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

Chapter 567 Then something happened.
Lana's sudden threat made Celia feel uneasy.

She realized this was the area Ross had instructed her to enter, and the pollution here must be more serious than it seemed.

But if this were a stronghold of the Twilight Cult, given their usual style, they wouldn't be engaging in such a small-scale operation.

During this period of contact, Dusk taught Celia a feeling of being both brave and cowardly.

They are brave because they don't set up strongholds randomly. They brazenly place their strongholds near cities, and even create areas filled with pollution and death.
Being cowardly means that when they see they can't win, they decisively run away without feeling any remorse for the hard-won foundation they built.

It's a miracle that someone with this style has survived this long.

"This is just the edge of the sensing area. There's nothing around, so it doesn't seem like a heretical stronghold. According to Lana, the Elf Forest has been like this lately, with sudden outbreaks of pollution from time to time, and this pollution is inextricably linked to the life elements of the Elf Forest..."

Celia paused for a moment.

"This polluted area feels like a ruptured pimple in the Elf Forest, and this pollution is the pus flowing out of the pimple... Ugh!"

Celia hugged her arms tightly and shivered.

"gross."

Ross, standing to the side, watched with annoyance as Celia muttered to herself for a long time, as if she were fighting with both hands.

He knew that Celia was actually talking to him, but he couldn't be bothered to respond.

As Celia precisely placed the magic crystal in the designated position, the node was successfully formed.

Celia concealed a mid-level magic crystal beneath the magic circle node, constructing a hidden miniature magic circle.

The purpose of this miniature magic array is to prevent outbreaks of excessively high levels of pollution. If such an outbreak does occur, it can influence other nodes through this node, providing a longer period of resistance.

Of course, they could only hold out for a while longer, since this magic circle wasn't just being operated by Lana's team; there were other teams that had been recruited from other places and were placing nodes in other outer areas.

The other distant nodes couldn't do anything about it. She had a good impression of Lana, so if the pollution outbreak caused the magic circle to break, her hidden miniature magic circle could protect Lana, who was acting as a node power bank, from being harmed by the pollution.

After finishing, Celia clapped her hands, walked over and told Lana, "Okay, it's done."

Lana exclaimed in surprise, "So fast?"

Celia tilted her head: "For such a simple magic circle, anything over ten minutes is considered slow."

This ten minutes includes the additional time for creating the miniature magic circle.

Otherwise, Celia would have finished in five minutes.

“Ten minutes…” Lana looked at her teammates, “They’ve been fighting for an hour.”

"It's normal that they haven't learned how to draw magic circles."

Celia offered a casual explanation, then waved goodbye.

"Well then, Lana, I'll be going now~"

"Well, once I've brought this pollution under control, I'll return to the capital and treat you to juice then."

"Okay! (￣▽￣)"

Celia felt that what Lana said had a hint of a warning.

However, she didn't think too much about it. After saying goodbye, she took a detour and headed towards the sensing area.

"I hope I won't run into them again now."

Celia muttered to herself.

When setting up the nodes of the magic circle, she sensed the arrangement of other nodes through the nodes to obtain the approximate range of the magic circle.

It's big, but not that big.

It's at most an area the size of a small town.

Because it is a manually operated magic circle, although the magic circle is large, its effect will not increase as the magic circle becomes larger.

Other large-scale magic arrays involve detailed carving at each node, refining the details of the pattern.

The magic array they've set up is essentially just an enlarged version of a pattern. If other large magic arrays are likened to drawing a large city, then this magic array is like enlarging the words "large city" in size.

"Such a large area is unlikely to be a long-term stronghold. It's probably just that the Elf Forest is sick and oozing pus."

Lydia muttered to herself, then put the thought out of her mind, slowed her pace, and began to slowly experience the Elf Forest.

……

"Okay, this node is complete! Thank you all for your hard work."

Lana stood in the middle of the node, acting as the node's artificial magic crystal.

The other teammates, who were weaker, were assigned by Lana to check the node patterns.

The female elf who suspected Celia arrived at the area Celia had drawn. She looked at it with a scrutinizing gaze, then suddenly paused, exclaiming in surprise, "Captain, come and see, what did that elf draw..."

Lana frowned, moved away from the center of the node, and walked quickly over.

"What's wrong? Is it not set up properly?"

As she spoke, Lana realized that Celia had only spent ten minutes setting things up, and immediately thought that she might have just been doing a perfunctory job.

The other teammates also came over. The male elf, who had been singing along with the female elf, hadn't even looked yet when he immediately said, "That elf must have deliberately caused trouble to make this the weakest point."

"No." The female elf hesitated before speaking.

Lana stepped forward and stared in surprise.

"This……"

The male elf also ran over, looked at the magic circle light on the ground, and was stunned.

"so beautiful."

He subconsciously looked at the area he had drawn.

His drawing is crooked and messy; even a handful of rice for a chick would look better than his.

The other two teammates also ran over, and when they saw the neat and beautiful magic circle pattern, they exclaimed in surprise.

"That elf is so powerful, he must be a professional array master by now, right?"

"More than that, even ordinary array masters can't draw it as steadily as she does."

Lana stepped forward and examined it carefully, discovering that some parts of the nodes had been simplified, and some patterns that she couldn't understand at all had appeared.

"These patterns..."

Lana carefully examined it; although she couldn't understand it, it didn't prevent her from using it.

When she arrived, she had the magic puppet stand guard in her place. Through the feedback from the magic power inputted into the magic circle by the magic puppet, Lana found that when the magic power flowed to the side drawn by Celia, it immediately became as smooth as diarrhea.

However, when the fluids flowed to other places, they quickly became loose and weak, like constipation, making Lana feel quite uncomfortable for a while.

"Wow, these patterns seem to have greatly improved the control over the nodes."

Lana sighed, resolving to become good friends with the other person once she returned to the royal city.

"Wait... I don't think I added an asterisk to her..."

Lana slapped her head in frustration.

Just then, the entire magic circle was activated.

Lana's expression changed as she looked at the contaminated area controlled by the magic circle.

The pollution, which was originally just a thin layer of mist, suddenly surged up for some reason, and wave after wave crashed outwards, sweeping in like waves.

Lana groaned under the impact.

"Such a strong impact... If this continues, we might not be able to withstand it."

(End of this chapter)