully and sighed imperceptibly. He obviously knew what Pace was going to do next.
"Young master, be careful. You may not be able to withstand the wrath of the Blade of Babel."
"But I have to go."
Pace turned his head and looked directly into the old butler's eyes.
"I owe her an explanation."
The mansion had been successfully recaptured, and the [Pure White Fireworks] was probably somewhere in the mansion, waiting for him.
What would be waiting for him? A knife with a flashing red light? Pace didn't know, but he knew that no matter what it was, it was the result he had to bear.
......
Climbing the stairs and walking through the corridor on the second floor, Pace came to the master bedroom that once belonged to his father. After opening the door, he saw a ruin in front of him.
“How… could…”
Half of the roof of the house was blown off by some huge explosion, and the strong wind mixed with snowflakes blew into the house and hit Pace in the face.
Crossing the ruins, Pace held onto the broken wall and looked out the window.
In the midst of the snow and wind, the [Angels] and the [Pure White Fireworks] are engaging in the final battle.
......
"Ah ah ah ah ah!!"
Ye Lina roared and rushed towards Perlis, raised the sword high in both hands, and slashed at the pure white figure fiercely. Perlis just dodged it with a slight flash. The sword hit the ground with an explosion.
"Face me!!"
Yelena roared, she swung the sword in her hand from the ground and slashed horizontally, but was dodged by Perlis again.
In the midst of the blizzard, Yelena swung the sword in her hand like crazy, while Perlis just dodged silently with no expression on her calm face.
Ye Lina's face gradually became hideous, and the sword in her hand became heavier and heavier, but she did not want to give up, even though she could not reach the girl in front of her at all, even though her vision became increasingly blurred.
"Om-"
The great sword tore through the air, making a violent explosion, but it still couldn't touch Perlis at all. For some reason, ever since Ye Lina told her about her brother, Perlis never took the initiative to attack again. She just waited silently, waiting for a certain moment to come.
"Face me!!!" Yelena screamed hysterically, the sword in her hand moving without stopping, "Kill me!! Just like you killed Lesev!!"
Ye Lina raised the sword high above her head, and with all her strength, she smashed it hard on the ground.
“Bang!!!——”
The factor energy explosion tore the ground apart, stirring up a cloud of white snow dust. Due to the lack of factor energy supply in the air, this explosion was completely inferior to the strength of [Hors].
When the snow dust cleared, Perlis was still standing not far away, her blood-red eyes faintly glowing in the blurry snow and wind.
Ye Lina bent over, panting. The pain in her body had finally reached a point where she could no longer ignore it. She didn't know how long she could hold on, but she already roughly knew what her ending would be.
"Dome Wing... Check... Check the integrity of the aircraft..."
"Integrity level.., severely damaged..."
The damage from the fall after her wings were broken by Perlis was indeed very serious. Yelena did not think that she could still escape by relying on the broken dome wings. There was almost only one way in front of her.
Fight to the end.
Ye Lina gritted her teeth and decided to use her final trump card.
"Import the factor energy stored in the wings to [Hors]."
"Executing..."
Along with the sound of machinery, a catheter popped out from the damaged center of the wings behind Ye Lina. Ye Lina inserted the catheter into the hilt of the greatsword, and blue light gradually poured in.
Even though she can no longer fly, there is still a lot of energy stored in her wings. With this last reserve of energy, Yelena may be able to turn the tide of the battle.
As if seeing through Yelena, Perlis suddenly walked towards her slowly. There was still no expression on her face, but her eyes were fixed on Yelena's sword.
The charging was completed quickly, and the blue light on Yelina's only remaining wing gradually faded. The tip of the sword unfolded again, shining with blue factor energy.
Yelena stared at Perlis with gnashing teeth. In her resolute anger, she raised her great sword that shone with blue light and roared in the raging wind:
“Hors!!”
A blue light gushed out, transforming into a factor energy bullet that whizzed towards Perlis.
"Bam—"
Perlis concentrated her mind, and the world in front of her gradually slowed down. She watched the whistling factor energy bullet and gently patted the factor bracelet. With the factor potential energy, Perlis bounced out like a bullet, sticking to the ground, and passed through the gap between the factor energy bullet and the ground.
"Buzz-"
While flying close to the ground, Perlis turned slightly and faced the sky. The factor energy bullet was right above her, brushing past her. She could feel the heat - the heat emitted by the restless factor energy was being transmitted to her cheek through the factor shield.
After passing the factor energy bomb, Perlis turned around again, stepped on the ground with both feet, and lightly tapped her toes, and passed by Yelina.
"Hmm..?"
Before the factor energy bullet even reached its landing point, Perlis had already rushed to Ye Lina's side. Ye Lina naturally had no time to react. When the factor energy exploded and emitted a blue halo at the landing point, Ye Lina suddenly felt a sharp pain in her waist.
“Ahaha..ah..?”
Perlis stood beside Yelena with her back to her. The butterfly knife flashing with strong factor energy was held in Perlis's hand and stabbed into Yelena's waist.
The stinging pain from the wound gradually turned into numbness, and the numbness gradually spread to Yelena's legs. Like a puppet with its strings cut, Yelena knelt in the snow, her eyes wide open in astonishment.
Perlis tilted her head slightly and looked silently at the "Angel" kneeling in the snow. She then drew her knife and warm blood splashed on the snow.
"Ahem..."
Ye Lina spat out a mouthful of warm blood, which fell on the snow and melted a small gap in the flat snow.
Perlis slowly walked up to Yelena and pointed the tip of the knife at her neck. Yelena raised her head and looked at Perlis.
