Chapter 478: Face the Most Powerful Castel
"There have been many small-scale frictions on the Eastern Front. The prince's troops have been frequently provoking us recently. They seem to have equipped themselves with new weapons on a large scale."
"The White Disaster has begun to spread across the sea. This time, the scale is unprecedentedly large. The borders of reality are once again in turmoil. The White Crow Principality has been completely engulfed."
"Our exploration in the north has yielded nothing. We have lost the trace of the Named Person again. Occasionally, the Fire Moth Chasers appear, and we have fought several times."
“Okay, stop talking about these boring things.” The girl pushed the documents on the table aside with an impatient look on her face. “Hela, when can I go to the Forbidden Library again?”
The woman with a black veil on her face stopped chanting, the gears on her face turned, and the glass on her eyeballs reflected the image of the girl in front of her.
"Your Holiness, please be patient. The Council of Secret Keepers will reopen the Forbidden Book Room to you when the time is right."
“Ah—then how long do we have to wait?” Beatrice looked unhappy. She propped up her head with her hands and rolled her eyes. “Hela, do you have anything interesting? I’m really too bored. There should be some good things in the Mechanical Temple, right?”
Hela shook her head. “First of all, I am not from the Mechanical Temple. Secondly, Lord Ruoan, it is the Pope’s duty to review and approve documents. Please do so.”
"Okay, okay, I'll sign it!" Beatrice pretended to be angry, picked up the document again, and no longer looked at the woman with a black veil on her face in a huff.
Hela nodded, turned and left the room, closing the heavy door behind her.
Bang.
Beatrice was the only one left in the room. She slowly raised her head from the documents, her face cold.
Ever since the incident at Blood Harbor, that strange link has never appeared again. It has been inexplicably interrupted for more than half a year.
Beatrice had always placed high hopes on this, seeing it as her hope of escaping the predicament, and for this reason she had gone into the forbidden book room many times to read through it, which resulted in more restrictions imposed by the church.
But the link was broken in an instant, and all her hopes were dashed.
Beatrice looked at the document in her hand in silence, her clenched fingers leaving deep marks on the paper.
The church survived the turbulent period and completely took control of the empire. Today, the empire is a union of church and state. The former royal academies have all been abolished and replaced with churches.
The power of the Holy See is more solid than ever before, and she doesn't have much time left.
After all, other people were unreliable, so she had to take some risks.
There are not many paths to choose, such as becoming a [Named Person].
Zeus waved his hand behind him, refusing the order's guards to follow him, and climbed up the spiral staircase alone.
Today is the day when the expeditionary force's railway reaches the North. According to the scheduled ceremony, the expeditionary force will take a handful of soil from the North and send it back to Blood Harbor by steam locomotive.
This heralds the official start of Caster's revenge on the North.
Wanting to see the train sooner, Hughes climbed up the newly built lighthouse alone.
The stairs were quite steep, but fortunately there were handrails on both sides. Hughes climbed halfway, took a rest, and then climbed up again.
Circle after circle, spiraling upwards as if it were an endless climb, until Zeus became a little numb, and then a door appeared in front of him.
Taking the key from his pocket, he inserted it into the keyhole and turned it. Then, holding the door handle, he paused for a moment and pulled it open.
The bright sunshine came into view, and at the dock not far away, a huge gantry crane unloaded cargo from cargo ships and delivered it to the trains nearby.
The steam locomotives blew their whistles and spewed white smoke, rumbling in long queues, delivering raw materials to factories and shipping out finished products.
Scattered chimneys protrude from factory buildings, which take in and out materials and energy and spit out production capacity.
The expedition to the North permanently changed the fate of Bloodharbor. This once dilapidated and prosperous city now has a steel forest.
"What does it feel like?"
"Magnificent, cold, terrifying, and powerful." Nora's voice remained calm, but there were some ripples in the occasional words.
"It would be nice if everyone in the resistance could see this, too."
"Resistance" Hughes' tone dropped. He held Nora's head and looked to the north over the smoke in the chimney.
Over the past six months, he has insisted on sending banshees to search the north, but unfortunately, no trace of the resistance army has been found, and the forest along the river has been almost completely searched.
On the bright side, they might have found a new shelter, but the greater possibility is that they have completely disappeared in the cold wind of the north.
Zeus also tried to send extraordinary people there. My mother-in-law went there several times, and Aiksa also took the initiative to go there many times, but they all failed.
The power of the Holy See has somehow set its sights on that place. Ever since the battle between Grandma and the [Investigator], many extraordinary people have appeared there.
Although Granny and Isaac, who were holding the Dragon Breath Cannon, were extremely powerful in frontal combat, there were too many people sent by the Holy See. Faced with several times more extraordinary people, even Isaac could only avoid their attack temporarily.
Therefore, only fragmentary information was received about the specific situation in the North.
It is said that Count Basil's power suffered a severe blow and he has never recovered since then. Octavia openly declared war on him, and the other two grand dukes are also eyeing him covetously. Now the entire northern border has become a mess.
The prince wanted to send people to investigate, but several grand dukes had broken with him, and no useful news came, so the matter of the resistance army remained unsolved.
But now, everything is different.
The resistance finally built the railway to the North, and now Castel has officially come to the North's poker table.
"You say." Hughes said hesitantly.
Nora seemed to know what he wanted to say and interrupted him:
"My Lord, you have done a lot for the resistance and fulfilled your promise."
She looked at Hughes seriously.
"I have nothing to do with the Silent Temple anymore. You are my lord now and I am willing to be loyal to you. As for the resistance army."
Her eyes dimmed a little: "You have fulfilled your responsibilities as a lord. You don't need to worry about it."
A breeze blew by, bringing a little coolness, and Xiusi suddenly raised his hand and pointed into the distance.
Nora looked up and saw a small black dot gradually appearing on the track that led to the sky.
Soon, accompanied by the sound of the whistle, the black spot expanded rapidly and grew hideous edges and corners.
Cold steel armor, a shovel close to the rails, clusters of spikes protruding from the top, and the muzzle of a gun protruding from the battle fortress mounted on the roof.
This is a heavy steam locomotive and armored train used by the expeditionary force.
Today it set foot in the North. From now on, Blood Harbor and the North are no longer thousands of miles apart, but close neighbors.
In the Blood Harbor, whistles sounded in countless factories in response, as if the entire city was gradually waking up, and the industrial behemoths that had been sleeping for a long time began to sharpen their claws.
North, prepare to face the most powerful Caster yet.
(End of this chapter)
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