Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first? Chapter 597: 107: Siege

Chapter 597: Chapter 107: Siege

“I have a bad feeling.”

“I feel that danger is lurking ahead.”

“Well, although Nora hasn’t taken the ‘Intuition’ sequence Magic Potion, she decided to trust her sixth sense as a woman.”

“There’s definitely sothing wrong ahead!!!”

“Ah… Nora couldn’t help but start missing the Squad Leader. If Aske or any other companions were here, there’d be no need for her to worry about everything!”

In the laboratory, Bishop Valian had already moved tables and chairs into the monitoring room, and together with Valian Bishop, they continued to monitor (or rather, wait on) Nora’s actions in the script while enjoying afternoon tea.

Two cups of coffee, a plate of “Italian One-Bite Crispy” (tiny round bread filled with cod paste, cheese, or ham slices), they leisurely ate for half an hour, and then, they wiped their mouths with napkins.

Then they saw Nora still hiding around the corner… more precisely, her summoned Spiritual Body was hiding around the corner, vigilantly surveilling the area ahead.

As for her real body, it had been cowering in the room with the Source Tree from the start, never stepping out even once.

“Ah…” Bishop Valian was almost bored to autism, “Valian, did your sister suffer from so ntal trauma as a child? Lack of confidence?”

“Your sister is the one lacking confidence!” Valian retorted irritably, “That’s called being cautious! Do you understand cautiousness?”

“Your so-called caution is squatting in the corner for half an hour!” Bishop Valian mocked, “Is she a Sniper? Lying there aiming at the air? Maintaining this script is using up a lot of server resources, don’t wait until it triggers Raphael’s resource usage threshold and locks us out!”

He stood up, thinking that he still needed to intervene this ti: “I need to adjust the script’s driving factors, otherwise your sister could stay there all day and our server can’t support her for that long.”

“You’re changing paraters?” Valian said in surprise, “That ans the script will change, you need to ask for approval from the Holy Throne.”

“I’ll go ask right now.” Bishop Valian was resolute.

Soon, the approval from the Holy Throne ca through. Valian looked at it for a while and could only nod in agreent.

Thus, Bishop Valian returned to the monitoring room triumphantly and asked:

“Where is the Source Tree?”

“The Source Tree is in room A3.” The Priest replied, “It’s currently battling with the Shadow Veil.”

“The Shadow Veil, that unique ‘Death Law’?” Bishop Valian asked in surprise.

He had certainly heard of this Law, knowing that a city in the North had been erased overnight!

“Correct.” The Priest replied, “Overall, the Shadow Veil has the advantage, and the Source Tree is struggling under the attack of the Death Law.”

“However, as long as the Shadow Veil hasn’t completely killed the Source Tree, the latter’s resistance to the Death Law will be reduced over ti. This is a key feature of the ‘Adaptation’ in the Evolution Law, which could have been displayed right in front of Miss Nora if she had moved forward.”

“Since she is refusing to advance, we’ve temporarily locked the battle in room A3. Whenever she cos over, we will restart the battle.”

“No need to wait for her to co!” said Bishop Valian, who had co with the Imperial Sword, waving his hand grandly and proudly declaring, “Set the Source Tree to its strongest state, and flip the base upside-down!”

“All containnt will fail, and then let all containnt entities attack the Source Tree! It should be able to hold up, right?”

“If it’s the strongest state of the Source Tree…” The Priest typed a few lines of code on the keyboard, ran the results, “Yes, it can hold up.”

“However, as long as the Source Tree withstands the first round, due to the ‘Adaptation’ characteristic of the Evolution Law, attacks from other containnt entities will progressively weaken. So, if Miss Nora can’t sense the ritual of the Evolution Law soon, the subsequent script can’t proceed. Your Excellency, perhaps we should be more cautious…”

“I’ve obtained authorization from the Holy See!” Bishop Chino could hardly tolerate the word “cautious,” and imdiately brought out the papal decree.

The priests imdiately shut their mouths. Once the decree from the Holy See was shown, questioning it further would an facing the stake.

Thus, several commands were issued, and the script underwent a drastic transformation.

Nora was still remotely controlling things from her room when a loud bang erupted and sunlight stread inside.

The entire ceiling had been lifted, the previously enclosed room transford into an open-air environnt, from within which one could see distant mountain ranges and the Source Tree rapidly soaring from the ground nearby.

Nora: ???

It was only now, observing the Source Tree up close and not through containnt, that Nora realized the Spiritual Tree was rely a weaker sibling.

The Source Tree’s intimidating presence was terrifying— not only because of its imnse size but also due to its ranking suppression on spirituality, enough to make any Transcendent facing it feel utterly powerless, a deep shiver from their soul.

Nora stepped back, instinctively seeking Aske’s figure before rembering she was in the script.

No, that’s not right… Run!

She quickly summoned her Spiritual Body, attached it to a nearby cabinet, and then dragged the cabinet over to use as a stepping stone to climb onto the wall.

Walking along the top of the wall, she finally managed to escape the base. It seed this base was built on the outskirts of a small town in a river valley, but now almost the entire valley was covered by the Source Tree.

Many townspeople got infected by the Source Tree. They either fell to the ground gasping with foam at their mouths, their bodies convulsing and trembling uncontrollably, or they had already turned into Green Skins, running and screaming wildly as they violently attacked the people around them.

The Source Tree had reached the town center, constantly swinging its vines down, snatching up Green Skins or the terrified townsfolk. Anyone caught by the vines in the air was almost imdiately drained of their body.

It was absorbing their life force… Nora watched, her heart pounding, her breathing becoming erratic.

More containnt subjects escaped the base through the opened roof. Under the leadership of a dark veil, they charged straight toward the Source Tree.

In the monitoring room, Bishop Chino’s priests collectively sighed.

The original design intent of the script was to have Nora explore each contained subject, helping her understand the potential havoc forr demigod Transcendents could wreak on human society.

And how, over the years, the Church Court painstakingly contained each one, thereby ensuring the safety and peace of the human world.

But they didn’t expect the girl was too cautious, unwilling to push forward with exploring the script, forcing them to bring out the boss, the Source Tree, early so Nora could grasp the “Evolution” Law’s adaptation characteristics from its handling of various containnt subject attacks.

Nora found a secluded corner in the script and carefully observed the battle unfolding before her.

The black radiance was emitted by the dark veil. Each beam that hit the Source Tree turned the impacted area into gray-white necrotic tissue which crumbled off.

Yet, the Source Tree quickly leveraged its strong recovery ability to heal the necrotic wounds before the next beam arrived— consuming vast amounts of life force, thus it kept incessantly grabbing humans or Green Skins, draining their life force.

“So-called evolution requires consuming massive amounts of life force?” Nora thought quietly to herself.

Then, she sharply noticed that the Source Tree’s resistance to black radiance seed to be increasing.

To be precise, whenever hit by the black radiance, the Source Tree allowed the body tissues around the wound to fall off directly before the gray-white range could spread.

Like a lizard voluntarily shedding its tail, it mitigated the damage from the black radiance by sacrificing a small amount of tissue.