The villain daughter did all kinds of things

Amelie muttered to herself again.

This doesn't require any settings from the original game in her past life; she can obtain relevant information from her own intelligence center simply by virtue of her current status as the owner of the Melson Ring.

Karent Lohid is indeed very strong, slightly weaker than the Old Lich and the Red Robe, but he can definitely outclass Machira. According to the level classification in the original game, he should be between level 750 and 800.

His ice magic can create absolute zero, physically freezing time and space by stopping the movement of molecules.

Unfortunately, this is only in a physical sense. Souls frozen in time and space can continue to think and can resist this freezing by consuming pure magic or spiritual power.

In the final battle of the original game, Kalent was a little careless after freezing three immortal elders of the Tianyun Empire. He did not expect that the immortal elders could cast spells with their divine souls alone and used a powerful blood sacrifice disintegration technique, which ultimately led to the mutual destruction of all four of them.

The true strongest member of the Lohid family was an old man who was almost 2000 years old. He was active before the founding of the Allen Federation and was a great mage specializing in space magic.

The Otherworldly Town was his creation, and he will not leave it. It is the last trump card for the Lohid family when they face annihilation. He can take the Otherworldly Town away from this world, transforming it into a wandering town in the endless void, to find a new place for the family's survivors to settle.

Therefore, it's not wrong to say that Kalent is the strongest member of the Lohid family, because this old man is indeed the most powerful magician in the Lohid family who can take action.

With just a single, powerful ice magic spell that instantly froze a large area of ​​the sea, Karent dealt a severe blow to Machira's arrogance.

Machira no longer displayed the arrogance and contempt she had shown when facing that weak mayor. She no longer unleashed her power to amplify the intimidation of her words, letting her voice revert to its original sweetness, just like an ordinary mermaid girl.

"Your Excellency, I apologize for my previous rudeness... I may have been a bit hasty in my expression, but I really meant no harm. I just wanted to kill that traitor of my race who had sided with the demons as soon as possible."

"I don't know why your country is protecting that traitor, but surely you, sir, are well aware of how cunning and dangerous demons are? Those who collude with demons must be eliminated!"

"..."

Karent frowned slightly upon hearing this and stroked his beard.

He didn't say that Machira had come to the wrong place; rather, he understood humanity itself and the Allen Federation very well.

Many spells have the effect of divination and location, and the Lohid family is very good at it. Machira's certainty that the traitor is in the Federation must be the result of some kind of spell, a point that Karent also agrees with.

However, there are many factions within the Federation, and it is unknown which faction is protecting the merman traitor Karent. It will take time to investigate.

But this cannot be told to Machira, an outsider, because it would inevitably make the sea creatures think that the human government is inefficient and that the higher-ups are completely unaware of what is being done secretly below.

So Karent was thinking about how to say these things tactfully and clear up the misunderstanding between the two sides.

However, at this moment, another powerful figure appeared.

"Hahahahahahahaha...!"

Before the person even arrived, there was a wild, slightly neurotic laugh.

Many of those who heard the laughter were members of the Melson and Lohid families, including Amelie, who covered their faces, looking very embarrassed.

After the laughter subsided, shadows loomed over the sky, followed by a colossal creature descending from the heavens.

It was a huge iron ball, supported by eight legs. The entire iron ball was over 100 meters in diameter and contained a hot and powerful energy source. As soon as the iron ball stood next to the large ship confronting Machira, the frozen sea began to melt.

"Demons? Where are the demons? Quickly catch them and let me play with them... What's so scary about demons? If you're scared, then give them all to me!"

A wild, almost manic voice rang out again, emanating from inside the giant iron sphere:

"So what if you collude with demons? What's the big deal? You seafoods are really conservative and stingy... Take a look at my powerful and reliable armor! Its power system is powered by the hearts of 16 high-ranking demons! I use the power of demons, do you want to destroy me too?"

Machira's face darkened further, and she gripped her weapon tightly, for a few moments even considering actually making a move.

She probably has some kind of psychological trauma, which is why she hates demons so much, but the specifics are unclear to Emerald, because it wasn't mentioned in the original game.

Fortunately, Machira was, after all, a significant figure, and she didn't let personal feelings override her reason. She took a deep breath and addressed the giant iron ball with neither servility nor arrogance:

"May I ask who you are?"

. . . . .

When Machira asked about the giant iron ball, Julia was equally curious and asked Emerald who this giant iron ball was.

"...He is an elder in my family, and he is very capable."

Emerald was still covering her face, clearly feeling ashamed to admit she was with the Big Iron Ball family, but she still patiently introduced them to Julia:

“Actually, you met him during the New Year, baby. He’s the old man Antonis who picked up Bobo and Lulu at the same time and then rubbed them with his full pink beard.”

“Grandpa Antonis’s magical talent is very powerful. Any magical artifact can be maximized in his hands to fight... The big iron ball you see now can be considered his magical artifact.”

"While I believe my Celestial Maiden is the strongest in terms of performance and aesthetics, if we only look at the stats such as firepower, armor, self-repair capabilities, and power, I have to admit that Grandpa Antonis's Demon Giant Soldier is the strongest magical artifact, a true war fortress, even stronger than a magical warship."

. . . . .

In the VIP box, Emerald had already introduced the giant iron ball to Julia, but the giant iron ball itself showed no intention of introducing itself, and even ignored Machira's question, instead bickering with Karent.

Actually, this was just a coincidence, because at the same time Machira was asking about the identity of the giant iron ball, Karent also made a sarcastic remark about it:

"Why did you, you rude big metal lump, show up here? Do you think I can't handle this myself?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The big iron ball laughed for a while, a bit eccentrically, before saying:

"Indeed, after seeing you step in, Old Popsicle, I didn't want to get involved in this matter. But after hearing this seafood keep babbling about how demons are dangerous, I couldn't help myself—demons are clearly a high-quality mobile resource pool! How are they dangerous? Their hearts can be used to make magic engines, their blood can be used to brew potions, their horns can be used to forge weapons, and their skin is also excellent material for making resistance armor..."

At this point, the big iron ball couldn't help but complain again:

"Moreover, those demons are all cowards. Now, every time I use the demon summoning circle to summon some high-level demons to kill and gather materials, no demon is willing to respond to me... They run away faster than the last after sensing my presence."

After complaining, the giant iron ball seemed to finally remember Machira, and said to her disdainfully:

"So seafood is just seafood, the weak only fit for the pot... A traitor colluding with demons makes you this nervous? Could it be that all your cultivation is just from years of hard work?"

"...Your Excellency, you've gone too far!"

Machira finally lost her patience with the giant iron ball and launched an attack, brandishing her three-pointed double-edged spear:

"First of all, we are merfolk! We are highly intelligent life forms in the sea! We are not seafood!"

brush!

Along with the three-pointed double-edged spear, what was unleashed was a super-fast stream of water compressed to its limit.

This phenomenon was known as water jetting in the industry of Blue Star, the previous incarnation of Ameliete. The ultra-high-speed water jet could truly cut through iron like mud, and could even easily cut through space materials.

Now, Machira's furious attack, imbued with a great deal of magic power, was even more powerful. It encountered almost no resistance, slicing off a third of the large iron ball as easily as cutting tofu, revealing the complex internal structure and numerous components of the ball.

"...That's it?"

Yulia, who was watching the battle, was somewhat surprised. The big iron ball was so arrogant, but its actual combat ability was so weak? It couldn't even withstand a single move from its opponent.

She immediately wanted to complain to Emerald, but Emerald remained unmoved with a smile, showing no concern for her elder.

Yulia instantly realized that the giant iron ball was definitely more than that. In order not to appear too stupid, she didn't ask any questions, but instead kept quiet and patiently continued to watch.

Sure enough, before Machira could even retract her three-pointed double-edged sword after her slash, the one-third of the large iron ball that had been cut off had already returned to its original, undamaged state, just like a monster in a game instantly regaining full health after disengaging from combat.

"This is……"

Yulia even thought she was seeing things. She rubbed her eyes a few more times to make sure she wasn't mistaken, and this time she couldn't help herself:

"What's going on? How did Grandpa Antonis manage to do that?"

"This is Grandpa Antonis's innate magic..."

Emery laughed and shrugged.

Antonis Melson is also the strongest member of the Melson family on the surface. His abilities are not a secret in the upper echelons of the Allen Federation. Emery simply stated:

“Grandpa Antonis’s innate magic is matter recombination. As long as he has enough magic power, he can reconstruct and repair any inanimate object at the molecular level. And his demon giant has 16 high-level demon hearts inside as a source of magic power, so the demon giant cannot be destroyed. Even if it is completely destroyed, it can be repaired instantly.”

"During the Elf Wars, four great elven mages set a trap to kill Grandpa Antonis. However, they were instead dragged into the trap by Grandpa Antonis and fought a war of attrition for nearly two months. In the end, they were all killed by Grandpa Antonis because they ran out of magic."

"So... although Grandpa Antonis's personal strength isn't particularly strong, his innate magic combined with the demon giant weapon means that even now I wouldn't dare to anger him."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

On the front lines of the standoff on the sea outside the port, the giant iron ball burst into laughter once more, this time with a hint of bloodlust and excitement in its tone:

"Is that all you've got, you little seafood? Remember this, you started it... Don't blame me for being ruthless next time!"

"Wait... um!"

After her furious outburst, Machira quickly regained her composure and realized that continuing the fight was absolutely unwise. She wanted to speak up and stop them, even if it meant softening her tone.

Unfortunately, the giant iron ball didn't give her a chance; a sudden burst of high temperature and heat wave silenced Machira before she could finish speaking.

"Holy crap, you iron lump, what's wrong with you? This is our own port!"

Even Calent was getting a little exasperated, but he didn't slow down at all.

First, he used magic to envelop the large ship beneath his feet, instantly retreating hundreds of meters with it, thus avoiding the center of the explosion of the giant iron ball.

Then, Karent made a single-finger upward gesture with his left hand to cast a spell, instantly raising a massive ice wall hundreds of meters high, thousands of meters long, and over 20 meters thick, protecting the entire port.

Chapter 279 Building Reputation and Establishing a Persona

As it turned out, Karent Lohid's judgment was absolutely correct.

Because Antonis Myerson, that old guy with a somewhat eccentric voice, is truly eccentric when he does things—he actually dares to suddenly unleash a major attack right next to his own main city.

The enormous sphere of light rising from the sea reminded Amelie of the nuclear bomb explosion test she had seen in a video in her previous life. The intense magical pressure made the legs of half of the ordinary people in Sphinx go weak, and many people in the port area fainted on the roadside.

Viliana's detection magic was completely rendered ineffective by this level of magical burst, and she herself turned pale, likely also affected by the burst.

"...I'm sorry, Master. I'm so useless. I couldn't make you enjoy the show."

Despite enduring the backlash from the forced explosion of her channeled spell, Viliana took the initiative to apologize to Emeryte.

“It’s alright, Anna, you’ve done your best… Even I didn’t expect that Grandpa Antonis would suddenly take things seriously. He’s truly a man of his stature.”

Amelie waved her hand, and gentle holy light entered Viliana's body with the movement of her fingertips to heal her.

At the same time, a celestial feather flew out from under Amelie's skirt, covering thousands of meters in the blink of an eye, reaching the sky above the front-line battlefield, and continuing to transmit back to the on-site projection like a drone live broadcast.

Thanks to the timely and all-out creation of ice walls by Kalent, the Sphingart port area suffered no other losses except for many people who fainted under the magical pressure.

But Machira and her merfolk soldiers fared much worse.

When Emerald's Heavenly Wings transmitted the projected image again, only about 100 of the more than 300 merfolk soldiers who had followed Machira remained, struggling to hold on under Machira's magical protection. The remaining merfolk soldiers who were farther away from Machira had completely disappeared.

Even the 100-plus surviving mermaid soldiers had mostly fainted. They looked like dried fish trapped in an oven, severely dehydrated. Their once fair and delicate skin was covered with red, swollen, and charred burn marks, and their scales had been burned off.

The hundred-meter-high waves that Machira originally used to submerge Sphinx and threaten the Federation, after being frozen into icebergs by Kalent, have now been almost evaporated by Antonis's flames, and the entire frozen sea surface has been burned into a hemispherical basin.

Even Machira herself is now struggling to stay afloat by relying solely on pure magic, and she is gritting her teeth and gritting her face in pain, with her upper body's clothes already soaked with sweat.

Clearly, although Antonis launched a sudden attack, the outcome of the battle was already decided, and it was a crushing defeat for Machira.

Antonis perfectly demonstrated what it means to overcome all skill with sheer force. Without using any sophisticated magic, he simply activated the 16 high-level demon hearts inside the giant iron ball at full power, concentrating an enormous amount of fire magic power within himself. This made the giant iron ball almost like a second sun on the sea, using its intense heat to scorch Machira and her mermaid soldiers.

During this time, Machira also tried various means to fight back, but no matter what kind of spells or moves she used, they were all like stones sinking into the sea when they hit the large iron ball that had gathered a lot of magic power.

Magic itself is the most versatile power of miracles; any spell or technique is essentially just a more efficient use of magic.

Given similar total magical power and magical output power, the one with higher efficiency and more precise control over magical power will be stronger.

However, once the total amount of magic power and the output power of magic power are far apart, it will be like Machira facing Antonis at this moment. Any spells and moves will be flashy and will be completely wiped out in the face of several times the magic power protection.

As a result, Machira could only endure the scorching heat of the giant iron ball, experiencing her own weakness once again, just as she had when facing that demon years ago.

Machira was already weaker, and now her mentality was about to collapse. Her once majestic expression looked like she was about to cry, and the magical barrier she used to resist the scorching heat began to flicker.

If Machira's defenses were to completely collapse, her mermaid soldiers would be wiped out, and she herself might even end up as dried fish—if she gave up and didn't run away.

Given Machira's status among the mermaids, even if she acted rashly and made a mistake, if she were truly killed by the Allen Federation, it would inevitably lead to a complete break between the mermaids and the Allen Federation.

This would affect many of Emerald's future plans, so Emerald hesitated whether to step forward and persuade her somewhat neurotic and crazy old man.

Fortunately, Antonis was only a little neurotic, not really neurotic. He seemed to understand that he couldn't really roast Machira to death, so he voluntarily stopped firing after Machira had already knelt weakly on the ground.

Seeing this, Calent, who had been protecting the port with ice walls, breathed a sigh of relief and then flew directly onto the giant iron ball, kicking it twice with a loud bang:

"You're a complete lunatic, you iron lump! Do you want to burn Sphinx down with it?"

"Isn't it because you're here, Old Popsicle? Do you think I don't know what you're capable of?"

Antonis remained nonchalant, then suddenly another iron chain shot out from the giant iron ball, binding the panting Machira and lifting her into the air.

"How about that? You little seafood, still so arrogant? You dare to yell about flooding Sphinx? Believe me, I'll roast you all into dried fish and use you as cat food?"

"...Gurgle."

Machira's face was filled with humiliation.

With her strength, she naturally wouldn't be bound by mere iron chains, but she dared not break free.

She feared that Antonis, that madman, might become enraged and attack again. In that case, she might be able to save her own life with her strength, but the last 100-plus merman soldiers who had already fainted would definitely be doomed.