Chapter 281: Flesh and flesh are weak, machines soar
A bold young man with great strength.

Andrew looked at the image in front of him and said lightly.

Pallas City
City Lord’s Mansion

This is the core of the city of Pallas and its 147 surrounding towns and villages.

It is located on a tributary of the Raven River that runs through the northern continent. One can go south or east through this tributary, so it is considered to be a major transportation route.

Therefore, this place became an important strategic point in the empire’s steam strategy.

Therefore, he, Lucien Andrew, a famous war knight in Char, was chosen by the king to be the city lord here.

However, what happened today once again proved one thing: the steam revolution envisioned by His Majesty the King may not develop as steadily as he imagined.

The reason is the extraordinary people.

In this world, the birth of extraordinary people can have a fixed inheritance, such as organizations that have been passed down for hundreds or thousands of years. They have perfect means of advancement, power systems, combat systems, and systems for dealing with other extraordinary forces.

But such an organization also owns a large amount of assets.

This is their weak spot, they are easy to control.

What is difficult to control are these extraordinary people who suddenly appear among the people.

For example, right now there is a little guy in the sky, using an airship to forcibly spread the name of a guardian spirit throughout the radiation range of the entire city of Pallas.

Through the radar network installed on each airship, he was able to capture the opponent’s traces. Although this was not a real picture, the information was actually more complete.

So he made the comment just now.

This little guy is undoubtedly the orthodox representative of randomly awakening extraordinary powers, based on his own investigation and the traces he left behind.

A few days ago, he was a beggar in another city.

But now, he was able to withstand the airship’s steam weapons head-on.

Well, that’s nothing.

As the city lord, he can do the same.

The point is, the plan is for all extraordinary people.

If the empire wants to rise and maximize the steam revolution, the most important issue it needs to deal with is supernatural power.

How to control these extraordinary powers.

It is impossible to destroy them all, unless you kill all humans.

Otherwise, they will be like fruits, one after another, and the more cruelly you suppress them, the more fiercely the extraordinary people born in this environment will resist. Then one day, an extraordinary person who is powerful enough to be unreasonable will kill everything in the past as quickly as possible.

This is not storytelling.

This is something that has already happened.

How do you think the empire was established?
The first King Char was that man.

Therefore, the empire has always been ambiguous in its attitude towards the extraordinary people. Even the first king was very clear about this truth. If you force them too much, it will have the opposite effect.

However, when the great alchemist Watt combined the steam engine with supernatural power.

The wheel of time began to roll.

All walks of life have burst into vigorous vitality with the intervention of steam engines, but at the same time, various forces and organizations centered on extraordinary people have also begun to become active and have seriously affected the order of this country.

What should I do?

The answer given by the king he was currently loyal to, Char VI, was:

The state cannot personally engage in inciting hatred.

In order to let the extraordinary people fight each other, all the country has to do is to designate an area for them to fight.

Or to be more precise, the state has to play a morally justifiable role here.

We don’t care about the fights between extraordinary people, but ordinary people cannot be involved.

Originally, capitalists should also be included here.

But it was crossed out by the king.

The reason is very simple. Capitalists have always been in a state of integration with supernatural powers, and you are in that circle yourself.

Of course, the result of doing so is that the empire will have to give up some of its interests, and this part of the interest is the supervision of capitalists. The state will not interfere in their research involving extraordinary events.

It sounds like a risky plan, but on the contrary, it is the safest one, because if you want to do research, you need people, and if you need people, the country can send people in.

What the country is afraid of is never such organizations, because all your progress is being watched under the country’s nose.

What the country fears are those extraordinary people who suddenly appear.

So, where do these extraordinary people come from?
There seems to have been some progress on the part of the National Alchemy Society.

In short, part of it is really due to the unique physical conditions.

But this is a very small minority.

What is truly more is the extraordinary characteristics of the extraordinary people.

That is the so-called soul of a transcendent person.

After they die, their souls turn into characteristics and float between heaven and earth. They will randomly attach themselves to lucky people, giving them powerful powers. Then, after the lucky people die, the characteristics will continue to float, over and over again.

Let’s take the young boy as an example again. After he awakened his superpowers, he basically became a different person. His knowledge and conversation are not what an uneducated beggar should have.

Of course, this is getting off topic.

Those things were not his responsibility. As the mayor of this city appointed by the king, his responsibility was to maintain order.

That is, perfect and unwavering execution of Char VII’s orders.
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“Her name is Holo, and she is the Harvest Wolf.”

“Her name is Holo, and she is the Harvest Wolf.”

Above Pallas, these words kept repeating, like noise.

Below the airship is the image of Holo, which is a photography technology achieved through some new alchemy.

“Are you sure they are still on the airship?”

“Yes, our people are always monitoring.”

On the ground, a man with golden hair looked up at the airship in the sky.

He and the deceased Holland were both adopted sons of Mr. Salmon.

The reason I came here was naturally to help Mr. Saruman resolve the crisis.

They have a professional team and can easily analyze the other party’s strategic objectives.

Gather enough power for the guardian spirit, then distort other people’s cognition and carry out a targeted assassination of Mr. Salmon.

Although he thought that this plan was impossible to succeed, because every inch of land where Mr. Salmon lived contained the Forbidden Magic Stone, but, as the folk saying of the Char Empire goes, you can only be a bandit for a thousand days, but you can’t stop a bandit for a thousand days.

Therefore, they naturally want to nip the danger in the bud.

“Launch.”

“Yes!”

After receiving the order from the blond man, a steam cannon was pushed out.

The metal gun body gleamed coldly in the sunlight.

This thing existed originally to deal with the enemy’s defensive barriers. It has special alchemical shells and is a definite contraband.

However, the only reason why something is contraband is that you didn’t pay enough, at least in Char. So, Saruman spent a high price to get one from the city defense army.

And it is equipped with a high concentration of anti-magic bombs.

Once this bomb explodes, all supernatural powers within its blast range will be completely wiped out. Even if your body has strong defensive capabilities, it will be useless, because this defensive capability itself is also a manifestation of supernatural powers.

The only price is that once the shells are fired, the airship will explode in the sky and countless debris will fall.

But it doesn’t matter, these can all be settled with money.

“emission!”

“Oh!”

A muffled sound. Yes, a muffled sound.

This is also why Saruman seems so fearless.

The firing of this steam cannon relies on the extraordinary properties of steam pressure. Not only is the initial velocity of the firing fast, but the noise is also low. If no one is paying attention, no one will notice it.

Three seconds later.

In the sky, the airship that was shouting Holo’s name suddenly exploded.

Under the destructive power of the anti-magic bomb, it seemed as if a small sun appeared in the sky.

Then came the blazing wind, blowing almost all over the city of Pallas from top to bottom.
Then, countless debris flew everywhere and fell to the ground.
“do you died?”

the blond man asked.

“Under observation.”

At one side, a wizard who also mastered the Eagle Eye Technique was staring at the sky. His eyes were glowing blue, a sign of having used the Eagle Eye Technique to its fullest potential.

After a long time, the dust cleared.
“Nothing. Unless the other party has the ability to teleport instantly, otherwise, he should be reduced to ashes.”

“Do a good job of post-war search.”

After a moment’s silence, the blond man said.

“Yes!”
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The Forbidden Magic Castle.

The blond man saw Saruman.

A man in his late sixties, but he looks only forty because he has been studying how to increase his lifespan.

As one of the earliest new aristocrats, he stood at the forefront and accumulated a huge amount of wealth.

At the same time, he has excellent vision.

When the empire first introduced the steam engine, he bet all his assets on it, and since then he has been completely financially free.

After that, his main goal in life was to increase his lifespan and gain extraordinary powers.

After all, he also knew that without enough power to protect your wealth, the so-called rich people and the so-called nobles were nothing more than pigs in the eyes of power.

In fact, the reason why he spent so much money to build all this was, after all, for this reason.

“Godfather, according to our search, the other party should be completely dead, and the crisis should be resolved. So, what should we do with Sophia in the Rose Tavern?”

“Leave him alone.”

Saruman shook his head.

“That woman has a lot of power behind her. Don’t provoke her unless necessary.”

“Yes.”

“You go down.”

“Yes.”

The blond man turned around and walked out.

Then, a hand pierced through his chest directly, and a beating heart was dug out and crushed with a “pop”.

“Hey? Interesting, how did you find out?”

The blond man, no, it should be said that it was Li Zhongren, who slowly turned around and looked at Saruman who had pulled his hand out of his chest and stepped back more than ten steps, and asked curiously.

“I asked myself, my disguise shouldn’t be a big problem, after all, I have obtained the memories of your adopted son through Holo’s power.”

“intuition.”

Saruman shook the blood off his hands and looked at Li Zhongren’s chest. It was visibly that his heart was growing again and the wounds that had penetrated through his body were healing at an extremely fast speed. However, this was his Forbidden Magic Castle. In the room, even the air was filled with Forbidden Magic dust.

“You are the real deal. You are able to maintain your extraordinary strength here? How did you do it?”

“Then tell me first, how did you do it?”

Li Zhongren shook his neck and the wound on his chest had completely healed.

“To pierce a person’s sternum with one hand is not something a 60-year-old person can do.”

“what.”

Saruman narrowed his eyes and smiled.

“The flesh and blood are weak and the machine ascends!!”

As he spoke, he rushed directly towards Li Zhongren. His speed and strength were so great that he didn’t look like a sixty-year-old man, but rather like a group of galloping elephants!

“Oh!”

Faced with such a speed, Li Zhongren was knocked flying and hit the wall heavily, and his chest collapsed.

However, immediately, the collapsed chest and broken limbs healed themselves rapidly.

This scene made Saruman narrow his eyes slightly.

This is not a habit, but he is analyzing.

What he called the weakness of flesh and blood and the ascension of machinery were nothing but empty words.

This is a statement.

In his sixth year of studying the supernatural, a religion calling itself the Mechanicus found him and convinced him.

So he subjected himself to transformation.

Now, he only looks like a human on the outside, but in fact, he has turned into a machine on the inside. The power of this machine will not be affected by the magic-forbidden stone. At the same time, it also gives him the power of a monster.

But as cautious as he is, even so, he would not leave his castle at will, because the transformation is not perfect.

He needed to replenish his energy regularly, and he could not avoid those means targeting the soul if he left here.

Of course, the upside to all this is.

He possessed powerful strength and some special alchemy methods. For example, his eyes could analyze the opponent’s intelligence. This was why he immediately discovered that the blond man in front of him was no longer his adopted son.

But now, the other party’s situation made him feel a little strange.

Under the influence of the Forbidden Magic Stone, the opponent’s body is just that of an ordinary person, but it just happens to have extraordinary properties, such as this super strong self-healing ability.
“Interesting, interesting”

After a moment, Saruman’s hesitation turned into surprise.

This kind of vigorous vitality is exactly what he needs.

Because the biggest limitation of the Mechanicus now is that they cannot separate the soul from the brain. In other words, his brain is still flesh and blood, and the brain of flesh and blood, even if immersed in a special solution, can only live for about two hundred years at most.

If he could find out why this man was able to heal so quickly, did that mean he could live forever?
(End of this chapter)