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

Chapter 421 The Deep Sea Plan

Because Celia's puppet was destroyed, Ross, who had to borrow Benovia's puppet, sensed Benovia's thoughts and shook his head.

“Compared to Benovia, Celia is not bold at all.”

As they ventured deeper underground, the walls and surrounding surfaces of the cave passages crumbled due to the influx of pollution, revealing shimmering magical runes within.

Ross remained expressionless, maneuvering the puppet to descend at a steady pace.

Soon, he arrived at the bottom, in a spacious underground space.

At this moment, the dense demonic pollution materialized and entered the altar and Phil's body.

Phil seemed to have become a black hole of pollution.

Through the polluted smog, one could vaguely see that her face was contorted in pain, as if she were enduring it with great difficulty.

Runes that Ross had previously bestowed upon her appeared all over her body, including her hands, feet, and cheeks.

The purification crystal she wore on her chest shimmered faintly, but not noticeably, as it was obscured by the gray fog formed by pollution.

However, the faint light is very persistent.

Ross examined it carefully and nodded: "It's alright. Maybe we can use this opportunity to strengthen our connection with Phil. Once we get the new godhood, we can be like Benovia."

Ross used his mental power to scan the entire city, gaining a clear understanding of what was happening in Leites City. In particular, after Celia and Benovia separated, he was able to scan most of the area using their positions.

"This Deep Sea Aid Society is quite audacious. It seems to have received guidance from someone and learned the magic array that allows quantitative change to lead to qualitative change. By using massive pollution and the souls of many people, they can temporarily elevate the 'sacrifice' to the fourth level. Although they can't defeat those at the fourth level, they are quite adept at tormenting those below the third level and causing destruction."

"They thought that since a large amount of demonic energy pollution and some soul energy could create a temporary fourth-level mage, could they go a step further and create a fifth-level mage?"

That's right, the Deep Sea Alliance is causing trouble in Leites City in order to create fifth-tier mages.

Even if it's just a pseudo-fifth tier, it can still crush fourth-tier and lower-tier mages with its numerical superiority, making it a disaster for cities.

There are sixth-tier heretics hiding in the city of Leters. They are not from the Deep Sea Aid Society, but from another cult. After their success, they will come out to restrain the only sixth-tier mage in Leters—Duke Pharos.

As for the fifth-tier sorcerers created, their purpose is to cause destruction, to wreak havoc.

A mage who is forcibly elevated to the fifth rank will inevitably become mentally unstable due to the massive pollution and soul energy, unable to distinguish friend from foe, until death.

The arrival of deep-sea monsters will inevitably cause headaches for the city of Leites, prompting them to seek help from the Knights of Law stationed near the Golden Apple Stone Forest, as well as Melina and Black.

If both sixth-tier mages stationed in the Golden Apple Stone Forest arrive, the Deep Sea Aid Society can take the opportunity to escape.

Even if they don't come, or only mages below the fifth rank come, it won't stop the Deep Sea Aid Society's plan.

because--

They had their sights set on Phil from the very beginning.

If Ross hadn't given Celia the instruction to call Phil to the central area to find the magic circle node and 'coincidentally' find this altar located in the city center, they would have tried to capture Phil.

By absorbing vast amounts of soul energy and pollution, and then forcibly elevating himself to the fifth rank by absorbing the power of other pseudo-fourth-tier heretics, Phil will become what Ross once called the "Princess of the Abyss," utterly corrupted.

At that time, neither the Holy Court nor Duke Pharos will be able to deal with Phil, who has lost his mind, and will not know what to do.

After all, she was the daughter of Duke Pharos and a candidate saint of the Holy Court, so both sides would be hesitant to act against Phil.

Even if the Holy Lord himself were to come, he would still have a headache.

"That's interesting. Although Ethel is weak, the forces he has cultivated are still very powerful."

If the Deep Sea Aid Society weren't always up to no good, Ross would have been impressed just by their penchant for building large magic arrays, their ability to think outside the box, and their dedication to studying the mind of giant magical puppets.

Unfortunately, their research was built on the suffering of countless people.

Then there's only one option—

Sweep it into the dustbin of history.

Ross manipulated Benovia's puppet to raise its hand and draw a complex transformation rune in the air.

The effect of the runes is simple: they convert magic into divine power.

Only divine power can withstand the pollution of demonic energy and protect Phil amidst the vast pollution.

Not much divine power is needed; draining Benovia and Celia dry would be enough. A massive amount of magical power erupted from the puppet controlled by Ross.

Outside, the guards were notified. Benovia, who was waiting, swayed and quickly stuck her staff into the ground for support.

She felt her magic power being rapidly depleted through the puppet.

The girl looked panicked, staring anxiously at the ground below.

Feeling the relentless drain on her magic power, she quickly sat down and entered a meditative state.

……

at the same time.

Celia also came to Anko's place.

Upon meeting, she immediately asked Anke for some potions to restore her magic power and drank them.

She then entered a meditative state, transforming the magic in the potion into her own.

Anko was standing nearby, ready to take Celia inside after she regained her magic.

As a result, Celia had barely recovered half of her magic power when she suddenly felt her magic power rapidly depleting.

This feeling is familiar.

She only appears when Ross uses her magic.

She looked at Ross in her mind and couldn't help but ask, "Lord Ross, what are you doing?"

Ross replied, "Saving your friend."

"Save...who?"

"Phil."

Celia's heart skipped a beat. Remembering that Phil hadn't replied to her message yet, she asked anxiously, "What's wrong with her?"

Ross casually said, "It's nothing, it was just taken as a sacrifice by the Deep Sea Aid Society."

"What!?"

Celia suddenly opened her eyes.

You call this nothing?!
Ross said, "Don't make a fuss. Focus on restoring your magic power; I need to use it."

Celia felt much more at ease.

With Ross around, Phil won't encounter any unexpected problems.

So she closed her eyes again and began to meditate.

A moment later, she opened her eyes, drank all the magic potions in front of her, and asked Anke, "Is there any more?"

Anke looked at Celia with a puzzled expression: "Why do I feel like it didn't have any effect on you? Your magic power didn't increase at all?"

Celia mumbled, "It's increased, but you know, we've all entered the deep realm of the gods, where the concentration of magic is incomparable to that of ordinary sorcerers... Anyway, is there any more medicine?"

"You wait."

Anke summoned the puppet and took out several bottles of potions from its chest.

Celia exclaimed in surprise, "You transformed the puppet's chest cavity into... a warehouse?"

Anke nodded: "I can't afford a space ring. The puppet can store weapons in its storage space, so it should be able to store other things as well. That's why I modified the puppet's chest cavity to store things for me. However, it can only store emergency medicines, not other things."

Celia seemed to be deep in thought. She took the potion and entered a meditative state again.

As she recovered, she would occasionally open her eyes and drink a bottle of medicine.

Gradually, An Ke finished all the emergency medication she had.

Looking at her, Anke fell into self-doubt: "This potion...it didn't work?"

(End of this chapter)