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

Chapter 651 Melina's Abnormality
Are Celia and Elena unaware of the investigation team's findings?

After the two left unharmed, they parted ways.

The enormous monsters beneath the Elf Forest are likely too much for the elves to handle alone.

To avoid any unforeseen circumstances, Celia needs to return to Ishtar and go to the Order of the Lawful Knights to inform Melina of this matter.

The Order of the Lawful Knights happens to be on the border of Ishtar right now. As the only order of knights with free movement, specializing in dealing with pollution and heresy, the Grand Master is basically capable of handling these matters.

Even if they couldn't enter the elven territory, they could at least know in advance and conduct in-depth research using the information provided by Celia, trying to crack the abilities of these monsters and develop corresponding countermeasures.

Therefore, Celia needs to send back all the information she has obtained.

Especially various video materials.

Unfortunately, those monsters cannot be captured alive for the time being, and even if they were captured, it would be difficult to bring them out.

However, Celia also left behind a lot of monster remains, which should be enough.

Elena naturally wouldn't go to Ishtar with Celia, or rather, she wouldn't leave now.

As an elf who successfully obtained divine relics and blessings, she has unconsciously begun to think about issues from the perspective of the entire elven race.

Even though she was all alone and couldn't do anything right now, she still wanted to try.

She chose to stay near the source of pollution, preparing to investigate underground in other directions to see what was there and whether there was anything representing the revelation given by the God of Spirits.

So the two parted ways.

After leaving, Celia rode swiftly and soon secretly crossed the elven border, returning to the territory of the Ishtar Empire, where she found the Order of the Lawful Knights who were carrying out a purification mission.

After the announcement, she found Melina, along with Vanessa, Benovia, and others.

After speaking with Vanessa for a while, Celia was called by Melina and together with Benovia, they went to a secret meeting room.

"Oh, right," Celia suddenly remembered something, "Where's Phil? I remember she's here, isn't she?"

Benovia had told Celia about Phil, and since Phil didn't intentionally disguise herself like Celia did—her disguise always unconsciously exposed herself—it wasn't difficult for her to know that Phil had previously used the alias Lofiel.

The entire Order of the Lawful Knights knew about it.

“She didn’t come back. She said she sensed something unusual about the flow of pollution and was going to find the source of the abnormal flow. I couldn’t stop her, so I let her go,” Benovia said.

"Oh, that's how it is."

Celia didn't think much of it.

She remembered that Ross paid a lot of attention to Phil. Although she didn't know if Phil could hear the divine pronouncements, with Ross's protection, he certainly wouldn't be so easy to run into trouble.

Once inside the conference room, Celia presented her investigation into the underground source of the pollution.

Melina looked at the seemingly endless monsters in the projection, and her expression became serious.

Not long after, after looking at them, she looked at Celia and asked, "Are all these monsters formed from the same mineral?"

Celia shook her head: "No, besides the Lancelot Stone, we also discovered many other monsters with mineral structures. Their common characteristic is their hardness; each monster possesses a body that ordinary mages cannot handle."

Melina nodded: "It seems the elves are in for a calamity."

“Bishop Melina, please send these materials to the Holy See for further study. Although these monsters should not be able to break through the elven territory, we should still be on the safe side.” “That’s not necessarily true. The elves have studied these monsters for a long time and must know some of their habits. Perhaps…” Melina smiled knowingly, “After realizing that resolute resistance would lead to heavy losses, they chose to lure the monsters to the border and send them to us.”

"Huh? That shouldn't be possible, right?" Celia blinked; she hadn't considered that possibility.

She was simply pessimistic about whether the elves could handle monsters.

"I was just saying it offhand." Melina put the documents away. "I'll make a copy of these and send it to the Holy Court. I'll keep one here for us to study. If the elves can solve it, that would be best. If they can't, then we'll have to step in."

Celia said, "Perhaps we can send some reinforcements. The Knights of the Law seem to be short of manpower."

Upon arriving at the camp of the Knights of the Law, Celia took a quick look and found that there weren't many Knights of the Law on the border. Even if they were all dispersed to deal with the spilled pollution, there were only a few thousand of them.

There may be few mages of the fourth rank or above, but there are many mages of the third rank or below in any empire. Every year, tens of thousands of second- and third-rank mages graduate from various magic schools. Over the years, even if only a portion of them join the Knights Order, there should still be many.

After all, the Holy Light Magic Academy sends hundreds of genius mages into the Holy Court every year.

"That's enough, we don't need anyone else." Melina waved her hand dismissively. "No matter how many low-level mages there are, it's useless. What determines the outcome of the battle is the number of high-level mages."

"Although it's true, I still have to remind you that the monsters inside can evolve. If too many are killed, higher-level monsters might be born..."

"Then low-level mages are even more useless."

Celia: "..."

Well, it’s true.

“Ahem, I don’t mean that low-level mages are useless. In daily work, they are the main force. In the logistics of war, they must also help transport supplies and the like,” Melina explained.

Although there were only a few high-ranking commanders of the Knights of Law here, along with two prospective saintesses, Celia and Benovia, Melina still provided additional explanations.

"That's true, but..."

"Alright, Celia, I'll have the professionals study these materials carefully. Leave the rest to us. You can do whatever you want from now on. We'll let you know as soon as the research makes progress."

Melina interrupted Celia.

While Celia was still in a daze, he added, "Oh, right, there's something in the first house in area 3 of the camp that you need to get. You and Benovia can go get it. I have some things to take care of, so I won't see you there."

"Ugh?"

Celia was somewhat stunned as she watched Melina finish speaking and then hurriedly call everyone to leave with the documents.

She looked at Benovia beside her and asked, "Benovia, what happened to Bishop Melina?"

Benovia was reading a book when she heard this. She looked up, closed the book, and glanced around. "Huh? It's over?"

"So you didn't listen at all?"

"I've read the information. What happens next has nothing to do with me. Why should I listen?" Benovia said innocently.

Celia: "..."

I have a feeling that Benovia has changed.

I'm touching it more and more.

(End of this chapter)