Civilization: Beyond Two Worlds

"All the combatants of the Azure Fleet, stop where you are, put your heads in your hands, squat down, stop all military operations, repeat, stop all military operations, you have been captured, you have been captured!"

Strict ultimatum swept across the blue sea, gunships and modified air gunships hovered at low altitude and made huge noises. Under the leadership of the knight Astolfo, the naval fleet composed of green-skinned battleships and missile speedboats jumped out of the white fog world. , the engine roared, cutting into the formation of the blue fleet.

The extremely fast missile boats shuttled back and forth between the battleships of the Azure Fleet, the 30mm automatic guns turned back and forth, always vigilant against hostile attacks, and the pre-recorded audio of the captives persuaded to surrender was constantly played in the loudspeaker, telling the fellow villagers that His Royal Highness Kant treats the prisoners preferentially, No beating, no scolding, and drinking.

At the request of an unnamed Earthling, even the traditional song of the council was added.

And their task is not just to shout and persuade to surrender.

When approaching the large warship to persuade to surrender, the tail of the missile boat quietly dropped buoys branded with space beacons, and the despicable stranger still prepared for the worst.

Once the persuasion to surrender fails and the Azure Fleet is stubbornly resisting, the sudden appearance of a one-ton anchor mine will teach these sailing battleships how to make ships.

This trick is called the Chrono Bomb, and it was learned from the Allies.

On the periphery of the azure fleet, the green-skinned battleships have already grabbed the T-word.

"Generous Boris", "Loyal Donald", "Dutiful Son Justin", "Blessing Morrison"... These modern freighters that have urgently deployed war platforms and completed magic transformation will become the The main force used by the shogunate navy for area denial and offshore attacks.

The large and small automatic turrets lined up like hedgehogs were aimed at the frightened azure fleet, the containers on the center line of the deck were deformed and unfolded, the dense rocket nests were lifted and turned, and their angles were adjusted. The specially installed "roar loud" sonic deterrent device sent out a gut-wrenching howl, which was part of the psychological warfare.

Just the fact that several green-skinned battleships took an offensive stance caused panic and screams from the blue fleet.

After all, they don't know anything about Kant's "alchemy stuff", and their aesthetics and cognition are still at the stage of "big is beautiful, big is strong". Far better than Ah Fu, and even bigger than the council fleet, it looks really scary.

"Surrender! Surrender! Surrender!"

The flagship has not issued an order for a long time, and the second-ranked ship refused to take over the command.

The Azure Fleet, which was originally the main force of the navy and deployed in the western seas to fight against the naval forces of the Dusk Moon Dynasty, has been demoralized and has become a vulnerable rabble.

No honor, no courage.

Most of the brave and upright among them have been squeezed out to the death squads, captured by the Broken Isles, the most powerful military assets have also been transferred away by the council for various reasons, and the souls of the fleet have also been removed for various reasons. Such calculations and persecution are disheartening, and although the remaining fleet still maintains a very strong scale and force, it has become a tragic arrogance.

Because there is no belief, no belief, so vulnerable.

"This fleet is completely doomed..."

The helicopter swept across the sea, dropped beacons, and the Chapter soldiers in power armor and implanted with paradox chips jumped out, the steel boots stepped on the deck, and Querion led his good brothers to board a ship. The warship of the Council, as an elite of the Royal Navy, he saw the reality of this warship at a glance.

Different from the stupid, big, black, and rough of the Army Chapter, the Navy Chapter's power armor style is commensurate with the beauty of its commander. The body is modified, and the performance and aesthetics coexist. It is more lightweight and flexible, and is suitable for the naval combat environment.

The navy soldiers who boarded the ship wore white armor, and the full-coverage helmet was as transparent as an astronaut's helmet. The band's standard bearer who followed Querion suddenly inserted the spear in his hand, and the halo of the spear tip circulated, stretching out to be transparent. Floating element light flags, flowing and elegant light spots, swept between the sea and the sky.

Querion said sharply: "At the orders of His Royal Highness Kant and Marshal Astolfo, our department is ordered to capture your ship! Now an ultimatum is issued, the magic core will be shut down, all personnel will leave the combat positions, go to the deck to gather, and the ballistas will be disarmed. , the magic device is turned off, the ship commander reports to me!"

Soldiers with machine guns strode forward to demonstrate deterrence.

The roar of the elf shook the soldiers who looked at each other: "You should have been buried under the forbidden curse. It was His Highness Kant's mercy that gave you a chance to live. Our army treats the captives favorably. I order you to immediately surrender to the Aurora Dragon, otherwise , the chance that His Highness Kant gave you, I will take it back for him!"

The shelling in the distance sounded at the right time, and everyone turned to look. Not far away, there was a warship that chose to resist. People saw the streamer shining from the bow of the ship rushed into the sky, and several body transitions disappeared. The next moment, the blooming flames engulfed the whole. A battleship, the sails raised were burnt by the intense fire, the huge battleship burst from the inside, and minced meat, wood chips and flames flew in all directions.

A new order sounded on the communication channel, and Querion shouted: "You saw it! The soldiers of that battleship were willing to surrender, but their captain insisted on resisting, and everyone's life was ruined by one's ignorance - soldiers, if you still want to see By the sun tomorrow, make your own choice!

The crowd went from silence to riot, and the crowd was turbulent. After a long while, the captain walked out with a sigh.

"Your Excellency, I surrender to you on behalf of the Red Fire Fierce Flame. I hope that His Royal Highness Kant will keep his promise and treat the soldiers of this ship kindly. They..."

"Come on, Mage." Querion said lightly, "Your Highness Kant's kindness and compassion, you should know better than me, otherwise how dare you brazenly come to the Broken Sea to grab things one after another?"

The other party froze for a moment, then sighed sadly.

Soon, the news of the surrender of the Red Fire Fierce Flame spread throughout the ships and became the first domino.

"No surrender!"

The flagship roared with an exasperated roar from the Oxington Senator.

"Idiot! Why surrender!" he roared at the herald, "Order the ships to move closer to me! Tell them! Unconditional surrender is worthless! Even if it is surrender, negotiate the terms! Idiots! Let them not go privately. Surrender! Let me talk! Let me talk!"

The messenger tremblingly issued the order of the core councilor to the entire fleet, but involuntarily glanced not far away, where Commander Nicias was guarding against the wall, looking scarred and exhausted. The hunters surrounded her, and no one dared to step forward.

Senator Oxington's scalp was numb and his body trembled. He was born in a prestigious family, and his life was smooth and smooth, and he hardly suffered any setbacks until today's critical situation.

The situation was deflected several times, the teleportation array was accidentally destroyed, and he was trapped in the dangerous city of the blue fleet.

about to become a prisoner of Kant.

Oh shit.

Oops.

damn it.

Ruined.

How could such a thing happen!

He ripped off his collar, his eyes were red, and he was gasping for breath like a mad bull.

— Don't get me wrong, he wasn't afraid that Kant would kill him.

After all, he is the core member of the Austrian Law Council, one of the ruling members, has a big family, and has enormous power. Killing him will cause no harm. Kant will not do such meaningless stupid things, not to mention that he knows in his heart that Kant kills people. It has always been reasonable. What he did at Oxington was just a game at the national level, and it did not cause any loss to Kant. The Aurora people had no reason to kill him.

Being arrested and imprisoned by Kant, the result was nothing more than slaughtering with a knife, bleeding some blood, and being blackmailed.

That's not the point of the question at all.

The point is that he was captured.

Because he was captured in the Broken Sea, captured in the Azure Fleet!

That means political responsibility.

The annihilation of an entire main fleet is enough to shake the council's homeland defense and sea power interests, and can trigger an earth-shattering chain reaction. It is conceivable that when Senator Oxington was captured in the Broken Sea, the core members Especially how the dove idiots will rejoice.

They will put all the responsibility for leadership and command on Oxington's head, and let him bear all the blame for the downfall of a main fleet.

-if not? Can't let the entire Starry Sky Court be responsible for this?

Therefore, it is almost 100% certain that during the time when Oxington was captured and imprisoned, the Starry Court would quickly reach a consensus and bring down the stone, and put all the major responsibilities caused by decision-making mistakes and serious consequences to him. , and then join forces to carve up the political interests and family interests of the Oxington family to stop everyone's mouths... In other words, everything will be over!

Thinking of this, Oxington was extremely regretful and should have retreated immediately!

Who would have thought that this little girl would suddenly go crazy!

Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth with hatred, looked at Nicias who was stubbornly resisting, and wanted to bite her to death—it was all because she ordered the destruction of the teleportation formation, which made me end up in this field!

But he dared not.

Now that the forbidden spell has ended, Kant's sea and air forces have rushed in and announced the capture of the entire fleet. The fate has changed so bizarrely that in the blink of an eye, the key to the matter has changed again.

It has changed from "grabbing Nysias by force to force Kant to stop the forbidden spell" to "how to explain to the Aurora people that we were just beating his concubine".

"Ni... Commander Nicias."

He opened his mouth, and his voice changed from sluggish to smooth, with an apologetic and sincere look on his face.

Politicians, not shabby.

"We need to talk," said the Oxington MP.

Miss Admiral, who was leaning against the wall, sneered, the forbidden spell stopped, and the fleet's arrival did not make her show any hope and hope, and her whole person exuded a gloomy and dead aura.

She said lightly, "What are you talking about?"

Senator Oxington motioned for the troopers to step back: "I think, this matter should end, and everyone deserves a decent result... I want to congratulate you on finally getting out of this unpleasant time, I I also know that we have done a lot of excessive things to you, I'm sorry, I'm willing to try to make up for it, but the most important issue right now is not this..."

He said sincerely: "You should know how serious the consequences will be if the entire fleet is captured. The fleet you once commanded will be revoked, the glorious history of the entire fleet will be disgraced, and the council and the far port will be disgraced. The contradiction between the two will be more intensified, and there will even be a war, would you like to see this?"

"I'm not asking for too much, just a chance to talk to Kant... A decent surrender, a decent end, putting everything under the table, and for that, I'm willing to give you any compensation I can, oh yes, also With your father, your family, the Senator of Oxington will form an eternal iron alliance with the Syracuse family, and I will marry my dearest daughter to your brother..."

He took Anthony's hand, and the man looked at his daughter eagerly.

Before Nicias could speak, Senator Oxington scolded: "Don't step back! Bring the best potion! Lord Commander needs treatment!"

The hunters took out the potions, and Senator Oxington stuffed them into Anthony's hands, smiling like a spring breeze, sincerely and sincerely: "Dear Anthony, go and see your daughter."

Anthony hesitated, but he still walked towards Nicias with a smile on his face, but he avoided his daughter's gaze a little bit, and even he would feel guilty about some things.

"...Come on." He looked at Nishias, who was scarred and stained with blood, and said softly, "Anyway, let's take care of the injury first."

Miss Admiral's eyes were fixed and she was silent.

Anthony wanted to put the potion in, hesitated for a moment, sighed, squatted down, and put them beside his feet: "You can use telekinesis to take it yourself, I taught you..."

When Nicias heard this, the situation of the past came to her mind. What her father really taught her was to use mental power to transform reality into power to capture objects from the air. At that time, she could only manipulate a spoon to turn over. Go, but her father can control her to fly around. At that time, she was held in mid-air by an invisible force, sometimes rolling, sometimes flying, her screams and laughter mixed with her father's laughter, how happy.

At that time, the father was still an ambitious and promising genius mage, so he didn't have much obsession with nurturing his daughter, and the occasional lectures were relaxed and enjoyable.

When did things start to change?

Father's voice seemed to be far away.

"Kant will send someone to pick you up in a while. I know that you hate me, and I won't be able to control you in the future. You are in the far port, so take it easy, don't… ah, forget it."

He put down the potion, got up, glanced at his daughter, sighed, and turned to leave.

Oxington listened from a distance. Hearing that the **** didn't persuade him, he was angry, but he didn't dare to scold him. He could only continue to smile on his face and nodded to Anthony to show his approval.

"the last time…"

But then, he heard Nicias whisper: "You won't be able to reach it in the future."

-Good for you! Anthony! Is this also in your plan!

Oxington cheered loudly in his heart, and immediately shouted: "Go and get the communication device!"

Although it was impossible to contact Kant directly, it was possible to contact the surrendered fleet through the chain of command, and they would relay the request for a secret meeting.

The Arcane hunters took over the communicator and carefully sent it over with telekinesis. Even the strong soldiers of the Legal Department felt guilty at the moment, because the Dragon of Aurora was famous, and beat the elves so badly for his Goethe horse. , and a few of them have just beaten Kant's council horses with their own hands, which is not bad.

Everyone was nervous and looking forward to it, but none of them noticed Nicias' strange mental state - there was no light and expectation in Miss Commander's eyes, and she was still as deadly as melancholy.

Nishias stared at the communicator sent in front of her, silent for a moment, with a smile on her face.

She bowed slowly, trying to pick it up.

At this moment, the wind was surging, the wind wall roared up, the electric light stabbed, and the Arcane hunters roared loudly, but the instant spells that could be hurriedly issued were blocked by the wind wall, while everyone relaxed and looked forward to it. In an instant, the attacker suddenly succeeded, and Nicias was seriously injured and could not escape.

The staff with powerful energy pressed against the commander's neck, the attacker clamped her hands, his eyes were gloomy, he looked at the shocked and angry crowd, and slowly "bah".

"Fuck you," he said savagely, "Fuck you, a decent ending."

Oxington growled: "Osco! What do you want to do?"

"You son of a bitch, what are you calling me for!" Special Envoy Osko was mad, "You want a decent surrender and a decent result, so what should I do? Kant will let you go, but Kant can let me go. What about your promise? Can you protect me? You tell me, how can I survive!?"

Oxington burst into anger: "What do you want! Don't be impulsive! Speak well?"

"What do I want?"

Osko's voice was hoarse and grinned: "Damn, I'm going to die! Kant is going to kill me, I can't run away, what do you think I'm going to do? You **** MP, use me, treat me like a dog, Let me do this and that, I'll let you run, you don't **** run! In the end, it's at this point, and it will kill me!"

He said this, howling and howling like a madman.

"Hahahaha, **** it! Don't you want to live? You despicable, selfish, stupid, pathetic scum, don't you count on this watch to intercede for you and let Kant spare your life?"

He laughed wildly: "Then I kill him now, can you still live! You can't live anymore!"

"-Do not impulse!"

Oxington's heart was broken, and he continued: "You can live! You can live! Nicias, intercede for him! Can His Highness Kant spare his life? You talk!"

Special Envoy Osco trembled, and he actually didn't want to die.

Nishias raised her head indifferently, maybe Osco's words just stimulated her, she looked at everyone present, everyone was like a concubine, terrified, familiar, unfamiliar, father, stranger, The high-ranking councilor, the unworthy soldier, all of them are the same, the sad soul dances with the baton that can't be seen clearly, this is the world.

"You are wrong," she said softly.

Osko said fiercely: "What did you say?"

"You always think that Kant will give up something for me. You always think that Kant cares about me very much. You always think that we have an affair... Why do you think so? Did you forget the forbidden spell just now?"

Nicias smiled: "You are all dead... Because of this world, no one cares about me."

She closed her eyes, and the magic power in her body began to tumble and boil.

Osco was the closest, and he immediately felt this terrifying sign, he said in awe: "You..."

He also feared death.

Between the lightning and flint, Anthony, who was closest to Nysias, suddenly lifted his staff from behind, and the Frost Missile shot suddenly, hitting Osco's right hand holding the staff. The frost spell not only delayed the transmission of magic power, but also caused an electric staff. The operation malfunction of , this long-established and well-planned strike is extremely stunning in terms of timing, proportion and effect. Under the strike, Osco's actions are stagnant.

As if he had rehearsed countless times, Anthony threw down his staff, sank his hands, and retrieved it with an empty grip.

Telekinesis, using mental power to gather powerful psychic power, to shoot objects in the air, Anthony pulled his arms, and mental power pulled Nysias' body away from Osco's control and threw it back.

Nishias was already dying, but a powerful force pulled her into the air, which felt strange and familiar. She opened her eyes and met her father's gaze in the air. She was already an adult, and an adult's body was huge. For children, the father's expression was tired and painful, which caused a mental overload.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Osco screamed wildly, shattered the ice, and shot with his stick.

The halo-like arcane missile hit Anthony's abdomen, hitting him with a hole in his body. Blood spurted out. Nisias, who was in mid-air, rolled to the ground, and the Osco missile sprayed. Anthony covered his abdomen and held up the magic shield. In front of his daughter, the lack of magic power made the magic shield unable to block all the missiles, his body kept shaking, and the blood splashed on Nicias's face.

She screamed and wanted to turn over to help her father, but the boiling magic power and heavy injuries were no longer able to support her body. She wanted to struggle to stand up, but felt her thighs tighten, and the Arcane Hunter who rushed up like a mad dog did not. Instead of helping, he grabbed her legs and dragged her backwards desperately.

Nishias cried out, "Father! Father!"

Oxington MP shouted from behind: "Save people! Save people!"

The elite hunters of the Legal Department finally freed their hands. They rushed in front of Anthony and put up their shields. Facing the legendary lawbreaker who hunted and killed the sin mage, Osco showed fear, turned around and wanted to run. The hunter took a few steps forward by pressing his companion's shoulder, and the wheel blade that charged up suddenly flew out.

Cutting back and forth, blood spurted, Osco's right arm and thigh were directly cut off, he fell to the ground, grabbed the staff held by the broken arm and aimed at the heart, but with a flick of the magic yarn, the staff was connected to his three His fingers were cut and flung away, and the shocking seal fell with a bang, blocking all his actions.

Nishias scrambled to Anthony's side, pouring potion into his mouth in a hurry, the death in his eyes had been replaced by other emotions, complicated and difficult to understand.

"Father, father..."

she cried.

Anthony looked down at his battered body and spat out a mouthful of blood.

What happened just now was nothing but lightning and flint. He had no time to think about it, and he had no time to think about it. Until now, reason and thinking have returned to the body, and pain and fear have followed.

—Ah, am I going to die?

He thought so.

Only then did I realize what I had just done.

It's weird, why would you do this?

Maybe I heard the sigh of "no one in this world cares about me", maybe a certain string in my heart was plucked, maybe it was just out of the instinct of family affection, or maybe it was an impulsive coincidence?

Anthony looked at the sky with a confused look on his face. He realized that his life was passing away, and the obsessions he had held in his life would dissipate like a cloud. Suddenly, he grabbed his daughter's hand.

—Ah, maybe that's why I saved her.

"Home... family." He murmured, "Keep... guard the family, Kang, Kant, and the review, the review committee, then, your brother..."

He said this, looked at his daughter's embarrassed face, looked so sad, so aggrieved, but listened carefully, he thought of the old days, and taught his daughter in a very severe way, she was in pain, she was very Tired, but always obedient, always obedient, always...

"what…"

The man looked at his daughter. The past and today's situation overlapped. He seemed to remember the mood at that time-for the future of the family, he sacrificed his daughter's self and happiness. He used to be full of guilt, but gradually he took it for granted. And Nicias, nothing has changed.

Now, he finally found the emotion he had been forgetting all along.

"…never mind."

He looked at his daughter, smiled slowly, and his raised hand slowly slipped.

"You have to be fine..."