Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?-Chapter 521 - 31 Live Online Class

"According to the relevant laws of Solomon City, non-military personnel are prohibited from possessing and equipping military-grade prosthetics, weapons, and vehicles," Vesta replied, "However, many gangs violate this order, and therefore, under the public security regulations, they are classified as ’illegal armed groups.’"

"In the event of an encounter with illegal armed groups, every citizen has the right to pick up weapons for self-defense, which is the right of self-defense granted to all citizens by law. Thus, our attack on the Voodoo Gang’s station this time is also an exercise of the right to self-defense."

Eleanor: ......

So we run to someone else’s gang station, and then claim that because they have illegal weapons, we need to wipe them out to protect ourselves?

This logic sounds strange.

However, given Nora’s previous description of these gangs not being good news, Eleanor managed to convince herself, albeit reluctantly, to accept Vesta’s flawed and far-fetched explanation.

On the other side, Nora and Kapaxilin were also on the family’s private jet, heading south to Sicily.

"What’s wrong?" Kapaxilin noticed her sister seemed preoccupied and, assuming it was nervousness about not seeing family for a long time, comforted her by saying, "Mom and Dad have been talking about you a lot recently."

"It’s nothing, we’ll meet soon." Nora smiled softly, yet her thoughts drifted elsewhere.

She had intended to talk to Aske privately about the Source Tree, but with so many people around yesterday, she had forgotten about it.

Today she helped Thira with her level promotion in the morning, and in the afternoon she had to meet with her parents; she guessed the matter would have to wait till tomorrow.

Aske... she propped her cheek with one hand, gazing out of the porthole at the sea of clouds.

Where are you now?

The Aske, whom Nora was thinking about, was at that moment entering the Outer City with the group from the Golden Skulls in an armored vehicle.

There was no clear boundary between the Inner City and Outer City, only a marked difference in prosperity and law enforcement resources.

Here, there were no exquisite and beautiful shops and shop windows, no well-dressed, affluent citizens, only ancient and dilapidated buildings with plainly dressed pedestrians and packs of stray dogs running around in the streets.

The armored vehicle drove up to a dilapidated building and was stopped by the barricade at the entrance. The Voodoo Gang had erected makeshift fences around the building to prevent other vehicles and pedestrians from recklessly approaching.

Before long, a gang member emerged from behind the barricade. His arms had been replaced with mechanical prosthetics, and his face was covered by a metal mask painted with ghastly white patterns and black eye sockets, resembling the skull of a dead person.

Approaching the driver’s side of the vehicle, the gang member started hammering on the car window and shouted,

"Hey! This is not a place where you can park whenever you like, get lost somewhere else!"

In the back of the vehicle, Eleanor silently gripped her Imperial Eagle at her waist, wondering if it was time to get out and communicate. Could there be an ambush? Like being lured to a place littered with mines and explosives?

The car window slowly rolled down, and a gun barrel shot out from the gap with lightning speed.

Pop! With the sound of a gunshot, the gang member’s head burst open, blood, flesh, and fragments of skull mixed with pieces of metal scattered in all directions.

Amidst the blaring alarms from the camp opposite, the armored vehicle’s rear hatch slammed down, and the Golden Skulls stood up neatly and quickly rushed out of the vehicle.

Eleanor: ......

Isn’t this too violent? Well, it works, I guess.

She had just jumped down when she heard Aske in the vehicle say, 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

"Get up, it’s time to get out."

"Wait a minute, my legs are numb, I can’t get up~," Peggy tried to whine.

Then she was picked up by Aske and thrown out of the vehicle, where Eleanor, quick to react, managed to catch her.

"Ah." Peggy stepped out from her embrace with a troubled expression and stood up straight.

You don’t look like someone whose legs are numb? And at least thank me. Eleanor thought silently to herself.

As Aske hopped out of the vehicle, a mere six or seven seconds had passed, and the fight at the base level of the building’s exterior camp had already concluded.

Passing over the bodies of the gang members, most Golden Skulls rushed toward the higher floors, naturally aiming for the gang’s upper echelon as instructed by Vesta, leaving only two Golden Skulls behind to protect these three individuals.

To be precise, they stayed for Aske; as for the conditions of the two girls, the Golden Skulls simply didn’t care.

"You didn’t sweep the underground garage, did you?" Aske asked.

"No," the Golden Skull replied after a moment of silence.

In the original battle plan given by Vesta, the bottom floor’s underground garage was not included. Since the intelligence indicated that the gang leaders all resided in the upper levels, they merely sealed off the bottom floor along with the entrance to the garage, to prevent anyone from rushing up from below to reinforce.

"Good, then let’s head to the garage," Aske declared.

He walked toward the adjacent vehicle passage, with the Golden Skulls and the girls promptly following.

"First off, you both have now condensed Laws," Aske began to instruct the two girls, regardless of the Golden Skulls present, "and you have also mastered Law Skills."

"If you have used these skills, you would starkly realize that Law Skills and Bloodline Sequence abilities do not operate at the same level of strength. Of course, they also consume significantly different amounts of Spirituality."

"In terms from where we are, if you consider Sequence abilities as basic moves, then Law Skills would be akin to ultimate moves."

"In a battle, considering endurance, controlling the rhythm and ratio of basic moves to ultimate moves is a very crucial element. If you rely solely on ultimate moves, you’ll find your Spirituality draining much faster than expected, leaving you on the brink of complete depletion."

"On the other hand, different moves have different lethality. If you can take out a target with a basic move, using an ultimate move is a complete waste. For example, let’s say..."

He suddenly stopped walking and pointed at a concealed device at the bottom of the opposite wall:

"See that? There’s an anti-infantry landmine there, triggered by an infrared tripwire. What would you do when you encounter something like this?"

"Shoot it," unexpectedly, the answer came not from the girls but from one of the Golden Skulls.

Aske: ...

"Correct, add one point," he jested, "But what if you don’t have a gun? Peggy, of course you could use the Withering skill from the Death Law to neutralize it, but that would inevitably consume a significant amount of Spirituality. What’s a simpler method? The Undead Illusion Sword."

"Create an illusion and send it directly to trigger the explosion, using almost negligible amounts of Spirituality."

Meanwhile, on an airplane at the same time, Kapaxilin furrowed her brow as she listened to the "Aske Webinar Tutorial" transmitted from the front lines.

She had long known that within The Azure Longsword Mercenary Corps, there were mostly Level 9 and Level 10 members. This was not surprising, because the Bloodline Stages from Levels 1 to 9 required taking Magic Potions and tested a Transcendent’s ability to gather resources.

As long as you come from a well-off household or have the support of a Demigod, not lacking ingredients and formulas, leveling up during this stage is like a rocket, ascending rapidly.

However, the Law Stage from Levels 10 to 19 is different. If Bloodline represents the transformation of the body, then Law signifies the sublimation of the spirit, requiring personal understanding and inspiration of the Law, something money cannot buy.

Even speaking broadly, those Transcendents who breezed through the Bloodline Stage with senior figures’ help tend to struggle with the Law Stage’s promotion, often slower than other Transcendents.

The Azure Longsword Mercenary Corps, they actually have 2 individuals who have condensed Laws? No, including Aske that makes 3 people... At this thought, Kapaxilin turned to her sister and asked:

"Nora, how many people in your corps have mastered Laws?"

"Three," Nora counted, "Aske, Peggy, and Ellie."

"Oh, that’s quite rare," Kapaxilin remarked casually, quite astonished in her mind, "Law Promotion can be quite troublesome. Extraordinary Families often arrange for their members who reach Level 10 to undergo long periods of training, which might take years without guaranteed success..."

"Is condensing Laws difficult?" Nora inquired, puzzled, "But I’ve not seen them training much at all? It seemed like they just suddenly announced that they had successfully condensed Laws one day."

Kapaxilin: ???

Do you think condensing Laws is that easy? If it were so, the Extraordinary Families and Secret Sects would have mass-produced Law Stage Transcendents by now! But, wait...

Could this be why they were rated R4? Their unusually rapid rate of Level Promotion?