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

Chapter 464 The Tower of Depth
I was poisoned as soon as I arrived, which was even more outrageous than anything I had ever encountered before.

After careful consideration, Celia decided to remain inactive.

This poison is not lethal, but it amplifies emotions for a short period of time, just as Ross said.

Of course, it's not just anger; happiness, sadness, indulgence, and so on are all emotions.

If sadness is amplified, it might lead to a heart attack from crying; if indulgence is amplified, it might turn into a scene from an animal documentary...

It's terrifying, but Celia doesn't yet know what extreme scenarios might unfold.

What intrigued her even more was that, since they could poison people silently, why not just use the real poison, instead of using a large dose of this tonic that only lasted 24 hours and would turn back into a normal drug after that?

Celia couldn't understand it, so she decided to wait and see.

"I'm a little sleepy, I'll take a nap first..."

Celia scanned the entire hotel but found nothing unusual; few guests in other rooms ordered food at the hotel.

"It seems like I'm the only one who's unlucky enough to encounter poison. If that's the case... then I'll ignore it for now and see how things go tomorrow."

After traveling all day, Celia was exhausted. Even if she really wanted to investigate the poisoner, she would do it tomorrow.

"Putting poison in food, but not poison that kills directly... I don't understand what they're trying to do."

Celia's mind was filled with all sorts of random thoughts as she slowly drifted off to sleep.

the next day.

Celia used magic to groom herself and then ordered breakfast from the inn.

She wanted to see if there was any poison in the breakfast.

Not long after, breakfast was served, and Celia looked at Ross.

She only had book knowledge of pharmacology and knew nothing else. She had no ability to identify anything and could only rely on Ross.

Ross's phantom appeared, and he said with interest, "There's no poison in the breakfast, but instead... an antidote."

"Antidote?"

"Yes, another kind of medicine. Its function is to accelerate the absorption of a specific medicine. If it is not absorbed, it will quickly lose its effect. It is a special medicine specifically for mood-enhancing medicines. The combination of the two has no auxiliary effect, but it can deal with large doses of poison."

Celia blinked, somewhat bewildered.

"They sent you poison to amplify your emotions last night, and now they're sending you the antidote this morning? What a strange fellow."

Celia couldn't figure out what the other person was planning to do.

Are you bored?
Celia suddenly thought of Anko.

Anke's expertise in pharmacology might allow him to deduce what someone wants to do by understanding their behavioral logic.

"Speaking of which, Anke seems to be in the Blue Dragon Empire too. Let's go visit her after we finish our business."

With that thought in mind, Celia put all her thoughts out of her mind and began to enjoy her breakfast.

This accelerator is harmless to the human body, just like water, so there's no problem.

Following the principle of not wasting food, Celia ate it all.

After that, she prepared to leave.

The mysterious apothecary didn't seem to have any ill intentions, just a bit mischievous, so there was no need to bother with him.

Death threats meant nothing to her.

From yesterday's hearing, she roughly knew that this 'death threat' had been going on for a long time, but nothing happened in the end, as if the heretics had played a joke on Vanuatu.

To avoid the fact that she had arrived immediately, Celia did not stay in Vanner City and ran away at lightning speed after finishing her breakfast.

"Instead of waiting in the city, we might as well run. Maybe we'll find that heretical stronghold soon after we get out there?"

Celia pouted.

No screening was required to leave the city. After passing through the slums outside, Celia boarded her flying broom and flew towards Dragon Island.

Ross didn't tell her to rush, so Celia wasn't in a hurry.

About half an hour later, Celia stopped high in the air and looked down at the small settlement hidden among the mountains.

"Such a stronghold of pollution... Is this... a heretical stronghold?"

Celia landed quietly and observed the settlement from the outside.

This settlement doesn't resemble a village; it's built around a tower-like wooden structure with only a few houses, leading to its identification as a pagan stronghold.

"The tower in the middle..."

After a moment's thought, Celia quickly came to mind a heretical sect she had never encountered before.

"The Cult of the Fallen? Could it be that the problems we encountered in Vanner City last night were caused by witches from the Cult of the Fallen?"

The Tower of Depravity, one of the Twelve Heretics, is named for its propagation of the "Tower of Depravity".

The Tower of Depravity was a tower they once attempted to build, where believers could enjoy unrestrained freedom.

They advocate that people should indulge their nature and desires, that releasing desires is human freedom, and that morality and law are constraints on freedom.

So-called desires are not just love; the desire to help others, to be a hero, to be a criminal... arguing, cursing, stealing... and of course, murder are all desires.

They believed that humans are individuals driven by desires, and even morality and law were considered to arise from the desires of imperial monarchs and nobles.

They encourage those who are bound by constraints not to be bound by the desires of others, advocating that everyone has the freedom to be liberated.

The doctrine contains many self-contradictions and is pure fallacy.

Initially, the Holy Court did not intervene, but later they became corrupted by demonic energy and used this corruption to develop things that released desires in order to control people's hearts, causing major accidents. Only then were they defined as heretics.

Then came the process of destroying the Tower of the Fallen. After that, the Tower of the Fallen sect went underground. Because of its doctrines and methods of manipulating people's minds, it was extremely dangerous and became one of the twelve heretics.

However, that was history just after the end of the Age of Calamity.

Most of the twelve heretics were defined around the time of the Calamity.

"That's not right either. If it was done by the witch of the Tower of Fallen, she shouldn't have let the poisoned person go so easily."

In the Tower of the Fallen, there is a group of people who call themselves "Witches." They are the people in the Tower of the Fallen who manipulate people's hearts. According to the unified definition, witches are all apothecaries who are skilled in using potions, including poisons.

After thinking it over carefully, Celia felt that there was a high probability that the person who poisoned her was a witch.

But why was the antidote delivered the next day?

Could it be that the poison and the antidote were not given by the same person?

Celia frowned slightly.

"That doesn't seem right either. If it's a death threat, just use a highly toxic drug. What's the point of using an emotional drug? To promote one's own ideology?"

The girl shook her head, deciding not to think about it.

come all come...

Let's wipe out the heretics first!

Regardless of whether they are heretics or not, it's hard to believe that someone would be releasing polluting waves so openly.

"Let me help them purify the pollution."

Celia infiltrates the base.

An hour later, she left from the other end of the base, sorted out the materials and magic crystals she had successfully 'collected', and put them into her ring.

"You're too kind, giving me so many things."

The girl waved goodbye.

(End of this chapter)