Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?-Chapter 446 - 61: Old Pro

"I visited the ruins of Verona City this morning," a bearded demigod began, "The entire city was almost leveled, with no intact buildings left."

"However, there were no signs of cracks in the ground or tectonic activity, nor were there signs of extreme high or low temperatures wreaking havoc. The buildings were destroyed very cleanly, leaving no debris behind; at the same time, the entire terrain’s elevation rose, meaning that the buildings were transformed into an equal amount of soil. As for the method of transformation? I’m sorry, but I’m quite curious."

He stared at an uneasy Peggy and slowly said, "Crushed? Decayed? Disintegrated? None of the laws I know of can achieve such a clean ’slaughter of a city,’ so I can only guess that it was some never-before-seen law, right? Miss... Peggy?"

"I lost control last night and don’t remember what happened," Peggy immediately recited fluently.

"Oh, lost control," the bearded demigod nodded. "That is one explanation, after all, tremendous energy can be released when one loses control. However, each loss of control can cause significant and unbearable damage to one’s spirituality; you should be seeking treatment and resting as soon as possible."

His words clearly questioned her: "You lost control last night, and now you seem unscathed like nothing happened." Peggy said nothing, while Aske explained with a smile:

"Our team happens to have a transcendent skilled in spirit body abilities, who can help mitigate the damage caused by the loss of control of one’s spirituality."

"Oh?" The bearded demigod seemed to smile skeptically. Just then, the Emperor suddenly spoke, "You must be talking about Miss Nora, a direct descendant of the Lixini Family... My father had quite a few dealings with the Lixini Family, but frankly, their pricing has always been too high, which isn’t fair."

The other demigods present automatically ignored the Emperor’s complaint. However, since there indeed was such a professional in the opposing team, the explanation that Peggy was cured by her team’s healer after losing control last night, allowing her to stand here unharmed today, was hardly believable! How could it be such a coincidence! No one would believe that!

"Look, let’s not beat around the bush," Sealing Furnace Fire Otto said, arms crossed, giving Aske a meaningful look. "Commander Aske, we’ve had quite a few dealings in the past, why don’t you just tell me secretly later, huh?"

"Wait a minute, Sealing Furnace Fire," a hook-nosed male demigod looking somewhat sinister interrupted him, "This is not some private matter."

"Even though a transcendent’s law attributes are part of their personal privacy, unless you use your abilities very sparingly, they’re always likely to be guessed by others. Everyone present here is a demigod; isn’t it clear what abilities each of us possesses?"

"Instead of hiding and hoarding secrets, why not just openly state it, Miss Peggy? Since your law was able to destroy Verona City, it must be no ordinary law. If we can clearly define the range of your abilities, His Majesty will surely hire you for more challenging tasks, and the rewards and compensation will be much more generous."

This guy was cunning, seemingly considering The Azure Longsword Mercenary Corps’ interests, but he was actually exploiting the Emperor’s guise to extract information at no cost. Unfortunately, Emperor Otto fell for it, nodding as he spoke:

"Indeed, as long as you clarify what kind of ability it is, I can grant you a title commensurate with your power, and I won’t assign you those miscellaneous tasks anymore."

Since the Emperor had spoken, if Aske continued to refuse, it would risk angering him, so Aske could only feign a helpless expression and said:

"Well, since Your Majesty put it that way, all we can do is share the little information we have. Honestly, we also do not know what law Peggy has condensed..."

At these words, the demigods present immediately sensed trouble; this Mercenary Corps Commander was clearly a slick old hand, planning to use a mix of partially true and partially false statements to appease everyone!

"That’s not right!" It was the hook-nosed sinister demigod again, interrupting him, "During the Sensing Law Ritual Task, the specific ritual tasks do state the name of the law!"

"Heh, esteemed sir," Aske said with a smile, "the name of a Law depends on the Transcendent’s perception of it. Even abilities that are almost identical can be perceived differently under different Transcendents, let alone the fact that there are no identical Laws in this world, wouldn’t you agree?"

The hawk-nosed Demigod couldn’t respond (as it was indeed true), and could only maintain a solemn expression and motioned for the other to continue.

"What Peggy perceived at that time was some kind of vague Law," Aske explained. "Since she had no understanding of this Law, she couldn’t hear clearly the specific name... Of course, these aren’t important. What’s important is the specific content of the Ritual Task required by the Law, which was for her to kill a Demigod."

As Aske blurted this out, the Demigods present immediately changed their expressions drastically.

Kill a Demigod? That would make this Ritual Task outrageously difficult! Considering that Peggy’s Sensing Level was only Lv.10... Lv.10 and she was supposed to slay a Demigod? What kind of absurd Law was this? Was it a freak phenomenon?

However, speaking of which, those crimson clouds above the battlefield, born from the fall of a Demigod and the resulting Mutant, were still drifting overhead! That meant...

"Yes," Aske nodded, "so we hadn’t planned on completing this task. Unexpectedly, we encountered a Demigod from the Pure Blood Monastery trying to kill us last night, with whom we had previously forged a deep enmity during a mission in Venice."

"That’s indeed the case," the eldest son of the Duke of Thuringia from the Weiding Family suddenly spoke, "Albrecht mentioned this to me. He said that it was two Demigods from the Pure Blood Monastery who attacked Venice City, and with the help of The Azure Longsword, Venice captured one of the Demigods, which in turn secured a secret cooperation between the councilman and us, while the other seemingly escaped."

"So, the one who attacked you was that previously escaped Demigod?" He turned to look at Aske.

The support came just in time. Aske inwardly sighed, immediately agreeing:

"Exactly. We struggled desperately against him for a long time. Eventually, we launched a desperate attack on him, and he fell because his domain had been maintained for too long, leading to a loss of control over his Spirituality."

The so-called "desperate attack" was clearly a euphemism. But the Demigods didn’t care. Someone eagerly asked, "Then what?"

"Then I passed out, and Peggy lost control," Aske looked puzzled, "she said that in her uncontrolled state, she could only maintain a vague perception of the outside world, and that the Law Ability seemed to be able to destroy the structure of surrounding objects."

"Destroy..." Sealing Furnace Fire pondered, "that makes sense. After all, concrete buildings are made of silicate materials, and by destroying the structure to turn it into ordinary soil, it matches the situation at the scene."

"But the Law itself and the corresponding Ritual Task must be related," the hawk-nosed Demigod was still skeptical, "how are destroying structures and killing a Demigod related?"

"Perhaps the correlation isn’t in killing a Demigod, but in the Mutant that occurs after a Demigod falls?" Aske speculated.

Fall, Mutant, Law Chaos... Chaos, Entropy Increase, Structural Destruction? The Demigods collectively pieced these together, finally reaching what seemed to be the correct answer:

A kind of Law that could turn order into disorder, corresponding to a Skill that was capable of destroying the structured order within a target (such as killing a Demigod, causing all the Laws within them to burst out). As for what the name of this Law was, just as Aske said, it was not really important—it was just a label, after all. What was important was what Ability it had.

"Alright then," Bruno clapped his hands and said with a smile, "it seems our doubts have been resolved, haven’t they? Let’s not trouble these youngsters anymore."

Youngsters... Aske almost couldn’t express his frustrations, but the Demigods present seemed to quite agree with this statement. They then politely bade farewell to the Emperor and the Dukes and gradually left the conference room.

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