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

Chapter 539 Benovia's Trial - Court Murder

The next day, Celia found Benovia and conveyed Ross's message.

Benovia pondered for a moment and agreed to hand the items over to Celia.

After the puppet's heart was handed over, Benovia felt her connection with the god weaken. Her heart skipped a beat, and a hint of tension appeared on her face.

However, she quickly hid it.

Although Ross did not give her any revelation or tell her to give the fragments of divinity to Celia, she had long believed that Celia was also a believer of the gods.

After all, although she had vaguely received divine revelation, and there was no trace of Celia in the process of obtaining the 'Puppet Heart', and Celia had denied the Puppet Heart three times, Benovia had long since confirmed from the clues that Celia was related to the Puppet Heart.

Moreover, there are major events in Southern Border City; even without investigation, the situation can be ascertained.

However, since Celia didn't say anything, she didn't continue.

It's better to keep it to yourself than to say it out loud.

Now, Celia has suddenly found him and wants the Puppet Heart back. Is this at the behest of the gods?
Benovia felt that the probability of this was very high.

As for what to do...

Benovia was unaware of this, and she chose to believe Celia.

But she still asked, "So what is Celia going to do with it?"

Celia pursed her lips. "It's nothing. I just need to research fourth-tier water-based scrolls and borrow something with a huge amount of water-based magic power."

Benovia didn't believe it, but nodded: "I see, then okay."

Celia took it. "I'll return it to you this afternoon."

Benovia waved her hand, "It's alright, I'm not in a hurry."

In reality, he was very anxious because as the Heart of the Puppet was released, his connection with the gods in his mind became increasingly weak.

Just then, a divine revelation appeared in her mind, which put her at ease.

The sudden revelation put her at ease.

It really is a divine revelation.

But why did they only arrive at this time?

Benovia was a little confused, but didn't say anything.

The most important task now is to advance.

So Benovia said goodbye to Celia and went to her classroom.

Benovia finished all her courses earlier than Celia, but she didn't show it and was quite lazy, living the life of a pretty but invisible girl.

Of course, she was mostly daydreaming during class.

Just like now, I appear to be attending class attentively, but in reality, I am earnestly experiencing the magic of the outside world.

A small flame always appeared in her hand. The elemental fluctuations of the flame were very weak, and her mentor would not say anything even if he noticed it.

Benovia didn't have the Frost Star, nor did she have any gods to help her, but she had a wealth of knowledge and could comprehend her own unique methods of invoking it.

In other words, it's about starting from the basics and gradually increasing the difficulty, beginning with the weakest little tricks, allowing even these tricks to draw upon external magic, and then gradually moving into more complex spells. This is the opposite of what happened to Celia, who immediately used fourth-order spells to gain insight.

She felt it would only take a few days.

"The only thing missing is the magic refinement level... According to the experience summarized by generations of fourth-tier mages, the higher the magic refinement level, the better, with a maximum of 120%, so that the Ascension Steps will actively call out to you, therefore..."

Thinking of how far ahead Celia had left everyone else in the dust, Benovia slowly began to feel a sense of defiance.

As a fellow believer favored by the gods, I am no less than Celia!
In the evening, Benovia retrieved the fragment of divinity from Celia, and she suddenly felt that the energy fluctuations coming from the Heart of the Puppet were stronger.

Although it was very discreet, she had developed extremely keen senses because she had carried it for a long time.

"Could it be..." Benovia couldn't wait to return to her happy little house, activate the ritual, and reconnect with Ross through the fragments of divinity.

She discovered that her connection with the divine had been strengthened!
Sure enough!

Benovia smiled and eagerly sent Ross all sorts of random questions through the contact.

Ross's phantom appeared in her mind, ignoring all her questions, looking at her, and then his mental energy plunged into her body, quickly stirring her magic and interrupting all her questions.

"Well……"

Benovia frowned, enduring the pain, and began the grueling refinement training.

She came prepared today, using many potions specifically for magic to help her stabilize her magic more quickly and improve its refinement.

After a long while, Benovia, drenched in sweat, finally calmed her magic. She breathed a sigh of relief, gritted her teeth, and pleaded, "My God, again! I can take it!"

Ross raised an eyebrow, but without any politeness, he continued to stir her body.

After repeating this process three times, Benovia was so exhausted that she collapsed. After resting for a long time, she dragged her tired body to the bathhouse at the back.

For the next ten days or so, Ross would give Benovia special training every night to hone her refinement skills.

With the aid of medication she consciously took, her refinement level rose rapidly, gradually reaching 120%.

Afterwards, Benovia decisively applied for and refused the school's protection. She went to the Happy Hut, instructed her subordinates to wait outside, and then entered the Ascension Trial.

Ross followed Benovia in, maximizing the depth of her divine realm.

A palace slowly appeared before my eyes.

Ross raised an eyebrow, looking quite interested.

"If I remember correctly, this girl's first advancement involved killing a bunch of court officials, including her own father and siblings. Now..."

If it were Celia, she would probably be torn about whether or not to start the Star Ash Town dungeon.

But Benovia is the opposite.

Upon seeing the familiar royal palace, her eyes slowly brightened.

"Is it another one of my favorite palace massacres?"

Approaching the palace, Benovia summoned her puppets without hesitation and began her rampage.

Seeing this, Ross couldn't help but shake his head.

I don't know how much resentment Benovia harbors towards her father, that she would be so persistent.

"This girl is so reckless; she's going to suffer a great loss later."

The trials in the deeper realms of the gods are completely different from those in the shallower realms. Here, certain conditions must be met before one can officially begin the ascension trials, just like with Celia.

If Celia hadn't done the quest and had instead killed the villagers, she would have ended up facing countless fourth-tier monsters like scorpions and sandworms. At that point, the monsters in the wild wouldn't have gathered together like the villagers to give her time to prepare her ultimate attack.

The monsters outside cannot be skipped, otherwise you cannot ascend the stairs.

The situation is similar in Benovia.

“Normally, there shouldn’t be any problem, but…”

Ross shook his head, watching Benovia seize the opportunity to kill indiscriminately.

Then, she found it increasingly difficult to kill directly.

As the killings continued, the strength of the palace guards reached a level close to the fourth tier.

"It seems we went a bit too far... Wait, why did their strength increase to the fourth tier...?"

Benovia blinked, finally realizing something was wrong.

(End of this chapter)