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

Chapter 264 Crystallization of Faith
Absolutely cruel!

There's not even a need to activate the magic circle.

With their mastery of purification techniques, no heretic could stand up in this narrow cave.

The power of most heretics is composed of magic and corruption; the higher the rank, the greater the proportion of corruption.

These heretics, whose demonic energy is also imbued with divine power, possess an even higher proportion of corrupted energy.

Even the Holy Court's standard purification techniques would probably be largely ineffective against this kind of contamination.

In other words, Ross's purification technique is specifically designed to address pollution. Only with specialized treatment can it be effective, and even then, the effect is not as high as that of ordinary pollution.

Of course, it was enough for these first and second-tier heretics.

In particular, they couldn't maneuver freely in the narrow cave.

As Celia walked along, countless heretics knelt down, their faces contorted in pain.

The purification of pollution means that their power is being drained.

This separation will also affect their maximum power level.

Simply put, they purified their maximum mana.

After thinking it over, Celia ultimately decided not to finish them off.

“Forcibly purifying the pollution from their bodies like this, even if they don’t die, they will be bedridden for years afterward, and their bodies will suffer from aftereffects, making them unable to touch pollution again. If they do, they will be bedridden for months... Let’s leave it to the Holy Court to handle.”

Celia walked past everyone and slowly ventured deeper into the area.

She sensed that the magic circle was being used, but it wasn't being used to attack her; instead, it was being used to seal off the entire stronghold, preventing anyone from leaving.

"As expected of the most secretive heretical cult, it deserves praise."

Celia gave the man a thumbs up, then marked him with a magic circle, secretly removing his administrator privileges so that he couldn't open the magic circle to escape.

After that, Celia didn't go looking for the other party. After making sure that no one could go out to call for reinforcements, she went to the core area of ​​the magic circle while purifying the heretics.

Celia has confirmed that this is the Arctic Blood Alliance's stronghold.

Each of them wore the emblem of the Arctic Blood Alliance, an emblem that would inevitably appear on the battlefield in the event of war, and which was tainted with a pollution that was difficult to cleanse.

Previously, Celia didn't know why it was difficult to purify, but now she knows: it contains divine power, so it cannot be purified—it requires the purification magic of an evil god.

The core area of ​​the Polar Blood Alliance's magic circle is completely different from that of the Deep Sea Aid Society. The Deep Sea Aid Society hides its core area, while the Polar Blood Alliance places it in the center of an underground cavern used for prayer, where an underground altar has been built.

Around the altar were pagans who were praying devoutly.

However, at this moment all the heretics sprang into action, standing in front of Celia—and were then devoutly purified.

Celia entered the underground cavern used for rituals, her body radiating the holy light of purification magic, and looked at the hundreds of heretics inside.

Upon her appearance, the heretics, who had previously been ready to die, immediately collapsed to the ground in agony, wailing repeatedly.

At least a few third-tier heretics can still rely on magic to resist.

Seeing this, even Ross laughed and said, "I'm afraid these heretics will have to cleanse their bodies of all the pollution overnight."

"It would be best to drain it all out. Pollution is extremely harmful. Who knows how long one can live by using pollution as a source of energy?"

When a group of people fall to the ground, groaning in pain and watching their strength being drained away in despair, those who remain standing seem quite out of place.

Celia, radiating holy light, slowly approached the person standing there.

There are five in total.

They were all third-tier mages. They were affected a little, but it wasn't a big problem.

They looked at Celia as if they had seen a ghost.

One of them shouted angrily, "Who are you?"

Celia bowed slightly to them and smiled, saying, "Celia, the Holy See's Quasi-Saintess, greets everyone."

The group exchanged glances, and the man who had questioned them turned serious.

"The Holy Court has actually improved the purification spell to such a terrifying effect... We must not let her leave. Capture her and make her hand over this purification spell!"

The five of them summoned their magical puppets.

Celia's puppets will stand in front of her and serve as the main force in the battle, while Celia will maintain her purification spell and continue to unleash full-screen AOE attacks.

Just like when we dealt with those heretics outside the Southern City.

That's cheating.

But it's cool.

Without a fourth-tier mage, Celia is a natural counter to heretics!
You worked so hard, but somehow you managed to combine divine power with pollution to counter the Holy Court's purification spell.

Hehe, I have a purification spell bestowed by the gods!

With the help of purification magic, Celia easily took on five opponents at once, or rather, ten with the help of the puppets!

Danger perception is also endowed to the puppet to some extent, making it easier for the puppet to deal with attacks.

The number of standing heretics is decreasing.

When their defenses are shattered by the golems and they face the purification spell, even those at the third rank cannot stop the pollution from dissipating, though not as quickly as those at the first or second rank.

"I might not be able to beat the third-tier ice wolves outside, but beating you guys is a piece of cake."

Celia slowly walked toward the altar. Before her, five third-order heretics were being defeated one after another, lying on the ground as if submitting to her.

Upon arriving at the altar, Celia looked at the sacred object being offered in the center of the altar.

It was a white, semi-transparent, long hexagonal crystal. Inside the crystal was a small black dot, emanating a pollution more bizarre than that of heretics.

Ross said, "This crystal is a spiritual object for collecting faith, called a faith crystal. It was a faith collection tool commonly used by the gods a thousand years ago, but it was later phased out and upgraded to collecting idols, and then to collecting without physical objects."

As he spoke, Ross laughed and said, "The reason for the upgrade is that the millennium-long battle for faith between the gods was too fierce. Their initial method of fighting for faith was to destroy faith crystals. Later, they destroyed the idols of enemy gods, forcing them to find ways to collect faith without physical objects."

"However, without physical objects to collect faith, the amount of faith that can be absorbed is less than one-tenth of that of physical objects, and it is also impure and not pure, making it extremely easy to be corrupted by other energies, such as abyssal demonic energy."

"Moreover, this kind of remote collection of faith requires the worshipper to specify a deity to pray to. There are no idols, and faith crystals are highly efficient, but they are convenient."

Celia picked up the crystal of faith and examined it with curiosity.

Ross added, "This kind of physical faith collection doesn't require believers to name names. As long as a believer prays and the object collects it, any deity can use it if it's not locked. Take it. When we get back, I'll see who's absorbing faith inside this object."

"it is good."

Celia carefully put away the crystal of faith. She looked down at all the heretics.

At the core of the magic circle, she manipulated it, and after a moment, she used the magic circle to connect to the Protoss network, sending the coordinates and situation of this location to Vanessa.

"Let Vanessa call the Bishop of Southern Border City to deal with these heretics."

Miss Celia just wants to focus on learning magic.

(End of this chapter)