Yes, Madam Prime Minister

“Your intuition is probably correct,” Ronan said.

After that battle, the Seapipers should have realized that the Phantom Melody is no match for Dinia, and it's impossible to defeat her this way.

But if they come knowing this, then it can only be interpreted as stalling for time.

Dinia raised her hand and turned Ronan into a mushroom again, holding it in her hand. Another Red Sea attack hit, and the five Phantom Symphony servers crashed instantly.

After the Red Sea attack, Dinia turned Ronan back into a human. "These five are dead."

"Let's go, they should be just ahead."

Ronan said.

The two crossed the Five Stages of Illusory Music and ran forward at breakneck speed.

Soon, the two ran out of the passageway, which was more than ten meters wide and seven or eight meters high, and arrived at an extremely spacious alternate dimension.

Nearby, a large number of Haidi people had gathered, mostly children and women. Some were terrified, some were desperate, some were angry, some were crying, and some lowered their heads, not daring to look at people. But when faced with Ronan and Dinia, they all just stood there blankly, without saying a word, letting Ronan and Dinia pass through them.

In the distance, a group of people are gathered around an altar.

Around the altar are resonating stones, and in the center is a key.

After Al-Ales returned home from his resignation, he remembered his late father saying that something was buried under the old house. Al-Ales thought it would be gold coins, but he only dug up a box containing a pile of stones, a key, and a book.

This book contains some information about the Haidi people.

Chapter Twenty-Three: Who's Lying, Who's Using Whom? It's All Too Late.

The first half of this book is less a book and more a log of the ancestors of Ares from a community of southern Haidi people more than four hundred years ago. It contains firsthand accounts, but most of it is hearsay.

At that time, Ares' ancestors were traveling across the continent.

The book doesn't explain why the ancestor of Ares came to the Haidi people's community, nor how he established good relations with them.

In short, he already had a good relationship with the Haidi people from the very beginning.

According to the book, Ares's ancestor witnessed a Heidi priest using resonance stones in conjunction with musical instruments to release something called resonance magic. He also included an assessment, stating that a single Heidi using resonance magic at its strongest was only at the level of a first-tier mage, while a group of three to five people playing together could probably reach the second tier.

Interestingly, the Haidi people actually destroyed these resonance stones. They claimed that using the resonance stones to release resonance magic would erode a person's mind, causing mental disorder and affecting future generations.

Ales' ancestor specifically mentioned here that he did not agree with this claim.

Because the High Priest who showed him the Resonance Magic was perfectly normal, far more normal than any noble or priest he had seen during his travels across the continent. Moreover, the priests all had many children, all lively and energetic. He himself came from a middle-class noble family, yet several of his brothers and sisters had died young.

However, thanks to the Seapiper's destruction of the Resonance Stones, he was able to purchase a batch of them.

Later, from a priest with whom he had a good relationship, he learned some more things. The true purpose of the Resonance Stone was not to cast Resonance Magic, but to control the machines constructed from various magic stones. When the Haidi people's civilization was at its peak, they relied on these magic stone machines to build magnificent buildings and repel the empire's offensive.

The ancestor asked the priest where the magic stone machines had gone. The priest replied that shortly after defeating the empire, the Haidi people broke out in a civil war, and most of the magic stone machines were destroyed.

The remaining ones were all moved to a secret location decades ago and are no longer in use.

The ancestor specifically mentioned here that he felt the priest had lied and that there were internal conflicts among the Haidi people, so why didn't they expand northward?

But he didn't press the matter. Instead, he changed the subject and asked the priest where those city buildings were located.

The priest told him that a large part of the true city of the Seapipers had been destroyed and disintegrated, while another part had sunk into the sea.

The ancestor said that this was simply impossible. Even two thousand years ago, this Mediterranean sea area was not much different from now. It was impossible for the Sea Flute people to build all their cities on the beach. It would be a miracle if cities could be built on the beach.

The priest said that the Haidi people's cities were originally built on the sea.

The ancestors did not believe such mythical claims, but thought that the Haidi people were just boasting. They believed that the so-called civilization of the Haidi people was not as glorious and prosperous as the priests described. They were just an advanced tribe that knew some resonance magic and had some puppet-like mechanical creatures. They had defeated the Empire once or twice by relying on their advantage of fighting on their home ground.

Over the centuries, the stories became increasingly fantastical. Ares' ancestors had seen many such things. During their travels, some people even claimed that their ancestors had killed giants and dragons, which was truly laughable.

Soon after, Ares' ancestors prepared to leave with the Resonance Stone and return to study it at their leisure.

What he didn't expect was that before he left, the high priest gave him a key, told him to take it with him, and made him swear never to bring the key back, nor to tell his descendants.

After returning home, Ares' ancestors began to secretly study the Resonance Stone, and the latter half of the book is about the Resonance Stone.

But as a result, he didn't figure it out, and his health deteriorated. He had problems with several of his children. He wanted to destroy it but couldn't, and he didn't want others to know about the existence of the resonance stone. So he buried the resonance stone, the key, and the book he had written deep underground in the manor.

They kept it a secret and didn't tell anyone.

Who knew that Alais would take a story his father made up when he was a child seriously and actually go and dig it up.

As a result, they dug the object out.

After deciding to come to White Star City, Ares first hid the key and the other resonance stones. He then took one resonance stone to the Seapiper. When the Seapiper told him that the resonance stone could also be used to activate the teleportation array, he immediately updated his plan.

He was unaware that the Seapipers had initially determined that the key was with him, and that the Seapipers' goal had always been the key; they had never considered going to Vena with him.

The reason they obeyed him was that the Haidi people believed that only when Ares left the kingdom would he carry all the resonance stones and keys with him, and once they had lured him to this place, he would have no choice but to hand them over.

From beginning to end, it was the Haidi people who were using him, not the other way around.

However, due to Ronan's interference, the situation deviated greatly from what the Seapipers had originally expected. The only thing that remained unchanged was that Ares had the key and the resonance stones with him when he was on his way out. Faced with the crisis, there was no need to force him. Ares handed over the key and all the resonance stones very readily.

Of course, after handing over the stone and the key, Ares had no further value.

Back to reality.

Ronan and Dinia watched as the light from the altar grew ever brighter.

“We have to stop them,” Ronan said.

“It’s already being done,” Dinia replied, rushing towards the altar and raising her hand as soon as she was within reach.

Paralyzing mushrooms sprouted from the lips of the priests, then grew rapidly and entered their nasal cavities. The priests surrounding the altar fell one after another like dominoes being toppled.

"Oh no, I'm too late."

Dinia said that even after dealing with the priest, the altar showed no signs of calming down. She could sense an unknown and powerful force about to erupt from within the altar.

"Can't we just smash that altar?" Ronan asked.

“That altar has the same outer shell as that puppet we just saw,” Dinia said, making it clear that magic couldn’t destroy the altar.

Since Dinia couldn't destroy it, Ronan immediately gave up the idea of ​​destroying the altar. He couldn't very well go and chop it down with his sword, could he?

"What kind of monster will be summoned?" Ronan asked again, as Dinia was the expert when it came to magic.

“I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem like it,” Dinia said, as she couldn’t sense any living creature.

The light from the altar grew brighter and brighter, and even from a distance, Ronan began to feel a dazzling sensation.

Unlike Ronan and Dinia's tension and worry, all the young men around the altar were excited and thrilled. They danced wildly in celebration, as if Ronan and Dinia didn't exist at all, as if they couldn't see the priests who had fallen around the altar. They were practically insane.

Where Ronan and his group came from, the women and children knelt down, prayed silently for a moment, and then began to sing the songs of the Heidi people.

The singing came from afar behind us.

The lyrics are in a completely incomprehensible language, but even Ronan, who is tone-deaf, can hear a sense of hope and redemption in them.

"What do we do now?" Dinia asked Ronan.

Chapter Twenty-Four: Another Dimension, Another World, A Revolving Lantern

Ronan pinched his brow. "I'm afraid only the Haidi people have a way to send us back to normal time from this alternate dimension."

Dinia nodded slightly in agreement. "Let's go over there."

The two ran towards the altar.

At this point, the young and middle-aged Haidi people around the altar were no longer just dancing and gesturing; they began to shout the same word in unison, wave after wave.

"What are they shouting?" Dinia asked Ronan, who didn't understand the Haidi language at all.

In fact, Ronan didn't understand the language of the Haidi people either. In fact, apart from the priests, most of the Haidi people didn't know their own language at all.

However, Ronan understood what they were shouting.

Because it is a very simple word.

“They’re shouting ‘Go home,’” Ronan replied to Dinia.

Dinia was surprised. Go home?

Ronan also found it strange, since the home of the Seadiers was right on the Mediterranean coast, and they had lived there since ancient times.

"Is this so-called 'going home' the same as going to heaven in some religions?"

"Dinia asked."

Some heretical cults in underdeveloped areas like to shout about going to heaven and then carry out large-scale sacrificial activities.

“Madam, the Haidi people aren’t those madmen and fools. I have a guess, which may not be correct,” Ronan said. “They may be trying to be transported to another world. They may not have originally been from our world.”

Dinia couldn't believe it. Throughout the continent's thousands of years of history, there was no shortage of records about entering other dimensions, just like the place where she and Ronan were now.

But another world? There has never been any record of such a world.

Dinia didn't believe it, but Ronan thought it was very likely, because he himself was not from this world, at least not in his soul. He had traveled from another world; he originally lived on Earth, in a country with thousands of years of civilization.

Soon, Ronan and Dinia arrived near the huge circular altar. Hundreds upon hundreds of young and strong Haidi people surrounded it, all seemingly possessed, shouting "Go home, go home," completely unmoved by anything Ronan and Dinia said to them.

"Be careful." At that moment, Dinia sensed that unknown and violent power about to emerge from the altar.

Ronan immediately raised his shield, and Dinia also wrapped himself in mushrooms, while simultaneously erecting a mushroom wall to block the two of them.

The next instant, white light shot into the sky from the altar and then spread outwards, instantly engulfing the entire open plain. Even the old man Treka, Rauka, and Terri, who had just emerged from the Illusionary Melody and were helping each other to get here, were all swallowed up by the white light.

Surrounded by white light, Ronan's head throbbed with pain, and his twenty-eight years of life before his transmigration began to replay like a revolving lantern.

His father was a civil servant and his mother was a teacher. His parents weren't strict, but they never spoiled him either. He wasn't outstanding, but he was considered a model child in the neighborhood. He was somewhat handsome, and his height was quite good for this small southern city. He could play a bit of soccer and basketball, and his grades were in the top 100 at a key high school. He went to a top-tier university and returned to his hometown after graduation. The year after graduation, he successfully became a civil servant in the district. Through connections, he was assigned to a suburban area, where he stayed for three years before entering the bureau.

He became a deputy section chief at the age of twenty-eight. Compared to those people, he was certainly far inferior, but in this district, he jokingly said that he was qualified to be a successor of socialism.

Women from various workplaces, his mother's colleagues, and some relatives would introduce him to potential partners whenever they had free time.

He initially refused, but later he couldn't resist and decided to go through with it.

Unexpectedly, on his first blind date, before he even sat down at the coffee shop and had a sip of tea, he was transported to this world.

Then he became Ronan Artes, a noble boy who ended a ridiculous little battle with his absurd actions, and then led his soldiers to join the kingdom's army to participate in the suppression of the rebellion.

A year later, nine years ago, the unrest in the south was completely quelled. Ronan requested to relinquish his noble status and began organizing an operation to eliminate the remaining rebels.

All of this was because Ronan was afraid that he would also be on the purge list.

His great-great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather were supporters of the "tyrant," the loser in the War of the Two Kings. After the tyrant's defeat, this group of nobles was driven south by the "tyrant" with subtle means. Ronan's grandfather eventually settled in Wright.

It's impossible to go any further south, since the sea is just south of there.

The rebellion itself was instigated by a group of nobles who were dissatisfied with the kingdom, while the kingdom's main army was fighting in the north.

Eight years ago, the Northern War was still ongoing, and the Kingdom had just gained the upper hand when the island nation of Wiland, to the northwest of the Kingdom, crossed the sea and fought its way through the western coastal region of the Kingdom, heading straight for the capital.

For a time, the kingdom was almost on the verge of collapse.

The following plot takes on a French flavor, as a woman arrives.

The difference is that Dinya is not a country girl, nor is she a die-hard fan of God.

She came from the Igis Orphanage, where a bottom-ranking elimination system was implemented, and students had to excel in both academic and magical subjects. They were also instilled with a set of ideas that were anti-church and opposed to the church every day.

Dinia and her elite mage corps were truly insane. They didn't bother with Weyland's army at all, but instead cut through the battle lines, annihilating Weyland's troops and the nobles who acted as collaborators, trying to rush straight to the enemy fleet before the enemy could react.

Then came the victory, which brought fame to the kingdom. The navy seized the opportunity to regain control of the seas, and the army of Wieland, which remained within the kingdom's borders, was thrown into chaos when they learned that their supply lines had been cut off.

The two sides quickly signed a ceasefire agreement.

Then the Northern War was also won smoothly.

Then came the investiture ceremony seven years ago, where Ronan was hastily awarded a medal and that was it, while Dinia, as a hero of the kingdom, received his medal from the king on the high platform.

That was indeed Ronan's first encounter with Dinia, but all he could see was a clump of white fur.

After returning to Wright City, Ronan began his career as a civil servant.

"Hey, Ronan, Ronan!"

Dinia's voice suddenly appeared, becoming clearer and clearer. Ronan jerked his head, snapping out of his reverie.

Opening his eyes, Ronan found himself in a desolate landscape, with dark clouds overhead blocking out the sun, and towering, densely packed buildings in the distance.

Looking back, there was absolutely nothing that resembled a passageway.

There were only a few dozen Haidi people, a few priests, and the old man Treka, the young man Rauka, and the girl Trii whom we had met before.

"What's the situation now?"

Ronan asked Dinia.

“Let me speak.” At this moment, the old man Treca walked over with difficulty. “Hello, Mr. Ronan.”