I Got 999 Level With One Cut

1This kind of clumsy comforting did not make Edina's mood better. She lowered her head and pushed Meiko's sugar away.     1

    

When the elevator descended from the top of St. Parland, the inventor girl had been hugging her internal combustion engine and a few drawings of complex machine structures were hidden in the corner.    

    

Carol was also speechless as she sat beside her sister. Although she could not understand why that fat and large-eared Pope wanted to harm her elder sister, she still knew that there should not have been any good things that happened just now.    

    

The Pope was the leader of the Church. His will was the will of the entire Church of Steam. Garb Neville's reaction was equivalent to giving Edina a death sentence for the results of so many years, no matter how absurd and unreasonable his reason was.    

    

When Loli Merlin saw this, she sighed helplessly.    

    

"She is probably in despair because her spiritual pillar has collapsed all this time. I don't know what we can do..."    

    

Riko blinked.    

    

"Let me try."    

    

The silver-haired girl walked forward and bent down, making her line of sight parallel to the inventor girl.    

    

"Do you want to see what the ground looks like?"    

    

Edina slightly raised her head and looked at Riko Hasegawa's pair of light blue pupils for a moment. Then, as if she was burned by the light, she buried her head behind her arm.    

    

"No need. I am the one who gave you trouble..."    

    

Carol could realize that nothing good had happened but Edina thought further.    

    

This inventor girl clearly realized that if the two girls in front of her did not use that miraculous "magic" to help, she would have already been riddled with holes by the steam rifles held by the guards in the temple. After she died, her corpse might even be hung in public. Then, as a researcher of the evil machine, she would be spurned by tens of thousands of loyal Steam believers for tens of thousands of years. And her younger sister Carol would naturally be implicated in the punishment as well. Perhaps she would be killed on the spot. Perhaps she would be put on the execution rack, and it would be a repeat of what happened earlier today.    

    

The terrifying future that appeared in her mind made her hold Carol and shrink into a ball.    

    

However, even if they were very lucky to escape death now, it did not mean that they would be safe in the future. Studying evil machine was a felony that was enough to be hacked into thousands of pieces. Other than that, there was also the crime of attacking the Pope.    

    

Garb Neville was still in a coma because of this. The group was able to use the chaos to take the elevator up. However, when the fat Pope woke up, the first thing he would do would be to seal off the entire Saint Capital. He would also list Edina Lenovo's name as a wanted criminal on every street. Although those mysterious outsiders have incredible power, but in front of the powerful and numerous Pope Guards... The inventor girl, who lacked understanding of Riko and Loli Merlin's magic level, still did not think that they had any chance of winning.    

    

In the end, wasn't all of this because of her?    

    

Edina bit her lips and thought. Because she was the one who brought it up and wanted to come to Saint Capital to meet the Pope. Moreover, she naively thought that he would understand and support the so-called internal combustion engine. She was really an idiot.    

    

It had been thousands of years since humans started living underground. She had thought of and never thought of everything. The ancestors must have already tried it out a long time ago. Since what brought light to people was still an ordinary steam engine and not an internal combustion engine or something else, then these inventions must have had some problems in some areas.    

    

It was all her fault.    

    

If she didn't study this thing on her own...    

    

Carol would be fine, and these cute outsiders wouldn't be implicated as well.    

    

The inventor girl looked at the spotless mechanical structure and blueprints in front of her. In an instant, she had the impulse to destroy them all.    

    

But those were the works that she had put in so much effort into, so she could not destroy them no matter what.    

    

"I'm sorry."    

    

Edina buried her head even deeper and said softly with a sobbing tone.    

    

"Why did you apologize?" Riko tilted her head and did not understand.    

    

But Loli Merlin, who was experienced and knowledgeable, understood.    

    

Loli Merlin took two steps forward and squatted on the ground. Her hands grabbed Edina's slender shoulders.    

    

"You don't need to feel sorry."    

    

The water element obeyed Loli Merlin's call and condensed into a blue bird that flapped its wings in front of her. The bird gently stopped in Edina's palm with a slight chill. Edina wanted to reach out and touch it, but the moment she touched it, it turned into a small stream of water and silently slipped through the gaps of her fingers.    

    

"We actually did not come from the ground, but from a place even further away, a place that you cannot imagine."    

    

Loli Merlin smiled as she watched Edina play this simple elemental trick that even magic apprentice could use and slowly spoke.    

    

"You may not know, but in your knowledge, everything is just a small corner of a small Plane in Endless Void. Outside of this world, there are many worlds that you have never heard of before."    

    

" And we happen to come from a place where people are used to using the power known as' magic '. "    

    

"Are all of you as powerful as you?" Carol tilted her head and asked.    

    

"Good question."    

    

Loli Merlin snapped her fingers. "Only those who have reached a certain level of Elemental Affinity and are willing to practice magic can become a mage. We are mages. The most powerful mages are called Titled Devil Instructor. They have almost invincible power. They can easily destroy a city as big as Karaur."    

    

Loli Merlin pointed at Riko who was standing at the side.    

    

"And she is a very powerful person among the Titled Devil Instructor. So, you don't have to worry about us and don't feel disheartened."    

    

Loli Merlin rubbed Edina's head.    

    

"The profoundness and complexity of the internal combustion engine is the first time I have seen it in my life. It even inspired my research on magic to a certain extent. You are very powerful."    

    

Accompanied by the sound of metal colliding with each other, a group of people walked out of the elevator and stood on the street of the lower level of St. Parland once again. Looking up from here, the black temple seemed to be out of reach.    

    

Edina, who was comforted by Loli Merlin, looked a little more spirited. Although she was still very different from the girl who looked full of hope when she came, at least there was a light in her eyes.    

    

The following was Loli Merlin's thoughts about this conversation.    

    

"Comforting a little girl is really tiring."    

    

"You are also a little girl." Virna rolled her eyes.    

    

"That is different! Rikku, come and take the blame."    

    

"What?"    

    

Riko tilted her head and wanted to ask what Loli Merlin's words meant, but in the end she did not say it for various reasons.