Collapse of iron, but I am the Supreme Strange

Ever since the last time they met, after An Yi replaced Swarovski's body with a vibranium body and a new operating system, Swarovski's attitude towards An Yi has become so respectful.

"I installed a new operating system for Swarovski based on Jarvis." An Yi once explained to the train crew, "Who is Jarvis? Jarvis is a polite and good AI. Swarovski will become lovable in the future."

Shivarro lowered his head slightly and said to An Yi behind him: "I heard that there are Silver Mane Guards causing trouble around Panyan Town. I hope you are not frightened."

"Frightened? Oh my god, I sound like a child." An Yi rubbed his eyebrows.

At this time, Swarovski also saw the watch on An Yi's hand. He looked at Clara and said slowly: "It seems that Mr. An Yi accepted your gift, Clara, but why is the watch broken?"

"this--"

Clara scratched her head and reluctantly explained what happened in Rock Town to Swarlow.

"Is the Great Guardian going to send the Royal Guards to fight against the lower district?" The red light on Swarovski's head flashed: "This matter has been recorded in the database - the data has been updated, and a new simulation of the personality model of "Cocolia" is being carried out."

After two seconds, Swarovski raised his head and spoke to Anyi again: "According to the new simulation results, the probability of the Royal Guards and Silver Mane Iron Guards coming to the lower area for the second time is 91.72 percent."

"I didn't expect it wasn't 100%." ​​Xing said on the side.

"When the upper and lower regions come into contact again, the probability of armed conflict is 87.33 percent." Swarovski continued, "A solution is being generated - the underground fire in the lower region should be prepared for the battle."

"Yes, but this is only a temporary solution, not a permanent one," An Yi said. "Instead of solving the problem, why not just kill Cocolia?"

"......Huh?!" Clara suddenly widened her eyes and looked at An Yi beside her.

"Analysis in progress - destroying Cocolia can reduce the probability of armed conflict between the upper and lower levels to 3.14%. The analysis result shows that it is feasible."

"How, how come even Mr. Swarovski is..." Clara shifted her surprised gaze to Swarovski again.

"Want to go? Very good." An Yi nodded: "Clara, you beat Cocolia."

"Me, me?!" Clara pointed at herself, confused: "I want to fight with the Great Guardian... um, no, it's impossible, Clara is not good at fighting..."

Seeing Clara's confused expression, An Yi couldn't help but burst into laughter. He rubbed Clara's head and then spoke to Swarovski:

"I guess I have to say sorry, Swarlow."

"Searching is in progress, but no reason has been found for Mr. An Yi to apologize." Swarovski replied.

An Yi shook his head helplessly, then looked at Clara.

"It's time." An Yi said, "If you have made up your mind, tell Mr. Swarovski."

Swarovski didn't understand what An Yi meant, so he looked at Clara in confusion.

Clara's eyes trembled, and she pursed her lips, as if she had made some kind of decision.

"Um, Clara has to... has to leave Mr. Swarovski for a while," Clara twisted her fingers and said to Swarovski, "Clara wants to learn magic from Brother An Yi, so she may need to be separated from Mr. Swarovski for a while."

"Learn magic..." A red light flashed on Swarovski's metal head: "Calculating - the result failed to infer, the database lacks relevant information on "magic"."

"Don't calculate these, Swarovski." An Yi said to him, "Just remember what Clara looks like now."

"Remember... Clara's current appearance..." Swarovski said slowly: "The database search is correct, and the relevant information of "Clara" is already the highest level information. Mr. An Yi, why do I need to do this?"

"Because, you will soon find out--" The Eye of Agamotto on Anyi's chest emitted a conspicuous green light: "Clara is going to change her appearance."

Snapped--

An Yi stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers.

Then, everything around became quiet.

Clara looked at An Yi's actions curiously. She felt that something was wrong around her, but she couldn't tell exactly what it was.

She looked at Swarlow and spoke to him:

"Brother An Yi said that Clara will be away from here for several years. I think Mr. Swarovski might miss Clara, so -"

"Clara." An Yi interrupted the girl.

"Yes, yes——" Clara was stunned for a moment.

She raised her head and looked at An Yi, who pouted at Swarovski.

Clara soon discovered that Swarovski was now stuck in place as if it had crashed, not moving at all. What was even stranger was that even the low hum of the engine that Swarovski would make when he was dormant had disappeared.

It was the first time that Clara had seen such a thing. She widened her eyes, turned around, and looked around in confusion.

In the mechanical settlement, one cannot hear the sound of wind, the chirping of birds and insects, or the conversations of the wanderers in the settlement.

Everything was so quiet—so quiet that Clara could hear her own heart pounding and the sound of her blood pumping through her body.

She turned around and looked at the people in the train crew, Dan Heng, San Yue Qi, and Xing. They all stood still, motionless like wax figures. Even the hem of San Yue Qi's skirt, which was slightly blown up by the wind, remained that way. Everything in this world was paused.

"The time of this universe has been paused by me." An Yi's voice came from the side.

"Time... is paused?!" Clara said in disbelief: "Brother An Yi, can you pause time?! This is... this is also magic?!"

"Strictly speaking, this isn't really magic." An Yi said as he tapped the Eye of Agamotto on his chest with his fingers: "This is the power of the Time Stone."

"Time Stone?"

"I know you're curious, but you'll have plenty of time to learn more later." An Yi said, "I paused the time of this universe, just like reaching out and jamming the gears of a clock. Before I unlocked this ability, we were an existence outside of time in this universe."

The pause seemed to have a big impact on Clara. She stared with her beautiful big eyes and spoke incoherently.

"B-but now is the time...Brother An Yi...is there anything you can't do?!"

An Yi looked at her and laughed: "You will see much stranger things than this - get used to it first, Clara."

"...So, so," Clara took a deep breath and looked back at An Yi: "Is this what you mean by 'one-way farewell'?"

She placed her hand on her chest, lowered her head and spoke slowly: "After the time pause ends... everyone who was paused doesn't know what happened during this period. Is that right, Brother An Yi..."

"Oh, you understand it quickly."

"So in the eyes of Mr. Swarlow and the pioneer brothers and sisters, Clara never left at all, right?"

"Yeah." An Yi nodded, then turned and walked towards the entrance leading to the temple in the mechanical settlement.

"Come with me, Clara," he said without turning his head. "Find me in the temple."

Clara stood where she was, not following immediately, but lowered her head and thought for a while.

She bit her lip, then walked over to Swarlow's huge mechanical body and hugged his big arms.

"Goodbye, Mr. Swarlow."

Clara let go of her hand, looked at Swarovski's motionless head, and slowly said: "When Clara becomes a magician, she will come back to see you!"

After saying that, Clara broke into a jog, following An Yi's footsteps and stepped into the portal.

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An Yi opened the door and brought Clara into the room.

"Your bedroom." An Yi said, "Although I didn't think of other people staying here when I designed the temple, I was smart enough to reserve a few more rooms."

Clara poked her head out from behind An Yi and looked at the gorgeous big room in front of her. Her eyes couldn't help but tremble.

There was a large bed in the room that looked very soft - so large that Clara could do three somersaults on it without falling to the ground.

Oh, of course, Clara would do nothing like that.

The floor was covered with a red carpet embroidered with intricate patterns, which looked very valuable.

There were exquisite paintings hanging on the walls of the room, and the wooden table was covered with all kinds of cut fruits that she had never seen before. Even the air was filled with a very pleasant fragrance.

If Clara had to find an adjective to describe this room, the first word that came to her mind was - luxurious.

"This, this kind of room..." Clara waved her hand at An Yi: "This kind of room is a little too exquisite! Brother An Yi, Clara only needs a very ordinary bedroom!"

As a girl who grew up in a mechanical settlement, Clara had never seen such a luxurious room. She had slept on bare rock walls, on hills of abandoned machinery, and in smoke-filled underground mines. For her, there was really no need for An Yi to prepare such a comfortable room.

An Yi reached out and gently tapped Clara's forehead. The latter covered her forehead with her hands, showing a puzzled expression.

"Clara, do you know what the construction of the temple relies on?" An Yi asked, "You don't think it's "money", do you?"

"Hmm... it's based on... "magic"? "

Clara answered cautiously.

"It's 'imagination'." An Yi replied: "Imagination is the only thing with a limit to the power of the Temple."

He slowly walked to the floor-to-ceiling window on one side of the room and reached out to draw open the curtains.

With a swish, the scenery outside appeared in front of Clara.

There was actually a sea outside the window - a balcony extended above the sea, so close that the splashes of water from the waves could splash onto the floor.

"Everything here is free, Clara," An Yi said, "Just open up your mind and enjoy life after practicing. Don't feel any burden. Here, imagination is the only thing that restricts you, not money."

An Yi gently turned a spherical wheel by the window. This thing was the same as the portal that came with the temple.

Then the scenery outside the window also changed.

The golden desert, the endless rapeseed fields, the quiet jungle, the towering snow-capped mountains, and even the bustling city night scene...all kinds of scenery appeared one after another.

"Change to whichever style you like. Each scene corresponds to a different world," An Yi said, "but remember not to climb over the balcony railing, otherwise I will have to go to another world to fish you out, which will be very troublesome."

"...Um...Okay, okay." Clara nodded with a dizzy head.

"I'm going to do some preparations for teaching now - I'll summon you later, so take a rest here first."

After saying that, An Yi walked out the door.

"Oh, right--"

An Yi paused, turned around, snapped his fingers, and then a set of clothes appeared on the bed in the bedroom.

This is a red robe with a huge hood on the back, and a belt, boots and other things are neatly placed on one side of the robe.

"This is the robe that an apprentice of mystic magician should wear," An Yi pointed to the luxurious bathtub next to the French window, "Take a bath, then change your clothes. By the way, I've never seen a mage your age, so I made this robe on the spot. If it doesn't fit, remember to tell me."

After explaining all this, An Yi left the room.

"what……"

Now Clara was the only one left in the room. She stood in the room and took several minutes to clear her mind.

The girl closed her eyes and shook her head vigorously.

Clara took a few steps back and sat on the bed, then leaned back and let herself lie on the big bed.

It was the first time for her to lie on such a comfortable bed, but she did not look comfortable. Instead, her face was full of worry and anxiety.

Clara tilted her head and looked past the floor-to-ceiling window at the scenery outside - the picture at this moment was a starry sky lit up by the aurora, the gorgeous colors were showing the charm of nature.

"A magician...?"

The girl murmured to herself,

"Clara... can you really learn it..."

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and then grabbed the wizard robe beside the bed.

"...Clara, I will try my best!" She clenched her fists and said to herself, "I will never let Brother An Yi down!"

She encouraged herself, then listened to An Yi, took a shower and changed her clothes.

Underwear, socks, wizard robes, belts, fingerless gloves—An Yi even prepared a hairpin for her.

After putting all of these on one by one, Clara looked at herself in the mirror and nodded with satisfaction.

"It seems to be a little bit like that." Clara said to herself: "Is this... the new me?"

She nodded and prepared to go out to find An Yi, but she paused and stepped back.

"It seems... I forgot something..."

She lowered her head and looked at the boots placed beside the bed, feeling troubled.

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Chapter 103: It’s time to change your words and call me teacher!

crunch--

Clara pushed the door open and stuck her head out into the corridor.

"Are you ready?"