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

Chapter 642 The Monster...got Stronger
"Impressive, Elena."

Celia's eyes lit up.

"With your abilities, what are you worried about regarding the beast tide? Just stand at the entrance of the pollution source, and every monster that comes up will die. If more monsters come, the minerals that make them up will be enough to fill this crack."

Elena blushed slightly.

"How could that be possible? Separating the life elements of these monsters requires some time to prepare. Separating monsters consumes far more energy than separating pollution. It can only be done with about ten monsters at a single node. If we encounter the situation that Celia faced before, I won't be able to handle it."

Celia nodded. "Alright, I thought you could handle the pollution source all by yourself."

"If I could do that, why would I need to come here looking for a solution to the disaster? I could just live near the crack."

Elena rolled her eyes.

Celia smiled slightly and said nothing.

Elena is right. Separating pollution and purifying pollution require roughly the same amount of magic. With her current abilities, if the previous purification operation had only been to purify the air pollution in a city, she probably wouldn't have needed much magic and could have finished in a few minutes. But it would have taken a long time to purify the entire city, and her own condition would have become extremely poor.

Celia could sense that Elena's aura had weakened slightly in that instant—of course, this was because Elena hadn't concealed it, otherwise Celia wouldn't have been able to sense it.

After defeating all the monsters, Elena raised her hand to retrieve the puppet, turned to look at Celia, and asked as if to take credit, "How was it? I did it."

"You're amazing, I definitely can't beat you," Celia said, praising her without reservation.

Elena rolled her eyes. "Can't we talk about something else?"

“I’m bad at praising people,” Celia said innocently. “Besides saying this, anything else I say will only be insulting.”

Elena: “…”

Celia pondered, "If your current fighting style is to support from the back while letting the puppets engage in melee combat, then our only option would be for you to hold the front while I cast spells from behind."

"Can't you do the same spell combos as before?" Elena asked.

Celia replied frankly, "I don't know."

"Ok."

"There aren't any monsters underground that require combo attacks yet, so regular cooperative battles will suffice."

"That's true, but just because it's not around here doesn't mean it's not available elsewhere..."

"Let's get to know each other better first."

"Well, that's fine too."

"..."

The two began to move forward, passing one checkpoint after another.

This time, when clearing out the monsters, Elena did not use the ability to instantly strip away life elements. Instead, she tried to coordinate with Celia to see if they could combine their spells.

However, unless she uses nature-based magic, the special uses of the life-based magic cannot be combined with ice-based constructs.

The ice element, which freezes everything, is incompatible with the life element and cannot react violently like ice and fire.

The element of life is even more peaceful than the water element, and it cannot form offensive spell combinations with most other spells.

In the end, Elena had no choice but to settle for second best and combine her natural magic with Celia's to unleash the power of their combined attack, directly breaking through the monster's defenses and slaughtering them.

As they ventured deeper, time passed indefinitely, and Celia suddenly noticed that the monsters appearing ahead were different from those in other places.

“The monsters here are stronger. Not counting their physical defense, their other parts are approaching the strength of the fourth tier…” Elena frowned. “Their defense is also stronger. It seems we’re on the right track. The place where the strongest monsters gather must have some incredible treasures, even if there’s nothing to solve the disaster.”

Celia glanced at her.

"It seems you haven't shaken off your old habits from your time as an adventurer mercenary; you always think about whether there are any treasures wherever you go."

“A place like this is bound to have treasures,” Elena said.

"The treasures inside are probably very difficult to take out, and even if they could be taken out... they probably can't be taken out casually."

Celia thought about the magic circle, which existed in the form of an underground world. Each line was a huge underground passage, and countless passages and small nodes formed a huge magic circle.

Elena didn't know it was a magic circle, and even if she could guess from the drawn map, she wasn't sure.

The direction we are currently heading in, at its deepest point, is likely one of the major nodes of the magic array.

If it weren't for Ross's connection to the core, Celia would have thought they were heading towards the core area of ​​the magic circle.

"Why?" Elena asked.

Celia said, "Didn't you realize that this place... might be a huge magic circle?"

Elena nodded: "Elder Louis has made some speculations. Based on the map we drew, he is trying to figure out what kind of magic array this is underground, and why they didn't know about such a huge magic array before. However, we don't know the function of this magic array yet. We guess it may be used to cultivate pollution."

"keep?"

"Yes, it is very likely that after the Age of Calamity, some evil god built a huge magic circle under the Elf Forest to store the pollution of the Age of Calamity, absorb the pollution from the outside world, and combine the pollution with the life force of the Elf Forest to form this special pollution."

"Uh... that's quite possible."

Given the massive magic array and the enormous amount of pollution, it's quite normal to make such a guess.

According to the information Ross received, the function of this magic circle is not much different from what Elena said.

That's pretty much what it means.

The information from those three people may not all be true.

Or perhaps they didn't know the specific function of the magic circle, only that this magic circle and such a huge amount of pollution were controlled by fragments of Harodias's godhood.

Even Haroldius's true form might be dormant within the magic circle, continuously affected by the contamination.

"In short, if we find any valuable treasures underground, we must find a way to know their purpose. If possible, it would be best to take them out and prevent this magic circle from accumulating further pollution." A deep worry appeared on Elena's face.

The worry in her eyes seemed to affect even the life magic she was casting.

Celia said, "Although your idea is good, you should also think about it. What if taking the treasure causes the magic circle to collapse and releases all the underground pollution? Then the entire Elf Forest will be full of cracks like pollution sources, and the whole world will probably suffer."

Elena nodded, and after a moment, she suddenly laughed.

"I think we're overthinking it. How could such a massive magic array be destroyed by two mere fourth-tier mages like us?"

Celia shook her head: "That's not necessarily true. Even a huge tree can fall because of a small termite. We're in a magic circle now, and we might also affect its integrity. Anything is possible. In short, it's always better to be careful."

"Um……"

Elena nodded and looked ahead.

"We may be almost there."

(End of this chapter)