Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint.

Chapter 179 Passive Spell: Danger Sense

Several months ago, Celia followed a clue to Crimson Town and destroyed two Deepsea Aid outposts around the town.

In the latter stronghold, Ross possessed the body of the stronghold, destroyed the self-destruct rune, and took the spiritual object used to collect faith from the stronghold—a fish scale from an unknown fish.

After returning to school, Ross secretly set up a reverse tracking and positioning array, successfully locking onto the location of Ethel, the sea god who collects faith.

Because Celia's strength was too low, Ross put his plan to find the sea god on hold.

Now, he felt very close to the sea god, and after thinking about it carefully, he decided to ask Celia to come and check on the situation.

"Judging from the state I sense, Ethel's condition is not good, and he may even be in a deep sleep. Although I have never seen his divine fragments, his condition must not be good."

“With Celia’s strength, she can’t fight a god, but if the opponent is a soul, that’s a different story. If she has a physical body, she’s just in a normal slumber, so there’s nothing to worry about; she can just leave.”

Ross possesses a passive ability to sense danger. This ability enabled him to react naturally when he was ganged up on, avoiding many fatal injuries and allowing him to survive the attack by the twelve main gods before being sealed away.

Now, having entered the area of ​​influence of the Celestial Tree and feeling the rich magical environment around them, Ross looked at Celia and said, "Celia, this is the perfect place to learn [Danger Sense]. Try it out and see how this passive spell works."

Celia paused for a moment, then became excited: "Okay!"

Passive spells—Sirius had heard of them. It was a very peculiar school of magic; once mastered, it granted a long-lasting magical effect.

However, learning it doesn't mean you can rest easy. You still need to practice it regularly. In addition to improving the passive effect, it also prevents you from forgetting it and losing the passive ability if you don't use it for a long time.

“Our instructor once told us in spell class that the Age of Calamity caused a large number of passive spells to be lost. There are very few passive spells left today, and most of them are treasured. Moreover, even if you learn them, it is difficult to teach them to others. Teaching and learning are like two different systems.”

“Yes, teaching and using are indeed not the same system.” Ross nodded. “For example, teaching danger perception requires two conditions to be met: first, the student must be in a dangerous environment at all times during the learning period; second, the student must be within the coverage area of ​​the Protoss Tree or be carrying a branch of the Protoss Tree.”

"If I don't tell you these two conditions, how will you teach others after you've learned them?"

Upon hearing Ross's example, Celia immediately understood.

"No wonder, no wonder I didn't understand what my mentor was saying. He didn't give any concrete examples. It turns out that passive spells require specific conditions to learn. Why didn't my mentor say that?"

"There are two possibilities: either the tutor is using professional terminology from class, complicating a simple matter, or the tutor doesn't know what the requirements are either, hence the ambiguous description."

"I see. Does Lord Ross have any other passive abilities?"

"Don't aim too high, focus on sensing the magic circuits of danger perception."

"Okay!"

Direct spiritual transmission, with the power of the gods enhancing the memory, skipping the memorization process, and directly starting to use magic to attempt learning.

"Danger perception requires the combined use of magic and mental power. In addition to the two conditions I just mentioned, mastery of the Mage's Hand is also a non-essential but very important condition. Your proficiency with the Mage's Hand is sufficient for you to learn it."

As Celia sensed the danger, she suddenly felt a sense of crisis coming from her right rear. She turned her head sharply and pointed, and the puppet immediately unleashed an ice blade strike.

The monster that attempted to ambush was instantly cleaved in two, its blood spraying everywhere.

"Is this what danger perception is?" Celia asked excitedly. "It feels even better than the natural perception that mages are born with."

"Danger perception allows you to sense danger and quickly determine how to deal with it, with its effectiveness increasing with proficiency," Ross said calmly. "While the natural perception that mages possess can only be used out of combat."

What does "disengagement from combat" mean?

"It's the sensation triggered by a sudden attack right before entering combat. It's only useful at that moment. After blocking this sneak attack, it's hard to use it afterward, and it's also impossible to quickly find weaknesses or countermeasures." "Oh."

Celia seemed to understand, but not quite.

As she moved forward, she learned the passive spell.

As Ross said, this is the perfect place to learn this spell.

Celia was attacked by monsters almost every few steps she took.

At first, she killed them all in one go.

But after killing too many, I felt a bit uneasy, because these were monsters, or rather, magical beasts, that hadn't been affected by pollution. Indiscriminate killing might actually harm the ecosystem here.

Especially since these monsters are all low-level and no longer of much help to her, it's better to leave them for the mages who will come in to adventure later.

As a "reward" for helping her learn [Danger Sense], Celia decided not to kill them. Instead, she froze them and left them standing there until the spell's effect wore off and they thawed.

They continued onward until they sensed a change in the concentration of pollution in the surrounding area.

"You've arrived in the second-tier area," Ross's words reached Celia's ears.

Celia looked ahead, and the trees seemed to grow even taller.

Even the weeds and vines growing on the ground became as thick as her arm, directly hindering her progress.

Celia looked up at the sky, and from there she could see the glow of the Star Spirit Tree above the clouds.

These branches and leaves seem to radiate a golden light, shining on all the trees at their feet instead of the sunlight, making them grow even stronger than those outside.

"It's so hard to walk here. I want to fly, but I feel like my magic is still a little short."

"Don't fly, listen to me," Ross said calmly.

Celia asked curiously, "I know flying in polluted areas is dangerous, but could Lord Ross explain what the dangers are in flying through the Protoss Forbidden Zones?"

Ross pointed in a direction: "In that direction, about a kilometer up in the treetops, there is a large fourth-order bird. If you fly up to the treetops, it will immediately lock onto you, swoop down, and take you to feed its young."

Celia then asked, "And what about flying under the canopy?"

"Many flying monsters lurk among the tree canopies here. Do you have the ability to fight in flight?"

Celia shook her head. "No."

Although she can use magic while flying, putting aside whether she can aim, she is clumsy at dodging attacks, which is incomparable to her ground skills. She has not seriously studied spells for aerial combat, and the puppet does not have the ability to fly.

"Before the fourth level, there is no need to specifically learn flight combat, because you do not have the ability to fly for a long time. If you rely on an aircraft to fly, you will be in danger if the aircraft is destroyed."

Celia nodded repeatedly.

Just then, a strong sense of crisis came from above.

(End of this chapter)