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

Chapter 439 Tank Mage Celia

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A rich life force was locked inside the puppet, and the entire puppet slowly became more agile.

"The life attribute, originating from the natural attribute, represents inexhaustible vitality. It is a more powerful auxiliary attribute than most others, the most obvious example being..."

Leaving her mark on the puppet and feeling the rich life force emanating from it, Celia used an ice-condensed blade to make a cut on her hand.

Before the blood could even flow, the wound healed rapidly, giving it no chance to bleed.

"A healing ability ten times stronger than a healing spell."

This is merely a passive effect originating from the Heart of the Puppet, and not yet a true life spell.

"However, there is a drawback: life spells cannot be applied to puppets, as puppets are not considered living beings."

Celia roughly understood why the life-type mage, who possessed extremely strong regenerative abilities, was instantly killed by the puppet.

The opponent is probably using the puppet purely as a support and meat shield.

"Why did you use the puppet to block it back then? Wouldn't it have been better to just use it as a decorative accessory?" Celia asked, puzzled.

Ross chuckled, "Whether he blocks it with his physical body or the puppet, it's useless. The energy of the entire city's magic array is concentrated, and even the strongest recovery ability can't withstand an instant kill. Besides, that sorcerer isn't a life attribute, it's just that the puppet's heart is."

“That makes sense. How could a bad guy who’s been targeted by Lord Ross possibly have a chance to escape?” Celia nodded, looking at the memory crystal from the Holy Magic Academy Library that had been sent along with it.

This is the memory crystal of all the life-related spells that the entire Holy Court could find.

Life-based spells can actually be used through nature and water-based magic hearts. Even if the effects are greatly weakened, they still possess recovery capabilities comparable to healing spells, which is a way of redeeming water-based mages.

Therefore, the Holy Court also stored the remaining life-related spells in memory crystals and placed them in the Holy Magic Academy for students to learn.

Of course, only puppets with life attributes can play their greatest role.

"There are ten life spells in total, but only four are usable at the moment. We'll have to make do."

The four spells are [Near Death Resurrection], [Life Bloom], [Guardian Angel], and [Death Resistance].

The first is a quick heal, which restores you to your peak condition in a short time, even restoring your magic power. However, the wounds will slowly reopen after the heal, which is like a last gasp before death – I still have one life left!

The second is group healing, which also has the effect of dispelling chaos and pollution;
The third is damage transfer, which allows you to transfer the damage received by the target to yourself;

The fourth one is quite powerful. It can resist instant death damage, somewhat like a passive ability, but it needs to be used actively. According to the description of the memory crystal, it seems to consume a large amount of magic power immediately after use to perform a "golden cicada shedding its shell" maneuver, leaving an empty shell or scarecrow in place to resist instant death damage, while the user retreats a certain distance.

As for how long it can be deactivated, it depends on the compatibility between the puppet and the spell.

The sorcerer's skill also depends on the puppet, since it's the puppet's magic, not the sorcerer's.

"These are all fourth-tier spells; I don't know if we can use third-tier spells."

Celia muttered something to herself and used the four memory crystals on the puppet one by one.

"The Life and Ice elements are only connected through the Water element, but there is still some repulsion between them."

Celia tested the puppet's controls and found that it wasn't as smooth as the previous puppets; there was some lag and a feeling of blockage.

Ross said, "Let's wait for the Ice Puppet Heart, then we'll switch to it."

“Ice magic… I remember that many ice magic users either use artificial magic puppet hearts or water magic puppet hearts; it seems there are no natural ice magic puppet hearts,” Celia said.

Because the Ice God's divine essence wasn't pulverized like that of lower-ranking gods. Ross thought to himself. Celia didn't dwell on the topic; she examined the puppet, a satisfied smile spreading across her face.

"With the guidance of the divine being, I no longer need to rely entirely on puppets for combat power like other sorcerers. As my rank increases, the role of puppets is not as important as it was at the beginning, and I can use puppets as an auxiliary means of combat."

Ice magic users are very well-rounded, possessing attack, defense, and control abilities; their only weakness is healing.

Celia has learned some holy healing spells, but neither purification nor healing spells are suitable for use in combat as they are very weak. She doesn't have much time to learn other higher-level holy spells.

The Holy Court's core spell, [Holy Word], has some auxiliary effects, but it doesn't synergize well with the Ice element.

The arrival of the Life-type Puppet Heart completely made up for this.

But what attracted Celia wasn't the addition of these life-based spells, but rather a single sentence from Ross—

"Once you reach the fourth tier, I will give you the spells [Life Siphon] and [Life Conversion], which you can then equip on the magic puppet."

【Life Siphon】 can absorb the life force of the target; 【Life Transformation】 can convert life force into magic power. When used together, it can absorb the life force of the target and convert it into one's own magic power.

Is this really a sacred life spell? Or is it definitely not a death spell?
Despite her inner complaints, it didn't diminish Celia's longing for those two spells.

“Bloom!”

Inside the camp, Celia manipulated her puppet, raising her hand to unleash the [Life Bloom] skill, a move beyond her level. A faint light appeared, and the wounded mercenary before her slowly revealed his true color.

Celia felt her magic power being rapidly depleted.

After a moment, she stopped using it and exhaled.

With a wave to dismiss the healed mercenary, Celia wore a pleased expression.

The test was successful and it can be used, but the magic consumption is too high and the effect may only be about one-tenth.

Celia didn't care; as long as it worked, it was fine.

"From this perspective, the infiltration operation in a few days is not out of the question."

Time passed slowly.

The school's trials were reinstated, using students and mercenaries to gradually clear out the surrounding strongholds.

The pseudo-fourth-order heretics, who were used as a secret weapon by the Deep Sea Aid Society, are no longer a threat under the combination of the wind field domain and special purification spell.

At the deep-sea base camp, the Order of the Lawful Knights kept a 24-hour watch, and Lawful Knights of the fourth rank or above, or even commander-level officers, patrolled the Golden Apple Stone Forest to prevent any accidents from happening.

Freed from scroll making, Celia rejoined the raiding of strongholds, leisurely earning the maximum trial points she had reached.

Time quickly came to the day when the Knights of the Law were to set off.

On this day, a large number of law-enforcing knights gathered at the camp at the behest of Melina and Black.

After a few encouraging words, the Knights of the Law separated, each led by their respective captain, who set off with a large number of wind field scrolls.

Celia was also secretly summoned and given an important task.

"Then, we'll have to ask Celia for help this time too." Melina patted Celia on the shoulder, encouraging her.

Celia rolled her dead fish eyes and didn't say anything.

(End of this chapter)