Chapter 825: The Return of the Goshawk / Russell, Who Has Appeared with Divinity

"Does it have to be this fast..."

Ye Qiyan pressed his forehead in speechless exasperation.

His words had barely left his mouth.

And RUN Company immediately ran into trouble.

Although he understood perfectly well that even if Zhao Lin had been in a state of good luck, this kind of thing would still happen regardless.

But precisely because she was currently cursed with misfortune, the occurrence of such an event made things a bit more troublesome.

"Qi, Brother Qiyan, it's fine, I can feel that the misfortune on me right now isn't as terrifying as I imagined. I've already, gotten used to it."

Zhao Lin rubbed her nose and used a piece of paper to plug up the nosebleed streaming down.

She let out a sheepish laugh, and what she said wasn't fake bravado.

Having been baptized by multiple Advanced Stations.

Zhao Lin of today, whether in strength or temperament, had become far more powerful than before.

Plop!

The door to this private swimming pool was kicked open by a foot.

Everyone turned at the sound.

They only saw a girl adorned with various fashionable accessories walking in from behind the door.

"Phew... Bro Ye, and Zhao Lin, are you two alright? Something's happening outside."

The newcomer was Stacia.

The Element Card wielder of the Imperial Sequence Organization.

At this moment, she appeared extremely irritated, as if she had encountered something highly unacceptable.

In the two days since arriving at this hotel, they had also managed to get in contact with Stacia.

She had been busy with rehearsals and couldn't get away.

Compared to Alice who merely sang.

Her performance was much more complicated.

Zhao Lin quickly used magic to change her clothes, and looking at Stacia's expression, carefully asked:

"Sister Stacia, what happened outside? Was that just now an explosion?"

"One of the performance stages I set up outside got blown up! Why the hell are there still trolls in this godforsaken place? This world is supposedly completely occupied by Train Conductors, I really can't understand it."

Well, Ye Qiyan now knew the reason for her anger.

For Stacia, being able to compete on the same stage as Alice, to rival her in popularity and emerge victorious, had always been her long-cherished aspiration.

But trolls, huh?

Ye Qiyan's mind stirred.

He walked out of the pool area and into the outside world.

Dark clouds shrouded the sun. One after another, absurd and bizarre mechanical airships, carrying a massive horde of trolls, were surging toward the RUN Company building.

And amidst those dark clouds.

A brilliant golden bolt of lightning descended from the heavens, crashing straight down in front of Ye Qiyan.

"Screech!"

A sharp, piercing cry rang out from within the lightning.

A thunder eagle, its entire body wrapped in brilliant golden plasma, majestic and awe-inspiring, radiating overwhelming dominance, landed on his arm.

"Don't tell me those trolls were attracted here by you."

The plasma on the Goshawk instantly receded, reverting from its Extreme Flash state back to its usual appearance.

It used its wing to scratch its own head, the imposing aura from just moments ago vanishing in an instant, replaced by a hint of awkwardness.

Case closed.

Though he didn't know what it had done, these troll airships were indeed chasing after the Goshawk.

"They can actually catch up to you? You weren't doing that on purpose, were you?"

Ye Qiyan pinched the Goshawk's wing, a smile on his face.

"Screech! Screech!"

The Goshawk hurriedly shook its head in denial.

It spat out the automatic camera it had been holding in its beak, then injected a wisp of electric current into it.

Photos and videos were displayed directly.

In the photos, the Goshawk had captured trolls scattered all over the mountains and fields picking up metal fragments, directly assembling them into numerous mechanical airships through some unknown means.

And at the very center surrounded by these airships, even more parts were being assembled into an absolutely colossal mechanical troll.

After being discovered, the Goshawk intended to return.

But those trolls used some kind of method, and even as it continuously accelerated, it couldn't shake off these ugly and weak monsters.

It even made an entire round trip killing them, wielding the Sky-Resonant Sword in its Evil Flash form to take out many, but their numbers were utterly absurd.

As if, apart from the area where RUN Company headquarters was located, the entire planet was troll territory.

Unkillable. Absolutely unkillable.

The Goshawk had no choice but to return ahead of time, but these bastards seemed to have been provoked, completely fixated on it. Every troll it passed along the way was awakened, chasing it all the way, resulting in the current situation.

"..."

"Hey? Bro Ye, this bird of yours looks a bit like Sister Gina Two's, but why does it feel so different? Did it go out somewhere? What happened?"

Stacia and Zhao Lin also came out.

Ye Qiyan silently crushed the camera stained with the Goshawk's saliva underfoot, all the videos and photos vanishing instantly, then directly stuffed this unreliable thing into the Matrix space.

"It's nothing, I had it scout out some nearby intelligence, and it just happened to run into these troll airship forces. Speaking of which, why does this world where RUN Company headquarters is located have so many trolls? Haven't they cleaned them up?"

Stacia shook her head.

"I don't know, this is my first time here too, but I always feel like those native humans here are quite hostile toward us. I don't like this place. If it weren't for the fact that the boss of RUN Company paid enough, and that woman named Alice was also coming, I wouldn't want to be here at all.

Whatever, it should be fine, those trolls look pretty weak. Perfect timing actually, I need to go blow off some steam, and take a few photos to post on my blog while I'm at it."

She pulled a Magic Staff out of her bag, and in a flash of radiance, completed her transformation.

Stacia held up her phone for a selfie, capturing the troll airships in the background of the photo.

"Hehe~ Magical Girl Stacia is off to save the world again."

Stacia flew toward the troll fleet.

Behind her, nine Element Cards also condensed from her pack, forming a ring behind her back.

"Hehe, Bro Ye, how about that? Pretty impressive, right? Last time in the City of Eternal Night, I only had seven cards, but now I've got nine! Not any fewer than you."

Stacia made a funny face at Ye Qiyan, then soared up on the wind.

Several Element Cards stacked upon one another, releasing powerful elemental magics one after another.

The trolls' airships were continuously shot down.

Many of RUN Company's native Train Conductors also made their moves.

Combined with the defensive weapons equipped on the company building.

These trolls had absolutely no room to resist.

But the more this was the case, the stranger it became.

Clearly, RUN Company itself possessed the ability to annihilate the trolls entirely, it would merely take some time. Even with their wealth, couldn't they just spend some Train Coins to hire some powerful Train Conductors to directly eliminate these trolls?

Ye Qiyan did not make a move.

He saw Russell.

As the boss of RUN Company, Russell had personally appeared to command the battle during the invasion.

That ambitious youth, once eager to defeat all foreign Train Conductors, had now, as the boss of RUN Company, become quite imposing and dignified.

However.

On Russell, Ye Qiyan sensed.

Divinity.