Smooth sailing all the way.

They were now near a wing of the Golden Palace, not far from a massive and luxurious dining room.

Within a hundred-meter diameter centered around Shire, approximately sixty or more people had fallen into a deep sleep. They fell asleep without any warning, and even the muffled sounds of explosions from outside could not wake them.

“Is this the Arcane Mage’s magic? Such strong control!” Su Ziyu thought to himself.

He admitted he could mentally control and induce sleep in a small group, but such a large-scale mental control was not easy for him.

“The spell resistance of these Crystal Wall Element people is not high,” Shire seemed to guess his thoughts, and spoke via telepathy: “Some spells have miraculous effects on them.”

A massive crystal chandelier, about five meters in diameter, appeared ahead.

Empress Isabella pushed open the heavy gilt door, revealing an extremely luxurious and resplendent dining room. Directly ahead was a female statue made of pure gold, dressed in a simple linen dress and wearing a laurel crown, hands raised holding a strange disk, flanked by golden sconces. A lot of gold and silver utensils were arranged on tables and chairs that seemed to be made of rosewood. With a sweep of her hand, she knocked a pile of gold and silver utensils off the cabinet by the fireplace to the ground with clattering sounds. A Light Blade transformed into a streak of light and pierced into the wall.

The Empress directly opened a door on the wall.

“This way,” Empress Isabella turned her head towards Su Ziyu and said.

Su Ziyu glanced at the golden statue, then quickly followed. The statue felt odd, seemingly like a wondrous item, yet it also seemed to be just a simple decoration.

Its presence brought a sense of delight to one’s mind.

Through the wall was a dim passageway, Empress Isabella led the way at the front, Su Ziyu and Shire followed from behind. Explosions echoed from all around the Golden Palace, suggesting that besides the members of the Assassin Court, some nobles loyal to the Imperial Family secretly responded. Not everyone was willing to accept the emergence of an empire where politics, religion, and unity coexisted.

“It’s breaking out outside,” Shire’s pupils turned into a golden glow, seemingly reading information, softly said, “Armies are assembling.”

“Trouble at the military camp.”

After passing through the passage ahead, Su Ziyu’s view revealed an exceedingly luxurious hall, Empress Isabella continued to pave a straight path, and they entered a slightly dim room.

Directly ahead was a decorative splendid large bed, but it looked almost unused.

“This way,” A slight flush appeared on Empress Isabella’s glamorous face, she lifted her finger gently, using telekinesis to close a nearby wardrobe, softly said, “This is my sleeping chamber.”

Su Ziyu’s peripheral vision caught sight of many brightly colored sheer garments, some were as thin as a cicada’s wings when worn, almost like wearing nothing at all.

Of course.

What really caught his attention was the silver-white hibernation pod ahead, which is Empress Isabella’s true bed, where she spent most of her time.

Empress Isabella’s sleeping chamber was carpeted with soft red rugs, Su Ziyu’s gaze swept across and his brow furrowed as he saw streaks of blood.

“Mā mā might already be in trouble,” Empress Isabella bit her lip and murmured softly.

Possibly one of her attendants.

Su Ziyu slightly used a mind wave to soothe her briefly, then asked: “How far is the Mind Synchronization Center?”

“Just ahead,” Empress Isabella adjusted her emotions, said, “Before you enter, you’d better seal off your five senses, otherwise, with your Spiritual Energy, it might have an enormous impact.”

The hard marble wall was directly sliced open by the Light Blade.

Once the group passed through the grand hall ahead, their sight immediately revealed a group of knights in silver-white heavy armor, all bearing a distinctive gear-lever insignia on their chests.

“Seize them!” A man dressed like a Mechanical Priest’s expression changed upon seeing Empress Isabella, instantly ordered the surrounding knights.

Bang, bang, bang.

The knights in heavy armor charged directly toward Su Ziyu and the others. Only a third of them were wielding ranged weapons, while the others wielded heavy kinetic, thermal, or electromagnetic weapons. The first to attack was a knight with a bald head on the left; half of his head was covered with silver-white metal, where the back of the head bulged with stripes, as if bone and metal had fused together. His weapon was a Storm Axe, with ghostly blue lightning jumping across the unknown alloy axe blade, clearly not lacking in power.

“Leave them to me,” Shire’s voice came.

Accompanied by a flash of electricity, she reached out and caught the javelin thrown from afar, gathering the exploding electric arcs into her palm, then took a good look at the silver-white javelin in hand before swiftly tossing it back.

Boom.

The leg of a heavy-armored knight suddenly flared with azure flames, swinging a heavy kinetic hammer, and crashed forward, his whole body becoming a blur.

“Go,” Su Ziyu reached out and grabbed Empress Isabella’s waist, leapt up, and with a wave of his hand, the wall about half a meter ahead shattered and collapsed with a thunderous noise, he rushed into it with Empress Isabella.

Shire’s strength was likely stronger than his, handling those church knights in heavy exoskeletons should not be an issue.

Another muffled sound rang out.

The heavy knight wielding a kinetic hammer smashed into the front of the grand hall, and after collapsing half of the grand hall, surprisingly climbed up unscathed, swinging the massive kinetic hammer again and charging forward.

But that previous hit had peeled off a layer of skin from his palm, revealing a trace of silver-gray metallic sheen.

Visible to the naked eye.

Scratches on the metal were gradually being repaired, the active metal forming his arm seemed to possess self-repairing capability.

“Block them!” The Mechanical Priest held a scepter and made a prayer gesture.

In the next moment.

Su Ziyu felt a surge of Spiritual Energy, all the church knights’ minds were connected, over ten church knights charged at Shire, while others shifted their firepower to target them.

— “Mental Impact!”

Su Ziyu’s pupils slightly contracted, eyes gleamed with a golden light, dancing with slivers of lightning.

His mind immediately collided with the mechanical priest nearby, like two trains smashing directly into each other, Su Ziyu uttered a minor muffled groan, while the distant mechanical priest spewed a large gush of fresh blood from his mouth.

Instantly.

All the church knights froze for a moment, their faces pale, blood seeping from the corners of their mouths, with some even losing consciousness immediately.

“Is this Mind Synchronization?” Su Ziyu’s spirituality sensed an extraordinary force.

Earlier, it was not simply a mental clash with the mechanical priest, but a violent collision with the spirit aggregate of the priest and dozens of temple knights.

His spirituality perceived not a single person’s soul, but a human-shaped mechanical entity.

The Mechanical Pantheon believed that all machines possess ‘souls’, and that mechanized spiritual aggregate was their consciousness incarnation.

— “Thunder Strike!”

Su Ziyu reached up toward the sky, and instantly the sky above the Golden Palace became turbulent, accompanied by rumbling thunder, he held Empress Isabella tightly and charged forward without looking back.

Crackle!

A golden lightning bolt descended from the sky.

Su Ziyu crashed through the hall ahead, bulldozing through it, and rushed into a dark passage.

He felt it.

A powerful consciousness body was converging.

“Not good!” Empress Isabella’s expression changed abruptly, muttering, “They’ve activated the Mind Synchronization Device!…”

“They…”

“Damn it!… They want to brainwash the Empire’s people!…”

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